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...I especially like the one who wanted to fix it with some "midnight landscaping..."
Posted on 09/12/2005 12:10:14 AM PDT by spycatcher
I have read up on it. If it was "facing Mecca" it would be with it's crescent opening toward Mecca, or the taliban or Pearl Harbor or the Twin Towers or the next target L.A. or Osama's cave or the London targets or Spanish trains or, or...
I will agree that choosing a crescent shape was a mistake. Because once they did that it allowed all kinds of wild theories to follow on. That's the way things seem to go these days.
That's my honest opinion. Given a crescent, some will find a lot of other stuff no matter what.
Your mileage may vary, but I appreciate your reply.
excuse me... that was to have been 124.80 + 55 = @ 180
I entered the above coordinates into a amateur radio antenna beam heading page, and it says that Mecca itself is 74 degrees azimuth from the crash site, not 124.8.
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...I especially like the one who wanted to fix it with some "midnight landscaping..."
When people enter the crescent, they will be facing Mecca. Perhaps that was the point.
conspiracy or no conspiracy, you have to admit that it is one UGLY design.
probably an admixture of "kum-baaa-yaaaaaa" and "hey, let's poke the Red Staters in the eye"
I see the Washington Monument: 
It's an ink blot test.
74 degrees azimuth from what? due (magnetic) north, I expect.
I might have to CAD this out on a sphere to see what is what.
If that were true, can you even imagine what kind of soulless lib would do that to the passengers' families just get his little stab in at us? Kind of makes you understand what makes someone like Stalin tick -- almost.
Due north, which is what Islamics use to determine the direction of Mecca from their location anywhere in the globe.
I have known many an "artist" of the modern stripe.
Most have souls one could measure only with the spiritual equivalent of an electron microscope.
ok. I'll make use of that data.
Able to fix it in a defiant stare and raise a one fingered salute.
Perhaps that was the point.
Mine's better.
I'm not very fond of it.
My proposed design was: "Let's Roll!" carved in granite as tall as the towers.
Very perceptive: That's exactly what it is, more or less. ETAOIN SHRDLU is what typesetters back in the days of big, clunky Linotype machines would enter as gibberish. Linotype keyboards were six columns wide, laid out in order of frequency; ETAOIN SHRDLU was the first two rows. The modern equivalent would be something like QWERTYUIOP.
Is there a red crescent pointed to Mecca near the Washington monument? And does it have anything to do with Islamic terrorists?
Yeah it's the "great circle" route to Mecca.
Showing all the trees red pushed me over the edge. That color coupled with the arc seem deliberate. Does anyone remember the huge flap that Hart inspired by using a crescent shape on an outhouse in the B.C. comic strip. That was a comic strip and not a memorial, but the lefties sounded long and loud about that.
It is sacred ground, but these people died more than merely die. They were the first fighters against terrorism on September 11th 2001.
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