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TIL: The Guggenheim Bilbao got its warm metal texture only because it was constructed at a rare point in time when it was affordable to use titanium alloy cladding. The soviet navy was decommissioning a whole class of submarines which tanked global titanium prices, enabling the use of it as building material.
https://youtu.be/FnrPZuN0m-0?t=1100
The Guggenheim Bilbao Broke Engineering

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Show threadahahn94May 26
@nblr Es ist doch immer wieder erstaunlich, wie oft die Antwort auf „why can’t we have nice things?“ zum Teil „weil der kalte Krieg zu Ende ist“ lautet 😅🙈
Show threadMx VerdaMay 31

@nblr is that before or after we nuked the atmosphere and shit, leading new metals to be extra radioactive so detectors now have to be constructed from pre-whatever materials?

I am so awake, you don't even know. I'm so un-tired I am *not* about to go lie down