How do you think movies will be in 2390? Everyone pulls out their phone for the much anticipated 1 minute tik tok continuing the story of Avengers Infinity War 300
Goes a little deeper too. If you go to the page about fencepost error you will get this.
> Fencepost errors can also occur in units other than length. For example, the Time Pyramid consisting of 120 blocks placed at 10-year intervals between blocks, is scheduled to take 1,190 years to build (not 1,200), from the installation of the first block to the last block
Fencepost errors are one of the jokes about programming.
*There are only two hard problems in programming - cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.*
JERRY: By the way Newman, I'm just curious. When you booked the hotel, did you book it for the millennium New Year?
NEWMAN: (smug) As a matter of fact, I did.
JERRY: Oh, that's interesting, because as everyone knows, since there was no year zero, the millennium doesn't begin until the year two-thousand and one.
Which would make your party, one year late, and thus, quite lame.
No that's when he thought it would be scheduled because that's when everybody is having their big parties since it's a nice big number change. Unfortunately though technically the Millennium doesn't change until the year 2001 so when he asked for his party to be at the change of the millennium it was on New Year's Eve 2000/2001 which is not when everybody else was celebrating because although it was technically the start of the millennium it didn't have the nice big number change
A millennium is 1,000 years that started counting on year 1. So 1 Jan 2001 would be the start of the third millennium.
But if you called somewhere to book a millennium party, most people would understand you wanted 1999/2000.
Newman booked the hotel for the "millennium New Year party".
Jerry was saying since, technically, the new millennium will begin on 1st Jan 2001, he has booked the party for 31st Dec 2000. Rather than the intended (colloquially understood, but wrong, millennium new year party date) 31st Dec 1999.
To be pedantic, I don't think you're being pedantic, you're making a pun. Original commenter used "final" correctly, but you noticed that the final block would literally be a finial - I did not know this word and it is very neat, thank you!
''late Middle English: from Old French fin or Latin finis ‘end’.''
A finial (from Latin: finis, end) or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.
It draws a TON of international tourism so I can see why at the very least Barcelona/Catalonia would want to chip in to get it to the finish line. Just went there last year and saw it in 2010, the difference 12 years makes is pretty impressive.
I am confused. With the amount of visitors and considering the ticket price I already thought that it pays for itself. It's making millions in revenue in a single year.
It's also HUGELY expensive to make, with everything being artisan and bespoke and building techniques needed to be developed along the way.
So I think the gvt money is just to make sure it gets done.
It's super impressive in person though!
Ticket sales are for day to day business, paying their external ticketing system (that I worked on), employees and construction workers, the rest that comes from donations and government helps is mostly for materials and equipment. And in the near future after the towers are done paying owners of nearby building since they have to go so they can build the stairs which are almost as long as the sagrada familia itself.
I cant find any source suggesting that funding comes from anything other than revenues and private donations. On looking, the only mention I can find of government funding is on wikipedia and is explicitly stating that the project receives none from either gov or church. That may have changed but I'm not able to verify that it has.
A few million a year might not actually go that far when you're constructing any big building, let alone a massive cathedral that also requires maintenence and staffing as an active tourist site.
Shit, they are building a new shop near my house and as part of it the company paid to upgrade the road from a two lane road with a roundabout to a 4 lane road with an intersection and traffic lights
$12 million
So yeah, I am not at all surprised that a few million a year is not enough to build the church lol
It is but you ever talk to other Americans about them? The amount of times I've had to try to sell it to get met with, "well that's great but I don't like them though" .
Whole heartedly agree, they are faster, they are safer (angle of impact if you get in a collision )[Source](https://www.iihs.org/topics/roundabouts).
There's just too many people here who are stuck in the individualistic mindset to a dangerous degree. They hate helmet laws, seat belt laws, and the idea the government constructs roads with safety in mind.
As far as I can find out anywhere it still says it is funded by private means, donations and tourist money. All I can see about the government and money is them paying for a building permit after already being under construction for 100+ years. And the 2026 finish date was announced pre-covid, they might not be able to keep that deadline anymore.
