On May 20, 1976, during structural renovations, a fire burned away the Montreal's Biosphère transparent acrylic dome.

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image showing On May 20, 1976, during structural renovations, a fire burned away the Montreal's Biosphère transparent acrylic dome.

miraculous- on May 26th, 2020 at 00:39 UTC »

And in a stunning display of Quebecois resourcefulness, they just painted the skeleton of the dome white and said "fuck it, it's fixed"

Smoothvirus on May 26th, 2020 at 01:21 UTC »

After the fair was shut down they used it in that post-apocalyptic episode of Battlestar Galactica. (The 1978 one)