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Geodesic Structure:
"against one vertex until six rings have been activated and the equator is reached. All thrusting outwardly against the equator symmetrically, their outward thrust is compoundingly restrained by the opposite hemisphere.
"In the case of a geodesic structure representing a portion of a sphere, the functions of the balance of the sphere are rendered by the Earth, which tends to complete the spherical structure by stress extension within the Earth. Thus, in compound curvature structures of nature, emulated in principle by our geodesic structure, working stresses are ultimately translated into omnidirectional outward thrust from the stressed centers, and are ultimately satisfied throughout all the cohesiveness of all the enclosing tension. In contradistinction to simple curvature, which is ultimately satisfied in polar focus upon two compression points, compound curvature invokes ultimate activation of comprehensive tension.
“Men have employed geodesic structure in the form of tetrahedrons, octahedrons, and icosahedrons. While useful in small structures, the relative sizes of spans or chords of these well-known continuities of great-circle triangulation become so great in unsupported length when applied to structures appropriate to”
