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I imagine that I was not the frist one to Google the terminal velocity of hail:
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The pentagonal structure is the port of Ancona and was initially built as a quarantine place for people and goods arriviing from abroad. The pentagonal shape is because was designed to be use also as a fortress.
In the XX becama a tobacco warehouse
https://www.visitancona.com/lazzaretto-di-ancona-mole-vanvitelliana/
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Also Pentagon is in Arlington, Virgina, not in D.C
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So if my deduction is correct, the size of a hailstone going 75 mph = 120 km/h would have to be (120/50)² = 5.76 times 1 cm. Which is about the size of a medium to large egg. I see now where the confusion comes from.
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Or maybe that's the only real picture of the Pentagon in circulation, one that somehow the NSA failed to intercept and alter, and you're part of the cover-up crew.
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Funnily enough, while the Pentagon is physically located in Arlington, Virginia, it has a Washington, DC mailing address: https://www.defense.gov/Contact/Mailing-Addresses/
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Dear Readers of The Daily WTF, please find enclosed a comment. FAKE-comment.exe Kind Regards, Bernie The Bernie
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The only time I've ever seen (personally) a building called "The Pentagon" was in Abingdon, Oxfordshire (England).
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I bet Mr. ${FN} is Bobby Tables' uncle.
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Ahhh, poor Tornado. All alone: nobody to talk to, nobody it can touch and no one to hear it howl. Begs the question, though, as to the Who, What, Where and Why it's in isolation...
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The Pentagon one reminds me of when Birmingham, England published a flyer about the city that had a picture of Birmingham, Alabama on it.
Ah, here we go.
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About the same as an unladen European swallow.
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Ah, I knew it! Such a splendid design reminded me of classic Italian architecture from XVII-XIX century. Luigi Vanvitelli was truly a genius.
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...'s egg.
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Forget the Isolated chance of tornado's, I'd be more worried about "Egg Sized" wind. I mean what does that even look like? As for hailstones traveling at 75mph, well that's completely reasonable to expect in a tornado made from Egg Sized wind.
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Which isn't pentagonal. I wonder if Sophos originally commissioned a pentagonal design. Mind you, The Quadrant isn't really, either. (I work on this business park.)
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@caffiend: "Egg-sized wind" is wind able to pick up and throw things the size of eggs. So egg-sized rocks, egg-sized hunks of wood, egg-sized bits of broken whatever.
As someone who lives in hurricane country, trust me when I say isolated tornadoes are a mere irritant when you're already dealing with egg-sized wind over an area at county or multi-county scale. As you rightly said. Such fun!
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@caffiend "Forget the Isolated chance of tornado's, I'd be more worried about "Egg Sized" wind. I mean what does that even look like? As for hailstones traveling at 75mph, well that's completely reasonable to expect in a tornado made from Egg Sized wind."
The real wtf is the poor photo caption, which I believe was trying (badly) to make the same point as you. Hail is egg sized, wind is 75mph.
I assume the isolated chance of tornado's is correct.
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I used to work in security at the Pentagon. (In Abingdon)