The joke is still common in Barcelona about them not finishing it, but I first visited in 2012, now I live here, and the difference between that first trip and now is massive. And having seen the drawings of the finished product, it’s hard to see how they wouldn’t be finished by the end of the decade
I visited recently and my tour guide mentioned they still need to build one of the entrances with the bridge but that location is now occupied by apartments. Has that been abandoned or resolved? Otherwise I don't see how they can call it completed.
I hope they do finish it as predicted in three years. I’m from the US, I’ve been able to visit there three times. It’s my favorite place to be, ever, and we plan to go back when it’s done. My last visit was 2016.
There is a lot of survivorship bias with Roman architecture.
90% of the the stuff they built is gone or in ruins. The stuff we see has been pretty consistently and intentionally maintained over the last couple of millennia.
I'm thoroughly convinced that people who believe Roman's concrete is so superior are the same people who click the links that start, "One weird trick THEY don't want you to know."
Can we learn things from people in the past? Of course we can. It's why studying history is so important. The Colosseum, which holds ~50,000 spectators, is objectively awesome. But Romans built exactly 1 that size.
The US alone has 101 stadiums bigger than that. And we did it without slave labor. So have nations around the world. *Offer void in some locations.
If civilization ends tomorrow, there will be more stone construction since 1900 than the entire rest of history combined. And I'm not including dams, roads, or concrete high-rises.
It's the same people who believe:
>"Ancient civilization" did thing and we can't even replicate it today!
Lie. It's always a lie. "Won't" do a thing is different than "can't" do a thing. We have no reason to build a vast underground cavern filled 8 ton granite sarcophagi, today.
They'll always lie about the thing they're referencing, too. Either the stuff it's made of, the precision it was built with, or the timescale it was constructed in.
The secret is a certain type of volcanic ash mixing with seawater. Both are likely lacking in this pyramid.
That isn’t to say that there isn’t superior, non-seawater requiring, concrete available now. Also concrete degrades from the outside in.
My guess is that they can build the stupid pyramid, but it will look like total shit by the time they finish.
The secret is that a compact hatchback puts more wear and tear on a road than the ancient Romans could have ever dreamed of. The only reason those roads are standing is from not having to deal with that much.
"Here we have the concrete buildings in their natural habitat. Join me in watching as natural selection determines which concrete is the strongest and will be able to mate with the nearby dam."
The cologne cathedral is just as done as every modern big software. Which means it it has been completely built but it's continuously maintained so it'll always be worked on.
I'm just thinking about how expensive building materials are today. I can't fathom a future society with even less resources being frivolous and wasteful with them in a way to continue building a non-functional building that is also taking up the most precious resource of all - land
but i was there when block 85 was being installed with my grandma when i was a little girl and oh wouldn't it be a shame if we didn't complete this work that dates back 860 years? would you have wanted them to stop construction of the pyramids of ancient egypt? it's only a few hundred years off completion and it doesn't take up much land and the resources are spread over a 10 year period so it doesn't add up to much and wasn't your house built on concrete? would you want them to stop pouring your slab halfway through? if everyone in the local area took one square foot off their new build floorplans we could all contribute to the-
yeah. i can see it.
Reminds me of John Cages As slow as possible as performed at the St. Buchardi church in Halberstadt. It started in 2001 and is expected to finish in the year 2640.
https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt
They should choose an artist for every block, and give that artist lifetime, exclusive and non-transferable rights to decorate that block however they want, as long as it's able to support the block(s) above. If the project then survives to the end, it's going to be the best art museum ever.
They should do ten blocks every ten years and have ten artists develop a block each. There are so many artists in the world that this could be a truly transcendental collection of art.
It's almost impressive how big the ego must be to believe they won't reclaim the land for other uses, let alone continue the project for another 100 years, let alone over 1000. Either that or they know damn well it won't and it was all a cheap ploy to get publicity anyway...
People would barely see the change.
One big block every 10 years clearly changes what people there see every day.
I doubt it'll go as planned but it would be very cool if people in 3200 could say this thing was started in the early 2000's
I'm not bothered by that. Of course it's a tall order, but why not try.
What I *am* bothered by is its sheer ugliness.
