The Houston Dome Project Update...{PIC & VIDEO}

Are they serious??

Diane, I had never heard of this crazy dome over the city, but yes, they are serious!

Those who have read Stephen King's "Under the Dome" will understand that this is somewhat scary. In urban areas, we depend on wind to carry our fossil fuel burning gases away into the larger atmosphere where they will become less toxic by virtue of becoming less concentrated.

I have not read "Under the Dome." So do enlighten me as to why it is scary. I think it is scary, in and of itself, but why do you interpret it as scary?

In this most recent Stephen King Novel, aliens in search of fun install an impenetrable force field around a small town in Maine. The people in the town have trouble coming to terms with this odd occurence, predictably. One guy on the City Council sort of takes over the town because he thinks it needs a "strong hand" in the emergency. Unfortunately, his fascist tendencies and opposition to rational science tend to make things worse.

The disturbing thing is that the air inside the dome gradually started to smell nasty. After a while, there is an accidental fire that burns up a number of trees and wooden buildings, and then the air becomes really bad, life threatening bad. An implied concept here is that humans actually do depend on natural systems for our survival- and implied in this implication is that climate change might just be REAL and worth some thought and action.

Stephen King writes in the genres of horror and science fiction. It should be recalled that science fiction as a genre is intended to inform readers about science, as well as involve them in futuristic speculation and the exploration of moral issues that accompany science. While "Under the Dome" is primarily a work of horror, as well as an effort to explore social and political commentaries about what is wrong with the current state of things in the USA, it is also to a lesser extent a work of science fiction that gives a discerning reader a glimpse of REAL dangers to the human race that may be more compelling than the fictional dangers of tampering by mischievous aliens. The really scary stuff is the tampering with nature done by humans.

Wow! Awesome....thanks for that detailed explanation! It sure gives me food for thought. I knew it was freaky, but the details you brought up never occurred to me. I hope they don't build the dome around the city. I understand that there are weather issues, but move out of Houston, then if a person doesn't like it. It can't be that bad or it wouldn't be the 4th most populated city. Obviously, people love Houston or they wouldn't live there, right?

doing the heating and cooling of such a bubble would seem amazingly challenging. It's an enormous greenhouse. How to prevent it from becoming impossibly hot inside?

Bella.....what is the cost of this project going to cost the people of Texas?

I could only find this answer, Bill, "No figures have been provided whether what would be the overall cost of this dream-project so far but apparently; it appears to be a project worth millions of trillions of dollars," this was according to http://news.about-knowledge.com/houston-dome-project/. No where else can I find a cost. I don't think they want us to know :)