World’s Largest Music Players
Unfortunately we missed posting this giant iPod sighted in Australia last week - but we don’t mind as it seems that most of the rest of the net was taken in by the stupidly obvious April Fool that was doing the rounds alongside the link.
However, to prove that we’re always down with the kids, Google Sightseeing is proud to present… the very latest in cutting edge audio technology - The World’s Largest Record Player! Built by Technics to celebrate their 1 billionth pair of 1200s sold, this giant deck is fully-functional - it plays 6,000 inch vinyl at a speed of 0.01 RPM!
Thanks to Tggb3k, Yablo, infredible and Orion.
A 6,000 inch record…I wonder what’s on the “B” side…
Take a look at the blimp just to the south …
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… and it’s shadow - a few miles to the NNW
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Concerning the blimp near the second image…
The blimp is actually a tethered aerostat. The image is of the ground control area for a tethered aerostat. The aerostat is a platform for deploying radar systems “in support of other federal agencies involved in the nation’s drug interdiction program.”
Actually, fatsdump, that’s less than a mile. I measured it on GE.
This looks like one of those Aerostat blimps the US Border Patrol uses for surviellence. It’s actually tethered to the turntable looking anchor.
I’m pretty sure there are some high res images of a couple more of these blimps along the Arizona border if you look…
I think these blimps fly at 10,000 ft. btw, so some ambitious math-inclined reader could do the geometry to figure out the elevation of it’s shadow - or maybe of the camera that took the overhead shot?
given that the turntable is in puerto rico, i would say its more likely to be part of the U.S. Navy. during WWII the blimps were used to fend off enemy aircraft. now they use them as weather blimps and some even have cameras and other instruments in them for surveying whats beyond the horizon
Here is another of these blimps. It flies off of Fort Huachuca, AZ. Its Air Force run, and assists the border patrol if i remember correctly. Since the blimps are the same approximate dimensions I would assume that its for border protection (err, shore protection).
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Erm, Anon, they already posted that.
http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/05/14/aerostat/
Holy Crap, I almost forgot I posted this thing. I was trying to find it a few weeks ago and forgot where I put it. I’m gonna find some good s*** and start posting again because of this.