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#1 ·
Under The Dome starts on Monday, 6/24/13 on CBS.

Can't wait. The book was great.
 
#253 ·
James Long said:
I wish I still had the episode on the DVR to help confirm that ... the dirt portion was also a dome shape. It looked like a dark bowl with a clear bowl set on top of it ... the dirt bottom bowl level with the bottom bowl.

We know the big dome extends deep under the earth ... deep enough that the tunnels do not go under it. The big dome could be a glass dome with vertical sides under the ground level ... but for how far down? If it has vertical sides forever it would come out the other side of the planet. If there was a limit on how deep the dome goes then one could go under it.

The mini-dome sphere gives a clue of what the large dome could do. It appears to be very close to vertical at the surface of the earth ... just like the big dome. I'm not sure the height of the dome is the radius of the dome ... but on the mini-dome it seems close.
The Dome can't mess with Moho! Nobody messes with Moho..... :)
 
#254 ·
Maruuk said:
The show isn't called in the sphere. So it has to be a dome. Except it isn't. Because a dome is only 180 degrees. And we know the "dome" goes way past 180 degrees and since it's near vertical at the surface, it has to begin curving inward below the surface. So one thing we know: the show is mis-titled. Ain't no dome.

So Jr. put her in the shelter just to protect her from the dome influence? That's pretty shaky logic. Sounds like the writers thought that up after the fact.
What indicates to you that it "has to be curving inward below the surface"?

Don't believe much of what Jr. says, if anything!
 
#255 ·
EdJ said:
Yes, but we all know that the book is a mere suggestion of how the storyline will go. Often the book only supplies the main character and location. After that, it is all different... If I have read the book I have NEVER been happy with the movie or TV program it generated.
Were you satisfied with the movie versions of Bridge on the River Kwai or The Planet of the Apes? If you happened to read the books, you might change your mind about that statement I highlighted. The same guy, Pierre Boulle, wrote both of them and they were terrible books. I think they were translated from French, that might explain why the English versions were so bad.

Rich
 
#257 ·
Laxguy said:
I think iPhones may do that. Obviously, one has to have been in a receiving location to have downloaded it.
I've been trying apps on my Galaxy 3 that record all conversations. They play back...when they work, which they don't seem to. I keep trying them tho.

Rich
 
#258 ·
jdskycaster said:
I am all for fictional shows like this but when it is set in what appears to be present day small town America on planet earth I expect at least a rough attempt to respect science. Not just when it suits the plot like a gunshot ricochet off the dome to kill someone. I love sci-fi but for a show like this where Spielberg is involved I expect just a bit more. Was ET real? No, but when something outrageous happened, like a bunch of kids bikes suddenly flying through the air at least it was easily explained away by the fact that ET was an alien. So far no aliens have been involved nor inferred as being involved in the presence of the dome. If so, establish that plausibility early so the viewer can chalk all the crazy sh!t up to strange alien forces.

Is that really too much to ask?
There used to be a dividing line between science fiction and science fantasy, but that line has become terribly blurred and it seems as if anything goes now.

Rich
 
#265 ·
Maruuk said:
The show isn't called in the sphere. So it has to be a dome. Except it isn't. Because a dome is only 180 degrees. And we know the "dome" goes way past 180 degrees and since it's near vertical at the surface, it has to begin curving inward below the surface. So one thing we know: the show is mis-titled. Ain't no dome.
That's silly. There are many examples of domes resting on top of another non-domed structure. Think capitol buildings and sports stadiums.
 
#268 ·
What is underground and how far it goes just helps understand the environment and escape routes.
 
#269 ·
Love it, hate it, watch it, don't watch it, pick apart the continuity and the logic if you like. I think the number of views and posts indicates that the show has caught our fancy. That can hardly be in dispute. Ratings are still strong, too.
 
#270 ·
The mini-dome appears to be a sphere. No reason it would not be a direct analog of the big dome. Thus given a vertical surface at ground level, the walls must curve under you below that level. If it was, say, an inverted test-tube shape with straight walls continuing straight down, the mini-dome would look like an old stock ticker glass...

 
#271 ·
The script has been pretty fuzzy about this: Did Jr. actually kidnap Angie underground to protect her from the dome effects, or not? Or was this about some psychic connection he felt they had to have relative to the dome? The script makes some veiled allusions to both but it's been left very confusing. And it's important because it affects whether Jr. is an evil psycho or a surprise good guy. Well, as good as a twisto like him can be.
 
#275 ·
Maruuk said:
The mini-dome appears to be a sphere. No reason it would not be a direct analog of the big dome. Thus given a vertical surface at ground level, the walls must curve under you below that level. If it was, say, an inverted test-tube shape with straight walls continuing straight down, the mini-dome would look like an old stock ticker glass...
Why "must" the walls curve underground? Only if the mini is in fact a miniature of the big one....
 
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