Robert L . Forward joined the conversation at this point, suggesting that instead of using a pellet stream to support the top of a traditional tensional cable, a vertical pellet stream shot straight up from Earth's surface could support a station and provide a path for payloads to travel without requiring a cable at all.
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As well as contributing significantly to the development of tensegrity technology, Fuller invented the term " tensegrity " from " tensional integrity " . " Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors.
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As well as contributing significantly to the development of tensegrity technology, Fuller invented the term " tensegrity " from " tensional integrity " . " Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors.
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Basically the computed focal mechanism shows whether the event involved movement on fault plane ( producing the classic'beachball plot') or was the result of an explosion ( or in some cases an implosion such as in the collapse of old mine workings ) where the plot is uniformly compressional ( or tensional in the other case ) . talk ) 18 : 12, 20 March 2011 ( UTC)
