A thousand years from now it will be an uncompleted and abandoned project that looks like Stonehenge. People will theorize about why it was built and what it was for.
This project started on the
1000th1200th anniversary of the city’s founding. It’s plausible to assume that it can survive another 1000 years.Considering our current trends, I wouldn’t be so sure…
I did say plausible, not necessarily likely
1200th anniversary
Will it though? “Oh, this is where they put spare concrete blocks. You can tell it wasn’t for religious purposes or telling the seasons because it’s so uninteresting.”
The issue is that it will stay flat for a long time. If the second layer of blocks started earlier, it would be more obvious that its an art thing.
This is being built in the town of Wemding which celebrated its 1,200 year anniversary in 1993. The idea was to build something that would take 1,200 years to complete in order to emphasize how long the town has been in existence. People saying its stupid or going to be abandoned are forgetting the town itself has existed for longer.
While the town is that old I promise you that almost nothing looks like it was 1200 years ago. Maybe they can hold on that tradition 100 years but at some point the people won’t bother. Need more space or don’t see the point of it anymore
One is a town and the other thing is random concrete blocks. Yeah, they are equally useful
That’s a nice thought but will the town actually still exist if the population doesn’t? Humans have maybe 120 years left, there’s zero chance of humans finishing this pyramid.
Although if a weird little art installation in a small German town is what gets capitalism to end, I’m all for it.
Not stupid, but I am curious if the type of concrete being used will last 1200 years.
Woah dude, spoilers!
Goddamend time travelers , ruining the future for us!
What graphical visualization software did you use? And which programming language drew this?
Screen shot and YouTube.
See the link cows are underrated posted in this comment section.
What are you on about?
Relevant Matt Parker https://youtu.be/FAdmpAZTH_M
Sounds like they just made the same mistake I did when I hired my contractor.
And they already fucked up(explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAdmpAZTH_M)
Could you please provide transcript of the video in case people don’t want to visit YouTube?
Basically what they did was the following. Each concrete block represents 10 years. They get placed when another decade ends/starts(not to sure). So the problem is the following: when the 1200 years are over they have only placed 119 blocks so the building will be finished in 1210 years. Its the same as with a fence. If you have e.g. 10 Elements of a fence you need 11 posts. The ones who designed this building however didnt count the fence posts(the concrete blocks which mark the end of a decade) and I stead counted the “fence elements” causing the whole thing to be off by 10 years.
shit man if they’re only 10 years late on a public works project they’ll still be average
Also, it already has a mistake https://youtu.be/FAdmpAZTH_M
while that seems like a long time for Germany to build The Pyramids it’s actually only 12 turns and the free granary in every city will really help in the early game
I think the issue is the time span between blocks. Had they done a 1200 block, once a year thing, it would “feel” like progress and something to participate in regularly, even if you will never see the majority of it. Geometrically with the same design to get 1200 blocks I came up with a base of 19 blocks, then every odd number, skipping 11 and 3.
Wikipedia page with the 4th block: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitpyramide
Apparently Germany likes slow things https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt
Interesting.
You beat me to it. Clearly a trend here!
We’ll wipe ourselves out before this can be completed.
Long before…