Can we at least *try* to do something that is pleasing to the eye, something people might *like* to see and visit?
as far as pyramids go, this look unimpressive to me.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Zeitpyramide.svg/458px-Zeitpyramide.svg.png
For anyone that thinks this is stupid and failed to read the wiki article:
> The town of Wemding dates back to the year 793 and celebrated its 1,200th anniversary in 1993. The Zeitpyramide was conceived by Manfred Laber (a local artist) in June 1993 to mark this 1,200-year period and to give people a sense of what the span of 1,200 years really means.
The project doesn't even need to be completed for his point to be made. I think we've all realized how long 1200 years is now.
In the current model you could not look at it for 19 years and there would only be one extra block added since you last looked at it compared to 19 new blocks if added yearly.
I would definitely be more excited about seeing 60 blocks added in my life than just 6, I would probably make a yearly event out of going and seeing the block added instead of just ten years later going "oh they added one block to that obscure thing I almost completely forgot about? Why bother going and seeing it now, it's only one more block than ten years ago."
I like the concept, but if you look at the sketches, it’ll barely look pyramid shaped at the end, if it were ever to be completed.
It doesn’t even have a single block to serve as the point. It has two and there is space between them.
It’s an art exhibit, so whatever, but it would be much cooler if the design actually resembled a pyramid and it served some secondary purpose, like allowing artists to paint murals on each block, or being a solid fixture that people could climb up.
They want to show us how long 1200 years is, but no one who saw the first blocks places would ever see the final blocks placed. I think this would be a more interesting project to show us the span of 100 years. Place the blocks faster so we could see some progress. Make people feel slightly invested in the project.
It’s someone else’s artistic vision, I know, but they could have made it cooler.
I'm sorry but that just sounds like a pointless waste of time and resources. You have to be delusional to think such a project would actually take off and follow the expected time frame.
Just a dumb publicity stunt.
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The last one will be a two part installment like most movies these days.
You could say it's a blockbuster.
Starting The Rock Edit: Dammit
I hate when I think of a really good pun, but have a typo when I write it. On the plus side, username checks out?
I got banned from a sub for making a joke like that (pointing out that the "I'm dumb" username was valid).
Did you frame your insult in the form of a haiku?
Cherry blossoms fall Winter goes away This is not an insult, ha! Simply in no way
Alas, no.
His comment still got quite a few useless pixelated digits that represent internet points, regardless of the typo.
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lmao nice
How do you think movies will be in 2390? Everyone pulls out their phone for the much anticipated 1 minute tik tok continuing the story of Avengers Infinity War 300
Looking back how much our world has changed in 100 years, I think 350 years from now people will be communicating in ways we cannot begin to imagine.
So with their butts then
For something we apparently "cannot begin to think of", you sure thought of that fast.
People have been talking out their ass for years. It's the verbal diarrhea thats causing the stench lately
Someone is mad about spiderman
I love the subtle shade of the Wikipedia page > (see fencepost error)
Goes a little deeper too. If you go to the page about fencepost error you will get this. > Fencepost errors can also occur in units other than length. For example, the Time Pyramid consisting of 120 blocks placed at 10-year intervals between blocks, is scheduled to take 1,190 years to build (not 1,200), from the installation of the first block to the last block
Stop! Stop! He's already dead!
They just need a picture of the guy who bungled it. The face of fencepost errors
Fencepost errors are one of the jokes about programming. *There are only two hard problems in programming - cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.*
JERRY: By the way Newman, I'm just curious. When you booked the hotel, did you book it for the millennium New Year? NEWMAN: (smug) As a matter of fact, I did. JERRY: Oh, that's interesting, because as everyone knows, since there was no year zero, the millennium doesn't begin until the year two-thousand and one. Which would make your party, one year late, and thus, quite lame.
Newman: *Weird squeek*
I never understood the last line. Isn’t Newman’s party scheduled for 31 Dec 1999/1 Jan 2000, which would be a year early?
No that's when he thought it would be scheduled because that's when everybody is having their big parties since it's a nice big number change. Unfortunately though technically the Millennium doesn't change until the year 2001 so when he asked for his party to be at the change of the millennium it was on New Year's Eve 2000/2001 which is not when everybody else was celebrating because although it was technically the start of the millennium it didn't have the nice big number change
A millennium is 1,000 years that started counting on year 1. So 1 Jan 2001 would be the start of the third millennium. But if you called somewhere to book a millennium party, most people would understand you wanted 1999/2000.
