A glass stadium for the Vikings
Because the Metrodome roof hasn't collapsed enough, the new Vikings stadium will have a glass roof.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9272021/minnesota-vikings-unveil-glass-centric-design-new-stadium
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From what I know of the Viking's boating history. 
As Tom Fisher, the dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota noted on Monday, the new stadium may have the largest transparent doors and roof in the world. It also seems to have another potentially dangerous feature for birds — glass on both ends of the building, offering the illusion that they can fly all the way through it.
Mark Martell, director of bird conservation with the Minnesota chapter of the Audubon Society, says the design certainly got his organization’s attention. “It’s an amazing structure,” he said. And it may pose a problem:
“We’ve been aware of the issue of bird collisions in urban areas for a number of years. In fact, we’re leading an effort to monitor that very thing in both downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul and to work with building owners and architects to find ways to reduce that. In the context that there’s a large structure going up near the Mississippi River, we are always looking for ways in which we could reduce the impact that would have on birds.”
More: http://blogs.mprnews.org/stadium-watch/2013/05/17/birders-worry-about-glassy-new-vikings-stadium-design/
Caption: Nashville Warbler after window strike in downtown St. Paul
People drop dead from pollution all the time too. People die in wars all the time too. Women are sexually assaulted all the time. Nothing crappy about any of that, right? Why bother with any efforts to reduce any of that, since it happens all the time?
What the concern is that besides having so much glass area for its volume is that, as I bolded in #13: It also seems to have another potentially dangerous feature for birds — glass on both ends of the building, offering the illusion that they can fly all the way through it.
In other words, and reading the rest of the article, it is likely to kill a lot more birds than any similarly sized building, even ones with a lot of glass windows -- most of those buildings are not "see right through"
[font color ="red", size = 4]THAT IS CRAP[/font] 
Nice Transparency Page.
