TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might’ve been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There’s a building in my city colloquially referred to as “the bunker” built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.
My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I’m pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Well then
I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic
Fern did a video on it.
TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might’ve been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There’s a building in my city colloquially referred to as “the bunker” built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.
My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I’m pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.
this could be us, but you playin’
My life is empty without a doomer shawty to collect copper and smoke crack with. 😔
✊ the struggle is real fam
Ea-Nasir has entered the chat
But so has Bubbles.
Did you hear the news?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-charge-bubbles-9.6972349
I hadn’t, but I also meant this guy:
Oh ffs is nobody normal? Why does every actor have to be a sex pest?
I actually really liked his character.
FYI
TITANPOINTE: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
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Fun fact: there are some big magnets in there. I have a compass on my backpack and it had a lot of trouble when I passed that building.
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qqJSXoa5ZtQ
Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.
Ah makes sense. Maybe I’ll ask one of my friends who live there. I heard it’s a cia surveillance building
NSA, but yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street
Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.
Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.
No problem.
Here’s a video, he’s a lot just an fyi but he’s smart and enjoys what he does.
https://youtube.com/shorts/6uH5rNnU5OM
Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?
EDIT: Apparently lemmy doesn’t believe concentrations of iron affects magnets. Go on.
The lack of basic science around here annoys me. Had thought this crowd was smarter than FB Boomers.
It’s not Gina have a solid iron core or anything, even if it’s meant to be bombproof, it’s mostly going to be reinforced concrete.
Could be that the NSA messes with GPS signals there too thwart drones.
I was under the impression that it’s an old Bell Telephone trunk/exchange, that has since been repurposed by a federal alphabet soup as a data center.
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