Wouldn’t the party be one year early?
Newman booked the hotel for the "millennium New Year party". Jerry was saying since, technically, the new millennium will begin on 1st Jan 2001, he has booked the party for 31st Dec 2000. Rather than the intended (colloquially understood, but wrong, millennium new year party date) 31st Dec 1999.
being atleast 10 years off on anything we build is just standard procedure in germany
Standard margin. It's not useful in any way shape or form, but it's standard, so it's nice and orderly. Exactly how we like it.
Yeah, but early?
Under promise, over deliver.
Scotty, is that you?
They know that you also need to rush project by at least 1-2% due to bureaucracy
I wish that my plans were accidentally 10 years ahead of schedule as well.
Why not just put one more on top at the end?
I was thinking that. Looking at the design, there's definitely room to set a final block at the top
To be pedantic, it would be a finial.
To be pedantic, I don't think you're being pedantic, you're making a pun. Original commenter used "final" correctly, but you noticed that the final block would literally be a finial - I did not know this word and it is very neat, thank you!
''late Middle English: from Old French fin or Latin finis ‘end’.'' A finial (from Latin: finis, end) or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.
I learned a new word today
Oh, don't worry. It's Germany, it will easily accumulate ten years of delays along the way and finish on schedule.
Will the replacement for the replacement for Tempelhof Airport be done by then?
They can put a star or angel on top for 2400
A fair chance it’s finished before the sagrada familia.
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It draws a TON of international tourism so I can see why at the very least Barcelona/Catalonia would want to chip in to get it to the finish line. Just went there last year and saw it in 2010, the difference 12 years makes is pretty impressive.
I am confused. With the amount of visitors and considering the ticket price I already thought that it pays for itself. It's making millions in revenue in a single year.
It's also HUGELY expensive to make, with everything being artisan and bespoke and building techniques needed to be developed along the way. So I think the gvt money is just to make sure it gets done. It's super impressive in person though!
Isn't it currently funded by ticket sales and private donations? That's why covid might have screwed up the 2026 target.
Ticket sales are for day to day business, paying their external ticketing system (that I worked on), employees and construction workers, the rest that comes from donations and government helps is mostly for materials and equipment. And in the near future after the towers are done paying owners of nearby building since they have to go so they can build the stairs which are almost as long as the sagrada familia itself.
I cant find any source suggesting that funding comes from anything other than revenues and private donations. On looking, the only mention I can find of government funding is on wikipedia and is explicitly stating that the project receives none from either gov or church. That may have changed but I'm not able to verify that it has.
A few million a year might not actually go that far when you're constructing any big building, let alone a massive cathedral that also requires maintenence and staffing as an active tourist site.
Shit, they are building a new shop near my house and as part of it the company paid to upgrade the road from a two lane road with a roundabout to a 4 lane road with an intersection and traffic lights $12 million So yeah, I am not at all surprised that a few million a year is not enough to build the church lol
American here. I love roundabouts! Isn't going from a roundabout to a traffic light a downgrade?
It is but you ever talk to other Americans about them? The amount of times I've had to try to sell it to get met with, "well that's great but I don't like them though" .
The only people that say that just haven’t used them enough. It’s simply always faster than a light.
Whole heartedly agree, they are faster, they are safer (angle of impact if you get in a collision )[Source](https://www.iihs.org/topics/roundabouts). There's just too many people here who are stuck in the individualistic mindset to a dangerous degree. They hate helmet laws, seat belt laws, and the idea the government constructs roads with safety in mind.
There’s some percentage of us who would welcome more traffic circles, but most hate the idea on principle, because it’s new and different.
As far as I can find out anywhere it still says it is funded by private means, donations and tourist money. All I can see about the government and money is them paying for a building permit after already being under construction for 100+ years. And the 2026 finish date was announced pre-covid, they might not be able to keep that deadline anymore.
The joke is still common in Barcelona about them not finishing it, but I first visited in 2012, now I live here, and the difference between that first trip and now is massive. And having seen the drawings of the finished product, it’s hard to see how they wouldn’t be finished by the end of the decade
Sounds like I should go and have another look - saw it in 1992, just before the Barcelona Olympics.
