Mecca, right?

Comment by Mr.Bungle — July 23, 2008 @ 2:06 pm

I wonder why Cheer, Tide, or Downy does not sponsor this event…

Comment by ack — July 23, 2008 @ 2:13 pm

It’s the Kaba at Meca where people walk around this monolithic black cuboid as a representation of zodiacal precession. The World Trade Center plaza was modelled after this location. The black monolithic structure from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyessy was also modelled after this. The cube is an occult symbol throughout time. See Jake Kotze for more information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rb8n2hTToo

Comment by EVIL ILLUMINATI — July 23, 2008 @ 2:36 pm

If it wasn’t Illuminati posting that video I would have thought it was satire. Stupid as hell. Please, Illumaniti, stop spreading this conspiracy bullshit. You’re a nutcase.

Comment by Exacerbate — July 23, 2008 @ 3:15 pm

The black monolithic structure from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyessy was also modelled after this.

No, the monolith was not a cube. It was a 1 x 4 x 9 rectangular solid whose dimensions were ratios of the first three numbers (1,2,3) squared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....Odyssey%29

Comment by warren — July 23, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

Nuke it.

Comment by diabeetus — July 23, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

@ warren , conceputally related, semantics fellow, congruency vs. similarity

@Exacerbate, that’s not conspiracy b.s.
It’s very real, that’s synchronicity studies referred to as synchromysticism, not to say that conspiracy b.s. “belief systems” are not valid or real. nice link though, but just becuase you’ve got a piece to the puzzle doesn’t mean mine doesn’t fit in a way. I’m sure you’re not the ultimate definer of reality, that’s God’s job. So why don’t you lay off a bit, ok.

Comment by EVIL ILLUMINATI — July 23, 2008 @ 3:45 pm

and in NYC we have another black cuboid monolith, the Millenium Hilton

Comment by EVIL ILLUMINATI — July 23, 2008 @ 3:47 pm

I can see the glint of your tinfoil hat across the interweb tubes.

Comment by chris_hates_freedom — July 23, 2008 @ 3:57 pm

the tin foil actually increases the satellite brainwave radio sent to our frankenstein controls

You’re actually referring to Francis Dec http://www.ubu.com/sound/dec.html

Synchronicity is a force, mostly unseen unless you know what you are looking for and then whamo, you get hit with a ton of it. The understanding of synchronicity is contributed to Carl Jung’s studies in psychology. Sychromysticism is a new science in development by amazing researchers.

Comment by EVIL ILLUMINATI — July 23, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

It is conspiracy bullshit. I’ll make up a conspiracy theory right now that sounds legitimate.

Burger King is communist.
http://www.mycampusdining.com/.....20King.jpg
Normal logo? Pssh….
Now take the Burger King logo, mirror it horizontally, and rotate it 45 degrees to the left.
Your burger king logo should look like this.
http://willhostforfood.com/files2/6026430/OMFG.bmp
Looks an awful lot like the sickle in the hammer and sickle.
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/W....._clean.png

I just made that up entirely. It’s bullshit though. You connect two things that are purely coincidental that have nothing to do with each other.

Comment by Exacerbate — July 23, 2008 @ 4:14 pm

Synchronicity is truly a force to be reckoned with.

Comment by reboot — July 23, 2008 @ 4:19 pm

i, for one, am NEVAR eating at Burger King again.

THOSE COMMIE MOTHERFUCKERS

Comment by natedog — July 23, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

“Sychromysticism is a new science in development by amazing researchers.”
Also: there are no researchers, everything has already been discovered by the illuminati and they just hand down knowledge when they see fit.

Comment by reboot — July 23, 2008 @ 4:21 pm

Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals.

- Teaching of the Missionaria Protectiva

Comment by natedog — July 23, 2008 @ 4:28 pm

nice point reboot

exacerbate, trust in your intuition, let go of your restraints. I know your on to something.

http://dedroidify.blogspot.com/

Ideas are Toys. The Search for Truth is a Game.
Believe Nothing. Question Everything.

Comment by EVIL ILLUMINATI — July 23, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

HOLY SMOKES BATMAN!

TURKISH IN MY CONFINED SPACE?

Comment by no ghost just a shell. — July 23, 2008 @ 4:41 pm

Those guys are gonna be sorry when Megatron comes looking for that cube.

