We haven’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Família
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.
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.
RIch people used to comission great works, but today it seems like they have abandoned that one duty they have.
Pff
butt actually
There’s also the Longaberger Basket building.
This is like something Clarissa’s dad would make in Clarissa’s explains it all
That is National Fisheries Development Board in Hyderabad, India.
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.
There’s a shockingly large, beautiful one in my hometown of Pearland, Texas - the Sri Meenakshi Temple.
It was only the third Hindu temple built in America, and, at least when it was built, it was the only Meenakshi temple outside of India. It’s still a venue for high-profile Hindu weddings.
When it was built, Pearland was a mostly-rural community with a population of about 10,000 (2020 census is around 120,000), and they built this phenomenal temple in the middle of nowhere on McLean road.
Also pretty sure theres a church in Spain that is still being built that was started in the 1500s or some shit and is in the exact same style of gothic architecture as shown above.
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.
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.
Highway systems are also massive.
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.
Warfare science is still science and often has the benefit of funding groups that develop civilian science as well. Civie science doesn’t pay as well as the brass do
Same thing
This is the Large Halibut Collider
I’m already married but can arrange a quickie divorce if you’ll just
I heard there’s a mall in Iceland that from above looks like a man’s wiggly jiggly bit. Forgot what it’s called but it’s still kinda funny.
Forgot what it’s called
Penis. It’s called a penis
You can say “penis” on the internet.
“This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”
Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
Insert Mr. Crabs “Money” meme here.
This is the headquarters of the fishery development board in Hyderabad.
It looks like a fish because they manage the fish there.
First glance I thought someone there was crazy enough to build a home like this. Then I found out it really is a fishy workplace
I love the Fish building!! We pass it every time on the way from the airport.
Nobody is doubting it looks like “a fish”, it’s just it looks like a fish drawn by a 3 years old
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It’s a case of being stupid enough to love it.
Reminds me of Turkmenistan.
Looks like a fish out of water.
When did humans stop building mega-churches?
You’re not going to believe this, but…
Interesting how the entire focus of the stadium is on the preacher himself instead of, for example, the works of Gawwwwwwwewwewd.
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.
