Might that not be a case of the building having a monster concentration of ferrous metal?
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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoFun 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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 18 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.
nyaskiez@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It would be cool if you could share a video of that
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Sadly, I didn’t take one and I don’t live in NYC anymore.
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
kuhli@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
NSA, but yeah
Madison420@lemmy.world 11 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.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Interesting, thanks for the info. I’d always wondered what was causing that.