The string wants to collapse, but due to constant stress, it is forced to stand. Same, man. Same.

Like a college student, the structure is constantly under stress.

This feels like a metaphor for how I manage to function.

The tension part makes sense. It's the balance part which surprises me

If the plastic strips were replaced with really strong acrobats, it would be wild

I already knew about tensegrity structures, but this one is new to me. Thanks for showing us

Woah thats really cool i wish i was a tensegrity structure

It's basically like a bow string but with multiple bows 🏹

The US housing market is designed the same way except several of the strings are on fire.

This looks like a fun little craft project that could be easily done even by kids

I’m sure there’s a limit to how tall this could stand - but I’m curious about how tall that limit would be and the mechanism of failure. Could you create a longer video on this device and cover that subject?

Now put a button on the bottom that you push so it flops over and stands back up when you let it go and it's 1960 again

"inverted commas" is crazy

Finally something more tense than me.

Compared to the most known one, this is the coolest tensegrity structure.

The most important part of that structure are the knots.

Never seen that one before! I know what to make for my brother's birthday now. You could make a cool table-lamp with that exact design where the electric wire is the string and you put a lightbulb on top. Perhaps metal strips instead of plastic just for the style. And put it all on a nice wooden stand... Et voila! And it will go nicely with his home-made tensegrity coffee table too! Thanks for the inspiration!

Imagine humans in this shape,they are not touching each other, and yet climbing a rope

is this how very rigid things work on molecular scale too? A combo of tension locking the structure in place.

Tensegrity is a cool word, this structure can be a cool Christmas tree 🌲

New bucket list project.....today.

really cool how the plastic bits overlapping means that the string can’t have any point where it bends/folds

This is much easier to understand visually than the common one that gets shown. Wonder why no one shows this one.

Wish you'd kept the whole thing in frame at some point

this one is actually pretty neat!

the string wants to collapse, but is held upright by the plastic strips. meanwhile, the strips want to be straight, but they bend under the stress of holding up the string. i feel like there’s a metaphor somewhere in here.

Architects bout to cause a world of pain

Honestly not what I was expecting when I searched “how to make all table legs touch the floor”

This is way cooler than the usual example

nice, time to build a shelf with this

"When you think about it it must make sense" 😭 I'm genuinely mindblown

Next step - Space Elevator!!!

Stevie really be making me Wonder all the time. Great video, as always! 🤭

It would be interesting to see this done with cable and some type of metal leaf-springs just to see it's load bearing capacity at various heights. I could see this used for self-erecting structures.

Someone’s gonna try to build a build with this.

I saw the thumbnail and the wording of the title, and I just knew that this would be a Steve Mould short

Anti-gravity string ! 😮

imagine getting burned at the steak for inventing this 100 years ago

I love tensegrity objects. I just wish we could've seen this one in a single shot of the whole thing, with no hand supporting it. Having only the closeup kind of detracts from the desired effect, I think.

I like to think thats how our spine works

This structure is literally me. It wants to fall, but stress won't let it

Stand proud, string, youre strong

Absolutely incredible. They should make something like this for scoliosis.

You made multiple bows connected together.🏹

Artist: this piece is priceless.

"When you think about it, it makes sense." Can't argue with that.

I love it! I can’t believe I never thought of this. Thank you for sharing! It’s now on my list of experiments to do with the kiddos.

2:46 that explosion was genius on his part

The thing is the string feeling the tension making him more strong

Makes me think of a gymnast at the apex, when they're seemingly suspended.

It would be cool to make a life sized staircase built onto one of these structures. Cool and scary.

You can call it a "stiffy." 😂

Yeah, a stringed bow will stand on itself too.

That ackee joke was the greatest joke I’ve ever heard in my entire life. The easy spelling and phonetically unrecognisable similarities in “ackee”, the food, and the spanish word “aqui”, for “here” is just brilliant. Also having a person with a sombrero, which is commonly associated with mexican culture and thus, spanish speakers, be the person confused is also brilliant. Also he pronounced the word “ackee” as “aqui” just to solidify and somewhat explain the joke in a funny way that doesn’t ruin it like some others might. Also I have to address the fact that since the spanish word “aqui”, meaning “here” or, the location of the subject of the matter, while Sam O’nella point at the recently mentioned “Ackee” food is just amazing. It also solidifies the joke the same way his change in pronunciation in a really simple and funny way. Sam O’nella is truly a comedic genius who’s uncommon, but very much welcomed, video uploads are monumental and always receive positive criticisms by all.

