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[Great Order]

Out of simple curiosity:

What's everyone's favourite architectural style?

Art Deco!

Friend!

[delphonso]

Brutalism for the win. Gorrillion folded reinforced concrete slabs arranged in domicile-adjacent shapes make mother nature cry and Fuhrer proud.
That said, I like looking at these, with a 'fuck that's ugly' general vibe going through my head. I wouldn't want to live in one.

I actually like brutalism in the root of the style: exposed materials likee concrete, steel and brick. The shapes that we think of are also alright with me, honestly. I'd be fine to live in a half-finished building apparently.

[King Zultan]

Out of simple curiosity:

What's everyone's favourite architectural style?

Art Deco!

Friend!

Huzza!

[Frumple]

Brutalism for the win. Gorrillion folded reinforced concrete slabs arranged in domicile-adjacent shapes make mother nature cry and Fuhrer proud.
That said, I like looking at these, with a 'fuck that's ugly' general vibe going through my head. I wouldn't want to live in one.

I actually like brutalism in the root of the style: exposed materials likee concrete, steel and brick. The shapes that we think of are also alright with me, honestly. I'd be fine to live in a half-finished building apparently.

I mean, it's finished when the insides aren't exposed to the elements anymore and the desired utilities function. Everything past that point is just extras :V

[EuchreJack]

We call that style Industrial in the States, I think.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_style
I'm actually quite fond of it.

[Il Palazzo]

No, that's interior design. Brutalism is architecture.

[dragdeler]

I probably just like big walls. I prefer roman over gothic but I prefer barroque over both. What's the fanciest architecture style with the biggest walls? Probably that... But not the square shit. Then again who would want to clean a barroque facade, what a pain in the ass that would be. Also buildings that arch over a street to fuse together or something like that? Concerning lack of walls. It makes me anxious just to think how much skyscrapers can move in the wind.

Spoiler: On second thought/inspection, I think greece has had a real touch for style, basically forever. I know it's surrounded by boring urban landscape, but even that could be worse I think... Following my train of thought as I watch this image, I guess california is pretty for the US? Some parts definitly are. (click to show/hide)

[MCreeper]

What is rough relative diffirence between distances at which:
Explosion is audible.
Explosion shakes the house floor (evidently, much bigger than the next one).
Explosion blows out the windows.
You are dead, yo.

I remember there was a site that lists those for nuke explosions...

Asking because I have heard hundreds of booms by now, yet there is no trace of them to be seen. It is baffling. Although, I seldom leavy my house and many of them probably weren't exactly bomb explosions.

[delphonso]

The inverse square law applies as the energy dissipates over wider areas. But there are many other things in play - atmospheric pressure, buildings and stuff in the way, and size of original explosion.

The basic answer is that sound will travel much further than any harmful pressure waves from the explosion. You can hear some artillery from 200 miles away, and volcanos can sometimes be heard even further away. Artillery will blast out windows for a couple city blocks, but again depends on the shot and the builds surrounding the explosion.

[Great Order]

What is rough relative diffirence between distances at which:
Explosion is audible.
Explosion shakes the house floor (evidently, much bigger than the next one).
Explosion blows out the windows.
You are dead, yo.

I remember there was a site that lists those for nuke explosions...

Asking because I have heard hundreds of booms by now, yet there is no trace of them to be seen. It is baffling. Although, I seldom leavy my house and many of them probably weren't exactly bomb explosions.

You're thinking of nukemap, gives you a breakdown of fallout, immediate death, serious injury, minor injury, severe damage, minor damage etc. etc. as well as a death count.

Kind of morbid but interesting site.

[King Zultan]

I remember messing with that site, it was pretty amusing, also learned that even if they dropped the biggest known bombs on the nearby cities I would still be unaffected by everything but the fallout and possibly not by that much of it given the typical wind directions in my area/.

[dragdeler]

Aren't red and green pretty much at opposite ends of the color spectrum? How can a liquid be green if reflecting light, golden green when staining paper, dark red when the sun shines through, and become milky/mocca when adding water? I know they're all just hues of brown, and thats where they join eachother in a dimmly lit room it looks so brown its allmost black, it's still incredibly perplexing.

[McTraveller]

Something that looks green when reflecting light means it is absorbing red and reflecting green.  If you are looking "through" it - enough green got reflected the other way, the only thing left to get to your eyes is red.

Brown actually isn't a spectral color by the way; it's just the name we give particular shades of orange.

[dragdeler]

I saw the technology connections video  but honestly if brown isn't a real color that makes it more confusing that those different tints would aggregate around it. How come this isn't observed more often with all kinds of transculent materials? I might upload some pics later in the evening.

[dragdeler]

Hmmmm... Evidently this is hard to take on picture, the glass allways gets in the way, and the sun is going down anyway but there it is. I tried to focus on color accuracy and not sharpness obviously, but invevitably this allready went through several translation layers before reaching somebody else's eye, I just hope it was all png at least and not jpg.

I guess I found it on the paint colorpalett, it's like somewhere in the yellow circle. But it would seem that we are particularly bad at perceiving nuances at that particular spot of the spectrum... Honestly it all just looks grey down there, not even brown.

Spoiler: bottom left you can really see the difference in the same angle, top right the thing right behind "at the horizon" is a completly white label... and no it's not just caused by the glass while you pour it it shows similar nuances (click to show/hide)