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Ground News has merely demonstrated that right wing sources sensationalize every subject that they touch and will outright refuse to publish subjects that counter their narrative. The same cannot be said for other sources.
You might want to improve your research a bit. 11:43 the crest IV spaceship is from the Perry Rhodan universe and according to the decription which belings to the picture you have used, it had a crew of 5000 people, not 300.000. also, the picture was published in Perry Rhodan 421, released in 1969
I don't really have any interest to go to Las Vegas but I would love to go to the sphere. The studios where I guess they probably test things out is in Burbank California where I live and wow is it getting dirty but I think it's some really cool innovation It's taking theater in the round to a whole new level
Ignore those ol' fuddy-duddy naysayers, Stewart. Your opening line was funny, and so were the rest of your puns. Nothing wring with a little immature humor every now and then!
As soon as I heard that I knew it would be another one of Stewart’s unhinged videos. Not sure what broke him, but damn, I like it. Guess comedy comes with the Hicks name.
"Yes, I will make a video about your Sphere. Yes, I will quote all those facts. No, I will not try to denigrate the projects. I mean, other than mention the sponsor-you know Brilliant, or Ground News, or Factor. Haven't decided yet."
A sphere lit up with more electricity than any other building on the strip houses a theater that shows a film that lectures people about caring for the environment.
Brings me back to the 1970s when I was fascinated with geodesic domes ... including seriously considering living in one. Two things killed that dream: 1. House sized geodesic domes leak at the edges, the structural integrity is ruined if you run plumbing or wiring in the exterior wall/ceiling, and they're almost impossible to insulate well. 2. A different Stewart, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, also lost his love for domes, saying (I paraphrase) Vertical walls are useful. We are vertical,"
You forgot to cover the largest spherical building in the world (before the MSG Sphere) The Ericsson Globe/Avicii Arena in Stockholm. It's a multi-purpose arena that can host 16 000 people and i has an diameter of 110 meters and is 85 meters tall.
Very weird video which doesn't bring up what this building has copied and developed, the former biggest sphere building Avicii Arena (or Globe Arena) in Stockholm, Sweden.
one of the startling moments of my youth has to do with the Expo 67 dome in Montreal. I went to art school in a campus in a medium rise building at Delorimier Ave and Sherbrooke St, on the 6-8 floors. We got used to looking south during our classes to where the old Expo site was, about 2 or 3 Kms south in the middle of the St Lawrence river. I was there the day the sphere burned, and had probably the best grandstand view over the conflagration. Wow. huge plumes of toxic black smoke from the plastic infill windows didn’t seem so ecological to us. the dome structure did what probably only a dome could: survive. But there were no discussions about restoring it, since you couldn’t fix that little flammability issue. before it went, the best thing was that each hex in the dome had a kind of parachute system that could retract or extend to blank that area from sun. Without this, the cost of cooling the dome would have been ruinous; but while it was there, the Expo dome (which was the US pavilion during Expo) was an incredibly impressive example of building, technology, and environmental design.
I think one of the main reasons the Coney Island Sphere Scam worked was because it seemed like it was fixing the main problem with most all of these designs: wasted space. Which is why I'm funding an exploratory tunneling project to dig down to the earth's core, hollow it out, and built luxury condominiums in an extravagant prototype inner-earth terraforming biome I like to call "Subcosm". Get in at the ground floor? Don't make me laugh. You're getting in at the FOUNDATION. With all the resources mined during the excavation process, we'll also be building the first self-funded space station. ... ... This is now reminding me of that Pinky and the Brain episode where they recreate Earth with papier mache and chia seeds, trick everyone on earth into visiting, using Free T-Shirts, and then REAL Earth gets destroyed by a meteor, meaning they now have to take over Chia-Earth.
It shouldn't be a sphere but a some kind of structure based on catenary curves! Not a parabola, as what was thought for a long time, but the curve you get when you suspend a chain between two stable points, the curves followed in the construction of La Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona.
Ah, it's good to be reminded that people have always had weird architectural ideas. I suspect the Pantheon gets more of pass, though, both for having innovative and thoughtful design, as well as for the fact that while it's based on the proportions of a sphere, it's really a dome with a cylindrical base. I'd like to see a discussion of domes and why they do (or don't) work better than full spheres (my guess is that they're way easier to support).
