bucy wrote:
] ] PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. - First light revealed that the "Dome
] Home"
] ] made it through the night and did exactly what it was
] designed to do
] ] -- survive even the worst hurricane.
]
] Smart!

I will bet that this thing is just another over-priced piece of shit that will break down all the time. By the way, the only reason you think this is cool, bucy, is because you are stuck in Pissburgh where you can do nothing but stare at the walls, get drunk, do dope, rent pretentious shit from Classic Video, eat cheap indian food and ponder the stupid fucking CMU logo on the school's trucks. Did you know they paid some asshole 200,000 dollars to design the thing? It's a FUCKING SQUARE TILTED 20 DEGREES, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!! And that school is supposed to be smart?

bucy wrote:
] ] PENSACOLA BEACH, Fla. - First light revealed that the "Dome
] Home"
] ] made it through the night and did exactly what it was
] designed to do
] ] -- survive even the worst hurricane.
]
] Smart!

That's awesome! Its just like what I'm studing in Machine Design about rounding off corners in order to minimize stress concentrations! I do wonder, however, how much of the house is over-engineered. Steel reinforced concrete is certainly necessary in tall buildings to compensate for the lousy tensile strength of concrete, but I can't exactly conceive that you would need it in a 3-story round house. Maybe the buffeting endured because of the Cat 5 winds makes it necessary.

hehe...applications are cool. :-)