#Frankfurt, #Germany
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Here's AI take on it:
(I asked it to interpret it as a metaphor).
What do you make of it?
It titled it "The Iron Ridge: Infrastructure on the Brink."
#AI
#infrastructure
#railway
#bridge
#floods
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• Fragility and Persistence: The image captures a moment of extreme tension between human engineering and natural forces. It echoes the "frozen clocks" by showing a system at its absolute limit, where the "normal" functions of a crossing—waiting for a train, driving across—have been rendered impossible or surreal by the disaster. -
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• Fragility and Persistence: The image captures a moment of extreme tension between human engineering and natural forces. It echoes the "frozen clocks" by showing a system at its absolute limit, where the "normal" functions of a crossing—waiting for a train, driving across—have been rendered impossible or surreal by the disaster.3/
Ultimately, the Frankfurt crossing is a metaphor for a world where the structures we rely on are becoming increasingly isolated, forced to operate on "islands" of safety as the environmental landscape shifts around them, -
A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
#photography
#floods
#roads
#trains
#ClimateDiary
It's like that scene from Miyazaki's "Spirited away". Wonderful.
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A regional train passes a railroad crossing between flooded fields in Nidderau-Eichen, near Frankfurt
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
#photography
#floods
#roads
#trains
#ClimateDiary
@appassionato That looks surreal.
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@appassionato That looks surreal.
Welcome to the Dystopia.
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