A year ago to date, The WinePress reported the debut of the now-famous Madison Square Garden (MSG) Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. The large ball can display a number of high-definition images and moves on and inside the dome.
SEE: Las Vegas Unveils The “MSG Sphere,” A Giant Holographic Ball That Can Display All Sorts Of Designs
In an opinion piece for PC Gamer, Andy Edsar wrote an article titled, “Las Vegas’ dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat.”
Edsar wrote:
Now Nvidia has revealed that the displays of the now-iconic Las Vegas Sphere—a gigantic spherical entertainment arena sitting at the heart of Sin City—are powered by 150 of its RTX A6000 desktop workstation GPUs.
For those that like big numbers, well, hold onto your hats. Each of those GPUs feature over 10,752 cores, 48 GB of memory and have a 300 W TDP, for a grand total of 1,612,800 cores, 7,200 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a potential maximum power draw of 45,000 W at full tilt (via Wccftech).
And that’s just the beginning of the staggering figures. Those GPUs power 16 internal displays, each with a resolution of 16K, alongside 1.2 million programmable LED pucks coating the exterior of the sphere. Content is streamed from an outside facility using Nvidia BlueField DPUs and ConnectX-6 DX NICs via Nvidia’s Rivermax media streaming software, which ensures everything stays in sync across all those screens.
All of that hardware comes at a cost. Beyond the $2.3 billion spent on its construction, it’s estimated that the Sphere is capable of drawing 28,000,000 watts of power. For reference, 1,000,000 watts, or 1 megawatt, is said to be enough to satisfy the instantaneous demand of 750 homes at once in the California/Nevada area, meaning that 28 megawatts would be equivalent to the power necessary for 21,000 homes.
Currently, an agreement is under review to ensure that 70% of the Sphere’s power needs will come from solar sources, with the other 30% from non-renewable energy that will be offset by renewable energy credits. Nevada has pledged to achieve net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, and the solar project under construction to help offset its energy debt is estimated to complete in 2027.
In the meantime, the Sphere sits as a gigantic monument to the excesses of modern technology taken to an extreme. While the sheer technical achievement here is impressive, I can think of few things more indicative of the current state of sustainability in tech more than a gigantic screen in the middle of a city devoted to excess—in the middle of the desert—blasting advertisements and entertainment media, while long-term renewable energy solutions to power it are still under development.
Still, pretty though, aint it?
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Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
I thought this was an interesting take on this sphere. It’s fascinating technology and looks cool to look at, but it does speak to the decadence this country still tries to array itself and distract itself, while spiraling down the toilet bowl at blistering speeds.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The ONLY reason I’d go to Las Vegas would be to plant and hand out gospel tracts – ALL based on the King James Bible, after praying over them I’ll pass them out and lay them on roulette tables, craps tables, slot machines, front desks, and so on – praying that they’ll reach AT LEAST ONE soul and also to bring in God’s judgement. Go to Caesar’s Palace, the Flamingo, Aria, MGM, et cetera, while I stay at a humble, cheap motel and eat at a little diner before I fly back.
Remember those Godless commercials “What Happens In Vegas Stays In Vegas”? WRONG! What Happens In Vegas…Is Recorded In Heaven!
Spiraling down the the toilet at blistering speeds; the picture of an American surfing a turd to his destruction while puffing out his chest and saying: look at me, I’m the man.
Amazingly it’s so true how haughty USers are.
1Co_3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Amen, David!
America refuses to repent, in fact most Americans – especially “christians”, they cannot stand that R word (REPENT) to them it’s like the F-word.
America has gone through two World Wars, a Great Depression, a Great Recession, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, crime in the streets, criminal politicians, September 11th (which Iraq DID NOT do), wildfires, the SCAMDEMIC, and many more…and yet America continues to bask in its long list of evils and pride while spreading heresies and falsely proclaiming to be a “God fearing nation” – yeah right and I’m Bugs Bunny.
Now it’s time for God to use the instruments of death on America – World War III, economic collapse, social fallout with violence and perhaps a civil war, chaos, terror, and death!
I almost forgot: the right are going to be fully ignited and in authority and power, it’s going to be Nazi Germany on steroids, and all of these leftist liberals, LGBTQIA sodomites, feminists, leftists, socialists, and perhaps even Jews will be rounded up and put in death camps!
Remember the film reels of Nazi Germany? Where dead bodies were pushed into open graves by bulldozers? It’s coming to America!
