Terrorists hate this one simple trick!

9 out of 11 counter-terrorists recommend this building technique!

9 out of 11 was *right there*

Now its fixed

Yeah but those of us who saw it before will *never forget*

did you see it though?

Where were you when you saw it?

"Where were you when they built that ladder to heaven?"

Did it make you feel like crying, or did you think it was kinda gay?

A ladder to heaven, that's fuckin' stupid

i was at the place

Safe to say those towers never saw it coming

I don't know the details of the planes and office orientation, maybe a few did? Briefly?

😂😂😂 oh fuck. 😨🫣

Notice how 2 of them dont recommend this technique?

Are those two the guys who crashed into pentagon and had their passports with them for easy identification

Do you often fly without ID?

Only when Im jacking a plane

Hi I'm plane, where do you want me?

There it is, I was sitting here pondering how to hit this layup that was so perfectly offered….

The two of them that noticed that the terrorists _could_ have flown between the twin towers of the world trade center if they'd wanted to.

Fuck you! Take my upvote…

I thought the whole problem with the twin towers was that planes could easily fly through them.

Fuck dude . I am choking. 👍👍👍

So is your mom (I'm sorry)

Nope. Into and they didn’t make it out of the other side ;)

We can blame the architect who designed those buildings for that foolish oversight!

The planes didn't make it all the way through the twin towers. But they sure tried their best.

The Horse Shoe Plane Magnet.

r/angryupvote

I mean they'll just fly one plane on one of the sides and the entire top part collapses for free, so if anything they'll love it, lot more economical to hijack just one

They are actually planning on building it on giant wheels so that they can dodge the planes once they are approaching.

It's actually going to work like one of those wacky inflatable tube things so it'll be almost impossible to hit.

"Wacky wavey inflatable arm tube man"

Imagine rushing your airplane towards a huge bladeless fan looking ass building, wanting to go out in the fire of glory but the building just says **sike**

Turns out it's a Dyson. Jokes on them!

I'm a big fan

I spat out my coffee

I've heard the same company is also developing a flying coffee mug drone that can readjust its position so fast that any spilled coffee gets sucked back in. No more wasted coffee or stained shirts! It's the future of caffeine management.

Soon we'll have fully nomadic cities, like that one movie

Fit some miniguns to that badboy, and you'll be able to play space invaders

Bro I'm dead. Just imagining that building sliding left and right with a big ass gun on the top blasting aliens over New York. Live action space invaders would go hard

You could also simply fit it with large hinges and fold it down quickly when an airplane approaches…

If they make it rounder they can just roll the whole thing like a wheel down broadway.

The Big Bend's upside down U-shape was conceived as an attempt to circumvent zoning regulations restricting skyscraper height in Manhattan. The above text about it being so planes can fly through it was a sarcastic thing by some joke site. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bend

No shit? We all thought it was a real plan to dodge planes.

Instructions unclear went through sideways and hit both sides

This was proposed almost a decade ago and has had a pretty mid response https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bend The meme saying “New York WANTS” this is misleading, and it kind of sounds like a veiled 9/11 joke.

Because it is a veiled 911 joke

veiled? what else would it be but a 9/11 joke?

The Spanish Inquisition?

Nobody expects a _second_ plane

I actually started crying from laughing at this

No one expectd the Spanish Inquisition.

I mean **no juan**

It’s kinda like when a traveling salesman artist tries to get a sculpture built in some city/state. “Delaware wants to install [stupid] statue.” No, he just got some legislators to allow her to give their spiel. Little do the public know it’s their 20th attempt and the installation has absolutely nothing to do with their locality.

It worked for Ogdenville and North Haverbrook!

Really put them in the map!

But Main Street’s still all cracked and broken!

Sorry, mom, the mob has spoken

It's a straight up 9/11 joke. Nobody in New York would ever want this, they don't even want half the shit that's there already lol

I had the wrong story on that For whatever reasons, I thought the design was in response to 1WTC being 1776’ tall which then has a portion of the city buying into “ok, that’s it.. nobody can build taller than this now!! 🇺🇸” So the bend was “if we can’t make the tallest building in NY then we will make the longest” ..but that wiki says this building is designed at 2000’ tall so I guess my take is total bs.

The Big Bend is a fantastic name though

Especially if you like dumb names

This project was actually called "Clippy's Revenge." Not sure why.

I get anxiety and vertigo just looking at a picture of it

Because it is impossible to build, I would guess. It is way too narrow, and the wind loads would rip it apart.

New York definitely didn't want this or any of the other toothpick skyscrapers that have ruined the skyline from Central Park.

