Sunday, February 14, 2010

Olympics II

...Do you have any idea how weird it is to turn on the TV and see a long shot with a "LIVE" bug, showing what appears to be the exact same dome demolished here in Indy in 2008?

Oh, noes! There are more pups from the same litter:
RCA Dome
BC Place
The Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (H'mm, structure supported by nothin' but a whole lotta air, named after a politician? Wowza, who'd'a thunk it, evar?)
Pontiac Silverdome
Carrier Dome (that pup may have a different Papa: the vertical sides look striped!)

The RCA Dome was the youngest of the lot and the first to go. Perhaps we didn't feed it properly?
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7 comments:

  1. Mr.WolfFebruary 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM

    The antipodean version. Burswood dome, here in Perth. Lots of odd lice on this pup, though. When I saw Simon and Garfunkel there last year, it was INFESTED with silver-topped bipeds in too-tight blue jeans and black leather jackets with straining zips.

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  2. The Big GuyFebruary 14, 2010 at 12:15 PM

    Yeah- every 3 years HKS Inc digs out the same old set of Autocad 9 .dwg files and submits them to whatever municipality that wishes to pound money down a ($#@&*ing BIG) hole in the ground and builds yet another one of these horrors...

    Tragic, really.

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  3. DrangFebruary 14, 2010 at 12:30 PM

    I believe the Pontiac Debtdome was the first...

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  4. Roberta XFebruary 14, 2010 at 1:02 PM

    Yes and no -- not counting (smaller) radomes and tennis courts, the very first was puffed up for the U.S. exhibition hall at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. More info here.

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  5. Old GrouchFebruary 14, 2010 at 5:26 PM

    The RCA Dome was the youngest of the lot and the first to go. Perhaps we didn't feed it properly?

    That's OK, we're still paying for it :-P


    TW: syconarc - guy leading that "dynamic entry" raid.

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  6. KevinFebruary 14, 2010 at 7:03 PM

    It is strange to be channel surfing and all of a sudden see ladies in spandex shooting rifles and ski away.
    on NBC broadcast even. Women, guns and no fake gore or explosions? WTF up wit dat?
    What if the children had stumbled onto that and saw a rifle used in a sporting event?

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  7. hpcc19February 15, 2010 at 7:42 PM

    The Geiger Berger air supported cabled structures are by far the cheapest, safest way to enclose large spaces. Perhaps that is why they were "obsoleted"

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1125152/index.htm

    I really liked the ones I visited.

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