Comment by gravmark — July 23, 2008 @ 4:54 pm

@gravmark

hahaha lmao

Comment by outofocus — July 23, 2008 @ 5:01 pm

You guys really need to learn how to not feed this troll.

Comment by MikeBabaguh — July 23, 2008 @ 5:12 pm

This isn’t even a troll… it’s a diseased garden gnome who was placed too close to the mushrooms in the cow pasture.

Comment by chris_hates_freedom — July 23, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

@Nate:

haha, that kind of made my day.

Comment by RSIxidor — July 23, 2008 @ 6:08 pm

Derka derka jihad fatwā!

Comment by AlecDalek — July 23, 2008 @ 7:03 pm

he Kaaba is a large masonry structure roughly the shape of a cube. It is made of granite from the hills near Mecca, and stands upon a 25 cm (10 in) marble base, which projects outwards about 30 cm (1 foot).[2] Approximations for the structural dimensions are: 13.10 m (42.98 ft) high, with sides measuring 11.03 m (36.19 ft) by 12.62 m (41.40 ft).[3][4] The four corners of the Kaaba roughly face the four points of the compass.[2] In the eastern corner of the Kaaba is the Ruknu l-Aswad “Black Stone” or al-Ħajaru l-Aswad, generally thought to be a meteorite remnant; at the northern corner is the Ruknu l-ˤĪrāqī “The Iraqi corner”, at the western lies Ruknu sh-Shāmī “the Levantine corner” and at the southern Ruknu l-Yamanī “the Yemeni corner”.[2][4]
-he Black Stone is a significant feature of the Kaaba, believed by Muslims to date back to the time of Adam and Eve.[7] Located on the eastern corner of the Kaaba, it is about 30 cm (12 inches) in diameter and surrounded by a silver frame. Hajj pilgrims often attempt to kiss the Stone as Muhammad once did.[8] Because of the large crowds, this is not always possible, and so as pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, they are to point to the Stone on each circuit.[9]

Tradition has it that the Black Stone was white when it came to Earth, subsequently turning black under the burden of humanity’s sins.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba

Comment by jpcarterisme — July 23, 2008 @ 7:04 pm

@gravmark that was amazing. Well done.

Comment by Namelis1 — July 23, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

@chris_hates_freedom
In the words of Terrance Mckenna, mushrooms are the only solution for a massive awakening and atonement with nature. thank heavens for finding the mushroom pasture.

@ gravmark - you’re so right, just imagine
Steve Willner of Labyrinth of the Psychonaut
The Tesseract, Transformers, and The Cosmic Christ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDIVJXkfCU

Comment by EVIL ILLUMINATI — July 23, 2008 @ 7:22 pm

Why did you write that in Turkish?

Comment by Caio — July 23, 2008 @ 7:40 pm

I don’t know chris, I’d argue that this particular troll has been quite successful.

Comment by Lord Cocksworth — July 23, 2008 @ 9:27 pm

Indeed. I came, I saw, I Lawled…

Comment by Phyreblade — July 23, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

“Religion is the opiate of the masses.”That statement is the only thing Karl Marx ever got right.

Comment by mikoyangurevich15 — July 23, 2008 @ 11:39 pm

Morphine is the opiate of the masses.

Comment by Caio — July 24, 2008 @ 1:41 am

The Monolith! We destroy that and this is over! CHARGE!

Comment by Hepathos — July 24, 2008 @ 5:05 pm

I love this plane.
Close air support at it’s best.
Well at least the way I take it.

Comment by Namelis1 — June 24, 2008 @ 7:04 am

AMERICA…fuck yeah!

Comment by robustion — June 24, 2008 @ 7:05 am

If youre going to bold something, make sure its correct. : >

Comment by NoirJ — June 24, 2008 @ 7:26 am

Has /k/ invaded MCS?

Comment by The Lawnmower — June 24, 2008 @ 8:04 am

YAAAAAA…. OOOOOOOAAAAHHH… CRRYYYY SOOME MOOOOOOOOREE!!!

Comment by Gunface01 — June 24, 2008 @ 9:49 am

you see, this is what i’m talking about.

“AK-47, the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively, have to kill every single motherfucker in the room; accept no substitute” .. .?

bring me my GAU8, and we’ll talk.

Comment by JustSomeGuy — June 24, 2008 @ 10:09 am

I think every home in the country should be protected by one of these. Or, fourteen. Mounted on turrets. And attached to motion sensors. With cameras. And manual override, so you can play a few rounds of “Goop the Crackhead” when you’re bored at 3am.

