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 uair01
   
Location: Rotterdam.NL
Gender: Male
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 |  |  | Are UE'ers more curious?
< on 7/31/2004 6:43 PM >
|  | | | For years I had been driving by this site - I was always intrigued by the radar station. This summer I took a closer look and wrote up a web page:
Web page here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kazil/radar.html - It's not a world shattering expedition, but still very satisfying. Next time I drive by, I can say to myself : "I know what this is, I've been there."
My point:
While doing research on the web I realized that no one had written about this site. It has been here for 20 years or more. Daily tens of thousands of people see it. And no one is curious enough to write about it?
- Are UE'ers more curious than most folk?
- Would you be curious enough to take a closer look ?
[last edit 7/31/2004 6:44 PM by uair01 - edited 1 times]
"Not to look behind a door is an insult to the door, and the reality it is hiding." |
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keti
  
Moderator
Location: Providence, RI
Gender: Female
#EA98DE
| | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 1 on 7/31/2004 7:23 PM >
| | | | 'course we're more curious that most folk, thats why we explore in the first place.
Whenever I drive by something interesting, I always stop to check it out, time permitting. Thats how my group finds most of the places we've explored to date
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Jules Verne
Location: Manchester, UK
Gender: Male
| | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 2 on 7/31/2004 9:50 PM >
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Hi all,
Most definitely we're more curious than most. As you said, most drive by as if blind, yet a few dont......
So yes urban explorers ARE more curious!
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WuffyFluff
 