All 52 White Houses in the United States are based on classicist architecture and their eggshaped domes are the best shape in existence for supporting massive loads.
Not since every other sentence uttered contained the word "space" have I been closer to blocking this channel than now. I came for, and stayed for, things I didn't know or understand about architecture. Now this channel is morphing into half-baked, semi-inside jokes from an increasingly (?) pretentious malcontent.
How about a StewartSphere? ❤🙌🏼😇 I’d definitely be into your sphere, Stewart! But not as much as you & your incredible execution of another perfect video. Thanks again for fantastic Stewart. 🥰
When I first stumbled upon this cannel about a year ago it used to be interesting, educational, and felt refreshing to finally find a good entertaining channel about architecture. But for the past few videos you switched to a cynical/sarcastic tone accompanied by passing judgement on the subjects you are covering. Not sure if this is a way to get more views, but you definitely lost mine Stewart. If you want to be critical about something just be critical, thats part of the design discipline, but saying stuff like "[the sphere] is the epitome of efficiency, as it extracts everyone's money and transfers it to others" or "emerging from the desert like a fart bubble" makes me feel like I'm in a lecture delivered by a high school kid.
🙄 Typical Architecture professor; disguises his opinions as facts, adds a bit of whit & 3rd grade humor to hide his intent, and has an overtly fond distaste for the very people who can aford to hire architects to execute an exciting vision. 🙄
Ok Stewart. You had fun. I’m not gonna defend the various debacles throughout history. This MAY be one of them. But there’s no denying that it’s shape and LED accoutrements are a major attractant - which is what Vegas is all about. Vegas is Vegas - and this ball belongs here most. Also, not for nothing but it worked at Epcot and other places for the same reason. Harpooning the impracticality can easily backfire on other designs. Too many times history has taken swipes at new buildings only to have premature opinions brushed aside and the structure prevails.I expected a little more balance here. Why not talk about what engineering was required - it must have been complicated. Will screening the outside of the structure here lead to other designers yearning for less rigid colour choices? Love it or hate it I fail to see how this doesn’t symbolize our ability to break barriers in design in the same way Gehry does. What’s missing here is your own personal experience. What do you think when you walk up to it? Walk through it? Get entertained inside it? How does it make you feel when you’re there? I know my tours of buildings in Chicago changed my perspective by standing in front of them. Well? How about you?
I usually like your videos but not this one. From the fart joke at the beginning to the incredibly lame commercial at the end, you really jumped the snark. The history of the dome is a distinguished one, beloved throughout history, with numerous works of architectural genius. If you're trying to please the crowd and prove you're not an intellectual, you've succeeded. In giving the great building type its due, even with providing some excellent examples, no, still not. I realize this will not be a popular opinion but I know you respect opposing views. Cheers Regards
@@stewarthicks Thank you for your reply. Your work is generally excellent and even here there were possibilities of an excellent review of the dome in history. Your ongoing commentary is engaging and thoughtful, and I will continue to tune in. Regards
Do you have any recommendations for any books related to some of the topics you cover? I have been really enjoying your videos and would like to learn more
Digging this editorial style! In the UA-cam-sphere - it's got to be difficult to fall somewhere between VOX, That one-guy-who-used-to-be-part-of-vox-and-kind-of-looks-like-you, Public Radio podcasts like DNA, Freakanomics, Radiolab, and the exhaustive tantric-learning and sharing of the Huberman Lab. Also, there's the by-the-numbers-spreadsheet-deadpan-surfer snark of CityNerd. Somehow, this fart-bubble stands out from all the others and I'm glad to have Stewart Hicks as one of my favorite content creators on youtube.
Why so sour Stew? So many resentful toned statements. Don’t like Vegas? Don’t like LEDs? Don’t like spheres? I’m truly lost as to the reason for this building bash. It’s a new age building that I have only heard positive reviews from my friends that have visited.
The thing I like about Las Vegas Strip architecture is the theatrical design of it all. It’s just meant to awe and entertain. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is for posterity. Just like people, the buildings have a life span of well under 100 years. No developer pretends that there is something more important than right now. What are you appreciating RIGHT NOW. 😀
Domes are the most efficient shape. The most durable, strongest shape. Cranium is a dome for a reason. Try to cross-crush an egg. It's REALLY difficult.
