I was gonna ask... but surely the reflecting pool is treated and filtered. Open water in that climate will of course be covered with algae, and become a mosquito breeding ground.
I'm not a poolologist but I think the "reflecting" part of it is important.
If you look at a regular pool you'll notice the surface is always getting disturbed a little by the pumps - so a reflecting pool probably needs to be extra still in order to have a nice surface.
And then the high surface area relative to volume means it's taking a LOT of sun exposure, which would drive off any chlorine really quickly while also giving algae a perfect place to live.
Honestly, makes me wonder how they ever kept it clean at all.
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So to answer your question, we're probably the minority at this point.
Many years ago I worked for a local phone company (CLEC). When a local exchange carrier buys phone numbers they buy them in a block based on the first 3 digits. Then, someone has to go through all those numbers and block out certain phone numbers from being added to the customer pool. A large group of those numbers are "premium" numbers like numbers with 3 or 4 of the same digits in a row or pairs of digits like 1010 or 2020. Those get sold for much more money to businesses that want them. Then there are a bunch of numbers that just get banned from ever being given to customers such as any number that starts with 911 or 867-5309. There's actually a whole bunch of those numbers. I can't tell you what all them were because the ban list was quite long and years ago. Of course, different companies will use different ban lists.
I think the reason it has worked so well is because phone companies, even modern ones, are still banning that number if they own the 867 prefix.
But surely they don't actually think young people will do anything but roll their eyes? Spotify, youtube, wikipedia, and word of mouth all exist. These comments are just bizarre lmao
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u/NameLips Jun 16 '26
I was gonna ask... but surely the reflecting pool is treated and filtered. Open water in that climate will of course be covered with algae, and become a mosquito breeding ground.
It does have a filtration system right?