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Why Aren’t Telephone Towers This Beautiful Anymore?
You’re looking at what was once the main junction for telephone connections in Stockholm. See all the wires? That’s because it was used for around 5,000 phone lines — literal lines — from 1887-1913.
These Crazy CN Tower Ride Videos Shrivel My Testes
Here are some videos of the new crazy tourist ride at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto. No matter how strong that harness is, I know I will be freaking out. And loving it.
12 Lookout Towers To Protect The Realm
Tourists Can Now Dangle Precariously From CN Tower
Mental Note: Never Become A Radio Technician
You’ve all seen those monstrously large radio towers that beam out your favourite radio or television program. It’s worth remembering that if something goes wrong, some poor sap has to climb to the top of that tower to fix it. And occasionally, that poor sap will wear a helmet-mounted camera and create a YouTube video of the experience of climbing up a 538m tower.
Helmet Cam Footage Shows What It’s Like To Repair Radio Tower
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Do you ever wonder just how paralysingly scary it is at the top of a 500m broadcast tower? Where you’re closer to the clouds than you are to the ground? Let this guy do the climbing.
Find This Otherworldly Watchtower Right Here On Earth
It looks like a vista from some distant sci-fi planet, but this is actually a forest near the River Mur, where Austria borders Slovenia. And the steel and aluminium helix stretching above the treetops isn’t any less arresting up close:
NZXT Hades Chassis Looks Like A Cylon Easter Island Head
NZXT’s new Hades case looks like a primitive stone carving, worshipped by Pacific Islanders sometime in the last millennia. It gazes upon you, solemn and silent, imposing and intimidating, powerful and peaceful.




























