The screens showed high-angled views of customers moving through more than two hundred thousand square feet of sales floors, wholly unaware (most of them) that the grapefruit-size mirrored domes attached to the tops of pillars and to the ceilings concealed high-resolution color cameras recording their every move.
A local ice cap, the Law Dome, is partially attached to the ice sheet and has been heavily studied by Australian glaciologists.
The crew will be restricted to the double-storey dome and an attached shipping container, except for when they don simulation space suits for occasional sorties on the volcano.
Based on Stephen King's book of the same name, CBS has given a straight-to-series 13-episode order to "Under the Dome" with Steven Spielberg attached as executive producer.
The columns of 09, 10 and two mesial columns of 11 had a rectangular shape in cross section, with a dome shaped cap attached to their buccal aspect.
To show off his systems, Mr. Yap strode across a nearby plaza flanked by apartment towers and a low-rise shopping area, pointing out tiny unobtrusive domes and tubes attached to various poles.
BP is weighing several options, he said, including lowering the dome with the pipe attached or pumping methanol into the dome, which would prevent the formation of hydrates by acting as a sort of antifreeze.
So far, the so-called appendix gap losses – thermal losses caused by the annular gap around the insulating dome, which is typically attached to pistons or displacers exposed to elevated or cryogenic temperatures – have usually not been directly included in differential models, because available estimates based on simplified analytical models only predicted a moderate magnitude of these.
Attached to the dome is a three-storey rectangular building which houses the telescope control room, computer room, kitchen etc. Almost no human presence is required inside the dome, which means the environmental conditions can be kept very stable.
