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== Real Life ==
* In 1979-80 the town planners of Winooski, Vermont [https://web.archive.org/web/20090906073503/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912572,00.html seriously] [http://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0415/041538.html proposed] building a dome over 850 acres of the downtown (the whole town is 1 square mile in area). Years later, the long-forgotten proposal showed up, ''[[Critical Research Failure|described as having been built]]'', in a Chinese [[Middle School]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730054909/http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/Winooski.pdf textbook].
* [[wikipedia:Buckminster Fuller|Buckminster Fuller]] famously advocated that large areas, including cities, should be enclosed in the geodesic "Fuller" domes with which his name is always associated, although he did not in fact invent them. He pointed out that the hot air rising from a typical city would be sufficient to support the dome like an inflated balloon.
* Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th century [[Deadpan Snarker]] economist, in his satirical "Candlemakers Petition", suggested that the government should build domes around cities, to protect candlemakers (and industries that are involved in candlemaking) from "harmful" competition from the Sun. This was a [[Take That]] against protectionists who argued that importation of foreign goods ought to be restricted.
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