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I dunno, we've built stuff on dumber places. A bunch of Boston is built on piles of junk they heaped into the harbor.
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Ashcans posted:I dunno, we've built stuff on dumber places. A bunch of Boston is built on piles of junk they heaped into the harbor. That’s also true of New York and San Francisco and scores more coastal metropoles.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:07 |
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Chicago is built on the ruins of the great fire and much of the lakefront is garbage infill
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:28 |
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There are roads in Singapore that were on the coast once that now have blocks of skyscrapers on both sides. The big casino and it's attached mall are on the ocean side of a reclaimed bay that has been converted from salt to fresh water as they covered the outlet.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:49 |
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The same is true for large parts of Monaco. Large being relative because it's tiny.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 01:58 |
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Crappy and awesome at the same time Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 02:55 |
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drgitlin posted:True, but a marsh is not a swamp. Ah, close enough for purposes of construction. A marsh is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is grass, a swamp is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is trees. It's just as dumb to try to build on one as the other.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:27 |
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I was fine til I scrolled to the exposed rebar
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:34 |
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Phanatic posted:Ah, close enough for purposes of construction. A marsh is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is grass, a swamp is a body of standing water where the principal vegetation is trees. It's just as dumb to try to build on one as the other. What if the principal vegetation is palms, which resemble trees but are actually grasses?
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Youth Decay posted:Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what. I'm really digging the half Hitler's occult sun-worship temple, half Taliban-hideout motif.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:43 |
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What are you yabba dabba doing?
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:49 |
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: the house
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:50 |
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Platystemon posted:What if the principal vegetation is palms, which resemble trees but are actually grasses? Then it's beachfront property
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 03:53 |
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Tunicate posted:Then it's beachfront property
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 04:29 |
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Youth Decay posted:Crappy and awesome at the same time Pretty sure this is where Luke Skywalker grew up op
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 05:40 |
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I'm thinking it's supposed to be Flintstones House
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 05:50 |
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brugroffil posted:I'm thinking it's supposed to be Flintstones House Please don't mock my modern stone-age family fanfic.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 06:23 |
Looks like a cougar habitat at a zoo or something.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 06:37 |
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > DIY & Hobbies > Crappy Construction Tales: like a cougar habitat at a zoo or something
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Ashcans posted:I dunno, we've built stuff on dumber places. A bunch of Boston is built on piles of junk they heaped into the harbor. Seattle too. When it was settled, the entire city was in a coastal mud flat, either at or below sea level, with no underground plumbing or stable water pressure. And all the buildings made out of wood! Perfect fodder for a Great Fire in 1889 that basically leveled the city because all of the above made firefighting impossible. After the fire, they decided to do a massive regrading project to raise the entire downtown area by 22 feet. Most of it they filled with dirt from hydrosluicing out a nearby hill, but some of it was just landfill garbage. This has caused all sorts of subsidence problems in the long run.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 07:26 |
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ullerrm posted:When it was settled Seattled. If it helps, most of London is built on skeletons.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 07:46 |
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Youth Decay posted:Sold as-is cash only of course. I can't tell if it's a hippy shrine thing or if it was meant to be a house but fell into disrepair or what.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 09:36 |
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Jaded Burnout posted:Seattled. The whole island is basically a graveyard.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 13:28 |
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Youth Decay posted:Crappy and awesome at the same time Based on some clues like "tons of natural lighting", "high producing well", "room for a large garden", and how it looks as though the house is meant to be buried once completed to help regulate temperature without needing electricity, I'm guessing this is meant to be as self-sufficient as possible either for hippie or prepper reasons. Why would such a labor of love be abandoned? Well I have a guess about that too. Looks a hell of a lot more recent than the house, when the person started building there was likely forest or field back there. Soon as the school went up the now very upset hippie/prepper probably bailed.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 14:03 |
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Youth Decay posted:Crappy and awesome at the same time I like it. Catch is, I'd have to get divorced to live there. Well, and move to Eugene.
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Youth Decay posted:Crappy and awesome at the same time I have to wonder what possessed someone to say "You know what? I'd like to live in Luke's house from the beginning of Star Wars!"
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I wish that I could make out what's on the whiteboard, it probably holds answers to so many questions. The abandoned 'concrete decor' catalogue/poster is a nice touch.
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Space Skeleton posted:Based on some clues like "tons of natural lighting", "high producing well", "room for a large garden", and how it looks as though the house is meant to be buried once completed to help regulate temperature without needing electricity, I'm guessing this is meant to be as self-sufficient as possible either for hippie or prepper reasons. Went back on google earth's timeline, and that school's been there since at least 1994. It looks like they were building this...thing in 2011 maybe?
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 15:54 |
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brugroffil posted:Went back on google earth's timeline, and that school's been there since at least 1994. It looks like they were building this...thing in 2011 maybe? Zillow says the house was built in 1988.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 17:21 |
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Collateral Damage posted:I'm going to guess it was meant to be a house, but never finished. Then it fell into disrepair and/or was squatted. I'm thinking unfinished, given the exposed wiring left long, and I think the exposed rebar is meant to anchor more of the sculpted "rock" on the walls. It would probably be pretty nifty with paint, tile and other finished treatments.
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 20:53 |
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Messing around in Google Earth Engine and using Landsat data and it looks like that school was built a few years after the hobbit/cougar hab. Can't hide from Landsat. The center school building started in 1990 or so, then 2009 for the one on the right and 2016 for the one on the left, but Sentinel data disputes that last one. I could be mistaken though on all of this. https://earthengine.google.com/ Mercury Ballistic fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Sep 25, 2017 |
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Iron Crowned posted:I have to wonder what possessed someone to say "You know what? I'd like to live in Luke's house from the beginning of Star Wars!"
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# ? Sep 25, 2017 21:39 |
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Yawgmoth posted:how the hell else am I gonna become a jedi if I don't start out as a moisture farmer in the middle of nowhere You could definitely farm a lot of moisture near Eugene.
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# ? Sep 26, 2017 00:57 |
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Platystemon posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > DIY & Hobbies > Crappy Construction Tales: like a cougar habitat at a zoo or something it is so
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Jordanis posted:You could definitely farm a lot of moisture near Eugene. The market is saturated!
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Jaguars! posted:The market is saturated! Quit raining on his parade. He's got an entrepreneurial idea he's willing to go for! He's finding the silver lining.
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# ? Sep 26, 2017 03:05 |
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i hate you so drat much
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# ? Sep 26, 2017 03:14 |
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SoundMonkey posted:i hate you so drat much Ummmm, thanks?
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SoundMonkey posted:it is so yessssss
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don't be such a wet blanket, you old sod
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