What part of that is practical?
Comment on What technological mega project is practical to build today?
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 year ago
That stupid 100 mile long building in Arabia.
ours@lemmy.film 1 year ago
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Practical as in being able to be done, rather than theoretical and not able to be done. (As the man said, just because it can be done doesn’t mean it should be done). Genuine question: did you intend another meaning of practical?
ours@lemmy.film 1 year ago
I don’t buy for a second that catastrophe can actually be built.
It’s 100% pure “CGI engineering”. All the effort went into a snazzy presentation to sell it to petro-billionaires ego-blimps with no consideration for feasibility.
DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Fair enough. I don’t think it’s useful to build it, (I think it’s a stupid way for wanker money hoarders to buy recognition and fame), but we know how to pour concrete, we know how to install air conditioning, we know how to construct large buildings and make them habitable. Let me call back on “English is my second language”; I think we both agree on the (lack of) usefulness of the project. I happen to think that it could be built (practical); or at least started, but that doesn’t make it a useful thing to build (practical). I don’t feel that I can clearly explain what I thought the word “practical” meant; but I didn’t mean to get into an argument about it.
morriscox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They could keep people from entering/leaving and suicide/(murder?) becomes much easier. Mass surveillance could also be built in.