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Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon? · 3

veen · 2787 days ago

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mk · 2786 days ago · link ·

It would be really cool if each ring was one floor higher as you moved out, so it was not only a pentagon, but a bowl.

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rrrrr · 2786 days ago · link ·

And if they all rotated slowly at different speeds and in opposite directions. How it would confuse attackers, and also everyone!

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goobster · 2785 days ago · link ·

"Ok. The meeting will be in conference room B-320 at 2:30."

"Let me check the alignment on that... umm... oh man! It's going to take me 15 minutes to walk all the way over there! Can we do it in room... wait a sec... let me calculate... um... conference room W-16?"

"W-16? Wait. That ring will be counter-rotating on Wednesday, so W-16 will be... let me check... above the Commissary. What if we just meet there?"

"Ok. But don't be late, because the Commissary will be over near the west parking lot five minutes later..."

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