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    729 days ago

    What makes wood unfit for structure? I don’t know much about buildings, but it looks pretty strong and flexible to me?

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      it looks pretty strong and flexible

      Compared to steel? I would recommend you check your eyesight.

      It’s also labor intensive, and has plenty of durability problems. Also, worst of all, there is a huge amount of problems that can weaken it but are completely invisible once you finish your walls. Problems that happen often, because of that labor intensity.

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        728 days ago

        Well i mean we’re talking houses here, not record-breaking high-rise buildings.

        As for issues with structural wood… Tbh they’re pretty rare. Probably more common than, say, the steel in your walls rusting or something, but still, not to a worrisome degree.

        The main one is insects. Water (leading to mould) is also a thing but water infiltrations are terrible news no matter the material so…

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      Nothing.

      This person is kinda saying nonsense.

      Wood is perfectly sound for structural building.

      There are wooden temples in Japan dating back to the 6th(7th?) century.

      A stone structure would have been shook apart by now.

      Different materials have different use cases.

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            228 days ago

            Right but for earthquakes the global standard is imperial. Nobody uses metric, except the french during the paris commune, the kingdom of hawaii, and mongolia.

            Maaaaaybe north korea and cuba, but definitely not vietnam; it was a whole thing in the 80s.

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              228 days ago

              Oh my mistake you are obviously more well versed, I will only refer to earthquakes by their shit-tonnage from here on out

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                228 days ago

                Not the individual earthquakes, but the quantity of them

                I don’t know shit about individual earthquakes.