Okay, I can't help myself. Here's a couple of notes on your pal and mine, Sir Isaac Newton. First, ol' Isaac, while an enormously important figure in the history of mathematics and physics, was absolutely a superstitious crackpot. He believed in believed in Bible codes and alchemy and wasted years of his life on that nonsense. Some people believe that he got into the Bible code stuff because he poisoned himself with all the alchemy. I say he was always kind of an obsessive weirdo. Second, Isaac should probably not be associated with spheres. If anything, he ought to be associated with ellipses. Johannes Kepler proved in 1619 that the planets traveled in elliptical rather than circular orbits, which first marked the old "the universe is a bunch of concentric spheres" theory for death. Newton's contribution to the glorious elliptical cause is that in 1687 he provided the first coherent, self-consistent mathematical and scientific explanation for why the planets travel in elliptical orbits.
sure someone already said it but pretty ironic to claim "even canadians get in on the action" while showing the montreal biosphere which was... built by the us as their pavillon in the expo 67... kind of a weird oversight to mention it and talk about fuller designing it yet not clarify that its context was uniquely american simply so you could pull off that line. should have gone for our iconic gibeau orange julep instead (which is, funnily, older than the biodome)
I wish you would have mentioned Islamic architecture, where spheres and domes feature very heavily in some of the most beautiful buildings known to man.
Always thought why half sphere or full sphere shaped buildings are not the obvious choice when designing wind resistant buildings and houses. Makes no sense to me they do not consider aerodynanics to save lives and lots of money...🤔
Some call it 'snark' and associate it with a loss of dignity. But what they consider dignified is really just pompous and as Voltaire demonstrated, the most potent antidote to pretension is humor. As for the one geometry to rule them all, do not acolytes of fractal geometry have a stronger case than the virility incubator admirers?
@@Josh-yr7gd That's a weird comment. I didn't "remember"it, it just struck me as gratuitously scatological. I'm ok with expressions like that, they don't offend me, just his use of this one seemed like he was just trying to sound outrageous for no reason. If he had the opinion that the Sphere was just an abomination period, then it would've been appropriate, but he didn't say that.
@@itsROMPERS... He made a number of grade school jokes, like those about “balls”. I wondered if he would go there and sure enough he did. His older videos actually seemed a bit more stuffy with a lot of architectural jargon…informative and interesting, but a bit presumptuous. In his later videos, he’s definitely lightened the mood and doesn’t appear to be taking things so seriously. If I were you, I wouldn’t take things too seriously either and just “roll” with it!
Me: So why do you hate spheres?? Stewart Hicks: Oh, I don't hate spheres! They're monuments of human achievement! (But here's five reasons why I think they're not worth the hype) Also, Ground News actually sounds like an interesting platform. But I find it funny that the actual reporting spin off project from the Babylon Bee, a.k.a. The Catholic Onion, shows up under bias. I'd be surprised if they were more than a tiny bit serious
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Ground News has merely demonstrated that right wing sources sensationalize every subject that they touch.
Ground News has merely demonstrated that right wing sources sensationalize every subject that they touch and will outright refuse to publish subjects that counter their narrative. The same cannot be said for other sources.
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You might want to improve your research a bit. 11:43 the crest IV spaceship is from the Perry Rhodan universe and according to the decription which belings to the picture you have used, it had a crew of 5000 people, not 300.000. also, the picture was published in Perry Rhodan 421, released in 1969
I don't really have any interest to go to Las Vegas but I would love to go to the sphere. The studios where I guess they probably test things out is in Burbank California where I live and wow is it getting dirty but I think it's some really cool innovation It's taking theater in the round to a whole new level
“Emerging from the desert like a fart bubble floating defiantly “ will go down as one great opening lines in all of film, right up there with Rosebud.
Thank you for the high praise.
Sounded like trashy, ironic, reddit speak
Ignore those ol' fuddy-duddy naysayers, Stewart. Your opening line was funny, and so were the rest of your puns. Nothing wring with a little immature humor every now and then!
As soon as I heard that I knew it would be another one of Stewart’s unhinged videos. Not sure what broke him, but damn, I like it. Guess comedy comes with the Hicks name.
Rosebud?