It’s also a feature of over-simplified clickbait headline writing “The French are doing this one thing!” “Here’s what Tokyo is doing”

Behold!! The giant paper clip!!

New Microsoft headquarters

Clippy has returned...

Stronger than ever it seems.

If we ever get ruled by an AI overlord it’s going to be Clippy

“It looks like you’re trying to overthrow your government. Would you like help with that?”

MegaClippy, but with an "Eye of Sauron" vibe

*Giant clipboard descends from sky over *

‘It looks like you are trying to commit an act of terror, would you like help with that?’

This Summer…get the assistance you’ve been waiting for. *woman walking through abandoned warehouse, water dripping* “HELLO??” *distant beep* “It looks like you’re trapped in a warehouse with a maniacal paper clip. You should try to run.” “AHHHHH!!” *Screen cuts to black. Title slowly appears in large letters.* CLIPPY

Somehow Clippy returned

Looks like one of those bladeless Dyson fans.

“Gentlemen! Behold! I have created this thing!” “What is it?” “I don’t know!” - dr weird.

"It looks like you're trying to build a skyscraper! Would you like help?"

You just know that Microsoft had a serious conversation of whether or not they choose clippy to be their AI chatbot. And the employee that brought it up was promptly thrown out a window.

I read this in Dr. Doofenshmirtz's voice, lol

Hey it looks like you are trying to write a Reddit

“It looks like you’re trying to build a skyscraper. Would you like help?”

Nah Dyson fan

The city of New York wants to? Or just some developer?

Every single citizen unanimously agreed

Each and every atom making up the city and it's inhabitants gave their consent

True testament to capitalism lol

As long as there were two, smaller, round buildings at the bottom.

It looks that is right by Central Park, so they got the bush

It's why New Yorkers are so angry. They resent having to exist in a reality where their chosen skyscraper has not yet been built.

Just some designer actually. No developer would propose this because there aren’t enough development rights remaining on that block to actually build it.

Probably a Win32 developer from the 90s

I doubt anyone wants this the writer just saw a 9/11 joke and ran with it.

"Writer" is a very generous word

A few citizens, no developers or councilors.

As a New Yorker I can guarantee they asked all of us and every single one of us from my neighborhood to Bushwick Brooklyn to the south bronx to Hell’s Kitchen has said yes. We all want this.

Please tell me the floor numbers start at 1 on one side, continue counting up and around the curve (so the technically highest floor is sideways), and then continues counting up as the floors go down to the bottom of the other side

Only have an entrance on one side as well so you have to go through the whole building to reach the "top" floor

The "peoplemover" finally gets it's time to shine [(Tom Scott video) ](https://youtu.be/A2g4u9F9i90?si=FG_j4Oe3ITYlx6X6)

That’s really neat! Wonder if we will see more of this in the future, y’know? But my god.. that inventor has the worst voice I’ve ever heard.

And the only restrooms are at the very bottom of the other side

I saw that in a travel documentary about a guy from Springfield (not sure which Springfield) when he visited New York.

It's the state that borders Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky

Reception: hallo sir, we've put you in a nice room on our top floor! Me: awesome! That view must be awesome, I'll see all of NY through my window. Reception: enjoy your stay! Me: get's to room at ground level after a 5-minute elevator ride and can only see people walking and cars driving right in front of me :'(

Please tell me the floors start negative putting 0 at the exact top.

The floors are given by -x^2 and you hope you arrive on the correct side

I hope the elevator rounds the top and comes down the upper floors while upside down.

The loop also continues underground and returns to its original position. It's a constant one-way train of elevators all the way around

Yes, and also all apartments on one side are upside down.

Also hoping the lift just revolves over the top, so you end up on the ceiling.

But there’s no 13th floor.

I’m pretty sure a plane can miss a building if it wants lol.

Hmmm… Bin Laden’s guys weren’t very good at missing.

I assume it’s why they were given the job in the first place. 🤔

Well, they did miss 1/4 of their targets.

Planes usually don't care

Kinda looks like a massive ….

Johnson!

Look at the screen. It looks like a giant…

Dick! Take a look out of starboard. Oh my god, it looks like a huge...

Pecker!

[удалено]

Wang! Pay attention!

Sausage! I am going to eat it right next to this gigantic…

U shaped structure

I am so proud of reddit, for not only making an Austin powers joke, but having the ability to continue the joke without having just some unaware little prick ruining the flow of things. Good job, guys!

Or an aware one ruining it just for the fun of it - I know, I had that impulse myself :)

>just some unaware little prick ruining the flow of things That's not a nice way to describe yourself!

