Buildings

Post Office, Vancouver

A giant postage stamp on top of Vancouver’s downtown post office (North West is up). Here’s a a normal sized stamp for comparison. Thanks: “amaily post”

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Tuesday, 12th April 2005

Office Space

Top technology headquarters around America: Google, Apple Computer & Microsoft. Thanks: Eric, Mathew, Ahmad

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Monday, 11th April 2005

The Titan Missile Musem

The Titan Missile Museum in AZ is the only publicly accessible Titan II missile site in the USA. Zoom in and note the tiny black half-circle… that’s the half-open silo. It’s kept that way so the “soviets” can peer inside…

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Friday, 8th April 2005

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Strangely beautiful. Thanks Rhett.

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Friday, 8th April 2005

Alcatraz

Alcatraz Island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California. It was formerly used as a military stockade and later as a maximum security prison (just like in the A-Team). Today, the island is a historic site supervised…

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Friday, 8th April 2005

Brookhaven National Laboratory

This one of several laboratories run by the United States Department of Energy. The large, circle shaped structure is a 3 mile long Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Thanks Chris.

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Friday, 8th April 2005
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