The Stewart Hicks Attitude Era is really something
"Yes, I will make a video about your Sphere. Yes, I will quote all those facts. No, I will not try to denigrate the projects. I mean, other than mention the sponsor-you know Brilliant, or Ground News, or Factor. Haven't decided yet."
Great men with ball-shaped dreams… you’re killing it Stuart.
This feels like one of those high effort April Fools videos
Wrong date, though I hope you will come up with one, as a response by then. 😮😊
The brothel design is equal parts genius and absolutely nuts 😂😂😂
No pun intended
As a structural engineer, the best shape for a building is clearly a square!
The Borg agree.
What about triangles?
Incidentally, the least best shape for a building is clearly the gömböc 🙃 💕
Just the right amount of snark.
All of it?
‘fart bubble’ was a bit dumb, but yea other than that
A sphere lit up with more electricity than any other building on the strip houses a theater that shows a film that lectures people about caring for the environment.
As Alanis said, "Isn't it ironic?".
What cracks me up about “The Sphere” is that if you designed THAT in architecture school in the 70s you would have absolutely been trounced on.
I like the sphere. Back in the 70s everyone smoked and drank while pregnant. Does that mean we should do it today(
there was SO many innuendo's in this episode, I bet you had so much fun making it
Brings me back to the 1970s when I was fascinated with geodesic domes ... including seriously considering living in one. Two things killed that dream:
1. House sized geodesic domes leak at the edges, the structural integrity is ruined if you run plumbing or wiring in the exterior wall/ceiling, and they're almost impossible to insulate well.
2. A different Stewart, of Whole Earth Catalog fame, also lost his love for domes, saying (I paraphrase) Vertical walls are useful. We are vertical,"
As always, a well-rounded narrative to start my weekend.
Top tier comment. The nod is masterful.
The pun-master.
Well done. You deserve a round of applause!
You forgot to cover the largest spherical building in the world (before the MSG Sphere) The Ericsson Globe/Avicii Arena in Stockholm. It's a multi-purpose arena that can host 16 000 people and i has an diameter of 110 meters and is 85 meters tall.
It's also designed as the center of a to scale solar system
pour one out for the MEP engineers having to do HVAC load calculations on these things
I would love to hear more examples of architectural frauds throughout history
As soon as he said "ground floor chance", I knew it was a scam. Saw it a mile away.
Learn about Victor Lustig and his affiliation to the Eiffel tower.
Sphere Snark and A Death Star joke. Stewart out here killin it!!!
In my day, my favorite Sphere was Brittany! She still is, Brittany Spheres. Ah!
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! 😆
I can tell you hate this thing.
Stewart Hicks throws more shade than The Sphere on a sunny day, lol
I literally thought the same. Wow, he's throwing a lot of shade!
I use spherical crockery. The plates look GREAT!!! but the food keeps on falling off.
(Not a true story.)
Very weird video which doesn't bring up what this building has copied and developed, the former biggest sphere building Avicii Arena (or Globe Arena) in Stockholm, Sweden.
The tone in this one is fantastic! "Kill me now"
... and it's true that museum is very boring unfortunately.
Why don't you get off the fence and tell us what you really think Stewart? 😉 Joking aside, it's great to have such an honest appraisal. Keep it up.
one of the startling moments of my youth has to do with the Expo 67 dome in Montreal. I went to art school in a campus in a medium rise building at Delorimier Ave and Sherbrooke St, on the 6-8 floors. We got used to looking south during our classes to where the old Expo site was, about 2 or 3 Kms south in the middle of the St Lawrence river.
I was there the day the sphere burned, and had probably the best grandstand view over the conflagration. Wow. huge plumes of toxic black smoke from the plastic infill windows didn’t seem so ecological to us. the dome structure did what probably only a dome could: survive. But there were no discussions about restoring it, since you couldn’t fix that little flammability issue.
before it went, the best thing was that each hex in the dome had a kind of parachute system that could retract or extend to blank that area from sun. Without this, the cost of cooling the dome would have been ruinous; but while it was there, the Expo dome (which was the US pavilion during Expo) was an incredibly impressive example of building, technology, and environmental design.
The. Shade. The. SHADE. Of. It. All.
I think one of the main reasons the Coney Island Sphere Scam worked was because it seemed like it was fixing the main problem with most all of these designs: wasted space.