Comment by AgZed — June 24, 2008 @ 2:07 pm

AgZed brilliant- the end of burglaries and girl scout cookies.

Comment by Excelsior — June 24, 2008 @ 2:25 pm

1 order of friendly fire to go.

Comment by teezy weezy — June 24, 2008 @ 6:08 pm

Fuckin’ BAD ASS. Loaded with depleted uranium rounds. They’ll burn right through armor, and spaul inside of a tank. Ricocheting pieces of molten uranium. What a way to go…

Comment by storminator — July 3, 2008 @ 5:04 pm

I have a favorite desktop pic from MCS of an aerial HDR pic of Tokyo in this exact same style. Sauce on the set please?

Comment by Mobius — June 21, 2008 @ 8:45 pm

you may be able to see all the dog shit in this one.

Comment by GorillaMunch — June 22, 2008 @ 2:27 am

Like it or not, those soldiers back then were badass.

Comment by diabeetus — June 13, 2008 @ 9:24 pm

durin that phase.. it turned thousands of usless guys into Marksman Elite

Comment by MonkeyHitman — June 13, 2008 @ 9:41 pm

I stopped for a beer in this city within the last month.

What you cannot see from the photo is the very cool location of the village. This street (and the small castle where the photo appears to be taken from) is on top of a steep foot hill about 150 meters above the Hohenlohe plains to the north. So 30 meters to either side of this street and your off the hill.

My first thought was - what a defensible location. Apparently the German Army thought the same. Thus the bombing that led to this picture.

Comment by ack — June 15, 2008 @ 1:28 pm

Let’s hope not. Already I have to deal with assholes who can barely drive and are constantly trying to kill me on the highway, if only through their colossal stupidity. I’d hate to think those same people might also be able to take to the skies.

Comment by Phil Elmore — May 16, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

nice blind spot

Comment by Mr.Bungle — May 16, 2008 @ 1:22 pm

@Mr.Bungle

damn beat me to it

Comment by collegeboy — May 16, 2008 @ 1:46 pm

I would make a transformers reference, but it is just what it looks like.

Comment by Sarcastastic — May 16, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

It’s M.A.S.K.!!!

Comment by AlecDalek — May 16, 2008 @ 6:28 pm

Can you imagine some of these idiots trying to drive/fly in 3D?

Comment by nyoki — May 16, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

@nyoki

As opposed to them trying to drive fly in 2D?

Comment by hvymetal86 — May 17, 2008 @ 9:11 am

I’d be more interested if they had an actual running model, not computer graphics.

Comment by Kaze — May 17, 2008 @ 11:04 am

I’d be more interested if there weren’t so many idiots in the US who have problems applying common sense when driving in the ubiquitous, well defined, ground based through fares we call roads…

I hope the drivers tests for these are really, really, freakin’ hard…

Comment by Phyreblade — May 18, 2008 @ 1:53 am

but will it fly?

Comment by redxblack — May 18, 2008 @ 6:15 pm

wouldn’t being that close create some kind of drag coefficient or destabilized vortex?

Comment by maxcw — May 7, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

I was in the united airlines plane while this happened.

Comment by banjo_picker — May 7, 2008 @ 10:00 pm

Thats impossible, two planes cant be that close without some sort of impact. This image must be altered

Comment by czanime — May 7, 2008 @ 10:05 pm

Or maybe they appear closer due to the vantage point of the photographer; ever heard of forced perspective? You don’t need to “alter” ( I am guessing you are referring to shopped but decided not to use that term.)an image in order to achieve a desired effect.

Comment by thelotuseater725 — May 7, 2008 @ 10:21 pm

most likely they are a good ways out so the photographer was using a large telephoto lens. Zooming in makes things look much closer together especially when they are that far away.

Comment by Darthmalt — May 7, 2008 @ 10:45 pm

they r making little planes

Comment by RoQ — May 7, 2008 @ 10:45 pm

The United plane is a Boeing 757, and the Lufthansa plane is a Boeing 747, the latter a plane which is approximately three times the size of the former. You are correct Darthmalt when you said that this photograph is indeed unaltered in digital form, however, appears as an illusion due to the perspective of the photographer and possibly the lens.

