[spankalib]

I met Bucky and spoke with him a few times. I suppose DaVinci was thought of as a nutjob too, as I’ve always thought of Fuller as the unappreciated Leonardo of our age.

His low-cost, icosahedral designs - one frequency geodesics - could actually be ‘flown in’ to relieve suffering in disaster areas. They WERE flown to the arctic and formed the ‘DEW Line’.

I like your other description: “a walking unorthodoxy”, very apt for him. He invested his own personal fortune in the Dymaxion car...this was in 1933!
I admired him greatly.

[NativeSon]

I met Bucky and spoke with him a few times - Awesome! how did this occur? I'd like to know.

I've read about him, his life and ideas and to me he is one of those inventors that embodied inventing. Everyone dreams, only a rare few risk it all to take the next steps.