Today's pic in the Oculus.

Yeah, well somebody has to do the work.

We don't use phrases such as "several floors below..." out here in flat-as-a-pancake land. The closest thing I can think of is the elevator button in the Student Union at the University of Kansas that reads "sub-sub-basement". That's ground level on the west side while Level 4 is ground level on the east side. All you can do in the sub-sub-basement is exit down the tunnel/sidewalk towards the forty-acre parking lot next to the football stadium. One of the best excuses I can think of to avoid that campus.

That's a nice looking art gallery - should be pretty cool when the art gets installed. Lots of space for suspended sculptures too!

Holy Cow, post: 438006, member: 50 wrote: We don't use phrases such as "several floors below..." out here in flat-as-a-pancake land. The closest thing I can think of is the elevator button in the Student Union at the University of Kansas that reads "sub-sub-basement". That's ground level on the west side while Level 4 is ground level on the east side. All you can do in the sub-sub-basement is exit down the tunnel/sidewalk towards the forty-acre parking lot next to the football stadium. One of the best excuses I can think of to avoid that campus.

Wow! I didn't think there was that much elevation difference across the whole state, much less on one campus!

That's the main reason they claim to be an institution of higher learning. That and the high demand for recreational drugs.

Jim in AZ, post: 438011, member: 249 wrote: Wow! I didn't think there was that much elevation difference across the whole state, much less on one campus!

Hey, I am from Wichita. The whole state is tilted, 679 feet elevation in the SE corner, 4039 feet at the west edge. You'd never know it from driving across it, though.

John Hamilton, post: 438015, member: 640 wrote: Hey, I am from Wichita. The whole state is tilted, 679 feet elevation in the SE corner, 4039 feet at the west edge. You'd never know it from driving across it, though.

I have only crossed it by train, when I was a child. Never had seen anything that flat in my life... Matter of fact, I'm old now, and the only thing I've seen flatter are oceans!

Holy Cow, post: 438006, member: 50 wrote: We don't use phrases such as "several floors below..." out here in flat-as-a-pancake land. The closest thing I can think of is the elevator button in the Student Union at the University of Kansas that reads "sub-sub-basement". That's ground level on the west side while Level 4 is ground level on the east side. All you can do in the sub-sub-basement is exit down the tunnel/sidewalk towards the forty-acre parking lot next to the football stadium. One of the best excuses I can think of to avoid that campus.

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I was in North Dakota recently, and I saw quite a few missile silos while driving across the state. It looks like they are now unattended? No more buildings on the surface, and a bunch of cameras around the site. Or maybe they are abandoned with missiles removed?

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John Hamilton, post: 438015, member: 640 wrote: Hey, I am from Wichita. The whole state is tilted, 679 feet elevation in the SE corner, 4039 feet at the west edge. You'd never know it from driving across it, though.

I always figured that's why the suicide rate was low in Kansas: lack of anything tall enough to utilize as a death leap. Driving through Kansas the tallest things I've ever seen are the county road viaducts crossing the interstate...with heights marked something like " 16' 9" "...

John Hamilton, post: 438023, member: 640 wrote: I was in North Dakota recently, and I saw quite a few missile silos while driving across the state. It looks like they are now unattended? No more buildings on the surface, and a bunch of cameras around the site. Or maybe they are abandoned with missiles removed?

Don't know the status there, but a few years ago we stopped at the USAF base east of Rapid City and took the tour to the old training silo. Even their museum display without the silo trip would have been well worth the stop.

At that time, if you made a reservation and were US citizen you could also take a tour into a decommissioned real silo, starting from a small display at an exit off I90 east of Wall, SD. I hadn't known that and the wait list didn't get me on the tour that day. But the training silo was interesting enough.

There was also a site a mile or so off I90 where you could look down through a plexiglass cover into a silo. A storm was coming up so they closed up just as we got there. I think the Wild T4 was built for aligning those missiles. There was a pedestal and bench mark outside the fence.

There are some decommissioned silos that have been turned into dwellings.

http://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/nuclear-missile-silo-home-turned-luxury-listed/

Scott, as always, you R O C K ! Thanks for the photos. That feels futuristic. About 1,000 years or so. Where are the apes?