im thinking we build a jim bowie pyramid...with like giant 50 foot knives everywhere...

RT: https://mugicha.club/objects/21907e29-9313-43b6-b3de-6e8d09ee8ca6

@confederatehobo and the pyramid can wear the world's largest cowboy hat...

@confederatehobo

@Frondeur @confederatehobo LOOKS FUCKIN MENACING

@Frondeur @confederatehobo IMO WE JUST NEED AN EVEN BIGGER KNIFE MONUMENT THAN THE ONE WE'VE ALREADY GOT

@Frondeur @confederatehobo THE CURRENT ONE HAS TOO MUCH DETAIL
THE NEW ONE SHOULD BE LIKE THE "THREE SWORDS" OF SCANDINAVIA
JUST THIS MONUMENTAL SLAB OF, PROBABLY, FIBERGLASS REINFORCED CONCRETE, STABBED INTO THE EARTH

RT: https://nicecrew.digital/objects/d5269f97-dd1c-4126-9aec-63664f919b13

That giant statue they're building in India is ferro-concrete. I'd imagine that'd be the way to go since it's a very well understood technology.

I would love to climb up the sword and hang out on the pommel.

It'd be amazing for base jumpers too.

@Eiregoat @confederatehobo @Frondeur LET'S WAIT FIFTY YEARS ON WHETHER FERRO CONCRETE ANNIHILATES ITSELF DUE TO DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL EXPANSION OR SOMETHING ELSE WE'VE MISSED

@nugger @Eiregoat @confederatehobo @Frondeur Main issue is the concrete has to be a certain thickness to protect the underlying steel from atmospheric oxygen so it's not good for statues

@Groomschild @Eiregoat @confederatehobo @Frondeur DON'T THEY DO SOMETHING NOW WHERE THEY SHEATHE THE REBAR ARMATURE IN SOME SORT OF PLASTIC TO PREVENT THE ROT AND SPALL?

@nugger @Groomschild @Eiregoat @confederatehobo @Frondeur They make polymer rebar that doesn't corrode but I wouldn't be surprised if it still warped or bent or something over a long period of time.

I think the big issue, more than material selection, is the obsession of modern architects to make buildings that are not only not geometrically stable but deliberately unstable.

Everything nowadays is frame based construction and they build everything too high and they build them into all sorts of impractical shapes.

@LivingSpaceStudios @confederatehobo @Eiregoat @Frondeur @Groomschild @nugger

What I want to know is are these unstable pieces of art buildings that people go inside of or close enough to destroy people or important things if they fall down and are they getting taxpayer subsidies or is this a tool to funnel money

If someone builds a piece of artwork through their own honest hard work, it falls down & nobody gets hurt and nothing important gets damaged I do not care

& pyramids are over-rated