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“It had become more of an innovation platform than a building project; it was used by scientists and universities to think outside the box.” OK, I love whimsy
by phyzome 6y ago
“It had become more of an innovation platform than a building project; it was used by scientists and universities to think outside the box.”
OK, I love whimsy and spitballing of wild ideas as much as the next person, but... innovation platform? Did anything actually come out of this? New ideas that have been put into use? Research that changed how we understand things? A focal point for education of the public, even?
I love the idea, but I see nothing in this article that backs the spirit of the claim "a meeting of minds that sparked a new wave of innovation in the Netherlands".
Design is cheap. And this appears to have never gotten out of the early CAD & Photoshop phase.
It's fine to just say "it was a wild idea and we had a lot of fun thinking about it".
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- lowdose 6y agoThe piramides must have been a very strange idea from the start. Transporting larger than life stones to build an abstract geometric monument. Im glad they did because it speaks to imagination to build the impossible. Imagine a mountain as high as the Alpes still standing there in 10.000 years. I also think the first people to build dikes where seen as a bit strange. You are well aware that industry has made the dutch engineering name in the world.
- phyzome 6y agoOK, but... they didn't build the mountain. It's only the existence of the pyramids that inspires. We don't have any records of the amazing, inspiring, innovative plans to build the pyramids—or at least, if we do, they sure don't have cultural currency.