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The administration thinks it’s weird, but the geologists say it looks normal.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3284/
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That quake was nothing compared to this one.
Shit, overcorrected. Let me dial in a new setting, captain!
So you’re saying it would be their…fault?
The pun in the alt text has a chance of being too oblique for some people to catch.
I would love to see a building like this in real life
I swear that one of the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museums is like this.
The one in Branson was made to look like it was split in an earthquake?
https://www.explorebranson.com/listing/ripleys-believe-it-or-not!/5741/
That’s the one!
We’ve got something in Wellington but I believe it’s just the outer wall
What’s the building called? I’d love to see a picture of the weird looking wall.
Try this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/KFQykQyqwwg1GQu4A
Ya kinda need to pan around so you’re looking east… Here’s the little crack I used to climb up as a kid
Oh, neat! Thank you for looking that up. Is it an art thing?
Yeah, I think so? It’s completely intentional, the gap is wide enough to sick your feet in, etc
Only on that wall, sadly. I think its from the 90s
As a public university it is everyone’s fault.
That’s a gneiss pun.
“Free rein”.
Looking at it again now…he fixed it. Huh.
“I rein in my horse because I reign in the saddle”
Smh, no one understands the difference between a king’s time of ruling and the little ropes he uses to control his horse anymore.
Or free rain. English is such a wonderful language isn’t it.
Huh.
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever read that particular phrase before. Free rain. It implies the existence of costly rain.
I’m not sure how anyone would manage that, but it’s fun to ponder :D
Or constrained rain.
Sounds very cyberpunk.
Did you think you can just look at the sky, feel the wind on your hair, or experience the rain on your face? Open up that wallet, because none of that is free, especially the rain. Maximum capitalism…
Space balls was way ahead of its time.
ahead of its time?
Ha, I was half expecting your post to start quoting Roy Batty!
all i can say is that my life is really strange
If you’re worried about homophones, don’t study Japanese
Obligatory RRJ link. Warning: if you know any Japanese this might undo a lot of it.
Some times I wonder if some cosmic aliens had a debate about how many collisions one language can have. One of them probably said: “Hold my beer. Give me a planet and 10 million years. I’ll prove you wrong.”
All that stuff about pyramids being built by aliens was probably just that one alien trying to win a bet by messing around with earth. Maybe Japanese was the end result of that bet.
So you’re saying people confuse his kingdom for a horse?
Neigh!
gneiss
Maybe they don’t give a schist
I hope this pattern flows into the interior design.
Needs an uncomfortably between floors. And I’d love to see a good xenolith in the walls
I didn’t even think of the inside of the building. Every single last trade on that jobsite would be cursing the architect’s name.
It might be easier to just finish the building, hire some drunk business men to haphazardly knock it down then rebuild on top of the ruins
My main university building is essentially made up of
seveneightnine different buildings built in different times with different architectures all joined together in a circle. Whenever you move from one part to another, all the floors shift around and you have to take a few steps up or down (or take a tiny elevator that moves you less than 2 meters).Edit: I lost count. It’s a lot and the borders between them are sometimes fuzzy, sometimes abrupt.
That’s pretty cool! It feels very geology adjacent, I hope they left the walls exposed so you can see the differences
Yeah, both the outside and the inside is still distinctively unique for each of the building parts.
It was torn down years ago, but back in the day Manhattan department store S. Klein’s was built that way. They brought all the buildings on one block, tore down all the non-essential walls on the first floor, and threw up a façade to make it look like one big building. Prices were low, but if you went to the third floor for toys you had to go back to the first floor to get to the third floor cookware section.
I can’t believe I was the first to think of this.
Just wait until someone remembers what breccia looks like.
