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.
Johnny SPQR is a 1995 cyberpunk history film about a Roman Consul (Keanu Reeves) with a cybernetic brain implant designed to win the Punic Wars. Co-starring Henry Rollins as Cato the Censor.
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.
Fiction cross-reference
- Bread Zeppelin
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Johnny SPQR
- Salem orb trials
- Stellated Octahedron Day
- The Lord of the Matrix Rings
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Post @ Twitter (30 November 2021)
- Buckminster Fuller @ Wikipedia