Why is this funny?
It shouldn’t be. But it is.
And one noticed this prior to construction...lol
So the only way you can see this shape is from a plane?
And these people are concerned about this?
I can see the utility of the design, but damn, just damn.
Thu Sep 27, 2007 5:13PM EDT
Your tax dollars at work: The US Navy will be spending about $600,000 to redesign or camouflage a 1960s barracks building in San Diego because of complaints that it looks like a swastika when viewed from the air. In the past this might have been a problem only for the occasional air traveler who happened over Coronado island, but with the advent of aerial mapping and visualization tools like Google Earth, everyone can see anything from the sky. In fact, many people have made a game out of finding oddities in satellite photos.
Now it's one thing to see landmarks like this and snicker over a designer's missteps 40 years ago (the Navy says it noticed the shape but that it didn't think anyone would see it from above), but it's another thing altogether to complain to the Navy about the shape of a building when viewed from space. But people really seem to have the time on their hands: The Navy says it's been inundated with complaints; enough, I suppose, to justify spending that much money on new structures and extra bushes. It's the first known case of its kind.
So what will the building look like when the job is done, I wonder? A set of four connected squares? A pinwheel formed from triangles? Post your ideas for what the Navy ought to do out of the wayward swastika here and we'll see if we can't pass them along to the powers that be.
LINK: Google Maps Causes US Navy To Change Its Swastika Building
A view of the barracks, near San Diego. The Navy has long known it looked like a swastika but thought people would not see it. “In the ’60s we did not have the Internet,” a spokeswoman said.
Why don’t they ban the air space. Cheaper and easier. Charge stiff penalties and possible jail time for violation.
34 33 15 N, 86 59 38 W, for those looking on Google Earth.
From Google Earth:
34°33’14.77”N
86°59’38.63”W
I’ve heard about those militant Methodists. LOL
This is absurd.
Many nursing homes are similiar to this one, which is designed to give every room an exterior view, to provide courtyards for residents to enjoy and to have a central workplace for employees to service the residents in each hallway.
I very much doubt that this building was laid out purposefully to create a swastika shape. I was probably laid out so each ward was somewhat segregated from the others but still accessible.
This is the kind of stupidity that you get when the dominant media is obsessed with symbols over substance. Our media is as obsessed with symbols as is any witch doctor.
I am greatly offended by Democrats.
I demand that they be altered.
That’s the trouble with Hitler Youth these days — they never call, they never write....
And has anyone noticed what the Florida peninsula looks like from space? Very hardcore! Must be changed at once!
But one must never pass up an opportunity to take offense.