Question
Two geodesic tensegrity spheres float above a mountainous landscape in an image rendering of this project, which envisioned people traveling the world within them. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this futuristic project proposed in collaboration with Shoji Sadao, which would stay airborne by setting the temperature within the spheres one degree higher than the surrounding atmosphere.
ANSWER: Cloud Nine [accept Floating Cloud Structures] (Shoji Sadao collaborated on this project with Buckminster Fuller.)
[10m] In a 2003 report, Geoffrey Landis proposed colonizing this body using cities floating 50 kilometers in the air. NASA’s HAVOC is a concept similarly proposing missions to this body based in its atmosphere.
ANSWER: Venus (The full name of HAVOC is High Altitude Venus Operational Concept.)
[10e] During his namesake travels, this character encounters a floating island called Laputa, which moves around using a magnet.
ANSWER: Lemuel Gulliver [or Lemuel Gulliver; accept Gulliver’s Travels]
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