[Joe Johnson]

I remember looking up and seeing that roof structure for the first time from inside the dome. I was moved.

So clever. How is the magic accomplished? The more you look at the more clever it gets.

Here is my best explanation of the trick:

1. Build a Big Outer Hoop
2. Suspend a Slightly Smaller, Slightly Lower Hoop on cables from BOH
3. Put columns on SSSLH with the tops of the columns higher than BOH,
4. Stablize columns with cables to back to BOH,
5. Use tops of columns to repeat process recursivley.
6. Ring after ring, you eventually reach that high center ridge line of poles over the midline of the field.

SO SO SO CLEVER.

I admit I was sad seeing the roof during the Falcons-Packers game, knowing its days are numbered.

The world will be a little less good when that dome roof structure ceases to exist.

Dr. Joe J.