From: Patrick Salsbury (salsbury_at_sculptors.com)
Date: 02/16/00
Message-Id: <200002160818.AAA22589@bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Floating spherical sky-cities Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:18:35 -0800 From: Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_sculptors.com>
Here's a cool conceptual model to help get the idea about floating
sky-cities across to people. Mike did a pretty cool job with these, I
think.
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 09:42:19 +0000
From: Mike Nuess <mnuess_at_MICRON.NET>
To: GEODESIC_at_LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
Subject: Re: Journal article invitation!
>>>>> Global Food and Energy Service:
>>>>> http://www.webpak.net/~mnuess/teleologicssubdir/gfes.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Cordially, Mike Nuess
How about the text part as an attached simpletext file, and the photos as attac
hed
jpg?
Mark Siegmund wrote:
> Mike, can you send me the entire article replete with photo?
>
> The article could be plain text in email--with attachment--or--sent by
> floppy to me (hopefully formatted for Mac Clarisworks or Appleworks)
>
> Mark
>
> > From: Mike Nuess <mnuess_at_MICRON.NET>
> > Reply-To: "List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's
> > works"<GEODESIC_at_LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.geodesic
> > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:15:52 +0000
> > To: GEODESIC_at_LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Journal article invitation!
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > If you're referring to the GFES article's picture, the image is a compilati
on
> > of
> > different photos that I blended together to create the scene of 3 tensegrit
y
> > spheres in route to Kosovo. The view is taken from the 3rd sphere, as the c
rew
> > views a camera image displaying on the viewing 'table' monitor. I develope
d
> > the
> > tensegrity spheres from an image of the Primary and Secondary Great Circle
> > Sets of
> > the Vector Equilibrium, which I scanned from Synergetics2, see page 328. I
did
> > not
> > take the time to scale correctly the relative sizes of the moon, earth, and
> > tensegrity spheres. I just wanted to relate the concept. The fictitious
> > story was
> > actually developed as a tool for explaining the image, and hopefully relate
s
> > what
> > is only my interpretation of RBF's concepts around the technically feaasibl
e
> > tensegrity spheres and their appropriate use for speeding the transition to
> > peace.
> >
> > (Actually, if you do choose to use this article, this explanatory paragragp
h
> > I'm
> > now sending you may make a good intro to the story. It helps to orient the
> > reader,
> > making the story less mysterious at the start. It also credits the one
> > external
> > source I used.)
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Siegmund wrote:
> >
> >> Mike--good to know--thanks.
> >>
> >> Also, what is the origin and meaning of the "futuristic" pictures at the
> >> site?
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>> From: Mike Nuess <mnuess_at_MICRON.NET>
> >>> Reply-To: "List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's
> >>> works"<GEODESIC_at_LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
> >>> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.geodesic
> >>> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:21:52 +0000
> >>> To: GEODESIC_at_LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
> >>> Subject: Re: Journal article invitation!
> >>>
> >>> Mark,
> >>>
> >>> The article is deliberately fiction, written by me. None of the names are
> >>> real.
> >>> It's framed as a 'scene we would like to have seen'.
> >>>
> >>> Mark Siegmund wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Dear Mike,
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes indeed it would certainly be within our scope--however the article i
s
> >>>> by
> >>>> a newspaper reporter--we'd need something orginal.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please let me know.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Mark
> >>>>
> >>>>> From: Mike Nuess <mnuess_at_MICRON.NET>
> >>>>> Reply-To: "List for the discussion of Buckminster Fuller's
> >>>>> works"<GEODESIC_at_LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
> >>>>> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.geodesic
> >>>>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:55:15 +0000
> >>>>> To: GEODESIC_at_LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
> >>>>> Subject: Re: Journal article invitation!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mark, would this article be within the scope of IJHP's "Peace Through
> >>>>> Development" issue?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Global Food and Energy Service:
> >>>>> http://www.webpak.net/~mnuess/teleologicssubdir/gfes.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cordially, Mike Nuess
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mark Siegmund wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Dear Friends and Colleagues:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Greetings! It is time again to send this invitation inviting articles
> >>>>>> for
> >>>>>> the next issue of The International Journal of Humanities and Peace
> >>>>>> (IJHP),
> >>>>>> Vol. 16, No. 1. You may view the journal at:
> >>>>>> http://members.tripod.com/~Tetworld/ijhp1.html
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IJHP is a journal dedicated to "Peace Through Development".
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> IJHP is indexed on the "Uncover" database, the United Nations database
,
> >>>>>> and
> >>>>>> will be (shortly) indexed on the H.W.Wilson Database--in the Humantie
s
> >>>>>> Index.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The general topic for this issue is: "The Culture of Peace".
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Your article may consist of 800 or 1,600 or 2,400 words--and submitted
as
> >>>>>> 3 hard copies, a floppy disk (formatted for ClarisWorks/Appleworks if
> >>>>>> possible), (email attachment or email plain text preferred) a black
and
> >>>>>> white photo of yourself (not required) and a short paragraph of your
> >>>>>> bio-data. Deadline for submission is 30 April 1999.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Please send 2 hard copies to me (Vasant Merchant), and 1 hard copy, an
d
> >>>>>> floppy disk, or email with attachment or email plain text to:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Dr. Mark Siegmund, Assoc. Editor
> >>>>>> HC2 Box 434H2
> >>>>>> 4800 Parker Rd.
> >>>>>> Twentynine Palms, CA 92277
> >>>>>> Tel/Fax: (760) 361-1780
> >>>>>> email: siegmund_at_thegrid.net
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Please send us your Tel/Fax number, email and physical address. Auth
ors
> >>>>>> will receive a free copy of the journal issue containing their article
.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> May I hear from you?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanking you, with kindest regards and best wishes for the New Year.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I remain,
> >>>>>> Cordially yours,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Vasant V. Merchant, Ph.D., LL.B.
> >>>>>> Editor
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >
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Pat
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