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# The Internet Was Laughing About That Geodesic Dome Jeff Bridges Mentioned. Here's What to Know

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## Video: Stars Walk the 2019 Golden Globes Red Carpet

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[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Jan 7, 2019 5:31 PM UTC

Stars Walk the 2019 Golden Globes Red Carpet 

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Jan 7, 2019 5:31 PM UTC

Jeff Bridges was honored at the 2019 Golden Globes with the [Cecil B. DeMille Award](http://time.com/5481343/jeff-bridges-cecil-b-demille-golden-globes/), which recognizes lifetime achievement in film. Many people watching his acceptance speech, though, thought he was channeling his character in one particular film—The freewheeling, pot-loving Dude from _The Big Lebowski_.

In his 76th Golden Globe awards acceptance speech, Bridges managed to thank his family, friends, and the co-workers who helped him find success. He also squeezed in a reference to famed engineer, architect, and designer R. Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes, a shout-out that had audience members, [including Alan Arkin](http://time.com/5495600/alan-arkin-golden-globes/), and Twitter commenters scratching their heads or laughing with glee or both at the same time.

“One guy, he had nothing to do with the movies, but I’ve taken a lot of direction from him. That’s Bucky Fuller. Bucky, he’s most famous for the geodesic dome, but he made a great observation about these oceangoing tankers,” Bridges said in his speech. He went on to explain about Fuller’s thoughts on “trim tabs” which are basically “a little rudder on \[a\] big rudder,” and they are like “how the individual is connected to society and how we affect society.” Got that? “I like to think of myself as a trim tab,” said Bridges. “All of us are trim tabs.”

As you try to parse Bridges’s speech _(head over to the The Washington Post_, for [the full, delightful transcript)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/01/07/tag-youre-it-heres-full-transcript-jeff-bridgess-wacky-golden-globes-speech/?utm%5Fterm=.0b3cf5ee8f3b) you may find yourself wondering what is this geodesic dome that this trim-tab guy is famous for creating? If you have ever seen the Epcot Center, you already know. According to the [Stanford Libary’s](https://exhibits.stanford.edu/bucky/feature/what-is-a-geodesic-dome) exhibit on Fuller’s work, “a geodesic structure is a spherical structure which is constructed out of interconnecting lines rather than out of curved surfaces.” For example, a soccer ball is spherical in shape, but it is made up of linear hexagons and pentagons.


A geodesic dome, then, is a spherical shape built out of lines, with benefits that the Buckminster Fuller Institute explains as “lightweight, cost-effective, and easy to assemble, geodesic domes enclose more space without intrusive supporting columns than any other structure.” Famous examples include Epcot, but also the semi-circular jungle gyms on playgrounds, the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wa., and Fuller designed his first commercial dome for the Ford Motor Company headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. According to the [Buckminster Fuller Institute](https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/biography), today there are more than 300,000 geodesic domes around the world, ranging from homes (including some [on Airbnb](https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/biography)!) to radar stations in the Arctic to geodesic structures on playgrounds.

While geodesic domes are incredible feats of architecture and design, it doesn’t fully explain what they were doing in a [speech at the 76th Golden Globes](http://time.com/5494459/golden-globes-winners-2019/). The mention made people laugh, and Twitter was full of commentary on Bridges’s Dude-like speech:


> [](https://twitter.com/oureric/status/1082112805170569216)

> [](https://twitter.com/jessicashortall/status/1082115837371342848)

> [](https://twitter.com/thehighsign/status/1082114095690719232)


> [](https://twitter.com/tompowercbc/status/1082118756019720192)

> [](https://twitter.com/tomandlorenzo/status/1082112885407531008)

> [](https://twitter.com/PopRocket/status/1082113171714846720)


> [](https://twitter.com/boonapi/status/1082117515084529664)

> [](https://twitter.com/badgirl%5F%5FKT/status/1082113952778240000)

> [](https://twitter.com/reidoconor/status/1082113226412675072)


> [](https://twitter.com/JayGabler/status/1082112955938951168)

> [](https://twitter.com/rachsyme/status/1082112157716803584)

> [](https://twitter.com/albz/status/1082116375324303360)


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