This Navy Building Looks Like A Giant Swastika From Above

Google Earth is once again changing the world -- or, more specifically, they're changing the way swastika-shaped buildings are built. The Navy is spending upwards of $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks that, when viewed by satellite imaging programs like Windows Live and Google Earth, looks like a giant swastika.

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um, didn't they see the blueprints before this was built?!?!?!

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I saw this on the news last night!

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um, didn't they see the blueprints before this was built?!?!?!

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It's possible the designers were from an Eastern culture, where it has a very good, positive connotation?

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

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I'm speechless

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From Wilkepedia:

The swastika (from Sanskrit svástika ????????? ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either clockwise-pointing or anticlockwise-pointing forms. The term is derived from Sanskrit svasti, meaning well-being. The Thai greeting sawasdee is from the same root and carries the same implication.

Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period. It has long been widely-used in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Hindus often decorate the swastika with a dot in each quadrant. In India, it is common enough to be a part of several Devanagari fonts. It is also a symbol in the modern Unicode and is often imprinted on religious texts, marriage invitations, and decorations. It is used to mark religious flags in Jainism and Buddhist temples in Asia.

In 1920, the right-facing swastika was appropriated as a Nazi symbol, and since then has become a controversial motif. In the Western world, this usage is the most familiar.

The symbol occurs in other Asian, European, African and Native American cultures – sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol.

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Yeah, a swastika itself is not really an 'evil' symbol. It's just that in the 20th Century, it became a symbol associated with the Nazi party and still holds deep-rooted feelings for some people to this day. I see nothing wrong with the building.

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Well, it's a shame that it's like that, but I can certainly think of better ways to spend $600,000. What's done is done. I doubt too many people are going to be flying overhead and get really offended.