WEBVTT - Selects: Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.040 Hey, everybody, Chuck here in twenty twenty three, but I'm 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.119 gonna hop us all in the wayback machine and take 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.719 us back to December twenty eighteen to listen to our 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.520 episode on geodesic domes, because this ties into the live 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.160 show that we did last year all about the biosphere 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.640 to project. The geodesic dome figured in very prominently in 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:29.320 that project. We talk all about Buckminster Fuller in this episode, 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.080 who also figured into that live podcast. And check it 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.760 out now. If you're into architecture or just cool things, 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:41.279 listen to Geodesic Domes colon the Wave of the Future that. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:54.000 Wasn't Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.160 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm British Josh, there's 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:03.760 American Chuck, and there's neutral Swisserland Jerry, which, by the way, 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:08.319 now we're saying Swisserland, Switzerland just decided because it's close 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:09.880 to the end of the year and I'm about to 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:10.800 die of exhaustion. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:11.319 I love it. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.280 On the Friendly Fire Movie podcast, Ben Harrison, you know Ben, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.080 he says, Nazzis. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.640 Yeah, Nazis. That's like kind of like a throwback. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:22.240 That's like the greatest generation. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.280 Why I'm saying yeah, And I know he does it 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.440 as an affectation, sure, but now I got it from him, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.520 and he got it from God elsewhere, his great grandpa 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:31.640 maybe nazzis. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.960 Yeah, that's a pretty great. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.400 Way to see because there's a lot of occasion to 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:36.560 say the word Nazi. 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.200 Sure a lot. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.560 Hell you mentioned this, uh and why did you say 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:42.160 you were British? 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:47.520 Because I chuck say geodesic and you. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.800 Say geodesic and we just looked it. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.040 Up, which I mean, that's like the first time in. 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.600 Years the lady said geodesic and I was like, yes, 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.000 I'm right, or in America geodesic and I said, we're bout. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.440 But then she didn't say though it was British, it 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.680 could be like whatever South African. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:09.640 Oh, I guess, like, well africanor's not English. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:10.880 Well, yeah, you know what I mean. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.120 We're so far off course already. Jerry's just got Ramen 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:18.880 coming through her nose. She thought that was so funny. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.639 Thanks for the laugh, Jerry. Well, we are talking about 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.760 geodesic desk. Maybe we should just say that every time 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:27.200 say them both. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:28.720 I'm sure people would love that. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.400 I'm going to say geodesic because that's what I've always said. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.240 Okay, great, I'm gonna say geodesic. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:39.720 That's fine. We're talking about domes, geodesic domes. And if 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:44.680 you have ever seen a weird contraption of a circular house, 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.280 a ball house, you might call it a sphere house, 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.560 you've seen a geodesic dome. If you've ever been to Epcot, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.839 sure you was a kid, you've seen a geodesic dome. 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:58.919 They're all over the place. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:02:59.680 Do you all right? 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.920 Do you like these as like people's houses in a 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.280 neighborhood or wherever. 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.880 No, I don't either, But I don't. I mean, I'm 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:09.200 not gonna yuck anybody's yung. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.720 I'm you know what I mean when reading and researching 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.240 and like, they're cool and there are a lot of 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.160 great advantages. Right then that will go over, But uh, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.360 I just don't care for them right Aesthetically. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.960 I don't either. And actually, if you if you read 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.120 a quote from Buckminster Fuller, the guy who actually didn't 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.839 invent geodesic domes, we'll get into all that anyway. He said, 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.799 one of the reasons they never took off is because 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:33.600 they're weird looking. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.920 Yeah, they just are, and and well I'm not going 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:37.440 to say that. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.560 I really tell me later. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.360 Okay, Yeah, I just don't care for him. You know. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:47.920 It's like, I'm a craftsman, California craftsman bungalow type guy, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.600 which is about the opposite of a geodesic dome. 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.320 It's pretty angular, for sure. Yeah, And the geodesic dome 0:03:55.520 --> 0:04:00.840 is angular. Everybody put your laptops away, geometry nerds, but 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.520 it's not rectangular, and a craftsman is definitely rectangular. Like, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:06.360 you can even make a case the roof is not 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.720 a triangle. It's a rectangle on its side. I just 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.840 made that case. How's it going? 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:13.280 Yeah? 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:13.800 Pretty good. