RE: Transparent things

At 12:53 PM 1/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
>
>***
>I intend to make an asteroid settlement in a similar fashion.	I've
been
>saving domes from gumball containers for years now....  Ideally, I'd
like
>to terrain the interior of the dome; at this scale it would be very
easy to
>create a fields, a small forest, maybe even a small lake.
>
>In an ideal world, one where I knew what I was doing, I'd include a
grain
>of wheat bulb at the top of the dome to act as an artificial sun -- the
>body of the asteroid could certainly fit a battery, and the result
would
>look (I think) Pretty Damn Good.
>***
>
>Just when I'm convinced I'm the craziest mo-fo on the planet... ;->=

Oh, I have many grand ideas that will never actually happen.  A year or
so
ago, I was babbling about an idea for a space station that would hover
above the table, suspended by magnetic repulsion....  I still think that
I
could get it to work, but I don't know if American Science and Surplus
is
still selling the bits that I would have used to make it.

The people I game with have infected me with this kind of nonsense.  In
the
past, we've run games with smoking volcanoes, lakes with real live fish
swimming in them, temples with flickeing lights built into them to
simulate
flame....

Crazy people.  We should all be thankful that I don't have the skills to
actually realize my insane visions.

John X Crimmins
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