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05 Jan 2014, 4:19 pm

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Some years ago, I read about some town in Australia that is all (or nearly all) built underground. It didn't take long to find it on the web. The name of the town is Coober Pedy. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy:
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Coober Pedy is renowned for its below-ground residences, called "dugouts", which are built due to the scorching daytime heat. Here's a picture of a church in Coober Pedy:

[img][640:480]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Baptistry_soc_australia.jpg[/img]

it would be nearly perfect if it were ALL underground, including all the streets, sorta like underground seattle.



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05 Jan 2014, 4:22 pm

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Those are thought to be the oldest buildings in Iceland.

a dumb question here, but is that the original wood construction?



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05 Jan 2014, 4:27 pm

auntblabby wrote:
eric76 wrote:
Those are thought to be the oldest buildings in Iceland.

a dumb question here, but is that the original wood construction?


I don't know. That picture is all over the Internet. Just search the images on Google for Keldur earth sheltered homes. That said, the pages I've seen on that never gave much in the way of information about them.

But the looks of those houses is rather enticing. I do wonder about light, though.



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05 Jan 2014, 4:29 pm

No way. Not if they were built in 1193 and have always been built of wood. Still, cue a "Ship of Thesus argument, methinks. :lol:

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The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's paradox, is a paradox that raises the question of whether an object which has had all its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late 1st century. Plutarch asked whether a ship which was restored by replacing each and every one of its wooden parts, remained the same ship.


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