Technology is Cool
I was driving through the middle of west Texas a couple nights ago (boring) and came upon a flat area with dozens of flashing red lights spread across the horizon. The pattern was odd – off, flash-flash-flash, off – so I couldn’t figure out what it was. Radio towers just flash on and off, plus it wouldn’t make sense to have so many do close together.
So I take out the Droid, open Maps and zoom to my location. Turn on the satellite layer, and look around – bam, three-bladed shadows. Wind turbines! It turns out the flash-flash-flash was caused by the rotors moving in front of the lights while they were on, which I eventually saw a few miles down the road when they were close enough to spot in the moonlight. You can’t deny that is cool, and it will only become more common. Heck, in five or ten years you might even be able to pull up live satellite images and see yourself driving through. It’s a good time to be alive.
July 28, 2010 at 5:45 pm
That’s pretty cool. I like meeting people who are as into tech as I am and see it as a positive thing! There are so many negative articles coming out lately but I think stuff like this is just amazing!