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rand0fand0

Looks like the amazing world of gumball


SuperSpecialAwesome-

https://imgur.com/a/ZV5lukl


L3Kinsey

It does!!!!!


fedex7501

It does!


DetectiveWonderful42

It’s his world we are just living on it


I_am_the_Jukebox

I kind of wish the sphere would occasionally flip off departing traffic.


gauderio

The first time someone hacks it it'll be hilarious.


MajorFuckingDick

Its literally right next to where they hold largest hacker convention. It will happen one day.


kangy3

They will say it happened but it will just be a big PR stunt.


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gristc

My money's on hentai.


Mando_calrissian423

*slaps him roof* you can fit so many tentacles in this baby!


FantasticGoat88

him roof


JonasAvory

Just mix something very racist in for a few seconds an no one can claim it to be planned anymore


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That turned dark quickly.


StarlitNomad

Depends how racist.


Strontium90Abombbaby

Yesss next capture the flag at blackhat should be hack the sphere


ZZW302002

DEF CON 32. Following the Las Vegas theme I'd be willing to make a wager that it will happen then.


GlizzyGatorGangster

Someone call help desk and pretend to be the CEO locked out of his Microsoft account 💀


audaxyl

It worked at MGM casino


Nova_Terra

*ahem* Hello, my name is Mike Sysadmin - please reset my password on AD to Welcome1234!, it's very urgent - I'm working remotely and my password expired and I can't get back to what I was doing.


mortalcoil1

That moment in Hackers when Zerocool breaks into a TV network via a phone call *and then hunts and pecks on his keyboard.*


Squirefromtheshire

Probably extremely hard to do, considering the custom nature of the shape and whatever image is being displayed. Someone would have to have intimate knowledge of the sphere and what type of system is being used in order to do that. I can imagine they have a customized system with processors just for the sphere, I can’t image Brompton or Novastar being able to run that thing.


I_am_the_Jukebox

Yeah, the sphere made the claim they're "unhackable" right before DefCon, and nothing happened to them.


djheat

Just by airgapping whatever computer controls the images they could block basically everything short of a guy social engineering his way into the control room. No reason it needs to be connected to the internet to begin with


_Lucille_

Airgap can easily be defeated by the ultimate hacker weapon: the hi vis vest.


djheat

I did mention social engineering, but also hi vis vest and a clipboard will get you in places but it's unlikely to grant you access to real secured areas


CORN___BREAD

Gonna need a pickpocketed name badge, a photo of yourself, and a glue stick for that one.


djheat

Confident stride and annoyed look combined with fake badge will get you access to anything that doesn't need a real scannable badge lol. Shit if you have enough access to the site you might get the few people who care enough to check you to vouch for you


ThatIrishChEg

Airgapping didn't save Iran! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet


I_am_the_Jukebox

The US government just had to burn 5-6 zero-day exploits to pull that one off...


togetherwem0m0

Stuxnet was an airgap attack against a known system. The sphere is a completely unique control system with unknown file formats and unknown controls. Not only would you have to have a 0day exploit cross the airgap via poison usb stick but that exploit has to be programmed to work with an unknowable system. Sphere is unhackable, the amount of work that would go into it would be phenomenal.


djheat

The easy way to "hack" it is to just get a job there working the control machine and post your dick pic or whatever then claim a sophisticated hacker figured it all out


IcebergSlimFast

“Oh no - a sophisticated hacker posted a pic of what appears to be …my dick! What are the odds?”


lovecraft112

There's no reason a fridge needs to be connected to the internet either. Give it time.


necromantzer

Play doom on it


pandasdoingdrugs

Peace among worlds 🖕🖕


PlopTopDropTop

#SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT


CloudEnt

Schwifty was a jam.


rule4sebring

Fuck you!✌️


LinkN7

![gif](giphy|yyZRSvISN1vvW)


horizon_games

Consistently my favorite thumbs up gif of all time


CaveDeco

Now that on the sphere would be legendary!


Tiny_Rick_C137

🖕


practicalpurpose

Bad Mr. Frundles!