I wouldn’t set foot in that God forsaken town.
As for the ‘technology’ aspect – just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. And that my friends in applicable in all aspects of life.
Glory be, I am just passing through on my way Home to be with The Lord for all eternity.
Yeah you got a good point, Born Again. I just thought it’d be a good idea to pass out tracts in Vegas. Don’t eat at the buffets – find other places to eat, don’t stay at their hotels – find a motel perhaps an AirBnB, and absolutely NEVER participate in ANY gambling or shows.
But now that you bring that up, it’s probably best to avoid it altogether.
Who is paying for this total waste? Probably taxpayers.
Romish aspects of America absorbed from big Mama & alchemical Deists playing ‘Christian’ and ‘Evangelical’ make themselves apparent in Vegas.
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Vegas is as alien to America as she was founded, with nicolaitan & godless tendencies sharply limited, bound, by the Bill of Rights we weren’t supposed to have protecting God-given rights we weren’t supposed to know about, save through the philosophical & evolutionary grid of Rome & other assorted nicolaitans, elitists, high caste ‘gods’ as ‘religion’ was useful to them & their own ends & will: as alien to what America was as what came with the waves of Catholic European immigration in the 1800’s, adding to the beachhead in Maryland, & the earlier ones in French Catholic Canada, in the South, in New Orleans & up the Mississippi.
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Previously you didn’t have a bunch of ‘prostitutes are nicer than Christians’ or ‘social drinking is okay’ or ‘victims of anti-Catholic bigotry’ propaganda crammed down your throat as the humanists, & tons of ‘Christian’ women acting out of order, & as some sort of spiritual, social giants & social welfare experts & activists began mobilizing with their media. The early liberals with their Quaker mystical & ‘Christy’ type form of missions right up to the free education tuition for hordes of female ‘Peace Corps’ teachers preceding further dependence & demoralization through State social services fostering ignorance, indolance, entitlement and dependence were HUGE in all of that in the East, even while the Masonic-Catholic transformation of the West was affected from Chicago and St. Louis.
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Think the Mormons. Think Jane Adams. Think that Unitarian witch who wrote the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’, or the activist myth-maker who wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. Think Margaret Sanger.
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Think, mystical, ‘deeper things’ holiness which entrenched itself in Methodism w/ much feminine mystical influence via Susannah Wesley catechizing her boys with the Catholic/Anglican Catechism. Think Jansenism and Pentacostalism: women prominent in all of that…..building on Romish Babylon’s foundation & the corruption of the pagans carried up through it with their humanism & ecumenism, synthesis etc. Aristotle & Plato & Queen of Heaven religion brought in to corrupt the faith via Augustine & Constantine ….w/ Monica and Helena figuring HUGELY in that, deceived & manipulating. Monica induced Augustine to transgress 1 Corinthians 7 KJB. (Talk about your meddling mother in law…!)
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Out of God’s order, into Babylonian Egyptian Rome’s.
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Because folks here knew their Lord and his words, knew history & their heritage, & had to work hard, though without a parasite class to support for many years, we didn’t have as much prostitution or booze addicts, let alone drug bondage as used by the pagans & forbidden in the Law of Moses for a reason. Revelry & such things were known to be pagan & idolatrous, natural & godly enjoyment not bringing a snare were biblically discerned. Big money funding & steering (Rockefeller, Carnegie etc….Ford) and the idea of ‘big’ ministry, ‘big’ revivals not rooted in preaching, but in many humanistic devices….derailed a lot of that as we entered the twentieth century.
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The Jews should have known better, but most were Talmudic, Christ-rejecting & went philosophical & humanist ecumenical. No king but Caesar. And men here, as in Europe, went soft on evangelizing them as their genius for money making became apparent & envied. Why not just use & emulate them while spewing anti-semitic Replacement Theology philosophy on the side for justification & a potential ‘out’ by persecuting them Old World style? God allowed wealthy, law-abiding Jews to die on the Titanic with the evangelical Astor…& the way was clear for the establishment of both the unConstitutional Fed and the income tax allowing the parasite class to burgeon.
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Later a Depression & War wearied nation easily accepted the Romish, Islamic, Jewish & ungodly American elite class establishment of the U.S. Petro-dollar. Now, the Whore simply changes mounts going back to bricks and slime they had for mortar empire building & centralization, forced fornicating union.
