From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sun Oct 28 07:51:20 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Im9U0-0002VR-KS for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:51:20 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Im9Ty-0002V5-1K for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:51:20 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C311CE6DB for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:51:13 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: geodesic dome Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:51:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <821531.97363.qm@web27709.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <97f5058c0710261625md4f9d8dm60457d1351b2f025@mail.gmail.com> <925d17560710270830k57e16d76ofe3a90a6ddd669a8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <925d17560710270830k57e16d76ofe3a90a6ddd669a8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="gb2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710281051.09598.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5719 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Saturday 27 October 2007 11:30, Jorge Llamb¨ªas wrote: > bol- is relevant both for "geodesic" and for "dome", but > {bol(sfe)sirji bol(di'u)dru} for "geodesic dome" sounds a bit redundant. > You can probably shorten it to {bolsirji drudi} or even {bolsirdru}. Whatever we decide to call a geodesic dome, we need to distinguish it from other kinds of domes, which may be constructed with geodesics, but in a different arrangement. A few days ago I watched a video about the construction of what is now the Cricket Arena. Its greku consists of a ring of concrete columns, a tension ring, and many great circle arcs which meet at a compression ring near the top. It is a dome, and it contains of geodesics, but it is not a geodesic dome. Pierre