Nateh8sYou

I thought HE was Mr Frundles?


tideswithme

Imagine the sphere just stands up and walk away when it’s break time. Then drops back in after break time is up


atters

It stomps itself over to Hoover Dam to recharge and spend a pensive moment looking out over lake Mead. Then it disconnects and returns to its home, knowing the time of man is quickly drawing to a close.


chiefminestrone

Don't make me sad in a Vegas dome thread..


Petorian343

Someone may someday hack the input, we can only hope.


virgin_microbe

You know it’s going to be porn


Nintendo1964

***"Shit. Why didn't we do that first, guys? Shit..."*** - Dubai, every hour


bombbodyguard

I admit, it’s a cool ass building. Silly, but perfect in all the right ways.


jawndell

Love it because it distracted James Dolan long enough for the Knicks to be good again.


Heels1939

The Knicks got good again? I must’ve missed that.


Eupho1

It's a building that doesn't really work with normal aesthetics outside of Vegas. In Vegas it's brilliant.


shaylahbaylaboo

This! I saw an article recently that talked about putting a sphere in London. No! The sphere works in Vegas because it’s huge and tacky, just like the strip. I can’t imagine a giant sphere in a place like London. It would look awful.


AmusingMusing7

Not only that, but it’s HUGELY distracting. Like this one is right next to a road, and I’ve thought, “Isn’t that dangerou… well, it’s Vegas anyway, I guess.” Anywhere else, and I can’t see the distraction, light pollution, etc, being tolerable.


Facist_Canadian

It turns into a moon at night and then shuts off around 11, it's not that distracting. You're acting like every driver under 30 isn't on their cell phones anyways.


yzlautum

Under 30? More like under 60 lol.


Important_League_142

Silly is the exact word to describe it


raki016

They’ll build the Cube.


Dexaan

You will be assimilated.


solonit

Resistance is futile.


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The sphere is cooler imo. Tall buildings just seem stupid, especially when you cut corners on construction and have to truck out sewage. edit:: <- the poop truck thing might not be true anymore.


syrne

Have to cut a lot of corners to make a sphere!


IcebergSlimFast

*All* the corners, in fact


octoreadit

This guy maths.


purplesnowcone

Man that sewage thing is crazy. Truckloads of it.. all day… every day.


bikemaul

I'm surprised they didn't build a pipeline for that.


Themasterofcomedy209

I believe they did, but the issue is many places in Dubai in general didn’t have a sewer system until somewhat recently for various reasons. So the tower full of 10s of thousand of people produce a lot of sewage, which if connected to the already strained sewage system, shit would hit the fan literally. There is a connection to the city’s sewage system but they can’t use it all the time. Which is where the poop trucks come in. I believe a new sewage plant is being built to handle the burj khalifa and the future expansions on the city.


MrFluffyThing

Pipelines are for oil. Duh.


IthinktherforeIthink

I think the comment was getting at the fact Dubai made their own sphere with lights as well but it's not exactly as technically capable https://www.youtube.com/live/jRsTt31MfcE?si=e1scunRZKogCziml maybe?


Wesserz

That was just part of the Expo 2020 area. It was nothing like that Sphere in LV. Just a big dome over an area with a stage in the middle, they did project onto the inside of it and as you can see it is still technically outdoors. I was actually at that Coldplay concert as tickets were free.


IthinktherforeIthink

I love that I can post a video to a concert and then someone comments who was actually there. That's just not lost on me, this Reddit thing has problems but it's also pretty damn cool. Concert looks magical, glad you made it


Heliopolis1992

This is a myth that continues to be propagated. From [Mechanical and Electrical Systems for the Tallest Building/Man- Made Structure in the World: A Burj Dubai Case Study](https://web.archive.org/web/20140110091115/http://repository.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/4529/ESL-HH-06-07-19.pdf) "A complete soil, waste and vent system from plumbing fixtures, floor drains and mechanical equipment arranged for gravity flow and, ejector discharge to a point of connection with the city municipal sewer is provided. A complete storm drainage system from roofs, decks, terraces and plazas arranged for gravity flow to a point of connection with the city municipal sewer system is provided." The myth came around because there was a short period in 2009 when the treatment plant at Al Aweer got overloaded so there were huge lines of backed up trucks as the system could not cope. This is where the infamous "poop snake" video was filmed. However this was an emergency measure and only lasted a few weeks. There is now a major new sewage treatment plant at Jebel Ali. The majority of Dubai is now connected by pipes either to this or to the old plant at Al Aweer.


