Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 15, 2014
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Transcript:
In 1879, British Reverend George Garrett launched a steam powered submarine equipped with a torpedo- it sank off the coast of Wales during Navy tests, and was rediscovered in 1995. Lake Baikal in Serbia, the deepest in the world, contain so much water that it would take 40 years for the Mississippi River to fill it. At 550 feet tall, 33 Thomas Street in New York is the tallest skyscraper in the world with no windows- it was built in 1974 to house telephone switching equipment.
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Templo S.U.D. about 10 years ago
So why doesn’t the 33 Thomas Street building have any windows?
corpcasselbury about 10 years ago
One wonders if the crew of the submarine managed to escape when it went down.
Space_cat about 10 years ago
It is also the most bomb proof skyscraper in NYC.
stlmaddog5 about 10 years ago
Telephone switching in 1974, as with all computer equipment back then, needed to be kept in an environment that was cooled and low in humidity. It generated tremendous amounts of heat. Windows allow moisture in and are terrible for temperature control.
goweeder about 10 years ago
WHY?
pnorman1 about 10 years ago
I would imagine there are people in the building doing maintenance and repairs on the systems but the building wasn’t designed for their comfort.
Brown Leghorn about 10 years ago
Why was that not a target of 9/11, they could have knocked our service out for a good while with that many switching and frequency over-ride
Petemejia77 about 10 years ago
That’s a creepy building! They should make a type of horror movie around that thing!
paulsub63 about 10 years ago
The submarine was lost while under tow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Garrett_(inventor)
sdjamieson Premium Member almost 10 years ago
What did you learn today?
In 1879, they launched a submarine in Lake Baikal. It sank, and they couldn’t find it for over a hundred years because they were looking for it in the Mississippi River. It had actually been at 33 Thomas Street in New York, but no one could see it because windows hadn’t been invented yet.