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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[poor snuffy]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[crow610]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 1:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[wtf, screw birds<br><br>and I mean that in the nicest way possible, but diminishing coverage just to save birds? just put some lights on them, bird got to know something is there then.<br><br>bird brains (lol I hate myself for making this pun)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fernando]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 2:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[I seriously do not get how cell towers kill birds....<br><br><br>The windmills I can understand with the rotating blades.<br><br><br>But I mean.... if you can't navigate around a huge stationary object, wouldn't your lifespan be limited anyway?<br><br>I mean, how do they not hit trees and other objects at night, but cell phone towers are somehow unavoidable?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ByronGman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 2:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA["threat that cell sites pose to birds, particularly at night"<br><br>Really, most birds aren't nocturnal.  Those that are can SEE objects at night, that's why they're nocturnal.  Those that aren't have more than cell towers to worry about (trees?)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chuck]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 8:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[these people just want something to bitch about. if they're dumb enough to fly into a huge metal structure they deserve their fate.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudolphe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 9:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[you've got to be joking me.. yet another waste of government time and funds]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeetah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 9:56AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[99% of all speces that have ever lived are extintict (SP) a large number go extintict every day, This Bird problem with cell towers may be a good thing in 2 ways, it would help keep up the percentages and it would keep those f@#$%^ birds from shitting on my truck. Birds are ex dinosaurs, they should have died when the metior hit anyway.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 11:15AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[Birds that fly at night have to avoid natural objects such as trees anyways, so if they can see trees, then they can see towers....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[vv1r3d]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 1:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[Maybe they need to do a study of picture windows and sliding glass doors, too. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 2:06PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[String some lowpower/solar powered/ glow-in-the-dark christmas tree lights on the towers.<br>Problem solved.<br>Next?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[plh2034]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 2:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[natural selection]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[dobuleu]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 4:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[exactly what I was thinking.  I think this classifies as natural selection.  The bird would have eventually flew into a tree if it's dumb enough to fly into a tower.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Poke4Christ]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 8th 2008 12:16AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[so the birds cant see the great big flashing red light that adorns every cell tower?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[andy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 14th 2008 8:47PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[So the birds cant see the great big flashing red light that adorns every cell tower?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[andy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 7th 2008 9:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[Actually, the majority of the "bird kills" occur during semi-annual migrations, which take place primarily at night.  So there is SOME validity to the concerns.<br><br>HOWEVER, one less bird on the nest means more available territory for the next...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Digital Man]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 8th 2008 8:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Tower owners, FCC musing over how to stop taking out birds]]></title><link>http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/09/07/tower-owners-fcc-musing-over-how-to-stop-taking-out-birds/</guid><description><![CDATA[How interesting. Does it ever occur to the media that the large bird shredders knows as WIND TURBINES are popping up like weeds all over the US, and I don't hear much about people objecting to those... ahh, but wind power is sooo 2008, and Cell phone towers are definitely an ugly annoyance of yester-year. Plus, Obama likes wind power so it MUST be good.<br><br>Morons.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jsc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 8th 2008 9:34AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>