"inhabitants of the Western world need to realize that the tallest structures they can see in the landscape are the face of what may be a new kind of God: finance."<p>Oh come on, so much drama for a slick lean tower in sparsely populated land, barely visible to anyone but local fishermen.<p>Compare it to, say, this:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar</a><p>This is a very prominent military installation that spoiled shortwave communications for years, and nobody dared to say a word against it.<p>If the choice is between Ares and Hermes, I am choosing Hermes.<p>(Disclaimer: I am a trading software engineer).
<p><pre><code> 'The mast will be erected in the western part of the Richborough Power Station, a place referred to as “The Banana Land” (I suppose the name comes from the pseudo-tropical climate created by the station?).'
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And up until that point in the article I was thinking we were talking about the Blue Banana [1]. Because the Frankfurt-to-London route is in the middle of it.<p>But apparently it is only referring to that former power plant location.<p>Better theory yet: look at the shape of land surrounded by train tracks and River Stour on Google maps [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana</a><p>[2] <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/Sh8h9v1SNYT2" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/Sh8h9v1SNYT2</a>
Ahem... What will happen if we take down a tower ? Or cause interference to the straight line between uk and germany ?<p>If anyone has any idea (a fault-tolerant design maybe) or impacts on the financial markets ?