> > >> Perhaps new materials and a staggered application should be now
> > >> considered?
> >
> > >Back to the future!!! Build pyramids! Pyramids do not collapse either
> > >way. You need to wait 5000 years for the top to be abraded by the
> > >weather.
> >
> > Yes - pyramids really rock (groan) but the packing density of the
> > occupants
> > is a bit low for modern applications - a dead loss in fact.
>
> Apparently the people who built that hotel in Las Vegas (?) didn't know
> this. Anyway a pyramid wastes a lot of ground space. Maybe the sides could
> be plated with solar collectors to put them to good use. Two adjacent
> sides ? What's the orientation of those pyramids in Egypt again ?


Apparently to be REALLY effective pyramids need to be built at the centre of
gravity of the visible land masses (as viewed from space) as the Great
Pyramid, apparently, is. As there is only one such spot per hemisphere and
the great Pyramid has already taken one you best hurry :-). (And I have no
idea where the apparent cofg of the Southern hemisphere land masses is but
odds on it's in water.)



        RM

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