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70 Times Slavic Engineers Looked At A Problem And Found The Most Unconventional Solution
There is a philosophy embedded in Slavic engineering that no university teaches and no manual contains. It goes something like this: if the problem exists, a solution exists, and the solution does not need to be pretty, approved, or sourced from a hardware store. It just needs to work.
Across more than a dozen countries spanning Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, this approach to fixing things has produced a body of work that is equal parts terrifying and deeply impressive. Duct tape where there should be scaffolding. A garden hose doing the job of an entire plumbing system. Structural support that would make a civil engineer need to sit down.
The Slavic engineer does not ask whether something should be done this way. They ask whether it will hold, confirm that it will, and move on with their day. We compiled the best of it below, and we mean best in the loosest possible sense of the word.
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Xavier Pender 9 hours ago (edited)
at least they ain't slidin' off the shelves when that quake hits.
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Shelli Aderman 8 hours ago
It’s the closest thing we’ve seen to a real, live Richard Scarry car!!! 💕
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Laszlo Larthlanc 6 minutes ago
Rust won't be that much of an issue. Termites, on the other hand...
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TheGreaterDebater 1 hour ago (edited)
Quite helpful if you want your room to be humid and disgustingly wet in a few minutes.
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Captain Kakapo 23 minutes ago
every time you have to add new pipe but not allowed to touch existings
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Hippopotamuses 8 hours ago
A reproduction of a 1719 Russian sub. Originally designed by Yefim Nikonov.
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Hippopotamuses 8 hours ago
I hope like hell that there's a sign on the other side of that door. Just as a reminder.
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Janissary35680 4 hours ago
In Turkey, this is called "Sarhoşum gel beni al". (I'm drunk, come get me.) In China it's known as Daijia, in Japan as Unten Daiko, and in South Korea as Daeri Unjeon. The difference being that all of those services use designated drivers and motor vehicles.
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OneHappyPuppy 10 minutes ago
The isolation came after the dishes, and the handymen couldn't be arsed to remove and reinstall them. Ask me how I know...
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