On Sep 26, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
From at least one of the shots, it seems that the supports for the
ceiling of the "pitch pressure tank" are about 3-4 feet thick by
20-30
feet wide, spaced about 30-40 feet apart. There may or may not be a
civil engineer on this list who can judge it better than I can, but I
would bet yen to manju that this thing is designed to survive just
about
whatever earthquake is likely to occur. I don't think they'd invest
billions and a decade and a half building something that would fall
apart on them.
I don't doubt it will work - that's their style. It just seems a
fantastic amount of money and effort. Admittedly for most of that time
they have had the money, but countries like the USA and Oz have
pressing
needs like health and education budgets that are inadequate. We simply
can't afford the sort of investment they have made.
Are you saying that countries like Japan do not have health or education
budgets? I think the biggest contributor to our /not/ having the budget
for projects like this would be military spending.
As a percentage of GDP, the US spends between 3-5%, Oz about 3%, and
Japan a paltry 1%. In terms of total spending, the US spent about $400B
in 2004, compared to Japan's $45B and Oz's 11B.
I haven't been able to find any information on the cost of this project,
but I bet we could cancel a couple of bombers and keep New Orleans dry
for a century or two.
Dav e
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