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Giant electrical installations

07/11/2007 5:50 AM

Just in case you feel like wandering around at random in the Russian countryside, beware of some quite scary electrical installations dating from the 70's.

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07/11/2007 6:03 AM

The Russians have made turning terrifying-looking high-tech structures into an art form! http://en.structurae.de/photos/index.cfm?JS=36197 shows the transmitter at the top of The Brocken, in the Harz mountains in what was East Germany. Standing underneath it does make the knees clatter together.

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07/11/2007 6:39 AM

Cool! Igor! Throw the BIG switch!

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07/11/2007 7:25 AM

WOW!!!

Don't read in that first link about the nuclear accidents will you....

Its not just scary but I've a family living in North Carolina and that is where the USA air force dropped 2 nuclear devices, finding one only and it had 6 failsafe mechanisms, but 5 had failed.... the other bomb is apparently still missing.....

GULP!!!

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07/11/2007 8:45 AM

Yeah, I'd seen that, but I didn't want to scare people.....

(Igor, it's in a safe place, yes?)

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07/11/2007 5:24 PM

I found a use for the pulse generator with the hollow spiral (made from round bars) going down.

They rolled a stone down it and inspected it at length.

Result: a rolling stone gathers no moss.

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