Space-Age Houses

An anonymous reader writes "The dream of building the Jetson's Skypad Apartment may come to true because technology designed for space could become the basis of the new German Antarctic station. The same ultra-light composites that ESA uses onboard its spacecraft for antennas and solar panels, will be used to make a self-supporting lightweight shell-like structure able to withstand severe earthquakes. This approach is in sharp contrast to many contemporary design solutions that use ever more steel and concrete..."

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[Strange_Attractor]

Not to mention it's very arguable who the terrorists would prefer. The Bush White House's squandering of world goodwill after 9/11 (even assuming they were right about the reasons for invading Iraq) has meant a recruiting and I'd bet a significant fraction of 'em (if not 100%) want to have Bush stick around another 4 years...