Hills?

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:18:19 -0000, flymuffins wrote:
> Their roots only go about 6' down, but this website says they weight
> 2.7 million pounds each.
>
> http://www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/sk/flora/compare.html
>
> A habitat might have to be built for 30 to 40 psi for this.

If you put a pressure spreading plate on the inside or welded on the
outside of the pressure hull and then put the tree in the middle of
that, then there's no problem, you don't have to run the overall
pressure up.

A pressure spreading plate on the inside could be hill-shaped if you wish.

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