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...I especially like the one who wanted to fix it with some "midnight landscaping..."
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.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17441_Flight_93_Outrage&only
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...I especially like the one who wanted to fix it with some "midnight landscaping..."
Oh hell........just engrave "Allah Be Praised" on it and get it over with.
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.
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.
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.
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Maybe I'm the only one, but I like the idea of appropriating a Muslim symbol to memorialize our first victory in this war. While it could be a tribute to Muslims, I think it could just as easily be a jab. Just a matter of perspective, I suppose.
This looks like an urban legend in the making. Someone sees something that's not there, puts it on the internet and an urban legend is born.
as you are awake and pinging...
Where did you find overhead images on their website? I haven't been able to find any. Nor could someone else on another thread.
THERE IS NO MISTAKE.
THIS IS 100% INTENTIONAL
THIS IS 100% AN EFFORT TO SPIT AT THE USA.
EVERY SINGLE BOARD MEMBER SHOULD BE REMOVED FOR ACCEPTING THIS AS THE FINAL PLAN.
THERE IS NO ACCIDENT HERE. DO NOT LET ANYONE SAY THIS IS UNINTENTIONAL. THIS DOES NOT PASS THE "DUCK TEST".
this has me very angry.
The moon in the memorial is all about the Shriners not Islam.
This has to be the most insulting thing the designer could think up.
Do they have islam-apologists working on this memorial?
Why is it that this, and the PC-memorial at the WTC, have to be tainted like this?
This cannot be allowed.
Look at it as identifying and pointing to the perpetrator of this outrage against humanity.
The design must be approved by the Director of the National Park Service, and The Secretary of the Interior.
Here are their addresses (snail mail always carries more weight than e-mail or phone calls)
Fran Mainella, Director
National Park Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20240-0001
Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
Gale_Norton@ios.doi.gov
I know all too well how architects think. It's no coincidence. Monkeys will write King Lear on a typewriter before that design happens as a coincidence.