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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU1rWoc3mTY[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iBZ8d9lii4[/video]
^^great fucking movie
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cave home cave home grow lots of mushrooms in your cave home
Quote from: Ozmiander on March 04, 2020, 01:18:57 PM
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cave home cave home grow lots of mushrooms in your cave home
forge not nearly big enough for an aspiring dwarven ruler with his own cavern
Also lacks a 8 bay garage and firing range. Also, the house should be moved back into the hill.
agreed. i'll call the architect and have him make those changes
Quote from: Ozmiander on March 04, 2020, 01:18:57 PM
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cave home cave home grow lots of mushrooms in your cave home
i never thought i could be this turned on
Just doing my duty ma'am.
Quote from: rachel on March 02, 2020, 08:23:44 PM
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These pics are the houses of opal miners in Arizona and Australia. Basically they were already digging out these big tunnels to find opals and then they decided to live in them.
(https://cdn4.dogonews.com/system/ckeditor_assets/pictures/513b646c1860e0789a0014b4/content_coober_pedy_house.jpg) (https://ssl.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000A6wbjytbegU/fit=1000x750/20080430DPM021-aust.jpg) (https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/569e62c6dd0895aa2e8b4618-750-500.jpg)
This is very different from other forms of underground housing, like the PSP (post, shoring, polyethylene) method popularized by Mike Oehler.
https://undergroundhousing.com/
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I'd also recommend checking out the videos and images on the Wetfish Wiki underground construction page - https://staging-wiki.wetfish.net/underground
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk[/video]
Watching/reading now.
VILLA VALS, a rental property in Vals, Switzerland
Designed by: Bjarne Mastenbroek & Christian Müller
4 bedrooms/4.5 baths
€950+ for two nights
http://www.villavals.ch/yourstay.php
https://plansmatter.com/view-rentals/villa-vals-vals-switzerland
http://artearquitecturaydiseno.blogspot.com/2011/09/villa-vals.html
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I just sent a realtor this picture
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Quote from: rachel on May 15, 2020, 02:40:04 PM
I just sent a realtor this picture
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with the hope that the realtor will find you a house like that?
Let me know if you find houses like that. I would buy a house like that.
Fuck this gay earth.
Literally any fantasy world is better than this gay earth.
Quote from: here cums the fuck truck on May 18, 2020, 10:51:14 AM
Quote from: rachel on May 15, 2020, 02:40:04 PM
I just sent a realtor this picture
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with the hope that the realtor will find you a house like that?
no so that he understands wtf we are trying to do with the land and doesn't just send us links to random bullshit suburbanite houses
Tomorrow I am calling five different companies to ask them about building underground houses. Most of these companies use the technique of excavating the property, building a structure out of a metal frame, covering it in a layer of shotcrete, and then backfilling with soil.
https://www.formworksbuilding.com/
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http://www.earthshelter.com/
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https://www.earthshelteredhome.com
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https://www.bestructural.com/
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https://www.terra-dome.com
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wow. there's a lot of cool stuff.
in case you ever need an off road wheel barrow
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(with fuckin tank treads)
Quote from: rachel on May 24, 2020, 06:30:23 AM
in case you ever need an off road wheel barrow
(https://dirtyhandtools.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/101872.jpg)
(with fuckin tank treads)
it should have a baby hitch for a tiny trailer to stand on, like on a walk-behind mower
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Quote from: here cums the fuck truck on May 24, 2020, 12:09:50 PM
Quote from: rachel on May 24, 2020, 06:30:23 AM
in case you ever need an off road wheel barrow
(https://dirtyhandtools.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/101872.jpg)
(with fuckin tank treads)
it should have a baby hitch for a tiny trailer to stand on, like on a walk-behind mower
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That would be a Sulky.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trz9-z6sayM[/video]
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E67RldXVppU[/video]
https://asknature.org/strategy/asymmetric-burrow-openings-create-passive-ventilation/
QuoteDifferences in position and shape of burrow openings of black-tailed prairie dogs create passive ventilation from wind energy by altering air pressure.
Prairie dogs are highly social rodents that build extensive underground burrows in the plains of North America to house their family groups. The burrows can reach 10 m (32 ft) in length, and this size means that diffusion alone is not sufficient to replace used air inside the burrow with fresh air. The way that a prairie dog builds the openings to its burrow, however, helps to harness wind energy from the windy plains and create passive ventilation through the burrow's tunnels.