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.680 I also, and although I probably will never live in one, 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.760 I do love a modern, like a mid century modern. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:23.120 That's my thing. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:24.040 I love it. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.359 But I just it's not really like ultimately where I 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.520 would want to live for the rest of my life. 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.320 Well, okay, so I don't want to feel like I'm 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.719 like in Finland in the winter or something like that. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.840 That's not I'm talking mid century American actually built for 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.000 a family in like the mid fifties, early sixties. I 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.640 love it that has all little cool details and built 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.719 ins in a wall that doesn't even really need to 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.640 be there. You can see right through it because it's 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.159 like wood spindles and stuff. That's what I like. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:52.880 Yeah, me too. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.160 Not ultra modern. Mid century modern yeah okay. 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.360 Mid center. Yeah that's what we call it. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:58.800 But you still you don't think you could live in 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.320 one of those. I me, craftsman guy. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.239 We'd have to get all new stuff. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.520 Like if we started over, like I if our god 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.440 forbid of our house burned down and we lost everything, 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.479 I could start over like that. But like the stuff 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.719 that we have doesn't fit. Like you know understood, Grandma's 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.000 antique bar doesn't really go in that setting. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.120 I've seen that bar, and that thing is classic. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:21.560 Thank you. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.080 You could put it anywhere. Grandma was a bit of 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:25.159 a boozehound. Huh. 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:26.840 Well, they didn't use as a bar. They had like 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.920 humble figurines and stuff. Wow, And I saw it. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:30.400 It was funny. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.760 When I first sawt I was like, oh god, I 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.640 don't really want that, and like they're giving it to us, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:36.200 And then we turned it to a bar and it 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.400 was like, it's amazing what thirty liquor bottles will do. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.560 I can really dress up a Yeah, humble figurine cabinet. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.479 So clearly we're talking again about geodesic domes. And there 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.320 was a period in time check where you could go 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.680 into some neighborhoods around the country and you could find 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:57.520 well to do hippie types, environmental types, back to earthers 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.960 living in the geodesic domes. And it's not like they 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.240 were living in a tent. It was their house. Yeah, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.960 had plumbing and heating and electricity and all this stuff. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.800 It's just that it was a dome. 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:09.159 Yeah. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.080 There was one near where I grew up actually, and 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.440 we would pass it going to elementary school and it 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.760 was always just sort of like, yeah, there's those weirdos 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:17.840 that built the weird house. 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:21.400 Isn't it interesting though, Like that had some impact on 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.239 who you are today. Yeah, how minute or howse small, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:28.200 but seeing that every day or every weekday, that had 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:29.479 to have some impact on you. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.200 Yeah, And there's was also one of those. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.920 It was also partially underground even so that was an 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.920 exposed dome, but then that was sort of built into 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.880 a hill, and so they were full on. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.200 They had a lot of hippie cred. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:42.840 Yeah, they were going toward it, and looking back, they 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.120 were probably super cool people. 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.920 Probably they were wearing birkenstocks way before anybody else was 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.760 wearing birkenstocks. So let's talk a little bit about the 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.480 first geodesic dome, little geodesic history. 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:55.640 Okay, okay, all. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.040 Right, you have to go way back, way way back 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.120 to nineteen six. And not only do we have to 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.040 go back, we have to go to Germany, Jena, Germany. 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:08.160 I don't know where that is. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.040 I don't either, but there is a very famous optics 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.800 company called Seiss, I do know that. Sure, and Seiss 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.360 wanted to build a planetarium on top of one of 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.640 their factories, their factory at Jena, Germany, and they said, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:27.160 please build this a planetarium. Walter Bauersfield, where if you 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.000 didn't know if he was German or not, just listen 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.920 to his name, Feld felt even more German. Yeah, and 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.160 he said, sure, let me think about this and I'll 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.880 see what I can come up with. And he came 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.040 up with what's what's widely pointed to as the world's 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.080 first geodesic dome. