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Old 10-01-2012, 22:21   #1
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Anyone know what the hell this is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Torfhaus.jpg

'Cos I'm mystified.
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Old 10-01-2012, 22:27   #2
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

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it's a communications tower
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

A very little googling suggests its a TV and radio mast operated by Norddeutscher Rundfunk, a public radio and television broadcaster in northern Germany.
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Old 10-01-2012, 22:29   #4
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

Do you mean the TV/Radio transmitter?
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Old 10-01-2012, 22:31   #5
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

Hell it's huge..not something I'd care to have that close to me..
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

Paging Mr Love Monkey ...
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

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Hmm! the perspective has changed a lot there.In the other view it seems much larger.
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Hmm! the perspective has changed a lot there.In the other view it seems much larger.
According to women, male owners of masts often think it is larger from their perspective
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Old 11-01-2012, 09:07   #10
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

Simliar one over at Kitzbuhel that I remembered from skiing there:



Seems they like to paint them to stand out.
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Old 11-01-2012, 10:33   #11
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

The UK's tallest one isn't as colorful though it is the tallest freestanding structure in the UK.. My brother used to live just down the road from it..

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Japan though does it in style with the worlds tallest tower due for completion next month

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Old 11-01-2012, 10:42   #12
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

I used to work here in the 70/80's - it had a couple of good towers.

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Old 11-01-2012, 11:13   #13
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Re: Anyone know what the hell this is?

Warszawa Radio Mast - a half-wave radiator on 227KHz (long wave). This used to be the tallest communications tower in the world at 2100ft until someone accidentally swapped the wrong guy wire during maintenance then the inevitable happened :O
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<snip> then the inevitable happened :O
Dutch TV tower collapses after fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj5SXwZyvEI
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Dutch TV tower collapses after fire.

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