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You saw this driving around?
Maybe on the porch. From the driveway.
Local logging truck.
"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"
Went for a ride in it and almost everyone in the cars on the road were gawking, taking pictures or videos, waving.
I read that as a sign from heaven clearly stating: MOVE
"Fly yes, land no."
-Indiana Jones
I drove from Marin to Sonoma.
Hwy 37 going East
We stopped at a park in Sonoma and walked around for a while.
Driving through Sonoma
Hwy 37 going East
We stopped at a park in Sonoma and walked around for a while.
Driving through Sonoma
Zoom in, made me chuckle.
Afterward, I had to drive into the city. Coming out of the Robin Williams Tunnel and going down Waldo Grade toward the Golden Gate Bridge. In this case, the vehicle was headed towards us, leaving an extra lane for us.
While crossing the bridge, my wife took this picture of the north side of the Golden Gate with the Point Bonita Lighthouse visible as a bright speck on the lower promontory. Actually, all the pictures taken while driving around were kindly taken by my wife.
Here's a picture of the vehicle that moves the lane barrier depending on traffic.
While crossing the bridge, my wife took this picture of the north side of the Golden Gate with the Point Bonita Lighthouse visible as a bright speck on the lower promontory. Actually, all the pictures taken while driving around were kindly taken by my wife.
Here's a picture of the vehicle that moves the lane barrier depending on traffic.
I don’t know much about radio towers, but the microwave antennas are interesting. I know of a tower with them semi local (~50 miles) to me and thought it was quite unique looking having never seen them before.
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It is very interesting to learn about and kinda wild to think what we used to do with them. Here is a website, with somewhat outdated, but still very relevant info on a lot if not all of the Long Lines sites. You can probably find the one close to you.
Long story short on them… AT&T and the Federal Gvmt were close as close could be. Back in the day (40s and up) there was no breakup of AT&T (1980s) and they were THE telecommunications provider. AT&T transmitted a lot of US Military communications and data. Also you had mother AT&T with tons of resources, muscle and engineering behind it. Bell Labs, Western Electric, Long Lines, and the smaller regional Bells.
They wanted to have a system that could serve as not only additional capacity, but reliable if there was the threat of site/line/cabling/infrastructure loss during the Cold War from a target strike.
So they built hundreds of microwave relay tower sites that transmitted from site to site. Over time these transmitted tons of your long distance calls, and even a whole lot of network programming — ABC/NBC/CBS/etc.
There is something to be said for what at one time AT&T could accomplish being that large and having all of those resources under one roof. Of course being an IT professional I’m sure if they weren’t broken up the telco landscape would be miserable today and we’d have less innovation. But it is impressive to think on how fast a company could mobilize.
Now a days we have to wait days on days for Lumen to investigate why they edited BGP settings on a router at a neighboring businesses router that’s in our ring and why our Fiber’s been down for 2 weeks.
JHZR2
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Does a boat count as driving around?
Beautiful sky this am.
Got better as the day progressed.
Beautiful sky this am.
Got better as the day progressed.
JHZR2
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Here's a picture of the vehicle that moves the lane barrier depending on traffic.
That same machine is used on the Ben Franklin and Walt Whitman bridges between N.J. and Philadelphia.
It took them years to implement the Road Zipper on the Golden Gate Bridge. We've had it for 8 or 9 years.
You could even be on roller skates or "driving" a camel.