It's been fascinating to watch, especially as the change spreads organically
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Replying to @ElamBend @mr_archenemy and
There's been cranes omnipresent in the ATL skyline for fifty years, there's always a new skyscraper going up, shiny new office buildings and condos, downtown and midtown getting upgraded block by block... but never more than 100 yards from someplace you don't want to be at night.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
... but the pockets are getting bigger. Huge new planned urban developments, mixed use, walkable, high-end shops, wide streets, good lighting, all that stuff under one umbrella project name (see "Atlantic Station") on a piece of downtown property large enough to push others out.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
Meanwhile the suburbs keep getting more suburban, more bigger, more further away. Downtown has been under perpetual construction, getting taller and denser and shinier, but the suburbs have been spreading out like kudzu on an abandoned farm.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
There's always a new subdivision under construction just down the road a piece, always a new Starbucks, always a new dentist's office next to the Jimmy John's. And they're always nice. And affordable. And an hour commute to get downtown, god forbid you have to go there.
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Replying to @random_eddie @ElamBend and
interestingly, I am ~1 hour outside the Boston suburbs, and 1.25 hours outside Boston itself
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Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie and
sadly outside of nuclear trebuchet range
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Replying to @Spivonomist @random_eddie and
is the "nuclear" refer to payload, or trebuchet mechanism? bc if the latter, I think, no, it's within (I'm thinking steam generators ; I KNOW A GUY )
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Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie and
I bet I could retrofit a submarine gas generator for what you have in mind
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Replying to @Spivonomist @MorlockP and
can't find it now but in the usenet era there was a great story from a guy who worked at a nuke plant and accidentally launched a drum some ungodly distance into a lake using a steam vent
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there's also the story about the first thing that human beings ever put into space: a manhole cover (Operation Plumbob IIRC) (N.B. for pedants: yes, the V-2s were first)
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