¶ Dome: Rationale for the Dome (3)
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Dome: Rationale for the Dome:
"Getting to the Moon without losing a single human being-- there’s never been anything like that. And all by really getting first things first with really the highest intelligence operating from the beginning. Never a compromise about money.
"Let’s get to how people get killed in tornadoes. We are making houses square because the Earth seems to be flat. When we’re making houses square and cubical, it’s easy then to take a log that is straight and just lay it down that way… All these squares and cubicals are the criteria. When we have a tornado the atmosphere drops incredibly down. This means that the atmosphere trapped inside is much higher due to the vacuum on the outside; so much so that it explodes the buildings. What happens is that the walls are literally thrown into the sky; it really acts as though something has hit it like an explosion.
“So I find that all you have to do is to have the right shape, which is spherical, such as my Wichita House which had a safety valve on the boiler so the pressure can blow off. I had an 18-foot-diameter ventilator in the top-- the whole thing lifted like a safety valve and came right back on.”
