schizoidmanTangled electric pole in Laos turns turns into 'scenic spot' on Google Maps, receives multiple 5-star ratings
Electrical engineer here: Would definitely visit!
Probably adrenaline rush like going cage diving among white sharks!
Probably adrenaline rush like going cage diving among white sharks!
It’s like visiting an active volcano. You know it’s been like this for years, so it’s unlikely to explode right when you’re there, but at the same time it’s absolutely guaranteed to blow at some point in time.
definitely_AII traveled quite a bit in SE Asia, and I don’t know how anyone survives beyond the age of about 8.
I mean it does look cool…
I think most of that is data or phone, only the top looks to be insulated.
I wonder how many of those cables are still in use?
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“Yo girl gimme yo number.”
“It’s 5.”
Au wire.
ja det är mycket tråd
My least favorite spot in Vientiane is “That Dam” Stupa.
That dam stupa, everyone is fed up with its shit!
matelt
hemmes
Gordon CalhounTriple dog dare you to stick your tongue on it.
Pretty sure 2/3 of those are disconnected, but it’s just too tangled to want to do anything about it so they add another run.
The internet cables behind my old apartment in Chicago looked like this.
No joke.
Multiple times I had to call the tech out who would always give me a new reason why it failed this time.
There was 2 big cable boxes on the side of the building. Always open. Though they shouldn’t be.
I think maybe 40 or 50 apartments in the building.
Oh and this one time. I come home to find a random cable sticking out of a wall that previously did not have a cable in it.
Do like some tech for some service came and drilled into the outside wall of the wrong apartment. And snaked the cable through. And then I guess they probably were super confused when they went back to the apartment they were working on and the cable wasn’t in it. (I assume my neighbor).
And anyway they just left it there.
So my tiny studio apartment had two internets.
Oh and I forgot. The last time a tech came he asked me about it and I told him how it just magically appeared one day. So he tested it and said it had an Internet connection.
He said he left it on so when the one on the left stopped working again (as it did every year or so), I had a backup.
U de RecifeWiremore!