found megastructure artwork :: megastructure spotting in be'er sheva

Yoni brought us some interesting photographs of a monument near Be’er Sheva (Southern Israel). There is a curious underground section, as pictured here:

This is still a nearly-mundane image. But let’s flip it upside down:

The light source from the bottom of the corridor suggests that we are perhaps in a maintenance duct, attached to a ceiling high above the floor.

However, the most compelling version is found by flipping the same image on its side:

Now the image of a space-station is conjured. We are walking along a ring-like passage, mysterious light coming from our left.

Now, we break the illusion by showing the sad reality of the outside of the complex:

posted to: Found Megastructure Artwork

re-engineered @ 12:51 PM, Jan 02, 2008 by eli

3 comments

Yoni said @ 11:26 PM, Dec 01, 2007:

Ender’s Game SPOILER WARNING

Now the image of a space-station is conjured. We are walking along a ring-like passage, mysterious light coming from our left.

Actually, I imagined the Battle School in Ender’s Game when I saw what this rotated picture looks like. This would have been a corridor, with the light from the side coming from one of the battlerooms. Here are the relevant quotes from the book (copyright Orson Scott Card):

The ship is spinning, and that’s what makes it feel like that is down. The floor actually curves around in that direction. Keep going long enough that way, and you come back to where you started.

[…]

The whole center of the battle school, the hub of the wheel, is battlerooms. They don’t rotate with the rest of the station. That’s how they do the nullo, the no-gravity— it just holds still. No spin, no down. But they can set it up so that any one of the rooms is at the battleroom entrance corridor that we all use. Once you’re inside, they move it along and another battleroom’s in position.

[…]

[…] the army barracks room was larger, too. It was long and narrow, with bunks on both sides; so long, in fact, that you could see the curvature of the floor as the far end bent upward, part of the wheel of the Battle School.

Also, it reminds somewhat of the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey (the movie; I didn’t read the book), although I don’t remember it that well.

ionreflex said @ 06:17 PM, Dec 06, 2007:

i would have like to know what the real structure is, what is its fonctions ?

Yoni said @ 10:56 AM, Dec 07, 2007:

It’s the “Negev Monument”.

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Megastructure Spotting in Be'er Sheva