As a buckyball dodecahedron admirer, I did notice Google today

[Celebration]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7959214/Buckyball-25th-anniversary-celebrated-by-interactive-Google-Doodle.html

It is the 25th anniversary of the buckyball! Yes, I have been moving it around with my cursor. Wish I could save it!

[OneGrassRoot]

1. Dear Goddess...

You are SO SMART!!!!! I wouldn't know a buckyball if it bit me on the behind.

You and others here....so friggin brilliant!!! :bounce:

:hi:

:hug:

[Celebration]

2. Well, the dodecahedron is just amazing

It has all those golden mean angles in it. I have to use it in all the clearing slideshows I make. Somehow it reaches into different dimensions or realities, or something. So, it is interesting that the buckyball is the key shape in nanotechnology.

Here is the really cool thing about the dodecahedron-- clear entities from you energetic fields, and you can muscle test strong for looking in the mirror. But, if you include the dodecahedron, you not only muscle test strong to looking in the mirror, but you muscle test strong for looking in infinite mirrors! (like in a dressing room). I really don't positively know the significance of that, but I think it has to do with different dimensions.

I got one part of the mirror idea in ASAH, from a poster named RockGarden, that did comic strips. I think she left after Hillary Clinton did not get nominated.

Here is the "secret" to why I am familiar with nanotechnology and the buckyball--one of my daughters went to Rice University, where the buckyball and nanotechnology was first developed. When she went to look at the school, they had her sit in on a Freshman chemistry class that was taught by the Nobel prize winning chemist there-- Richard Smalley.

http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/smalley.html

Sadly, by her Senior year, she was writing his obituary in the Rice newspaper.

Anyway, I applaud Google for applauding the 25th anniversary of the Buckyball. It gave me an idea for the slideshows. I am now trying a MOVING dodecahedron, as in my signature. However, I am also going to try to add OGRs Wishadoo, though I might have to reduce it somewhat. I feel it would be beneficial for it to share space with the buckyball thingie.

[OneGrassRoot]

3. Very cool....

What an amazing experience for your daughter!

That's fascinating...the different dimensions, infinite mirrors (fascinating, too, how mirrors -- and the mirror effect -- figure into so many legends).

Your sig line is also VERY cool!!!

:bounce:

:hug:

[Kind of Blue]

4. Aww, I love the dodecahedron.

Thanks for the link! Learned how to make them waaay back when in high school geometry class and made a ton of them. Had a seriously hippy teacher who rode a motorcycle and always had this book with her "Zen and the Art of the Motorcyle." I just loved her - didn't learn a thing then but sure could make a dodecahedron.

Thanks for the memories, Celebration :hug:

[Celebration]

5. Talk about a trip down memory lane

It is "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

That was just a huge counter culture fave of the day. LOL, I never really "got" that connection.

When you say you made dodecahedrons, do you mean you folded them??

I tried folding my own dodecahedron calendar a couple of times. There are templates and instructions on the web. One was okay, but my grandson played with it, and.....................

Then there was the story of my manifesting a brass dodecahedron paperweight at an estate sale..............:rofl:

[Kind of Blue]

6. Aah, that makes more sense - "Maintenance."

Well, at that time, Ms. Riggs, had a template of the hexagon and a flap and other structures too but I chose the dodecah. Then we had to use it to make a bunch more and then figure out what flap to glue to another hexagon/flap. So it was like a puzzle. Colored them, glittered them up and she strung them all up from the ceiling of the math lab. I remember she did have a mimeograph - haven't used that word in ages - copy of the whole thing that she'd fold up in no time.

That gal also had us making mandalas, too, with sticks and colored yarn - WoW, the things one remembers on anniversaries :)

[I Have A Dream]

7. Wow, how did you figure out that you could move it?

That is so awesome!!!

Happy birthday, buckyball!

:bounce:

[Celebration]

8. well, I right clicked on it

To see if I could save it. Instead it said, open link in new window! That took me to google search with their buckyball results. The title of one article said interactive buckyball. So, I put two and two together and figured I could interact with it. So, that's what I have been doing.

I want my own interactive Buckyball, though. This will be gone tomorrow. :cry:

[FirstLight]

9. check out this house!

i worked with this guy on the original structure in Nevada...love the domes!

http://biohome.net/

[Celebration]

13. ah, yes

Inspired by Buckminster Fuller...............these look really interesting, though I think I might want a real window or two.

Very enlightened of Smalley to name the things "Buckyballs"

[FirstLight]

14. the water windows serve a purpose

they let in the light without letting in heat, that way the closed system can remain at a stable temp. the houses are made to be a closed system and have 'grow walls', recycle gray water for the plants, etc. I have heard sleeping in the domes is quite a trip too..strange dreams

[Celebration]

15. I'm sure they accumulate orgone big time

Perhaps too much in some cases. I think I would want to see outside. But for people who like caves it looks pretty practical.

[kentauros]

16. You could always go with an "Earth Ship" then:

http://earthship.com
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/earthship.htm

:D

[kentauros]

10. It's a 12-sided die!

:D

I usually don't notice these things that Google does because I never use their "basic" search page. So, it's cool you pointed this out :hi:

[FirstLight]

11. D&D, eh?

I think you let your DM status slip... ;)

[kentauros]

12. I haven't played in years

but I did start in the mid-70s and into the early 90s. Maybe I can find some people willing to play "Nuclear War". We only used cubical dice in that one, like with "Risk" :P