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DIY Earthquake: Testing a (Wooden) Shake-Proof Home

popularmechanics.com — New designs for big buildings may help make cheap materials like wood as earthquake-proof as expensive ones. But first, researchers have to test the designs first....by making an earthquake in the world's largest shake lab.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 15, 2009

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  • emecks, on 07/15/2009, -0/+10It doesn't look like that much until you look at the video of the inside of the test house.... wow.
  • Lederhosed, on 07/15/2009, -0/+6Man, I want a shake lab of my own.
  • sockpuppets, on 07/15/2009, -0/+5How is babby formed?
  • sockpuppets, on 07/15/2009, -1/+5Get a job at dairy queen.
  • guitarchitect, on 07/16/2009, -0/+4there are already earthquake-proof wooden buildings. they're called Pagodas. they often had a huge amount of timber in the middle acting as a weight, which bounces around in the event of an earthquake
  • cryofan, on 07/16/2009, -1/+4I'LL HUFF and I'll PUFF and I'll BLOW YER HOUSE DOWN!
  • ninti, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3E-Defense is so complicated and expensive to run though they can only do it a few times a year.

    Here are some more videos:

    http://www.bosai.go.jp/hyogo/ehyogo/movie.html

    This one is my favorite:

    http://www.bosai.go.jp/hyogo/img/dougafile/2007032 ...

  • gantz9x, on 07/16/2009, -0/+3Not fireproof though.
  • dborgir, on 07/16/2009, -2/+5Your retarded.
  • sockpuppets, on 07/15/2009, -1/+4That's what she said.

    No, really- that's what she said. Giggity!
    http://digg.com/users/scarlettletter/gallery/11612 ...
  • ophello, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2You CAN fireproof wood using sodium silicate and fireproof asphalt shingles. And fires are often caused by earthquakes.
  • bringitontimx, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2I want graham crackers now.
  • kd1s, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2Ummm... we have condos here in dinky little Providence that are on the 33rd floor. Granted we're on a geologically stable mode and the worst we ever get is maybe 3 on the Richter scale. It's just a little rumble, not even enough to knock a plate on the floor.

  • ophello, on 07/16/2009, -1/+3Hey...*****...wood is cheaper. And if you can figure out a way to build earthquake-proof buildings out of wood, thats a good thing.

    So pull your head out of your ass.
  • orangester, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Cool, we're safe from the earthquakes, but what's that thing that happens to houses that we have those big shiny red trucks for?
    Eh, can't remember, so it's probably not important! Let's get building people!
  • VigilanteP, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1Now they just need to invent a shake-proof baby so I can finally have a family.
  • noheadhorseman, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1woohoo RPI!
  • TrichomeKid, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2I guess earthquake-proof wooden buildings are for parts of the world where earthquakes are more prevalent than fires.. ?
  • ophello, on 07/16/2009, -1/+2Well, pagodas are probably more expensive to make, and support less weight than a 12 story condo with 700 tenants living in it.

    Do the math. This is innovation.
  • SSUK, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1I've never been in an earthquake before and always wondered what I'd be like. Suddenly, I don't want to know first hand.
  • kaoitik, on 07/16/2009, -2/+2That's over 9000!!!
  • ophello, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1Get a DJ and some loudspeakers.
  • scarlettletter, on 07/15/2009, -6/+6I heard it took 100000000000000000000 vibrators! =)
  • jeexbit, on 07/16/2009, -1/+1I know I'm not the only one who read "Snake-Proof"...
  • Sewermutt, on 07/16/2009, -1/+0... and have the house come crashing down on you.
  • daver6, on 07/15/2009, -1/+0I sometimes like to do it myself.
  • Sewermutt, on 07/15/2009, -2/+1Since when do chinese people require rooms that spacious?
  • syntaxgs, on 07/15/2009, -4/+2this a neat earth quake house but it kind Of tall too be a home it Might be appartment building

    but it a step forward too the future of the earth quake safe tea
  • holyskeleton, on 07/15/2009, -3/+1I've seen girls' room worse than that
  • inactive, on 07/15/2009, -8/+2Wood... You build you're homes out of wood...

    You deserve to have them ***** collapse.
  • pstroll, on 07/15/2009, -7/+0Real Earthquake to Shake-Proof Home┌∩┐{◣_◢}┌∩┐

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