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actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

No, it’s not. It’s all empty space under the foundation. There’s nothing to create crushing force against the building.

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4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You are failing to account for the weight of the atmosphere on the foundation

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- actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The atmosphere is just air. Air doesn’t have mass or weight, that’s why it floats.
  
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  - 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Neither does the ground or the continents wouldn’t drift.
    
    Subduction is just suboptimal duction. And what flows through ducts? Wind. Checkmate.
    
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    actionjbone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It can’t be checkmate if the wind has blown over all the pieces.
    
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poplargrove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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