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"The sphere will withstand the initial impact of a natural disaster, as well as sharp object penetration, heat exposure, blunt object impact, and rapid decelera

• AstralStorm 5y ago
  Not unscathed they won't, as there is no/insufficient padding in this design. It smells of reinventing a square wheel, or in this case, replacing a bigger rectilinear cellar with a small sphere.
• t0mas88 5y ago
  Not if you do rapid deceleration at a serious level. The sphere might still look perfect, but whoever is inside will be very much dead. The ironic part is that they would survive better if the sphere wasn't as rigid and would deform, taking part of the forces. Of course someone already researched what happens if you put humans in a full body harness and stop them quickly: https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/hsl_pdf/2003/hsl03-09.pdf https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/hsl_pdf/2003/hsl03-09.pdf
  • Ancapistani 5y ago
    Weirdly, it has 4-point restraints inside. That makes little sense to me, with it being a sphere. Those restraints are great if the force happens to hit in the correct direction; otherwise by far the biggest risk is going to be neck injury. Given that there are seats facing each other, you’re all but guaranteed to have at least half of the occupants injured in a hard collision.