Why don't they do this with the dome?
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From the Revive The Dome challenge. See all 209 entries (closed)

(kiss_my_swingers, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:19, archived)

It'll never happen

( Want Bartender Time gentlemen please.., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:22, archived)

nicely leeched
unless of course you host your images at ticketmaster....

Is it Tuesday already?
( Art101 You all have an unhealthy and morbid fascination, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:23, archived)

I work there

(kiss_my_swingers, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:24, archived)

Really?
Then make them lower their outragous 'service' charges!! Fucking highway robbery.
( Art101 You all have an unhealthy and morbid fascination, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:26, archived)

Don't I know it
You think I don't get embarressed when I have to tell old ladies it's an extra £3 on a ticket to see Daniel O'Donnell?
(kiss_my_swingers, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:27, archived)

ghee?

( mr horrible put his trousers on really angrily on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:23, archived)

ghee^ghee
( Art101 You all have an unhealthy and morbid fascination, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:24, archived)

i've told you before...

( mutster101 is not the new Doctor Who, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:26, archived)

great, the yank cops have shotguns as long as your arm.
ours have flourescent water pistols
(Giggedy_Giggedy, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:28, archived)

iirc it's a tazer gun

( mutster101 is not the new Doctor Who, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:29, archived)

aka a "non-lethal" weapon
which means they now have no remorse to shoot you just to make sure you can't hurt them
( pzyko is a whaler on the moon and carries a harpoon, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:35, archived)

i used to wonder why cops didn't shoot just people in the legs more

( Agent Muu b3ta.com/board/9745928 <- b3taday festivities!, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:42, archived)

they score more points if its in the face or back
the legs are *so* eighties
(Giggedy_Giggedy, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:46, archived)

( mr horrible put his trousers on really angrily on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:29, archived)

Hahaha
I love the little books of vishnu-promotion, they are almost as fun to read as badly OCRed 1900s newspapers.
/exageration
(_Felix suspicious character from prehistoric caucasus, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:42, archived)

Is it GHEE tiem?

( davew27, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:37, archived)

it is NEVER, EVER, ghee tiem

( mutster101 is not the new Doctor Who, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:41, archived)

^ this

( Agent Muu b3ta.com/board/9745928 <- b3taday festivities!, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:43, archived)

You are entering the "Image Challenge"
with a new report and a leeched logo.
( HappyToast sorted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:25, archived)

brilliant, isn't it?

( mr horrible put his trousers on really angrily on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:25, archived)

Yeah
It's an image challenge about what they should do with the dome. This is what they are doing.
(kiss_my_swingers, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:26, archived)

It's an image challenge about "alternative" uses for the dome
not actual ones

/pointless pointing out blog
( HappyToast sorted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:30, archived)

I
don't even really care anymore.
(kiss_my_swingers, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:31, archived)

the title does saying 'revive' the dome....
which implies that turning it into a concert area would be an 'alternative' from its current use...

/pointless pedantry on pointless pointing out blog ;)

It'll never happen anyway as the steel structure around which the 'dome' is built only has a designed workable lifespan of 25 years,
but this fact kindly got overlooked once everyone got concerned about the £789million price tag
( The Great Architect, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:35, archived)

Meh!
/pointless apathy on pointless pedantry on pointless pointing out blog ;)
( Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:38, archived)

hahahaha, evening Squire!

( The Great Architect, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:38, archived)

'ning Doctor!

( Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:41, archived)

morning!

( mr horrible put his trousers on really angrily on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:38, archived)

Morning My Lover!

( Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:41, archived)

indeed
but surely this concept is already in existance and therefore isn't an alternative? ;)


Hark at you and your structural knowledge. You'll be telling me the wind loading on the upper armature hasn't been correctly calculated next.
( HappyToast sorted on, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:40, archived)

it's still an 'alternative' from it's current use, lots of 'alternatives' or concepts could be rattled off as being 'previosuly presented'...
gah! Evening Squire!

hahaha, structural knowledge to a point, but it was a small fact presented in the initial package which quickly got covered up when there was the slightest hint that the public money that was being spent on it was wholly outrageous and would go higher than the initial budget..

As an example, to build a typical, traditional 3 bed house, you can do that (once land has been acquired) for well under £90k This house can be designed to have a lifespan approaching 75-80 years minimum...

1 Millennium Dome, stuctural steelwork designed for a 25 year lifespan, £789million...

That's 8767 houses that could have been built for families, or indeed, a good few hospitals/schools etc which would have been designed for longer term use...

*gets my goat blog*

roll on the 2012 olympics!
( The Great Architect, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:45, archived)

Primary School c.£4m
Secondary School c.£25m
Hospital - £sky's the limit

/QS (working on schools projects)
( Cheeky Boy! loves horses..., Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:50, archived)

scandalous really
*shrugs*
( The Great Architect, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:57, archived)

I heard
that the wind loading on the upper armature hasn't been correctly calculated.
( kinks This is not an ah situation, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:46, archived)

I heard that one of the cross beams has gone out askew on the treddle

( The Great Architect, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:47, archived)

i think it's got beautiful legs.

( god save the queen hardly ever original, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 19:59, archived)

?
because its far too sensible to do something that people actually want.
(suboftheday, Sat 3 Feb 2007, 20:14, archived)