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Building blast resistant is a common practices for Refinery control rooms. The same methodologies can be employed for data centers as well.

1 blast can be expensively guarded againt. However designing anything above ground for sustained barges is practically/commercially prohibitive. Underground is only option.

PS: Civil Engineer. Designed few of those Gas explosion resistant control rooms.



Wouldn't it me much more effective and efficient to have a mechanism to simply not pick leaders who choose war?


History suggests we’ll have wars periodically, probably for as long as humans exist.


Progress is possible, it just requires retaining lessons from the past, and education

Without those, yes, we remain unevolved and the argument — we are powerful apes is indeed valid

Price of Peace 1945 (Beveridge) https://ia601505.us.archive.org/17/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.2...

And Price of Peace 2020 (Carter) https://www.amazon.com/Price-Peace-Democracy-Maynard-Keynes/...

Should be required reading


Seems to be really fucking difficult if the previous US election is any indication. May as well build all our infrastructure underground.


Most people on the planet did not pick Trump or Putin or any of the other leaders who recently chose to start a war.


Sure but thats really fucking hard tho.




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