BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?

Subject: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Leo Condie
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 04:19 PM

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Denver_Airport.html

hahaha....boy i love stuff like this!

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 05:52 PM

I don't know what would be more interesting...that all the wierd theories were true, or that they were all just hype and someone could actually dream them up....and the last page of that site goes on to tell of all the "Underground Bases" in the USA...with things like TUNNELS between Wash DC and New York! and super-SUPER-SUPER secret bases in New Mexico with tunnels to half the west!

There must be hundreds of thousands of people who know about this stuuf, if they actually exist...so how do they keep it secret, and WHO exactly is supposed to know the details about it all? Do they tell George Bush? *grin*

It sure keeps the alien/conspiracy nuts busy!

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Leo Condie
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 06:05 PM

well to the site author's credit she slags off the rest of the guy's interview. but you have to love the sign with "GRAND MASTER" written on it. and the "New World Airport Commission".

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 08:49 PM

No, I've never been there.john

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 09:46 PM

Been there several times, no wierd murals that I saw. And, it's MUCH better than Stapleton ever was. This is in spite of the baggage handling mess that happened. Easier to get to than Stapleton too.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Alice
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 11:13 PM

I've been there a number of times. Nothing weird that I saw. Neat kinetic art in the shuttle tunnels.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: The O'Meara
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 12:44 PM

I live near Denver and have been to the Airport many times. It strikes me as being just another airport, but with an extra large helping of stupidity heaped on. It's easy to mistake stupidity, which can be hard to explain, for conspiracy, which offers easy explanations.

The "billion dollar" baggage handling system is not only an industry joke, it is a virtual monument to stupidity. It does an excellent job of tossing luggage great distances and scattering the contents across the floor. It is second only to the package-smashing equipment used by the US Postal Service. It did, however, provide hours of entertainment for local TV viewers as the local news checked in periodically and showed film of the high-speed baggage train launching a load of test luggage into the air. The entertainment value was probably less than a billion, though. Coverage ended with a film of the Internationally renowned German engineering firm called in to fix it laughing as they went home in defeat the next day.

Upon completion, it was discovered the runways were built too close together for large airplanes to pass each other.

A big selling point was that the airport would be weather-proof, eliminating delays due to snow storms.(1)The super high-tech fiberglass teflon terminal roof, designed to resemble a giant caterpillar, has openings in it to allow for ventilation. The first time it snowed, snow came in the openings and shorted out the overhead lights in the terminal. (2) For the grand opening day of the airport, flights were scheduled into the airport from various cities across America. It snowed that day and all the landings were delayed due to inclement weather.

They ran out of money before it was finished and the new airport came up one runway short, making it smaller than the old airport. The plowed and graded for the last runway but they couldn't afford to pave it. Denver now has one of the longest dirt runways in the world.

There is much more - this is a continuing saga.

If this is a conspiracy, the conspirators are first rate idiots.

O'Meara

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 02:29 PM

I've reached a point where I travel with just a backpack. Since making that decision I haven't had to go anywhere for so long that I needed a lot of changes of clothes. Washers can be found everywhere. Carryon is the way to go, and make sure it fits under the seat in front of you so you don't need to kill yourself putting it in the overhead bin.

The Denver airport looks interesting, but one wonders at the money spent to give it that look. It competes with the surrounding mountains, and will always come in second in that comparison.

I bought a nice pin in a shop there once. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Deda
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 11:09 PM

The dictionary ought to have a photo of DIA to illustrate the word "boondoggle". The construction was so long past its targetted completion date that the standard joke around here was that DIA stood for "Denver's Imaginary Airport". That said, I think ANY conspiracy theory is pretty much hokum. Any conspiracy theory you dream up, no matter how far out and outrageous it seems at first, once you start to look hard enough, you'll find evidence for. And the longer you look, the more evidence you'll find -- until finally you just won't believe that the conspiracy wasn't completely obvious to everyone. That's pretty much how that line of reasoning tends to go, imho. It's the nature of the beast.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: GUEST,Bryant
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 12:13 AM

And to top it all off, it's like 45 miles east of Denver. I once visited a friend in Boulder and had to take the bus to catch my departing flight. Two and a half hours! Could have drove to Colorado Springs and left from there.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 12:34 AM

Reminds me of what I've read and heard about the BIG DIG in Boston...another boondoggle.

