Volcanoes, Earthquakes & any kind of flood, if you're caught up in natural disasters like these you're in dire straits!
But what of the Tropical Cyclonic storm?
I believe there's a way we CAN BEAT NATURE!
How?
With architecture - with what I've euphemistically called TELESCOPIC BUILDINGS - watch this clip:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06cNv55jTs - have you finished laughing yet?
The main building in this clip - called http://stingray.sfdaydreams.com/ (scroll down along with other models in the classic kids hit TV show are able to move themselves up and down beneath the ground.
Surely this is the answer to hurricanes and typhoons isn't it?
But what of the cost I hear you say?
Isn't that the real challenge? To 'scale' the whole thing up & create a design we can mass produce? After all, we've been using lifts in buildings for a very long time now - can't we take it a step further & somehow actually make buildings INTO LIFTS to save precious lives?
2007-03-04
04:10:01
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