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== Guinea Pig B == |
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[[Buckminster Fuller/Material]] |
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I happen to have been born at the special moment in history in which for the first time there exists enough experience-won and experiment verified information current in humanity's spontaneous conceptioning and reasoning for all [[humanity]] to carry on in a far more intelligent way than ever before. |
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[[Buckminster Fuller/Lectures]] |
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I am not being messianically motivated in undertaking this experiment, nor do I think I am someone very special and different from other humans. The design of all humans, like all else in [[Universe]], transcends human comprehension of 'how come' their mysterious, [[a priori]], complexedly designed existence. |
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=== Buckministerfullerine / Bucky Balls === |
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I am doing what I am doing only because at this critical moment I happen to be a human being who, by virtue of a vast number of errors and recognitions of such, has discovered that he would always be a failure as judged by [[society]]'s ages-long conditioned reflexings and therefore a 'disgrace' to those related to him (me) in the misassuredly eternally-to-exist 'not-enough-for-all', comprehensive, economic struggle of humanity to attain only special, selfish, personal, family, corporate, or national advantage-gaining, wherefore I had decided to commit suicide. I also thereby qualified as a 'throwaway' individual who had acquired enough knowledge regarding relevantly essential [[human]] [[evolution]] matters to be able to think in this particular kind of way. In committing suicide I seemingly would never again have to feel the pain and mortification of my failures and errors, but the only-by-experience-winnable inventory of knowledge that I had accrued would also be forever lostùan inventory of information that, if I did not commit suicide, might prove to be of critical advantage to others, possibly to all others, possibly to [[Universe]]. The realization that such a concept could have even a one-in-an-million chance of being true was a powerful reconsideration provoker and ultimate grand-strategy reorienter. |
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Until a few years ago, there were two known forms of pure carbon, graphite and diamond. Then an improbable-seeming third form of carbon was discovered: a hollow cluster of 60 carbon atoms shaped like a soccer ball. Buckminsterfullerene or "buckyballs"--named for the American architect R. Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic domes had a similar structure--is the roundest, most symmetrical large molecule known. It is exceedingly rugged and very stable, capable of surviving the temperature extremes of outer space. At first, however, the molecule was a mystery wrapped in an enigma. But when a convenient way of making this molecule, also known as C60, was discovered, it set off an explosion of research among chemists, physicists, and materials scientists to uncover the molecule's secrets. |
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The thought then came that my impulse to commit suicide was a consequence of my being expressly overconcerned with 'me' 'and my pains,' and that doing so would mean that I would be making the supremely selfish mistake of possibly losing forever some evolutionary information link essential to the ultimately realization of the as-yet-to-be-known human function in Universe. I then realized that I could commit an exclusively ego suicide—a personal-ego “throwaway�?—if to the voice of wants only of “me�? but instead commit my physical organism and nervous system to enduring whatever pain might lie ahead while possibly thereby coming to mentally comprehend how a 'me-less' individual might redress the humiliations, expenses, and financial losses I had selfishly and carelessly imposed on all the in-any-way-involved others, while keeping actively alive in toto only the possibly-of-essential-use-for-others inventory of my experience. I saw that there was a true possibility that I could do just that if I remained alive and committed my self to a never-again-for-self-use employment of my omni-experience-gained inventory of knowledge. My thinking began to clear. |
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C60 is the third major form of pure carbon; graphite and diamond are the other two. Buckyballs were discovered in 1985 - the product of an experiment on carbon molecules in space. |
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This text is excerpted from Guinea Pig B, an essay by R. Buckminster Fuller, recently published in paperback by Critical Path Publishing. |
