Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Slowly but surely.
Slowly but surely.
It's Legos.
Legos with magnets.
So if you're making the spherical construction, that's tessellation of shapes.
It is tessellation.
So that becomes biomimicry?
Yeah, all right, all right.
Okay, the irony is, you wouldn't trust a 35-year-old technology.
No, I wouldn't.
But we've gone to Mother Nature for cues to design the future.
Ah, yeah, that's cool.
All right, so you said about magnetism, self-assembly, but there's a lot of magnetism around in space and other environmental issues.
So you've got that to deal with.
What do you mean?
What are you talking about?
What kind of space junk?
It's not all that strong.
And then you've got to make sure you've got 100% seal on every facet of every tile.