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| Jun 3, 2020 at 18:09 | comment | added | user75179 | I believe you're referring to tuned mass dampers, but that technology is only used to counteract harmonic vibration, which can be induced by wind, seismic activity and other forces. However, they are not useful to counteract the raw wind load by massive hurricane force winds. For that, additional structural support is required. Depending on how quickly the wind speed increases as you move up in altitude, it could get very expensive very fast to design a building to withstand it. | |
| May 29, 2020 at 17:36 | comment | added | Ivan | An interesting idea, but this is a solved problem [to a certain scale]-- if you didn't know about this, there are a series of floors toward the top of all skyscrapers that house a system of pulleys and large counterweights to compensate for problems caused by wind sway. Look up "skyscraper counterweight" if you're curious. @Sp0T the idea for EMI at altitude is an interesting twist :) | |
| Apr 22, 2020 at 6:46 | comment | added | Sp0T | i was thinking along same direction, but instead of wind speed how about bring the ionosphere down making electronics not workable after some height. but similar to the wind speed this might cause the human body to develop differently by adapting to these changes. | |
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| Apr 22, 2020 at 5:16 | history | answered | user75179 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |