Mega Engineering aired a program called 'Dome over Houston.' The scientific information in this program is, of course, based on past historical design/ invention... Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome... of which, he likely got some ideas from Da Vinci.
My favorite quote from the one hour episode is by George Elworthy, Eden's Phase Five Director of the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK... "To build the Eden project, we had to build a building to build a building."
I love science. I always have. It is exciting! When an experiment worked... in Grade 11... I thought, 'How absolutely marvelous and exciting!'
Science is all about experiments... always has been... always will be. Now, scientists already know how the earth works to keep us all alive... to live another day.
In a small irony, the Eden Project was used as a filming location for the movie 'Die Another Day' starring Pierce Brosnan as 007.
And really, if we all admit it, the project is designed to see if it would actually be possible to die another day... postponing the inevitable for all mankind...
or, at least, the people inside the 'Dome over Houston.'
Now, I got a very uneasy feeling as I watched this program. Let's say, just for vanity sake, that the project could work.
Question- Who gets in and who stays out?
When that category 5 storm that is seen on the horizon... is looming over said Eden, will there be people desperately trying to get into this city and will they all be allowed in?
Somehow, it doesn't seem like a social architecture project... does it?
Question- If it takes years to build it... if there should happen to be an unforeseen problem... when that problem arises (always remembering that the problem the dome is meant to fix is the destruction left by a category 5 hurricane), so the problem may arise during the storm, ... who would be brave enough to get inside one of those handy little dirigibles, during the storm, and fly outside the dome to fix something...
Would you need the hardy survivors, who have been left out in the storm, to rescue you? Is it likely that the social behaviour of leaving them out of the safe zone will engender a let's try to save those inside the dome attitude from the unprotected group?
... or will the words 'Houston, we have a problem...' be a chilling reminder that when mankind screws things up... it's not so easy to fix...
Answer to the picture puzzle in tomorrows' blog.
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