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Dome: Rationales for the Dome:
"But as an omnitriangulated tensegrity geodesic dome, earthquakes don’t bother it. Earthquakes shake buildings apart if they have no tensile strength. And they’re now in cubical shapes that are not most comfortable. Once you use geodesic lines you have the shape that it most wants to be in: just like a bell buoy it floats and an earthquake can’t bother it.
(These things Forrester didn’t know.)
“I’ll give you 300 buildings for one with omnitriangulated spheres as against all the other engineering strategies. Not only in terms of material but the other costs would come down the same. The time comes way down. I can deliver it by air instead of having people put things up in rain and snow and dust.”
