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The outer walls in the majority of Earthships are made of earth-rammed tires, but any dense material with a potential to store heat, such as concrete, adobe, earth bags, or stone, could in principle be used to create a building similar to an Earthship. The tire walls are staggered like traditional brick work, and often have "concrete half ...
Spaceship Earth was originally sponsored by the Bell System from 1982 until 1984, [13] [14] when it was broken into smaller companies and its parent company, AT&T, became an independent company. AT&T sponsored Spaceship Earth from 1984 until 2004. From 2005 until 2017, the German company Siemens was the sponsor of Spaceship Earth. As of 2025 ...
The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", [1] is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.
The following year, Spaceship Earth became the title of a book by a friend of Stevenson's, the economist Barbara Ward. [full citation needed] In 1966, Kenneth E. Boulding, who was influenced by reading Henry George's work, [6] used the phrase in the title of his essay, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth. [7]
House : Color image: 87: House (New England) Color image: 88: Modern house (Cloudcroft, New Mexico) Color image: 89 "House interior with artist and fire" Color image (Photo by Jim Amos of Jim Gray & his wife) [24] 90: Taj Mahal: Color image (David Carroll) 91: English city : Color image (C.S. Lewis, Images of His World, William B. Eerdmans ...
Artist's depiction of a pair of O'Neill cylinders Interior view, showing alternating land and window segments. An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony, or Island Three) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space. [1]
NASA's new pictures of Earth are reigniting conspiracy theories straight out of "Journey to the Center of the Earth." These are previously unreleased images of our blue marble planet, showing the ...
Spaceship Earth at Epcot The Climatron greenhouse at Missouri Botanical Gardens, built in 1960 and designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc., inspired the domes in the science fiction movie Silent Running. Science World in Vancouver, built for Expo 86, and inspired by Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic dome.