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How QC and webcomics generally relate to the real USA
Kugai:
--- Quote from: Boomslang on 30 Jan 2015, 19:04 ---Is it wrong of me to think that the most awesome part of your post was that you live in a place called the Hutt Valley?
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Nope :D
The Hutt Valley is the flat land area you see in the top of the second image looking directly up from the top end of 'Island' of land called Motukairangi, directly across the harbour.
The small Island in the middle of the harbour is known as Soams Island and has been used as everything from a defensible Pa sight by the local Maori in Pre-European times to a Qurantine Island for people or animals, a Prison Camp for 'Illegals' during both World Wars right up to now where it's a Wildlife Sanctuary and Restricted Access Tourist Spot.
Aziraphale:
Isn't all that "made" land a bit worrisome, given earthquake concerns and whatnot?
Kugai:
It is, especially all the reclaimed land around the Waterfront and the main Container Terminal which was done in the late 1960's and early 1970's
Te Papa, the National Museum Of New Zealand actually sits on Reclaimed Land, and the construction took several years as they actually had to pound the land down and drive deep piles in to stableise the land it sits on. It was built with the latest in Earthquake Strengthening Technology, though I will note, that that was State Of The Art for when it was built, which was in the mid to late 1990's.
Parliament Buildings and The Beehive, which underwent a massive multimillion dollar Earthquake Refit in the late 80's, early 90's is now considered to be at risk from a major quake, the reassessment taking place in light of the events in Christchurch.
Aziraphale:
I saw something on TV a while back where a museum -- I think in San Francisco -- was retrofitted with a motion/vibration damping system that would allow the building to move as a unit, protecting it from the shaking of an earthquake. Problem is, I'd assume that something like that would require a bedrock foundation. I know that NYC got a bit of a wake-up call a few years back when an earthquake hit Virginia that could be felt up this way... a stronger quake (and there are fault lines in the tri-state area, even if they're not anywhere near as active as the ones on the Pacific Rim) would absolutely raise hell with Battery Park and other parts of the city that're basically built on sand.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 31 Jan 2015, 13:54 ---Now here's the kicker
Wellington City Council, which runs the Inner City Buses, has, in its infinite wisdom, decided to do away with the Electric Trolley Buses and replace its entire fleet with Diesel Buses.
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Because they've decided to level all the hills and use them for landfill/"made land"? Brilliant!
Oh, they're not leveling all the hills? Brilliant... :roll:
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