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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 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?

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

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

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

"Started"?

hmmm...

and...

and...

and...

(I learned a new word! "geoglyph".)

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's cool and all, but not sure if that counts as a thing we built as much as a thing we drew.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

JWST is insane. Not quite as insane as Apollo or Voyager relative to current mainstream tech, but still, holy shit.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

train stations

Have you seen the metro stations in Moscow?

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Beautiful. I wonder how many famines it cost them to build.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Every day in my dreams.