Location: Large Crossing, Colorado
Gender: Male
Time is Not to be Wasted, But Used - WuffyFluff
| | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 3 on 8/1/2004 5:42 AM >
| | | | crazy question, folks, crazy question...but would you explore something if you WEREN'T curious what was in there?
lol
I mean, when I see a resteraunt with razor wire strung all over its front patio, and no sign of life other then two gray tabbys at the back door....I get DAMNED curious whats in there 
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Freak
Location: Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 4 on 8/1/2004 6:46 AM >
| | | | I'm often surprised at the lack of info on certain sites when I'm researching, it just amazes me that no one seems to know or care about the history of things around them (for example, somewhere under my campus is an abandoned "practice mine" from the university's first days as the Alaska School of Mines, but the people in the mineral engineering department don't even know about it).
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
http://spamusement...hp/comics/view/137 |
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Plytheman
Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts
Obey The Deer
| |  | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 5 on 8/1/2004 2:49 PM >
| | | | Sometimes I explore just to kill time and hang out someplace quiet, all curiosity put aside =P
I'm achin, I'm shakin, I'm breakin, Like Humans Do!!
-Byrne |
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Curious_George
Location: Cambridge
Gender: Male
Straight outta New Bedlam
| | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 6 on 8/1/2004 5:51 PM >
| | | | Posted by WuffyFluff
I mean, when I see a resteraunt with razor wire strung all over its front patio, and no sign of life other then two gray tabbys at the back door....I get DAMNED curious whats in there
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That and seeing welcome signs such as "No Trespassing","No Entry" and "Keep Out".
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WuffyFluff
Location: Large Crossing, Colorado
Gender: Male
Time is Not to be Wasted, But Used - WuffyFluff
| | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 7 on 8/1/2004 6:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by Curious_George
That and seeing welcome signs such as "No Trespassing","No Entry" and "Keep Out".
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heh, pretty much
*grabs his camera and heads out to photograph and explore as much as possible before he leaves the state*
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Arkan
Location: LaSalle County, Illinois
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 8 on 8/1/2004 6:07 PM >
|  | | | Certainly we are more curious but you also have to think about the subject matter. Other people may be just as curious but about different things. Afterall, we are talking about the curiosity involved with strange buildings on the urban landscape which is what our hobby is about. So I think it's safe to say that since we are here on UER we would all be more curious about old buildings than an average joe.
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-=Kid-Sparkle=-
Location: -=HERE=-
Gender: Male
-=8=-
| | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 9 on 8/2/2004 11:23 PM >
| | | | Of course U.E'rs are more curious...their hobby is getting out and exploring. They are attracted to places that are off limits, hard to access and challenging sometimes. It's the UE way of life...to be curious.
"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."
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pixie
Location: vancouver
Gender: Female
Wraiths.org
| | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 10 on 8/4/2004 3:21 AM >
|  | | | i totally think we are more curious, but also most of us don't have as high a regard for the trespassing law as most people and for that reason our curiosity not only stays passive as many other people's do but we do something about it...but i also think that besides being very curious we pay more attention to detail than most people which causes us to see the subjects of our curiosity as subjects when just driving by when many other people would just think of it as another building on the side of the road and not even notice it's abandoned
if you're gonna send someone to save the world, make sure they like it the way it is first |
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| |  |  | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 11 on 8/4/2004 8:49 AM >
| | | | Symptoms of starting UE:
- looking whether doors that say "private" or "personell only" are locked, and if found open, walking trough with a look as if you're lost
- only looking at shop windows if the shop is closed - or closed down
- always reading the text on manhole covers
- In an unknown building, knowing the utility cabinet before knowing the toilet
- occasionally exclaiming in neighbourhood that are "horribly ugly" to normal people; "It's so beautiful here"
- one word: detours
- ...
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
Giant octo-penised rapephant
| |  | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 12 on 8/4/2004 12:14 PM >
| | | | Well...
I'm not so sure... Of course we are curious - but no more curious then the next person... Just for different things; buildings, drains etc etc
My brother couldn't care less about UE... At all; yet you can see some of the best write ups online from him about how an ATX power supply works and how to get an Apple iMac into a PC case.
Why ?
He was curious.
Just not about buildings.
Chris...
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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Ninjalicious
Gone, but always with us
Location: Toronto
| | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 13 on 8/4/2004 1:38 PM >
| | | | Liz and I were really surprised when we had to take some people who'd lived in Rochester all their lives on their first visit to the Rochester subway. They said, "We always heard about this place, but we've never gotten around to checking it out." To me, and probably to most explorers, this simply does not compute.
Ninj
http://www.infiltration.org
[last edit 8/4/2004 1:39 PM by Ninjalicious - edited 1 times]
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Jules Verne
Location: Manchester, UK
Gender: Male
| | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 14 on 8/4/2004 3:18 PM >
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I'd say we are overall more curious.
I've been in areas where my eyes have been agog at the amount of stuff that at could at least be recced, yet my companions don't even bat an eyelid....
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Roadwolf
The Wolf!
Location: Buffalo, NY (formerly Toronto, Canada)
Gender: Male
Living on the Road and Rails.
| |  | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 15 on 8/4/2004 6:33 PM >
| | | | yea i think we are more curious... we also have respect for the world around us. and have respect for the ammount of time it took to construct a building and the thought that went into it...
atleast i do anyways...
Roadwolf,
Add me on Skype or Steam: Roadwolf611
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SnArF
| | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 16 on 8/4/2004 10:36 PM >
| | | | Yeah, I would say for a fact that I am more curious than the average person. When I was younger, about 7-8 years old, I always asked questions nobody asked like "How does a pop machine work?" or "What is the function of a sump pump?" Yeah, it sounded a little geeky, but when I saw my first abandoned building when I was 10 the first thing I asked my dad was "What is in there?" and "What are they going to do with it?" So yeah, I think I speak for all of us when I say that yes, we are more curious folk.
-SnArF
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Jules Verne
Location: Manchester, UK
Gender: Male
| | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 18 on 8/5/2004 10:41 AM >
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Yeppers. I hate with a vengeance the god awful 1960's type tenements and civil service buildings, they dont half make a place look bad!
I'll check those links out, thanks T
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uem-Mokonax
Location: Montréal, Canada
| | | Re: Are UE'ers more curious?
<Reply # 19 on 8/5/2004 9:52 PM >
|  | | | Posted by kazil
Are UE'ers more curious than most folk?
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Why do you ask?
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