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Engineers to Quake-Proof Cal Stadium on Free-Floating Blocks

popularmechanics.com — Seismic engineers apparently have solved one of the world's great retrofit puzzles: how to keep UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium from crumbling into a pile of concrete rubble during a major earthquake.

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  • stachesnmullets, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2I am glad they got those protesters out of those trees. The time has come to let engineers make "ground-breaking" solutions. (Pun intended.)
  • RockSlice, on 09/25/2008, -0/+2Cool solution, but here's a better one: rebuild it somewhere safer.
  • Fracture98, on 09/26/2008, -0/+1"There. It's Quake-proof."
    "It looks exactly the same."
    "Yeah, but now we block Wi-Fi, and we passed a bi-law to prevent LAN Parties."

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