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This type of warehouse building is extremely pervasive right now. Having worked in an amazon facility and several other 'modern' warehouses, they all share the same design. It's prefabbed concrete sections held in place by steel support columns. Steel truss structure holding roof with steel I-beams providing support to roof. Any modern warehouse struck by the same inclement weather will suffer the same exact fate.

Will add that the weather affecting this particular facility was extreme by any measure but most facilities that occupy the tornado alley should seriously consider this. My facility had a shelter in place policy in case of inclement weather which basically means, everyone(800-1k people?) huddle into 4, 6 person bathrooms.

Amazon Leased the building I worked in, so kind of removes them from blame of structural failure, but maybe not he decision to occupy the building during known severe weather.


I can't even imagine what it would take to design a warehouse-size building to withstand 200-300 mph winds. Not just expensive, but the engineering required would be pretty significant.

By comparison, I think it is probably fairly straightforward to make office buildings that can stay reasonably intact even with a direct hit. Much more structure to work with.


From the github 'SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.'

The video in the link, Andreas mentions that its all from scratch.


It's all built from scratch, but it is clearly influenced by other systems in terms of design.

I'm not sure how those two points conflict.


From what I understand about the seminal Apple vs Microsoft case in the 90's, theres a limit to how much "look and feel" can be patented.


The SpaceX HLS bid relies on starship working and they won* that award. I think NASA acknowledged the basket and threw 2 billion into it.


This is the interactive version. Almost every page has links you can click to watch videos and read more about a topic.


Ingenuity only has one downward facing color camera and b/w nav cam. None of them are particularly amazing but its just a tech demo. You can see all the images here, https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/


Seeing color pictures from another planet's surface is one of the things that always fills me with awe.


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