kiujhgbnj

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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
The clever part is that the dome is incredibly light. It thins toward the top, where it is taking less load, and uses empty jars in the concrete to lighten parts. The relatively thick heavy walls are enough to hold it.
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
Rebar generally reduces the life of concrete - almost all concrete failure is due to water getting into the rebar, creating rust which expands and cracks the concrete. A lot of the ruins of Greece were damaged by Victorian engineers securin
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
The airlines would demand a 3hour checkin for each train to compete fairly.
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
In the first millennium there was no airport security and a large number of Viking raids on Britain. In the second millennium airport security was introduced and many fewer viking raids took place In this millennium with greatly increased a
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
It's a dome - domes are in compression - in compression you don't need rebar
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
There may be a good reason to avoid using batteries - it takes rather a lot of AAs to move a train
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
True, but the article implies that "economists all agree on these things, economists are experts - therefore these things are correct" But the same responses would come from US politicians of both types - would Swedish or French economists
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
finally a way to make Perl easier to read
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
But can you distinguish between a capital Beta and a Shluse?
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
But it does suggest that economics is just politics by another name. A survey of doctors would presumably agree on the function of an organ, a survey of hospital administrators might also agree on the need to cut treatment costs - this does
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by kiujhgbnj 16y ago
Interesting that all economists seem to be pro-business, anti-tax, anti-worker rights. You would almost think that most economists worked at banks or for university business schools. In other research naval officers believe in a larger navy