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The Post Office is releasing a stamp with a picture of  Buckminster Fuller, inventer of the geodesic dome. He was also an humanitarian and tech evangelist--he believed the world could be made better for everyone with advanced technology--and was one of the first proponents of renewable energy.

I hadn't heard of him until a couple of years ago. Camp Nose Fish, at BMan, constructed a dome, to scale, in the shape of his nostrils! It was one of the best places we'd discovered, too. They misted visitors with cool water (definitely a precious commodity in the desert) and provided couches and ambient music for escaping from the desert heat.

Here's more about those domes:

"The geodesic dome is able to cover more space without internal supports than any other enclosure. It becomes proportionally lighter and stronger the larger it is. The geodesic dome is a breakthrough in shelter, not only in cost-effectiveness, but in ease of construction. In 1957, a geodesic dome auditorium in Honolulu was put up so quickly that 22 hours after the parts were delivered, a full house was comfortably seated inside enjoying a concert....

[They can] ...withstand winds up to 180 mph. Fuller is most famous for his 20-story dome housing the U.S. Pavilion at Montreal’s Expo ’67...." -- from Buckminster Fuller Institute

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• #2 Comment from fdtate313 
  4/7/04 1:13 AM | Permalink

  Some great links on Bucky and the dome.  I'll be on the lookout for the stamp.
• #1 Comment from musenla 
  4/6/04 1:38 PM | Permalink

  The geodesic dome idea sounds very cool and futuristic; however, I can't help but laugh at the image of his "nostrils" misting visitors with air.  Achoo!