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    Yesterday's House Of The Future Went Cheap

    How Star Wars Changed Architecture

    Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery

    Niiice: Borat's Homeland Gets A Space Pyramid

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    08/18/09

    In reply to Yesterday's House Of The Future Went Cheap
    There's also one adjacent to north west Balboa Park, in San Diego.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/18/09

    In reply to Yesterday's House Of The Future Went Cheap
    These things are cool, but I wouldn't call $50K "cheap". They're really more like cabins than houses, and not all that mobile unless you have the helicopter that was intended for transport... They're pretty dang wide for towing.
    -Kle.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    08/18/09

    In reply to Yesterday's House Of The Future Went Cheap
    The Jitterbug Atom (#6) reminds me of the movie Demon Seed, where the supercomputer Proteus uses wedge shaped blocks to kill.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    08/17/09

    In reply to Yesterday's House Of The Future Went Cheap
    Wow, that crappy looking plastic furniture didn't sell? What a shocker.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/17/09

    In reply to Yesterday's House Of The Future Went Cheap
    Nooo! I wanted a Buckminster Fuller diagram! Damn you rich nerds!

    It wouldn't surprise me if those 3-eyed aliens from the Toy Story movies lived in that house in the first picture.
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    Image of Drunkenlobster Drunkenlobster
    08/17/09

    @crashedpc : It says unsold
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    08/17/09

    @Drunkenlobster: I wanted the Monohex and the Non-Symmetical Tension Integrity ones, though.
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    08/17/09

    In reply to Yesterday's House Of The Future Went Cheap
    I'd have the Bucky blueprints in an instant, but I like my UFOs to have wheels or at least feet, rather than a couple of I-beams and a pile of planks...
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    Image of Gann Gann
    08/17/09


    @hamshank: The "I-beams and a pile of planks..." is the trailer you would need to move it. Here it is installed.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/17/09

    @Gann: That sumbitch would make all the Winnebagos, Airstreams, and double-wides wither in inferiority.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    06/17/09

    In reply to How Star Wars Changed Architecture
    Are you sure the article wasn't called 'stuff that incidentally reminds me of Star Wars' versus 'Stuff that was actually influenced by Star Wars'
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    Image of B B
    06/16/09

    In reply to How Star Wars Changed Architecture
    Hey, is that Troy McClure's house? (picture four)
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/19/08

    In reply to Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery
    I done been to Hueco Tanks, the Vancouver space museum (the giant robot crab adds a lot), and all the ones in Southern California.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/19/08

    In reply to Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery
    What about those towers from that one World's Fair, which were later revealed to actually _be_ UFOs?
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    Image of Leslie Powell Leslie Powell
    12/19/08

    In reply to Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery
    There's a small Star Destroyer on the downtown library in Minneapolis.


    [www.twinsballpark2010.com]

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    Image of Gann Gann
    12/19/08

    @Leslie Powell:


    The Airforce Academy Chapel is actually just a storage rack for star destroyers...


    [farm1.static.flickr.com]

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    Image of Gann Gann
    12/19/08

    In reply to Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery
    Also, here's a building that looks suspiciously like the tardis:


    [www.glasgowwestend.co.uk]

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    12/19/08

    @Gann: that me laddo is what the TARDIS copied ;)
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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/19/08

    In reply to Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery
    And the UCSD library:


    [www.dcresource.com]

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    Image of EBone EBone
    12/19/08

    In reply to Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery
    You left out the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana CA. It IS the Borg Cube:


    [www.discoverycube.org]


    And it is enormous.

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    Image of Gann Gann
    12/19/08

    In reply to Buildings That Look Like Famous Spaceships: A Gallery
    Also, no love for the [www.spaceneedle.com]
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/19/08

    @Gann: Ha... Space Needle seemed too obvious. Plus, I was thinking of doing a gallery of rocket ship buildings, and it would have fit in there. But I ran out of time, plus four galleries seemed enuf.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    12/19/08

    @Charlie Jane Anders: I drive by that pegasus trek theme park all the time (It is now closed). It sits next to a little neighborhood built by the monolithic dome institute:


    [static.monolithic.com]


    Next to it is a cute multi-domed caterpiller structure:


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