Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building?

Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• cholesterol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well then Image

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  • kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, at least they nailed the dystopian aesthetic

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• dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TIL, thanks! My first thought was that it might’ve been a telephony exchange center, data center, or other networking infrastructure hub. There’s a building in my city colloquially referred to as “the bunker” built with a similar hardened brutalist style that houses all the main network trunk connections for our state.

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• TomMasz@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My father worked for Western Electric, the part of the Bell System that handled wiring this building (and others). I’m pretty sure he worked there, at least for a while. The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.

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  • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    this could be us, but you playin’

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    • mika_mika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My life is empty without a doomer shawty to collect copper and smoke crack with. 😔

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      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ✊ the struggle is real fam

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  • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    FYI

    TITANPOINTE: The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight

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    • ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Replied to the wrong thread

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The amount of copper wire in that building is astronomical.

    Ea-Nasir has entered the chat

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But so has Bubbles.

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      • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Did you hear the news?

        cbc.ca/…/trailer-park-boys-star-sexual-assault-ch…

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it is a telephone exchange or wire center building […] used for […] telephony, as well as […] for competitive local exchange carrier services. However, it is not used for incumbent local exchange carrier services, and is not a central office. Its CLLI code is NYCMNYBW.

  It has been reported that the building is used as a National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance facility.[1][2]

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• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fun fact: there are some big magnets in there. I have a compass on my backpack and it had a lot of trouble when I passed that building.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lots of high voltage and inductors which effect local magnetic fields. Probably not too many permanent magnets though, you can see the same thing at local switching stations of you try.

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not Gina have a solid iron core or anything, even if it’s meant to be bombproof, it’s mostly going to be reinforced concrete.

      Could be that the NSA messes with GPS signals there too thwart drones.

      I was under the impression that it’s an old Bell Telephone trunk/exchange, that has since been repurposed by a federal alphabet soup as a data center.

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  • nyaskiez@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would be cool if you could share a video of that

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.

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      • nyaskiez@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ah makes sense. Maybe I’ll ask one of my friends who live there. I heard it’s a cia surveillance building

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