Geodesic domes in the television series LOST - the math behind them and what they imply about the show. All is revealed at synchronofile.com.

In the last 24 hours I've added significant content to the
Wikipedia page on Synergetics. I've been avoiding doing this, but the page has been marked as a "stub" for a long time, and hardly contained any information. I didn't subtract any of the content already there. As you know, Wikipedia maintains an audit trail of all edits.

I've tried to keep it bare bones. The advisory was to keep it accessible, not too technical. I wrote a blog entry about my trepedations in doing these edits, as well as about my objectives. I do think the page is improved.

Kirby

1) They are not ALL inclusive. They pit one group against another within the system. They then pit the system itself against the other systems in use elsewhere on our planet.

2) They all use mediums of exchange (money).

3) They make no clear distinction between finance and economics. They use the terms finance and economics interchangeably, as if they are the same.

4) They do not recognize the FACT that production and distribution capacity is now so great, that we have entered The Age of Abundance.

All current economic management systems are competitive in nature. The spaceship called the International Space Station, however, is a cooperative venture. It is clear to those directly involved that a cooperative approach yields results unattainable through competition. This is a good model for the astronauts aboard Spaceship Earth.

Mediums of exchange (money) are notoriously unreliable in operation, primarily because they do not correspond directly to anything that is fact based. Having a currency that is backed by gold does not resolve this issue. Human desire for gold changes continuously. Mediums of exchange allow slipping in the idea that goods and services can be used today and paid for tomorrow. However the Universe and planet Earth do not allow for this fanciful idea. Farmers cannot harvest crops at the beginning of the growing season and “pay” by planting at the end of the season. The Universe is a pre-pay system. Once goods and services are used, they are fully “paid” for. Wax poetic and moralistic all you care to, debt is a form of enslavement, pure and simple.

When economics is examined independently of finance, it is surprisingly simpler and always fact based. Webster defines economics as “….production, distribution and consumption (use) of goods and services”. With or without human beings the Universe produces, distributes and uses goods and services, continuously. The Universe is an economy, The Economy. It doesn’t use money and never charges for anything. The Universe never measures anyone’s confidence to determine whether airplanes will fly.

Through much of our history on Spaceship Earth, humans have used tools and animals to perform work for us. Starting with the Industrial Revolution, we have been spectacularly successful at inventing and using machines to carry out physical tasks and now to process information rapidly. We can now produce far more than we need. We are in THE AGE OF ABUNDANCE. Earning a living and using mediums of exchange in order to have access to goods and services that support a quality life are now obsolete. They are not only obsolete, they are counter productive. They lead to enormous waste, catastrophic environmental damage and they tend to demean and suppress creativity and the human spirit.

It is now possible to produce a higher standard and quality of living for everyone, require far less human labor, and have direct access to goods and services with no erratic middle-man (money).

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In Atlanta as other communities we have so many well trained Meteorologists. The past weekend I saw well meaning reporters out in a 1.5 inch snow commenting on the size of snowflakes. Each evening these great communicators with a background in science tell us what we already know ( 99 % of the time ). It is raining!

I am sending a proposal to the AMS to consider adding environmenal reporting to its bag of tricks. What a perfect match. Well trained reporters with a basic education in science should add local environmental issues to the nightly broadcast.....

Example: " Hi, the is Anthony Park with EPU and tonight you can see the major areas in Georgia currently in the Superfund sites. The level of toxins in our waters today are " ....you get the idea.

As our society deals with rapid changes in technology, it would enable the members of AMS to both preserve
jobs and serve the community in a very meaningful way. Lets reach out to these professionals and engage them in a dialogue. They have our attention every day and can be a powerful change agent for good!

Anthony W. Park, EPU Georgia

http://www.biagiodicarlo.com/index.php?pag=23&parent=20

The tremendous flow of galaxy clusters, remote from us 3 billion light years away, stretching for hundreds of Mpc and running at speeds of about a thousand kilometers per second, is a huge imprint on the interaction of our universe with another universe. This conclusion sum of two groups of astrophysicists and cosmologists research papers.

