“This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”
Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.
Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
Single piece of glass that runs on electric pulses which travel trough a neatly arranged mineral structure.
More like light pulses travelling through an amorphous silicon dioxide mineral structure, but apart from that you’re entirely right.
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Bro have you seen the size of the bridges, stadiums and skyscrapers we build? Fuck it, have you seen the LHC?
Should we start adding spires and arches to hospitals and train stations to get support from the RETVRN crowd?
Seriously, we started building things so massive that you literally can’t see all of it at the same time unless you’re in the air, riding in a magical skychair.
That’s cool and all, but not sure if that counts as a thing we built as much as a thing we drew.
Exactly, yes! The LHC is so much more (larger isn’t the right word, maybe massive?). If it was on the surface instead of being buried, and the earth was perfectly spherical, you wouldn’t be able to see it standing in the middle of it, because the ring would be on the other side of the horizon all around you.
…I mean…I wouldn’t mind it if we did.
Unironically yes, please build spires and arches and gargoyles on everything. I want Gothic architecture everywhere please.
train stations
Have you seen the metro stations in Moscow?
Every day in my dreams.
The duomo took 600 years to be mostly complete and still has work being done though mostly restoration and maintenance. It has a marble quarry dedicated solely to it. Absolutely magnificent building, I did all the tours a few months ago, loved it.
That is why we don’t build buildings like it anymore, insanely expensive and time consuming. Plus our current rich people would rather rape kids on their massive yachts and private island than commission beauty to be admired by wider society like the wealthy of old.
Yeah, but what about the Taj mahal?
Was built 400 years ago, I wouldn’t consider it modern. Also not nearly as intricate as il duomo in decoration and masonry
Pff
When did humans stop building mega-churches?
You’re not going to believe this, but…
The Vegas orb thing probably qualifies as a wonder.
Idk if this is truly a wonder, but when I heard about it earlier this year I was stunned by how magnificent it looked. NJ opened the largest Hindu temple outside of Asia last fall. It looks crazy.
Also pretty sure theres a church in Spain that is still being built that was started in the 1500s or some shit and is in the exact same style of gothic architecture as shown above.
The Sagrada Familia, yeah. It’s… pretty big, they’re hoping to finish it in the 2030s. (Construction started in the 1800s though, maybe there’s an even older one idk about?)
Could be one of another one that has been completed but im getting some variable mixed up or where I read about it was woefully out of date.
There’s a shockingly large, beautiful one in my hometown of Pearland, Texas - the Sri Meenakshi Temple.
It was only the third Hindu temple built in America, and, at least when it was built, it was the only Meenakshi temple outside of India. It’s still a venue for high-profile Hindu weddings.
When it was built, Pearland was a mostly-rural community with a population of about 10,000 (2020 census is around 120,000), and they built this phenomenal temple in the middle of nowhere on McLean road.
If anything it’s become so commonplace that nobody really cares that much anymore. “Oh look, a cool building. Anyway…”
There’s also this.
If I was a rich person, I’d build a pyramid out of concrete in a more modern style, with the peak being made out of glass for maximum view, as a home.
I’d put a saltwater lake in the center surrounding a 100’ tall Cypress tree.
we didnt
I heard there’s a mall in Iceland that from above looks like a man’s wiggly jiggly bit. Forgot what it’s called but it’s still kinda funny.
That’s the exact picture and name I’m looking for. Thank you.
You can say “penis” on the internet.
I can say penis. Fine, the mall looks like a penis.
I’m seeing Eric cartman saying “I live in a hotdog.”
I definitely like the fish way better than that stupid church.
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