World Trade Center

[koala]

For those of you who, like me, never got to see the magnificent buildings that were the World Trade Center, here (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/World_Trade_Center.html) is a site I found with lots of pictures and information.

[Deb]

I'm still most impressed by the satellite images... It never ceases to amaze (and scare) me how clear those are.

Excellent Link! Thanks for sharing.

Deb
- My camera doesn't zoom in quite as well :QTphoto:

[PaulKroll]

Two things come to mind offhand:

1) "My camera doesn't zoom in quite as well"

The best line... OK, the ONLY good line, in "Masters of the Universe" the movie (With Dolph Lundgren as He-man and Frank Langella (!) as Skeletor) there's a scene where they locate a "key" which has been taken across the galaxy, to Earth. Skeletor goes "Zoom in!" and from a view of the Milky Way, there's a zoom of epic proportions, that finally, is looking at a building on Earth, and must be showing about 1-foot resolution and is JUST a tad blurry, when finally Skeletor says "...that's close enough!"

I howled laughing for several minutes. It's really worth a cheap rental just for that. Fast forward through the rest of it.

2) Someone at work today said a plane was hijacked (it wasn't) and the Sears Tower was being evacuated (also untrue). (We're half a block from the Sears Tower.) (Actually we're between the Sears Tower and the Federal Reserve, so we're a little nervous...) Folks didn't run (some of us did run... to the break room, to see the TV). But some sure did scurry quickly out of the building. It was either a malicious hoax or someone panicking from a mistake.

I of course, was sure it wasn't true, and had run to watch the TV since there'd be nothing else on the air if it WERE true. I was so smooth. So cool. When I realized I was actually shaking like a leaf, I decided that perhaps my perception of my own coolness was maybe, a tad off. :ididthat: