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Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local [NYC] tunnels, and soon they'll start appearing at bridges, too.
But even people on the MTA [Metropolitan Transportation Authority] board in charge of the towers can't say why they're being used or what's in them, CBS2's Dave Carlin reports.
Jose Lugo said the tall metal towers quickly appeared up after the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel tolls[sic] booths came down.
"We don't really know what's the purpose of this," he told Carlin.
It's a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly?
[...] [MTA Chairman] Lhota: "The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items."
Z backscatter arrays?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:47AM (2 children)
Near bridges because that is where all vehicles enter the area from, good choke point. What is in them? Who can really say? All I know is I'm tired of living in this world where shady organizations get to do all sorts of shady shit and the people are shit out of luck.
On a similar note, there were some very odd boxes hanging from a tunnel in San Francisco on the way to the Golden Gate bridge. They had a triangular pattern on the front made from what looked like solar panel crystals and they had no obvious purpose. A few years later they are now all gone. Maybe they found a more covert method for whatever they were.
My bet is on these being emitters and detectors operating at a range of frequencies which would make it easy to detect, well, everything. Now what is the increase in cancer risks for those daily commuters driving past these things? I do hope we're all wrong, but these days you don't even need to put on the tinfoil hat to find shady shit everywhere.
The "big incident" sure did a number of US psychology, sent 50% of the country into an absolute state of terror, ha ha haaaablergh, which allowed this kind of bullshit to glide right through. I fully expect the shady bastards to try and ride this dead horse until it collapses from exhaustion, then we'll have fun putting all our pieces back together. They've already stripped basic dignity and civil rights completely away when it suits them, and so far no real push back. We all still file along as they march as they slowly crank up the heat, we'll be cooked and ready to serve by the time we as a whole figure it out.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday September 29 2017, @05:44AM (1 child)
Ask Runaway if he saw any kind of shady shit on his farmlet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @05:08PM
Are you kidding? He IS the shady shit ;P Poor sheep are ready to stage a coup to keep him from disrobing their females.