Germans and italians had it good in the eastern front. It's better to die in the cold, slowly dizzing away and expire in your sleep, than to cook alive while shitting your entrails out from cholera or malaria.
why did they have that shape? It seems to me that normal square boxes with slanted roofs would be easier to ship, store, build, maintain... everything, basically.
but they must have some advantage to them or the MOD wouldnt pick such a weird shape. what is it im missing?
What is weird about it? This is how tunnel tents are made to this day. The bow is strong enough to hold the roof and sides up, flexible enough to take a little force, has resistance to wind, absolutely minimizes the need of structural materials, and if one bow should say get a shrapnel hit the whole thing don't collapse. It borders on genius for a unit on the move.
Those shapes all stacked neatly on top of each other and were assembled on site. You can't stack squares on each other. This was the best most economical choice
Well if you stack squares on each other in Tetris, they disappear. We needed to have them still there, so we couldn't stack them like that or else they'd make a line and disappear. Round things won't do that when stacked on top of each other, so it was the obvious choice.
That's not even the worst part. Authorities limit the size of gatherings and events because if too many people are on one side of the island, then the island can tilt to one side and capsize. Happened in Guam once.
Dig in, and you benefit from the colder earth surrounding you. But then you have to deal with water on the ground and non-flying insects. It would make more sense to have top vents, which is what tents of this type often have. You could also remove the doors and put in mosquito nets instead.
But there is something else. Tropical rain. It really is something else. if you allow for too many entrances where it can get it, your living unit will become a basin in an hour.
I worked in a hardware store with zero AC and a metal roof. The 100+ degree days were brutal. I would go outside for air and it felt cool compared to the building.
Floors were made of asphalt, which would go soft in the heat.
Wasn't there supposed to be wooden floors on these?
You are free to sleep outside if you don't like it.
Germans and italians had it good in the eastern front. It's better to die in the cold, slowly dizzing away and expire in your sleep, than to cook alive while shitting your entrails out from cholera or malaria.
When you put it that way it really makes it seem far better...
t. General Burkhalter and Major Hochstetter
why did they have that shape? It seems to me that normal square boxes with slanted roofs would be easier to ship, store, build, maintain... everything, basically.
but they must have some advantage to them or the MOD wouldnt pick such a weird shape. what is it im missing?
Nesting in storage/transit, weight, single piece construction
Round sides also makes them less prone to getting blown down/over by wind. Not sure how much that actually factored into things though.
>why did they have that shape?
better stability for less material
What is weird about it? This is how tunnel tents are made to this day. The bow is strong enough to hold the roof and sides up, flexible enough to take a little force, has resistance to wind, absolutely minimizes the need of structural materials, and if one bow should say get a shrapnel hit the whole thing don't collapse. It borders on genius for a unit on the move.
Those shapes all stacked neatly on top of each other and were assembled on site. You can't stack squares on each other. This was the best most economical choice
>you can’t stack squares on top of each other
milk crates btfo
>You can't stack squares on each other
tetris btfo?
Well if you stack squares on each other in Tetris, they disappear. We needed to have them still there, so we couldn't stack them like that or else they'd make a line and disappear. Round things won't do that when stacked on top of each other, so it was the obvious choice.
impeccable logic
They weren't shipped prefabricated, but as sheet metal and struts. It's a very stable construction given the lightweight materials.
I don't understand how people live on islands. Don't they sway back and forth like a boat? How do you not get sea sick?
They put anchors all around the shores to minimize the sway.
That's not even the worst part. Authorities limit the size of gatherings and events because if too many people are on one side of the island, then the island can tilt to one side and capsize. Happened in Guam once.
did it flip upside down and the nega-islanders living on the underside take the place of the original Guamistanians?
You get used to it after a while.
Would having them partially dug in dissipate heat more easily?
Dig in, and you benefit from the colder earth surrounding you. But then you have to deal with water on the ground and non-flying insects. It would make more sense to have top vents, which is what tents of this type often have. You could also remove the doors and put in mosquito nets instead.
But there is something else. Tropical rain. It really is something else. if you allow for too many entrances where it can get it, your living unit will become a basin in an hour.
>tents of this type
uhhh... anon, those aren't tents.
I know. None the less, tents with bows like this frequently have a vent at the top. A more permanent structure can also have it.
they look nice and cheap to build
I worked in a hardware store with zero AC and a metal roof. The 100+ degree days were brutal. I would go outside for air and it felt cool compared to the building.