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They could do that, but a regular gomboc would be totally fine. There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded. Maybe exoskeletons for
by emporas 1y ago
They could do that, but a regular gomboc would be totally fine. There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded.
Maybe exoskeletons for turtles could be more useful. Turtles with their short legs, require the bottom of their shell to be totally flat, and a gomboc has no flat surface. Vehicles that drive on slopes could benefit from that as well.
- waste_monk 1y ago>There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded. Someone should write to UNOOSA and get this fixed up.
- nextaccountic 1y agoNote that a turtle's shell already approximate a Gömböc shape (the curved self-righting shape discovered by the same mathematician in the linked article) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c#Relation_to_animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c#Relation_to_a... But yeah a specially designed exoskeleton could perform better, kinda like the prosthetics of Oscar Pistorious
- fruitplants 1y agoGábor Domokos (mentioned in the article) talked about this on one QI episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUHo1BgTak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUHo1BgTak
- voidUpdate 1y ago> There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded If the inside is pressurized, its even beneficial for it to be a rounded shape, since the sharp corners are more likely to fail