Ariel Ekblaw
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No, we do clamps.
So between all of the seams of this tessellated bucky ball that's made out of hexagons and pentagons, those are the tiles that come together with the magnets.
It is a glorified soccer ball.
We're sending a soccer ball to space.
I played soccer as a kid.
Maybe this influenced me more than I realized.
That is an idea for how to maybe eventually do a big diameter ring is a bucky tube with some curvature.
It changes.
It does compress the tiles on the inside.
But that's the base concept that we're trying to riff on.
But yeah, it's a glorified soccer ball, and the clamps are what keep the air pressure in.
So you're going to have force due to air pressure pushing out.
Oh, right.
The delta is much better, much more favorable.
Wow, that's cool, man.
So this is a great question.
When we think about what makes sense to uniquely do in space, we kind of want to rule out all the other different ways to do it here.
And we want to do the cheaper things here first.