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Aerial Photographs of the 1906 Earthquake
hansoloaf writes "In 1906 San Francisco had a devastating earthquake - registering around 7.7 to 8.3 on the Richter scale. George Lawrence had devised ways to take aerial photographs and went to SF to showcase his technology. He used kites and custom built cameras that could take photos while up in the air."
Quick, someone go get some satellite photos of the server!
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Here is the Google cache view of the 2004 slashdot effect on rtpnet.org servers. Notice the missing pictures - sign of destruction this natural disaster left in its path.
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It should also show you that there have always been nerds.
... ok, have fun, you deserve it."
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Hang in there, guys. One day you'll do something cool like take a picture of total devastation.
You'll be famous for 15 minutes, chicks will be drawn, you'll be tricked into marrying one, and then years later when she asks if you'd mind if she went out with her friends from work you can say, "Well
Then you can be like me, free at last to read
sigs, as if you care.
I propose that Slashdot Scale = 1 / (time it takes after post for server to explode)
The last time a fire the size SF/1906 was set, NYC colonists burned their British landlords' buildings to the ground. So, if you want to keep this "East Coast vs. West Coast" thing going (you're on your own), you're going to have to burn Boston.
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make install -not war
This is like an east-west Slashdot nerd beef.
Who's the bigger badass? Who set fire to the their home city to collect the insurance? And when they collected, did they bling the hell out of their horse-drawn carriage and get diamond-encrusted bonnets for their fineass bitches? Dollar dollar bill, y'all, trolls ain't touchin' that shit.
Kites are hardly groundbreaking
Hard ground, on the other hand, is often kitebreaking.
100 years later, the quake is still causing damage (in this case to webservers...)
Found It!
THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!!!! eventually.
Wow, Hardcore Gangster Geeks.
Who Knew?
What eventually stopped the fire was a decision by the authorities to create a major firebreak by essentially blowing up a 1 block wide path down Van Ness Ave.
So they played Sim City, too?
Give a man fire, and you warm him for the night. Set a man on fire, and you warm him for the rest of his life.
Am I the only one who finds it blackly humorous and more than a little creepy that one of the few buildings remaining standing in the first picture is the California Casket Company??
Me? Debunk an American myth? And take my life in my hands?