Turns a string into a spring 😂

this actually reminds me of suspension bridges, in a way

Simple assemply instructions: 0010101011. 0 is the lower end a strip, 1 is the upper end of a strip. Knot under 0, knot over 1.

I love how mind bending these kind of structures work, they look like they shouldn't work, but they do, just the same.

The tower of string: IM OUTSTANDING🔥🔥🔥

The Lego pieces: FINALLY A WORTHY OPPONENT. OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY!!!

I was like, it’s a solid piece of sting, of course it stands up. I didn’t realize it STANDS UP

Stand proud, String. You are strong.

So that's how my spine keeps me up despite all the pain

Let’s make buildings like this it seems to be more efficient than what ever buildings we have now.

Your voice brings back years of memories of long nights with insomnia spent listening to your incredible videos, going on 7 years now.

The term was coined by Buckminster Fuller in the 1960s as a portmanteau of "tensional integrity".[2] The other denomination of tensegrity, floating compression, was used mainly by the constructivist artist Kenneth Snelson.

This is why I love this channel

If you look closely you can see a bunch of not-string parts doing all the work.

Our physics code needs more bug testing

Br0 that’s fuggin amazing! I need to see more like this!! You post more me and a million others will probably subscribe

Its like saying the string in a bow and arrow is standing by itself

One of my absolute favourite things in this game is jokes about Siffrin casually killing himself after the slightest inconvenience 😂😂😂

Thanks for the demonstration

The elastic in the plastic wants to go straight

You're just such a wholesome guy 😊

I love it. I'll put one next to my tensegrity stand.

THANK YOU!! Off to find some appropriate plastic to cut up and a sturdy string. I get excited making what I've newly learned. 😁

So it's the tensile force of the plastic material providing the string the tesion

I love this, i need to digure out a way to make this artwork

Never thought I could relate to a piece of string, but here we are.

It’s a diagram of Success: Your desire to go in your personal direction is enough to hold up any theory of if it could work.

When you think of a bow (no arrow needed), and then think of a tower of bows, it makes even more sense

This is the first time ive ever understood how these structures work

Definitely pulling this one out of the memory box in a few years for the kid’s science project or something lol

The string wants to collapse, but the stress applied to it forces it to stand straight.

A lot of tension helps me stand up straight but I've got to release it sometimes

Yeah this looks like someone finally found a bug in the simulation.

This string, It's like a brother to me! Something about It hits home...

Ive made peace with the fact that my brain will never comprehend tensegrity structures. Something about them puts me on edge if I think about it too long.

This one doesnt break my mind like the hammer+ruler one. I actually really like it, it just makes sense to my eyes.

Wonderful idea. It can protect the building from earthquakes.

I like the way you think. I like what you think about. Over 10 years or something there's been a lot of videos and you cover awesome ideas, but the way you interlace the ideas with the proper humility never conceding to the pageantry of knowledge. It's strongly implied through fascinated tone that knowledge has a place to be hope. You never say exactly that I've seen, but I get the feeling you to agree that underwriting each video is "I don't know" what's the root of all hope for knowledge to be anything more than illusion. With that said it feels like we can begin to step together into observing together and wonder what logos might arise. Anytime I see you covering a more well-known topic, there's always some approach that seems unique and authentic your own.

Dude, I love tensegrity structures. Thanks Steve Mould!

Dang so we couldn’t build a space elevator using this?

That’s actually a really interesting way to describe how electromagnetism works.

That's actually super cool

Well that explains the load bearing of arches. They push against the ground which then pushes back and holds up stuff on top of them. Pretty neat.

Uni students like the string wants to collapse but tension to become something keeps them straight

It messes with your brain quite less of you imagine a shooting bow in a stand. Same thing

this seems like some tech that could be used to make dams, buildings and other large structures that could bend without breaking under extreme conditions while also being relatively easy to re-construct.