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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3431614, member: 27"] They are definitely a different shape than the connectors in that video but the shape is similar. The thing is, there are way more of those white fin things than there are columns. And I don't see them surrounding the entire ring, like I would think they would if there was a one to one match between the white things and the columns. Maybe they are doubled up on each column and we just can't see many of them for some reason. But that seems unlikely to me. I am confident the cables for the new roof will have a one to one correlation to the columns because this has been shown clearly on all the drawings of the new roof we have seen. I can't believe they is something that was changed; the columns are where the building is strongest and the natural place to place the weight of the roof. Regarding detaching cables, what I was referring to is how do the cables that will comprise the cable net for the roof get connected to the ring? Right now they are not. We know they are going to have to get attached to the ring at some point. I can't tell for sure but it looks like the cables the white things are attached to cables that are already connected to the ring, which supports your thoughts. But they are definitely attached to each other side to side. Why would they be attached like that if they are all going to be connected to the ring? Also, from what I see, the cables the white things are attached to are noticeably thinner and less robust than the ones that are tied to the crown truss. It is hard for me to understand if cables that thin are going to be tasked with connecting the boundary diamond to the ring. And it looks like there are at least two rows of them. We know there are roof cables that run in the directions these run on the hard shell part of the roof. These correspond well to the placement of those cables. All this makes me think those white things might be part of the supports for hard shell portion of the roof. Could be totally wrong. This is really interesting to watch happen. [/QUOTE]

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