[TML] Environmental domes

[Anthony Jackson]

shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:

> That's one of the designs that doesn't scale up well. Internal and 
> external pressures change with altitude. As soon as you get city 
> sized or so, you've got significantly skewed stresses.

Predictable stresses, however, and if the reason you're using a dome is 
because of a vacuum, trace, or very thin atmosphere, you're going to be 
pressurized anyway, so you might as well take advantage of it.