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Piranesi's dungeons and other fantasy ruins have always been a favorite of mine: https://www.google.de/search?q=piranesi+dungeon&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-ppyngMDSAhUKEiwKHdrPAAUQ_AUICCgB&biw=1440&bih=732
Remind you of Honey? I need of rubber, or in lack of it some engineers came up with this idea:
https://i.imgur.com/6c3Fv7B.png http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WW1-Germasn-Bicycle-Victoria-Springwheel-091.jpg 1st is car tires, 2nd one is for a bike. as is obvious. If a building is a "listed building" then it has to be maintained as much as possible. You can build around or in the structure but you can't alter it.
No, that is not quite right. If a building is 'listed' it is not under any kind of preservation order. It simply means that you have to apply for permission to undertake certain works, and that permission may or may not be given.
Listed buildings can be demolished (with approval), which is why unscrupulous owners actually stop maintaining them in the hopes that they fall into such disrepair that demolishion becomes the only viable option. You will find many ruins in the UK that are listed but they will continue to deteriorate and will eventually collapse simply because the cost of renovating them outweighs the value of the property. There will be no onus to rebuild if it collapses naturally. You will also find many examples of buildings remaining empty for years only to suddenly suffer instananeous combustion, and miraculously a block of flats appears almost overnight in its place! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/playlists
These vids provide some great insight into general cosmology and theories like Dyson Spheres/Swarms, faster than light travel and general Fermi Paradox problems. Megastructures, a possible space elevator, transhumanism, Kardashev-scale civs, colonizing planets, the Drake equation, the Alcubierre drive and wormholes. Even the Simulation Hypothesis by Nick Bostrom gets a good treatment. Mindblowing stuff, subsribe now! Isaac has a weird pronunciation because of a birthdefect(? i think), he cannot pronunciate the "R" as normal people can. All vids have subs though, it is more easy to follow him this way. "As I said, human beings are 70+ years into an on-going experiment to see if they can adapt or evolve to handle their weapon's technology. So far, so good. But let's remember that we are a long way from the edge of this tightrope. These might not even be the most powerful weapons we are creative enough to invent. And the systems we have in place still have human beings involved, which is one of those variables that makes it tough to think that we can go another 100, 30 or so years, and have the human story end with the words '...and we lived happily, ever after.'" Dan Carlin
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