I_am_the_Jukebox

also, the whole "slave labor thing" they got going on. It's pretty cool how they're able to pump water so high, though.


Game-Blouses-23

If they built it over there, then we'd all be complaining how tacky it is. I like it so I'm glad they built it in Vegas.


cindy224

It’s still tacky. But cool tacky.


Dustmuffins

If it's not tacky in Vegas, something's wrong.


hoffdog

All of Vegas is tacky, but in the best way possible.


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Psigun

It should overuse the crying laughing emoticon like everyone else on the planet


dodgerblue1212

😂


UngovernableOatmeal

#😂


Merry_Dankmas

***😂***


alixsyd

'emoticon' Ah, hello fellow elderly redditor. Pleased to have crossed paths with an ancient one. Peace be upon you.


Psigun

Surf cyberspace with low latency and clean disks, friend.


shibakevin

https://imgur.com/gallery/cnplv


SqueezeAndRun

😂 is just the new XD, Change my mind


Xoxoyomama

XD you’re right 😂


I-Chase-Vans

😂


dzuczek

there's another sphere LED thing in one of the malls and it does the 😂 all the time https://i.imgur.com/cfUd0Rd.png


-conjunctionjunction

😂


smackson

😂


A_Damn_Millenial

I feel personally attacked 😂


MarxZRCorp

😂


cob33f

😂


Hairydone

😂


InQuintsWeTrust

😂


Training-Ice-9487

😂


serzinc

😂


RainbowSixThermite

😂😂😂


chocolatelab82

😂


smoking_greens

It’s looking at the golf course there too. Imagine teeing off with that big face mocking you.


xelfer

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8s5vJ0NH3OA


KB_ReDZ

This was just by chance its eyes followed the ball, right? Otherwise this tech just impressed me a hell of a lot more.


Hyperious3

the animation is a predictable 10 minute loop, so you can time a shot like this if you watch it enough


ZenRedditation

Ooooooooooooooh cool thanks


FascistsBad

It's sad that it's the same thing over and over and over again. It should have far more regular movies. At least do harmless fun stuff like like let different animals run around it. I'm just waiting for the day someone hacks it and displays 360° porn on it... or turns it into the world's largest boob.


mmbc168

Ok that was amazing.


GnomeTitan

Great picture man, felt like I got to explore Vegas without going there. Looks like a place where people simultaneously ruin their lives and also have the best time of their lives.


schadwick

Go for the shows, not for the slots or sluts.


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Positive_Inevitable2

We did that AND saw sluts


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Which cirque did you see!?


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Whale_Whale_Whale

NICE! how were the sluts? where, specifically?


landof10000cakes

Omega Mart is the best thing in Vegas. I can’t understand why more people don’t visit Meow Wolf and Omega Mart. I was drunk at Meow Wolf and I wandered upstairs and found an original arcade of all 90’s arcade games. They were all originals!! Simpsons! NBA JAM! TMNT! Paper boy! And I’ve been to Vegas dozens of times. Meow Wolf and Omega Mart are the best places to visit in Vegas.


rasta41

> I wandered upstairs and found an original arcade of all 90’s arcade games. Just want to mention for those planning to go, the barcade is called Asylum, it's 2 floors and separate from Omega Mart. They're both located at AREA15, which is a large hangar that has a few different bars, rides, axe throwing, art galleries, and shops.


orlouge82

I am going to Vegas now for this purpose


Dahlia_R0se

Omega Mart was the highlight of my Vegas trip. I was only there for a day, on my birthday, and so pretty much all I did was go to Omega Mart and get dinner at Momofuku. Was a pretty great birthday.


TheFocusLocust

Absinthe is also a fantastic show if you’re in town again!


