Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Ariel Ekblaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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This was the hardest question I got asked.

Yes.

And so the trade-off to modular self-assembly is you get all these seams.

So what do we do with the seams?

The magnets are what bring the exoskeleton together.

So click, click, click in this big sphere.

In addition, so the magnets pull the tiles together while they're still separated.

So instead of using propulsion or a consumable like air propulsion.

Exactly, because you couldn't do it on Earth.

And this is the elegance of self assembly in space.

There's no friction.

So the initial sphere that we're talking about, the buckyball, is not going to rotate.

What we're working on for the artificial gravity is more of what we call like a xylem.

You know those tubes in plants that go up vertically along the length of the plant stem?

We want to align a bunch of cylinders.

Xylem.

Xylem and phloem.

This is my, like, fourth grade memory from fourth grade science.

Xylem and phloem.

So this is separate from the self-assembling buckyball.

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