The city of future has one advantage: its great size allows it to
contain some examples of sheer battiness. This is the Century
Globe; an all in one museum of the glories of the 20th century.
You can tell, because it says so in letters hundreds of feet high on
its equator. The bloody thing is taller than the Empire State
Building and you don't have to get out the calculator to realise that
it's volume is staggering. Inside this there were supposed to be
full-scale examples of every machine of the industrial age, including
an airship and an ocean liner! There were also plans for a
planetarium ten stories high, a "mammoth" ballroom that would have
covered a city block, theatres, lecture halls, and a distinctly
impractical observatory. It's like a combination of the Science
Museum and the Mall of America as conceived by an insane,
self-worshiping technocrat.
I wonder, if you shook it, would snow
fall inside?