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.440 Yeah, and it was a good It was a good 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.760 idea for this project, in particular because they needed it 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:49.240 to be light, because it had to go on top 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.920 of a roof they needed to hold a lot of people, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.520 and obviously because it was a planetarium that that interior 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.920 roundness was kind of key. Would be weird to have 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.160 a square planetarium, it would, you know. 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.640 Especially if you're like I didn't know Venus could take 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:07.560 a corner like that. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.480 I didn't know he could do that, right, So that's 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.200 what he did, and it was it really worked well. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.160 It did house a lot of people. I mean not 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.280 how's but you know, it could hold a lot of people. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.200 It can withstand storms, and this is these are some 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:27.720 of the factors that make them not only popular but 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.400 like a good idea. Depending on where you are. It 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.360 was like, if you're in Antarctica, they have them there 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:37.320 and that it's perfect for that kind of weather. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.600 Yeah, there was a period in time which we'll see 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.600 in a second, where geodesic don't were like the house 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.920 of the future. It was a very very good idea 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.760 that never took off because everybody said, no, we think 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:48.800 those are kind of weird. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.400 I don't feel comfortable with that pretty much. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:57.920 So Bowersfeld's planetarium actually kicked off a planetarium craze. It 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.319 was apparently the first planetarium on Earth, which I would 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.400 make the case you can just say the first planetarium 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:08.240 in the universe, then probably so. But because there were 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.640 people who started to build planetariums as a result of this, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.000 judiesic domes kind of became a thing. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.160 Yeah, But it wasn't. 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.640 Until a guy named Richard Buckminster Fuller of Carbondale, Illinois. 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.040 Very big deal, came along. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.760 And actually patented the geodesic dome that they really became 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.120 that house of the future thing that I was talking about. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.040 Yeah, and he was an engineer and a sort of 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.520 a visionary thinker, one of the great Americans. I think 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.440 we could do a show on him altogether. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:37.240 I think agreed. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.679 But his whole jam was like, well, first of all, 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.800 he saw the inherent like good points to these and 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.000 we'll get into all those, but first and foremost, you 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.800 can you can have a huge volume of space with 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.520 very little materials, very lightweight materials, and it'd still be 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.800 super strong, right, which is awesome. So because of this, 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.760 he thought like he had a higher goal in mine, 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.160 which was like the housing in the future. Like they 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.040 don't cost that much money, they can hold you know, 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.480 people safely, and like this is how we should think 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:11.120 about housing. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:11.679 Right. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.480 You could you could build it off site at a 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.280 factory and deliver it by helicopter. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.319 It was that light kind of put it together but 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:18.439 like a kid yep. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.240 And like you were saying, it required because it could 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:27.160 withstand more weight, it required less building materials, which meant 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:32.719 it was lower cost. And supposedly you could put these 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.280 things like a good kit together in a day if 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.720 you were really cruising along at a good clip. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:44.040 Sure, so you had some high grade sixty speed give. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:49.960 It all your Yeah, man, you got me with that one. 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.760 So so this just became plainly obvious that this is 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.720 going to be the house of the future. There's one 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.679 of the other things about it is there is no 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:04.079 other buildings structure that has a larger volume of space 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.720 with the least amount of surface area. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:08.000 Yeah. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.480 And he got this idea through looking at nature. He 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.560 very famously looked at things like crystals and seed pods 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.400 and things like that and thought, like, you know nature, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:20.839 and a lot of people do this in design. They 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.280 look to nature because nature has sort of proven to 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:24.680 get it right usually over the years. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.520 Yeah, Like if you look at an eggshell, you're like, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.400 this thing shouldn't withstand anything, and yet it does, and 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.280 it's a very curious thing. 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.080 But it sure looks like it could slip out of 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:34.920 a chicken's butt with. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.640 Ease, right, which is kind of what it does. Like 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.000 what if it was square, it slips out of the cloaca. