Buckminster Fuller has a lot to say about how we have been living based on past models and how he felt things could be a lot better if we spent more time and research on making better use of materials, especially for providing habitats for all of those on Space Ship Earth.
He mentions that in holding to the idea of survival of the fittest we spend a lot more on making war machines than we do in providing for peace time use of livable habitats. Only as a secondary by product of all of the technological achievement do we gain by technology transfer the makes it possible to have more with less energy input by human muscle power.
I don't know what the NASA budget will look like for supporting going to the Moon. Will have to wait for next month to see what is being requested and then see how folks adjust.
With that said, let me copy a couple of paragraphs near the end of "IDEAS AND INTEGRITIES" and let you think about where we are going and what individuals might do building on where we find ourselves today.
This from page 307-308, "IDEAS AND INTEGRITIES - remember this is 1963 and we haven't landed on the Moon yet. - LRK -
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We are shooting to get to the moon. What soldiers want is to get the first commanding platform in space. That's what the militarists are after. To be able to send a man to the moon, you first have to be able to give him his own private little earth, and he's been living on an enormous earth with great energy-exchanging patterns he knows very little about. He knows a little about the air he breathes or the gas plants give off. He doesn't know why men's temperatures are ninety-eight and six tenths degrees, Fahrenheit when in good health. He doesn't really know about his extraordinary energy balance.
Our processes are so secret that nobody really knows anything about plumbing. Everything fundamental about our sewage system was invented in India by 2500 B.C. No one has made significant improvements since that time. No architect ever looks back of the purple tiles, no scientist ever studies plumbing. We never hire scientists to look at our homes. Scientists, however, work with weaponry, and its by-products go back into our homes, but it is completely inadvertent. What would happen if the scientist helped us to use everything he and we've learned to make the world a success for man?
This is what is going to happen with our explorations into space, because we can no longer be wasteful. We will have extraordinary energy cycles developed in our behalf by the scientists. We're going to have to give our spaceman enough food--he needs a ton a year, and he'll have to process that. We are going to have to find out how to use that valuable chemistry we have been turning over to Nature's landscape to process for us. While we look the other way the spaceman won't be able to get rid of it. If he spits there is no gravity to take it away. It stays right there in front of him in space. We are not going to send the spaceman out into space to find out what to do with his chemistry to make him survive. If our scientists on earth haven't figured it all out very satisfactorily in every respect, psychologically and esthetically, as well as chemically, before we send that space-boy "out," he'll never com back "in" again--alive.
For the first time in history we are employing scientists to work on a little house. It hasn't been thought of, architecturally, as a house, but it's the most important house that's ever been worked on. In America we are spending three billion dollars a year and ain Russia they are spending six billion dollars a year on this autonomous dwelling device--for man.
The little black box that will take care of our sanitation will be more effective than anything that's been used before. Men will control their environment and be very healthy. ....
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Well that is about going to space and the ISS has been doing some of what "Bucky" predicted, but not enough. We haven't learned to recycle EVERYTHING on the ISS and setting up a base camp on the Moon is going to have to consider that.
How about something her on Earth for Haiti?
- LRK -
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http://www.readyforanything.org/?p=1090
GEODESIC AND MONOLITHIC DOMES OFFER BEST SHELTER FOR HAITI’S 1.5
MILLION HOMELESS EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS. I.P.N. WORKING TO CREATE
DOMEBUILDER ALLIANCE.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by admin
By Aton Edwards, I.P.N. Executive Director
As I post this story at 4:10 AM on Thursday morning, January 21th, the body count in Port-au-Prince is estimated at over 200,000 with over 20,000 people dying daily from untreated injuries alone. Roads to Port-au-Prince from the Dominican Republic are clogged and, rapidly
degrading because of the constant traffic. Hundreds of thousands are still without food & very little clean water is available.
snip
I already knew that there was only one way to house the survivors. Wyclef and his team needed Bucky Fuller’s finest creation, the geodesic dome. All I needed at that point was to design a workable plan that his associates at could make it happen as rapidly as possible, so, I began to develop a workable strategy.
The geodesic domes offer the earthquake survivors disaster resistant, simple to set-up and transport, and relatively inexpensive (when compared to traditional structures) shelters. They come in many different sizes ranging from 16′ to large 90′ structures. All have the capacity to withstand high winds and, can be designed to withstand even the most powerful hurricanes. I knew that Pacific Domes of Oregon manufactured several versatile geodesic dome models that could be used to help solve this enormous housing crisis. So, my first choice was made.
Stage one of the dome building operation would begin with Pacific Domes .
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I also knew that more permanent housing would also be needed. Monolithic domes started a special program back in 2009 called One Dome At A Time created up by Haitian born Hip-Hop artist Won-G.
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http://pacificdomes.org/
http://pacificdomes.org/relief_domes.html
Pacific Domes are the strongest portable structures known to man. These highly portable structures are quick and easy to erect with a ratchet! They are engineered to withstand hurricane force winds and heavy snow loads. Many sizes are available depending on the application. The larger domes can be used for warehouses, distribution of supplies, and also for kitchens and food services. Our mid-range domes are perfect for classrooms and medical centers. Smaller domes provide a safe and weather proof shelter for displaced families.
