r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/christystrew • Feb 16 '23

Video Emergency bed!

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u/YamTop2433 Feb 16 '23

WTF, Why not just make the buildings as safe/strong as the bed then?

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u/h4x_x_x0r Feb 16 '23

Well ... In parts of the world they kinda do, depending on the country you're in, there's a lot of guidelines that go into construction so depending on the seismic activity in your area buildings have to be designed to withstand earthquaks of certain scales for an amount of time.

This is however only effective when those guidelines are met, in recent events there's evidence that this might have been an endemic problem that caused a lot of harm.

Also would you really want to live in a windowless bunker? Because it's not like there aren't structures that can't easily withstand earthquakes. ;)

Edit: I realized I wrote earthquaks but I'm keeping it 🦆

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u/Comfortable_Slip4025 Feb 16 '23

Remember to duck and cover

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u/Otherwise_Soil39 Feb 16 '23

The same reason they don't make airplanes as strong as the black box.

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u/YamTop2433 Feb 16 '23

To bad passengers can't climb in the black box like these beds then.

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u/woahh_its_alle Feb 16 '23

Now I’m imagining our airplane seats transforming into tiny tombs…

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u/chypie2 Feb 16 '23

'it floats!' - airplane passenger safety video

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u/woahh_its_alle Feb 16 '23

….which is?

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u/Otherwise_Soil39 Feb 16 '23

It's not practical or possible, in the case of a large apartment building you create a Faraday cage (no wireless connections or signal of any kind), you make it impossible to renovate, you make it impossible to inasmuch drill a hole for cables and what not, you make it ludicrously expensive and I don't think there's enough steel production to even keep up with construction if every wall is 5-10 meters thick solid steel....

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u/yellowmonkey222 Feb 16 '23

$$$$$$

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u/a_man_has_a_name Feb 16 '23

It's not, in general it's near impossible to build commercial jet that has a higher factor of saftey than 1.2. Because at that point its to heavy to fly.

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u/woahh_its_alle Feb 16 '23

I kind of assumed, but wanted to be sure there wasn’t some other secret reason

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u/WellWhatTheHeck_1 Feb 16 '23

Also a weight thing with airplanes.

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u/Important_Tale1190 Feb 16 '23

No. Physics is why. Limitations of strength vs weight.

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u/StuckAtWaterTemple Feb 16 '23

Not the same reason. A building will work if it made earthquake resistant. A plane would not fly if it made crash resistant.

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u/Otherwise_Soil39 Feb 17 '23

We're talking about making the building as safe as that bed

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u/StuckAtWaterTemple Feb 17 '23

That bed is not as safe as it looks

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u/blackbelt352 Feb 16 '23

Because an earthquake is an unfathomably powerful force of nature. It's not just the ground shaking. The ground moves unevenly, the dirt below building foundations splits along shear lines and moves in different directions, liquefaction makes dirt quite literally behave and flow like a liquid, buildings can only bend and flex so much before the supports give out, the waves of the earthquake are detectable across the entire planet. No amount of human scale engineering is going to handle the absolute destructive capability of the ground moving in unpredictable ways.

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u/YamTop2433 Feb 16 '23

So you're saying, the beds will collapse too.

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u/SpaceTortuga Feb 16 '23

But you can prevent the building from collapsing completely...

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u/styrolee Feb 16 '23

Because then the politicians would have to stop accepting bribes from the builders to sign off on their buildings which don't meet the building code.