Buckminster Fuller

OK - a solution with significant potential to solve the world's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity.

I'm thinking some kind of fast spreading, incurable plague. Eliminate 99% of the human population and all the world's most pressing problems go away. And all that compost is good for the environment.

I am not sure which group I would want to be in. Is it a slow painless death? Or one of those oozing, open sore, lingering types?

Some kind of sleeping sickness.

Here's a clever invention I just found:

http://www.greensteamengine.com/

oooh. I like it!

I have some ideas for a power charging station using... well its a closed system.

I am anxious to talk to someone who knows more.

UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT MODEL STEAM ENGINE

A clever mechanism but limited in ability to be scaled up into something really useful.

Expensive to build as a model unless you had a real NEED for one.

Gentlemen and Engineers also, you might as well not even try to win this one. Its all mine, I am going to win this one hands down. The only way to beat me at this game is if you own Phizer and have a solution to aids, malaria, or some other terrible disease and then decide that you want to give it away for free. We all know that that will never happen, so give up now and dont even bother sending in your application or the fifty bucks. I would tell you what it is, but then I would have to kill you, wouldn't I?

One last note, I like the idea of eliminating 99% of the world population, that is the only sure fire way to save the planet. Otherwise earth is doomed, as long as were around to try and fix it, like we fixed the everglades and all those pesky forests and wild animals. Not to mention how we fixed the political situation in Latin America and the middle east. Were on the right track now....

"The first annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Any ideas?"

Unfortunately the world's most pressing problems are not in the area of the BFC.

The world is is dire need of solutions to the problems of sociology, government, and religion less we fall into the pit! Areas for which there is no appropriate section in CR4.

Stan

you've pegged it.

Wouldn't social engineering, fit w/in the constrains of this forum?

This must be a job for Chris Leonerd !!

The comments about population are a bit extreme, the real # is probably around 50%.

Social engineering. Technology so often changes the way we interact with our environs. After all, since the beginning man has changed but little on the timeline. It is technology that makes unparallelled evolutionary leaps with far reaching effects. Beleiving in CR3's law of opposites tech should be able to make the needed corrections.

How about a Buckminster Fuller - Alfred Hitchcock look-alike-contest.

Bucky-balls welcome.

You must realize that you're all a bunch of bleeding, homicidal maniacs.

What the heck, let me give you all axes and you can have at it!!!

I'm not advocating, violence, bloodshed, carnage, a nice plague or maybe ice 9 would do. The human race is extinct, It maynot happen anytime soon............

1 crazed, general or w.a.p.e. [worst american president ever] could accelerate the time line.

Yeah, as I've said before on this forum, I'm not so opposed to Bush wanting to be President, I'm just opposed to him wanting to be the last President.

God help us if he and Chaney are kneeling in some secret chapel under the White House, praying "Lord, give me the strength to do what I must do."

I don't think I'll get much sleep tonight.

A most disturbing thought indeed!