Seismic Safety and Supercolliders in Gotham

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Spoilers for Batgirl # 14 below the cut!

Also, apologies for being a month or two behind the curve on realizing this. There are likely a couple dozen Bat-fans who've already gone over this.



Okay. Leaving aside the physics issues involved in this particular story of holo-Dracula clones running amuck in Gotham...there's one thing that really got to me.


Most - if not all - super-colliders are built underground, right?

Seeing as Gotham's been through a Major Earthquake - the "Cataclysm" arc and its sequelae coming to mind, friends and neighbours? - in recent years, the idea that Gotham University could get away with building a supercollider lab under the city, and over a major fault line?

Who the Hell did they bribe and/or blackmail to get that past the state and federal legislatures?

Comments

Well that is silly

[(Anonymous)]

I am kind of surprised and disappointed in this. While I am not a fan of the whole "earthquake in Gotham" storyline, if it is part of continuity, the creative team should be a little more thoughtful in just what put in Gotham and make sure that it makes sense.

Oh, well.

Hiley

Maybe not so silly

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If we assume New Jersey for Gotham/Blüdhaven's host state? We'd best look at this:

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/eqrisk.htm

Oh, and this, too:

http://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/intensity.htm

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Eh, no problem believing it. I mean, SLAC, the Stanford Linear Accelerator, has to be at least pretty close to some major faults.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten about Stanford, although it does raise a perhaps irrational question of "when was the Gotham U project approved?" relative to the Cataclysm.