Categories: cool stuff

Futuristic Dome Habitats Today

If you’ve gone up I-35 between Austin and Dallas, you’ve probably seen the giant concrete dome caterpillar at the same exit that has the concrete dome starship-shaped gift shop.

I looked it up. It’s a group called Monolithic that makes buildings by schmearing concrete over giant balloons.

As you might imagine, their website claims that their particular method of construction not only makes boob-shaped buildings, but solves all of our problems with the environment. One of their products is a “grow-dome.” They allege that there is nothing quite as efficient and good for the earth as growing crops with a layer of concrete between the plants and the sun. Normally indoor crops are only efficient at keeping the cops from noticing.

M. Bey

Share
Published by
M. Bey

Recent Posts

Green Mustang Grape Pie

Since I sometimes get requests for this pie recipe, I thought I would publish it…

2 years ago

Walter E. Long and the Highland Lakes

A while ago, a friend of mine living in California sent me an article from…

3 years ago

Salsa Verde Cremosa Recipe: Or how to Make That Creamy Green Sauce

I am currently in a project with my colleague Kim Hill, writing a book about…

3 years ago

How to Rotate a Raspberry Pi HDMI Touchscreen to Portrait Mode

I'm working on a project to create a writing device optimized for writing fiction. I…

4 years ago

How to Find Purple Martin Roosts Using Government Radar

For more than ten years now I've been going to see the purple martins. Every…

4 years ago

Central Texas Hunting Season Calendar 2018-19

An Unofficial Public Google Calendar for Texas Hunters If you're like me, sometime during mid…

6 years ago