Re: Slightly OT: Cloud Nines


On Aug 19, 11:33 pm, "Perry E. Metzger" <pe...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Bootstrap Bill" <ad...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I was googling Buckminster Fuller and found this. Unfortunately, I couldn't
find any real details.

Are these things doable? If so, why hasn't one been built yet/

Bucky Fuller came up with all sorts of ideas, some of them even
practical, but usually produced them faster than he could actually do
anything with them.

There is nothing per se wrong with the idea of giant floating geodesic
spheres -- even with fairly conventional construction materials, it
should be possible to build such things.

However, whether such habitats would be particularly in demand or even
practical financially is another question. Buildings a mile across are
not particularly cheap to build. On the other hand, there are places
in the U.S. where land is remarkably cheap, reflecting that
conventional places to build have not yet been played out. I suspect
no one has been interested in building floating cities out of geodesic
spheres because there is no demand for it.

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Perry E. Metzger pe...@xxxxxxxxxxxx

with current cross-discplinary studies making strides and advances
(This is OT but in my head, relevant) and applying them to specific
fields based on the
background of the single researcher/applier or some personal focal of
whatever group is working with cross-discipline studies, perhaps it
just hasn't popped up along the lines of 'being useful' /yet/. taking
the relevancy arguement into account, I imagine B. F. would have had
unique viewpoints based upon his background and paradigm. The gods'
only know what he was inspired by besides what it listed in his
biographies and what "can be derived via context" from his works.

Not even I know what I just said, but what I meant was, he was a
unique and singular individual from what I can gather, and as his
works continue to inspire many professionals and amateurs across the
board, his Vision seems rather occult or obfuscated to us all; ala
"Wow, that guys is mysterious, he excelled greatly in many fields, I
wonder how I could do that" leading to arch-typing him; putting him on
a pedestal may interfere with other's works that are in progress, as
"I dont know what he was thinking, or how he could've come out with
such a simple, elegant solution" would lead to those exposed to that
particular novel approach not doing the work to come to the same
conlusion; merely artificing and detracting/adding what they can.

Thomas Delphiki - 0.asuka...@xxxxxxxxx


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