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Zed Burnett replied to the topic Drilling Quickly and Deeply in the Conversation Big Ideas 9 years, 6 months ago
I can see a lot of potential in that. Assuming one could get reliably structurally stable cavities to build/work in, however, the problem would remain that flooding would be rather difficult/expensive to control.
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Zed Burnett replied to the topic Why Are We Here? in the Conversation Welcome to Hieroglyph 9 years, 7 months ago
Bob, you hit the nail on the head, for one, with technology news being all about gadgets and how the big tech company’s stock is faring this quarter; That in itself is depressing, but utterly unsurprising. Engineers/designers are expressly taught to suppress any thoughts of the ‘ideal’ operation/design of what’s in front of them. The game is ‘…[Read more]
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Zed Burnett started the topic Is a new mechanism already inventing itself? in the Conversation The Moonshot Ecosystem 12 years, 10 months ago
My first impulse upon reading about the Hieroglyph project, reading Neal Stephenson’s articles and soaking up the forums was to deploy my bottomless cache of Big Ideas. I couldn’t say why to begin with, but this […]
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Zed Burnett replied to the topic Including buoyant elements in the tall tower in the Conversation Tall Tower 12 years, 11 months ago
—Materials—
What I’m considering now is focusing on cheaper materials, steel basis as suggested, but get a bit fancier with the processing and trace ingredients. Specifically, there is promise in alloys […]
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Zed Burnett replied to the topic Pushing it up from below in the Conversation Tall Tower 12 years, 11 months ago
—Structure: Geometry and Assembly—
From the beams/bones suggested in —Materials— (see “Including buoyant elements in the tall tower”), start by assembling rhomboid elements of the appropriate dimensions (the […]
