Tue. 02/01 - 2,500 Subway Cars Under the Sea

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The New York City subway cars taking on a second job on the ocean floor. Plus, a successful drone created using Leonardo da Vinci’s aerial screw design. And crows in Sweden are being trained to pick up litter. Sponsors: Munk Pack, Use code KRH at Munkpack.com for 20% off your first purchase Jenni Kayne, Use code KRH at jennikayne.com for 15% off your first order Links: Sinking 1,000 NYC subway cars in the Atlantic to create a reef didn't (Fast Company) Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars (NY Times, 2008) New York's Subway Lives On in the Atlantic Ocean as Artificial Reefs (PBS Thirteen) Bye bye Brightliners: MTA's oldest subway cars bid farewell on final run after almost 58 years (amNewYork) More Than 2,500 New York City Subway Cars Are Now Artificial Underwater Reefs. See This Artist’s Remarkable Photos of Them Here (artnet) Photographing the New York City Subway Cars That Retired as Artificial Reefs (Atlas Obscura) New York City's newest oyster bed is 50,000 mollusks and 5,000 old public school toilets (Washington Post) NY State Drops Two More Vessels, Including "Chickadee" The Tugboat, Into Waters For Artificial Reefing (Gothamist) MTA Redbird Train Scrapping off Shark River Reef New Jersey (YouTube) This drone flies using da Vinci's 530-year-old helicopter design (CNET) A New Quadcopter Is Based on da Vinci's 530-Year-Old Helicopter Model (Interesting Engineering) Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts (The Guardian) Crows may soon be Sweden's newest litter pickers (The Local Sweden) Crows trained to collect cigarette butts on the street (Boing Boing) Latest Attraction at French Theme Park: Crows That Pick Up Trash (NY Times) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the khaki ride home for tuesday February 1st, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The New York City subway cars taking on a second job on the ocean floor, plus a successful drone created using Leonardo da Vinci's aerial screw design, and crows in Sweden are being trained
0:58.3	to pick up litter. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. Right now, at the bottom
1:07.3	of the Atlantic Ocean, are about 2,500 New York City subway cars.
1:13.6	The retired cars, many of which had been on the tracks for about half a century, were dropped
1:18.5	down off the coasts of Delaware, South Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, and more as part of an
1:24.3	initiative to create artificial reefs.
1:27.5	When the project began in the early 2000s, the idea was to boost recreational fishing
1:32.8	by increasing the marine life in each area.
1:35.7	And it worked.
1:36.7	A 2008 article in the New York Times details how a reef in Delaware went from seeing 300
1:42.4	fishers making trips there in 1997 to over 10,000 a decade later.
1:48.0	The success seen in Delaware made other states start fighting over who would get the next dump of subway cars.
1:55.0	But all good things had to come to an end.
1:58.0	The initial subway cars dropped into the ocean were Redbird
2:02.0	trains, which were produced throughout the 60s and retired through the 90s and early 2000s.
2:08.2	Those have held up and become great homes for tons of marine life. The aforementioned
2:13.5	reef in Delaware is actually named Redbird Reef after the Redbird Trains. But when New York
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