Buckminster Fuller

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knowledgeiskey
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03 May 2009, 8:29 pm

Has anybody heard of him?

Do you think he had Asperger's?

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04 May 2009, 10:21 am

I don't know if he was aspie, but I have heard of him. My seventh grade math teacher went over him for about two weeks. We even had to do a project based on bucky balls.

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05 May 2009, 2:30 am

I remember being enthralled by his Geodeisic (?) dome, largest enclosed volume for lowest surface area.

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07 May 2009, 3:58 am

No, I think he was an inventor.

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07 May 2009, 5:15 pm

Not sure about his personality,but he's among
people I've noted down quotes from over the years.
"Sometimes I think we're alone.Sometimes I think we're not.In either case,the thought is quite staggering" .
I think he was mainly an architect,with some
sacred geometry involved no doubt.Sounds
like an interesting character.

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07 May 2009, 7:08 pm

Fuller was an avant-garde architect.

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09 May 2009, 12:25 am

I read about something called a Buckyball in a magazine. Is that the guy who discovered it?

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09 May 2009, 6:16 pm

edit: whoops, double post.

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09 May 2009, 6:22 pm

Buckyballs are named after him because their structure resembles his Geodesic Domes.. He's a fascinating guy.

I don't know that it's possible to retroactively diagnose people, but he did have some odd obsessive traits. He updated his diary (which he called the 'Dymaxion Chronofile') every 15 minutes & by the end of his life the complete diary needed 80m of bookshelf space to store it.

The really important question is: who would win in a mad scientist fight between Buckminster Fuller & Nicola Tesla?

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