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http://www.monolithic.com/
Monolithic Domes & Eco-Shells can provide the people of Haiti with permanent low-cost disaster resistant homes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm29nmhmQjM&feature=player_embedded
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You may know of others that have plans to provide housing that is quick to erect.
Individuals can make a difference.
- LRK -
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/01/gates_foundation_pledges_10_bi.html
January 29, 2010
Gates Foundation Pledges $10 Billion For Vaccines
The $34 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is more than doubling its vaccine portfolio -- already its largest focus.
The Gateses announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that they plan to spend $10 billion on vaccine development and deployment over the next decade. "We must make this the decade of vaccines," Microsoft founder Bill Gates says.
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Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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Our processes are so secret that nobody really knows anything about plumbing. Everything fundamental about our sewage system was invented in India by 2500 B.C. No one has made significant improvements since that time. No architect ever looks back of the purple tiles, no scientist ever studies plumbing. We never hire scientists to look at our homes. Scientists, however, work with weaponry, and its by-products go back into our homes, but it is completely inadvertent. What would happen if the scientist helped us to use everything he and we've learned to make the world a success for man?
This is what is going to happen with our explorations into space, because we can no longer be wasteful. We will have extraordinary energy cycles developed in our behalf by the scientists. We're going to have to give our spaceman enough food--he needs a ton a year, and he'll have to process that. We are going to have to find out how to use that valuable chemistry we have been turning over to Nature's landscape to process for us. While we look the other way the spaceman won't be able to get rid of it. If he spits there is no gravity to take it away. It stays right there in front of him in space. We are not going to send the spaceman out into space to find out what to do with his chemistry to make him survive. If our scientists on earth haven't figured it all out very satisfactorily in every respect, psychologically and esthetically, as well as chemically, before we send that space-boy "out," he'll never com back "in" again--alive.
For the first time in history we are employing scientists to work on a little house. It hasn't been thought of, architecturally, as a house, but it's the most important house that's ever been worked on. In America we are spending three billion dollars a year and ain Russia they are spending six billion dollars a year on this autonomous dwelling device--for man.
The little black box that will take care of our sanitation will be more effective than anything that's been used before. Men will control their environment and be very healthy. ....
------------------------------
Well that is about going to space and the ISS has been doing some of what "Bucky" predicted, but not enough. We haven't learned to recycle EVERYTHING on the ISS and setting up a base camp on the Moon is going to have to consider that.
How about something her on Earth for Haiti?
- LRK -
------------------------------
http://www.readyforanything.
GEODESIC AND MONOLITHIC DOMES OFFER BEST SHELTER FOR HAITI’S 1.5
MILLION HOMELESS EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS. I.P.N. WORKING TO CREATE
DOMEBUILDER ALLIANCE.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by admin
By Aton Edwards, I.P.N. Executive Director
As I post this story at 4:10 AM on Thursday morning, January 21th, the body count in Port-au-Prince is estimated at over 200,000 with over 20,000 people dying daily from untreated injuries alone. Roads to Port-au-Prince from the Dominican Republic are clogged and, rapidly
degrading because of the constant traffic. Hundreds of thousands are still without food & very little clean water is available.
snip
I already knew that there was only one way to house the survivors. Wyclef and his team needed Bucky Fuller’s finest creation, the geodesic dome. All I needed at that point was to design a workable plan that his associates at could make it happen as rapidly as possible, so, I began to develop a workable strategy.
The geodesic domes offer the earthquake survivors disaster resistant, simple to set-up and transport, and relatively inexpensive (when compared to traditional structures) shelters. They come in many different sizes ranging from 16′ to large 90′ structures. All have the capacity to withstand high winds and, can be designed to withstand even the most powerful hurricanes. I knew that Pacific Domes of Oregon manufactured several versatile geodesic dome models that could be used to help solve this enormous housing crisis. So, my first choice was made.
Stage one of the dome building operation would begin with Pacific Domes .
snip
I also knew that more permanent housing would also be needed. Monolithic domes started a special program back in 2009 called One Dome At A Time created up by Haitian born Hip-Hop artist Won-G.
snip
------------------------------
http://pacificdomes.org/
http://pacificdomes.org/
Pacific Domes are the strongest portable structures known to man. These highly portable structures are quick and easy to erect with a ratchet! They are engineered to withstand hurricane force winds and heavy snow loads. Many sizes are available depending on the application. The larger domes can be used for warehouses, distribution of supplies, and also for kitchens and food services. Our mid-range domes are perfect for classrooms and medical centers. Smaller domes provide a safe and weather proof shelter for displaced families.
------------------------------
http://www.monolithic.com/
Monolithic Domes & Eco-Shells can provide the people of Haiti with permanent low-cost disaster resistant homes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
------------------------------
You may know of others that have plans to provide housing that is quick to erect.
Individuals can make a difference.
- LRK -
------------------------------
http://www.npr.org/blogs/
January 29, 2010
Gates Foundation Pledges $10 Billion For Vaccines
The $34 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is more than doubling its vaccine portfolio -- already its largest focus.
The Gateses announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that they plan to spend $10 billion on vaccine development and deployment over the next decade. "We must make this the decade of vaccines," Microsoft founder Bill Gates says.
snip
------------------------------
Thanks for looking up with me.
Larry Kellogg
Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.
Newsletter: https://news.altair.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/lrkellogg
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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