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  • TVP Research Center Venus, Florida

  • We came here in the early 80's,

  • and this land was a flat tomato field. There was no water.

  • There were no palm trees. We planted hundreds of palm trees,

  • and we made a little paradise here.

  • We put up new buildings,

  • waterways,

  • lakes,

  • flowers,

  • fruit, vegetables,

  • growing on the land.

  • We laid out this land to show what the outskirts of Jacque's cities may look like.

  • We have a wide variety of animal life.

  • We have alligators,

  • deer,

  • otters,

  • raccoon.

  • We have owls and many different birds.

  • This is a migratory path for birds.

  • And we have these dome structures.

  • One of the students: "I don't know if I want to live in a dome."

  • You're always in a dome! Your brain is in a dome now.

  • It's the most efficient shape that evolution has evolved.

  • A dome is strong.

  • In a hurricane you loose no shingles.

  • It is fireproof, you have no termite sprays.

  • Termites break their jaws chewing on a concrete dome.

  • So, you don't have all the problems that you have-...

  • Look, the environmentalists say

  • "Stop cutting down the forest,"

  • but ninety percent of them live in wooden houses!

  • So, if you stop cutting down the forest,

  • let the forest be, and use concrete-

  • Look at the Sahara desert:

  • all the sand and silica you can use!

  • We've got enough building material without touching nature.

  • We can do all that, and we can do it fast.

  • In our time.

TVP Research Center Venus, Florida

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