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[–] [email protected] 122 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

The Large Hadron Collider and the International Space Stations are amazing wonders. It used to be that humanity's most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it's machines for scientific research. Some people apparently have a problem with this, and they're generally not the sort of people I like to be around.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the Large Halibut Collider

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I'm already married but can arrange a quickie divorce if you'll just

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those are exceptions. The majority of our (visible) expensive projects today are homages to power and money

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yep. It’s 2024, and rich men are still funding projects to glorify themselves and assuage their ego.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It used to be that humanity's most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it's machines for scientific research.

I wish that were true, but the world spends far more on machines of war than we spend on science.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 months ago (10 children)

This is the headquarters of the fishery development board in Hyderabad.

It looks like a fish because they manage the fish there.

Simply incredible.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

First glance I thought someone there was crazy enough to build a home like this. Then I found out it really is a fishy workplace

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I love the Fish building!! We pass it every time on the way from the airport.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (4 children)

"This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean"

[–] ayyy 20 points 2 months ago

Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.

[–] DanVctr 12 points 2 months ago

Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

Edit: (not directed at OP)

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?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes we should. Our buildings and public places should be covered in art

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We could build more, better, more beautiful infrastructure, or we could buy more bombs and let the free market deal with that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Bigger but at what cost? So many buildings are boring, flat and lifeless e.g.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Unironically yes, please build spires and arches and gargoyles on everything. I want Gothic architecture everywhere please.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marvels like the Saturn V or JWST should be mentioned here, too.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

...I mean...I wouldn't mind it if we did.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When did humans stop building mega-churches?

You’re not going to believe this, but…

View of the stage from the far end of the sanctuary of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas - built inside a former basketball stadium.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Every giant stadium is about the same.

A monument to the arrogance of some developer (et al), who then bilk the state/city for the cost.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Vegas orb thing probably qualifies as a wonder.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean The Ball or The Globe?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to google I mean the Sphere, apparently?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RIch people used to comission great works, but today it seems like they have abandoned that one duty they have.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Something seems fishy here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, Sagrada Família im Barcelona is still under construction

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

That is National Fisheries Development Board in Hyderabad, India.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

If anything it's become so commonplace that nobody really cares that much anymore. "Oh look, a cool building. Anyway..."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

In late game, Wonders are for culture and not science victories. We need to put more into one and get the other, as Canada just stole Einstein from me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/largest-hindu-temple-asia-opens-new-jersey-built-12500-volunteers-rcna119085

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

More proof. It's called the "Bullring", but i always thought it looked like a sperm whale.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I realize it's a joke but answering to the first tweet - one could simply post a picture of the Sagrada Familia which is super impressive if you've seen it live and it's still under construction today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The simple truth is that you have to justify the cost. Art is expensive and generates no quantifiable income. Capitalism is poison.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

butt actually

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You take your date to your apartment and they go "wait you live in a giant fish?"

It's either a massive win or catastrophic loss

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Forgot what it's called

Penis. It's called a penis

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I’m seeing Eric cartman saying “I live in a hotdog.”

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