Shake Proof

Seems like it might have been awhile since the last invention post. Lots of "way to life" posts of late.

We just had a bit of a quake this week. They say it was the biggest in the Bay since the big eight nine. Seemed preposterously small to me. But, tevs. Well, I know in reality we're only interested in safety when it comes to buildings in earthquake, but I'd like to think about the fantasy realm of not feeling the earthquake at all. This in fact works against my very moral fiber, separating from the earth in an unnatural way and all. But I like my idea anyways.

Idea: 1) Think of producing buildings that don't shake when there is an earthquake.

2) My idea, which is surely somewhere in the continuum between improbable and impossible, is to have separate fountain pillars and some sort of hollow shaft that they live in. My utterly ridiculous thought is that these things don't touch at all. Like the building is held up by these intense, lets go with magnetic relationships between the hollow shaft and the pillion girder thing. Perhaps we would make them of materials that were horribly magnetic for each other as it is and then sort of amplify it until it is strong enough to actually keep the building up. In this way it is sturdy, just like if it was actually sitting on the foundational girders.

But then, out of nowhere, breaking the silence, coming to town, checking names off of a list...err...is the earthquake trying to shake up the joint. But we are way cooler than that now. And the magnetic amplification system automatically adjusts to the movement of the girder letter it get closer or further from the walls of the hollow shaft (within reason) meanwhile keeping the building totally still.

I assume this is totally impossible, and if not impossible, totally ludicrous, worthless and potentially dangerous. But that is the fun of ideas. If you didn't think mine was any good you can take a step back to number 1 and think of your own.