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Grendal

http://www.blastr.com/2013-6-21/you-watch-under-dome-pay-visit-11-other-domed-cities

http://www.naturalnews.com/030998_weather_control_Abu_Dhabi.html

Imagine a climate controlled city that is the perfect temperature all year round. One for bachelor men, and one for families (tinted of course). These cities would have affordable housing for all inhabitants augmented by Saudi oil profits. Outside these cities there would be weather control technology that would slowly convert or terraform the harsh environment into a more livable and agriculturally sustainable one.

Once the land is greener and producing food and sustaining itself in its own bio-system with regular rainfalls, then the movement of the dome population can slowly migrate back out into the former desert that they came from.

I may be posting in the wrong forum but the jobs for EFL teachers would be much more enjoyable and bearable then. Sometimes it's the searing heat of the desert that gets expats weary and frustrated. I don't mind waiting outside a store for prayer to finish in reasonable weather, but 45 degree heat is just too frustrating when you misjudge prayer calls.

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DLIguy · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:06 am Post subject:

I never got the being locked out of establishments in the sweltering heat in the first place when the whole idea is the prohibition of exchange of monies during prayer times, which I can dig. That's why cash registers come equipped with locks and mutawa come equipped with eyes.

The whole purpose of being locked out in the elements is to be obnoxious...which, ironically, also seems to be the whole idea of being Saudi Arabia in the first place.

I suggest a dome being placed over the entire country. It seems that THAT would solve a whole HOST of problems that they have.

trapezius · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 12:28 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 1:53 pm Post subject:

Dear Grendal,

Another King already tried that; it didn't work out all that well:

http://www.dagospia.com/img/foto/06-2013/under-dome-images-250047.jpg

Regards,
John

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Personally I think the planners smoke too much hash... how would they afford such a system once the oil starts running out... which isn't as far away as most people think.

Too many billions have been squandered and continue to be squandered to do anything practical.

As to the claim of 50 rainstorms created in Al Ain... this was in 2011 and oddly doesn't appear to have ever been covered by any legitimate news or science site that I can find on google. (daily mail? had an article and said that it was basically pulling whatever water was in the air...) Interesting, but not sure of its sustainability.

I wonder if any Al-Ain teachers noticed it. No one I know there mentioned it.

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jaffa · Joined: 25 Oct 2012 Posts: 403

Come on! If they can cut the moon in half then stick it back together again, surely putting a dome over the place and controlling the weather is as easy as driving a car or getting out of bed in the morning ... oh, hang on ...

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

At the age of 6,while we were living in Jeddah, one of my daughters asked me why they could not have air-conditioning OUTSIDE in Saudi. From the mouths of babes..........................

johnslat · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:53 pm Post subject:

Catch-22 might also help one to anticipate the "logic" of the Kingdom. Very Happy

Regards,
John

DLIguy · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:32 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Suffering ? In the Holy Land ? Surely not !