alt Hacker NewsThey could do that, but a regular gomboc would be totally fine. There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded.
Maybe exoskeletons for turtles could be more useful. Turtles with their short legs, require the bottom of their shell to be totally flat, and a gomboc has no flat surface. Vehicles that drive on slopes could benefit from that as well.
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voidUpdate • yesterday at 8:20 AM
> There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded
If the inside is pressurized, its even beneficial for it to be a rounded shape, since the sharp corners are more likely to fail
waste_monk • yesterday at 2:56 AM
>There are no rules for spaceships that their corners cannot be rounded.
Someone should write to UNOOSA and get this fixed up.
Note that a turtle's shell already approximate a Gömböc shape (the curved self-righting shape discovered by the same mathematician in the linked article)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6mb%C3%B6c#Relation_to_a...
But yeah a specially designed exoskeleton could perform better, kinda like the prosthetics of Oscar Pistorious