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By the time of the ‘existentialists’ & Harriet Beecher Stowe etc, & coming with prosperity: abundance of bread & idleness in the late nineteenth century….opium & pot was coming into use here amongst the well-to-do & ambitious, including amongst these philosophical & experiential religionists & philosophizing scholars.
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Just as it had in Great Britain from India & the East some time before. It was used to calm& control ‘nervous’ women, & to aid inventiveness, creativity etc. (Sound familiar?)
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The philosopher ‘Protestant’ Kierkegaard used a liqueur derived from wormwood to achieve a dreamy, visionary state considered ‘religious’ & ‘ecstatic’ as the old ascetics & mystics of Rome. Orthodox Russians were already notorious idolators, & drunkards, often given to base desire & vodka. That’s NOT a part of ‘tradition’ & ‘traditional values’ that men should be deceived by! or mistake with ‘strength’.
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It did not end well for Kierkegaard or any adopting such mystical promoting means, disarming reason & opening to any spirit….bad as worshipping human reason: suicides were rampant in that era in Northern Europe as well as in the South with Rome proper’s ‘managing’ of sin & fleshy mysticism. You look into the radical rationalists & they don’t die well either: suicide haunts their families & the ‘strong, stoic’ masculine heads by violent suicide since they have no hope but their own will & strength, serve the hard, deceitful & unfaithful master Satan: and cannot face death with dignity no matter how much they talk about it…..or impose it on others!
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Idolatry brings bondage, misery, destruction & death in the end.
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That little ‘existentialist’ experiment contributed mightily to the Counter-Reformation, the mess with Kant & such philosophical Germans leaning back to Aristotle & Plato, as Augustine, up through the Lutheran reformation which started well, but which then largely took its hand from the plow & went back to Rome’s bloody ways w/ Calvin following suit: clinging to pride, ambition & empire order, not continuing in the word to freedom indeed.
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Add Erasmus Darwin’s contribution due to his aristocratic, lecherous lost state finding apparent ‘justification’ for his sins in the filthy pagan philosophers: his contribution then popularized through the idolizing & weak, inbreeding addled& illness ridden grandson Charles, trumpeted by the ‘bulldog’ Huxley (so much for the ‘bully’ pulpit….more like subtle turn back towards the dogs, hogs, vomit & ancient wallows then making a comeback), & contributed to the spawning of Nietsche & Hitler, the Popes Pius XI and XII & new ‘unifying’ bulls & doctrines….while a fearful& misunderstanding awe & trust in science falsely so called coupled with a failing of faith response here resulted in the disastrous ‘Fundamentalist’ movement & ‘scientific’ Christianity!
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A real disordered, limited word, increasingly unmoored & lawless mess . A ‘new’ definition of ‘inspiration’ coming in via Warfield that dogged and hindered King James Bible belief..and so much more as a result.
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Masons & other Catholic orders, Jesuit immigration & agitation scheme$….. (romanticizing the effeminate & foppish European ways, especially of spoiled aristocratic & state supported ‘clerics’…a sort of side aristocracy, State supported ‘scholar class’) contributed to the ‘transformation of America’. The Masonic and Mormon fronts especially useful in the West & to the establishment of saloons, prostitution & wicked dens of iniquity like Vegas.
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Vegas isn’t English, you know. It’s Catholic Spanish, commonly given as ‘meadow’ by interpreters today, but that’s ‘prado’ etc. More precise than that: vegas means lush plains by a watering source, river or canal. Ain’t that a Sodomite, Babylonian coinky-dink. Lot’s easy living, easy money. ………….Oh, & it’s feminine, sometimes used as a woman’s name.
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It’s also the name of a star in the constellation Lyra, linking it with Orpheus/Hercules/Cygnus in the pagan spin on Genesis 6 & again afterwards, the ‘gods’ of the pagans. Zeus took form of Cygnus /swan to rape Spartan Queen Leda or Nemesis….which has significance in both Islam& mystery religion ideas carried up into regions of the ‘stans’ & Russia, as well as resurgent witchcraft. It is part of the ‘Summer Triangle’.
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Guess we know the spirit of that thing matches the city as it now is! Though such dens of iniquity& areas of concentrated sin are common worldwide. Rome only now regathers them all into her ecumenical, synthesis religion reborn wickedness. Merchandising and fornications and bloodshed all common to the thing.
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Never forget why Rome went to such lengths to infiltrate, take and remake America….because it has everything to do with that inspired, preserved & powerful word of God for these end days, the King James Bible.