The roofer guy, who came here to give me an estimate on the Owens Corning system solution, said I'd first need to get the west side walnut tree cut back. My upbringing in the subtropics leaves me somewhat too comfortable with the advance of nature vis-a-vis these temporary human abodes. I've been thinking about Logan's Run, the later scenes, when they're out of the bubble, in the former capital.
In the meantime, I'm still thinking Asylum City as a code term for Campus, which is just as well a Base. Depending on how we want to shade things, or colorize them, we have these different lingos. The Vortex and Woodstock festivals, Oregon's Country Faire, the failed Rajneesh Puram experiment, all feed into my alchemical cauldron when I cook up visions of schooling options in eastern Oregon.
Your actual campus might be somewhere remote. You would learn to operate a windmill and solar panel powered campus, with various backup fuels, new kinds of batteries. Attaining self sufficiency to some high degree is one of the challenges, but this isn't Biosphere 2.
There's no attempt, in these experiments, to somehow dome over the entire community, even if domes do feature, as theaters and planetariums perhaps. Or as greenhouses. Gymnasiums. How were these structures delivered? Do we want to experiment with Bucky's vision, and use helicopters quite a bit? How about dirigibles? Is the campus served by blimp?
