{"id":4531,"date":"2013-11-15T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2013-11-15T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:52:22","slug":"this-insane-ferris-wheel-stretched-a-hundred-meters-from-side-to-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4531","title":{"rendered":"This insane Ferris wheel stretched a hundred meters from side to side."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But it was an ephemeral contraption of twigs and straws next to the wall of metal looming behind it. Seen from dead-on the Drive would be a disk: a landscape turned on edge, a hard-edged topography of ridges and trenches and right angles. But out here on the wounded rim Br\u00fcks could see the mass piled up <i>behind<\/i> that leading edge: not so much a disk as a core sample extracted from some artificial moon. The striated faces of sedimentary cliffs, carved in metal; monstrous gnarled arteries twisting along the patchwork hull, carrying rivers of fuel or coolant. The arc of a distant engine nozzle, peeking past that metal horizon like a dull sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>A cylindrical silo squatted dead-center atop the drive section. Cargo hold, perhaps. The <i>Crown<\/i>&#8216;s backbone emerged from its apex like a sapling sprouting from the stump of a great redwood. All this forward superstructure\u2014 the Hub and its habs, the flywheel, a hemispherical nose assembly bristling with antennae\u2014 none of it mattered in the shadow of those engines. Just a few fragile twigs in which meat might huddle and breathe. Fleas clinging to the back of a captive sun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow mammals, the <em>Crown of Thorns<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crown-of-Thorns.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4532\" alt=\"Crown-of-Thorns\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crown-of-Thorns.png\" width=\"540\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crown-of-Thorns.png 750w, https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crown-of-Thorns-187x300.png 187w, https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Crown-of-Thorns-640x1024.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But it was an ephemeral contraption of twigs and straws next to the wall of metal looming behind it. Seen from dead-on the Drive would be a disk: a landscape turned on edge, a hard-edged topography of ridges and trenches and right angles. But out here on the wounded rim Br\u00fcks could see the mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbspeech","category-fiblet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4536,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}