Thread by @artisbrutal2021

"For decades, each subsequent competition saw an evolution in ball design. Still, most held to a similar format made up of parallel and perpendicular leather strips — that is, until the iconic Telstar ball hit the field..

99percentinvisible.org/article/turnin…

https://twitter.com/doubleDutchquak/status/1581234192855502849

Developed by ADIDAS , the Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. ..

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1576858860488658944

"..one could be forgiven for accepting at face value a widely-circulated claim that Buckminster Fuller designed the modern soccer ball .. In fact, the ball was named after (and looks like) a key communications satellite launched in 1962..

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"A portmanteau of “television” and “star,” this original Telstar transmitted the first live transatlantic TV feed (as well as the first telephone and fix signals) through space."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar

"An AT&T spokesman said the idea of an active satellite, which does not simply reflect signals but amplifies and retransmits them, was conceived by science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke in 1945."

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

"Ten years later John Pierce, of Bell Telephone Laboratories, published a scientific paper outlining the possibilities for satellite communications."

Subsequent Telstar satellites were advanced commercial geosynchronous spacecraft that share only their name with Telstar 1 and 2.

Telstar 18V was launched on 10 September 2018, on a SpaceX Falcon 9.

#FIFAscandal #Telstar #TESLA #Starlink

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1463824276398776323