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  1. Re:What is being sold? by borkus · · Score: 1 · on Music Downloads = Expensive Concerts?

    Artists also tour for two completely different - to get known and to make money once they have an audience.

    All of the acts in the BBC article have careers that are least two decades long. Madonna, Bowie and U2 could never release another record and still make a sizeable income from their back catalogs. So the BMW analogy is especially true - these are extremely well known artists.

    On the other hand, lesser known artists often tour while making very little money - their goal is just to get an audience and hopefully pay for the trip. A good example of this is the Magic Numbers. I saw them here in the U.S. for $15 in a club that holds about 300 people. In the U.K., they sell out large venus at more than double that price. Why? Because in the U.K., the Magic Numbers already have several top 20 hits. In the U.S., they're still only known to music afficiandos. However, by getting in front of U.S. audiences, they have a chance to break into a much larger market. And FWIW, the Magic Numbers put on a great show in that little club.

  2. Re:You mean like this? by iminplaya · · Score: 1 · on Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice?

    This might be a bit more up to date. I didn't really check into it, but it seems to be running fairly well. They're growing some exotic plants in there, so I could see where climate control might get expensive. I didn't see the numbers, but generally, domes are very efficient, so costs might be reasonable. In general, the thing looks pretty cool, and it might be making money.

  3. Re:In the UK by khakipuce · · Score: 1 · on Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World?
    Iron bridge gorge cannot be over-hyped after all it's a world heritage site. There are number of world's firsts here - the bridge is the first Iron bridge (steel had not been invented[discovered/created?]) - everything that went before was stone, brick or timber. It's also where the worlds first blast furnace was built and the Blist's hill working museum (same area) is a really good day out.

    Also agree about the Science Museum, Thames Barrier and Royal Observatory. But lest face it Britain is littered with industrial archaeology, and there is also new stuff such as The Eden Project as featured in the latest Bond movie.

    I would recomment a trip round a big ship yard - the scale of things is just mind-blowing and I once got on a trip round the Springfield nuclear reprocessing plant here in the UK. Most safety notices say "walk don't run", at Springfield they say "Run to the nearest exit"

  4. Re:Really big, and really small by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Seeking Interesting Sites When Travelling the World?

    This reminded me of "the world's largest greenhouse", in the UK.

  5. Re:Why /.? by packeteer · · Score: 1 · on Project Eden

    i agree with you...

    If you wanted to see what they have inside take their broadband friendly virtual tour. All i see is plants inside a giant dome, looks like im not going any time soon.

  6. Web site by doru · · Score: 5, Informative · on Project Eden

    Here is the Eden project page, lest we /. the wrong site...

  7. Re:biosphere problems by MathJMendl · · Score: 2 · on Science and Education in Biodomes
    Even when Biosphere was being built it didnt seem that they were even trying to build it right and that it was more of a publicity stunt instead of a real research project.
    The Biosphere 2 Center was most certainly not a failure nor a publicity stunt. True, the experiment with eight people living inside it for two years was not a complete success, but many things were learns, such as ways to avoid future problems with such an experiment. Many great inventors have had multiple failures before the final success, and a lot was learned from the project.

    Anyway, a few years ago the Biosphere 2 Center was turned over to Columbia University (see here), and now it is Columbia's western campus. It is building new housing facilities and is also a serious research facility, conducting several experiments behind the glass, such as one indicating that coral reefs are gravely threatened by carbon dioxide emissions (see here).

    It also has now more than a dozen university partnerships, and Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson (from the Clinton administration) signed an agreement there to establish "a framework for developing Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center as a national user facility for earth system science, engineering and education" (see here).

    If you ask me, the Eden Project sounds more like a tourist attraction than a serious research facility (although this sometimes goes hand in hand, as public interest can help the financial situation). I mean, does this look like much of a scientific endeavor to you?