• tal@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    I mean, you can probably build a house that can reliably survive the conditions there. It’s just gonna be really expensive and may not look all that pretty.

    It’s gonna have to handle water up to a certain height and wind-blown debris smashing into it.

    Like, think of a lighthouse or flak tower or something.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse

    Sometimes a lighthouse needs to be constructed in the water itself. Wave-washed lighthouses are masonry structures constructed to withstand water impact, such as Eddystone Lighthouse in Britain and the St. George Reef Light of California. In shallower bays, Screw-pile lighthouse ironwork structures are screwed into the seabed and a low wooden structure is placed above the open framework, such as Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse. As screw piles can be disrupted by ice, steel caisson lighthouses such as Orient Point Light are used in cold climates. Orient Long Beach Bar Light (Bug Light) is a blend of a screw pile light that was converted to a caisson light because of the threat of ice damage. Skeletal iron towers with screw-pile foundations were built on the Florida Reef along the Florida Keys, beginning with the Carysfort Reef Light in 1852.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

    With concrete walls up to 3.5 m (11 ft) thick, their designers considered the towers to be invulnerable to attack by the standard ordnance carried by RAF heavy bombers at the time of their construction.

    The Soviets, in their assault on Berlin, found it difficult to inflict significant damage on the flak towers, even with some of the largest Soviet guns, such as the 203 mm M1931 howitzers.

    After the war, the demolition of the towers was often considered not feasible and many remain to this day, with some having been converted for alternative use.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Living in a lighthouse sounds great. If you open windows at the top it’ll pull air up through the whole structure for cooling.

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      2 months ago

      I mean a flak tower could be pretty badass to live in. If shit ever hit the fan you’d already be fortified. It would probably look good to an insurer too.

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        2 months ago

        Ya know, if Musk was actually smart, he’d start a company building ugly, impenetrable fortresses. His fanbois would step over each other, since a fair amount of them are tinfoil hat conspiracists.