In the '60's, while studying Design and attending Dr. Fuller's classes and lectures; his ideas made great sense - to the extent I could 'keep up' with his brilliance. Today, having worked at a major Aerospace company and spoken with an ISS astronaut about our Spaceship Earth, the Manual is still perfectly relevant.

Are there gatherings where I can share my experiences and views with like souls? Are copied of his recorded lectures available today?

Not knowing exactly what "Design Science" is, I contend Bucky's Floating Breakwater - U.S. PATENT - 4,136,994 - has more potential NOW than it did in 1977. Is anyone prepared to produced one of these things? We have a location on Narragansett Bay in Providence, RI, that could definitely benefit from the installation of this technology. Please visit us at www.savebay.org to find out more. Very truly to yours, Michael Russo, Save the Bay Facilites Manager

In 'NEXUS Network Journal' you will find an article of mine regarding 'The
wooden roofs of
Leonardo and the new structural research'. In this article I was
demonstrating the affinity
that exists between the reciprocal frames used by Leonardo and the rigid
tensegrities
developed by Fuller. Nexus Network Journal , Vol. 10,1 Williams, Kim (Ed.)
2008, 206 p. A
Birkhäuser book

About this book
The quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the
fundamental
importance of mathematics for architecture. This issue of the Nexus Network
Journal

Where I have a different point of view from Bucky is that the whole use of the word "problem" is too confining to me as a designer. I do not consider that architecture should be involved with problem-solving at all. What it should be involved with is conditions of social betterment that hitherto were thought impossible. Problem-solving - if you can define a problem then you probably think there's some solution involved. So I find problem-solving far too limiting a concept and tend not to agree with Bucky.

See www.physics.princeton.edu/ trothman/domes.html

The article refers to the Zeiss Optical Company building a geodesic dome after WW1, included is a German patent dated 1922.

Does any body know the details of this ?

Did Bucky invent the geodesic dome ?

I am trying to model 2nd and 3rd powers of numbers from 1 to 10. Can someone explain what the models look like? Thank you.

In light of the recent media coverage of the home mortgage credit situation, I am wondering as the stock market reacts by selling off mortgages. Are the FINCAP and LAWCAP financial illusionists working their shell game again?

Are these mortgages being picked up for pennies on the dollar? Are low/median income earners being blamed for the greed of those companies, that bet on the pyramid scheme of a (falsely sustained) booming housing market?

When will we demand fair lending laws and corporate accountability?

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here it is, i was tripping over my amp to put on my shoes…. and the thot arose…. in the midst of why a mac wuld be better for me, i realized…..
the system is more secure, which means it’s better for the customers, and better for the software programers as well….

i am in fuller's shadow..

essay enclosed from a book i'm writing. . .
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in writing this book - i discovered independently, what fuller had discovered in 'critical path' over a matter of years, and published on the cusp of the carter/reagan administrations. i reread my copy of critical path. yup, fuller was right. the critical path occurred.

for the most part, sadly. .
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findings being - laws, economic laws, had pulled us away from ecological stability . . though my findings are much more raw and primal in nature, an example being that i was studying decaying trends and styles - most notably: tim allen movies, bad architecture, candy, graffiti, new wave, punk rock, big momma's house - basically, that which is subversive, yet somehow publicly accepted. ephemera.
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studying the consumerist trends, essentially - i discovered the loopholes of capitalism and socialism, often in the most mundane circumstances . . often playing off each other. . . the purpose of the mundane is to make these findings more useful, somewhat poetic, so as to find anticipatory logic in the very pull away from anticipation - this is key - in contradistinction, and complimentary to fuller's "holistic" approach.

this pull is key in sustaining ecology, as well as the critical path. this pull is a part of what is called "precession. . " which is to say, decay serves a purpose, especially in countries with an infrastructure. . . .

i have used the word ecology loosely in this book, for an almost anthropological purpose, to include humans with regards to the very things that ecology negates: materialism. .

anyways, the excerpt is mostly for comedy . . a bit overly social . . but it addresses things in different ways. . .

