Wednesday, July 18, 2007

[papercreters] OT -- more domes from other spacemen

Off topic here...

Our Spaceman has built one of the more recent domes that various
Spacemen have built over the last 150 years or so.

Percival Lowell started this nest of domes:
http://tinyurl.com/3aesmd
Here's more info about them:
http://www.lowell.edu/

Spacemen called this one the "Giant Eye"
http://tinyurl.com/39mb58
Here's more about it:
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/

Here's some big ones in Hawaii
http://tinyurl.com/3yekb9
and more about it:
http://www.keckobservatory.org/index.html

Not all spacemen are big on domes, some like rectangles:
http://tinyurl.com/35zuq8
http://medusa.as.arizona.edu/lbto/

Big European rectangles in South America:
http://tinyurl.com/2posya
http://www.eso.org/public/astronomy/teles-instr/paranal.html

This dome for Spacemen is one of my favorites and was built upside
down, but I think they like it that way:
http://tinyurl.com/33e8r3
more about it:
http://www.naic.edu/

Some others:
Griffith
http://tinyurl.com/36qyou
http://www.griffithobs.org/

Kitt Peak
http://tinyurl.com/2nlz6k
http://www.noao.edu/kpno/

Lick
http://tinyurl.com/2rks58
http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/

At least we now know what the other 98 spacemen have been up to.
BUILDING MORE DOMES!

Our spaceman01of99 is part of a proud lineage!
I wonder if he has the same kewl views that the other spaceman domes
have?

hehehe Yes, I had fun collecting that!

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "Bons" <bontie@...> wrote:
>
> This has to be right out of Star Wars. It is amazing and I am so
jealous.
>
> Bontie
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Spaceman
> Date: 7/15/2007 2:19:35 PM
> To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [papercreters] About your dome home
>
> My dome is pretty far from the Monolithic design. They use a
hemispherical
> air form, sprayed foam and concrete to make a smooth hemisphere.
Mine is a
> geodesic, made from triangular panels and covered with papercrete,
in a 5/9
> sphere truncation. My method cost a lot less than theirs, too.
>
> I quit updating the website in 2002 before the dome was finished,
when the
> website was hacked and everything past about April disappeared. I
have
> several times started looking for the lost pictures and narrative,
but have
> never accomplished that goal. Meanwhile, I moved into the dome in
November
> of 2002 and have been happily living there ever since. A couple of
years ago
> I removed the roof over the back room and am in the process of
rebuilding it
> slowly. So, it was almost finished, then I decided to revise the
back roof,
> so it is still unfinished. In the meantime I have added a couple of
smaller
> domes, pipe frames covered with pc triangle panels. Here is a
picture taken
> in June 2002 with some areas still needing pc layers.
>
> Spaceman
>



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