The Mona Moron strickes again

[astroron (Ron)]

Originally Posted by pmrid

This is hardly a "first". Remember that famous ***** substitute the Brisbane Sky Needle owned by the hairdresser magnate Stefan Akerie? This boats that it is "capable of emitting a beam of light that may be seen 60 kilometers away". I live about that far out of Brisbane and have seen it several times but, fortunately, only on "special" occasions these days because of interference with the flight path into Brisbane airport..

Peter

Hi Peter, I used to see Stefans light from Cambroon on certain nights.
Also saw it from Warwick.
I was glad when the thing caught fire,but then they repaired it.
Cheers

[OICURMT]

Not an original concept... suggest he be fined for lack of innovation or be given the "Yawn" award.

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

[gary]

The Macquarie Point lighting proposal is analogous in appearance to architect Albert Speer's "Lichtdom" or "Cathedral of Light" used by the Nazi Party at
the Nuremberg Rallies in 1933.

Speer borrowed 152 anti-aircraft searchlights from the Luftwafe.

Images and article -
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nazi...-light-c-1937/

[doppler (Rick)]

This guy had an even bigger LP idea, luckily it failed.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the...night-into-day

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

My email has been sent to the Macquarie point lot.
I shiver to think what this would do to my sky. It's bad enough in the East already.

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

Originally Posted by Nath2099

When they talk of lighting in architecture courses I would hope they don't mean shooting 20 thousand watt beams of light into the sky! Lighting does have a place in architecture, subtle lighting!

I'd probably put up with it for a few days as part of a festival, but a permanent installation... will never happen.

Exactly.

Nobody is suggesting that we plunge our cities into darkness, merely that light is aimed somewhere useful, not blindly up at the sky.

[Ric]

I find nothing remotely interesting about shining massive lights into the sky.

I suppose they could make them red lights so as not to stuff up our night vision.