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Does anyone know what that big thing that has sprung up next to the milltary base on the bluff is? I noticed tonight it has all sorts of interesting lights on it, looks like it rotates as well but doesnt look like any radar I've ever seen.

http://unix.za.net/~karnaugh/wtf.jpg

There is a pic I took at the begining of the year, I've been wondering ever since and no one seems to know for sure.

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

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Jeepers that is a spliffy looking tower.
Looks more like an Alien Communcation Device. Beam me up Scotty!

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lol, indeed. Someone actualy just recomended the idea that it was an alien scare-crow of sorts [;)]

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

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Hi Karnaugh and BTTB

I for one will not live too close to that tower. I am not a man that is scared of radiation from standard devices, but it looks like that thing can move towards the gamma ray spectrum. It will be interesting to find out what it is.

Regards,

RPM
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to put it in better perspective, here is another pic I had as people seemd confused on its orientation and size (this thing is massive).

http://unix.za.net/~karnaugh/tower.jpg

The cage structure rotates arround the tower, I've never seen it actualy moving so not sure how fast it does but its in a different position every time I go down there.

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

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It is the new harbour controll tower. The cage around the outside measures the tides. It moves up for high tide and down for low tide.
 
Hmm, chunks of the Bluff (if memory serves me right, including some above/below ground so-called 'research' laboratories) belong to the military.. (I know architect X who designed parts of them, many years ago) - see whether that segment is part of military or 'common ground'. Could just be a tidal observation tower, but so much engineering and construction just to observe tides? Doubtful. More likely a combo of that and some unadmitted military application. Usually the best way to find out is to take a camera and go there, see how close you can get before running into officialdom demanding that you 'make an appointment' or being told that unauthorized personnel arent allowed there. Im in Joburg otherwise I'd've happily gone and done this already :)
After all, its a democracy supposedly, so why not test this theory and instead pic taking, actually drive up there and see how close you get? (have a look at HAARP and VLF technology for some alt views of some famous antennae frameworks)
http://www.padrak.com/ine/HAARP97.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/haarp.html
 
Neobyte's spot on - its the new Portnet control tower. I live on the Bluff, and was around when they were constructing it...
The cage rotates to block the sun for the people working inside. The tower is also apparently as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

Nothing alien about it folks [;)]

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Hehe, the red and white tower in the middle is not perfectly perpindicular to the concrete part. My mom know's the guy who owns the company that transported the tower to DBN and the idiots who erected it didn't do a very good job.

In a couple years time, it will have to be re-aligned.
 
Well that tower is the new harbour tower with a LOT of new technology. It swings around and is shaped like that so from far away you are able to tell what direction the wind is blowing. I think if is mechanically moved to the up2date wind direction. It almost looks like it is pointing to the direction the wind is blowing if u have a look :D
 
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