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Re: The Sphere

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Post by adrianhon »

dahart wrote: post #45
adrianhon wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author here: I was being overly conservative with the 20m, yes. Assuming the cutaway view in the post is to scale (it's from an architectural firm), it shows the inner screen dome is quite a lot smaller than the exterior structure – perhaps 70-80m tall; so 40-50m might be more accurate.

Oh your statement might be correct, that the average distance to closest point on the screen probably is about 20m, and guaranteed to be less than 1 radius (more like 0.5 radius perhaps.) If the cutaway is accurate, and it probably is, the interior is smaller than it feels like. So I may be underestimating how far away 20m is. I felt further than 20m away standing on the floor, but I probably wasn’t. But, what I’m re…

That's fair – the spherical view does so much!

Re: The Sphere

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Post by aabajian »

If you want a real surreal experience, I suggest visiting Carlsbad Caverns, or a similar enormous cave system. I suspect the awe the author felt was the same sensation as being in an enclosure larger than any building. Think about being in an aircraft hanger then multiple the size by ten. There simply aren't any human-built structures as large. The sky becomes rock and it's just different than any place you've ever been.

Re: The Sphere

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Post by leptons »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #24
leptons wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like there are bathrooms. https://www.thesphere.com/plan-your-visit/maps

> It seems like there are bathrooms. > https://www.thesphere.com/plan-your-visit/maps By the way: In Firefox (127.0.2), Clicking the "View Map" button next to some map just opens an empty tab.

I hope you don't think I made that website. I'm not sure why you would reply to me with a bug report.

Re: The Sphere

#54

Post by lawlessone »

fabbari wrote: post #34
japhyr wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I found this kind of ironic. And the main message was "It's okay, we'll just go out and recreate Adam and Eve on other planets until Earth has had time to heal."

The kicker for me was: only few people are allowed back the recovered Earth. Any guesses about who gets to go back and enjoy a pristine Earth?

> Any guesses about who gets to go back and enjoy a pristine Earth?

The guy who makes electric cars or the one that runs an online catalogue?

Re: The Sphere

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Post by google_expat »

loufe wrote: post #30
google_expat wrote: post #5

It has been renamed from "The Sphere" to the even more pretentious "sphere(tm)".

Is it a matter of pretention or rather them rebranding to open the doors to having more than one "Sphere(tm)"? IIRC the idea for a Sphere(tm) was dropped for London, but keeping "The" in the title, to their credit, does give them impression it is the "one and only".

Proper branding is to skip the capital letters, the name is all lowercase. "sphere(tm)". Owner is a trust fund kid who has no discernible skills and still manages to mismanage everything he's been handed on a silver platter. Pretentious should have been his middle name.

Re: The Sphere

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Post by sandworm101 »

aabajian wrote: post #52

If you want a real surreal experience, I suggest visiting Carlsbad Caverns, or a similar enormous cave system. I suspect the awe the author felt was the same sensation as being in an enclosure larger than any building. Think about being in an aircraft hanger then multiple the size by ten. There simply aren't any human-built structures as large. The sky becomes rock and it's just different than any place you've ever b…

Carlsbad is big, but there are bigger indoor spaces out there. Carlsbad's "big room" is 625 ft wide, and 255 ft high at its highest point. That is big, but things like stadiums get bigger. Carlsbad is long too (4km) but as a cave length isn't really perceptible. NASA's vehicle assembly building is 720 ft by 520 ft and 530 ft high, roughly the same but much higher than Carlsbad.

Tropical Islands Resort is a tropical water park (Germany): 690 feet wide and 351 feet high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Islands_Resort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tropical_Islands_Halbe_14...

Re: The Sphere

#57

Post by dahart »

austin-cheney wrote: post #48

Sooo much whining about the heat outside. God forbid he should have to walk outside knowing its a desert. Its the dry heat, so its really not that bad. The only thing that makes it bad is perception when rapidly changing from artificially cooled air conditioning. With this in mind I also found it perplexing he kept mentioning climate change, probably because he couldn't take the heat. If you get used to the climate y…

Just last night my brother brought up the famous Bill Paxton quote from Aliens…

“It’s hot as hell in here.”

“Yeah, man, but it’s a dry heat”

https://youtu.be/MGSsu6pfOoY

Re: The Sphere

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Post by kkarakk »

bentt wrote: post #42

I am curious how they handle motion sickness, aka "vection" which we are so familiar with now because of VR. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403286/ The basic rule is... don't accelerate the camera, positionally or rotationally, basically ever. You can present constant velocity or rotation, but even then it's risky. It takes a lot of discipline to not move the camera inappropriately in an environment li…

They basically take you out of the sphere viewing area and put you in a room created for that purpose ie a blacked out soundproofed room with 2 chairs in it.

source: my sis got overwhelmed by the sphere's antics and was escorted out to that room. it doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere on their website.

sis said it was a very jank experience overall but it did calm her down.

Re: The Sphere

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Post by kkarakk »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #31

While the sphere is more modern, and features the very hyped exterior LED screen, the concept of a sphere with a cinema screen wrapped inside it is quite old. 30 years ago, la geode already existed in Paris : https://www.lageode.fr/ I got good memories of this as a kid, and if you are in the area, it's definitely a must-do in the city. Especially since it's attached to one of the most fun science museums you'll get t…

the website says the geode closed down in 2018 for renovations. the website was last updated in 2022.

wikipedia says the geode is closed til september 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_G%C3%A9ode.

what kinda shenangigans are going on there?

Re: The Sphere

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Post by arcanemachiner »

leptons wrote: post #53
aleph_minus_one wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It seems like there are bathrooms. > https://www.thesphere.com/plan-your-visit/maps By the way: In Firefox (127.0.2), Clicking the "View Map" button next to some map just opens an empty tab.

I hope you don't think I made that website. I'm not sure why you would reply to me with a bug report.

HN is kinda hard to read on mobile, can you tweak the CSS while you're at it?
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