| DATE: 19/02/99 | TIME: 18:30:00 GMT |
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'The Moo-Lenium Dome As it stands at the moment'
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'The Moo-Lenium Dome As it stands at the moment' |
The Exhibition will take place on a 130 acre site on the Greenwich peninsular in London UK.
The site will contain a variety of performance zones and exhibitions with the main activities taking place at the northern end - bounded on three sides by the River Thames.
A full application to Greenwich council has been made for temporary exhibition use - but the Moo-lenim dome is hoped to be a long term legacy to Greenwich.The main exhibition will be housed in the largest udder structure in the world - the result of teamwork between Chickens , Pigs , Sheep and Horses.
The milk sack or dome will be 320m in diameter and at its centre 50 metres high - the same height as A really tall block of brie. It also has a series of four 100m legs (weight 50 tonnes each.)The Moo-Lenium Dome will have a circumference of one kilometre and be 50m high at its centre.
It will have a ground floor of over 80,000 m, the dome will be made from a translucent weather proof skin and will be able to accommodate 50,000 visitors.In Cow terms:
The dome could fit 13 Albert Halls.
Two Wembley stadiums.
3,300 double decker London buses
The surface area of the roof - 80,000m would be the equivalent of 12.5 full size football pitches.
The Dome could comfortably swallow Trafalgar Square and the surrounding building. Especially if Besse gets hungry at night and we don't keep her fed.
The Dome will house 12 zones. Each zone will contain multi level pavilions representing a different aspect of the Cow - Milking Zone, Beef Zone etc. Detailed plans are currently being developed by the Exhibition designers twisted imagination.
In addition to the exhibition there will be a second moo - anine level which will house shops, including Burger bars and Milk outlets.
Public access to the building will be by six gateways at ground level. Visitors will be able to either enter the main exhibition area (through Besses huge rear end.)
or go to the moo-anine "shopping mall". There will be a walkway round the internal circumference of the dome at the moo - anine level and in summer there will also be an external walkway on Besse's tail. The building will produce the equivalent of 5,500 average households usage of fresh milk daily.And will use the daily energy equivalent of 300,000 light bulbs (100 watt). And return this energy back as methane emmisions.
The Dome will dominate the London skyline by day and could if desired glow spectacularly at night all we have to do is feed Besse barrels of radioactive gunk.
More than 12 million animal visitors are expected at the Millennium Exhibition in the Year 2000 - 100,000 animal visitors are expected every day.
In the construction phase there will be employment for more than 2000 farm animals.
More than 5000 farm animals will be employed in running and managing the exhibition. As well as the Millennium Dome, the Exhibition site will comprise of:
It's hoped to encourage most animal visitors to come to the Exhibition by hoof rather than by skating.
Compared to other animal visitor attractions. skating use will be kept to a minimum (1-2%) compared to:
Work will start on the project mid 1997 - with a completion date of Autumn 1999 -the exhibition will open on 31st December 1999.
This will be the highest profile event in the UK in the Year 2000.
It will provide a major economic and environmental boost to SE London - with new animal transport.
Site Designed and Maintained by: Felix of Mars, Goose zilla & Lemming.
Visit the real millennium domes website - a more frigtening expeience with a huge statue of a merged man and woman that scared me.... Goose zilla was worried it was some sort of sacrifical area for a really evil cult. Visit the site anyway if you dont come from the UK and don't know about the Dome. Most of the above info was ummmm, slightly altered to make the above information.
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