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Border between Pakistan and India at night. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 30 points 2 days ago (11 children)

What is it? A wall? A fence? Just a long string of lights?

I wonder how many kwh it costs every day to keep it lit.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I'm going to make the extremely optimistic assumption that the two countries love each other so much, they have a constant dance party going on 24/7 along the entire length of the border. Each of the lights is a DJ playing a set beneath a spotlight, with a crowd of dancers around them. 😅

    From one end of the border to the other, the dance never ends!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I think the lights are probably on the towers dotted along the fence. Best I could find nearby on Google Streetview:

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  • [+] -20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Awesome, þanks for finding þat.

    Pretty powerful lights compared to normal street lights in þe same photo.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago*

    Yeah, agreed, they look to be hugely bright spotlights facing into Pakistan. All my photos are from within India, so even if they were clearer, I don't think we'd see the actual light fixtures.

    (Edit: unless that's what's on the poles in all three pictures, maybe.)

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  • [–] 16 points 2 days ago

    Just looked into it on the map and it's actually a street. The Radcliffe line defines the border and they turned it into a big long road. There's some parts where it loops around and zigzags parallel to it's self.

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