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2024-10-18 Science & Technology

These Florida domed homes have survived category 5 hurricanes

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Interesting can we see the pic?
It is not climate change which is not even caused by carbon but by electromagnetic cycles and orbit wobbles

Posted by Anon1 2024-10-18 09:27|| 2024-10-18 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Click on the headline to go to the article, Anon1. There are illustrative photos there.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-18 10:05|| 2024-10-18 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 The first house looks like a tribe of Jawas might pull into the driveway with some droid offerings.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-10-18 12:29|| 2024-10-18 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 These homes would like at home on Tatooine.

As the other guy said, Jawa Homes.

Posted by mossomo 2024-10-18 13:09|| 2024-10-18 13:09|| Front Page Top

#5 I can't imagine living in a house with no windows. Worse, I can't imagine living next door to a house that looks like a giant ass.

Posted by Regular+joe 2024-10-18 15:07|| 2024-10-18 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps the two end bulbs need an extendable parascope from the dome peak?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-18 18:04|| 2024-10-18 18:04|| Front Page Top

#7 After a big cyclone, cyclone Tracy, just about wiped out Darwin there was a lot of thought in Australia put into cyclone proofing houses. One promising design was an all steel bungalow style house with four hinged, drop down verandas. The big wind is coming, you lower the verandas down to the ground and fix them to bolts in the concrete floors. There is a gap at each corner when they are up, filled in with a removable insert. When lowered and fixed down, there are no gaps or projections for the wind to enter, and with the structural strength of the house itself combined with the bolted down perimeter, it has a tremendous grip on the ground.
I haven’t seen the design used at all since, probably costs too much.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-10-18 18:15|| 2024-10-18 18:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I imagine you could use peristalsis to move from one end to the other?

Posted by Frank G 2024-10-18 18:21|| 2024-10-18 18:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I shit you not:
In order to increase their bid for a Stuper Bowl Hosting, Kansas City proposed building what is basically a giant, lack of a better term, half cylinder aircraft hanger, mounted on rails, which could traverse back and forth between the baseball and football stadiums, so it would have to be open ended.

My peers were all excited even with the tax increase, natch, until I pointed out:
Nevermind the weird wind currents it makes and sounds like, nevermind that thing getting covered in two inches of ice, what happens when a tornado comes through?

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-18 19:55|| 2024-10-18 19:55|| Front Page Top

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