geodesic dome unusual design

December 8, 2009 ***** see the big brother to this geodesic. I am getting ready to see if the geodesic can float in the air. *****June 13, 2009 update ******** Check out my proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, posted June 12, 2009 It is a n amazing 1 page proof. *******a dodecahedron (soccer ball) made out of paper and foam. This geodesic dome can be easily scaled up to very large sizes. I designed this dome so that it could the main support structure for a dirigible.
May 15, 2008 Look at new video on dome made of recycled cardboard.
Nov. 27, 2008
Commentary on the dome.
If you look at the nodes, they also are miniature geodesic domes. These domes have a great strength because the straight paper is deformed to be attached to another piece of paper, thus creating tension. The triangular tubes also have strength because the of the triangle shape. The nodes have a fourth accepting spine. Thus another dome could be attached, and another to that one. The eventual structure would resemble a long cigar, much like the Hindenburg. Because all the structure would be in the outside shell, the vehicle would be much lighter than earlier dirigibles.
Another use of this design would to be to construct an elevator to space. Again the domes could connected vertically together in an unusual way to create an electromagnetic cannon a mile or two long, that would shoot 50 pound payloads into space.

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Science & Technology

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• geodesic
• dome
• buckminsterfullerene
• fuller
• dirigible
• blimps

[lyteweaver]

big deel...watching your video was as exciting as watching paint dry!

[michaelcweir]

I'm sorry, I did not know we would be visited by such a genius. You figured out how to make it in seconds, so you must have been incredibly bored for the next minute.How long did it take you to figure out the nodes? And of course you figured out how to make it bigger, didn't you? And it must have come as a intuitive flash that this is the only structure that has the ability to scale up and still look the same. Thanks for showing us up.

[lyteweaver]

i am sorry for sounding so rude but you dont say what this thing is good for or how to use it in every day life. perhaps i have missed something but you give limited info and i dont get what you are trying to say or do with your toy.

love 'n' light,

x

[michaelcweir]

Thanks for asking your questions. They provide me an opportunity to sharpen my message. The quickest way to use the waterproof 10 foot on the side pentagons is when there has bee a sudden disruption, like the earthquake in China. Flatbeds of the units could be trucked to the disaster area and erected with hand tools by the people there within hours. A long term use is to put steel mesh over them and spray the units with concrete. This would be a extremely cheap housing shell.

[lyteweaver]

thankyou. is there some way i can get more info on this interesting contraption and its uses?

[michaelcweir]

One use I wanted to mention in public was that the model could be used as a template for a dirigible 3 time the size of the Hindenberg. The dirigible would use hot air provided by propane for lift and would have the same lift capacity as the HIndenberg. A much safer alternative than hydrogen and better operational characteristics than helium (variable lift from same volume) If you have interest for more info, send me a private email.

[feralferret]

Can you script what you said, please? The wind was attacking the microphone, and I couldn't make a word out of it.

[longhairedartist]

The 12 pentagon face dodecahedron is the conceptual basis for all regular domes. Hexagons form a two dimensional lattice. When you surround the pentagons with hexagons, you create a smoother soccer ball shape. Unless you adjust some of the legs of the hexagons, it will tend to create vertices out of the pentagons while the hexagons remain flat fields.

What is very interesting to note, is that the dodecahedron is impossible to stack like legos to make a larger version of itself. Try it.

[PhilosopherFresh]

interesting ...