Princess Carl
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What a powerful gif. Seriously.
This thing really blew my mind as a kid.
And now I understand how Bigfoot could be misunderstood as a walking bear...
PSY・S;124444043 said:Theo Jansen's Strandbeest.
Actually, heights don't bother me. It's if I'm standing on ground level with a huge building that I get sort of stressed out. As somebody who grew up in a suburb, cities are kind of an uncanny valley, which is why I don't like going to NYC.Don't look in this thread then
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I'm serious, if heights give you panic attacks, don't look in that thread >.>
This thing:
Is this Hong Kong?
The "funny" thing is that biological augmentation, transhumanism, NGOs getting more and more power, increased surveillance, terrorism, and all that (common themes and things in cyberpunk) is also either true already, or getting bigger, or becoming more and more likely.
Unfortunately that shit tends to be, as far as i know, rather dystopic.
This thing:
Brb googling pics since antonio didn't post any.BMW i8
Is this Hong Kong?
I'm on mobile! But while your at it, Google BMW i3 alsoBrb googling pics since antonio didn't post any.
What the hell is this. It looks like the final boss from a 90s shmup.
not really futuristic but Amazon HQs looks like something out of a super hero movie
Where in Dubai is that? I haven't seen it yet.
Crescent Moon Tower, Dubai
Where in Dubai is that? I haven't seen it yet.
Nowadays nobody ever thinks about it, but:
*iphone image*
This (and other smartphones) are the most ridiculously awesomely futuristic things around. An ordinary citizen can access a system containing the entirety of human knowledge using a device that fits in the palm of the hand, wherever on the planet (OK, not quite true) they are. It's incredible.
This (and other smartphones) are the most ridiculously awesomely futuristic things around. An ordinary citizen can access a system containing the entirety of human knowledge using a device that fits in the palm of the hand, wherever on the planet (OK, not quite true) they are. It's incredible.
The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a powerful laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device (California):
The Z machine, Z Pulsed Power Facility, is the largest X-ray generator in the world and is designed to test materials in conditions of extreme temperature and pressure (New Mexico):
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino telescope constructed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with thousands of sensors distributed over a cubic kilometer of volume under the Antarctic ice:
Super-Kamiokande (full name: Super-Kamioka Neutrino Detection Experiment, abbreviated to Super-K or SK) is a neutrino observatory designed to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and keep watch for supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy (Japan):
Hatsune Friggen Miku in concert. Good lord, mind was blown when I first heard about the holograms.
Good God!
I remember when I saw Macross Plus and thought, Holographic Concerts with computer generated Divas? That's crazy.
They actually predicted this
Big machines!