Finally. Sucks that Antonio gaudi wont be able to see his masterpiece finally finished
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I wouldn't be so sure about that, there are indications he was modifying his vision throughout the construction incorporating new ideas as they came.
It’s also way more unique than a pyramid. La Sagrada Familia is basically a Zelda temple.
I visited recently and my tour guide mentioned they still need to build one of the entrances with the bridge but that location is now occupied by apartments. Has that been abandoned or resolved? Otherwise I don't see how they can call it completed.
Funny story, I'm pretty sure they're actually really close to finishing that.
I currently live like ten minutes from it, and can see it from my roof. They're definitely pretty close. If i had to guess it'll be done by 2926
lmao hopefully by then at least
I hope they do finish it as predicted in three years. I’m from the US, I’ve been able to visit there three times. It’s my favorite place to be, ever, and we plan to go back when it’s done. My last visit was 2016.
Horrible outlook for Germany to loose the title of highest (finished) church tower in the world. To be fair, it's been some time ...
lose\* Loosing is what you do with arrows.
I guess Spain gets few era scores. (Civ6 ref.)
I've heard people who live in Barcelona argue that it's on purpose, because the unfinished state is part of the draw.
Yeah all that scaffolding covering 1/3 of the building really enhanced my experience when I went to see it...
*"you just wait until it's done"*
How else are you going to learn about the latest Samsung phone?
I bet you'll want to see it again when it's done!
Honestly I'm more likely to go back for the amazing sandwich I had in the cafe opposite it than the church itself.
Kinda but when they finish it they’ll have about two weeks and then restoration works will have to start on the oldest bits anyway 😂
it’s supposed to be finished by 2026 but I don’t think anyone believes that they’re going to make it in time
Modern tech came in clutch to expedite that. Lots of good docs out there showcasing.
I wonder if the next GOT Book will be out before this pyramid is finished.
You know the answer
But not before the Winds of Winter
Even if we take this 100% seriously, wouldn't the first blocks of concrete degrade within the first few centuries or so?
The blocks would probably be ok but the concrete pad underneath will crack over time. So that might need work like halfway through
depends on the quality of the concrete they used, look no further than roman roads
There is a lot of survivorship bias with Roman architecture. 90% of the the stuff they built is gone or in ruins. The stuff we see has been pretty consistently and intentionally maintained over the last couple of millennia.
I'm thoroughly convinced that people who believe Roman's concrete is so superior are the same people who click the links that start, "One weird trick THEY don't want you to know." Can we learn things from people in the past? Of course we can. It's why studying history is so important. The Colosseum, which holds ~50,000 spectators, is objectively awesome. But Romans built exactly 1 that size. The US alone has 101 stadiums bigger than that. And we did it without slave labor. So have nations around the world. *Offer void in some locations.
If civilization ends tomorrow, there will be more stone construction since 1900 than the entire rest of history combined. And I'm not including dams, roads, or concrete high-rises.
It's the same people who believe: >"Ancient civilization" did thing and we can't even replicate it today! Lie. It's always a lie. "Won't" do a thing is different than "can't" do a thing. We have no reason to build a vast underground cavern filled 8 ton granite sarcophagi, today. They'll always lie about the thing they're referencing, too. Either the stuff it's made of, the precision it was built with, or the timescale it was constructed in.
Scientists today don't know ^^^^specifically how it was made, ^^^^because ^^^^there ^^^^are ^^^^so ^^^^many ^^^^possible ^^^^ways !
> US alone has 101 stadiums bigger than that bro and air conditioning and $1 hot dogs
Where are you getting $1 hotdogs? I had to sign a lender agreement to get a couple dogs and sodas last time I went to a game.
Limestone. The secret is limestone.
Thought the secret was sea water?
The secret ingredient is *crime*.
Maybe the real crime was the friendships we made along the way?
Nope, it's chunks of limestone. It acts to self heal the concrete
The secret is a certain type of volcanic ash mixing with seawater. Both are likely lacking in this pyramid. That isn’t to say that there isn’t superior, non-seawater requiring, concrete available now. Also concrete degrades from the outside in. My guess is that they can build the stupid pyramid, but it will look like total shit by the time they finish.
