Re: They fail in reply to me all the time

all the time me fail in reply to they.

So it's a group thing.

thus:
so, is a "stilson wrench" a torque-wrench?

note the figure at the end of the paper,
which resolves the puzzle of a "simple ... 6-tendon" tenseg.,
instead of nine!

it'll take me a while to digest the math,
without that enormous "Eight-of-Nine" wolramiteware, I imagine.

http://www.freewebtown.com/randome/k.a.lazopoulos.tensegrity.doc

thus:
ah, just so, as shown by N's posting of Oct.5, already, below;
however, the allowable ("developable?") transformations are not such,
deformations, since curvature remains nil.
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2808/truncatedmbvn8.jpg

Nobody told You, that the paper strip is not deformed...
Here is talking about deformations, which keep Gauss curvature at zero.
(Remember bending paper to a cone or a cylinder are such deformations).

thus:
Bucky Fuller realized that the M-strip was "really"
just an inner-tube; one can cut the two M-strips
out of it, or related deconstructions (please,
use a *punctured* tube .-)...
the whole idea that the paper strip is not deformed
in the construction is abstruse, and easy to show as wrong,
by merely adding extra whole twists, or
by making the strip "n-sheeted." or,
by using a rectangle that is, say, tetragonal ("skware").

thus:
thank *o* for that!... however,
except for deploying tents, I don't see any interest
in the 7-spoke wheel, since the depicted deployments,
thus far, have at most bilateral (or
bifold rotational) symmetry, and those being
not in the most important way....
is "feh" the correct term?
Ref: http://bobwb.tripod.com/synergetics/photos/bikerim.html

thus:
References
Fuller, R. B. (1961) "Tensegrity" Portfolio Artnews Annual 4: 112-127
Connelly, R., Back, A. (1998) "Mathematics and tensegrity" Am.
Scientist
86: 142-151

thus:
funny you should mention The Wheel; unfortunately,
for those of us interested in preinventing it,
_The Bicycle Wheel_ was taken offline & put back in print,
maybe because of our dyscussion of it,
on a Bucky Fuller listserver. anyway, you can see, why,
the Wright bros. were so savvy, knowing this little system,
which we have preliminarily classified in terms
of "tensegrity."...
as for top-posting,
ettiquette is less important than repetitive strain injury
from unneeded "scrolling" --
work it out on your life's palimpsest!...
(that is to say, if you can't follow implications
in a "thread" in written English, there's a class for you
at the local community college: EFL.)

thus:
I discovered this construction while contemplating
a fragment from Diophantus' lost work "On Polygonal
Numbers," which describes a proposition
by the classical Greek geometer Hypsicles:
"There has also been proved what was stated
by Hypsicles in a definition, namely, that 'if
there be as many numbers as we please beginning
from 1 and increasing by the same common difference ...'"

--it takes some to jitterbug!
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/2006_articles/Keplerian.W05.pdf
http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/plates/figs/plate01.html
http://larouchepub.com/other/2006/3322_ethanol_no_science.html
http://www.wlym.com/pdf/iclc/howthenation.pdf

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