June 23, 2002 journal, Richard Buckminister Fuller, Royal Greenwich Millennial Dome.

Fuller’s many accomplishments are a spectacular. "For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than we have ever known. Only 10 years ago the "more with less" technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful "this confident assertion was made in 1980 by the late Buckminster Fuller inventor architect, engineer, cosmologist mathematician and poet”. As early as 1959, Newsweek reported that Fuller predicted the conquest of poverty by the year 2000, in 1977, almost 20 years later, the National Academy of Science confirmed Fullers prediction. Their world food and nutrition study, compared by 1500 scientists, concluded, "If there is the political will in this country and abroad... it should be possible to overcome the worst aspects of widespread hunger and malnutrition within one generation. "Even with tragedies like Ethiopia and Somalia, it is becoming clear that as Fuller predicted, we have arrived at the possibility of eliminating hunger and poverty in all the world within our lifetime”. Fuller was truly a man ahead of his time, his life’s goal was the development of what he called comprehensive anticipation design science, "the attempt to anticipate and solve humanity's major problems through the eyes technology by providing more and more of life support for everybody, with less and less resources". Fuller was a practical philosopher who demonstrated his great ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts". Some were built as prototypes; others exist only on paper; all he fell were technically viable. He was a dogged individualist whose genius was felt throughout the world for nearly half a century. Even Albert Einstein was prompted this say to him, "Young man, you amaze me!" In 1927, at the age of 32, Fuller stood on the shores of Lake Michigan, prepared to throw himself into the freezing waters. His first child had died. He was bankrupt, discredited and jobless, and he had a wife and newborn daughter. On the verge of suicide, it suddenly struck him that his life belonged, not to himself, but to the universe. He chose at that moment to embark on what he called "an experiment to discover what a little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity". Over the next 54 years, he proved time and time again that his most controversial ideas were practical and workable. During the course of his remarkable experiments he offered 27 books, received 47 honorary doctorates in the arts, science, engineering and the humanities received dozens of major architectural and design award including among many others the gold medal of the American Institute of architects and the gold medal of the Royal Institution of British architects. He circled the globe 57 times, he is best known for the invention of the geodesic dome, the lightest strongest and most cost-effective structure ever devised. The geodesic dome is able to cover more space without internal support than any other enclosure. It becomes proportionately lighter and stronger the larger it is. The largest dome houses the Spruce Goose in Long Beach harbor and a 20 story dome housing the U.S. pavilion at Montreal's Expo 1967. The Fuller Theological Seminary statement of faith is most impressive "Under God and subject of biblical authority, faculty and trustees of the seminary bear concerted witness to the following articles, to which they subscribe, which they hold to be essential to their ministry. 1- God has revealed himself to be the living and true God, perfect in love and righteous in all his ways; one in essence, existing eternally in the three persons of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 2-God has revealed…” This subject to be continued. The world's largest dome is the Greenwich 2000 Millennial Dome now closed in London.