As air flows across a surface, a gradient in flow speed forms, where air moves slower the closer it is to the surface. The prairie dog is able to take advantage of this gradient by building a mound with an elevated opening upwind and a mound with a lower opening downwind. Over the elevated opening, wind velocity is faster than it is over the lower opening, creating a local region of low pressure
oooooooooooooh i don't know enough about fluid dynamics to harness the wind
Quote from: rachel on March 06, 2020, 08:44:34 AM
I'd also recommend checking out the videos and images on the Wetfish Wiki underground construction page - https://staging-wiki.wetfish.net/underground
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk[/video]
For your reference, Rachel, I bought up the greenhouse guide that this fellow published for that below-grade greenhouse.
This post really don't belong in shit posts.
Quote from: Diabolizer on June 27, 2020, 08:40:34 PM
This post really don't belong in shit posts.
suck my ass
there, it belongs now
Quote from: Diabolizer on June 27, 2020, 08:40:34 PM
This post really don't belong in shit posts.
good idea, I'll move it
Quote from: here cums the fuck truck on June 28, 2020, 08:07:37 AM
Quote from: Diabolizer on June 27, 2020, 08:40:34 PM
This post really don't belong in shit posts.
suck my ass
there, it belongs now
fuck you asshole
go dig a hole and live in it
Quote from: rachel on June 28, 2020, 12:35:23 PM
fuck you asshole
go dig a hole and live in it
damned if i ain't tryin my best already, at worst i'll dig a hole and die in it
Relevant article (https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/02/underground-house-plan-b-bunker-architecture-ukraine/?utm_source=digg) on the topic.
Quote from: Diabolizer on July 05, 2020, 02:31:40 PM
Relevant article (https://www.dezeen.com/2020/07/02/underground-house-plan-b-bunker-architecture-ukraine/?utm_source=digg) on the topic.
sick render
A presentation about China's use of underground facilities for military weapons storage
https://fas.org/nuke/guide/china/Karber_UndergroundFacilities-Full_2011_reduced.pdf
Meanwhile on mars
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QuoteAfter several assists from my robotic arm, the mole appears to be underground. It's been a real challenge troubleshooting from millions of miles away. We still need to see if the mole can dig on its own.
https://twitter.com/NASAInSight/status/1268208324261982208
QuoteThe mole's now mostly buried, but not yet digging on its own. I'll be using my arm for a couple other tasks like imaging my solar panels, while I consider other ways to assist, maybe as an earthmover – er, "marsmover" – to push loose soil into the hole.
https://twitter.com/NASAInSight/status/1280558251893878787/photo/1
If I had 20 million dollars I would buy this whole fucking Titan 1 missile complex out by DIA
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/41811-E-County-Road-30-Bennett-CO/7974879/
- One 130 foot (base) diameter power dome building (approximately 13,273 sq ft with the potential to add another story or two)
- Three 160 ft tall missile silos approximately 10,000 sq ft each
- Two 6 story antenna silos approximately 3000 sq ft each
- Three 4 story equipment terminal buildings approximately 6,000 sq ft each
- One 100 foot (base) diameter control dome building (approximately 7850 sq ft)
- Nearly one half mile of tunnels 9 feet in diameter 40 feet below ground level
Quote from: kiiada on August 13, 2020, 02:31:53 PM
If I had 20 million dollars I would buy this whole fucking Titan 1 missile complex out by DIA
https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/41811-E-County-Road-30-Bennett-CO/7974879/
- One 130 foot (base) diameter power dome building (approximately 13,273 sq ft with the potential to add another story or two)
- Three 160 ft tall missile silos approximately 10,000 sq ft each
- Two 6 story antenna silos approximately 3000 sq ft each
- Three 4 story equipment terminal buildings approximately 6,000 sq ft each
- One 100 foot (base) diameter control dome building (approximately 7850 sq ft)
- Nearly one half mile of tunnels 9 feet in diameter 40 feet below ground level
Wow, it's not even flooded! Some water damage but surprisingly clean. that would be an awesome compound.
