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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by zaroth on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @05:54PM (#19677697)
Too late to edit, but early estimates on the repair costs are actually $8 billion.

The roof that burned was called the Forest because it was made from 13,000 whole oak trees (the number varies depending on source) spanning 52 acres of forest.

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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by gambiting on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @09:43AM (#19682453)
Then I'd be ok with replacing it with an identical "forest" made out of a modern material like carbon fibre, representing the original forest lost in the fire. Maybe we can even dedicate some area of land for oak growing so that in 300 years the trees will be ready to remake the original roof.
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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history by fennecfoxen on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:59PM (#19678735)
Apparently one of the major challenges in replacing the roof in the old style is that the typical oak used to construct it would have been ~300-400 years old and they just don't have a lot of those around anymore.
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