[TML] Environmental domes

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 5 Sep 2007 at 4:15, traveller at dhimaging.com.au wrote:

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> [mailto:tml-bounces at travellercentral.com] On Behalf Of Evyn MacDude
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> <snip of cool stuff>
> >  cover an area the size of a... what's the American equivalent of a  
> > shire?
> 
> There isn't one.
> 
> ===================================
> [joel]
> I think they have shires in Louisiana - and I think they are politically the
> same as counties.

No, in Louisiana, it's parishes. And in Alaska it's buroughs (and the 
areas outside buroughs are divided into "census areas")

> Honor Harrington's 'Verse has a planet that is poison to the inhabitants and
> she makes a company called "Sky Domes" (I think) with off-world tech but
> built locally with local people.  She gets really, really rich.  One of the
> books details some of the construction techniques, because someone is
> sabotaging the effort...

Yep, Grayson Sky Domes, Ltd. "Field of Dishonor", chapter 18. 

It's *so* handy having the ebooks... :-)
--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com