Last year, Alexander Kashlinsky and his colleagues at the Goddard Space Center have discovered giant flux of galactic clusters, rushing at great speed in one direction. This mysterious phenomenon of universal scale is called the "dark flow", by analogy with the two other mysteries of the cosmos - dark matter and dark energy.

If our space is represented as a table, and visible matter - in a puddle of water on it, it seems that our universe someone slightly bent.
Source:http://www.membrana.ru/articles/inventions/2009/11/18/174000.html

The Buckminster Fuller Institute published the book Synergetic Stew: Explorations in Dymaxion Dining in 1982. Under this name, synchronofile.com publishes an irregular collection of brief notes relating to Buckminster Fuller.

Synergetic Stew January 2010 includes myriahedral projection mapping, pathfinders and ideanauts, tetrahedra packing, the Dymaxion Car, Super Vixen and more.

Hi All

We, the BFI volunteers, are trying to get a section of the Bucky South Pole dome donated to the Henry Ford Museum to go along with Bucky's dymaxion house and car. Any help you can provide toward achieving this goal will be greatly appreciated.

Brandon "Shaggy" Neahusan is assigned to the task. One section is already going to the SeaBee's museum.

Thanks
Dick Fischbeck

http://onorbit.com/node/1797

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandon-neahusan/5/4a7/355

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=33031

http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/history/dome/dome1.html

https://portal.navfac.navy.mil/portal/page/portal/navfac/navfac_formedia_pp/navfac_publications_pp/cec%20biweekly/biweekly%20archive/2005december22/newhomeforlandmarksouthpoledome

Seen on geodesichelp, the google group.

Prime geodesic jitterbugging transformations, c/o Adrian Rossiter.

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, TaffGoch wrote:
> I've seen, online, several animated GIF files of the
> octahedron-to-hexoctahedron "jitterbug," but haven't seen any animations of
> the icosahedron-to-icosidodecahedron transformation. According to Clinton's
> report, this structure has the greatest increase in volume, when "expanded."
> (The volume increases by a factor of 12.8) I tried my hand at constructing
> the rotational animation, using SketchUp to produce the "frames," and JASC
> "Animation Workshop" to stitch the frames together, to make an animated GIF.

I wrote a short script (included below) to recreate the animation
with a few more frames, although it may not be connected exactly
like yours (2.5Mb)

http://www.antiprism.com/misc/jit_icosid1.gif

If singly connected triangles aren't a problem then it can also
be made with a 5-fold axis (2.5Mb)

http://www.antiprism.com/misc/jit_icosid2.gif

Here are a few other jitterbug models. Two torus jitterbug's
which use "rubber" triangles; the second is a kaleidocycle
and can be made with rigid equilateral triangles throughout

http://www.antiprism.com/misc/tri_jit_tor1.gif
http://www.antiprism.com/misc/tri_jit_tor2.gif

Truncated cube jitterbugs

http://www.antiprism.com/misc/tr_cube_strs.gif
http://www.antiprism.com/misc/tr_cube_th_strs.gif

Here is video showing some physical models of antiprism-based
jitterbugs and tensegrities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEj9UJGqzY

Adrian.
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I have been a Bucky fan "light is right" for a while. I saw domes at Pacific High in 1970. I had the privilege of hearing Buckminster Fuller speak at Portland Community Collage in about 1971. If I am right about building a mile geodesic sphere, there would be many applications, one of which could be a portable desalinization plant. Covered with solar panels, we would have a portable power plant for any need. I believe we can build this sphere by submerging it as it is assembled. I would like to know if I am right as I am not an engineer. Could someone who is let me know so I can start bending ears.

Oregon's Silicon Forest has been exploring a new digital mathematics curriculum suitable for high schools.

Martian Math module dives to the heart of Synergetics in providing a clear introduction to the concentric hierarchy and related modules.

Kirby Urner

Flextegrity refers to a set of omnidirectional lattice-building solutions. The website provides a lot of good information. Sam Lanahan is the inventor of this modular building system.

I share about flextegrity, tensegrity and elastic interval geometry when encouraging next generation interest in what design science has to offer.

