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What am I looking at here?
It’s a huge ball they put up in Las Vegas because why the fuck not I guess? It seems to be a huge screen because it was a US flag in the other picture I’ve seen.
“The Sphere” is a new event and concert venue in Las Vegas
https://www.visitlasvegas.com/experience/post/las-vegas-sphere-everything-you-need-to-know/
The smog
Spunch?
I can’t hear youuuu
Who lives in a pie nipple under the sea?
If you can see the sphere, you paid extra for the room and you knew what you were getting into.
Not really. I stayed at the Venetian last year, and my my room didn’t include the sphere view in either the features or as an upcharge. (The sphere is “part of” the Venetian, so they’d be the most likely to advertise rooms with a view.) Their room is quite a bit further than mine was. They may have paid for the strip view, but without specific advertising they probably would not be able to tell ahead of time if they’d have LOS on the sphere.
Scientists: No! It’s impossible to shine a light on the moon bright enough to advertise.
….What if we made our own moon and advertise on that?
scientists said this?
Even if it weren’t true I would definitely tell the advertisers it was.
It would take twice the global output of power to overcome the light from the sun.
But we could put ads during the new moon 🌑→🌚
Was about to post this gem :)
That doesn’t sound impossible.
I heard this thing drains more power than half the homes in Nevada
28 megawatts at peak. Enough power for 21,000 homes.
bUt iTS soLaR!
Also me and my family were gonna go to the sphere and turns out part of it is essentially a climate change lecture, and my family had the collective reaction of “ah yes, let’s discuss climate change in the orb that has enough power to remain easily visible in the direct desert sun”
So yeah that was interesting to hear
If they do say “but it’s solar”, then that’s greenwashing. All power consumption has an opportunity cost: that solar could have gone into the grid and offset some coal power, but instead it’s wasted which means more (or at least… “not less”) coal usage somewhere else. wasting power isn’t fine just because it was renewable. By that logic we could plug all the solar panels in the world into electric space heaters and waste all the power and that would just be fine since “it’s solar”.
I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before this foggy photo, but that thing sure is cyberpunk dystopian, huh?
Name something that isn’t.
Jupiter
Has been under constant surveillance by government satellites.
I have a mole on my ass that looks kind of like a heart
Reminds me of those AI centers that drain the grid and suck up all the municipal water, only to run a fortune in PR about being Green.
As though using a Three Mile Island’s worth of electricity is doing the rest of the world a favor.
We need to invent a device that cancels out the light that comes through a glass window. Like noise canceling headphones but for light
Kinda like tinting a window?
Fun fact, most LED displays will only display a very specific wavelength of light for each primary color, if you can isolate the specific values of red, green, and blue, that the sphere uses in the LEDs in its displays, and get tint/filters for those wavelength ranges, you can effectively “tint” the windows where the sphere would be nearly impossible to see, while almost everything else would be fairly clear.
Almost all other light is broad spectrum, so even a single color item would reflect a much larger range of wavelengths than what the sphere produces, which may make red/green/blue objects less bright through the window, but they will still be observable, while the sphere is basically just black.
Would be interesting to take a look through such a window.
I can guarantee you that there are people researching “variable glass tinting”
That actually already exists. It’s good tech, but more for out of reach areas or where moving parts would be an issue. For a regular home, curtains work better.
I don’t know how America survives without roller shutters. It’s blackout dark in my home whenever I want it to.
A lot of folks use blinds which are abject shit for keeping out light, blackout curtains are becoming more common but its still not the norm. Also im pretty sure the OOP is in a Hotel meaning thet prolly cant do any modifications, also if you want to go to Vegas assuming you have a car stay in one of the satellite towns, Primm, Boulder, or a KOA campground.
Huh Primm is an actual town, figured it was just a made up town from fallout new vegas
Nope its an actual place, most of the locations in NV are based off of real places. Theres even a crashed bomber in lake Mead.
Hotels almost always have blackout curtains.
In my experience they were black out curtains at one point in history, but are no longer due to way too many washes and solar breakdown.
Seems like Vegas is one of the few places that offers them
It makes more sense to outlaw devices that let you see through walls (windows).
You mean like… curtains?
Has science gone too far?
We have those. They’re called walls.
He’s coming for you
It happens
Spunch Bob Sqor Ponts
I chuckled :)
BOBR!
It’s freakbob guys
