Ariel Ekblaw
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We're talking Ikea.
In some sense, even further back.
So it's like this vision from science fiction of how do you have massive structures that are way bigger than your biggest rocket payload fairing.
And there's this idea from Buckminster Fuller, so even well before the International Space Station was designed, of buckyballs, geodesic domes.
Why do we love spheres in space?
Because for a given surface area, you're optimizing for all that volume, most efficient shape.
Spaceballs.
Self-assembling spaceballs.
3D printing.
I think the answer is yes and.
So we definitely want innovative structures in space.
We want self-assembling modular things.
The reason we want modularity that's not just 3D printed, because when it's 3D printed, it's solid.
If you get damage on one of my modular flat-packed panels that have since popped out of their can, self-assembled, you can remove a tile, pop a new one off.
Or if you had a window to mark.
It's Legos.
It's space Legos with magnets.