It looks like parts of it are a lil flooded
Like the listing says, you'd need a big growing operation or server farm down there to pay operating costs. And tbh I'd want to spend a few mil fixing it up cause it looks like the set of SG-1 but like if all the characters were brutally murdered in episode 1
But still if I was rich I would be ALL over that shit
I've been in one of those Atlas sites before, hell, my grandfather died in one. They're SUPER rusty, wet and i wouldn't touch them without a total refurb.
when i was a little kid an abandoned missile silo was my dream house. now i look at em and i just see.. work. also i actually like sunshine now
Quote from: here cums the fuck truck on August 13, 2020, 05:06:33 PM
when i was a little kid an abandoned missile silo was my dream house. now i look at em and i just see.. work. also i actually like sunshine now
Yeah but think of the DnD parties you could have in the silo
Or even better - Paranoia LARP
If you have money, you can just go visit the old missile silos, build a nice home underground elsewhere, and still have a bunch of money left over that you didnt spend trying to renovate an old ruin not really meant for people to live in. For example, there's one of those old missile silos that a guy runs scuba diving tours out of. Apparently it's very cold, but interesting. Trying to remember what show it was on, maybe Abandoned on Vice?
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jCHYUuEDZ8[/video]
This guy dug a 50 foot deep cavern underneath his house and put a trailer in it. The cavern is so deep that it has water in it. The cool air is used instead of air conditioning in the rest of the house above ground.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGa7qyGO8M&feature=youtu.be&t=2007[/video]
that guys cool i wanna be like that guy
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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGuvvzHY1A&t=1117s[/video]
more of a house walkthrough but iirc it's the same type of construction as you're looking at. Looks super cool
Quote from: kiiada on February 13, 2021, 11:29:21 PM
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGuvvzHY1A&t=1117s[/video]
more of a house walkthrough but iirc it's the same type of construction as you're looking at. Looks super cool
Yep, that's definitely a similar design! That video is featured on the wetfish wiki underground construction page :)
https://staging-wiki.wetfish.net/underground
Quote from: rachel on February 13, 2021, 11:52:55 PM
Quote from: kiiada on February 13, 2021, 11:29:21 PM
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGuvvzHY1A&t=1117s[/video]
more of a house walkthrough but iirc it's the same type of construction as you're looking at. Looks super cool
Yep, that's definitely a similar design! That video is featured on the wetfish wiki underground construction page :)
https://staging-wiki.wetfish.net/underground
loll i just got rtfm'd
I wanna make my house OUT OF DIRT
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Cueva_de_las_Jarillas.jpg)
Researchers exploring cave-like burrows made by giant sloths during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 million years ago until 12,000 years ago)
https://twitter.com/Jamie_Woodward_/status/1212365887233306626/photo/1
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Underground tubes regulate air temperature
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9vEoRptmZM[/video]
Part of me wonders how these underground structures hold up in the event of tectonic activities such as earthquakes.
Quote from: ThePedalMan998 on July 29, 2024, 08:50:54 PM
Part of me wonders how these underground structures hold up in the event of tectonic activities such as earthquakes.
Underground structures are actually less susceptible to earthquake damage than above ground structures. This is because they are surrounded by the earth as it moves, instead of the earth moving underneath the structure. This is part of the reason why many critical pieces of infrastructure like NORAD and nuclear missile silos are located underground.
QuoteEarthquake effects on tunnels
General remarks
Experience shows that underground structures, especially deep ones, are far less vulnerable to earthquakes than superficial ones. The latter are endangered by earthquakes due to the fact that the motion of the ground can be amplified by the response of the structure to such an extent that the induced strains damage the structure. The earthquake waves can also be amplified within soft superficial strata. In addition, loose water-saturated soil may loose its strength (so-called liquefaction), and this can lead to landslides or failure of foundations and retaining walls.
In contrast, deep buried structures, especially flexible ones, are not expected to oscillate independently of the surrounding ground, i.e. amplification of the ground motion can be excluded. This is manifested by the relatively low earthquake damage of tunnels. Of course, the portals may be damaged by earthquake-induced landslides. Very revealing on earthquake effects is the report of what happened to the driving of a 7 m diameter tunnel in the underground of Los Angeles during the San Fernando M 6.7 earthquake in 1971
'The earthquake caused an outage of electrical power that caused the tunnel pumps to stop. Amid the attendant confusion and anxiety, the miners made their way to the locomotive and drove 5 miles out of the tunnel in pitch darkness. This means that the rails were not significantly distorted to cause a derailment. However, Southern Pacific Railroad tracks on the surface were distorted and broken.
Source: https://sci-hub.st/10.1007/3-540-28500-8_18