I had no idea this existed - all those visits to Berlin, wasted.
Looks like it was a remarkable elevator ride.
Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact an object is stationary doesn't mean forces aren't continuously being applied... Same goes for bridges and every load bearing object.
Bridges are outdoor subject to weather the forces of wind and the weight and harmonics of vehicles and people crossing them constantly. A fish tank a relatively constant by comparison.
The fish were having a race.
Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#83Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#84According to a german news report [1], it could be due to material fatigue. [1] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/12/berlin-karl-li...
If it's due to material fatigue it's due to engineering failure. That in turn may or may not be due to the yes-men promotion mechanism.
> yes-men promotion mechanism
huh?
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#85Weird. Earlier today I awoke from a nap after strange dreams and attempted to produce images in midjourney of a giant aquarium breaking. I must psychic or something.
Shit happens with my wife All. The. Time. We're rational enough to mostly chalk it up to coincidence or selection bias, but not calculating enough to take advantage of gullible people (Edited to mention selection bias)
It's Midjourney. It has me wandering the uncanny valley for hours every day, there is so much undiscovered country. My sleep is disrupted. I'm in an altered state and I'm more tuned to recognizing coincidences and generally making associations between images that may or may not be floating around in the latent space.
Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact an object is stationary doesn't mean forces aren't continuously being applied... Same goes for bridges and every load bearing object.
Bridges are outdoor subject to weather the forces of wind and the weight and harmonics of vehicles and people crossing them constantly. A fish tank a relatively constant by comparison.
Gravity.
Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#87Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that ? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...
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Most fishtanks have to stay in a pretty narrow range of temperatures or the fish die. A big professional installation like this I expect will have both water heating and water cooling (aircon, but for water).
And in a glass fishtank, the glass is in good thermal contact with the water, but bad thermal contact with the room air - so the glass will end up being at fishtank temperature.
So, unless they had extracted all the fish and turned the tank heating off, I don't think what you say is true.
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#88That's a real shame only a few fish survived. It's fortunate only two people hurt. That looks nasty from the picture. Maybe next time less brittle acrylic. Off the top of my head a 14 m high tower of water - there would have been approx 20 psi at the bottom of the tank.
Just fyi - acrylic is actually less brittle than glass.
The proper matetial to use is transparent aluminium [0] though.
Re: Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin
#89Considering there was a hotel lobby under the aquarium, it's actually a miracle that only 2 people were hurt. Too bad for the fish though. Also, there's a sentiment of "how could this happen, it was only upgraded two years ago?!" in all the articles I have read so far - maybe it happened precisely because of that ? But let's see what the investigation will reveal...
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It's filled with tropical fish, so surely the water would have been at a decent temperature - definitely nowhere near freezing. The thing was in a fancy hotel lobby too (I was there once for an Apple event), I doubt they'd let the place go down to such low temperatures.
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#90Link 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 o…
> 14-metre-high tank > 10-minute elevator ride through the tank That's 1.4 meters per minute, or ~2.3 centimeters per second. The aquarium and the fish in it must have been marvelous to watch, because otherwise even imagining being stuck in an elevator moving at this pace feels terrifyingly boring to think about.
It's a tourist attraction as part of the aquarium, not a tool to get from A to B; the hotel had its own regular elevator.