domed

It describes a small world, completely terraformed except for a domed patch of gray sand and vacuum.

The concrete is not flat but rather slightly domed (convex).

And don't forget space - these would be domed colonies, so space would be absolutely critical.

Build arched and domed buildings out of those and bury them with lots of Martian soil.

Presumably those would be domed cities like you see in futuristic predictions from the 1960s.

The curved sides and domed base can resist pressure better than the flat top.

Returning to the 'pressure' argument, recall that most drinks cans have a domed bottom which provides comparatively greater strength than the flatter top.

But what about some other possible methods: The end of an SLR lens is domed/convex, and slightly reflective (even the best ones are slightly).

There was a company on HN a few months back that made long-range WiFi domed Tx/Rx units that could be mounted on poles, etc.

Now that we've moved through the domed natural gas, we're going after the harder to reach natural gas via fracking.

Does anyone know about the energy footprint of these glass domed buildings?

If the top was domed up it could be thinner.

Look at domed cities, jet-pack commuting, underwater cities, mile-high buildings, and nuclear-powered automobiles" That seems like a pretty terrible analogy.

And the final picture captioned "Massachusetts has high results by international standards" shows a gleaming, gated, gold-domed building [Update: turns out its the Massachusetts State House--that's a fair comparison with a rusty bus in a Mississippi field].

"If someone left you downtown and never told you where you are, you wouldn't imagine that a nuclear bomb exploded there a few decades ago." Though the remains of the "the domed Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall" tip you off that something bad happened that people don't want to forget.

Screw it, we're The Google -- we are going to build our own mini-Domed Cities.