Posted on 09/12/2005 12:10:14 AM PDT by spycatcher
Now zoom into the original pic and see if you can tell from the drawing where the red maple trees are supposed to end. I can't, much less use the drawing to figure a east/west, north/south coordinate.
Just a bit off and it points to Sudan or Iran depending or even further offline from Saudi.
I'm too tired to continue with this, but it's looking to me like the whole direction thing starts with wishful thinking about a blurry drawing of an unfinished monument in an approximation…
If this is supposed to face Mecca, then I'd say the designer goofed by confusing the crescent's rear with its face. The 'qibla' is the line pointing along the shortest distance to Mecca, not the other way around the world, and off the top of my head I don't see a rationale for why an arc would ever be considered to 'point' in any direction except for its opening. Then you look at the fact that people will be entering from the outside of the arc, driving its outer edge, and looking toward its interior... they'll generally have their backs toward the east and 55-degrees.
I'm not sure visitors will sense any of the crescent-ness of this, much less its orientation if it is sufficiently large. Already the endpoints are somewhat ambiguious on the plan view. In the grand scheme of things I'm much more concerned about the WTC memorial than a monumental inkblot test.
The design was exhibited for the families and family members were on the selection committee.
A crescent was a mistake, the Mecca-orientation part I'm beginning to think is bogus.
"Good grief, this is like an ink blot test and some are finding an Osama memorial in it."
FRiend, this is no ink blot test. Ink blots are purely random creations that allow the test taker to interpret them purely with only their internal references. But this is an intentional cresent, with intentional color and orientation that easily drives a normal person to make this rational conclusion. The parallels are far too similar to be coincidental. Did you even see the list of similarities??
Early in my video production career I sold an ad concept to a Japanese heavy industrial corporation. The ad started with a shot of a sunrise. Reason: In Japanes culture, the rising sun is a symbol of good fortune.
Even the accidental use of the crescent should not be ignored, any more than the accidental use of a cross to mark the impact site would be ignored by the liberals. The judges who selected this plan are at best completely ignorant, and at worst insulting our entire nation and especially the memory of those who died fighting an extremist cult dedicated to that symbol.
I've heard that family members have approved the design. I can't understand that. I just can't.
I had a tagline once with a similar sentiment. I was ordered to stop using it.
well, after 10 minutes, that damned pdf locked up my browser.
I'll try to find a different version.
It's good to be the King.
Did they know what we know now? I doubt it. Much like Rather's forged documents, the internet has proven to be the ultimate vetting tool.
It points east, because the the long trough of the plane's impact points east.
Furthermore, if you are going to encompass the wreakage, than you are going to have to create an arc. Looking at overhead shots, again of the debris field, only an arc/crescent does it justice.
the design does not point East - its axis (perpendicular to the line of the gap) is oriented at 44.8044degrees north of East, or almost due North-East.
DRAT
make that 34.8044 degrees north of east
too tired.
Well, those degrees mean nothing to me... but are we sure that is not the trajectory of the debris trough?
...and I can get one.
if the debris or impact axis aligned with the Great Circle azimuth to Mecca, that would be an interesting coincidence.
we do not know that it did, but let us for the moment assume that it did.
if it were the ONLY "coincidence" I would buy that explanation.
add the minaret and the crescent+cluster and the "coincidences" seem to point to a deliberate set of choices.
I couldn't agree more.
LET'S ROLL!
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