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Bio-Dome is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Jason Bloom. It was produced by Motion Picture Corporation of America on a budget of $8.5 million and was distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures .
Canada Lynx at Montreal Biodome.. The Montreal Biodome (French: Biodôme de Montréal) is a museum of enclosed ecosystems located at Olympic Park in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas.
Biodome may refer to: . a closed ecological system; Bio-Dome, a 1996 movie starring Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin and directed by Jason Bloom.; the Montreal Biodome, a facility located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas.
Biosphere 2, with upgraded solar panels in foreground, sits on a sprawling 40-acre (16-hectare) science campus that is open to the public. The Biosphere 2 project was launched in 1984 by businessman and billionaire philanthropist Ed Bass and systems ecologist John P. Allen, with Bass providing US$150 million in funding until 1991. [7]
The architectural engineer of the geodesic dome was Buckminster Fuller. [38] The building originally formed an enclosed structure of steel and acrylic cells, 76 metres (249 ft) in diameter and 62 metres (203 ft) high. It is a double-layer dome in which the inner and outer layers are connected by a latticework of struts.
The first geodesic dome was designed after World War I by Walther Bauersfeld, [1] chief engineer of Carl Zeiss Jena, an optical company, for a planetarium to house his planetarium projector. An initial, small dome was patented and constructed by the firm of Dykerhoff and Wydmann on the roof of the Carl Zeiss Werke in Jena, Germany. A larger ...
Artificial tree and bridge (right) Tree and artificial waterfall (right) The Green Planet is an indoor zoo and garden in the City Walk area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [1] [2] It has over 3,000 plants and animals in its artificial "bio-dome" tropical rainforest including birds, reptiles, and fish.
The Gol Gumbaz, or Round Dome, is one of the largest masonry domes in the world. It has an internal diameter of 41.15 meters and a height of 54.25 meters. [200] The dome was the most technically advanced built in the Deccan. [201] The last major Islamic tomb built in India was the tomb of Safdar Jang (1753–54). The central dome is reportedly ...