greyk47

I was talking with a friend who is a promoter and runs a regular dj party kind of thing, not unlike 'boiler room' back in the early days. he makes all his money selling merch.

Donald Trump, despite his numerous financial schemes, makes a lot of his money selling shirts, or hats, or phones or credit cards with his name on it. it's probably the only legitimate business operations that he has.

it's kinda crazy how, when you boil it all down, so much of the american economy is just selling merch

can you imagine a billion dollar company promoting their new pre-vis app?

one of the example prompts is literally: Prompt: in the style of a studio ghibli anime, a boy and his dog run up a grassy scenic mountain with gorgeous clouds, overlooking a village in the distant background

the vortex is called 'the Mystery Spot'

sure but then you have to calculate the angle between each hub and spoke and cut the edges of the hub and boards to allow for flush angles when you screw them together. the whole idea behind the hinge is the angle will just naturally fall into place as you're building the structure.

I've definitely been drawn into the mysterious gravitational pull of geodesic domes. never built one, but as soon as I have a place to build one, I plan on it. I've looked at a lot of different ways to build one.

the trillium domes that someone shared is definitely the 'nicest' version I've also seen loads of other 'hub' designs. personally I think zip tie domes are really interesting, seem the cheapest: https://www.ziptiedomes.com/geodesic-dome-hub-kits/index.htm

but seeing this just gave me an idea for a really simple hub design that would potentially be more sturdy than these single screw attached, plastic socket hubs.

what if the hub was simply a pentagonal puck of wood, and the spokes are attached with hinges? the complicated part of building domes is getting the angles right and using hinges mean you really only have to get the distribution of spokes around the hub right and the hinge will naturally fall into the correct angle? anyone got any land I can try to build this on?