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would you climb this?
Much of the American northwest depends on their lumber industries that supply wood to building homes. If homes are no longer made in wood, it'll cripple several state economies.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45139235]Much of the American northwest depends on their lumber industries that supply wood to building homes. If homes are no longer made in wood, it'll cripple several state economies.[/QUOTE]
That sucks for them, but to use a clearly inferior material just because an economy is based on it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Timber built houses trap carbon. They then plant more trees and trap more carbon.
[QUOTE=autodesknoob;45106901]is this real
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We sold these at the pond and fountain place I used to work at. It was always great to see kids come in and just stare at this pile of burning glass. It radiates heat a bit better than regular wood burning pits, but it's not a huge difference.
[QUOTE=Kommodore;45128850]and the fact that you can see beneath the foundation doesn't exactly bode well[/QUOTE]
A lot of houses in coastal areas are actually built up on stilts for this exact reason. My family would occasionally take trips to the Outer Banks, NC and all the houses there are like this. The house we would always stay at almost collapsed twice from erosion in the past 15 years but the government keeps rebuilding the beach back out to where it was.
[Something artsy about it being tides on a longer scale goes here]
NASA and their Astronomy Picture Of The Day program have released an interactive heatmap of all their pictures over 19 years.
(Had to wait a day so it was added to the archive.)
[url]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140616.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45139235]Much of the American northwest depends on their lumber industries that supply wood to building homes. If homes are no longer made in wood, it'll cripple several state economies.[/QUOTE]
I'm from the PNW and this is a huge overstatement. The west coast in general makes its money on tech and executive corporate bullshit.
Clearcutting and logging was kicked in the balls and died in the 70s or something. Logging towns barely exist anymore.
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Microsoft, Valve, Intel, Nike, North Face, Starbucks, Amazon, Boeing are just ones off the top of my head
I really like those concrete houses, even though the interior feels kinda cold and the exterior is, well, a bit crude looking. Probably wouldn't mind living in one though :v:
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45131733]Because in a coastal town like that, looks are everything. Efficiency and safety be damned when it comes to homes; if it's not pretty then people don't want it.
If they have eyesore houses, then tourism will drop because of the ugly scenery, and if the tourism drop, then the town's main industry dies and falls back to it's roots of being a nothing but a small fishing town.[/QUOTE]
Looks only matter in high class neighborhoods and with hotels. You can put a piece of shit dump shack on the beach where I live and it'll be worth $750,000, put it on the other side of the highway, $100k
And I don't know if this is the reason, or a reason at all to be honest, but a concrete building, reinforced or not, on the coast isn't a great idea for a small home because the land under it moves quite a bit, and it would start cracking in places.
A sinkhole opened up just down the road from me the other week, took out half the highway. During a long series of storms they opened up everywhere
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And it being a sandy/clay heavy area is why. You'd need to build supports that go deep under ground to avoid it
I like it when houses are made out of unusual things, like old railcars or shipping containers.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45139235]Much of the American northwest depends on their lumber industries that supply wood to building homes. If homes are no longer made in wood, it'll cripple several state economies.[/QUOTE]
Entire Finnish economy was heavily built on paper and forest industry back in the day.
Downfall of the paper has caused Finnish economy to shift more on high tech, and the paper/forest companies are now building biodiesel plants which uses lumber and paper by-products as raw material.
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[video=youtube;XOG9Q0sQ6TY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOG9Q0sQ6TY[/video][/QUOTE]
I'm not sure why I found that as cringeworthy as I did.
They look so awkward just standing around and pointing their tiny guns at him.
[QUOTE=revan740;45142950]I'm not sure why I found that as cringeworthy as I did.[/QUOTE]
Maybe, but that Grievous costume is still incredible.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;45143715]Maybe, but that Grievous costume is still incredible.[/QUOTE]
All of those costumes are absolutely magnificent. I've always wanted a realistic trooper armor set. But alas, I don't think I'd do this weird mock LARP session unless it was a Disney parade or something.
The Grievous was amazing, none the less.
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[QUOTE]Temples for Future Religions
François Garas (1866-1925), a mysterious architect of whom little is known, got his diploma in 1894 and until 1914, when he retired, took part in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. There he presented utopian compositions, [I]Artists’ Interiors[/I] or [I]Temples for Future Religions[/I] dedicated to Beethoven, Wagner, Life, Death, Thought… but none of these projects would ever see completion. Exalted, dreamlike, Garas’ works endeavoured to translate ideas, feelings and musical rhythms into architecture.
