The Large Hadron Collider and the International Space Stations are amazing wonders. It used to be that humanity's most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it's machines for scientific research. Some people apparently have a problem with this, and they're generally not the sort of people I like to be around.
This is the Large Halibut Collider
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Those are exceptions. The majority of our (visible) expensive projects today are homages to power and money
Yep. It’s 2024, and rich men are still funding projects to glorify themselves and assuage their ego.
It used to be that humanity's most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it's machines for scientific research.
I wish that were true, but the world spends far more on machines of war than we spend on science.
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Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.
Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
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Bro have you seen the size of the bridges, stadiums and skyscrapers we build? Fuck it, have you seen the LHC?
Should we start adding spires and arches to hospitals and train stations to get support from the RETVRN crowd?
Yes we should. Our buildings and public places should be covered in art
We could build more, better, more beautiful infrastructure, or we could buy more bombs and let the free market deal with that.
Bigger but at what cost? So many buildings are boring, flat and lifeless e.g.
Seriously, we started building things so massive that you literally can't see all of it at the same time unless you're in the air, riding in a magical skychair.
Unironically yes, please build spires and arches and gargoyles on everything. I want Gothic architecture everywhere please.
Marvels like the Saturn V or JWST should be mentioned here, too.
...I mean...I wouldn't mind it if we did.
The duomo took 600 years to be mostly complete and still has work being done though mostly restoration and maintenance. It has a marble quarry dedicated solely to it. Absolutely magnificent building, I did all the tours a few months ago, loved it.
That is why we don’t build buildings like it anymore, insanely expensive and time consuming. Plus our current rich people would rather rape kids on their massive yachts and private island than commission beauty to be admired by wider society like the wealthy of old.
When did humans stop building mega-churches?
You’re not going to believe this, but…
Every giant stadium is about the same.
A monument to the arrogance of some developer (et al), who then bilk the state/city for the cost.
Pff 
There's also the Longaberger Basket building.
The Vegas orb thing probably qualifies as a wonder.
Do you mean The Ball or The Globe?
According to google I mean the Sphere, apparently?
RIch people used to comission great works, but today it seems like they have abandoned that one duty they have.
Something seems fishy here.
I mean, Sagrada Família im Barcelona is still under construction
That is National Fisheries Development Board in Hyderabad, India.
If anything it's become so commonplace that nobody really cares that much anymore. "Oh look, a cool building. Anyway..."
Idk if this is truly a wonder, but when I heard about it earlier this year I was stunned by how magnificent it looked. NJ opened the largest Hindu temple outside of Asia last fall. It looks crazy.
More proof. It's called the "Bullring", but i always thought it looked like a sperm whale.
In late game, Wonders are for culture and not science victories. We need to put more into one and get the other, as Canada just stole Einstein from me.
There's also this.
If I was a rich person, I'd build a pyramid out of concrete in a more modern style, with the peak being made out of glass for maximum view, as a home.
I realize it's a joke but answering to the first tweet - one could simply post a picture of the Sagrada Familia which is super impressive if you've seen it live and it's still under construction today.
The simple truth is that you have to justify the cost. Art is expensive and generates no quantifiable income. Capitalism is poison.
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You take your date to your apartment and they go "wait you live in a giant fish?"
It's either a massive win or catastrophic loss
I’m seeing Eric cartman saying “I live in a hotdog.”
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