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> If I had an unlimited budget at some point on the price scale you can just build a titanium cast for a house and pour molten rocks in, probably a basalt. wha
by avereveard 5y ago
> If I had an unlimited budget
at some point on the price scale you can just build a titanium cast for a house and pour molten rocks in, probably a basalt. what's the yield strength of igneous rocks? maybe the roof need to be arched.
- MR4D 5y agoSo, a cave in a basalt mountain then. I like your thinking. ;)
- titanomachy 5y agoIs that something that we've actually done at any kind of scale?
- samstave 5y agoOn a global scale, probably, yes... but I'm either 1 or 0 correct.
- wongarsu 5y agoMany cold war bunkers are kind of like this, but using rock that's already in-situ: start with solid rock (either in a mountain or in bedrock), remove some of it, in the cavity add linings of concrete, copper and steel to enhance properties as desired (copper for better EM shielding).
- Anon1096 5y agoNot the same, but the Pyramids of Giza are essentially huge rock houses. I don't think they provide very modern amenities though :)
- gridspy 5y agoWell, we've done it with concrete tents [1]. It seems plausable you could begin with that kind of shelter and use that as a basis for further reinforcement. [1] https://www.concretecanvas.com/cc-shelters/ https://www.concretecanvas.com/cc-shelters/
- HPsquared 5y agoTitanium is quite expensive though; a house made from titanium likely would be broken up and stolen for the scrap value.
- avereveard 5y agoTitanium would be the mould of the cast, you remove it once the basalt set
- itronitron 5y agoAn artist friend of mine back in the `90's made a series of sculptures, which they intentionally created to last for hundreds of years, out of plywood and bondo since it has no scrap resale value :) Each sculpture was also fitted to it's own storage crate, so that it could just be packed up and forgotten.
- entangledqubit 5y agoMaybe tungsten molds instead?
- avereveard 5y agoyes, sorry, got the terms switched around apparently
- pontifier 5y agoI was thinking about this when the lava firehose was going in Hawaii. I imagined a big metal shell that you could rotate under it to make a bunch of giant house sized domes really fast.