BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[First Aspect]

Are you talking about Harry Potter or the Hunger Games.

Either way it irks me that people like this are now getting paid as artictects now we don't need as much artwork for sci fi paperbacks or comics.

 

[Pblakeney]

Are you talking about Harry Potter or the Hunger Games.

Either way it irks me that people like this are now getting paid as artictects now we don't need as much artwork for sci fi paperbacks or comics.

Harry Potter, amongst others.

 

[briantrumpet]

Are you talking about Harry Potter or the Hunger Games.

Either way it irks me that people like this are now getting paid as artictects now we don't need as much artwork for sci fi paperbacks or comics.

Did Richard Rogers accelerate this trend, doing fancy-looking fantasies, then, once he'd won the contract, charging real architects and engineers to turn them into buildable structures?

Or am I being unfair? Shame RJSterry isn't on here to be offended (or to agree).

 

[briantrumpet]

Breaking news...

 

[First Aspect]

There will not be people living on the moon in 10 years. And if there are, they won't still be living in 20 years.

 

[C R]

Breaking news...

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Some backpedalling there, considering he had said we would be living on Mars round about now.

 

[briantrumpet]

There will not be people living on the moon in 10 years. And if there are, they won't still be living in 20 years.

There are quite strong arguments for living in a place where if you step out of your residence you don't immediately die.

 

[briantrumpet]

Some backpedalling there, considering he had said we would be living on Mars round about now.

Maybe he'd run out of ketamine yesterday.

 

[Pblakeney]

Breaking news...

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Isn't it bleeding obvious that if they put the same resources into saving this planet there wouldn't be any need to move to an inhospitable planet/moon?

 

[briantrumpet]

Isn't it bleeding obvious that if they put the same resources into saving this planet there wouldn't be any need to move to an inhospitable planet/moon?

Yeah, but that'd be all wokey dokey, and where's the fun in that?

 

[PurplePenguin]

Someone obviously thought that HS2 is going so well that a loop railway connecting major cities the British Isles with *two* tunnels under the Irish sea would be viable.

Rail expert Jon Worth says the bleedin' obvious in response.

https://jonworth.eu/loop-line-to-connnect-british-and-irish-cities/

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It would be nice if government's could dream a bit bigger, but this seems a bit unrealistic.

 

[CXRAndy]

Isn't it bleeding obvious that if they put the same resources into saving this planet there wouldn't be any need to move to an inhospitable planet/moon?

Why would the smartest people want to help the liberal woke lefties. All they want to do these days is destroy

 

[Ian H]

The trouble with having only a tenuous grasp of the English language and punctuation, is that your meaning might not quite be as you intended.

 

[CXRAndy]

The trouble with having only a tenuous grasp of the English language and punctuation, is that your meaning might not quite be as you intended.

 

[BoldonLad]

Someone obviously thought that HS2 is going so well that a loop railway connecting major cities the British Isles with *two* tunnels under the Irish sea would be viable.

Rail expert Jon Worth says the bleedin' obvious in response.

https://jonworth.eu/loop-line-to-connnect-british-and-irish-cities/

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It's just an Architectural Firm's 2025 "look at us - we have amazing ideas" pamphlet.
https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/the-loop-chris-williamson-high-speed-railway/

It's an idea from WW+P who are working in Saudi on the Neom rail line. The bridges / tunnels across the Irish sea are just one of the many, many, many reasons this would never happen. Their "concept" involves an almost 90 mile long tunnel / bridge between Bangor and Dublin, and one a similar length from Belfast to Glasgow cutting across the Isle of Arran and Holy Island.

Nothing says unspoilt area of natual beauty like a farking great raised railway (raised for no apparent reason here)
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This bloke was out for a hike, following a foot path:
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"Fark me, who put this monstrosity there?"

Look Gina - this used to be a castle 1000 years old and unspoiled countryside, then some Moron went and built a high speed rail line 20 metres away
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It doesn't exactly inspire confidence in their judgement or seriousness.

But, but, but....That first one already has an existing raised elevation railway line.
It's even been used in many movies.

Are you talking about Harry Potter or the Hunger Games.

Either way it irks me that people like this are now getting paid as artictects now we don't need as much artwork for sci fi paperbacks or comics.

It may not impress as an Engineering project, but, as an advert perhaps it is not without merit, got noticed, got you talking about it…. Not a bad start?