What is the sturdiest mankind has built that can withstand mother nature?

[Zeze]

Inspired from this video of a hurricane tossing around 18 wheelers like toys:

Does our biggest carrier withstand full blown storms? How about cruise liners? I know they always avoid storms with radar, but are they capable?

How about things we built on land? Anything can withstand EQ?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

sturdiest what?

I know oil tankers can take an absolute pounding.

 

[Eli]

404 - hurricane not found

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Probably Japanese architecture. They make some insane stuff.

Its either that or the great wall of china

 

[Printer Bandit]

your mom

 

[manimal]

single packaged string cheese. How the hell am I supposed to open those thing.s

 

[dank69]

A+ thread would read again.

 

[brainhulk]

Probably Japanese architecture. They make some insane stuff.

 

[Ns1]

some of those old light towers are pretty ridiculous.

 

[zanejohnson]

pyramids anyone?

 

[terry107]

NORAD command center

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Mount Rushmore...

 

[PottedMeat]

sturdiest what?

I know oil tankers can take an absolute pounding.

your mom

lol this

 

[foghorn67]

Your butt.

 

[GrumpyMan]

A rocket ship so you get the hell out of there.

 

[Evadman]

Actually proven? Pyramids probably.

 

[Analog]

 

[zanejohnson]

they say the great pyramid in guiza, has a footprint of like 8 city blocks, and is completely, level, to this day, to the cm, not to mention, exactly as wide as it is long, to the mm.

 

[spaceman]

the atlantic ocean

 

[zanejohnson]

i think they used those pyramids, to store/harness electromagnetic energy...


like a giant battery.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i think they used those pyramids, to store/harness electromagnetic energy...


like a giant battery.

yes, i've read that too. quite fascinating.

 

[Ns1]

is that forreal? lol. srsly what IS that arch made out of.

 

[zanejohnson]

yes, i've read that too. quite fascinating.

it really is, i read somewhere about how our vision of those times is probably so jaded...

like if today, we were to get wiped off the earth by some catastrophic event, people in the future would probably be like "and here we see the great golden arches, where the people of the past worshipped there god, ronald mcdonald" "there was many churches in every town.."

 

[NikolaeVarius]

is that forreal? lol. srsly what IS that arch made out of.

Wood and no, They're from different places.

 

[brainhulk]

I watched this documentary on the construction of bridge between an island and mainland japan. They had to engineer it to withstand typhoon force winds which are the bane of bridge engineers.

I think it took over 30 years from r&d to completion and is the longest bridge in the world

An earthquake occured during the middle of construction which moved one of the support bases laterally by a large margin. Since it was designed down to the nearest mm, they basically had to go back to the drawing board.

Amazing