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I am for rebuilding the WTC site but its to soon not to mention that design is just plain nasty, my 8th grade art project looked better than that and It was made from pepsi cans and pringles containers.
Ugh, and it gets worse just start reading some of the info.
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That looks kinda nifty, actually. But that pyramid on top doesn't...
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5 mile no fly zone? Aint there some kind of airport around there? That is ugly, and if it was anything learned it was not to make really really really really tall buildings.
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I thought it strange that the site was using some 'Twin Peaks' music.
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Looks like something out of science fiction.
"1: Our Cyber City will have a State of the Art External Security System which at this stage evolves around "Sound Waves" which has the capacity at a specific frequency to repel flying objects up to a five mile circumference. We will seek support from the political system to bring about an edict that a "Five Mile No Fly Zone" area is put into effect around the island of Manhattan."
Comes with its own state-of-the-art air defenses, too!
"To conclude, the best definition I can give you re the issue of "Security" is that we will manage security on the basis of RISK whereby no element of human doubt or human complacency will ever prevail and put our commercial occupants, residents and visitors AT RISK !"
They said something about Titanic being unsinkable, too.
And why would anyone want to live there? It's practically living on the graves of 2833 people.
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There was an interview in the paper last week with the original WTC architect and he wants to get the site up and running again by 2012.
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quote:Originally posted by The BWC: if it was anything learned it was not to make really really really really tall buildings.
That was a pretty ignorant comment. Should we tear down the Empire State Building, Sears Tower and all those other "really really really really tall buildings" because of future terrorist attacks? The Pentagon was 5 stories high, and it got hit just like the 110 story WTC towers. How do you expect them to fit the office space needed in a large city like New York with limited land without building up?
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Wraith, just so you know, the original architect of the WTC, Minoru Yamasaki, died of cancer Feb. 7, 1986 at age 73.
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I noticed that they have residential areas in the thing. Yup, that's where I want to live, right at the centre of ground zero.
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1. What drug was the guy who thought that up smoking? 2. They are going to put 2833 plaques below 2833 trees to honor the victims. Just because it's at ground zero doesn't change a thing. I would rather have a plaque in my honor if I died at some memorial in Washington than a hotel-ish lobby. 3. Where is he going to get the money? 4. If there goal is to create a no-fly zone, wouldn't the helicopter decks on levels 45 and 75 be pointless? 5. How long would it take to build it? 6. Cyber-city? Why don't we just program all our knowledge at age 60 into a computer, make sure we don't have sex and let the human race die out? 7. If the WTC was too tall to prevent a terrorist attack, adding MORE on it would make it more vunerable. Not just to terrorists. To weather. If a noreaster came along that tower would be rockin back and forth. 8. As said before, I sure wouldn't want to live at grond zero. 9. If you wanted to honor them, it would be more logical to me if the cleared that off, made it a memorial with a plaque with all the names? 10. I would like to think that if they did that, other contries would have more respect to them not to put their respective office there.
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