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| Subject: Spaceballs found in distant galaxy Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:03 pm | |
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| Subject: Re: Spaceballs found in distant galaxy Thu Jul 22, 2010 6:49 pm | |
| Cool, nice article. I did a little search on Richard Buckminster Fuller, the name where Buckyballs comes from. I like is outlook and views on life. This from wiki: "Fuller was concerned about sustainability and about human survival under the existing socio-economic system, yet remained optimistic about humanity's future. Defining wealth in terms of knowledge, as the "technological ability to protect, nurture, support, and accommodate all growth needs of life," his analysis of the condition of "Spaceship Earth" caused him to conclude that at a certain time during the 1970s, humanity had attained an unprecedented state. He was convinced that the accumulation of relevant knowledge, combined with the quantities of major recyclable resources that had already been extracted from the earth, had attained a critical level, such that competition for necessities was not necessary anymore. Cooperation had become the optimum survival strategy. "Selfishness," he declared, "is unnecessary and hence-forth unrationalizable.... War is obsolete."[19] He criticized previous utopian schemes as too exclusive, and thought this was a major source of their failure. To work, he thought that a utopia needed to include everyone.[20] Fuller also claimed that the natural analytic geometry of the universe was based on arrays of tetrahedra. He developed this in several ways, from the close-packing of spheres and the number of compressive or tensile members required to stabilize an object in space. One confirming result was that the strongest possible homogeneous truss is cyclically tetrahedral.[citation needed] In his 1970 book I Seem To Be a Verb, he wrote: "I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller | |
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Lightning222 Guest
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| Subject: Re: Spaceballs found in distant galaxy Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:16 pm | |
| Okay this is wierd he was born in a town I lived in and it's also the town that George W. Bush, Sr. was born in. | |
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| Subject: Re: Spaceballs found in distant galaxy Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:42 pm | |
| You need balance in every town | |
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Lightning222 Guest
Number of posts : 2198 Location : here Humor : most definitely Registration date : 2009-07-26
| Subject: Re: Spaceballs found in distant galaxy Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:48 pm | |
| Now that's quite a range. Especially with me in the middle... I've been reading a little about Fuller he deserves more digging into! Thanks for your post. | |
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