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Ground News has merely demonstrated that right wing sources sensationalize every subject that they touch and will outright refuse to publish subjects that counter their narrative. The same cannot be said for other sources.
You might want to improve your research a bit. 11:43 the crest IV spaceship is from the Perry Rhodan universe and according to the decription which belings to the picture you have used, it had a crew of 5000 people, not 300.000. also, the picture was published in Perry Rhodan 421, released in 1969
I don't really have any interest to go to Las Vegas but I would love to go to the sphere. The studios where I guess they probably test things out is in Burbank California where I live and wow is it getting dirty but I think it's some really cool innovation It's taking theater in the round to a whole new level
Ignore those ol' fuddy-duddy naysayers, Stewart. Your opening line was funny, and so were the rest of your puns. Nothing wring with a little immature humor every now and then!
As soon as I heard that I knew it would be another one of Stewart’s unhinged videos. Not sure what broke him, but damn, I like it. Guess comedy comes with the Hicks name.
"Yes, I will make a video about your Sphere. Yes, I will quote all those facts. No, I will not try to denigrate the projects. I mean, other than mention the sponsor-you know Brilliant, or Ground News, or Factor. Haven't decided yet."
Brings me back to the 1970s when I was fascinated with geodesic domes ... including seriously considering living in one. Two things killed that dream: 1. House sized geodesic domes leak at the edges, the structural integrity is ruined if you run plumbing or wiring in the exterior wall/ceiling, and they're almost impossible to insulate well. 2. A different Stewart, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, also lost his love for domes, saying (I paraphrase) Vertical walls are useful. We are vertical,"
one of the startling moments of my youth has to do with the Expo 67 dome in Montreal. I went to art school in a campus in a medium rise building at Delorimier Ave and Sherbrooke St, on the 6-8 floors. We got used to looking south during our classes to where the old Expo site was, about 2 or 3 Kms south in the middle of the St Lawrence river. I was there the day the sphere burned, and had probably the best grandstand view over the conflagration. Wow. huge plumes of toxic black smoke from the plastic infill windows didn’t seem so ecological to us. the dome structure did what probably only a dome could: survive. But there were no discussions about restoring it, since you couldn’t fix that little flammability issue. before it went, the best thing was that each hex in the dome had a kind of parachute system that could retract or extend to blank that area from sun. Without this, the cost of cooling the dome would have been ruinous; but while it was there, the Expo dome (which was the US pavilion during Expo) was an incredibly impressive example of building, technology, and environmental design.
You forgot to cover the largest spherical building in the world (before the MSG Sphere) The Ericsson Globe/Avicii Arena in Stockholm. It's a multi-purpose arena that can host 16 000 people and i has an diameter of 110 meters and is 85 meters tall.
A sphere lit up with more electricity than any other building on the strip houses a theater that shows a film that lectures people about caring for the environment.
I think one of the main reasons the Coney Island Sphere Scam worked was because it seemed like it was fixing the main problem with most all of these designs: wasted space. Which is why I'm funding an exploratory tunneling project to dig down to the earth's core, hollow it out, and built luxury condominiums in an extravagant prototype inner-earth terraforming biome I like to call "Subcosm". Get in at the ground floor? Don't make me laugh. You're getting in at the FOUNDATION. With all the resources mined during the excavation process, we'll also be building the first self-funded space station. ... ... This is now reminding me of that Pinky and the Brain episode where they recreate Earth with papier mache and chia seeds, trick everyone on earth into visiting, using Free T-Shirts, and then REAL Earth gets destroyed by a meteor, meaning they now have to take over Chia-Earth.
How about a StewartSphere? ❤🙌🏼😇 I’d definitely be into your sphere, Stewart! But not as much as you & your incredible execution of another perfect video. Thanks again for fantastic Stewart. 🥰
It shouldn't be a sphere but a some kind of structure based on catenary curves! Not a parabola, as what was thought for a long time, but the curve you get when you suspend a chain between two stable points, the curves followed in the construction of La Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona.
Do you have any recommendations for any books related to some of the topics you cover? I have been really enjoying your videos and would like to learn more
Ah, it's good to be reminded that people have always had weird architectural ideas. I suspect the Pantheon gets more of pass, though, both for having innovative and thoughtful design, as well as for the fact that while it's based on the proportions of a sphere, it's really a dome with a cylindrical base. I'd like to see a discussion of domes and why they do (or don't) work better than full spheres (my guess is that they're way easier to support).
All 52 White Houses in the United States are based on classicist architecture and their eggshaped domes are the best shape in existence for supporting massive loads.
Yeah, I'm typing a second comment on this video. We went to Vegas last year for my daughter's wedding. They live there. We stayed at a hotel on the strip and went sightseeing one day. The craziest thing I saw in Vegas was outdoor, uncovered escalators. They are all around the hotel across from us. They weren't really needed, plus they are outside and I am imagining the nightmare when it rains. It's insane because the stairs next to them aren't that high, and if it's for those with mobility issues, elevators might be better, or at least covered escalators. The $12 cup of regular plain coffee was also over the top
The escalators are needed to save pedestrian lives. Vegas has 24-hr liquor, including allowing walking with said drink on the sidewalks. Each set of escalators has an elevator.
