This can't have been accidental!! (Google Earth)

[Frederick]

Search for "Eniwetok RD San Diego" - the building arrangement there simply cannot have been done by accident!!

[t1grm]

The client's IT dept have blocked Google Earth on the site I'm on ATM. I get a message saying the program can't start due to restrictions on this computer when I try to open it

[JMGS4]

For us still on steam computers and without large bore sewerage delivery, please show us!!!

[scorp]

Frederick said:

Search for "Eniwetok RD San Diego" - the building arrangement there simply cannot have been done by accident!!

Its just a optimal configuration for L shaped buildings in a square area. I think we best inform the thought police, just in case

[blindswelledrat]

Believe me that was a long drawn-out process for nothing very exciting
It's a group of 4 L-shaped buildings which happen to look like a swastica (sp?) from above.

[406tm]

JMGS4 said:

For us still on steam computers and without large bore sewerage delivery, please show us!!!

Earwig O

[TeamD]

blindswelledrat said:

Believe me that was a long drawn-out process for nothing very exciting It's a group of 4 L-shaped buildings which happen to look like a swastica (sp?) from above.

Huh? You telling me that the architect never considered this?

[kerfuffle]

The swastika was known as a good luck symbol long before the nazis came along

[marki]

kerfuffle said:

The swastika was known as a good luck symbol long before the nazis came along

Yes but thats in reverse (i think)

The achitect must have considered this

[kerfuffle]

Nope - same way. Still a bad idea as the bad connotations are relatively recent.

[blindswelledrat]

TeamD said:

blindswelledrat said: Believe me that was a long drawn-out process for nothing very exciting It's a group of 4 L-shaped buildings which happen to look like a swastica (sp?) from above. Huh? You telling me that the architect never considered this?

Not at all- I'm simply saying I don't care.

[xiphias]

Oh no we can't have a building in a swastika, we might offend someone

ing political correctness

[Frederick]

long drawn out process?? jeez - I'll be more hardy with the Print Screen button from now on then?

and I'm not a PC type either, I think it's quite amusing. Also, as of the good luck things - those buildings certainly don't look pre-nazi regime... It's probably just an amusing coincidence, that's all...

[Tyre Smoke]

kerfuffle said:

Nope - same way. Still a bad idea as the bad connotations are relatively recent.

No, 'original' swastika was clockwise. The Nazi's reversed it so that it went anticlock.

There's also the 'Iron Cross' at Hendon, I think.

Can't post the photo here's the co-ords - 51°33'6.47"N 0°54'47.70"W

[cy88]

In the 1930 german lumberjacks planted a 60-by-60 meter Swastika made of Larches into a pine-forest near Zernikow 110 km northeast of Berlin. The Swastika was only visible in spring or autumn, when the larches changed their colour).

Until 1992 the swastika was forgotten, until hobby-pilots rediscovered it. The picture is from the 14th November, 2000 and was shown in German tabloids. Shortly afterward the German forestry ordered to fell 25 of the "anti-constitutional trees".



(apparently)

[kerfuffle]

Tyre Smoke said:

kerfuffle said: Nope - same way. Still a bad idea as the bad connotations are relatively recent. No, 'original' swastika was clockwise. The Nazi's reversed it so that it went anticlock. There's also the 'Iron Cross' at Hendon, I think. Can't post the photo here's the co-ords - 51°33'6.47"N 0°54'47.70"W

Just looked on a history site - there seems to be a mixture. Many of the really old ones went clockwise. The nazi swastika is clockwise too.

[eharding]

Tyre Smoke said:

kerfuffle said: Nope - same way. Still a bad idea as the bad connotations are relatively recent. No, 'original' swastika was clockwise. The Nazi's reversed it so that it went anticlock. There's also the 'Iron Cross' at Hendon, I think. Can't post the photo here's the co-ords - 51°33'6.47"N 0°54'47.70"W

Henley-on-Thames, rather than Hendon. It's quite hard to spot from the air,
particularly at this time of year - you can't get high enough to get a
decent perspective without going toe-to-toe with a 747 and having your
license taken away...

[Tyre Smoke]

kerfuffle said:

Just looked on a history site - there seems to be a mixture. Many of the really old ones went clockwise. The nazi swastika is clockwise too.

'Fuffle hate to be pedantic.......



It's clearly anti.

[406tm]

Tyre Smoke said:

There's also the 'Iron Cross' at Hendon, I think. Can't post the photo here's the co-ords - 51°33'6.47"N 0°54'47.70"W

[up-the-dubs]

Has anyone downloaded the update? It's huge, does it do anything noticeable?