Kirby Urner

The "old" geodesic group-discussion is back on line. It goes back to 1996 and many of you here were participants.

This archive is now online thanks to Pat Salsbury at Reality Sculptures.

Buffalo Geodesic Listserv Archive

http://reality.sculptors.com/~salsbury/UB-List-Archives/geodesic/

Join 4D Syndicate, the first Google Wave for Buckminster Fuller. http://synchronofile.com/?p=349

Comprehensiveness — This seems to be the current approach that the Obama Administration is taking to health care by attempting to include medical insurance for every individual in the United States. This seems to be the comprehensive side of this strategy. Leaving people out would be antagonistic to the comprehensiveness of this strategy.

Anticipatory — The need of healthcare reform is apparent by studying what will happen if nothing does change (ex: bankrupt America). Needs driven by providing healthcare to those who currently are in dire need and have no access to quality care. The budget side of the debate, the possibility of allowing hsa coverage, is future oriented.
Aligned with nature — The new healthcare plan includes measures that are environmentally friendly. The way that hospital communication systems can be upgraded (ie - paperless) aligns this solution with nature. This will provide the cleanest individual health insurance for the person in need.

Adrian shares this new animation:

Rossiter Transformation

http://www.antiprism.com/misc/jit_cubo_oct2.gif

"The edges are doubled at the octet truss stage.

The cuboctahedra collapse down volumetrically into an
hour-glass-like pair of tetrahedra. There are three zero
volume diamond "fins" that spiral down the side of these.

You can make this shape from a jitterbug model. Place it on a triangular face. Halfway up is a hexagon of vertices. Push three alterate vertices into the centre. Make the six vertical slanting triangles into three slanting diamonds.

The loss of volume then is 6 tetrahedra per cuboctahedron.

There is originally one octahedron per cuboctahedron so the
ratio of original to transformed volume is

1 octahedron + 1 cuboctahedron : 1 octahedron + 2 tetrahdera
4 + 20 : 4 + 2
24 : 6
4 : 1

Another way to see this is by considering that the transformation
was created by jitterbugging the (6363) trihexagonal tiling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trihexagonal_tiling

The triangle to hexagon ratio is 2 : 1. When you jitterbug it
to close down the hexagons the ratio of areas before and after is

1 hexagon + 2 triangles : 2 triangles
6 + 2 : 2
4 : 1

In the cuboctahedron/octahedron to octahedron/tetrahedron transformation there is no contraction normal to the plane of trihexahedral jitterbugging and so this ratio is also the ratio of volumes before and after the transformation.

I have made another video from a different angle that
makes it easier to appreciate the cuboctahedron/octahedron stage."

Buckminster Fuller's 4D House as a paper model.

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APPARENTLY, NO ONE HAS NOTIFIED THE UNIVERSE THAT THERE IS AN ECONOMIC CRISIS ON EARTH

Sunshine is still beaming aboard the planet at the same rate as before the crisis began. Corn, rice, almonds, olives and peanuts are still growing and producing at the same rate as they did before the crisis. The same is happening with all food crops everywhere.

Airplanes still have the same load carrying capacity. Automobiles get the same fuel mileage pre and post crisis. The capacity of trees to produce lumber products has not changed. Butter and iron ore still melt at their same respective temperatures. The amount of electricity it takes to power 60 watt light bulbs has been constant.

However, despite this consistency, the Associated Press (10/5/2009) reported that the “…financial meltdown…wiped out 11% -- $6.6 trillion -- of household wealth in six months".

Webster defines economics as: ”…production, distribution and consumption (use) of goods and services”. The Universe produces stuff. The Universe distributes stuff. The Universe uses stuff. So, the Universe IS an economy, THE Economy.

However, the Universe works differently than the human “economy”. The Universe does all this producing, distributing and using according to specific rules that don’t change. The rules of the human “economy” change continuously.

Also, the Universe has no “medium of exchange”. It lets sunshine and rain fall on everyone who happens to be in the path of the sunbeams and water drops. Air is available to everyone, everywhere on the Earth surface. Crops grow for all humans who follow the rules for growing plants. In other words the Universe is a direct-access system, no money, no middle-men.

