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[–] 65 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    At the top you can see the disused Alameda Naval Air Base runway, which is where the MythBusters filmed a lot of their antics.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Is this tilt shifted? Looks unreal?

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    It's Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago

    The photo must be around 8 years old.

    Fun fact: on the top left corner is a partial segment of the old Bay Bridge that was damaged during the Loma Prieta 1989 earthquake. They built a whole new span (the white section next to it). To get rid of the old concrete underwater pylons, they blew them all up underwater. Here's a video of the implosion of the last two:

    https://blog.bayareametro.gov/posts/final-implosion-old-bay-bridge

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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    Had the exact same thought. My visit to san fran was hilarious, because looking across the bay, you could see the sunshine on the north side, while the south was blanketed in light mist and fog. Our brief visit to the north side to see the muir woods was the exact opposite: sitting in sunshine while looking at a dreary, shrouded place across the water.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    This perspective is extra trippy because the port of Oakland and Naval Air Station Alameda are both so incomprehensibly huge on a human scale. You have an awareness and feeling for how big a city and skyscrapers are, so to see them in this perspective get made to look so small and so close to these expanses of concrete is mind bending.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    This prob looked really pretty before all the concrete.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Meh, it was mostly just sand dunes, at least for San Francisco. There's probably more trees there now then before it was developed. Also San Francisco probably has the most natural area surrounding it then any other major city in the US, since most of the area around it is either mountains or water which you can't build on, that's also why it's so dense.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Oh thank god they build some skyscrapers then.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Unironnically yes, conservation wise skyscrapers are the best way for people to live. Squeezing people onto the smallest footprint possible per person is the best way to keep spaces natural, besides killing large chunks of the human population...

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Does anyone know what the small half complete bridge on the left is?

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I think that little island there is Alcatraz.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    What ever happened to predictability?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Is this from Google maps or smth?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I first thought this pic was showing flooding or higher water levels. Nice overview shot.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    With a telephoto lens no less. Must have been really far away with a long lens to get it to look so flat.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    San fran is great, some of the prettiest coastline and amazing food

    I can't remember the last time I was there when it was sunny though

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Odd perspective. What kind of lens was this taken with.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Not sure about lens but this looks like a tilt shift photo

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Pretty city for tourists visiting the tourist areas.

    A different story if trying to live in it. I used to like the idea of living and working there, until I saw the costs of living.

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