WE NEED A REVOLUTION... IN CONSTRUCTION

I know something about you. It’s something very important. Something critical to your survival, in fact.

You live in a wooden home.

Furthermore, this home has four flat outer walls.

I know this not because I have divine powers, but because over 99% of the people who will visit this blog live in such structures. You probably never thought anything about this. You may have had to hang something up in your home by anchoring it to the wall studs, like a television or a piece of artwork or a pull-up bar, but you’ve probably never once considered just why materials like wood were laid together along right angles to protect you from the chaos and destruction of nature, like blizzards, raccoons, and bears.

I am now going to tell you why it is all wrong, and I am going to tell you what the solution is. This is not opinion or conjecture. This is hard physical science. Literally hard. I’m talking about concrete. But not just any old concrete. I’m talking about concrete domes.

Yes, that’s right: concrete domes.

“Why on Earth would I want to live in a dome?” you might ask. Well, you already do. Your skull is a dome. The dome, an excellent example of a curvilinear shape, is the strongest and most efficient shape there can be found in nature. It utilizes the least amount of material for the greatest possible strength. This is why it is ubiquitous in nature from skulls to shells to the Earth itself.

You see, when a force acts upon a cube-shaped wooden house, it acts upon a linear vector: a long, flat, thin wall, as seen by ex. A:

As you can see by the illustration, the house is NOT SAFE in the event of an earthquake because the forces are totally perpendicular to the flat wall. Thus, the full brunt of the force is felt throughout the structure, and the wood, much weaker than steel, is destroyed. Structures like these simply do not stand any chance to resist large forces like that of hurricanes or earthquakes and other natural disasters. Furthermore, wood is flammable, it will rot if left wet, it can become a breeding grounds for harmful mold and other fungi, and is the favored food of termites. Wood may be malleable and easy to work with, but as far as keeping you safe from a very dangerous and entropic world in constant pursuit of absorbing your life force, it is a terrible building material.

Reinforced concrete has none of these issues. See ex. B below:

As you can see, the greater strength of reinforced concrete in conjunction with the aperpendicular shape of the structure leads to the greatest distribution of force and therefore the greatest level of protection for you and your family.

So there you have it: proof positive that a concrete dome is the safest possible place for you and your family. Godspeed.