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Mtu Biz
#1 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 8:17:11 AM
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At the risk of asking the obvious....

Anyone know what that big red mast along the length of nation building is for ?

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Impunity
#2 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 10:07:55 AM
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For arresting lightening.
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Njung'e
#3 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 10:14:55 AM
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Can't get it but hell......A lightening "arrestor" can not be laid along.....It's got to be above the subject all the way into the ground.......Ama kizungu ndio ngumu?...lol.
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Mtu Biz
#4 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 4:09:25 PM
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@ impunity.... i don't think that whole mast is a lightning arrestor, unless its arresting lightning from inter galactic storms....Think

Anyone in the know ?

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kichwangumu
#5 Posted : Friday, September 17, 2010 4:38:58 PM
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hiyo ni kitu ya radio-calls that "over over" thingy.
Theu
#6 Posted : Saturday, September 18, 2010 1:45:55 AM
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hiyo kitu is decoration tu, it syombolises the nose when you read the building as a face! two towers resemble eyes. my 2 cents!
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#7 Posted : Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:05:33 AM
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Theu wrote:
hiyo kitu is decoration tu, it syombolises the nose when you read the building as a face! two towers resemble eyes. my 2 cents!

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wakagori
#8 Posted : Monday, September 20, 2010 3:10:25 PM
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Its more anesthetic that functional...but they have also mounted a radio transmitter on it for transmissions around the city
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