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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 1d

Simply adorable!

Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 1d

Easily the best floatplane paintjob in the Pacific Northwest.

#seattle #pnw #pacificnorthwest #washington #airplanes #planespotting

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 1d

Traffic between Ballard and Fremont is getting out of hand.

#seattle #engineering #photography

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 2d

T-10M (or IS-8) heavy tank at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv.

The tank has changed locations since I first saw it in 2019. It has since been repositioned so that the gun is aimed toward the front, toward russian invaders.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 3d

Busy day at the tugboat factory!

Western Towboat Company getting ready to launch their twentieth boat, designed and built here in Seattle.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 10d

Again, it was removed. In an act of unhinged, admirable defiance and stark determinism, the sloth reappeared, now a whopping 8 ft tall and installed 220 feet up a tree, with solar-powered lights to provide nighttime illumination. More stuff like this in the world, please.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 10d

an attraction for the area! The mysterious people behind the small stuffed animal responded by installing another sloth in the same place.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 10d

Slothy chilling out over above I-5 just south of Bellingham.

The original Bellingham sloth stuffed toy was stuck about 20 feet up a tree just off the freeway. The Washington State Department of Transportation removed it, citing a possible distraction for drivers or, worse..

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 14d

(Not trying to criticize or contradict, all the news on this site is old or slow and I thought you'd find my findings from a couple months ago interesting 😀)

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe they have several other sites that feed into that statistic? I mean, its not unheard of for a bitcoin company to lie? I was all over the site, no sign of life or anything to indicate any sort of operational data center. Super weird. These plans always wind up as vanity projrcts/scams it seems.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 14d

And usually filled with water. The cost of remediation would be pretty close as just standing up your own prefabbed concerete building. These always come across as vanity projects by the "more money than sense" crowds. Who tf in their right mind would put a server farm in here?

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 14d

The site was for sale when I was there in July. Also the original CEO who bought the site had a criminal record involving drugs, and ties to a possible murder investigation and has since resigned. Ive yet to hear of "cool plans to repurpose an ex missile site" that ever really pan out.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 14d

Is it actually though? I was there in July 2025 and there was absolutely no activity and there were For Sale signs up. Also the CEO of BitZero who originally had plans for the site was tied to a murder investigation and has since resigned.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 18d

USCGC Polar Star (WAGB 10), America's only heavy icebreaker, sporting a fresh paint job and original-style stripe in recognition of 50 years of service! Polar Star just spent time in drydock at Mare Island in preparation for this year's Operation Deep Freeze mission to Antarctica

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 24d

A herd of elk making their way across the former Rocky Flats site, where plutonium cores for nuclear weapons were mass-produced from 1952-1994

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 24d

Yeah dog, yeah dog. That is... nice! :D I guess I've only ever seen these in the baby/skyblue paint! You've opened my eyes to a cool new thing!

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 24d

Overgrown remains of Missile Alert Facility B-01.

This MAF was deactivated in 1998 and belonged to the 446th Missile Squadron out of Grand Forks Air Force Base. One MAF controlled ten remote Minuteman II nuclear missiles.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 25d

I think I might have accidentally taken a photo of one of these at the Vigor shipyard in Portland. I gotta go check...

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 26d

TURN YOUR KEY, SIR

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · 26d

The Interstate Bridge carries I-5 3,500 feet over the Columbia River, across the Oregon-Washington state border.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · Sep 2

USX-1 Defiant being tested in Puget Sound. It is a fully autonomous prototype warship meant to spend up to a year at sea by itself under the DARPA NOMARS unmanned surface vessel program.

Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · Aug 18

Your line is perfectly adequate, possibly too generous. You could add that it appears their pants are on fire.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · Aug 14

GOTCHA!

JA894A usually does routes between Tokyo, Hong Kong, Manila, and Sydney. But every few months it makes a trip to Seattle. I've missed the last few times to great frustration. Today I absolutely lucked out.

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Atomic Aerials @atomicaerials.bsky.social · Aug 9

Nagasaki, Japan today with the approximate size and location of the Fat Man atomic bomb detonation for scale.

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