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:47.720 It's true. So Bucky Fuller, as he's known, he apparently 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:51.160 I don't know if he wasn't aware of Bowersfeld's design 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:52.439 or something. Did you get that impression? 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.160 I couldn't tell if this was nefarious. He seemed like 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.360 a good guy, so I don't think he like stole 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.760 this idea, but he was able to secure a patent. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.720 He did. And there's a really great Time article if 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.160 you can find it. It's called Dimaxian American. Dimaxim was 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.920 a word that was associated with him. He just made 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.040 up words a lot, but it tells it. It's from 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.520 nineteen sixty four. It says that he was trying to 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.319 figure out a geometry of energy, and he was using 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:22.400 spheres as a model of energy. No idea, but he 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:26.079 was putting spheres together. And his idea was that when 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.080 you put spheres together, they would just make a larger 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.920 and larger sphere. But that's not what happened. He took 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.360 a central sphere and put other spheres around it and 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.720 pushed it together. And what he found was that it 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:41.480 started to make squares and triangles rather than a larger sphere. 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.400 And he figured out that what he had just come 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.079 up with was actually a very smart structure. That you 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.120 could take those squares and divide those into triangles. You 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.360 could take the triangles and divide the triangles into even 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.800 smaller triangles. And if you kind of curve the edges 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:00.560 of the triangles inward towards some imaginary center inside the sphere, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.960 you actually create a sphere. And technically it's a polyhedron. 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:09.960 And most geodesic domes are acostahedrons, which, if you play 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.640 Dungeons and Dragons, is just a twenty sided die. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:13.319 Yeah. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.600 But the more you cut the sides into smaller and 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:20.439 smaller triangles, the more the closer to an actual perfect 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:25.120 sphere you get. And that's a geodesic sphere. And if 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.640 you cut it in half, or cut a portion of it, yeah, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.920 and just use one half of it, that's a geodesic dome. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.640 Yeah, which is what you see like. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.040 It's not fully round because it has to be flat 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.320 and sit on something right. 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:42.360 Well, actually, the Spaceship Earth geodesic dome God is a 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.320 full sphere, but that is pretty rare. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.160 And I thought it was interesting too that they said 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.040 that if you were just designing something on paper, you 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.520 could just design bigger and bigger and it would just 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:59.280 get stronger and stronger. But in reality that's really not 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.320 the case, like when when rubber meets the road, they're 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.800 really there's really only so big you can kind of get. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.000 Yeah, because I had no idea about this, you know, 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.480 I'm roughly familiar with geo dusic domes. I didn't know 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.840 any details. But one thing that I was surprised to 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.600 find is that the triangles are not all the same size. Yeah, 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.320 they have to be adjusted to make this shape, to 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:24.080 make this circle or the sphere. So if you're putting 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.760 together one of these things, as we'll see, you have 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.280 to be like, oh, this strut goes here, not here, 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.640 And I actually put it here up on the top, 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.200 and now I have to go take the whole thing 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:38.280 apart again. Yeah, the less complex, the better impracticality. But yeah, 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.320 you can really mess with it to make it virtually 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.760 a perfect sphere out of triangles. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.760 Yeah, and you mentioned a minute ago that and I 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.840 think people that pay attention were probably like, oh, Josh, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.840 is so funny or what did he just say? 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.960 Did Buck Minister Fuller make up words? Yeah? 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.880 He did, because he made up another word when it 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:03.200 comes to these domes, uh, insegrity. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.000 Which is not a good word, it's. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.600 Not He mixed two words together, intentional and integrity. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:10.560 Uh. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.600 And so that's the relationship between the tension and compression, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.400 and that really kind of describes how these things fit 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:20.880 together and why they end up being super strong, even 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.520 though when you look at it, you're like, man, I 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:23.640 could blow that thing over. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.400 Right, So let's let's take your break and then we'll 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.320 get into like the actual dynamics going on. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.680 Okay, and geometry? 0:15:28.880 --> 0:16:01.960 Yes promise, yes, all right, I promised. It's time to 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:03.040 talk to geometry. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:04.920 How'd you do in geometry? 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.360 I failed the first time ast of the second time. