This
you need to see. The full story behind this video is unknown, but supposedly customers
were complaining about poor reception associated with the Bear Creek Road microwave
station somewhere in northern California. Upon inspection, the technicians discovered
a small hole in the radome. When the cover was pulled away, according to the video
somewhere between 35 to 50 gallons of acorns spilled out. You can see the bulge
in the radome before emptying. The tech probably thought the water drain hole was
clogged and it was full of water. From a
National Geographic story: "Walter Koenig, a
senior scientist with the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, says he's pretty sure
the the acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) was behind the cache. 'They're
pretty famous for finding places to hide acorns,' says Koenig, who has studied the
bird for years. Koenig says he once saw a traffic signal stuffed so full of acorns
that it was unreadable."
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the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps
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