The navigator© wrote:

Now you are saying a Buckminster fullerene has bonds arranged as
equilateral triangles?

Umm, yeah, Navvie©, that's *exactly* what I said. How clever of you to decode my
posts..


Bwhahhahahahaha. You know nothing about chemistry
too!

If it makes you feel better, sure.

DSK

Capetanios Oz wrote:


Is that open framework around a spce or are you referring to an open
framework within the space.

I got the impression space is all around everything... when you fold up a tent and
carry it someplace else & set it up, is the space inside the tent the same space,
or is it a different sapce newly enclosed?

Anyway, to get back to the question, some geodesic domes are open framework with no
enclosure at all. Some are framework inside an enclosure, some outside it. One
possibility is to build a geodesic enclosure with flat triangular panels, with no
beams or struts or framework at all.... there's a local boatbuilder who was turning
out these from fiberglass for a while back in the 1970s. So are all these things
'geodesic' structures? Apparently not, if you believe in Navvie©'s very very strict
doctrine about what 'geodesic' is.


http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/news/v...1/95winp07.htm

Here is an interesting set of ideas, with pictures this time.

http://www.edenproject.com/3440_3459.htm

Here is one on Buckminster Fuller, just from the opening page you can see how many
interesting & exotic ideas he developed. The engineering profs I studied under all
sneered at Bucky Fuller as a crackpot, but it's always seemed to me that he had so
many good ideas he never had a chance to really go all the way with most of them.

http://www.buckminster.info/index.html

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Quick tell them, they forgot to put some of the equilateral triangles in!

Bwhahahhahahahaha

Cheers MC


DSK wrote:



Here is an interesting set of ideas, with pictures this time.

http://www.edenproject.com/3440_3459.htm

Wow, quick tell the OED they got it wrong. DSK says the word "geodesic"
was invented Buckminster Fuller!!!!!!!!

Bwhahahhahaha Where do you get these absurd ideas? Do you actaully
believe this stuff yourself?

Cheers MC


DSK BS'd again with:

Geodesic structures were invented
by Buckminster Fuller and he also created the word itself.

DSK

Hey Doug, are you sure that Buckmister Fuller designed the first
geodesic dome made of triangles????

Bwhahhahahahahahaha

Cheers MC

DSK wrote:

Capetanios Oz wrote:


But are geodesic structures usually used to enclose a space!?


Often, yes. But many others are just an open framework. I think I see the
problem here... Navvie© pictured a small dome house inside a boat, and said to
himself 'that can't possibly be.'

The term 'geodesic' is defined by the shape & relationship of the structural
elements, not by wether it encloses a space. Geodesic structures were invented
by Buckminster Fuller, whose career is worth some study if only for
entertainment value, and he also created the word itself.

DSK