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Dymaxion Airocean World: Airocean: (World 3):
"World arrangement of Dymaxion map showing the ‘Airocean.’ This is the fundamental arrangement of inherently integrated lands and their respective people’s energies, economics, mores, dreams and volitions. This pattern dominates all post-World War II history. It centers about the North Pole, around which, counterclockwise, west-to-eastward races the Northern Hemisphere’s jet stream at 200 to 400 miles per hour. Eight-eight percent of the world’s people dwell in the Asia-Europe-Africa quadrangle on one side of the pole. The remaining 12 percent dwell in the Americas on the other side of the pole.
“Approximately all shortest routes between the people in North America to the 88 percent on the other side of the pole lie over the Arctic. The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on either side of North America are routes to nowhere. Shortest distances from North America to South America is over Central America and the West Indies-- not over the Atlantic or Pacific.”
-Caption to Figure 182. Synergetics chapter, Dymaxion Airocean 1967
