Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=73985" target="_blank"><b>Latest: PopularMechanics: Fact-Checking 5 Epcot Rides That Predicted the Future</b></a> <p><i>Popular Mechanics </i>evaluates five visions of the future offered by past Epcot attractions (although they sneak in Carousel of Progress from Magic Kingdom as the fifth) and see how they hold up.</p>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA It's sort of a lame story. Like he was up against a deadline and cranked it out in 30 minutes.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Because it's not a sphere..?> To me, Spaceship Earth is certainly a geodesic sphere -- A geodesic dome would be the Cinerama movie theater in Hollywood. <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/CineramaDome.JPG" target="_blank">http://www.mediabistro.com/fis...Dome.JPG</a>
Originally Posted By MPierce >> The more out-there tech shown in this attraction is the instant audio translation. Two kids are depicted speaking over the tubes, with each hearing the other's speech in his own language. << I miss my cherry tree! The sakura were beautiful.
Originally Posted By mousermerf <<It is a geodesic dome as I recall from all the literature.>> Technically it's two - the legs support a platform. From that one goes up and makes like 3/4 of the structure, around that area, the whole thing is elongated at an artificial equator making it asymmetrical. Below is a suspended second dome.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Whatever....how was that for valley speak? << Gag me with a spoon dude!
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Sphere, smhere...it's a big round thing that looks like a golf ball.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Why do you people dislike correct information so much? << It's not that people dislike correct information Merf. It's the arrogant way in which you prersent the information you have gathered. Personally I find it amusing.
Originally Posted By MPierce >> Sphere, smhere...it's a big round thing that looks like a golf ball. << I find that description the most generally accepted one.
