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Turtle Dome:
"Look at this turtle. This is the way I am going to do another dome… where the outer ring is continually opening from the inside out, so it gets to be bigger. You build on the inside and it keeps on unrolling. You get to a great conch shell and every time the creature pushes more goo out-- the creature keeps pumping in and out–it gets built on the outer rim as he keeps pushing it out. The big turtle does not have more rings than the small one, he just has bigger ones. All the plates grow locally.
“How do you make a whole building grow? I saw that this was a way to make a whole geodesic dome grow; where the hexagons simply grow you can have an expandable dome with no trouble at all. Local finite closures: expanding each hexagon from the inside. That solves the problem when people say you can add to a rectangular building but you can’t add to a dome. But you can in this way. Notice how long the turtles live. They last out pretty well; they can accommodate their growth with a hard shell.”
