Icelandic Company Designs Human Pylons

Lanxon writes "An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant human-shaped pylons carrying electricity cables across the country's landscape, reports Wired. The enormous figures would only require slight alterations to existing pylon designs, says the firm, which was awarded an Honorable mention for its design by the competition's judging board. It also won an award from the Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture competition."

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Re:In 3000 years..

[grasshoppa]

Palin, is that you?

Re:In 3000 years..

[vlm]

A few strategically scattered EMPs and all of those tapes and discs could be as valuable as the plastic they're printed on.

Humorously, the first two examples were paper tape and punch cards. Admittedly a six-digit slashdot UID would not be expected to be able to read those, but at least some of us 5 digit UIDs can. Not by inserting into an orifice but looking at them visually. This is an historically interesting skill for us 5 digit UIDs, kind of like going to a Renaissance Faire, although I'm guessing the 2/3/4 digit folks actually submitted slashdot posts via punchcards in ye olden days.

And as for the plastic comment, the best "paper" tapes were actually made out of mylar, so you were right even when you were wrong, although "best" depends a lot on the gear you use them with, etc. Mylar not so good for certain optical readers, etc.