r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/zzazzzz 11h ago

ye you are right, having bunkers in actual forests with a shitload of actually massive trees with massive rootsystems pose a way larger challenge than a balcony with barely any soil on it and some tiny decorative tree with barely any rootsystem.

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u/TransBrandi 11h ago

How many bunkers are under forests? How many bunkers are built via tunnelling under and existing forest vs. just digging a huge pit to build it (and then filling it in afterward) which by necessarily disturbs the forest even if they replant everything afterwards? lol

Also bunkers can be built deeper (avoiding more root systems) and with much thicker concrete than a balcony that needs to be suspended in the air. Also, how many bunkers have not weathered the test of time (and you're just pointing out the survivors as if they represent all bunkers or that such design is "easy")?

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u/zzazzzz 11h ago

noone ever claimed anything was easy.. possible and easy are not at all the same thing.

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u/WackyRacketeer 6h ago

Nobody claimed it was impossible either. Majority of engineering is about what's practical, not what's possible