yeah, seems to be a lot of old links getting shared lately. please stop. Maybe start using http://isitold.com/ before posting.
You know, I'm glad I got rid of all my encyclopaedias, the information had been in there for ages!
New York Underground
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#22This is a very old article. One of the pages links to this page - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/nyunderground/docs/myth000... - which suggests using RealPlayer 3.0 and Shockwave 5.0.
I'm pretty sure the audio is RealAudio encoded though can't confirm as I don't have the codec installed (does anyone anymore?). This is just a guess based on the .ram file extension. Still cool to see how engaging you can make a site using 10-15 year old technology. Content is king.
The .ram file points to a real media rtsp-precursor streaming server that no longer exists (pnm://real.nationalgeographic.com)
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#23This isn't accurate for the entire city. At Astor Place, you can look through the sidewalk grates directly onto the tracks.
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#24yeah, seems to be a lot of old links getting shared lately. please stop. Maybe start using http://isitold.com/ before posting.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. "
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#25This isn't accurate for the entire city. At Astor Place, you can look through the sidewalk grates directly onto the tracks.
Well, of course. The subway system varies in depths from above-ground to hundreds of feet in the ground (I think Roosevelt Island, on the F line, is the deepest subway station).
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#26yeah, seems to be a lot of old links getting shared lately. please stop. Maybe start using http://isitold.com/ before posting.
Hmm, now see I find this interesting (at your company?)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366547
(I just posted this.)
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#27Nice image, but if you want to really have fun with a kid dig up the book "Underground" by David Macaulay. It peels back the layers beneath our feet and was a real eye-opener for me when I was younger. Actually grab anything by the same author and have fun...
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#28This has already been posted several times.
First time I've seen it.
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#29The greatest depth shown in that graphic is 800 feet. At 10-12 feet per floor, that's equal to the height of a 67-80 story skyscraper. This means Manhattan has a 'mirror-image' city under the ground -- its 'citizens' are electric power, water, gas, and trash. I can't help but be in awe.
What is even more amazing is that this mimics nature. Most trees have a root structure that is a rough mirror image of what's above ground!
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#30Tunnelling under cities has a number of odd problems.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1527202/How-top-secret-tunne...)
I read an article, some years ago, about the problems of getting subterranean tunnels at a depth greater than 100 foot approved. As part of the process the plans get submitted to the security services, who then say "yes" or "no"; and you only get three attempts. I can't find the article (or anything similar) so maybe it's just myth.
The Moscow subways are beautiful, but when I went (April '86) you were not allowed to take any photographs.
I'm fascinated by the complex networks of public tunnels, secret tunnels, and abandoned tunnels.