Submitted by muttmutt2112 t3_ycngn3 in todayilearned
Quite fitting that the ground was unstable.
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I tend to think that Hitler spending more energy on his architectural dream and less elsewhere would have been the better direction.
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I decided to look it up, just out of curiosity, but apparently the Volkshalle would've been so large that there would've been an atmosphere inside the building.
What I mean is, the dome would've been so large that condensation would've resulted in precipitation and extreme humidity.
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I have done this experiment in the Opera House in Toronto. Rave ceiling rain is soooo gross lol.
A surprising amount of indoor humidity is from breathing out.
Honestly, a large building with an enclosed ecosystem is something I would love to get a chance to see.
I've been working on a CSI fanfic which had this as part of the premise, where the victim turned out to work inside one of these and the CSIs end up butting heads with the corporate heads running the building over the case, but eventually manage to get enough leeway to force the issue of disclosing who the victim was, and find that the building houses an enclosed rainforest in the middle of the Nevada desert designed to test out housing for colonists on other planets.
Then they discover that >!there are dinosaurs within the building, at which point it's made clear just why Dennis Nedry was murdered...!<
Triumphbögenplätze müssen verdichtet sein!
In case you're wondering: this plays on a meme and here is the original:
> Schwerbelastungskörper
Germans really do have a way with words.
They could cut it off at the bottom and then use it as a gravity battery.
Or drill it full of holes feed water pipes through it. Insulate it and use it as a heat battery.
Mmm I love me a heavy load bearing body
Maybe the nazi war machine was invented to test the load bearing capacity of Germany.
This type of thing is till done. One time, I was on a job a few dozen miles from the beach.
We leveled the lot, dug up a few feet or so. Placed markers to check later for settling, then brought in fill dirt to create an "overburden" mound.
I was told that some compaction will occur the first month from the weight, and then a year later they would measure how much more it has settled.
If the was determined to be stable, remove dirt mound, install building.
We still have some huge stone columns standing around here in Stuttgart (huge quarry here), they were never delivered… due to circumstances 🙃
We built a huge waste incinerator facility next to them. Very scenic.
And no, this is no joke.
Just Google „säulen hitler Stuttgart“ for pictures
sonofabutch t1_itnd08o wrote
In case you were curious, it turned out the ground was too soft to bear the weight:
> If it were to sink less than 6 cm (2.4 in), the soil would be deemed sound enough for further construction without additional stabilization. An analysis of the meticulous measurements only took place in 1948, revealing that the cylinder had sunk some 19 cm (7.5 in) after two and a half years. The arch as conceived by Speer could only have been built after considerable prior stabilization of the ground.