The Destroyer 105. [antikvár]

33In the beginning, no one expected the BioBubble to burst.Certainly not the national press, which hailed it as being in the vanguard of man's exploration of space-even though it wasn't part of the space program.When the space program angle became old news, the press hailed it as the perfect tool for solving the global eco-crisis of the moment.The eco-crisis of the moment changed from moment to moment, of course. Sometimes it changed from newspaper to news outlet.On the same day, at opposite ends of the continental United States, the BioBubblea three-acre honeycomb terrarium of thermopane glass supported by white-painted steel trussworkwas simultaneously hailed as the solution to the global-warming crisis and the jumping-off point for man's eventual relocation to a less polluted planet.Thus claimed the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, respectively.After a while, the national press began seeing it differently. Even with the decline in readership and the spiraling cost of bulk newsprint eroding the page counts of most big-city dailies, the editors still had column incnes to fill.