Do you guys like having power? Lol
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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Have you heard of under ground power cables? Or of not that, a slightly neater organization of power cables?
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Not as bad as cars everywhere
Only in backwater countries that still use those antique washing lines that break with every instance of bad weather.
It’s cheaper to repair them all the time than it is to dig to repair them occasionally
If you’re wondering why
Why not just bury a good length of conduit and just repull the line when it has issues?
Yes, but, what if it had even more cables?
Oh. I guess they could take the sky from me.
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I actually kind of enjoy powerlines and junction boxes. There's a level of engineering that is both rough and delicate that is magnified by how orderly and chaotic they are alike.
Now if the power lines are at the expense of a view through trees, that'd be more a bummer. Likewise if the trees remain that's a hazard waiting to happen, which is also a bummer.
Buried lines and conduit pipe are preferable in most cases and share similar aesthetic characteristics.
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Gainax AF.
This is like the R. Crumb style
I think clean power lines look nice. I'd definitely prefer them to a butterfly killing roadway or lighted poles that create light pollution and confuse wildlife.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/what-s-killing-monarchs-our-roads
Plant the fields, not the roadways, got it
This but unironically.
Fuck appeals to nature.
I love nature. Termite mounds are nature, honeycombs are nature, spiderwebs are nature. Humans are a part of nature and our infrastructure is a part of who we are.
Carving out exceptions for human artifacts like this takes for granted that a bunch of arboreal primates figured out how to melt down the rocks themselves to extract their purest essence, then wound that essence into ropes that contain the lightning we learned to generate ourselves to power the many other artifacts we developed to bring light into our dwellings, communicate with primates on the other side of the planet, and automate the menial tasks of our lives.
While certainly selfish and misguided at times, everything we make is nature, just as much as honeycombs and spiderwebs.
Honestly, to me the ironic part is the power lines in this artwork are unappealing to me because of the artist not the subject matter. It seems they don't know what all the lines are or where they go or how they work, so when I look at it and do know what it's supposed to look like, this just looks like a mess that makes zero sense. The artist has created some sort of electrical fire hazard.
I've seen some polls significantly worse than that, but not in a developed country.
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Oh, I just watched that episode of Serial Experiments Lain.
The highways are even worse.
Check out the photography by Alex Hyner for some amazing skies between the power lines
This was the first thing I thought of, but couldn't remember the artists name - thank you!