“All my buildings fly, which when you think about it makes perfect sense because an architect spends his life fighting against the force of gravity,” he says. “By levitating a building, it does not take from the city and its people – it gives something back.” — Financial Times
Renzo Piano in conversation with the Financial Times.
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Donna Sink on Light, Water, and Gravity:
Light: it's bright!
Water: it's wet!
Gravity: I'm grateful for it!
Saying this in my head with a Seinfeld voice ...
One of my friends from grad school did a project about loss of gravity that took second place in the big fairy tails competition a couple years ago.
She's pretty fantastic at this sort of stuff.
https://toposstudio.com/Ascens...
All his budgets fly pretty high too.
A skyhook is an invisible subphotonic momentum exchange tether that aims to reduce the taxation on buildings enforced by the gravity cartel.
water you think about this?
Gravity? You mean sticky earth theory?
Perhaps... but I hear folks murmuring about sky repulsion theory. Maybe it's that.
Gravity is not a force. It is the of the result of masses moving along geodesic lines in a curved spacetime.
^ Fail.
Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces in physics, along with the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces.
You’re not a fan of Einstein, Miles? :)
Gravity is not a force.
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