The Picard ManeuverModern wonders exist
TheAlbatrossThis is the headquarters of the fishery development board in Hyderabad.
It looks like a fish because they manage the fish there.
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
I love the Fish building!! We pass it every time on the way from the airport.
PerogiBoiReminds me of Turkmenistan.
Looks like a fish out of water.
Nobody is doubting it looks like “a fish”, it’s just it looks like a fish drawn by a 3 years old
It’s a case of being stupid enough to love it.
I love the fact it’s in the middle of India, almost the furthest it could be from the ocean.
Bro have you seen the size of the bridges, stadiums and skyscrapers we build?
Fuck it, have you seen the LHC?
train stations
Have you seen the metro stations in Moscow?
The ones in DC are pretty inspiring, too, in a Brutalist kind of way.
They’re lit from below, so you can tell when a train is at a platform by the shadow it casts on the ceiling, which perfectly aligns with the recessed concrete blocks that make up said ceiling.
Really impressive.
I looked up photos of about a dozen separate metro stations in DC, and… they’re all the same design. I get pragmatism, but those are downright depressing. The only one I liked was Anacostia because the yellow overhead lights and the bright blue advertisement screen made interesting patterns reflecting off the water-damaged walls.
Compare that to Moscow: underground palaces. Marble, statues, reliefs, arches and columns, chandeliers everywhere. Hate the Soviets all you like, but they knew how to build beautiful.
I even like the ancient 81-series rolling stock, if only because of nostalgia.
The AssmanBeautiful. I wonder how many famines it cost them to build.
Every day in my dreams.
KazuyaDarklight…I mean…I wouldn’t mind it if we did.
InfynisYes we should. Our buildings and public places should be covered in art
We could build more, better, more beautiful infrastructure, or we could buy more bombs.
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.
Exactly, yes! The LHC is so much larger though. 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.
That’s cool and all, but not sure if that counts as a thing we built as much as a thing we drew.
burgersc12Bigger but at what cost? So many buildings are boring, flat and lifeless e.g.
Marvels like the Saturn V or JWST should be mentioned here, too.
JWST is insane. Not quite as insane as Apollo or Voyager relative to current mainstream tech, but still, holy shit.
Unironically yes, please build spires and arches and gargoyles on everything. I want Gothic architecture everywhere please.
If anything it’s become so commonplace that nobody really cares that much anymore. “Oh look, a cool building. Anyway…”
I wanna work in a fish shaped building lol
SharkEatingBreakfastA shark would love this.
Fish are friends!
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 jt live and it’s still under construction today.
A true wonder!
Any time someone sees it they will wonder “why did someone build that thing?”
You take your date to your apartment and they go “wait you like in a giant fish?”
It’s either a massive win or catastrophic loss
It would be a plus for me unless it was one of the Jesus fish, in which case I’m fleeing on foot if necessary.
eezeebeeIf they don’t like it they can leave. Consider it a bullet dodged.
ℕ𝕠𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 𝕆𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝we didnt
The whole of Benidorm is a modern Wonder
When you get home you wonder why you went, why you didn’t catch any diseases and why you went to so many drag bars
I’m seeing Eric cartman saying “I live in a hotdog.”
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍More proof. It’s called the “Bullring”, but i always thought it looked like a sperm whale.
When did humans stop building mega-churches?
You’re not going to believe this, but…
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.
Interesting how the entire focus of the stadium is on the preacher himself instead, for example, the works of Gawwwwwwwewwewd.
The Vegas orb thing probably qualifies as a wonder.
Do you mean The Ball or The Globe?
According to google I mean the Sphere, apparently?
PresidentCamachoThe simple truth is that you have to justify the cost. Art is expensive and generates no quantifiable income. Capitalism is poison.
“This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”
Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.
SkunkWorkzSingle 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.
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.
This is the Large Halibut Collider
I’m already married but can arrange a quickie divorce if you’ll just
morrowindThose are exceptions. The majority of our (visible) expensive projects today are homages to power and money
Yep. It’s 2024, and rich men are still funding projects to glorify themselves and assuage their ego.
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.
Same thing
Warfare science is still science and often has the benefit of funding groups that develop civilian science as well. Civie science doesn’t pay as well as the brass do