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You can purchase the book from our online store by visiting www.bfi.org or by calling us at (707) 824-2242. |
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* http://www.imbris.net/~jfromm/bucky/bucky.htm |
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=== Links === |
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[http://www.cjfearnley.com/buckyrefs.html Chris Fearnley's List of Buckminster Fuller Resources] |
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[http://www.cjfearnley.com/fuller-faq.html The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ] |
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[http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/synergetics.html SYNERGETICS - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking] |
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[http://www.stevelerner.com/geometry/index.html How To Build A Geodesic Dome] |
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Fullers "Synergetics" basieren auf seiner extremen Experimentierfreudigkeit und der Ansicht, dass auch Geometrie eine experimentelle Wissenschaft sei. Als solche müsse sie ohne die gegenwärtig verwendeten abstrakten Konzepte von Punkt, Gerade, Ebene etc. auskommen, da diese "vormikroskopische" Annahmen seien und man inzwischen doch wisse, dass die Welt aus schwingenden "Energieereignissen" bestünde. Im Laufe seines Lebens schuf er sich ein Gedankengebäude, das sich einerseits auf die völlige Vorherrschaft der Empirie stütze, andererseits aber auch von dem stetigen Versuch geprägt war, sich einer Sprache zu bedienen und damit eine Gedankenwelt zu schaffen, die diese Empirie möglichst akkurat wiedergeben würde. Dazu gehörten Wendungen wie die, dass es doch Unsinn sei, 400 Jahre nach Galilei immer noch davon zu sprechen, dass die Sonne untergehe, wenn wir doch alle wüßten, dass sich die Erde dreht... |
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[http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/520.en.html Geometrie ohne Punkte, Geraden & Ebenen Buckminster Fullers Theorie und Praxis einer Wissenschaft zum Selberbauen] a lecture held on [[22C3]] by [http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/speakers/664.en.html Oona Leganovic] ( [http://del.icio.us/0nm8/fuller Oona's Fuller Linkliste], [http://www.scrupeda.net/wordpress/?p=5 Buckminster Fuller zum Selberlesen]). |
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Buckministerfullerine / Bucky Balls[edit]
Until a few years ago, there were two known forms of pure carbon, graphite and diamond. Then an improbable-seeming third form of carbon was discovered: a hollow cluster of 60 carbon atoms shaped like a soccer ball. Buckminsterfullerene or "buckyballs"--named for the American architect R. Buckminster Fuller, whose geodesic domes had a similar structure--is the roundest, most symmetrical large molecule known. It is exceedingly rugged and very stable, capable of surviving the temperature extremes of outer space. At first, however, the molecule was a mystery wrapped in an enigma. But when a convenient way of making this molecule, also known as C60, was discovered, it set off an explosion of research among chemists, physicists, and materials scientists to uncover the molecule's secrets.
C60 is the third major form of pure carbon; graphite and diamond are the other two. Buckyballs were discovered in 1985 - the product of an experiment on carbon molecules in space.
Links[edit]
bfi.org - The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Chris Fearnley's List of Buckminster Fuller Resources
SYNERGETICS - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
german[edit]
Fullers "Synergetics" basieren auf seiner extremen Experimentierfreudigkeit und der Ansicht, dass auch Geometrie eine experimentelle Wissenschaft sei. Als solche müsse sie ohne die gegenwärtig verwendeten abstrakten Konzepte von Punkt, Gerade, Ebene etc. auskommen, da diese "vormikroskopische" Annahmen seien und man inzwischen doch wisse, dass die Welt aus schwingenden "Energieereignissen" bestünde. Im Laufe seines Lebens schuf er sich ein Gedankengebäude, das sich einerseits auf die völlige Vorherrschaft der Empirie stütze, andererseits aber auch von dem stetigen Versuch geprägt war, sich einer Sprache zu bedienen und damit eine Gedankenwelt zu schaffen, die diese Empirie möglichst akkurat wiedergeben würde. Dazu gehörten Wendungen wie die, dass es doch Unsinn sei, 400 Jahre nach Galilei immer noch davon zu sprechen, dass die Sonne untergehe, wenn wir doch alle wüßten, dass sich die Erde dreht... aus: Geometrie ohne Punkte, Geraden & Ebenen Buckminster Fullers Theorie und Praxis einer Wissenschaft zum Selberbauen a lecture held on 22C3 by Oona Leganovic ( Oona's Fuller Linkliste, Buckminster Fuller zum Selberlesen).