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"purposes. So the bigger and heavier and higher the walls up to the time of the Maginot line, the more secure people felt.
"So this has been–I’ll simply say to you–the building industry, what’s called the building industry is approximately 5,000 years behind the aeronautical.
"You go to the Island of Crete, which I’ve done many times, and you find the old palace with the water running and the plumbing system. It’s exactly the same system you have today. No improvement in 3400 years. No scientist has ever been engaged to look at the plumbing, to so what to do with all the beautiful valuable chemistry, the valuable energy that we’re letting go back into pollution.
“Now that I have over 100,000 geodesic dome structures around the world, most of them delivered by air, I can tell you, I can give you 30 buildings for one against the best alternate engineering strategies known for that clear spanning. So that I know that we are being very wasteful in our buildings and we didn’t have to meet the present engineering codes, but if we”
