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Mega engineers propose dome over entire city of Houston, Texas

Posted by Craig Kanalley on 6/08/09 • Categorized as Environment, North America, Science

Per Huliq News, a team of mega engineers have proposed a giant bubble to shield the weather-battered city of Houston and protect its environment for years to come. The Houston dome could protect the fourth most populous city in the United States from severe storms that it is susceptible to, including hurricanes and tornadoes.

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The article was based on a Discovery Channel special on the prospect. This screenshot of the proposed “Houston Dome” was taken from the Discovery Channel Web site, where users can explore the dome’s various features.

Twitterers in Houston were intrigued by the idea and offered a wide range of opinions:

  1. Gabriel Rego
    NASA_GCR (Houston, Texas) In discovery putting downtown houston under a dome… LOL lord WTF are they talking about! 09 Jun 2009 from Tweetie
  2. Jimmy Newland
    jimmynewland (Houston, Texas) Show on Discovery suggests building a geodesic dome over Houston as storm defense. 09 Jun 2009 from txt
  3. Alexander James
    alexjamesmusic (Houston, Texas) Watching a program on Discovery called Mega Engineering and they’re talking about Houston constructing a DOME OVER THE ENTIRE CITY!? 09 Jun 2009 from TwitterBerry
  4. Louisa Renfrew-Hill
    LouisaRH (Houston, Texas) Channel clicking-Discovery’s “Mega Engineering” episode is “Dome over Houston” to protect & A/C H-town. Um, it’s called The Simpsons Movie. 09 Jun 2009 from txt
  5. Garret Fitzpatrick
    gfitz (Houston, Texas) Cool! Watching Discovery channel show “Mega Engineering” about a concept of putting a huge dome over the entire city of Houston. 09 Jun 2009 from txt
  6. Jason Seats
    seats (Houston, Texas) Build a giant geodesic dome around Houston? http://twurl.nl/oxdfp7 Why travel when you can have all the comforts of space living in Texas? 09 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck

Others around the country expressed skepticism and disbelief that the idea is actually being considered.

  1. Chris Cox
    Chris_Cox (Greenville, S.C.) Watched a show about a dome being built over the entire city of Houston for hurricane protection. Really? 09 Jun 2009 from web
  2. Jah Rawlings
    jahtheceo (Atlanta, Ga.) They are trying to build a dome over the entire downtown houston this shit is crazy….. 09 Jun 2009 from web
  3. Shaun King
    shaunking (Atlanta, Ga.) Watching a documentary on a dome being built over the city of Houston and they are talking like it’s already agreed upon. True or not? 09 Jun 2009 from TwitterBerry
  4. Monica McGuire
    mrm813 (Undisclosed) was completely unaware that a dome was being built to cover Houston! Did anyone else know this? 09 Jun 2009 from mobile web
  5. Heather Barnett
    HireHeather (Fort Worth, Texas) Watching a documentary about building a dome over the city of Houston. Why does that sound like a really bad (and dangerous) idea? 09 Jun 2009 from EventBox
  6. Brent D. Payne
    BrentDPayne (Chicago, Ill.) Really? A dome over all of Houston? Houston, I think that’s a terrorist target and a half. http://tr.im/nRyH 09 Jun 2009 from TweetDeck
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  • obama
    Why Houston?
  • kyle12367
    ya you ever herd of the frickin SIMPSONS!!!!!!! AND WHAT ABOUT WATER! talk about stupid, i dont think those people have heard of a little life killing natural desaster called a frickin drout!!!!! im a fifth grader and i know thats a dumb f#$#%^ IDEA if you like dis comment pres da 1 butten if you trippen get of the computer
  • Luis
    "DOME GEOMETRY: The structure is made of hexagons stacked in a honeycomb pattern. But to make the surface curve, 12 pentagons are strategically positioned to give the surface a dome shape."
    http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/mega-engineering/ex...

    This is in itself suspicious since you don't need a pentagon to make a dome
  • northpal
    Slaves return to your barracks, we are going to save you from God's green earth.
  • harrison
    This must be one of the worst ideas I'v ever heard of.
  • HMD
    Who is going to finance this project. I got excited when I saw the show. It's a crazy idea for most of the people I have mentioned it to. It's about time that USA is going to spend money to build land marks like this. I would to be part of it if I am still alive whenit happens. It will create more jobs and yes we lots of Engineering company here in Houston....... so why not come together and build a ginormous DOME. When you start one the rest will follow...... Who knew that computer would be part of our lives. I am sure computers was a crazy idea before but look us now, we rely on computers.
  • Ncognito
    Hey, why not just float the entire city. Then just relocate it in the advent of inclement weather.
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