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Skiing Everything But Snow
PaybackYeah, I was wondering if that was the real Great Wall, or the set they created for that Matt Damon flick.
How much of that is real and how much is video editing? It would be hard to imagine he got permission to damage culturally significant sites.
Should we Build a Wall? Great Walls through History
antIt's on http://videosift.com/video/Should-we-Build-a-Wall-Great-Walls-through-History now.
Should we Build a Wall? Great Walls through History
MilkmanDan jokingly says...I am attempting to play Devil's Advocate and argue that while none of those walls really did much to serve their design goal of keeping "others" out, they may have been "successful" in other ways. This is what I came up with:
Hadrian's Wall: Served as the inspiration for The Wall in A Song of Fire and Ice / Game of Thrones. GoT is awesome, so ... totally worth it.
The Great Wall of China: Did essentially nothing to keep out Mongols, and up to a million or so people died making it, but hey -- today it is one of the biggest draws for tourism into China. China made $618 billion in tourism in 2015 alone, so surely it has already covered the adjusted-for-inflation cost to build it of $380 billion!
The Atlantic Wall: Sure, the Allies broke through it in Normandy in one day. But it forced them to plan how and where to attack it for months, and did result in ~10,000 Allied deaths compared to ~6,000 Germans.
However, that is tiny compared to the really bloody battles of WW2 like Stalingrad (~1.5 million dead), basically the result of Russia using their people as an expendable "meat wall" against the far better-equipped Germans.
...Hmmm -- maybe instead of a literal wall, we should follow a similar approach and just throw lots of expendable bodies at our border with Mexico. I suggest starting with 435 utterly worthless people (US Congressmen) and 55,600 functionally worthless people (TSA employees). Everybody wins!
Conan’s Border Wall Pledge Drive
criticalthud says...https://videosift.com/video/Great-WALLS
Spawn - The Rise of Image Comics
00Scud00 says...I don't know if I qualify as a purist but I wouldn't have any problem with someone reading digital comics. Hell, I could even see some benefits to the digital format (glances back at the Great Wall of China, in short boxes), but for me, going to the comic store on Fridays is just such an ingrained behavior.
I love both Saga and Black Science, and I have also enjoyed another Image title called East of West.
I never really got into Spawn and Rob Liefeld... well, google Rob Liefeld and the first result is The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings.
It's also kind of ironic that despite Image's entire raison d'etre being "creator's rights", they ended up in a legal battle with Neil Gaiman over a character Gaiman created for McFarlane.
That said, Image are putting out some amazing work these days. If you like comics or sci-fi and you're not reading Saga or Black Science, you're missing out. Seriously, go read them now.
Side note: I know purists probably hate digital comics, and as someone who owns 5 volumes of Ultimate Sandman, I do like a real book, but digital comics are goddamn awesome.
The Great Wall - Official Trailer #2
transmorpher says...They have to use it more than once, so that it will pay off I'd say.
But if they wanted to make a suspenseful movie about a Great Wall, they should have made it about the Great Wall utility trucks they sell in Australia without airbags. You never know when someone might die in that Great Wall
Did they use the same software they used for the DayZ seen with the Israeli wall scenes?
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Is reality real? Call of Duty May Have the Answer
GenjiKilpatrickRealistically recreating human consciousness - along with every event in the universe - is no small task.
It would require:
- quantum computing
- a data storage room the size of texas (if not all north america)
- easily more energy than is consumed by the entire planet in a year
So stating - "only one person would need to experience that simulation"..
..is like saying - "you would only need one person",
to recreate the Great Wall & Pyramids & Grand Canyon & Himalayas, etcetera..
Sure, I guess. But the amount of time & energy make it extremely improbable.
..Much more likely the civilization would collapse first.
The guy even concedes that point multiple times.
you would only need to make the simulation,,,for one person..
Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends - ThePianoGuys
lucky760That's really cool. Surprisingly, I don't think I've ever seen a grand piano on the Great Wall of China before.
Inside the World's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
uberzipThey have an alpine slide at one of the great wall sites near Beijing - it's really fun but pretty dangerous. The employees just yell at you to go faster too, which is pretty funny.
Now, That's performance art (read description).
Samaelsmith says...I have no problem with using themselves or their love in their art. Indeed some of the best art comes from just that. By all means examine and put love on display, that's what makes this particular piece so moving. What bothers me is the purposeful decision to never see each other again after that one final hug. The finality of that decision done in such a public way seems extraneous, only neccessary for the art piece.
I have no way of knowing what their feelings towards one another really are so my interpretation is pure conjecture. It could be said that I shouldn't judge but this is supposed to be art and one of the mainstays of art is that viewers can take away from the piece what they will. What stuck with me about the Great Wall bit was the denial of possible futures for the sake of one performance and putting first that display ahead of their relationship and their true feelings. If they can do that then I question even the whole extent of their love, which I'm guessing was probably not their intent. This is what offends my delicate sensibilities.
Thankfully they didn't stick to that contrived agreement. If they had, this encounter would never have happened and they would have done a great disservice to themselves and their obvious feelings towards one another.
Now, That's performance art (read description).
Stormsinger"they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again."
That sure sounds like an agreement to never see each other again, to me. Hell, that's what the frikkin sentence SAYS... If that wasn't the case, the fault for my misinterpretation has to lie pretty heavily on the writer of that sentence.
what agreement? there wasn't a contract saying "NEVER SEE ME AGAIN!" they just parted ways and hadn't seen each other in like, 40 years. I don't understand why you're upset at that.
Now, That's performance art (read description).
StormsingerI'm not sure what else one would expect from a couple of professional (melo)drama queens...
"When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again." Who in their right mind lives their life this way? And then violates the agreement in public, without warning?
QI: What can be Seen from the Moon?
deathcow>> ^Drachen_Jager:
>> ^deathcow:
But those photons aren't man made.
Neither are the photons reflecting off of the Great Wall. So, by your logic, nothing man-made can be seen from any distance.
touche
QI: What can be Seen from the Moon?
Drachen_Jager says...>> ^deathcow:
But those photons aren't man made.
Neither are the photons reflecting off of the Great Wall. So, by your logic, nothing man-made can be seen from any distance.