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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Buckminster Fuller was obsessed with the word "dymaxion". It's like "X" with Musk.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah well you can have a nice little dymaxion nap in your dymaxion house after driving home from your dymaxion job in your dymaxion car.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For reference:

Dymaxion house:

Shiny.

Cozy.

Dymaxion car:

Not quite Gernsback Continuum material, but close enough.

Volkswagen's van was more iconic, I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The car - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car

The dymaxion nap is a reference to polyphasic sleep which Fuller did for a while. To the best of my knowledge there is no dymaxion job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a portmanteau of DYnamic MAXimum tensION. All the things he labeled with the term were supposed to follow a unifying design principle of maximum performance for minimal energy input, based on carefully optimized interplay of internal forces. In the case of the map, this manifested in the minimizing geographic distortion.

There is actually a second Dymaxion projection which preserves contiguity of water rather than land