the title hasn't been "made up" yet. . this particular essay is in the form of poetry, it was put into a language translator thru various languages, and spit out, in incomprehensible spurts . .
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I cannot [eilikrina] understand because the persons make what they make, what it may be, this thing. Anyways, the policy of dissemination, that which exists elsewhere, this thing, concern a lot the way that we speak in one other, or talk to one another, if they are our exceeded opinions with regard to the religion, or a myriad of other things, the basic action of politeness they pass [aparatirites], [perifronimenos], and in order to we continue the further privilege weither, we find the babies making the babies [who make]. Novel, ty. And the nature of prosperity becomes itself, a nature. . . . this nature of prosperity, since I have brought above elsewhere is idealist first, and a subject of speculation elsewhere, that is, it says this is a collective hope .. marxism is merely superficial to this end, and that is one of the beginnings of foundation of modern political dissemination, and in the western thought, something consented, by tone within universities, professional avenues things, tv or public radio, is of a collective tone of agreement, or promise. this very promise is the critical path. Within most societies, you do not have one radio station calling an apple a chicken, while another more prominent radio station calling an apple is a theory. Yet, one may say, there is a collective justified consent that says an apple is a chicken. Just the same, It is enough to say, there is a tone of agreement in most media related outlets as to what is discussed which is called a courtesy, the likes and dislikes. .
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" – Ludwig Wittgenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . .

If the nature of babies is crude, and the American culture does not like this, それは高い中学校の二次1つのの、流出の未成年者の反映された1の1の暴動買収する, so our knowledge is waylaid in favor of sports, as Gilles delueze had shown, was drawn for pipe of feeding, so that we say, we cannot break exempted from the familial structure since we see him. [I will explain]

in ourselves, 1. preposition dans; whatever it is.

2. adverb (at home, in the building etc) là; (arrived: train) arrivé; (in its position) dedans; in here ici; when the diskette is in quand la disquette est à l’intérieur

3. adjective (fashionable, popular) à la mode

however [perifronoyme] those that cannot break exempted from the familial structure, as mentally the sick, in reality, because homelessnesses are as sports, and the poor concern in this the nation are waylaid in favour of the logic of babies [pacifier], are cuz we cannot see in us that [dipote] other than what is familial than within the family. This is what I was about to explain: What was orally spoken, the oral tradition as authority, was given to media, was given to sports, with films, often in the narrative form which had been abandoned in books.

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I am looking for four young people, two women and two men, minimum age 21, who want to join me for a one-year apprenticeship program for the creation of a new entrepreneur occupation as a certified New Community Builder. We will build a cluster of five closed-system dome homes plus a community dome.

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I am sleeping on the same schedule that Bucky used for 2 years and called the dymaxion sleep. It involves sleeping for 30 minutes every 6 hours for a total of 2 hours sleep a day.
Members here may be interested in my blog. I am blogging my experience with this sleep pattern at:

http://www.paul-bradley.com/blog

Paul Bradley

Dear BFI,

I had the opportunity recently to change a proposal being put forward to the Green Party of New Jersey that would have had fluorescent bulbs. These types of bulbs while being energy saving in comparison to incandescent are not the solution. This is another case of seemingly doing good when superior developments are on the way. Please see my suggestion to look into LED lights below. I do not think Bucky would have been satisfied with fluorescent at this point.

Thank you,
George

--
George DeCarlo, CH
Consulting Hypnotist
908-342-1275 (cell)

VOTE Green Party!

I have become increasingly convinced by reading Buckminster Fuller that a comprehensive political program could very easily be developed out of his work. I have also become acquainted with the Technocracy movement as a result of reading Fuller. I joined the Green Party because I believe that the Green movement is most likely to be most responsive to Fuller's ideas, although Fuller himself was sceptical of political parties. I have two questions.

SyRF Systems, The Synergetic Redesigning of Fitness
by Lorne Young
www.SyRFSystems.com
email: lorne@syrfsystems.com