The thing I like about Las Vegas Strip architecture is the theatrical design of it all. It’s just meant to awe and entertain. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is for posterity. Just like people, the buildings have a life span of well under 100 years. No developer pretends that there is something more important than right now. What are you appreciating RIGHT NOW. 😀
Digging this editorial style! In the RU-vid-sphere - it's got to be difficult to fall somewhere between VOX, That one-guy-who-used-to-be-part-of-vox-and-kind-of-looks-like-you, Public Radio podcasts like DNA, Freakanomics, Radiolab, and the exhaustive tantric-learning and sharing of the Huberman Lab. Also, there's the by-the-numbers-spreadsheet-deadpan-surfer snark of CityNerd. Somehow, this fart-bubble stands out from all the others and I'm glad to have Stewart Hicks as one of my favorite content creators on youtube.
I don't remember when the humour started to creep through in your videos, but as it's increased I think I've appreciated your already great content even more
I don’t know if you are aware of The Venus Project circular city designs. It would be interesting to hear what you think about it. To me it is the best city design that I am aware of.
Ok Stewart. You had fun. I’m not gonna defend the various debacles throughout history. This MAY be one of them. But there’s no denying that it’s shape and LED accoutrements are a major attractant - which is what Vegas is all about. Vegas is Vegas - and this ball belongs here most. Also, not for nothing but it worked at Epcot and other places for the same reason. Harpooning the impracticality can easily backfire on other designs. Too many times history has taken swipes at new buildings only to have premature opinions brushed aside and the structure prevails.I expected a little more balance here. Why not talk about what engineering was required - it must have been complicated. Will screening the outside of the structure here lead to other designers yearning for less rigid colour choices? Love it or hate it I fail to see how this doesn’t symbolize our ability to break barriers in design in the same way Gehry does. What’s missing here is your own personal experience. What do you think when you walk up to it? Walk through it? Get entertained inside it? How does it make you feel when you’re there? I know my tours of buildings in Chicago changed my perspective by standing in front of them. Well? How about you?
Very weird video which doesn't bring up what this building has copied and developed, the former biggest sphere building Avicii Arena (or Globe Arena) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sir Isaac Newton’s spherical idea would have been amazing to see! Britain could be reminded of the other side of the world where they’d have more treasures to pilfer.
Assuming that Plato really did believe in the Theory of the Forms -- not a given, being that the dialogues present us with many possible layers of irony -- he certainly didn't believe that the Forms reside in the mind alone. The Forms famously have objective existence in some timeless realm, and our souls encounter them between our lives.
Domes are the most efficient shape. The most durable, strongest shape. Cranium is a dome for a reason. Try to cross-crush an egg. It's REALLY difficult.
The sphere in Montréal was built as the US Pavillion for EXPO 67 by the USA. Architech: Buckminster Fuller. . He got the contract for the EXPO 67 by US government after doing a smaller dome for the US pavillion for commercial exposition in Kabul in 1958. The "habitable" (with floor) volume was limited but it did sport then longest escalator in the world at the time. Visitors would first rise to the top of concrete structure in middle and then wind their way down the various exhibits hung/floating inside the sphere, including much of actual space vehicles that had flown. The US Pavillion also had one of the 2 automated monorails systems pass through it. After EXPO, the building remained unused until some refurbishement to be tourist attraction for the 1976 Olympics. In spring, a blow torch too near to the plexiglass lighted the whole place up with no way to stop the fire. As a result of the fire, special measures were taken at the Olympics because the skylights at the Vélodrome were made of same material and were near the strong lights below them. Firemen were stationed on the roof whenever the lights were turned one for events. as well, the covers over fluorescent lights in the métro cars were replaced with perforated metal manels to provide some light diffusion without the risk of fire. The former US pavilion remains bare and abandonned until the 350s anniversary of Montréal where the feredal government wanted to do a gift and made thsi small museum inside the concrete structure inside the still bare geodesic structure. It never got its skin back.
sure someone already said it but pretty ironic to claim "even canadians get in on the action" while showing the montreal biosphere which was... built by the us as their pavillon in the expo 67... kind of a weird oversight to mention it and talk about fuller designing it yet not clarify that its context was uniquely american simply so you could pull off that line. should have gone for our iconic gibeau orange julep instead (which is, funnily, older than the biodome)
@@Josh-yr7gd That's a weird comment. I didn't "remember"it, it just struck me as gratuitously scatological. I'm ok with expressions like that, they don't offend me, just his use of this one seemed like he was just trying to sound outrageous for no reason. If he had the opinion that the Sphere was just an abomination period, then it would've been appropriate, but he didn't say that.
@@itsROMPERS... He made a number of grade school jokes, like those about “balls”. I wondered if he would go there and sure enough he did. His older videos actually seemed a bit more stuffy with a lot of architectural jargon…informative and interesting, but a bit presumptuous. In his later videos, he’s definitely lightened the mood and doesn’t appear to be taking things so seriously. If I were you, I wouldn’t take things too seriously either and just “roll” with it!
Me: So why do you hate spheres?? Stewart Hicks: Oh, I don't hate spheres! They're monuments of human achievement! (But here's five reasons why I think they're not worth the hype) Also, Ground News actually sounds like an interesting platform. But I find it funny that the actual reporting spin off project from the Babylon Bee, a.k.a. The Catholic Onion, shows up under bias. I'd be surprised if they were more than a tiny bit serious
Some call it 'snark' and associate it with a loss of dignity. But what they consider dignified is really just pompous and as Voltaire demonstrated, the most potent antidote to pretension is humor. As for the one geometry to rule them all, do not acolytes of fractal geometry have a stronger case than the virility incubator admirers?
Always thought why half sphere or full sphere shaped buildings are not the obvious choice when designing wind resistant buildings and houses. Makes no sense to me they do not consider aerodynanics to save lives and lots of money...🤔
