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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
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Jan-09-17, 08:45 AM (EDT) |
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11. "RE: Two Amusing Coincidences"
In response to message #5
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> >>It's hard to wrap your brain around how big she was, as if there's >>some kind of photographic trickery afoot. > >About once a week, I drive past the largest building in the world<1>, >and there's a similar inability to understand the sense of scale. > >It looks like any other warehouse structure, with some big sliding >doors, and some little sliding doors next to it. You know, for the >people to walk in an out of. It wasn't until I noticed that there >were semi trucks pulling in and out of the little doors that I started >to grok just how big that fucking building was. I assume you've taken the tour - if not, do it! I've been at least once, and I think twice, back when my grandfather was still alive (he taught a middle management class for Boeing that became Standard Training for many years - it may well still be! - and IIRC we got a little something extra tour-wise one time but I was young enough the details escape me). Of all the things I saw, the one that stuck with me the most is the steam tunnels underneath the production floor. Assuming my memory isn't exaggerating, they're big enough to drive a truck through (IIRC they use them to move pallets of smaller stuff around to avoid the big airplanes in the way), and they're long enough that they noticeably compress towards the vanishing point. I can't remember the exact length, but I also remember hearing that people would run them because a lap was something like a half mile... And that was before the expansion to build the 777 was done... [...] in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. -- David Ben Gurion EPU RCW #π #include <stdsig.h> |
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