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I've read a question once, "why don't the silos have elevators?" which prompted me to review some of the glaring flaws the plot and the settings in this book (series) has. Yes, I do realize that there are some mediocrum of explanation to why, but I sI've read a question once, "why don't the silos have elevators?" which prompted me to review some of the glaring flaws the plot and the settings in this book (series) has. Yes, I do realize that there are some mediocrum of explanation to why, but I still feel most of them are still an afterthought by Hugh than anything else. Even then if it's not, the series still lacks that sense of believability that bothers me somewhat.
Lack of elevator's not really an issue, there can be practicalities including long term viability that prevents something mechanical to be used as a long term mode of heavy duty vertical transport; which the series pointed out in some fashion along the line later on in the series. The problem is actually the stairs. As an architect, I can assure you (or most everyone that reads the book), this is not how anyone with any sort of knowledge in architecture or structural engineering would build such a vertical "city" underground. Especially, the stairs.
No architect, or any sane civil engineer would build the stairs, that's going to be heavily used that lasts for generations, with a single column support metal based material. None. It does not make any sense. Metal rusts, even with coating, it's hard to maintain, and has very low weight support with a spiral format. If you wanna build something that fits a 150+ floors throughput of people that lasts forever, you build a concrete stairs with a side ramp that acts as a support for the entire structure/building. So unless the stairs in the book were made of something like, I don't know, Adamantium? It's never going to work, thus, the entire settings of the book made no sense for me....more
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