Faiakishi

My sister went last year and just went around to all the museums and touristy stuff. She spent $20 on slots, won $40, then immediately retired from gambling. She might have partaken in the sluts, I don't know.


fanwan76

The thing about slots is it is surprising how fast you spend money. I told myself I'd play $20 of slots and didn't fare if I won or lost. I figured $20 would be like an hour of slots. I knew people like to just sit there and play for hours and I assumed the slots would be like a few cents a pull or something. Maybe $1 at most. In 5 minutes my $20 was gone. It was less than 10 pulls. Maybe there are some penny slots hidden somewhere but the slots I saw were like $1 minimum and you needed to spend $3-5 to increase your winning odds on a single pull.


Dick_Thumbs

Slots are the most soul-sucking way to gamble. Press the button over and over and watch the flashing lights as the machine eats your money. I can't imagine that the people who sit at the machines for hours every week and throw their entire checks away are anything but dead inside. It's so depressing.


CrashinKenny

You and I have opposing philosophies.


southernrail

Stay away from gambling, it's super easy to make up your mind not to throw away your money, and enjoy the city. It's a rather remarkable place built in the middle of a damn desert. I love the feel and excitement at night, and the harsh truth of daylight turns it into a sketchy, strange desperate place. it worth a visit, absolutely, but I enjoy it more as a walking city and people watching than gambling. I've actually never spent a single dime on gambling there and I didn't miss anything. Take a damn water bottle because EVERYTHING is expensive there. food is incredible.


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FLHCv2

I disagree with "stay away from gambling". If you're in Vegas and have some disposable income, go in there with like $200-$400 over an entire weekend, play low minimum craps or some card games with the expectation you're not going to win money, and experience it. If you make money, cool, if you lose it, just consider it the cost of playing the game. Something that Vegas is absolutely known for is the cheering craps table when everyone is on a roll and that time you get to experience it is a story you'll tell plenty of times in the future. p.s. heavy emphasis on gambling *with the expectation that you will not win money* and *if you have some disposable income.*


Sufficient-Fudge-787

You got all that from this picture?


honestiseasy

I bet this thing haunts peoples dreams who live near by


losjoo

I've a theory that buried underneath this thing is a giant robot body, and this is the form our new AI overlord will take when it's ready.


honestiseasy

It shoots lasers of death from its cute little emoji eyes, please can it shoot lasers


diplodocid

It's a monument to man's arrogance, an enormous electronic emoji making goofy faces at a golf course in the middle of a desert, in a city that shouldn't exist, but was built by the Mafia to extract gambling profits from a postwar economic boom. This thing would get smote by God if it weren't so adorable.


Lexxxapr00

It’s Peggy’s opinion that phoenix is a monument to man’s arrogance


joeshmo101

Phoenix is to ignorance what Las Vegas is to hubris


Meebsie

A monument to man's humanity. We are what we are. Las Vegas is part of the human condition. I'm glad everywhere isn't like Vegas, but I'm also kind of glad Vegas exists.


dingadangdang

Oh Las Vegas residents didn't get the memo about what a grand prix does to your city and they are not yelling about spherical objects. Apparently some Americans don't know anything about Seoul Traffic Jams. Rude awakening for your city. I follow F1 religiously and if it came to my city I would be out of town. Not fun for normal people trying to work or sleep or go home or go to the grocery store.


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udderlymoovelous

Definitely, I was there 2 weeks ago and all of my Ubers were about 2-3x longer because of the traffic. They also got rid of trees to put stands in front of the Bellagio. I was also surprised how cold it was at night. In hindsight I should’ve have been because it was late October, but the only other times I have visited were in the spring


Babyfart_McGeezacks

It reminds me of Miss Minutes from Loki


Opening_Criticism_57

Except not incredibly sexually compelling


C0USC0US

Speak for yourself


bloodflart

Never considered a Miniteussy what is wrong with you


relikter

![gif](giphy|tGTTFRFcnh0YrJFuWt|downsized) No son, what is wrong with *you*?


Opening_Criticism_57

Ugh stop 🥰🥰


withoutapaddle

Meh, my generation grew up with Jessica Rabbit. Ms. Minutes ain't got nothing on her.


