Bucky Fuller, Orb King
Bucky Fuller, Orb King is a 2021 fantasy engineering film about a brilliant wizard (Buckminster Fuller) who uses tensegrity principles to construct a glowing blue orb.
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The Salem orb trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of orbcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail.
The San Francisco sphere is an unnatural feature of San Francisco Bay, known since at least 2022.
Stellated Octahedron Day (December 1) is a holiday celebrating the stellated octahedron, the only stellation of the octahedron.
The Lord of the Matrix Rings is an epic higher mathematics film about a mathematician (Sauron) who creates the One Matrix Ring with a set of matrices with entries in a ring R that form a ring under matrix addition and matrix multiplication.
Bread Zeppelin is a British-American rock band comprising Led Zeppelin and Bread.
"The Entertainer Within": A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into David Bowie and Bing Crosby. (Star Trek: Forbidden Episodes.)
Fiction cross-reference
- Bread Zeppelin
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Salem orb trials
- San Francisco sphere
- Stellated Octahedron Day
- The Entertainer Within
- The Lord of the Matrix Rings
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Buckminster Fuller @ Wikipedia
Social media
- Post @ Twitter (30 November 2021)