A friend of Tony Garnier’s (1869-1948) and Henri Sauvage (1873-1932), he took part with them and other rebellious architects in an exhibition organised in 1896 by Le Barc de Boutteville under the leadership of Frantz Jourdain, entitled Impressions d’architectes.
He caught public attention with each Salon and Arsène Alexandre, a journalist for Le Figaro and one of the severest architecture critics, praised him in 1899 in the following terms: “At the Champ de Mars, there are few really new works apart from the M. Garas’s project for a temple, fantastical and mighty.” Contrasting with the materialistic world of his contemporaries, he took refuge in an unreal world without constraints, giving free rein to his dreams, and devoted his time to the cult of Beauty, of Art and the Absolute, eventually to get lost in the infinity of his creations.[/QUOTE]
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3 Ordinary Things Under a Microscope.
Chalk
[t]http://i.imgur.com/fCZRAJs.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/FX9JQAs.jpg[/t]
Orange Juice
[t]http://i.imgur.com/HH5LNBR.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Lleayt6.jpg[/t]
Kosher Salt
[t]http://i.imgur.com/7Wtr4pN.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/yXgCWLD.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://i.imgur.com/yXgCWLD.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Looks like an old Aztec/mayan/incan temple.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;45153857]Looks like an old Aztec/mayan/incan temple.[/QUOTE]
Any old pyramid type structure anywhere as they exist all over the world and not just in southamerica*
Or bismuth.
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I love Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain concept art! Great find!
[QUOTE=CaptainHijacks;45154735]Any old pyramid type structure anywhere as they exist all over the world and not just in southamerica*
Or bismuth.[/QUOTE]
There are very distinct differences between these pyramis from different civilizations.
[QUOTE=CaptainHijacks;45154735]Any old pyramid type structure anywhere as they exist all over the world and not just in southamerica*
Or bismuth.[/QUOTE]
That doesn't really make his statement wrong.
May be old gold:
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[QUOTE]Nate,
I overheard your phone conversation with Mike last night about your plans to come out to me. The only thing I need you to plan is to bring home OJ and bread after class. We are out, like you now.
I've known you were gay since you were six. I've loved you since you were born.
- Dad
P.S. Your mom and I think you and Mike make a cute couple.[/QUOTE]
I can't wrap my head around a parent that would forsake their own flesh and blood just because of their sexual preference.
It's your own child, for crying out loud.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45158238]I can't wrap my head around a parent that would forsake their own flesh and blood just because of their sexual preference.
It's your own child, for crying out loud.[/QUOTE]
it's because people are born with the idea that straight = the way to live and they had that idea stamped in their head since birth
[QUOTE=Recurracy;45158274]it's because people are born with the idea that straight = the way to live and they had that idea stamped in their head since birth[/QUOTE]
I can understand having a bias toward "people", but those are more or less strangers you really don't know well, that's not your own flesh and blood.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;45158238]I can't wrap my head around a parent that would forsake their own flesh and blood just because of their sexual preference.
It's your own child, for crying out loud.[/QUOTE]
What if your child was a pedophile or into beastiality.
And no I'm not trolling. Homosexuality hasn't always been widely accepted, and the parents may have received a different education, in a different time, and have different views on homosexuality. There's your explantaion.
And really, who's to say that in fifty years your grandkids won't be marrying animals? Yes, today it seems horrible and against nature. It was the same way with homosexuality a few decades ago for a lot of people.
(For the record I'm not arguing for or against homosexuality or some other bullshit, but just trying to provide an explanation as to why some people can't stand the idea of their child being gay. I myself don't give a fuck.)
When I came out I got showered with congratulations from my family who were so happy that I was finally able to accept myself. However, I personally know far too many people who have been ostracised because of it or who are too afraid to do it.
Relatives build up an image of who they think you are as you grow up with them. Sadly for many, coming out shatters that image due to associations, ignorance and misconceptions about being gay and causes them to freak out.
That's why you get so much of "you're not my son/daughter any more". They see you as an entirely different person- one that they do not feel they love.
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