So, I suggest that we humans do one of two things:
1) Inform the Universe that there has been a reduction in wealth, and ask it to adjust outputs accordingly. It’s very exciting this way.
2) Get rid of “mediums of exchange”, since the Universe uses a direct-access system.

Either way, I think things would work better. Having two systems is very cumbersome.

William Daniels
503-314-6902
wdinpdx@yahoo.com
BillionsOfBillionaires.org
Twitter:aWilliamDaniels
10/6/2009

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/10/05/largest-solar-powered-footbridge-opens-in-brisbane/

The Dymaxion Car of R. Buckminster Fuller is being restored by the company Crosthwaite and Gardiner. See synchronofile.com for details.

HOW ABOUT CREATING A DIRECT-ACCESS ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND GET RID OF MONEY (MEDIUM-OF-EXCHANGE) BASED ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS?

Along with fear, guilt and sex, money is a favorite tool that humans use to control each other. Get rid of money? Those who control monetary systems: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve, etc. and large international businesses, use money to control governments. Governments use money to control other governments, their own citizens and smaller businesses. Businesses use money to control their employees. Customers sometimes use money to control businesses. Parents use money to control their children. Siblings and friends use money to control each other. Back and forth, and on and on, money is a very effective weapon that is used by almost everyone.

Is money necessary? To manage an economy, absolutely not. Contrary to popular belief, money is not necessary to live.

What is necessary to live? Food, shelter, health care, education, communication, transportation and recreation, these are necessary to live a quality life. Has nature ever charged money for sunlight, rain, food plants, metal ores, petroleum, air, electrical energy, cotton, trees, granite, sand, fire, etc? We have repeated the lie so often that it takes money to live, that we mostly don’t even question the idea, and when it is questioned, it is met with ridicule, amusement or dismissal, because it is so outrageous to conceive of living without money.

Economics is: production, distribution and use of goods and services. Nature, is an economy. Nature produces stuff. Nature distributes stuff. Nature uses stuff. Nature does this continuously. Money is A method of managing a local economy. It is a tool. It is used to determine who gets, how much access to, goods and services.

The fundamental principle of money is: I am “withholding from” you, what I have. Only if you have something that I value equally, or more, than something I have, will I exchange with you.

Nature, on the other hand, “shares with”, freely. Nature allows everyone to pick fruits and vegetables, absorb sunlight, have rain fall on them and breathe air. Nature allows airplanes built with US dollars to fly equally well over countries that use Yen, Marks and Yuan and over oceans with no money system at all. Has Nature ever charged for anything?

How can we manage an economy without money? It is possible to measure the energy, materials, labor and process time that it takes to produce all goods and services. We do most of this already, although we pay attention almost exclusively to the ever-changing money value of these. It is also possible to establish a principle that says: If you exist, you are entitled to an equal amount of all the energy that is available for all human endeavors. This is direct-access economic management, no money necessary, simple, fair, honest, loving.

Direct-access is possible. Money is incredibly stimulating though, both on the giving and receiving sides of the control dynamic.

William Daniels
503-314-6902
wdinpdx@yahoo.com
BillionsofBillionaires.org

Buckminster Fuller was a creationist. Is that a mark for or against his work? Read his words on the subject at synchronofile.com.

AP photo of Camp Ontario last year. Things have changed since then. The learning curve increase. There IS a legal solution, it turns out!

Universal emergency or disaster shelter may soon be a shared work around the planet built by design scientist and anyone else who wants to help. Legal living situations. Ultra-low-cost. Always legal. Civil rights intact. No more chasing and running. This is not camping. Camping is recreation, not home. We can begin to build a scalable village model site in Sacramento and applaud Sacramento's push for Safe Ground. Everyone needs to have a place to sleep day after day. Sleep is a right.

World Shelters is in the lead here now. I will post updates as Camp Sacramento emerges. I suspect other cities around the continent will improve on these effort as a solution for unsheltered people as experience grows.

Buckminster Fuller's 4D House in three dimensions. A work in progress by Trevor Blake of synchronofile.com. Silent, B/W, 30 seconds.