From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Newer Orleans...Waterdome...et al...Nice Job.
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:13:55 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Keith,

I just got around to reading Newer Orleans. Very nicely imagined. I couldn't
have done as well. I especially liked the idea of continuously pumping the
water from waterfalls rather than using static levees.

The notion of a water dome over the city is brilliant, and somehow conjures
up a Dr. Seusian image of the future. I'd like to add an idea stolen from
Disney, though, and have "jumping water" fountains tossing mega-ton arcs of
water all over the city. At night, you could light them with laser
shows...or indeed do whole light shows on the inside of the waterdome.

If anyone hasn't read the piece, I recommend it. It's a terrific piece of
golden age popular science futureizing. It's in the October WSFA journal.

http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j05/a/index.htm#no

Ernest Lilley

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