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.000 I'm actually really glad that I failed it because when 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.160 I was forced to take it again by the man. 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.240 And this is high school, right, Yeah, yeah. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:20.080 I it clicked. And I've never understood any field of 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.320 math like I understood geometry. I don't quite remember it now, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.840 but like I understood geometry like I was Pythagoras is 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:27.920 like brother. 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.360 I kind of I wasn't quite at that level, but 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.760 I feel like because I'm I have long sort of 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:37.200 poo pooed the maths. Yeah, but you've that right, well yeah, 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.600 but I mean just for my pea brain like understanding it. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.720 I understood geometry more than all the other maths, right, 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.360 and I did okay in it for an English nerd. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.080 Yeah, you know, good enough. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.640 It is completely different than anything else. I feel like in. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.000 That geometry does seem like its own thing for very 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.880 much at time, Like, yeah, there's numbers and sigma makes 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.800 an appearance and stuff like that, but it definitely seems 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.240 to be It's different than algebra. I'll tell you that. Buddy. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.879 Shout out to Miss karn Ridana High School. 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.119 Oh, I wish I could remember my geometry teacher that 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.120 when it clicked. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.640 With she was great. She was one of those teachers 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:14.280 that's like was seventy years old. From the time that 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.720 she was twenty eight till the time she was seventy, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:18.160 she was. 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.120 Great and then she turned back into twenty eight. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.640 Yeah she uh. I remember she had this polka dot. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.679 It's funny the things that you remember. She had this 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.640 polka dot shirt where all the polka dots were collected 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.720 at the bottom, and she said that it used to 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.639 be all over, but she hung it up to dry. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.120 That was her big joke, great joke. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.080 She's like, welcome to my class. It's the only joke 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.359 of the year. Let's get busy. 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.439 Yeah. I bet you there's one person out there who 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:41.880 had Miss Karn and knows that shirt. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.000 Yeah. I hope it's a great joke, Miss Carn. Okay, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:50.000 so we're talking geometry, right, Yeah. Do you remember our 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.399 bridges episode? Yeah, remember we talked about bridge trusses, the 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.600 bridges that are made up of triangular shapes, and we said, like, 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:01.679 those things are extraordinarily wrong because they're triangles. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.440 Yeah, man, triangles, same thing here, can't beat them. 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:08.400 A geodesic dome or sphere is a sphere made up 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.280 of triangles. And if you actually take the triangular shape 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.560 and build one in reality, it is one of the 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:21.480 strongest shapes you can create because wherever you press on it, 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.919 it transfers that pressure that force to the rest of 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.040 the shape. So it distributes that kind of a weight 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.120 or pressure or force or whatever you want to lay 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.399 on on it. It distributes it evenly, and if you 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.520 put another triangle together with one triangle, it sends it 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.000 to the other triangle too, And so the more triangles 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.720 you add, the more a force is distributed throughout it. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.639 And that's why that's why it's so strong. Like what 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.040 you were saying, like you look at it and you're like, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.639 I could blow that over. You might be able to 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.600 push it over and make it roll away if it's 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.680 a sphere, but you you probably could not break it. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.639 Yeah, And when you look at like, if you're inside 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.000 one of these, it's usually covered with like wood or 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.119 drywall or something, so it's not as evident, but on 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:09.800 the outside you generally can still see this frame of 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:14.879 triangles all fitting together beautifully to make something super super strong. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:22.000 Yes, And apparently the strongest version of a geodesic dome 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.760 or sphere is one that's actually made not just out 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.879 of triangles, but out of pyramids. If you look at 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.360 if you look at the Epcot Spaceship Earth Geodesic Sphere, 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.960 it's actually pyramids. All the triangles are actually Yeah, that 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:43.120 is that's it. That's the money geodesic dome. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.800 Yeah, And that one, since we're on that is interesting 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.800 in that one of the downfalls and we'll go over 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.919 more later, but one of the downfalls of geodesic domes 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:55.560 is sometimes rain doesn't treat them well. Yeah, but the 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.080 one at Epcot was just like, we're not even going 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.760 to pretend that we want to repel the rain. They 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.320 have little grooves that actually collect the rain and that 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.200 send it to one of those little corny lagoons. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.639