What is This?

The assembly that holds the high explosive shaped charges that initates the detonation of a nuclear weapon based on the implosion design.

The first FDM 3D printed soccer ball FAIL!?

A 3-D printed polyhedron art object!

nope!

Andy Germany's spare exclamation marks holder?

correct!

Wrong!!

Its far too small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The nested polyhedra have at least 96 faces to your ~72 exclamation points.

Model of the universe before the first Planck unit....

The outside one is a truncated icosahedron, but I can't see the inner ones well enough to tell.

The inner ones just look like smaller versions of the outermost one.

I think it's just a piece of artwork - but it reminds me of the laser alignment structure at the center of a laser fusion device.

I think you're right. At first it looked as though the second one in had some square faces, but on second glance they too are pentagons.

its............ a

Buckminsterfullerene

No, it's not. There're no electrons!

Don't you just like ... kirigami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami

An overworked soccer ball. The panels have worn off and only the seams remain. It is also being looked at with two opposing mirrors. They are some times affectionately called "worn out balls", if colored blue then they are called "Blue Balls", "well used balls", "sore balls", "over worked balls", or even " a pair of brass balls" if colored gold. If they are hung from the rear view mirror in a car or a truck they are sometimes called "fuzzy balls", similar to fuzzy dice. If you wash and dry them then you "have your balls in a ringer".

Since these balls tend to be older and more worn they don't get played with as much as young balls.

Good Luck, Old Salt

The Graphene molecule?

logical guess and yes its carbon but I was looking for buckyball

It's an Iranian Implosion-type nuke.

Model of a Buckyball.

http://futurehumanevolution.com/history-of-nanotechnology-updated

Thanks for the link. For others i have copied this portion from that link;-

Richard E. Smalley

He was the founding director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice from 1996 to 2002, and then became Director of the new Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory at Rice University, Houston, Texas.

He is widely known for the discovery and characterization of C60 (Buckminsterfullerene, a.k.a the buckyball), a soccerball-shaped molecule that, together with other fullerenes such as C70, now constitutes the third elemental form of carbon (after graphite and diamond).

(Fullerene: Any of various cage-like, hollow molecules composed of hexagonal and pentagonal groups of atoms, and especially those formed from carbon, that constitute the third form of carbon after diamond and graphite).

He researched and popularized buckytubes, elongated fullerenes that are essentially a new high tech polymer, following on from nylon, polypropylene, and Kevlar. Buckytubes conduct electricity, unlike any of the previous wonder polymers. Bukytubes are finding applications in nearly every technology where electrons flow.

Jim

I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think we should look into it for too long.

I get the feeling it'll start looking back into us...

A form of a matryoshka doll, also known as Russian nesting doll

A progression of a buckyball as it grows up into adulthood