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Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
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#12Wow, how do you make pieces of glass that size?
It looks to me as if they're actually a lot of smaller pieces put together, but maybe I see it incorrectly. Maybe one day, architects will stop designing things that are structural liabilities, or engineers actually get to say no to it before construction starts.
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#14From the guidelines:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
HN really needs a European mod to maintain the quality of this board.
Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#15Link to English article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/huge-cylindric...
> A freestanding cylindrical aquarium housing about 1,500 exotic fish has burst in Berlin, causing a wave of devastation in and around the Sea Life tourist attraction, police have said.
> Glass and other debris were swept out of the DomAquarée complex, which houses a Radisson hotel, a museum, shops and restaurants, as 1m litres of water poured out of the 14-metre-high tank shortly before 6am.
> Operators say the aquarium has the biggest cylindrical tank in the world that contained 1,500 tropical fish of 80 different species before the incident.
> The aquarium, which was last upgraded in 2020, is a big tourist attraction in Berlin. A 10-minute elevator ride through the tank was one of the highlights of the attraction.
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#16That is lot of water. A thousand tonnes. It could do lot worse.
Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#17Wow, how do you make pieces of glass that size?
It looks to me as if they're actually a lot of smaller pieces put together, but maybe I see it incorrectly. Maybe one day, architects will stop designing things that are structural liabilities, or engineers actually get to say no to it before construction starts.
They could make it from concrete.
Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#18Those fish must have taken a battering
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#19Wow, how do you make pieces of glass that size?
They should use transparent aluminium https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_materials#...
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#20Now radisson will have to discount the room prices, once main attraction is gone...