A proposed design for 150-foot, human-shaped power pylons in Iceland sparked a short but evocative thread on r/burningman, where users riffed on how the structures would feel if they ever showed up in the playa.
Commenters landed on two main takes: eerie festival vibes and practical engineering concerns. One user, u/loquacious, imagined the pylons as a late-night playa scare — “a ring of these looming just outside the trash fence in complete darkness, and then every few hours they get lit up ominously with LED washes or with a single flash of a strobe.” Another user, u/Kilisut, pushed back on the design’s feasibility, saying the arms “look way too weak to handle any wind load on the wires.”
Other responses noted familiar visuals: u/PizzaWall pointed out similar pylons along Highway 447 north of Gerlach and compared the silhouette to a popular effigy. One comment criticized the post as a low-effort repost (u/scienceisaserfdom).
Read the original Reddit thread on r/burningman: https://www.reddit.com/r/burningman/comments/1rfg2lt
Source article linked in the discussion: https://choishine.com/Giants.html
Notes: The post is a community reaction rather than a technical analysis — commenters mixed festival imagination with practical skepticism. We’re linking to the original Reddit thread for full context and more replies.