Which is why I'm funding an exploratory tunneling project to dig down to the earth's core, hollow it out, and built luxury condominiums in an extravagant prototype inner-earth terraforming biome I like to call "Subcosm". Get in at the ground floor? Don't make me laugh. You're getting in at the FOUNDATION. With all the resources mined during the excavation process, we'll also be building the first self-funded space station.
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This is now reminding me of that Pinky and the Brain episode where they recreate Earth with papier mache and chia seeds, trick everyone on earth into visiting, using Free T-Shirts, and then REAL Earth gets destroyed by a meteor, meaning they now have to take over Chia-Earth.
Sounds like you had lots of fun making this video. Bucky would be proud!
It shouldn't be a sphere but a some kind of structure based on catenary curves! Not a parabola, as what was thought for a long time, but the curve you get when you suspend a chain between two stable points, the curves followed in the construction of La Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona.
Ah, it's good to be reminded that people have always had weird architectural ideas. I suspect the Pantheon gets more of pass, though, both for having innovative and thoughtful design, as well as for the fact that while it's based on the proportions of a sphere, it's really a dome with a cylindrical base. I'd like to see a discussion of domes and why they do (or don't) work better than full spheres (my guess is that they're way easier to support).
All 52 White Houses in the United States are based on classicist architecture and their eggshaped domes are the best shape in existence for supporting massive loads.
From Ai thumbnail to Ai description you might wanna rethink who you hire to produce those videos for you.
You never mentioned the Globe in Stockholm -the worlds largest ballshaped indoor arena.
@@roxpaceindeed it is, you're right. I have corrected it. 👍
Huh
Not since every other sentence uttered contained the word "space" have I been closer to blocking this channel than now. I came for, and stayed for, things I didn't know or understand about architecture. Now this channel is morphing into half-baked, semi-inside jokes from an increasingly (?) pretentious malcontent.
Yuri Gagarin flew into space in a sphere, the Vostok 1
I never thought I'd live to see snarkitechture become a thing, yet here we are. Love this!
Stuart Hicks, Windy City Snarkitect!
The moment when you think "yes, that *was* what he meant."
How about a StewartSphere? ❤🙌🏼😇 I’d definitely be into your sphere, Stewart! But not as much as you & your incredible execution of another perfect video. Thanks again for fantastic Stewart. 🥰
just for the record, the portrait you show at 8:20 is a portrait of Louis the sixteenth, not Etienne-Louis Boullée
Great vid though
Yes, very awkward mistake!
When I first stumbled upon this cannel about a year ago it used to be interesting, educational, and felt refreshing to finally find a good entertaining channel about architecture. But for the past few videos you switched to a cynical/sarcastic tone accompanied by passing judgement on the subjects you are covering. Not sure if this is a way to get more views, but you definitely lost mine Stewart.
If you want to be critical about something just be critical, thats part of the design discipline, but saying stuff like "[the sphere] is the epitome of efficiency, as it extracts everyone's money and transfers it to others" or "emerging from the desert like a fart bubble" makes me feel like I'm in a lecture delivered by a high school kid.
Appreciate the feedback. I will be toning it down in future videos.
🙄 Typical Architecture professor; disguises his opinions as facts, adds a bit of whit & 3rd grade humor to hide his intent, and has an overtly fond distaste for the very people who can aford to hire architects to execute an exciting vision. 🙄
Ok Stewart. You had fun. I’m not gonna defend the various debacles throughout history. This MAY be one of them. But there’s no denying that it’s shape and LED accoutrements are a major attractant - which is what Vegas is all about. Vegas is Vegas - and this ball belongs here most. Also, not for nothing but it worked at Epcot and other places for the same reason. Harpooning the impracticality can easily backfire on other designs. Too many times history has taken swipes at new buildings only to have premature opinions brushed aside and the structure prevails.I expected a little more balance here. Why not talk about what engineering was required - it must have been complicated. Will screening the outside of the structure here lead to other designers yearning for less rigid colour choices? Love it or hate it I fail to see how this doesn’t symbolize our ability to break barriers in design in the same way Gehry does.
What’s missing here is your own personal experience. What do you think when you walk up to it? Walk through it? Get entertained inside it? How does it make you feel when you’re there? I know my tours of buildings in Chicago changed my perspective by standing in front of them. Well? How about you?
