As the baby boomers age, they will create increasingly top-heavy structures.

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Besides being deep and hot to handle, the metallic structures are dense and heavy, yet fragile, striated with fractures that the researchers feared would cause them to crumble like dry cake before they reached the surface.

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Some of the turbines, and the other structures such as the towers, can of course get quite heavy, and they move as well.

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