Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin

Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by plastiquebeech on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:28AM (#34016485)

Impossible to manufacture? Or financially impossible to build a factory for the purpose and larger infrastructure to accommodate transportation?

I'm curious if there is something about acrylics which makes it impossible to make very large single pieces.

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Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by barbegal on Friday December 16, 2022 @11:52AM (#34016854)

I guess you could transport it at immense cost. But you'd also need a machine capable of moulding or extruding it this big. Current maximum for plastic pipes is about 3.5m diameter https://www.agru.at/en/applications/agruline/grand-opening-r... so you'd need something which is capable of more than 3 times the diameter.

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Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by CoastalCoder on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:53PM (#34022883)

Could one pour liquid acrylic into a mold (like with a concrete foundation), rather than extruding it?

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