Fuller,
Buckminster R.
Buckminster R. Fuller, inventor and engineer, was born in 1895 and died in 1983. He held patents on over 2,000 inventions and developed the famed geodesic dome. He was Professor of Comprehensive Design, at Southern Illinois University.

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Our little spaceship Earth is right now traveling at 60,000 miles an hour around the sun and, at the same time, is also spinning axially which, at a latitude central to the United States, adds approximately 1,000 miles per hour to our motion. Each minute we both spin at 100 miles and zip in orbit at 1,000 miles per hour. This is very swift spin and zip. Wilderness, The Edge of Knowledge, 1970.

 

Our sun is flying in company with us, within the vast reaches of the galactic system, at just the right distance to give us enough radiation to keep us alive, yet not close enough to burn us up. Ibid.