Ok, fine. So now I want a Dymaxion 4 that is all electric, has safety features like they never thought of in the 30s, and doesn't track any of my activities, please?!?
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.
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.
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diphthong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 174d
The vehicle behind Fuller is Prototype Two of the Dymaxion Car built in 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car#Prototypes_One,_Two_and_Three
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 5 pts · 174d
Ok, fine. So now I want a Dymaxion 4 that is all electric, has safety features like they never thought of in the 30s, and doesn't track any of my activities, please?!?
Triumph@fedia.io · 2 pts · 174d
Two out of three ain't bad.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 174d
This looks like it would cook you in the summer.
PugJesus@piefed.social · 8 pts · 174d
Apparently the idea was for it to be outfitted with solar panels in at least several of the holes.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 174d
I'd definitely want shutters on the others too.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 8 pts · 174d
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.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 174d
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 174d
This guy had edibles for breakfast lunch and dinner
PugJesus@piefed.social · 2 pts · 174d
Would you prefer he had in edibles!?
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KaRunChiy@fedia.io · 2 pts · 174d
-3 hp
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 174d
Why did that lose three horsepower?
Alloi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 174d
poop dick car and sunburn house
YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 174d
Freud would like a word.
Paragone@piefed.social · 2 pts · 174d
His aesthetic is as bad as Gaudi's.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Architectural_works_by_Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD
Ugh.
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PugJesus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 174d
Nominative determinism when your name is Gaudi and you do aesthetics.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 174d
And there’s me thinking yank tanks were obnoxious for taking up city parking space.