Russian domed city would hold 100,000 people (via Xenophilia (True Strange Stuff))

This would be wonderful to live someplace like this! All that greenery.

A Russian company has unveiled plans to build a gigantic domed city in an abandoned diamond mine in Siberia. The city, named Eco-city 2020, would be constructed inside the Mir diamond mine, the second largest excavated hole on the planet. It’s a quarter-mile wide at the top and over 1,700 feet deep, which is so big that air flowing into the hole can actually suck helicopters out of the sky. If the project gets going, the mine would be completely … Read More

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