Comment by Bodero — May 7, 2008 @ 10:51 pm

If it was forced perspective, though, wouldn’t the smaller plane in front look bigger than the plane in back? Or wouldn’t the letters on the plane behind be less in-focus than the letters on the one up front?

Seriously, I’m askin’. The last time I got higher than a C in a science class I was in the second grade.

Also, considering the light source, wouldn’t there be a shadow on the Lufthansa plane if they really were that close?

Comment by rattybad — May 7, 2008 @ 10:52 pm

this is what a parallel approach looks like….now they could have been landing on runways in close proximity….but they are not all that close to each other…..the photography is distorting our perspective

Comment by boris89 — May 7, 2008 @ 11:28 pm

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/.....ith_a_737/

Comment by boris89 — May 7, 2008 @ 11:29 pm

Yeah, perspective folks, simply put, the actual size of the aircraft makes it easier to spot.

Comment by Wally — May 8, 2008 @ 1:37 am

Oh, and nothing quite that rare, i do parallel approaches fairly often, in smaller aircraft mind you but a LOT closer than this without anything really scary.

I dunno actually…just had another look…doesn’t seem to quite add up, even with the thought of different fancy lenses in mind. i can understand making a single object look a lot closer than it really is but two objects in the same frame…well, i ain’t no photographer but i am a pilot and they definitely wouldn’t have been as close as some people seem to think.

Comment by Wally — May 8, 2008 @ 1:42 am

Hey Wally, I remember seeing on Discovery Channel once about how the draft or whatever created by an airplane is not felt in an immediate proximity, and it actually only affects the pressure outside the area. So basically, if you were standing on the tip of the wing, you won’t feel as much … push as you would if you were like…20 ft outside of the wing. Is that true?
Can that be whats happening here?

Comment by SuperJay — May 8, 2008 @ 3:38 am

@ SuperJay: No. Air pressure doesn’t just “jump” 20 feet over “unpressurized” air.

Comment by unknown — May 8, 2008 @ 5:40 am

snopes has an article on this, and it basically boils down to the face that one of them is nearly 3 times larger then the other one. sadly I cannot find the exactly page on their site, but Here’s one that’s kinda like it and explains what’s going on

Comment by tiki god — May 8, 2008 @ 10:44 am

oh man, I loved the airshows at macdill, I went to a couple of them when I lived down there. got a sunburn from hell, but it was worth it to see the stealth fighters

Comment by tiki god — May 7, 2008 @ 7:54 am

^ LOL. I am soooooooooo crispy. Had forgotten to bring sunscreen, which they sell there but NEXT TO THE BEER TENT. No sunscreen availed.

Comment by Kylefor20 — May 7, 2008 @ 3:30 pm

I’m not giving you candy until you’ve eaten that child.

I mean, it’s just a waste of good food.

Comment by LukeV1-5 — May 2, 2008 @ 5:59 am

well, he can be a sweet little fucker.

so Om nom nom nom

now gimme some candy

Comment by natedog — May 3, 2008 @ 6:57 am

wheres the tatoo?

Comment by TrikYodz — June 26, 2008 @ 12:34 am

on my wrist

Comment by natedog — June 29, 2008 @ 1:12 am

Bridges scare me. I crossed over the 35W bridge 5 minutes before it collapsed.

Comment by Timmay72 — April 26, 2008 @ 9:51 am

i wouldn’t try the 5 kilometer long zeelandbridge then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland_Bridge

Comment by Betsy — April 26, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

I love bridges… The longer and the higher, the better… But then I love roller coasters too…

Comment by Phyreblade — April 26, 2008 @ 1:44 pm

Looks like Confederation Bridge, from Prince Edward Island, Canada. 12.9 Kilometers.

Comment by Wyvern — April 26, 2008 @ 4:18 pm

@Wyvern
You fail for not reading the caption directly below the picture.

Comment by reptilecobra13 — April 27, 2008 @ 3:15 am

er, I do believe that’s the eye of a hurricane.

Comment by ohmybob — March 31, 2008 @ 7:26 am

It’s a cyclone, it’s draining counter-clockwise…just like my toilet…which I just flushed…in Australia.

Comment by stalwart — March 31, 2008 @ 8:43 am

Sweet office views! I’m in an internal office, with no windows. I get bored. That’s why I’m here typing this comment.

Comment by banjo_picker — March 31, 2008 @ 6:11 pm