How about cloudnine?

Fuller was one of influential figures that changed my perspective about technology. Cloud Nine is a concept of floating building in the air.


Part Four, Critical Path, R. Buckminster Fuller, 1981, p336 – p337

Cloud Nine Floating Tensegrity Spheres

In 1958 I saw clearly the progression of technical events altering all odd engineering concepts regarding the relative increase in the overall weights of structures – and designed my sky-floating tensegrity structures, which I call “Cloud Nines.”

A 100-foot-diameter, tensegrity-trussed, geodesic sphere weighing three tons encloses seven tones of air. The air-to-structural-weight ratio is two to one. When we double the size so that the geodesic sphere is 200 feet in diameter, the weight of the structure increases to seven tons while the weight of the air increase to fifty-six tons – the air-to-structure ratio changes as eight to one. When we double the size again to a 400-foot geodesic sphere – the size of several geodesic domes now operating – the weight of the air inside increases to about 500 tons while the weight of the structure increases to fifteen tons. The air-weight-to-structure-weight ratio is now thirty-three to one. When we get to geodesic sphere one-half mile in diameter, the weight of the structure itself becomes of relatively negligible magnitude, for the ratio is approximately a thousand to one.


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Subject         Re: [DNG] cloud
From    Rainer Weikusat <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com>
To      dng@lists.dyne.org
Date    2016/05/01 01:00
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Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> writes:

[...]

    Can you come up with an alternative to 'cloud' which keeps generic,
    since cloud-init is not openstack specific?


Stormbringer?
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