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Note says "Do not touch any of the wires!" -
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Some serious wiring nightmares in India and Thailand -
The mother of all messes:
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"Live 220v three phase supply for 115kv substation":
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"Some wiring from an MD-80":
sent by Paal Erik Falang
...but it's nowhere as complicated as the wiring of the Cray 1 Supercomputer! -
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A good wiring job:
Before
After
Source: Reality Carnival
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Electric (not quite industrial) Light... and Magic -
The wiring shown below belongs to the vintage Russian telephone switch systems (a small population of rats loves it!) -
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Intricate wiring job inside the electronics bay of a Boeing 757 airplane. It's a small space underneath the forward passenger floor; only part is shown - there are a few kilometers of wiring inside the plane. (Photo courtesy of Andy Rottiers) -
Kyle R. Brunick sent us his own little nightmare that he had to unravel:
Fluke of fashion? -
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The usual suspects: power bars -
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The following picture seems to be a fully-functioning computer, lovingly arranged... on the wall -
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Some wiring requires good "hairstyle", and the advertisers make smart use of this fact:
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New Delhi, India:
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Seoul, Korea:
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Electrician's Nightmares
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Here is the America's very own bundle, seen in Columbia, Missouri:
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Meters from hell (in Cuernavaca, Mexico):
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A great page to check out the latest crop of wiring nightmares is Vibrant.com:
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Scary wiring turned into even scarier monsters by Fuzzy Lightbulb Productions:
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Don't let your wires hang out:
Advertisers are playing along with wiring:
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The wire is a simple thing. It only has two ends.
The potential for chaos, though, knows no limits. The following photos instill in us a certain sense of dread, as we do not want to come anywhere close to them in reality, or even poke them with a stick -
Sven Briels sent us this picture. He says: "This wonder of engineering was feeding the airconditioning in my hotel in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Note the switch bundeling under it
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Note the labels! Somebody went to the trouble of labeling this mess (did it help?) -
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Location, location, location -
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I don't see wires here. I see hair -
Somebody said "A clean desk is a sign of a sick mind". It seems some wildly creative project is underway here -
Terrifying electric wiring from Chelyabinsk, Russia -
"The worst phone wiring in Scotland" -
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A semblance of order? or a real thing?
Wired magazine recently published shots of the internet's "densest meet-me room" - where 260 ISPs get all inter-connected, with very little room for error.
"If this facility went down, most of California and parts of the rest of the world would not be able to connect to the internet."
