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Just put pipes everywhere, one of them is bound to make sense. Yeah put a pipe from one non functional corner of the sink to another. Fuck it
Sorry if it looks like it doesn’t make sense to you but actually this is a stunning example of the yoshitaka amano school of plumbing design
you know what I’m just here to insulate the pipes you do youI hope you’re paid by the hour or by the pipe because there’s actually even more pipes than it looks like
190 km of pipe
Surprisingly not much pipe. An oil refinery can contain over 1000 km of pipes
would 190 km of pipe make really dense tangle in a space the size of a small warehouse? the diameter of the pipes seem to be pretty random up to 1m according to the entry
Yeah I guess the diameter is the key detail. I went on a little rabbit hole with this, feel free to ignore it. TLDR I tried different diameters in the meter-to-cm range mentioned by the article, and the total length varied by a factor of a million.
First I tried calculating for a fixed diameter throughout.
If I start with a warehouse volume and a total pipe length, and then work backwards, I get a wide but reasonable pipe diameter. For example, if the warehouse is around 80,000 cubic meters (maybe 100x100x8?), and 40,000 of that is pipe, then the typical pipe diameter is around sqrt(40000 / (π * 190000)) * 2 ≈ 0.52 m wide.
But the SCP entry says some pipes are as narrow as 2.5 cm. Total length explodes as diameter shrinks. One example is the human body. We have around 100,000 km of blood vessels in our bodies, with a typical diameter of around 0.008 cm and a total volume of around 5 liters (0.005 cubic meters). If we scale 0.005 up to 40,000 cubic meters of pipe in a warehouse, a 1:200 length scaling, the typical diameter would be around 1.6 cm, and the total length would be 200 million km, if SCP 015 is biased toward a lot of little “capillaries.”
I drank too much caffeine, so next I calculated total length for a distribution of diameters.
Shit, it wouldn’t be inverse with diameter, it would be inverse with cross-sectional area. I gotta redo this lol
If the distribution of diameters is inverse, meaning there’s twice as much 10 cm-wide pipe as 20 cm, and twice as much 5 cm as 10 cm, and so on, then we can integrate over diameter, over the stated range of 2.5 cm to 1 m. An inverse curve would have the form y=a/x, where a is a constant, x is diameter, and y is length of pipe at that diameter. If the total length is 190 km, we can set the integral equal to 190 km and then solve for a:(hopefully my math isn’t shit)
Then plug in a to integrate the volume, which is just the product of cross-sectional area π(x/2)^2 and length:
…So, unless I fucked up my math, which is pretty likely, it actually works out to a somewhat warehouse-sized volume of around 20,000 cubic meters. I don’t know if an inverse distribution is a valid assumption though.
this shit is just so fucking lazy
can’t even be bothered to do more then a handful of AI gens
can’t even be bothered to get some intern to photoshop out the dreamlike reality distortions
obviously can’t be bothered to hire a digital artist to clean it up
and definitely can’t be bothered to have two interns put on toolbelts and borrow a wrench and pretend to do some plumbing work in the 2nd floor unisex bathroom (the one with the old sink) and take a few pics with their iphone
all they cared about was the two Amerikkkan flags on the guy’s shirt.
i don’t even think they got those right. but they certainly got 2 of them
The blue trapezoid must be new
Hiring an artist would require assigning value to human labor, and by extension human life
i guess they are truly committed to that at an ideological level, then we peel back the layer to find out they are just lazy cheapskate grifters
1/10
- He only has two American flags.
- She has none.
- The van has none.
- The pipes and sink have none.
Needs more:
- Denim
- US Flags
- Copper pipes
WTF is that lady holding?
It looks like she’s holding a L Shark Bite fitting but she’s ratcheting it with some kind of wrench? You don’t need a wrench for Shark Bite fittings, they just pop in.
Also why is there a pipe going into the sink right next to the faucet? Also why are there two copper pipes going out the the corners of the sink fixture? Also why does it look like they have copper pipes going into black pipe elbows? Why are there spools of copper and aluminum wire on top of the sink? Are you plumbers or electricians???
Why are there spools of copper and aluminum wire on top of the sink
Well you wanna do the wiring for the plumbing at the same time as the pipes, obviously. So you know it’s good 👌
It’s a crafted weapon from pretty early in the tech tree
we like to electrify our water around here
It’s a pipe cutter.
However, it looks like she is sticking it into an Elbow pipe, which is an odd choice. Additionally, you would need a saudering tool after that.
We all know what it looks like when the US decides to bring “freedom and democracy” to your country. This is what happens when the US decides to bring “plumbing” to your country.
Maybe someday, you too can be a contractor who gets stiffed trying to help the president embezzle money from the taxpayers in a no-bid contract!
Anyone who can discern a single tool in that toolbox gets a prize
I think I can almost make out a clip for a gun. Those are basically tools in America so this checks out.
There’s a double close-end wrench sized for small round and big round.
Someone has to make those screensavers
ayo it’s the windows 95 screensaver
POV: you’re the government and you have all the money in the world to hire a skilled digital artist to make a campaign poster for your jobs program, but Elon and Lockheed need another 69 billion so you turn to the AI slop machine instead.
this is what that museum of modern arts in france was inspired by
I could imagine Salvadore Dali or MC Escher painting the pipe work.
there was a time before stock photos and slop generators where propaganda posters were cool. i hope i see the day that they rediscover this strange entity called the “artist”. maybe then we can get more soviet-style space posters
I don’t think typing in AI prompts is a “skill” even if it is paying off bigtime right now.
two spools of solder wire, no soldering tool, a random wrench, and some pipe mangler looking tool?
