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    Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    Any idea why I seem to have problems getting these videos to play in Safari 4 OSX? Every time I hit the play button it flashes to an image in the video and then back to the play button.
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    @Homerjay here for OxyClean!: Same with Chrome. Sometime it works sometimes it doesn't
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    @deanbmmv: wait for the little grey bar to load... patience:) i know, it's weird they take so long though.
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    07/14/09

    @jerNELS: The grey bar goes backwards though. Like you hit play and it goes over the pause button. Kotaku use a better (ie working) player, Giz should hit em up and ask what they use.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    It's not the fact that it can't withstand the earthquake, but moreso the fires associated with them. See 1906 San Fran Earthquake.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    That exterior test was really undramatic. That's what a 7.5 magnitude earthquake looks like? I guess you have to see it for real to get the actual effect.
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    @daftrok: Shoot! We accidentally set it on 0.75!
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    Image of Jakooboo is going to Chicago Tardis! Jakooboo is going to Chicago Tardis!
    07/14/09

    In reply to Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake
    Wow! I never thought wood would work for this purpose. It's kind of funny that decades and millions of dollars in research have been poured into "earthquake proof" materials, while wood does the job perfectly!
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    07/14/09

    @Jakooboo, Starfleet Captain: It's definitely more flexible than steel or brick, but when you want to make a skyscraper wood just doesn't cut it as a a building material for structures several hundred feet tall. And It's more Earthquake proof designs than materials, such as oscillating tanks of water at the top of a building, double layered exterior walls, and even parts of a building on rails to let it move on it's own.
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