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quarky said:
The brick would be a hexagonal polygon, of sorts, with in-sloping sides an curved outer face. It couldn't be layed in conventional courses. There'd be no horizontal joints. The units would be sized to fit a particular radius, so that the last piece in fits the remaining space. Openings would be a challange. They would have to be designed for it.
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(Yep! Definitely a child of my era! The kind of stuff that us aging dreamers thrive on. :spjimlad::spjimlad:)

Well, this would be excellent stuff if we were like in the middle ages! For today, though, why'd you ever want to do it in brick? I know - just because it would be a challenge.

Reminds me a couple of things:

1. A great cartoon in The New Yorker in the 60s with two eskimo/innuit standing outside their igloo. The caption/quote read: "Buckminster who?"

2. My friend Paul Beland in Montreal. When people were oohing and ahing over Bobby McFerrin's amazing talent at smacking various parts of his body to make "music", he said, "But we have perfectly good musical instruments for those sounds for the last three hundred years...".

We've got a whole lot of materials available now to make your hemispheres much more easily, don't we? :spjimlad::spjimlad:
 
Foolmewunz said:
(Yep! Definitely a child of my era! The kind of stuff that us aging dreamers thrive on. :spjimlad::spjimlad:)

Well, this would be excellent stuff if we were like in the middle ages! For today, though, why'd you ever want to do it in brick? I know - just because it would be a challenge.

Reminds me a couple of things:

1. A great cartoon in The New Yorker in the 60s with two eskimo/innuit standing outside their igloo. The caption/quote read: "Buckminster who?"

2. My friend Paul Beland in Montreal. When people were oohing and ahing over Bobby McFerrin's amazing talent at smacking various parts of his body to make "music", he said, "But we have perfectly good musical instruments for those sounds for the last three hundred years...".

We've got a whole lot of materials available now to make your hemispheres much more easily, don't we? :spjimlad::spjimlad:
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Not necessarily. Gunnite domes and the like require expensive equipment and forms.
But speaking of old hippies and dreamers, I actually experimented with snow as a form for concrete. Heaped up the shape; insulated it with some straw; waited for the air temp to get above freezing, and covered the heap with wire and concrete. It was a worthwhile experiment. My ex inherited the 'blob'.

My brother, not to be outdone, built a heap of garbage and basicly covered it in ferro-cement; removed the garbage later through the door opening. he lived in it for years. It even had an indoor heated swimming pool.
The neighbors called it "the brown turd". He mixed in an earthy pigment.

Boy, have I gone off-topic.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Or you could give 'em four photocopied pages which would fold up and fit in their pockets and go anywhere with them. Admittedly, it doesn't sound as cool as projecting holograms and stuff, but it'd get the job done. I've probably assembled an entire household of furniture from IKEA one piece at a time, using just that single page that comes in the box.
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I laid rock on an IKEA . A woman camped out on the job for 2 weeks and won furniture for being the first customer .
 
quarky said:
Not necessarily. Gunnite domes and the like require expensive equipment and forms.
But speaking of old hippies and dreamers, I actually experimented with snow as a form for concrete. Heaped up the shape; insulated it with some straw; waited for the air temp to get above freezing, and covered the heap with wire and concrete. It was a worthwhile experiment. My ex inherited the 'blob'.

My brother, not to be outdone, built a heap of garbage and basicly covered it in ferro-cement; removed the garbage later through the door opening. he lived in it for years. It even had an indoor heated swimming pool.
The neighbors called it "the brown turd". He mixed in an earthy pigment.

Boy, have I gone off-topic.
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At the risk of the Topic Police kicking my door down... :cool:

Couldn't you use an inflatable hemisphere, and spray concrete on it; then deflate it and pull it out the door hole? Obviously there would be other details that would need working out... :rolleyes:
 
Aitch said:
At the risk of the Topic Police kicking my door down... :cool:

Couldn't you use an inflatable hemisphere, and spray concrete on it; then deflate it and pull it out the door hole? Obviously there would be other details that would need working out... :rolleyes:
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Wtf, may as well toss this in here too:

An airtight masonry dome could be fitted with an membrane bag that becomes the interior surface. The bag is filled with air, doesn't quite reach the dome shell; the air-space between them is evacuated; the membrane is pushed into shape by air pressure. Any openings would need to have a seal between membrane and masonry.

Said membrane would support surprising loads, hanging from the inside. Stairs, floors, furniture.
A leak in the sealed, evacuated space would be trouble. Yet, a vacuum pump could keep things steady, barring perverse leaks.
All the pipes and wires and such go in the space between the membrane and the shell. It also provides insulation.

An easy way to be impresssed with air pressure and membranes is this easy experiment:

Fill a large bowl about half full of water. Cover it with saran-wrap, pushing the plastic down to the water level. Tape the plastic to the outer rim of the bowl. A rubber band might work.

Flip the bowl upside down. Look underneath. All that water is held up in the air, by an incredibly weak structure. If scaled up to life size, you'd live under the bowl, with many tons of water over your head, held there by the weight of the atmosphere and a thin membrane. Not even a 2x6 needed to support that load.
 
Am I the only one thinking that you guys are essentially building a nuclear reactor to toast bread? I mean, aren't you guys making it far more complicated than it has to be?
 
INRM said:
Why is the military developing all this RFID stuff for?
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The same thing that Wal*Mart is. You think that Wal*Mart is the only organization that needs to worry about supply chain management?

I suspect the Army is even more into supply chain management than Wal*Mart is. If the local Wal*Mart runs out of stuff, the store makes less money. If the 5th Armored runs out of stuff, people die.
 
DLorde,

I don't think developing RFID's in bricks isn't necessarily do-able. I think it will be developed. I *DO* think it's overkill though.


INRM
 
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