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Build a giant, retractable glass dome over cities

  • 22-02-2020 5:46pm
    #1
    The_Brood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭


    And suddenly Ireland becomes one of the best countries in the world. Really doesnt have to be crazy expensive by any stretch of the imagination. And its nothing crazier than hundreds of giant 100+ floor earthquake proof skyscrapers, or underground train systems that cover multiple cities etc etc. Some countries have those, Ireland probably never will. But city-sized domes that offer protection from the endless rain and wind as they are needed can imrpove standards of life and business profits by an incredible amount.


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  • #2
    Hooter23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    lol its the only hope we have at this stage...even climate change wont change our miserable weather:rolleyes:


  • #3
    corsav6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭corsav6


    Isn't Boris building us a nice little bridge so that we can just hop in the car when the weather is bad and bask in England's superior climate.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What if someone gets a shower and leaves their window open. Would they steam up the glass?

    Would we be on here complaining about politicians giving the handy glass cleaning contracts to their mates? What if billy-no-mates climbs it and sprays 'up d ra' on it? Now that theres no rain would there be pop-up businesses selling ton bags of water, along with their topsoil and sand to water your garden with?


  • #5
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,349 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Simpsons did it

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628665/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #6
    Chris_5339762
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭Chris_5339762


    How will the planes land


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  • #7
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,719 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Its just taken us 3 years to put one extra lane on a 14km stretch of the M7 - I will pass


  • #8
    Hooter23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭Hooter23


    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    Simpsons did it

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628665/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv


    UnripeHomelyBergerpicard-size_restricted.gif


  • #9
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    As Pat Shortt used to say 'shure it would be a great wee country, if we could only roof it'


  • #10
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,477 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    the purple tin wrote: »
    As Pat Shortt used to say 'shure it would be a great wee country, if we could only roof it'

    As does a really annoying ad for Centreparks with a kid that has the most annoyingly unusual accent and pronunciation.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    corsav6 wrote: »
    Isn't Boris building us a nice little bridge so that we can just hop in the car when the weather is bad and bask in England's superior climate.

    No, he’s building one from Northern Ireland to
    Scotland.
    (Well, he’s building feck all in reality).


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  • #12
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Chris_5339762 wrote: »
    How will the planes land

    Shure we could put a sliding window in it. I know a guy.


  • #13
    Danno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    Would it not be cheaper to build an artificial island off the Kerry coast and put a HAARP station on it to zap the jet stream moving the low pressure centres in another direction. We could dictate our seasons by sending low pressure centres across the Celtic Sea during winter bringing us endless easterlies of snow, and in the summer divert them on up towards Iceland drawing up endless Spanish plumes. All our sanity would be saved from trying to read the 384hrs GFS outputs and call a pattern. Somebody call the Healy-Raes, I bet they'd run with it.


  • #14
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,823 ✭✭✭Allinall


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    As does a really annoying ad for Centreparks with a kid that has the most annoyingly unusual accent and pronunciation.

    That's right Dad, in Looongford.


  • #15
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Presumably in short order it would be coated in pollution on the inside (like the exterior of Hawkins House), and bird poop on the outside (like Calatrava's 'city of arts and sciences' in Valencia).


  • #16
    Irish Steve
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,522 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    In short order, no one would care, we'd all be dead from the pollution from the chape daysul cars that everyone would insist on keeping.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • #17
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,752 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Under the Dome.

    The obsession about living in a dome, imagine it would like living in a glasshouse, fine for winter, but summer would be hell...doubt it would be retractable.


  • #18
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Under the Dome.

    The obsession about living in a dome, imagine it would like living in a glasshouse, fine for winter, but summer would be hell...doubt it would be retractable.

    Great minds think alike!


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    MonkieSocks wrote: »
    Simpsons did it

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628665/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

    Stephen King did it about 16 years before the Simpson's made their debut.


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