The Off Topic Topic

[Josephus]

I'm so gonna diaglogue this chick:

Hello. How are you?
You want to find out, from i know yours email and who has given to me? I'm
will attempt to tell to you detail.
I have absolutely unexpectedly learnt yours email from agents. You not
against dialogue?
Hey! I'm an awesome a woman trying to meet a nice, normal guy...
I'm friendly,loving, am a fun, hardworking girl with a good heart who will
make anything and everything for the relatives...
I love a good sense of humor, charm, confidence, honesty and chivalry, going
to the beach in the summer and traveling. Family is on the first place to
me, i hope it is important to you too.
I am looking for an independent, mentally stable man with a good sense of
humor that is looking for a real, warm relationship, who shares some of the
same ideas, but someone who can introduce me to different things. I'm a true
romantic ! At the very least, I'm looking for someone I can have an
enjoyable time with.
Has fixed my photograph, I hope to be pleasant to you.

If I have interested you write to me: [a yahoo email account]

I hope to see off you the email

[Syt]

View from St. Stephen's Cathedral Vienna towards ca. North - the close "river" is the Danube Canal, Danube further at the back. The famous Ringstraße (that would try to mimick the Champs-Elysees ) is not yet built.



A view in the same direction today (albeit from lower height, and looking further to the right as seen by the hills in the background):



Ringstraßen-Tower on the left, the two Flak towers at Augarten park in the center, Millennium Tower on the right. Danube Canal is now hidden by buildings.

[Syt]

View towards the baroque Karlskirche in 1860:



The view today (church is center left). The skyline of the Wienerberg City (a business park in the southern part of my district) in center.

[derspiess]

Very cool.  So what do they use the flak towers for now?  I'd have thought they'd tear them down.

[MadImmortalMan]

Very cool.  So what do they use the flak towers for now?  I'd have thought they'd tear them down.

I think I saw something about them getting transformed into living space. It might have been Germany instead.

[The Larch]

Very cool.  So what do they use the flak towers for now?  I'd have thought they'd tear them down.

IIRC they were way too sturdy to be torn down without turning the whole area into a disaster zone. At least one of them was used as an aquarium.

[DGuller]

Wow, that housing stock looks just a tad outdated.

[Caliga]

Russian family of Old Believers live with no human contact in the Taiga for decades: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html#ixzz2JLsEc9A3

Cheers for that. 

Sounds like a horrible story of incest and cannibalism.

I bet we have some families like that way up in eastern Kentucky too.

[Syt]

Very cool.  So what do they use the flak towers for now?  I'd have thought they'd tear them down.

IIRC they were way too sturdy to be torn down without turning the whole area into a disaster zone. At least one of them was used as an aquarium.

Yep. The others are mostly empty, I think. Here's an article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower

[CountDeMoney]

Mostly empty?  That's a damned shame.  Would make for awesome loft properties.

[The Larch]

Mostly empty?  That's a damned shame.  Would make for awesome loft properties.

Windowless lofts.

[derspiess]

Mostly empty?  That's a damned shame.  Would make for awesome loft properties.

Windowless lofts.

For blind people

[lustindarkness]

Those would make good zombie proof homes.

[Ed Anger]

Next on House Hunters International...

[Syt]

Next on House Hunters International...

Moldy would love it.