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Futurist Buckminster Fuller with the car and housing framework he designed, USA, at or after 1965?

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1883313/futurist-buckminster-fuller-with-the-car-and-housing-framework-he-designed-usa-at-or-af

Mar 16 at 2:01pmWeb
Show thread_haha_oh_wow_Mar 16
This looks like it would cook you in the summer.
Show threadPugJesusMar 16
Apparently the idea was for it to be outfitted with solar panels in at least several of the holes.
Show thread_haha_oh_wow_Mar 16
I’d definitely want shutters on the others too.
Show threadSuccessful_Try543Mar 16
As he was well-known for his dome structures, the ball-like class of carbon molecules, buckminsterfullerene and fullerene, respectively, were named in honour of him.
Buckminsterfullerene - Wikipedia

Show threaddiphthongMar 16
The vehicle behind Fuller is Prototype Two of the Dymaxion Car built in 1933. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car#Prototypes_One…
Dymaxion car - Wikipedia

Show threadAgent641Mar 16
This guy had edibles for breakfast lunch and dinner
Show threadYurkshireLadMar 16
Freud would like a word.
Show threadAlloiMar 16
poop dick car and sunburn house
Show threadSkyrmirMar 16

The 1938 version was cooler looking. Design wise if he’d moved the front wheels up and shortened it a bit the stability problem would have gone away. And 30 mpg in 1938 was pretty impressive, just not as big a selling point when gas was a nickel a gallon.

Show threadNigelFrobisherMar 17
And there’s me thinking yank tanks were obnoxious for taking up city parking space.