{"id":10607,"date":"2016-03-02T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2016-03-02T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:19:42","slug":"179366-i-am-number-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2016\/03\/02\/179366-i-am-number-six\/","title":{"rendered":"179\/366: I Am Number Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday was a beautiful day in Niskayuna, so after going to campus to deal with some paperwork, I went off to a park to take some pictures. There’s a town park down on River Road that sits on a high and scenic bluff above the Mohawk, so I figured I’d give that a look. And, indeed, the view of the river is pretty.<\/p>\n

But there are also these:<\/p>\n

\"Apparently,<\/a>
Apparently, I live near the set of a cult British SF show.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That’s a fat piece of PVC pipe, painted bright green, rising about 7-8′ from the ground. And there are a couple dozen of these dotting the hillside in the park.<\/p>\n

I don’t really have a clue what these could be for<\/em>, but none of the thoughts I do have are particularly good. One is that there’s something buried under the hill that needs ventilation, and given that this is just down the road from GE’s research labs and a DoE-funded nuclear power research lab, I don’t like to think about what they might’ve used as landfill back in the day.<\/p>\n

And, of course, the other obvious choice is that I’ve somehow landed in an episode of The Prisoner<\/em>, because these really do have a cheesy British sci-fi sort of vibe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday was a beautiful day in Niskayuna, so after going to campus to deal with some paperwork, I went off to a park to take some pictures. There’s a town park down on River Road that sits on a high and scenic bluff above the Mohawk, so I figured I’d give that a look. And,… Continue reading 179\/366: I Am Number Six<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,50,37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-pictures","category-pop_culture","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}