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Pics that don't make you laugh but are still cool

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LUFTRAUSER

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Just some gas lines. I really like infrastructure!

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Food cubes! Click to embiggen!
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Melchiah

Melchiah

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Spider Embryo. Via Molecular characterization and embryonic origin of the eyes in the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum.
 
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Donos

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Übermatik;165556376 said:
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Younger ppl see this and probably think "well..." but these pics trigger some old memories of adventure games i played (e.g. Legend of Kyrandia)...
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RedSwirl

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Übermatik;165919016 said:
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The problem with burying nuclear waste is it'll remain dangerous for centuries or millennia. There's a good chance someone could stumble upon it so far into the future that no one speaks or understands 21st century English anymore, or can comprehend any warning signals you might engrave.

It's a problem some people are trying to figure out.
 
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missile

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Donos said:
Younger ppl see this and probably think "well..." ...
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I don't think this will be the case. If one were raised on a true-color
palette, one wouldn't likely see such pictures as a technical limitation as
the old farts do/did yet like them today. I think the younger ones will
consider them as done-on-purpose, because there isn't any technical limitation
today (within this regard) to dither like seen in these pictures. Hence, these
pictures will be perceived differently, more as an art style in it own
independent from any technical limitation they grew out from. And that's
perhaps the same happen to you now. You can now see such pictures without
thinking about the shading tricks used to circle many of the technical
limitations etc., because there isn't any need to do so, hence, these pictures
must be done on purpose and will as such be considered as art, as an art style
in its own right. And this, basically, is a reoccurring pattern.
 
way more

way more

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Donos said:
Younger ppl see this and probably think "well..." but these pics trigger some old memories of adventure games i played (e.g. Legend of Kyrandia)...
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Yeah but . . .



People regard this


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as better than this. .

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so I guess you could say . . .

Unlike the video games I have played (Frontiers: Dawn of Fathers (The Last Exit)) . . .


hmm?
 
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Donos

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I don't want to say that younger people can't like these pics or find them artistically pleasant, just that it doesn't provoke the same (nostalgia) feeling i have when seeing them. Got instant flashbacks to the time where i played adventures and was so deep immerged into these worlds.

Also totally love the scifi stuff posted on the last pages.
 
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Baconsaurus Rex

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RedSwirl said:
The problem with burying nuclear waste is it'll remain dangerous for centuries or millennia. There's a good chance someone could stumble upon it so far into the future that no one speaks or understands 21st century English anymore, or can comprehend any warning signals you might engrave.

It's a problem some people are trying to figure out.
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Roman Mars featured it in an episode of his podcast. Very interesting read/listen.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

I'd recommend listening to his podcast wholeheartedly.
 
Alx

Alx

Member
RedSwirl said:
The problem with burying nuclear waste is it'll remain dangerous for centuries or millennia. There's a good chance someone could stumble upon it so far into the future that no one speaks or understands 21st century English anymore, or can comprehend any warning signals you might engrave.

It's a problem some people are trying to figure out.
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Yeah they could at least have done a "rosetta stone" and written it in multiple languages, it increases the chances that one of them will be understood (or help people decypher the whole thing by cross-referencing it).
Also, a few drawings and mathematical representations would help (the atomic number of Uranium/Plutonium would be easier to understand from scratch than the words "radioactive materials").
 
Melchiah

Melchiah

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Skull Violin by Jeff Stratton.

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Marc Quinn’s Self is a reproduction of the British artist’s head composed of 9 pints of his own frozen blood. It took him over a period of 5 months to complete.
 
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Lucky Forward

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Melchiah said:
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Marc Quinn’s Self is a reproduction of the British artist’s head composed of 9 pints of his own frozen blood. It took him over a period of 5 months to complete.
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The Mob Boss Baddie in Kick-Ass Owns a Mark Quinn Blood Sculpture

In the DIY superhero action movie that opens tomorrow, Kick-Ass, the baddie is Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong), a mob boss who could just as easily be a corporate lawyer, living in a Midtown penthouse full of, among other things, a rather impressive art collection. Aside from a pair of large, Warhol-ian prints of revolvers, and a few other bits and pieces, one very recognizable artwork gets a lot of screen time: Marc Quinn’s “Self” (pictured), a sculpture of which he has been making one edition every five years, which is made of five pints of his own blood frozen in the shape of his head.
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But I gather that the sculpture in Kickass is a different one from what you posted.
 
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Rei_Toei

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Took this picture last month, while trekking over Johanna Beach (Great Ocean Walk, Victoria Australia), love the slightly ominous look of it all. Fitted the moment, in the end we had to run to avoid the sea meeting up with the river right next to the beach :)

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