h a l f b a k e r yContrary to popular belief
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Seems to me that one could select a construction site with relatively common seismic activity. The building's foundation is prepared, with coal lain down. The pressure associated with the weight of the building, combined with the friction associated with earthquakes may result in the building's carbon
base being converted to beautiful diamonds after a few years.
Mining those diamonds from under a skyscraper, however, may be a challenge.
Gyro Architecture
http://www.halfbake.../Gyro_20Achitecture
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 17 2004]
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz |
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<...pluterday, in the sub-basement of the Chrysler building with a handful of graphite, briskly rubs her hands together...> Doesn’t work, eff. |
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converted into diamonds after a few hundred thousand years |
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Not if you use (j(a(c(k(ham)m)e)r)s) |
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Eerrmm, what's a skycraper? Is it some sort of invisible pigeon? |
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It's going to be awfully warm in this basement. The consensus seems to be that temperatures exceeding 1500K are required, along with pressures in excess of 50,000 atm. That's 705,000 psi. |
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The WTC towers were each about 500,000 tons, so that would mean that each tower would be balanced on an area of 1617 in^2, or 11&1/4 ft^2, or 1m^2. That's about 40in x 40in (About the size of a 4 seat restaurant table), for a building that weighs as much as 6 x Nimitz Class aircraft carriers, carrying full combat loads. |
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I have a feeling you'd be able to watch your 'skycraper' sinking slowly into the ground. |
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What if you were to house an enormous gyroscope, which pivots on a very large ball socket at the top of the building and then balanced the whole thing on an extremely small base? [link]
Sorry, couldn’t stop myself. |
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Foiled again. Those darn scientists. |
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"Batman is a scientist!"
--Homer Simpson |
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>The consensus seems to be that temperatures
>exceeding 1500K are required, along with pressures
>in excess of 50,000 atm. That's 705,000 psi. |
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If thats true, how the heck did any get made naturally??? In a volcano? Diamond is flammable btw. |
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//In a volcano?// Why do you think they are "always" mined from volcano shafts? (yes) |
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how the hot fudge sunday are diamonds flammable? they're carbon. carbon's what you get left over after all the flammable stuff has burned up |
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