I totally agree with your comments, but we may be too rational for a comment section.
I went & thought it was mis-purposed & too big.
I usually like your videos but not this one. From the fart joke at the beginning to the incredibly lame commercial at the end, you really jumped the snark. The history of the dome is a distinguished one, beloved throughout history, with numerous works of architectural genius. If you're trying to please the crowd and prove you're not an intellectual, you've succeeded. In giving the great building type its due, even with providing some excellent examples, no, still not. I realize this will not be a popular opinion but I know you respect opposing views. Cheers Regards
I'll be toning down the snark for the foreseeable future. I'm always trying things....
@@stewarthicks Thank you for your reply. Your work is generally excellent and even here there were possibilities of an excellent review of the dome in history. Your ongoing commentary is engaging and thoughtful, and I will continue to tune in. Regards
That's most certainly not Louis-Etienne Boulée but rather King Louis XVI...
Came hoping to see a snarky reference to the Sunsphere. Leaving disappointed.
Fun Fact: Sphere is the most round object possible.
this would be SO MUCH better without all those forced flat jokes
Fantastic commentary Stuart. Love it 😂
Tell us how you really feel about spheres...
Do you have any recommendations for any books related to some of the topics you cover? I have been really enjoying your videos and would like to learn more
this feels like a fever dream
LOL I cannot tell if and when you are serious or joking.
Mysticat will definitely love this architecture.
using sexual assault accusations as a segue into a sponsorship is a bit tacky imo
Incredibly distasteful.
8:17 this is king Louis XVI not Etienne-Louis Boullée
I think you beat around the bush a little in this video.
Digging this editorial style!
In the UA-cam-sphere - it's got to be difficult to fall somewhere between VOX, That one-guy-who-used-to-be-part-of-vox-and-kind-of-looks-like-you, Public Radio podcasts like DNA, Freakanomics, Radiolab, and the exhaustive tantric-learning and sharing of the Huberman Lab.
Also, there's the by-the-numbers-spreadsheet-deadpan-surfer snark of CityNerd.
Somehow, this fart-bubble stands out from all the others and I'm glad to have Stewart Hicks as one of my favorite content creators on youtube.
So much snark in this one. Edgy high school presentation vibes.
Yeah. I'm not a fan. I came for information but I'm picking up too much emotion.
who cares about the panthion lol
You look like a cop from a soap opera
Why so sour Stew? So many resentful toned statements. Don’t like Vegas? Don’t like LEDs? Don’t like spheres?
I’m truly lost as to the reason for this building bash. It’s a new age building that I have only heard positive reviews from my friends that have visited.
What's the thumbnail?
This one was better than the brutalism one. It still ties in as a rounded (or maybe a spherical) video which is easy enough for viewers to follow.
The thing I like about Las Vegas Strip architecture is the theatrical design of it all. It’s just meant to awe and entertain. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is for posterity. Just like people, the buildings have a life span of well under 100 years. No developer pretends that there is something more important than right now. What are you appreciating RIGHT NOW. 😀
Well, given the way he looks, pressure is probably the only way to get any for Dolan... 😉
Domes are the most efficient shape. The most durable, strongest shape. Cranium is a dome for a reason. Try to cross-crush an egg. It's REALLY difficult.
Okay, I can't help myself. Here's a couple of notes on your pal and mine, Sir Isaac Newton.
First, ol' Isaac, while an enormously important figure in the history of mathematics and physics, was absolutely a superstitious crackpot. He believed in believed in Bible codes and alchemy and wasted years of his life on that nonsense. Some people believe that he got into the Bible code stuff because he poisoned himself with all the alchemy. I say he was always kind of an obsessive weirdo.
Second, Isaac should probably not be associated with spheres. If anything, he ought to be associated with ellipses. Johannes Kepler proved in 1619 that the planets traveled in elliptical rather than circular orbits, which first marked the old "the universe is a bunch of concentric spheres" theory for death. Newton's contribution to the glorious elliptical cause is that in 1687 he provided the first coherent, self-consistent mathematical and scientific explanation for why the planets travel in elliptical orbits.
"more and more" and "progressively" mean the same thing.
