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Tuesday, 7th June 2005 by Alex Turnbull
Apparently Canada is held together with Scotch tape. Well, who would have thought that!
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It’s clearly strapping tape, because Canada is a big strapping country.
I live in Ontario and i didnt even know we had the largest tape in the world
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Hey Dave, what do you mean by strapping country.
Hehe, it’s quite a Scottish thing to say actually, it means ‘muscular’, or ‘beefy’ over here
go CANADA GO i live in canada, mmmmmmmm beeeeeer, cheers
It’s the great wall of Canadia!
Boy I’d hate to see the snake that shed that skin LOL
Based on the size of the crack they’re trying to repair, I’d say they need more tape!
Is this more tape? View Placemark / Google Earth
andy, nah, that’s a cable cut. for power lines to run through. i followed one from my house all the way to buffalo the other day. luckily, i did it on googlemaps and saved a lot of gas money…
-james
Andy – what you have discovered is the Churchill Falls hydro corridor. At the north end is the Churchill Falls hydroelectric station, the world’s largest underground powerhouse. At the south end are the electric-fired smelters of Quebec’s North Shore mining industry including the giant Quebec Cartier Mining iron pellet plant. Both are impressive engineering projects, and the swath of trees cut away to run the power lines is pretty remarkable too.
The mesh strip across Northern Ontario is…still a mystery?
Wow, I’m shocked that clear cutting can be so visible especially in low res
My guess is that this is imagery from the Landsat satellite, and for some reason several lines of imagery were not received properly at the ground station, resulting in garbage. The orientation of the strip looks like it is perpendicular to the satellite orbit, and it also looks like the width of the strip is possibly a multiple of 16 lines, which is what Landsat images at a time.
Thanks, guys! I found a pretty neat picture of the corridor here (3rd pic down):
http://ieee.ca/millennium/churchill/cf_history.html
If the clowns at the news media are right, the renaissance of the separatist Bloc Quebecois means we’re heading for another round of constitutional talks…. We’re going to need all the tape we can get to hold it together.
“Apparently Canada is held together with Scotch tape.” …so is their infrastructure
And at this time, on a underside of a planet View Placemark / Google Earth russian guys stick together coast lake
The same thing appears at the Bajkal lake in Russia.
They tried to stick those Indonesia islands together… View Placemark / Google Earth
I live in Southern Ontario (Canada has amassed 90 % of its population near the borders, clearly in preparation for an attack) and I’m pretty sure I’ve never been that far up north. It’s a pity the map section doesn’t tell us what the line/crack/river being held by the tape is.
Being Canada, it probably wouldn’t be scotch tape. It’s just discoloured duct tape.
How do you feel about Scotch Tape? What would you do if it was no longer around? Anyone know any tape prody?
Thats not tape, thats a wall. We Quebecois are building a Great Wall to separate us from Ontario after out referendum keeps failing.
We’ll get separated one way or the other.
What things about this: View Placemark / Google Earth