"Mooninite2" by Jimmy - Original source: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg289h/Mooninite/Mooninite2.jpg
Posted on 02/03/2015 12:06:23 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
If you’re looking to do a solargraphy project by leaving a pinhole camera in a place for months, a bridge above a busy freeway is not a smart location choice.
(Excerpt) Read more at petapixel.com ...
Ya I was checking that out- didn’t take much to shut the viaduct down.
Someone untoward could take advantage of having taped a knapsack full of nothing to create a fatal funnel...
there went someone’s webcam
Can this possibly be serious? I heard about this as it developed and of course my common sense kicked in and imagined some sizable or well-placed SOMETHING that just happened to freak everyone out. Something where you just look at it and automatically go, “Let’s just be safe with this just in case...”
Is this article trying to tell us that this thing was clearly visibly a can or something equally flimsy in appearance?
... I just watched the video. They were worried about... THAT TINY PIECE OF WHATSIT-JUNK?
How the heck much damage could anything that TINY on the OUTSIDE of that bridge facing AWAY from everyone do to anyone or anything? It was clearly not meant to be dangerous. According to the article it even HAD A FRIENDLY NOTE ATTACHED EXPLAINING WHAT IT WAS...
Is there anyone with common sense anymore?
How was this even a good excuse for a training exercise? They had to shut a freeway for hours. To make people feel safer? Or to make them think their local government are idiots wasting money pretending to be heroes and blocking traffic all day?
I would have personally bought a beer for any sane worker who just walked up during the whole bomb squad routine reached over and ripped it off the wall, tossed it in a trash can and walked away.
Most people don’t seem to apprehend how tenuous our existence is.
Placing a camera or floating a drone could make you an enemy of the state.
Or, you could be the next YouTube hero, and be invited to the White House
Yep, reality just goes back and forth like a flimsy foil in the wind.
I wonder if it was funded by a government grant?
Traing exercise- everybody got 8 hrs credit
Damn tablet makes typing a real drill, if you were trained to type.
No matter what it is, bomb-squad, SWAT team, local LEOs, and other government agencies, when they train-train-train, they eventually find an excuse to put that training into reality. Unfortunately, this “abundance of caution” and/or overreaction reasoning can often go overboard. It’s how tragedies happen.
But what about the muslim student in Atlanta with the pipe bombs?
Never heard much about that, did we?
It’s not just a freeway. It’s the Downtown Connector, a stretch of freeway where I-85 and I-75 combine as one motorway through downtown area of Atlanta. One of the worst conceived interstate designs anywhere.
Here are some photos from the AJC...
http://www.ajc.com/gallery/news/photossuspicious-package-closes-downtown-connector/gCQqK/#6738175
With Georgia Tech University close by, I suspect it was a student.
They have to justify the expensive trucks. A few years ago, I drove by a five gallon bucket of clearly marked asphalt sealer that fell off a truck onto an asphalt road.
A few minutes later I drove by again to see the road closed and the brand new HAZMAT truck treating the hazardous waste.
"Mooninite2" by Jimmy - Original source: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg289h/Mooninite/Mooninite2.jpg
Yesterday was a good day to know alternate routes home. After 15 years of driving in Atlanta I’ve learned to hate The Connector.
Georgia Ping.
I think that this is much more serious than posters here realize.....
The person operating the Solargraphy Camera was obtaining unauthorized images of sunspots....
To have such raw data in the hands of a disbeliever of global warming is a threat to the administration....
When sunspot pictures are banned only outlaws will know the truth about the coming collapse of sunspot count and the advent of the next ice age.
GA FReeper ping.
And just damn.
“It’s the Downtown Connector”
One section of which has 23, count ‘em twenty-three, lanes. And it still bogs way down for hours daily.
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