Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Monday, June 23, 2008
If only we (and not Slashdot's dweebs) had found this first: a eulogy for BuckyBall:
Fuller’s schemes often had the hallucinatory quality associated with science fiction (or mental hospitals). [!!!!!] AND: In 1994, Stewart Brand, the founding editor of the “Whole Earth Catalog” and an early, self-described dome “propagandist,” called geodesics a “massive, total failure”: Domes leaked, always. The angles between the facets could never be sealed successfully. If you gave up and tried to shingle the whole damn thing—dangerous process, ugly result—the nearly horizontal shingles on top still took in water. The inside was basically one big room, impossible to subdivide, with too much space wasted up high. The shape made it a whispering gallery that broadcast private sounds to everyone.NUF SAID.
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