• errer@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Those fabs in Taiwan, even though they look like plain boxes from the outside, are really a wonder of human ingenuity. Each machine that’s sensitive to quakes is on a vibration isolation pedestal and that pedestal is seismically braced, from what I’ve read.

    Not to mention every building in Taiwan is laced with explosives in case China ever attacks…

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      6 hours ago

      Not to mention every building in Taiwan is laced with explosives

      Be me in a different life, changing a lightbulb in my Taiwanese home. Slip on the ladder and grab the light holder tearing it from the wall. The wiring breaks against the det. cord causing a neighbourhood wide chain reaction that can be seen from space.

      Standing in front of St. Peter with 50 other rather angry neighbours.

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