I saw this yesterday.


It afeared me.

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(theSHALROTH Shamble bobble dimble dooble, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:23, archived)

Oooh, ominous.

( The Hedgehog From Hell, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:23, archived)

shocking......
Mary shouldn't tie her lamb up to this 'un
( The Twisted Omentum Talk about Mudflaps, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:25, archived)

I know...
...It's at least fifty metres tall, possibly more.

The best part is that I got no bars on my phone right beside it...
(theSHALROTH Shamble bobble dimble dooble, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:27, archived)

I can hear the sinister low-pitched THRUM... THRUM... THRUM... noise
just looking at it.

Perhaps I have an over-active imagination.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:33, archived)

Close...
... it was more like a 40Hz square wave. Most disturbing.
(theSHALROTH Shamble bobble dimble dooble, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:38, archived)

I would have said 30hz myself...
:S
( WiL 's cat has decided he is an indoors cat now..., Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:57, archived)

I remember that! We were at Oldham.
And weirdly, no phone signal when standing right next to it, so WTF is it doing!?

*edit* Mindpiss!!
( WiL 's cat has decided he is an indoors cat now..., Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:28, archived)

Waiting.
It's Waiting.
(theSHALROTH Shamble bobble dimble dooble, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:31, archived)

There's one o' them near me in Cambridgeshire.

I'm pretty sure it's a telecoms base station of some kind, maybe for only one phone network or for satellite connections (international calls etc).

That reminds me though, has anyone heard wireless power may be possible in the near future?
(T.A.F.K.A. doctorsax http://www.badphorm.co.uk, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:37, archived)

Oh, for sure.
There was a sign at the base (there was a big fence around it with small shed type structures and substations) saying it was owned by Orange / hutchinson Telecom.

It's some sort of uplink tower, judging by the vertical antennae and satellite antennae on it... and on a big fecking hill in the middle of nowhere would be a good place for it...
(theSHALROTH Shamble bobble dimble dooble, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:41, archived)

That text format...
lolpylons?
(PsychoWardJester hasn't had his weetabix, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:29, archived)

There's one of those on a hill next to the M62 where it goes over the Pennines.
Aged five or so, I was more scared of it than of anything else in the world, I used to have to hide under my coat for about five miles whenever we went past it. No idea why, very odd.
( tomsk, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:47, archived)

^This
There's a wind turbine in Haworth that I fear as well. It's about a hundred metres tall.
(theSHALROTH Shamble bobble dimble dooble, Mon 4 Feb 2008, 22:52, archived)