>> ^arekin:
Crossbows spark when you fire them?
The HL2 crossbow fires lengths of rebar which have an electrical current run through them to heat them red-hot while waiting to be fired.

Yeah......something like that. Use chains to pull the supports out from a distance or push it over with something that can reach at least halfway up it's height. Better yet is a combination of both, pull the structure's supports out while pushing it in the direction the supports are gone. And throw some chains up high on it to help topple it.

They topple trees near houses by cutting a big wedge out to make it fall away from the house, cut the rest of the tree off and maintain pressure on the tree so it can't fall the other way if a big gust comes along or the tree is rotten or just some sort of freak thing where the tree tries to go wrong way. If possible they will usually cut the top off the tree off so it's easier to handle, but sometimes you can't do that when trees are unstable...like hit by lightning or broken due to storms.

And getting out of the machinery. Those things have roll cages on them that are supposed to support the weight of the vehicle if they roll over onto their side and then some. Not sure how it'd handle being punctured by rebar or narrow shafts of concrete, but it'd at least stand up to crushing better than your body.

Two issues:

1) Since their lab demo does not seem to be able to make right turns, their simulation should not either.

2) concrete - rebar = fail

This has already been said before but part of what made The Matrix so good was that it took place almost entirely within "our" world. We only saw snippets of what the real world was like, outside of the Matrix. Reloaded tried to incorporate more of the real world while balancing out scenes within the Matrix, but by Revolutions, it almost entirely took place in the real world. Add to that the heavy philosophical allegories, the fact that it took Trinity a full 10 minutes to die after being impaled on 35 pieces of rebar, and any other number of problems that plagued the last 2 movies.

I still think the way that Reloaded should have happened was Neo somehow "reboots" (Reloads) the Matrix causing everyone to wake up for a moment inside the real world. Then, after they fall back into the Matrix, they begin to talk with one another about the "dream" everyone had, with Neo acting as a Messiah-like figurehead. Revolutions would have shown the world-wide fight within the Matrix against the agents/Matrix/whatever, with humanity eventually winning and waking up for good. This sillyness of computer programs, Trainmen in the Limbo world and iterations of Neo splitting off and re-absorbing back into the system was just that....silly.

That would be way cool to see it live

>> ^quantumushroom:
I've seen this done live in Frisco. Giant rocks balanced on the tips of pieces of rebar sticking out sideways.

I've seen this done live in Frisco. Giant rocks balanced on the tips of pieces of rebar sticking out sideways.

There is a company that builds homes called Monolithic Dome. They way they do it is they inflate a form, build rebar in it, and then spray concrete.

They are virtually indestructible and more efficient to heat and cool. I've wanted one for years. My husband thinks they look weird and have no resale value.

Oh well.

http://static.monolithic.com/gallery/homes/index.html

You gotta twist the pin before you can pull it.
Seriously rigid metal that shits made out of too, like friggen rebar.

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His home has the look of the "earthship" design. The houses main building material are dirt rammed car tires stacked w/ rebar inside. It creates a thermal mass that absorbs heat from the sun and releases it in the house at night. One side of the house is earth protected and the other side is all windows. It's said they are pleasant in summer without much a/c cooling needed.
It sounds hideous, but once you're finished construction you never see the tires.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship