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Historic Bucky Dome Needs Help
Anonymous Coward writes "Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome is falling apart and one man hopes to save it. Read more at http://www.msnbc.com/news/748889.asp?0bl=-0" The Buckminster Fuller Institute has a page on the dome, which has contact info for donations.
Just pull out all the windows and sell it to the government as a historical "Mental Health and Relaxation Facilitator" (monkey bars)for $100,000 and build a new one with the profits.
OK, this is a troll. But I had to get it out
of my system. I for one am, not falling under the
spell of this ``futuristic geodesic dome'' mantra.
The first time I heard about Mr. Buckminster Fuller
several years ago I was almost convinced that
the messiah of modern architecture had at last
walked the planet. He is a ``visionary'', a ``genius'',
the great pooh-bah, he invented or
discovered the geodesic dome.
Yeah right, a sphere made up of triangles. So what?
It's been known at least from the time of the
ancient Egyptians that the triangle is a very
rigid structure. Mr. Fuller applied the principle
to the sphere and suddenly he is a genius?
He even got a molecular configuration named
after him. What's next?, an element named
buckminsterfullerium?
A post above me even claims that Mr. Fuller's
geodesic dome led to advances in chemistry.
Now, that is one huge leap of progress
in the impending deification of Mr. Fuller, I say.
Well kiddo, let me be the devil's advocate.
Just what did Mr. Fuller come up with that
can compare with
that deserves all this adulation he is
getting?