Creepy High Voltage Installations (Thanks, Bill!)
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They're also quite effective against armor but are entirely susceptable to air strikes.
Damn. At first glance that looked like a really great tube water slide.
Frankenpunk
Sure that's not just my old "pipes" screensaver?
You fools! Those are Tesla coils!
Looks like a MegaMan level.
Why is this considered creepy?
Where are the wires?
The vertical parts remind me of tarantula legs.
More trippy Russian design aesthetic. (Is that a series of tubes?)
You see 'creepy high-voltage tower'.
I see 'awesome sci-fi movie set'!
That's Ted Stevens' internet!
Oooh. Pretty.
(I like epic-size artwork. If it's functional, so much the better.)
WANT!
And a hydroelectric dam to power it...
Every time it rained they probably had to wait a week for the thing to dry out before using it.
#5:
You beat me to it. It was exactly what I thought, damn!
Creepy? What are these located in Russia's Uncanny Valley?
Unless the one in Baghdad is online, nobody can control the weather.
As a Slavic Russian let me chime in: Russian cultural products seem creepy to North Americans and Europeans because Russians openly and persistently ruminate on our mortality, which comes across in our literature, art, playground equipment, and the like.
The weirdness is reciprocal, however: How in the hell can you be so enamored by Obama, who is a fragile mortal leading a short, brutish life? ... Dick Cheney, now, that is a soul to relate to...
#18 I must be a Slavic Russian at heart because I completely relate your sentiment. Maybe I'm just a malcontent,
its like a giant waterslide, only with electricity! fun times!
It's a futuristic jail. The inmates are in the black pods.
Looks like a Marx generator.
There are a few similar structures used for particle physics experiments in the US -- 36 Marx generators power Sandia's Z Machine, while a pair of similar-looking Cockcroft-Walton generators serve as one of Fermilab's particle sources.
viva russia