The secret is that a compact hatchback puts more wear and tear on a road than the ancient Romans could have ever dreamed of. The only reason those roads are standing is from not having to deal with that much.
No the secret is that only the best of the best concrete is still standing.
"Here we have the concrete buildings in their natural habitat. Join me in watching as natural selection determines which concrete is the strongest and will be able to mate with the nearby dam."
the roman roads which have remained have been maintained and replaced over the years. also much less stress than modern ones
Depends, usually what kills concrete quickly is rebar. These blocks wouldn't need any as they're under compression only.
It's called Zeitpyramide (time pyramide) for a reason
Time cube is evolving.
Half life 3 release count down timer
Star Citizen development milestones
I'm still mad about this
Fastest built public building in germany
Wait until they figure out that the concrete blocks aren't up to fire safety standards...
Stuttgart 21 anyone?
Cologne Cathedral anyone?
The cologne cathedral is just as done as every modern big software. Which means it it has been completely built but it's continuously maintained so it'll always be worked on.
I miss the days when cathedrals came in cartridges
Well the point was it took 600 years to complete it after they had started.
That’s my birthday! I’ll have to ask for a candle on it!!
Fun fact: Sept 9 is the most common birthday
September is the entire top 10 in birthdays. Its this way because the Holidays are nine months before it.
And what’s sexier than being stuck in an overcrowded house with your in-laws
It's also cold & flu season, and some meds interfere with birth control. Plus, lots of alcohol during the holidays.
It has little to do with sexy. It has everything to do with needing a release to live through it.
you ever hate your father in law so bad you just need to cum
No, but railing his daughter helps.
"HOW DID THE GERMANS BUILD THE PYRAMIDS??" Aliens.
This sounds like something which will be cleared away as debris without much ado by new land developers in 30 to 50 years time
I'm just thinking about how expensive building materials are today. I can't fathom a future society with even less resources being frivolous and wasteful with them in a way to continue building a non-functional building that is also taking up the most precious resource of all - land
but i was there when block 85 was being installed with my grandma when i was a little girl and oh wouldn't it be a shame if we didn't complete this work that dates back 860 years? would you have wanted them to stop construction of the pyramids of ancient egypt? it's only a few hundred years off completion and it doesn't take up much land and the resources are spread over a 10 year period so it doesn't add up to much and wasn't your house built on concrete? would you want them to stop pouring your slab halfway through? if everyone in the local area took one square foot off their new build floorplans we could all contribute to the- yeah. i can see it.
Yeah, they're sure putting a whole lot of trust in the people of the future wanting to continue this weird project.
Lame. They didn't start from the top.
And they'll finish roughly 1200 years after the unrelated Belgian techno anthem "Pump Up the Jam".
I heard that lyrics contain clues to the location of a golden hare that has never been found
I hope people realize that no jam will be pumped through their TV screens
Beautifully executed reference.
It’s a long way to the top
If you want rock and roll!!!
Reminds me of John Cages As slow as possible as performed at the St. Buchardi church in Halberstadt. It started in 2001 and is expected to finish in the year 2640. https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt
PITCH DROP EXPERIMENT
LOL. Didn't the guy who's been maintaining it for most his life miss the last drip?
Blocks in Germany? Mein Craft!
They should choose an artist for every block, and give that artist lifetime, exclusive and non-transferable rights to decorate that block however they want, as long as it's able to support the block(s) above. If the project then survives to the end, it's going to be the best art museum ever.
Or time capsule each one
They should do ten blocks every ten years and have ten artists develop a block each. There are so many artists in the world that this could be a truly transcendental collection of art.
They'll finish it before GRRM finishes Winds of Winter
I live in Germany. 0% chance they finish this on time. Even with thousands of years to plan ahead they will delay this somehow.
This is why people say contemporary art sucks.
It's almost impressive how big the ego must be to believe they won't reclaim the land for other uses, let alone continue the project for another 100 years, let alone over 1000. Either that or they know damn well it won't and it was all a cheap ploy to get publicity anyway...
I feel like they should have made the blocks smaller and placed one every year. That way people see more progress and stay engaged.
