This is so fukcing stupid i cant handle it. Fuck. Cathedrals are still beautiful and awe-inspiring hundreds of years after they were built. This orb is going to look like absolute shit the second it loses power or some of its screens break or something, so, like, 50 years from now it'll be giant e-waste sitting in a dead city. I hate techbros i hate techbros i hate techbros
No. I wouldn't be. I think those giant skyscraper screens are cringe as shit. Simply make prettier buildings that don't cause massive light pollution. I think a neat old stone church is extremely a lot cooler than any fancy skyscraper covered in screens
Give it like 5 years and you'll start seeing multiple led panels needing replaced but they can't afford to do that because they still havent made a profit.
I'm inclined to agree, but I think they missed a trick by making it stationary. It should be a massive unrooted sphere that rolls across the country and crushes everything in its path. And they should let me drive it.
That picture quality looks like the kind of footage the pentagon releases when they smartbomb a wedding or a hospital or the Chinese embassy, but they put an emoji face on the explosion.
That's kinda what Vegas is all about though. Even if I were supreme dictator, I'd still let Vegas (well, Paradise) be pretty much as it is today tbh. "Special Economic Zone" or whatever like Macau.
the orb will be decommissioned following the TOOL gig (also known as the final performance) held within - after which human consciousness will "spiral out", the ability to perceive current reality and the planet earth will cease, and we will ascend to a higher plane that is chemically-composed only of cannabinoids
Well Vegas is getting a high speed train too, but (un)fortunately you won't be able to see the sphere from it. It also has a 'cathedral'.
Before the sphere opened they were planning on building one in London too (and maybe Singapore? I forget) so there will probably be more.
But they still refuse to build a subway on or pedestrianize Las Vegas Boulevard, supposedly they're building a whole giant BoringTM tunnel network but somehow I doubt it'll happen.
They already pedestrianized the original strip, North Fremont St. And even put a roof over it and covered the ceiling in LEDs and ran a zip line under it.
Vegas Blvd reeks of Tyson's Corners. Cheap real estate with zero zoning. Mega corps but huge tracks of lands and run their own roads with no coordination. If you want to pedestrianize it, then every casino along it will have to reroute whatever roads through their property to the roads behind them.
If you want to pedestrianize it, then every casino along it will have to reroute whatever roads through their property to the roads behind them.
The casinos on the strip already all have back/off-street entrances, it's where most of the parking is. You'd still allow east/west traffic on the major roads like Flamingo and Tropicana, and if they really want to keep those front entrances they could retrofit them to run trams up to them. They could even have a different tacky tram for each hotel or something.
If they're super concerned about losing the 'freedom' to drive down the strip then they could have select hours where they open it to (some) cars like how they periodically close it for pedestrians now for things like New Years and whatnot.