[TML] Environmental Domes

[Mark Urbin]

On 9/5/07, Glenn M. Goffin <gmgoffin at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > From: Hans Henrik Rancke-Madsen <rancke at diku.dk>
> > An old problem of mine has cropped up again. The TU is littered
> > with crummy worlds that nevertheless have sizable populations.
> > Some of them I put into sealed caves, some of them I put into
> > arcologies, but some of them I like to put under environmental
> > domes, preferrably domes that are large enough to have
> > agricultural fields and sculptured landscapes -- maybe
> > even national parks -- beneath them. I'd like them to be a mile
> > high and cover an area the size of a... what's the American
> > equivalent of a shire?
> I think "county" is about right, but on the East Coast, it may be
> "township".


County is the term here on the East Coast.
It is a fairly important level of government in New York state, and much
less so here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

One of our counties is larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Which, truth be told, is not that impressive...

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