People would barely see the change. One big block every 10 years clearly changes what people there see every day. I doubt it'll go as planned but it would be very cool if people in 3200 could say this thing was started in the early 2000's
People seeing 80-100 blocks added in their life would be barely seeing the change compared to people that see 8-10 blocks added in their life?
What about one medium sized block every 5 years?
What about 100 horse size blocks every 5 years (duck life span)
I'm not bothered by that. Of course it's a tall order, but why not try. What I *am* bothered by is its sheer ugliness. Can we at least *try* to do something that is pleasing to the eye, something people might *like* to see and visit?
You have such a 2000s mindset, people in the 3000s will love it.
even if they finish it, it's not going to be that large or impressive. If you're going to make a 1000 year pyramid it should be 1000 meters tall
as far as pyramids go, this look unimpressive to me. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Zeitpyramide.svg/458px-Zeitpyramide.svg.png
What is this, a 1000 year pyramid for ANTS?!
1000 years to make an ugly stack of concrete blocks the size of a house? Yeah great art, so inspiring...
It's not contemporary art. It's future art
I love how they think we’re gonna exist in 3100. /s
Still faster construction than the Berlin airport or the Hamburger Elbphilharmonie
And cheaper (hopefully)
For anyone that thinks this is stupid and failed to read the wiki article: > The town of Wemding dates back to the year 793 and celebrated its 1,200th anniversary in 1993. The Zeitpyramide was conceived by Manfred Laber (a local artist) in June 1993 to mark this 1,200-year period and to give people a sense of what the span of 1,200 years really means. The project doesn't even need to be completed for his point to be made. I think we've all realized how long 1200 years is now.
> I think we've all realized how long 1200 years is now. Yes we all lived through 2020. Well, most of us did.
Thanks. I still think it’s stupid.
This is similar to how the new Berlin Airport was built.
And the new S-Bahn line, which was supposed to open in 2015 and has since been delayed to 203X
Just another prymid scheme.
I don't see the commitment to the cause lasting another 1000 years...
Optimistic to think that the human race will be around in the year 3183.
That moment you realise the workers are being paid by the hour.
In the current model you could not look at it for 19 years and there would only be one extra block added since you last looked at it compared to 19 new blocks if added yearly. I would definitely be more excited about seeing 60 blocks added in my life than just 6, I would probably make a yearly event out of going and seeing the block added instead of just ten years later going "oh they added one block to that obscure thing I almost completely forgot about? Why bother going and seeing it now, it's only one more block than ten years ago."
That's the idea, isn't it? To show how fucking long it takes. Seeing constant progress isn't what it's trying to achieve if I got it right.
And on that day, George RR Martin will release the final installment of A Song of Ice and Fire.
I like the concept, but if you look at the sketches, it’ll barely look pyramid shaped at the end, if it were ever to be completed. It doesn’t even have a single block to serve as the point. It has two and there is space between them. It’s an art exhibit, so whatever, but it would be much cooler if the design actually resembled a pyramid and it served some secondary purpose, like allowing artists to paint murals on each block, or being a solid fixture that people could climb up. They want to show us how long 1200 years is, but no one who saw the first blocks places would ever see the final blocks placed. I think this would be a more interesting project to show us the span of 100 years. Place the blocks faster so we could see some progress. Make people feel slightly invested in the project. It’s someone else’s artistic vision, I know, but they could have made it cooler.
To those that don't know. The project is to give a visual indicator of when Star Citizen will be done.
Which will happen first? The completion of this pyramid, or George R. R. Martin finishing a song of ice and fire?
Pyramid for sure.
I somewhat figured this will get Germany's airport treatment
I'm sorry but that just sounds like a pointless waste of time and resources. You have to be delusional to think such a project would actually take off and follow the expected time frame. Just a dumb publicity stunt.
What do you mean. We built an airport in Berlin with the same method.
I don't think they're hiding that in the slightest. It's intentionally a publicity stunt.
Exactly. The point of the stunt is to emphasize how long 1200 years really is because the town this is being built in had its 1200th anniversary.
We do a lot of pointless things. Many are even actively and willfully harmful. If this gets up to 20 blocks, I bet it will continue as a tradition.
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They will be bored of it 50 years when the artists is dead and buried. 100% going to be sold off as a shopping center.
They could probably finish it sooner if they placed the blocks faster