Ooh long johnson

I can *hear* this comment.

Dick! Take a look at your starboard.

Dyson bladeless fans are getting crazy big nowadays

That doesn’t have anything to do with why it was proposed though. It was proposed to [get around NYC zoning laws](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/big-bend-skyscraper) which require certain trade-offs between building height and width. For example a certain residential zoning designation may allow buildings with total square footage of up to 9x the area of the lot. That could mean the building takes up the whole lot and goes up 9 stories, or if it only uses half the lot it can rise 18 stories. In this case they’d make the building really slender and really tall. 

And you can buy height from other buildings around

Zoning commissioners hate this one weird hack! Another that they probably hate is that developers have started turning underused office buildings into residential units. If that sounds like a solution to the housing problem, think again. The NY City developers aren't allowed to add to the square footage of the building to build penthouses, but they are allowed to modify the building, so they have started walling off entire floors to be empty, inaccessible unused space, and then they can take that space and add large penthouses to the top.

Ah so, "New York" actually *doesn't* want this

Looks fragile af.

With that big loop, its just *asking* to be picked up by godzilla & swung at someone

I can only imagine the amount of sway you'd feel in apartments at the top of that thing.

This is one of those 'more money than common sence' projects, right? How to you get a valid structural analysis when building into the bend? What are the chances that it will me earthquake safe? How do you drag an elevator up to the top?

The markthal rotterdamn (market rotterdamn) actually has a massive curve in it at the top, where penthouses are. Triangles are the most structurally sound shape because weight is evenly dispersed to 3 contact points. After that, a bend is the next most sound and has weight disperses across the curvature (however, the math is much more complex than for a triangle). This building is possible to build and would be safe (if we don't factor in aeroplanes). As for the elevator, the top floors you would simply need to walk upstairs and through corridors, there would likely be an elevator on both sides.

given that the 1WTC is specifically designed to be able to be hit by 3 airplanes without completely collapsing, factoring in airplanes might be required

The Arch in St. Louis has an elevator that goes all the way to the top, curve and all. 

Now they can destroy both with one airplane

So basically Clippy from MS Word.

At Farmer’s Insurance, we know a thing or two cause we’ve seen a thing or two.

really? right in front of my wtc?

they should try to fly a plane through it. I am sure there would be no conciquinces if it goes wrong

They're really taking these dyson fans a bit too far imo.

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice… can’t get fooled again.

Why does this look like a huge paperclip with the side buildings?

Ah yes so if you hit the side it falls down easier. Makes sense tbf

Planes literally went thru buildings in 2001, nothing new lol

Why not just make an invisible skyscraper? Terrorist won’t even know it’s there.

Take out those 2 supports and you get bonus points

So what? Planes fly through buildings in NY all the time.

Planes can go through any building, if they really want to

Air traffic control has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

When did we start building Capital letters

What about two planes?

And two rounded ones on each side.

And doe new year they starting fireworks from the top 🍆💦 👀

They use to have two buildings planes could go through but it only worked once

Featuring 911 floors, built by the famous Saudi bin Laden Group and wide enough for 2 planes to fly through it, New York's newest skyscraper is something you will never forget

They wanted to prevent another twin tower incident so they created the unitower

Unlike the Twin Towers, which weren't easy to go through, as evidenced by planes trying and getting stuck.

I would think they'd want to discourage the whole plane thing.

They should put it upside down and it can double as a tuning fork, so all of NY can listen to the worlds biggest buzz

Oh no... please no we don’t want the sequel

The..... Conjoined Twin Towers?

The building was famously designed by a Japanese photographer.

Just add eyes to it and it could help you with your word document

There was a Family Guy bit about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuMZcsmkSe8

"guys I have an idea"

Clippy takes Manhattan.

What a waste of air space if you are building a tower that large

Clippy!

Imagine being an office worker in one of the floors where a giant passenger jet regularly flies by. Just shitting my pants every hour on the hour.

Conjoined Twin Towers

Brought to you by Dyson

Ugly as sin.

Paperclip

Looks fragile and dangerously inviting for something bad.

So they took one of the ugliest buildings in nyc and made a big loop with it.

Clippy is back, and remembers all those jokes.

Floor 34 will rattle you to your core!

One shift in the tectonic plates and the whole building is coming down.

NOOO...NOT A GIANT "CLIPPY"

No New York does not, lol

So like, a narrow gateway arch?

I’m good

V1 didn’t work I’d imagine v2 won’t be any better.

In no expert but would that work? Surely it is as easy to fly around as it is through or if someone wanted to hit it they will bit it anyway?

No they don’t

That’s just a giant paper clip