It's like saying "roundly circular".
sure someone already said it but pretty ironic to claim "even canadians get in on the action" while showing the montreal biosphere which was... built by the us as their pavillon in the expo 67... kind of a weird oversight to mention it and talk about fuller designing it yet not clarify that its context was uniquely american simply so you could pull off that line. should have gone for our iconic gibeau orange julep instead (which is, funnily, older than the biodome)
In Brazil we build cheap spheres before portuguese came and destroyed everything. But we still construct ocas.
Nobody puts baby in a ball-shaped glutamate fart bubble! Even Canadians. Also, who is this Madison and why is she still confused about squares?
go stew
I wish you would have mentioned Islamic architecture, where spheres and domes feature very heavily in some of the most beautiful buildings known to man.
I'm surprised that Stewart didn't mention the Hoberman sphere. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoberman_sphere
Always thought why half sphere or full sphere shaped buildings are not the obvious choice when designing wind resistant buildings and houses. Makes no sense to me they do not consider aerodynanics to save lives and lots of money...🤔
Spherical buildings do pretty well in hurricanes. *Edit... half spheres.
Some call it 'snark' and associate it with a loss of dignity. But what they consider dignified is really just pompous and as Voltaire demonstrated, the most potent antidote to pretension is humor. As for the one geometry to rule them all, do not acolytes of fractal geometry have a stronger case than the virility incubator admirers?
Hey Stewart are you an architect?
I passed all the ARE exams...
Tell us how you really feel, Stewart. 👀
Not exactly a loving ode to spherical buildings and domes.
I'm a big fan of circles, but up and down is different because of gravity. I don't think that means spheres *are* ideal forms, at least on earth.
11:20 (sarcastic voice) love when my favourite UA-camrs turn out to be climate change dismissives
You just mad, cause it's not your ball out there. Glistening in the sun, admired by the unwashed masses. Xp
Snarky commentary ruined this video. Guess what, no one wants to leave Las Vegas to go to LA.
Stewart, isn't Play Doh, something your kids play with that stuff?
I can't express how happy I am that they got told to jog on with the London one. This nonsense belongs in Vegas.
This nonsense created jobs and tax revenue, along with advancing visual and audio technology.
@@carlgemlich1657 There are less wasteful ways to do all of that
Stewart, I love your increased use of sarcasm and humor. Keep it up. Great video!
I was very interested in what you had to say about The Sphere and not at all interested in your pushing this media source. Bah.
Not me... I'm from Albany, NY. We don't do spheres. We do Eggs.
Buddy is this thing make any support to our mother nature brother 2 billions dollar for this shit
This is a 100% troll video I mean it was cuter first but come on guy save some for the comment section
My dude, are you okay?
Fart bubble? Stupid shape? WTF? It's fantastic.
You're describing the truth of capitalism.
A new thing to enjoy on earth .But i am worried about meteorites,asteriods,.
Go to the Netherlands and youll see why its not the best shape for a house for people to live in. ;)
7:17 Ahh, yes. Philosophy, science’s dumb cousin.
The Ontario Place Cinesphere could use some love right now.
Stuart, why a "fart" bubble?
It's just a bubble.
The fact that you remembered that line, means it served its purpose!😅
@@Josh-yr7gd That's a weird comment.
I didn't "remember"it, it just struck me as gratuitously scatological.
I'm ok with expressions like that, they don't offend me, just his use of this one seemed like he was just trying to sound outrageous for no reason.
If he had the opinion that the Sphere was just an abomination period, then it would've been appropriate, but he didn't say that.
@@itsROMPERS... He made a number of grade school jokes, like those about “balls”. I wondered if he would go there and sure enough he did. His older videos actually seemed a bit more stuffy with a lot of architectural jargon…informative and interesting, but a bit presumptuous. In his later videos, he’s definitely lightened the mood and doesn’t appear to be taking things so seriously. If I were you, I wouldn’t take things too seriously either and just “roll” with it!
@@Josh-yr7gd oh it's not like I actually care.
10:45 But then you’re in Los Angeles…
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Me: So why do you hate spheres??
Stewart Hicks: Oh, I don't hate spheres! They're monuments of human achievement! (But here's five reasons why I think they're not worth the hype)
Also, Ground News actually sounds like an interesting platform. But I find it funny that the actual reporting spin off project from the Babylon Bee, a.k.a. The Catholic Onion, shows up under bias. I'd be surprised if they were more than a tiny bit serious