From: The Butterfly (salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com)
Date: 11/08/97
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 20:21:46 -0800 Message-Id: <199711090421.UAA05254@bootstrap.sculptors.com> From: The Butterfly <salsbury_at_bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Re: Storms Kill 32 in Southern Spain, Portugal
-From: amkalenak_at_webtv.net (anthony kalenak)
-Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 09:03:50 -0600
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-Pat,
-I think you are right about relief efforts being a perfect inroad to
-establishing domes as a viable housing solution. I would venture to say
-that due to the inherant stability of geodesic dome, during future
-cataclisms, there would be a lot fewer fatalities because of building
-collapse in a rebuilt Domical community.
--Tony.
-_\V/
-
Yes, I agree. Bucky often talked about geodesic and tensigrity
structures as being relatively earthquake-proof, due to their ability to
distribute forces across the whole structure and dissapate them rather than
shaking to pieces like wooden and stone structures do.
--
Pat
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