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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:36:21 PST
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- From: THE END IS NIE! <RHYSLING@PHOENIX.BITNET>
- Subject: Inovation Where You Find it...
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- George Dyson, in persueing the evolution of the Baidarka (Kyak,Canue),
- developoed a methode for fabricating those sceleton/skin structures that I think
- would prove aplicable to our friend, the dome.
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- Mr. Dyson Made the frame of his vehicle from aluminiem tubeing, lashed together
- with nylon thread and reinforced with gussets, also of aluminiem. He exper-
- amented with several skins, from fiber-glass to nylon impregnated with
- neoprean and hyperon. The boats he fabricated by this methode where both
- strong and light. Best of all, they required fue tools to manuefacture,
- no heavy aquipment, and very simply methods (sewing and simple fabrication of
- metals).
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- Add one more nifty idea to the dome pile.
- It will not help much.
-
- Why? Why are domes not poping up all over?
- Why have I not made one?
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- For me, the answer is simple: NO LAND.
- I can conceptualize all day, sketch out neet dezines, make plans...
- but untill I have a piece of earth to call my own, I will never make one...
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- Round where I live, a 50x70 ft lot runs for 65 thousand $$$, starting...
- I, if I could find full time employment, at say, $5 an hour, 40 hrs a week,
- in about 15 YEARS I could afford to by a lot...assueming I forsake all other
- dreams...
-
- Add in building costs...however minimal...
- That dream is too distant, too far away.
-
- I am very pore. This may not be your case.
- If you are not, I say to you: Why are you not LIVING YOUR DREAM?
- If it is making domes, DO IT! Others will say "Neet, could I do that?"
- or "By God, stand back, that thing looks dangerouse!"
- Eather way, you will have done it. If you have the means by which to
- change your ideas into reality, do it.
-
- I envy you.
-
- If you do not, do as I must, and strive for the means to change your status,
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- and that of those around you.
-
- In the meanwhile, untell I can afford a place to call Home, I keep listening
- here, and keep my little dreams alive...I hope yours fair well.
-
- C.R LeFay
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