It's Slightly Mind-Bending 

Hahaha, clever

That's a great joke right there! 😂

How did you come up with that!!

So people *can* fly if they are strong enough

​@@ClintLock1 I don't require that much strength, you only need to do it in an environment with low enough effective gravitational acceleration. On an astroid anybody would be strong enough. I think it would be tricky to do it in a parabolic flight due to the short time with reduced gravity but maybe not impossible.

​@@larslindgren3846 good point i didn't think of attempting it not on earth...

I reckon you could build a version of this replacing the plastic bows with army men or those little parachute dudes. But that raises an interesting question about the amount of force required to keep the string taught enough to keep the tower upright. If you really did something like this with people, would they all have to pull the rope taught with the same amount of force? Would the one on the bottom have to work harder? The one on the top? I can't seem to get my head around it.

​@@hollt693that is a very interesting question!

Bucky Fuller's legacy lives on larger than he ever could've dreamed. Far more than a mere trim tab.

In most minimalistic form.

if that was a thing I'd buy it!

My life:

sounds like most days

Relatable

There was a huge sculpture using the same technique in Washington DC years ago.

@@volleyjosh was?

@@JackLe1127 I took a picture of it in 1998, I'm not sure if it's still there. It was in an outdoor atrium of a building just off the mall.

You mean dangerous, as in lines snapping and cutting people in half? It would beg to invoke Final Destination into reality lol

@@volleyjosh Are you talking about the Needle Tower?

Relatable

Not really, it’s relying on compression

English please.

They under bending forces, so combination of tension one side and compression on the other.

@@barneylaurance1865 if you're not observing them as a simplified compressed bar/spring, yeah, that's even more accurate.

Watch again the second "bow" from the bottom. It's slightly mind-bending at first sight because the structure looks like it's supported by a length of string.

Not quite, the curved parts are in both tension and compression - tension outside the curve, compression inside, i.e. a bending force. True tensegrity sculptures have no bending forces, each member is either in pure tension or pure compression.

@@barneylaurance1865 I see 🤔 Similar concept, different members.

Yeah, I thought that seemed wrong...

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Nah not physics.

It can and has been. Tensegrity tables were a bit of a meme on RU-vid for a bit.

There are already commercial flexible bike spokes, marketed as lighter than standard wire spokes.

RCE: bloody architects....

Try searching "tensegrity sculpture" to get similar "levitating" objects.

Yes

The one that went to Uni.

@@Warp9pnt9 depends on if you are talking book smarts or street smarts!

Yes

"sometimes" 😂💀

It is like a twisty bow

Quite the opposite actually🤓🤓🤓

Physics IS what is keeping the structure up. Imagine if these were simply bows (bow & arrow) stacked on top of one another. The stored energy of one bow can easily support the weight of multiple bows above it (considering how light the average bow is). What this structure does is simply overlap the bows. The idea is still the same.

Both :)

@@techheck3358 If I compress a coil spring, is it under compression, or tension and compression?

@@jasonmunley4295 depends on your reference frame. If you look at any one slice of the spring coil it’s in both compression and tension - otherwise it would snap or deform