Motivated by potential applications in network theory, engineering and computer science, we study r-ample simplicial complexes. These complexes can be viewed as finite approximations to the Rado complex which has a remarkable property of indestructibility, in the sense that removing any finite number of its simplexes leaves a complex isomorphic to itself. We prove that an r-ample simplicial complex is simply connected and 2-connected for r large. The number n of vertexes of an r-ample simplicial complex satisfies $$\exp \bigl (\Omega \bigl (\frac{2^r}{\sqrt{r}}\bigr )\bigr )$$
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