Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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11011 i l i i 2 a has twelve edgs. The tetrahedron has six. The tetrahedron lends itself to a strength and beauty and integrity that cannot be achieved with the cube. When man learned to do more with less, it was his lever to success. All these ideas are built into geodesic domes, which results in buildings buildings are incredibly light and strong. Driving over the Flickenbacker Causeway, one is delightfully reminded, reminded, to the golden dome at the Miami Seaquarium, that Bucky is doing something very right. Unlike other buildings that seem to mar and interrupt the skyline, the dome fits in and belongs with the sun and the air. There are more than five thousand Fuller domes of all sizes now on Earth, from single family dwellings to coverings for huge industrial plants. There is a dome covering all the smaller buildings on the south pole. lA conventional box building could not stand up against the l00mph winds. The dome, with one tenth the weight and material still stands.l Bucky calls himself a comprehensive aflIiCipBIOfy design scientist. He is comprehensive in that he has not limited his thinking to a single scientific or philosophical specialty. Over-specialization in any species leads to the extinction of that species, and man is no exception. Mankind has to consider all the factors in any given situation before making any moves. Lack of comprehensive awareness has contributed to many of our social problems. For the first time in history, we are able to reliably predict the outcomes of our actions, by making use of remarkable new inventions such as computers and instant means of world-wide communication. AIR POLLUTION lt will be cheaper to capture and reuse the chemicals being spewed from industrial smokestacks than it will be to redress the abuses of air pollution. Bucky has used his uniquely large and overall vision to make new things of of extraordinary nature. Fifty years ago he designed a home that would house six people more comfortably and efficiently than anything ever designed before or since. lt was totally self-contained and could be flown by helicopter and plugged into the ground anywhere on Earth with no need for ground power or water sources. The house was built around a centralcore that would take care of all physical needs for an extended period of time, then could be recharged , The core contained heating, cooling, and plumbing facilities that had devices for washing and drying all clothing and dishes. The core of this dymaxion house constantly recycled all water and waste materials which could then be channeled for reuse. The entire structure could be mass produced by existing industrial plants at a fraction of the cost of standard homes. Bucky's dymaxion car was another radically new approach to using existing materials to their fullest efficiency. Using aerodynamic principles that he learned from the naval and aviation fields, he built three cars whose shape and design allowed them to turn 3600 in their own length and cruise easily at speeds l ,. comprehensive anticipatory terms, il making use of what is truly new innovative, we can raise that percenlll to 10071. There will no longer be place for the haves and the ll nots. We will all have all - and mg We are limited only by our imaginat' We are only beginning to realize our cs collective strength. When we vimtch men walking oft moon, and realize that it is men who them there, men who studied and wor and shared the products of their st and work, we catch a glimpse, the m flash, of the wonders we can accom working together. Bucky Fuller do see these things just out of the com his eyes, though - he walks around comer and goes on into the world w i l i I AM NOT A GENIUS, BUT I AM A TERRIFIC PACKAGE OF EXPERIENCE -1- exceeding 100mph-with a standard Ford V18 engine. Even a Fuller-drawn map is totally fresh and new. How many times have students sat in world history classes looking at a flat, rectangular map of a spherical planet? That makes about as much sense as trying to make a picture of a basketball's entire surface and coming up with a square picture. It just isn't a basketball anymore. lf you want to look at a map and consider the relationships between land masses, Bucky will snip cuts in a globe and lay it flat in an arrangement with no distortion of those surfaces. Or, if you want to see a true picture of air and ocean routes and currents, he will cut it and present it in a different light. Bucky has a perspective that we seek. We see the world from one point outward while he sees the whole thing, the whole Earth. His ability to see the planet and cut across fictional boundaries such as national borders and racial and economic structures lall of which separate us because we persist in thinking if he has more l'll have lessl eliminates irrational, narrow-scoped vision. ln his lifetime, Buckminister Fuller has seen the percentage of people existing at a high standard of living on earth rise from IM in 1900 to 4404, in 1968. By doing more with less, by using earth's resources intelligently, by thinking in he can make houses that fly and natf that cooperate. We wonder - Buu thinks. I Thinking is a momentary dismi of irrelevancies. War is irrelew Countries, boundaries are irrelev You can't do that is irrelevant. Ml schooling is irrelevant. Politics irrelevant. Money is irrelevant. Within decades we will kr whether man is going to be a phys success around earth, able to functio ever greater patterns of local univer whether he is going to frustrate his success with his negatively conditiu reflex of yesterday and therefore bl about his own extinction around planet earth. My intuitions forsee success despite his negative inertias. T means things are going to move f i By right thinking, man can cha own destiny. There are big things t done in the world. Somewhere, someone writes: Dear Mr. Fuller: l am three and one-half years old. Y0u're right! text by Mary Dela photos by Dave Pat I.

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Earth metabolic Design rv, .qvaua no glen.-fitiagt . 351 :f. N. 1 ,. :hw c.. ... E,-,--4 .1 -M1 eff, -,,,. , ,c 4 ,-e . '!'Y.l'.'-q,..f n'.if!l- r - ' ,J ti- , gi' .s-, .4 ' Q 5. ,I -fgffl V'- . . , Ps-Rt. 3-ut. 4- 3 ... . '- 7Hf.p,, Earth M.D. is a group of people who have gotten together their energy, intellect, initiative and time to understand what is happening aboard their Space Ship: to see what needs to be done for the successful functioning of 10O'X1 of Humanity, and what they -- or anyone -- will need in order to do what needs to be done to accomplish this goal. They recognize the disparities between the unsatisfied Human needs of the global haves and have'nots, the environmental impacts and dangers caused by the process of attempting to meet those needs, and the finite material resources on hand for use in that pursuit. They assert that the individual can do something about the above problems: they also assert that the only rational approach to the regenerative satisfaction of 100W of Humanity's ne is through a globally comprehensive and anticipatory problem recognition, definition, solution, and evaluation methodology. --Medard Gabel Earth M .D. 1044 Chapel Street, No. 309 New Haven, Connecticut 06520 photos by Dave Patrick