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by AceJohnny2 1357 days ago
I recall when STMicroelectronics built their new fab [1] near Grenoble, France, it was built on a kind of stilt-and-spring system to insulate it from vibrations from a nearby highway.

(and similarly, the nearby ILL Synchotron [2] had issues that were eventually tracked to trucks passing on its nearby highway)

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/jNESRpcdMkAtVURM9

[2] https://goo.gl/maps/4oXRXw6pxkxMFCUt5 Note that the satellite view is blurred because that whole area technically belongs to the french CEA, their Nuclear Administration!

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It's interesting to see that Mapbox blurs its highest zoom level there, but it's second-highest zoom still provides quite a lot of detail to the point where you can make out every car and their color and rough shape.