I thought the roofs of DIA were supposed to be like Conestogas. They look like giant tits or, um...grand tetons only not nearly like the real ones!

For the record, I didn't see anything conspiritoral there, either, not even in the murals.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Mudlark
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 12:36 AM

O'Meara...I've never been to the denver airport but your line is a positive classic.

"It's easy to mistake stupidity, which can be hard to explain, for conspiracy, which offers easy explanations."

Bears repeating, bears remembering...in these times, as in others.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: poetlady
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 02:09 AM

That one mural with the dead people under glass is really creepy. I know it's meant to make a statement, but I can't imagine how a small child or something would react to it.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: The O'Meara
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 01:44 PM

Mudlark: Thanks, I kind of like it myself.

As for the mural(s), several years ago I worked for the gummint and was required to investigate and report on the "Art in Architecture"(SP?) program involving federal buildings. Like the 100 foot tall stainless steel baseball bat out front of the Chicago social security administration office, and the three stone pyramids, artistically designed to seem as if they were falling over, out front of a federal building in Seattle. (Before too long, they did fall over. Skateboarders loved them.) My conclusion was the whole thing was stupid and expensive. Strangely, this didn't come as much of a surprise. Seems to apply to the "art" at the Denver airport,too.

Kat: I think the Grand Tetons are magnificent mountains, but the Frenchman who named them that had been out in the wilderness far too long. Maybe the DIA roof is supposed to look like a bunch of tipis?

O'Meara

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Sorcha
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 01:50 PM

Where is the pic of the creepy mural? The DIA link to the pic is broken for me.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: bet
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 02:38 PM

Been there many times. I've not seen or had problems except when the whether would't permit flying.bet

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 03:23 PM

O'Meara, you're right, it was teepees and YES, he was out in the wilderness too long!**bg**

Here's an article about it, from an architectural viewpoint, sort of: click here; and, now I see they've added buffalo herds so the drive won't be so boring and, of course, while one admires the rugged beasts, one might start to salivate thinking of all the shopping one can do for buffalo meat once one reaches the airport!

Hey, sis! Didja see any buffalo there last time you flew out?**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: The O'Meara
Date: 10 Oct 03 - 06:12 PM

Buffalo herds??? Oh well, why not? Headline: BUFFALO SUCKED INTO JET ENGINE! A small price to pay for having gourmet buffalo meatballs available at the airport. That'll put Denver on the map, byGod!
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O'Meara

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Deda
Date: 18 Oct 03 - 02:40 PM

The tent-like spokes of the roof of DIA were supposed to suggest the mountains. I think they're quite ugly. And they let the rain in when it was first constructed, required more cost-overrun repairs. And the light bulbs up near the roof cost thousands of dollars to change every time, because it requires a cherry-picker-type crane to get up to where the burned out bulbs are.

Other than that, and the fact that it's ridiculously distant, surrounded by nothing, we're all getting used to it I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Oct 03 - 01:09 PM

The "Public art program" looks interesting enough - here

Could it be that the ideas of pictures and suchlike on display in a public place, which aren't directly trying to sell something is felt as challenging and upsetting to some Americans?

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 19 Oct 03 - 10:32 PM

I once had the great misfortune to have to sleep over night in the DIA. I was woken up about every 15 minutes by one un-neccessary anouncement after another. (You'd think that at three in the morning there would be very few people leaving un-attended baggage ANYWHERE, much less in the concourse.)

I vaugely remember murals but was so tired they must not have registered. I arrived there around 2000 hrs., my flight wasn't scheduled to depart until 0830 the next day. I had been travelling since 0745 on the day I tried to sleep in DIA.

I haven't flown since.

CB

Subject: RE: BS: anyone ever been to denver airport?
From: NightWing
Date: 20 Oct 03 - 02:31 PM

Does anybody know where this mural with coffined dead, burning cities, and looming military figures in gas masks is supposed to be in DIA?

I live about an hour from the airport (everyone in the entire Denver area is 60-90 minutes from DIA) and want to go out there and see this mural.

Any ideas?

BB,
NightWing