December 19, 2003, 18:04
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Why in God's name do these buildings have to have such a long and useless spire on top?!
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I think the movie has something to do with... something about dramatic sequences they can film around...
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December 19, 2003, 18:05
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I still prefer the big Cross with the Mecha-Jesus that could be used to swat down annoying hijacked airplanes.
Can't have everything I guess. 
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December 19, 2003, 18:05
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Why in God's name do these buildings have to have such a long and useless spire on top?!
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Bigger target.
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December 19, 2003, 18:06
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Doom Trade Center
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That's in Latveria. 
Four Freedoms Plaza would have been better.
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December 19, 2003, 18:07
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What would king kong drop down from if not the useless spire?
Sheesh, don't you guys know all brand new NYC skyscrappers have to be Giant Simian proof?
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December 19, 2003, 18:08
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Freedom Tower? Yuk.
CN Tower all the way....
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December 19, 2003, 18:23
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The Japher Center 
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December 19, 2003, 19:04
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Oh God, what the **** have they done to NYC's skyline!? 
(i don't like it)
GePap pointed out that it looks rather isolated. It might be a beautiful building on its own (to some few people somewhere) but I fail to see how it "fits" with the surrounding skyline at all. Maybe I'm just not an arteest.
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December 19, 2003, 19:20
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The Trade Towers were very masculine. This is a somewhat feminine building.
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Am I the only who thinks it looks like an abstract (cubistic(?)) statue of liberty?
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December 19, 2003, 19:23
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Why in God's name do these buildings have to have such a long and useless spire on top?!
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Well, to be serious for a moment, those are TV transmission towers.
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December 19, 2003, 19:36
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That first "rendering" is one of the most akward looking scenes I've ever seen used in the proffession. The main spire tower looks decent, but would someone please slam a few (robotic) passenger airlines into those nasty little (unoccupied) quartz growths behind it?
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December 19, 2003, 20:19
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For perspective, the current skyline (as shot from a supermarket parking lot in Bayonne, New Jersey); the Empire State Building is far left, and you can make out the Statue of Liberty on the far right:
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December 19, 2003, 22:36
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I like it. 
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December 19, 2003, 23:22
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NY takes back the tallest building prize  .
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Still 60 feet short.
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December 20, 2003, 00:44
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Still 60 feet short.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast...lan/index.html
The tower's height of 1,776 feet, symbolic for the year of American independence, includes a 276-foot spire.
In addition, a broadcast antenna attached to the tower is to bring the structure's total height above 2,000 feet.
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December 20, 2003, 01:22
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This looks like a trap to draw OBL forth.
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December 20, 2003, 01:29
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Nah -- the one in Iraq is working just fine.
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December 20, 2003, 02:26
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Still 60 feet short.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast...lan/index.html
The tower's height of 1,776 feet, symbolic for the year of American independence, includes a 276-foot spire.
In addition, a broadcast antenna attached to the tower is to bring the structure's total height above 2,000 feet.
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December 20, 2003, 02:36
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I don't like the name "Freedom Tower". Too banal. Besides, an association with "freedom fries" immediately comes to mind.
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December 20, 2003, 02:40
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and freedom sticks(cigarettes).
How about the aegis tower? what about normal block shaped buildings?
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December 20, 2003, 02:42
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pretty building. stupid name.
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December 20, 2003, 02:44
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Count me among the teeming millions who can't stand the stupid name. Gotta be a cold, sick joke to call an office building "freedom" anything. 
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December 20, 2003, 02:45
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The name's not that bad. Most skyscraper names are stupid anyway.
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December 20, 2003, 02:48
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Yes, but you're canadian, so what would you know, anyway?
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December 20, 2003, 02:49
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Nothin', eh.
You catch the latest Leafs game on the CBC? Blew me away, eh.
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December 20, 2003, 02:50
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I think it should be called the phallic symbol
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December 20, 2003, 02:51
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Hurhur, clever.
I'll call it the Bin Laden Building before I go around spouting coerced jingoism like "Freedom Tower."
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December 20, 2003, 02:53
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Maybe we'll just reverse our terms as many did this past summer and call it the "French Tower."
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December 20, 2003, 02:53
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Freedom Tower: 600 metres of smooth, hard-rocking fun
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December 20, 2003, 02:54
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I think shut the hell up
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