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From: "Chris Manning" <chauncy@westnet.com.au>
References: <20070303100001.89247.qmail@rho.pair.com>
Subject: Re: geodesic domes
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:14:48 +1100

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> Message #29220
> From: "Mark Plus" <markplus@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Failed futures was Re: CryoNet #29209 - #29213 [Harold Lockwo...
> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:23:53 -0800

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> As for Fuller's legacy, who builds geodesic domes these days, apart from 
> the
> occasional geodesic house somebody puts up in a rural area? (You can see 
> one
> along Highway 138 near Wrightwood, California, where I lived for several
> years) The older geodesic domes face demolition, liike the one at the 
> South
> Pole station. They look really neat, but they don't work that well as
> practical shelters.
>

One of my cousins built a geodesic dome (from ferro-cement) 30 years ago at 
Tuntable Falls, northern NSW, and AFAIK is still living in it. I will take 
the liberty of posting the above to her for her comment.

Tuntable Falls is a co-operative (or 'hippy commune' to its detractors) 
which began with a rock festival called the Aquarius Festival in about 1972 
(I suppose a bit like Woodstock) and some of those who attended decided to 
stay. 

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