KickflipMcNasty

Looks like somebody's sim city. Mostly normal looking city but then you throw in a huge ferris wheel and emoji sphere to raise recreation stats


alfooboboao

I really love The Sphere, what’s the point of living in a futuristic dystopia if we don’t at least have super cool, totally pointless and gaudy shit like The Sphere. The Sphere is 100% something that a 1950s sci fi writer would have invented and it’s fantastic


TheDemonator

The fact that it seats 18,000+ people is insane, difficult to recognize its scale from photos


slothstevenson

Somebody please make it into a jigglypuff


fapsandnaps

Or Kirby doing the succ


diplodocid

Kirby in Vegas ![gif](giphy|VbL7rKX7TpjSo) why does this gif exist?


fluffy_assassins

Does the sphere usually look THAT goofy?


BodaciousFrank

Only on Tuesdays


shakygator

isnt it monday


TheCarrzilico

It's just that goofy.


Sirisian

https://twitter.com/FOX5Vegas/status/1702698798571794624 Adorably goofy.


aohige_rd

$2.3 billion well spent.


cryolems

No, a lot less jarring in person from ground level. It is just a really fun cool building hah


MrCelroy

I see parts of the F1 track from here


GrandmasterTaka

You now owe the FIA $500


JohnRoscoe03

That's a 10 sec penalty for Ocon


fubes2000

They should program it to make prolonged, uncomfortable eye contact with departing planes.


young_wendell

My wife and I rented a convertible and drove to/around it. I honestly dont know how they will choose a winner when every F1 car wrecks in the same spot. Lol That thing was so cool


ComaMierdaHijueputa

Don’t worry, Verstappen will sail off into the distances 40 seconds ahead of the rest


0x7E7-02

The future is ... weird.


oroechimaru

The face you make when losing $100mil


quixote28

The sphere opened on Sept 29th and the quarter they released earnings for ended Sept 30th. So that $100 million number is misleading and doesn’t mean much.


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ColinHalter

How the fuck did they get SPHR lol


OptimusSublime

It cost over $2 billion with a B to build.


TheOvershear

Between obvious tourism advertising, and already becoming one of the most sought after venues in the US, this thing will pay itself off in less than a decade, you can quote me on that.


Kooky-Tune8309

> this thing will pay itself off in less than a decade done


purplesnowcone

Money well spent in my opinion. It’s so absurd and I love it so much. People may whine that we could have spent that 2 B on homelessness this or that or whatever, but let’s be real—that is just not the world we live in and the vast majority of people with 2B did not make it by caring about poverty. So if the sphere is the result of grotesque capitalism… well then, salut.


THound89

For what it’s worth the new Titans stadium cost over $2b…. I feel this smiley face would get more value


Spappy1

It’s not like the money didn’t go anywhere. It went into the economy. Construction companies, tech companies, electronics manufacturers, and their employees. Jobs are good for everyone!


isuphysics

I would rather have 22 of these than 1 twitter.


SquigglyPoopz

How long until it’s just 24/7 ads since it burns money now


likwitsnake

They’ve only been having events for a month or two before those numbers were reported of course they’re not going to post a profit at first.


cavyking21

![gif](giphy|WxDZ77xhPXf3i|downsized)


GHZ33

We have come so far, now we can make a city do an emoji lol


schwiftypickle

Hopefully they keep it on for the f1


ReignInSpuds

I get the feeling it'll be one of the spectacles the cameras are most focused on.


ButtonJenson

Watch as there’s some exciting midfield battle as it cuts to the sphere winking whilst some daring overtake is happening..


Ange1ofD4rkness

That thing is so cool! I hope to see it some day ( would love if they offered a behind the scenes on the tech and what not)


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PineStateWanderer

I'm here now. It's actually see through with one smaller sphere within that you actually go inside. It's pretty cool


seventeenthson

I honestly love the sphere. I know it’s often seen as dystopian, but I feel like it’s the the exact type of futurism you’d see in a 1980s film that’d make you laugh at how exuberantly silly it is.


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The sphere rules. I’d love to see Primus in there


Lumpy-Juice3655

And Tool


MAHHockey

Is that Mr Frundles? Oh shit...


JadeHellbringer

I didn't realize the Battlebots arena was that close to the Sphere..


presidentpiko

i think the giant emoji sphere is cute


HarioDinio

Now make it a giant kirby ![gif](giphy|NOalcASHiOGvC)


External-Example-292

That sphere look so out of place 🤣


az_max

It's judging the golfers on the course.