XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 23/12/2025 23:32, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-23, Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Charlie Gibbs  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2025-12-23, rbowman  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:59:00 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>      The USA has maybe THE biggest dick in the world, prominently   
   >>>>>      figured at the govt center in DC. You can ascend to the tip,   
   >>>>>      symbolic sperm   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Smelter_Stack   
   >>>   
   >>> We ran into weather while flying in Montana a few years ago.   
   >>> We decided to set down at the nearest airstrip and wait for the   
   >>> weather to pass.  That airstrip happened to be at Anaconda -   
   >>> we dodged the stack on the way in.  It's an impressive landmark.   
   >>   
   >> These (at 500ft each) are almost as tall:   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Landing_Power_Plant   
   >>   
   >> They're visible from the entire Monterey bay shoreline,   
   >> from Santa Cruz to Pacific Grove.   
   >   
   > If we're talking about big stacks, we might as well   
   > go for the granddaddy of them all:   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inco_Superstack   
   >   
   Dwarfed by today's wind turbines...   
      
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