@mattblaze Or what's REALLY going on in those "water towers" you can see everywhere...

@mattblaze I like to think that DOGE fired everyone who does inter-agency coordination in the intelligence community. So when the Secret Service found this unexplained thing, they didn’t know it was ours and that it had some other purpose in mind. It was hidden in the city for some reason. And they had no way to find out because all those comms people were fired. So they cheer about it to the press and then someone from another agency figures it out and yells at them for wrecking their op.pbs.org/newshour/nation/the-se

@mattblaze Its been demolished now i think but capenhurst tower was built to intercept a microwave telecoms link in the UK lamont.me.uk/capenhurst/origin

@mattblaze Old telephone switching offices are a good example of hiding in plain sight, if you know what to look for; I doubt that one in a thousand passers-by noticed them when they were in use, even though they were typically in downtown locations, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/811_Tent

@mattblaze I suppose all the pre-digital defense infrastructure isn't needed for future backups either? But as satellites don't last forever, I assume newer digital ground backups are available that we don't know about.

@mattblaze ooh, interesting. I wasn't aware of anything by Lambs Knoll. That sounds like a good excuse for me to get some exercise. Thanks for the info.