• LCrawford (unregistered)

    I imagine that I was not the frist one to Google the terminal velocity of hail:

     The University of Melbourne, 2005: 14. "Research has found that a hailstone's terminal velocity is roughly proportional to the square root of its diameter, with a diameter of 1 cm corresponding to a terminal velocity of 50 km/h
    
  • Mike (unregistered)

    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/

  • Dustbin (unregistered)

    Also Pentagon is in Arlington, Virgina, not in D.C

  • PenguinF (unregistered) in reply to LCrawford

    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.

  • Raj (unregistered) in reply to Mike

    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.

  • Robert (unregistered) in reply to Dustbin

    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/

  • BernieTheBernie (unregistered)

    Dear Readers of The Daily WTF, please find enclosed a comment. FAKE-comment.exe Kind Regards, Bernie The Bernie

  • (nodebb) in reply to Dustbin

    Also Pentagon is in Arlington, Virgina, not in D.C

    The only time I've ever seen (personally) a building called "The Pentagon" was in Abingdon, Oxfordshire (England).

  • (nodebb)

    I bet Mr. ${FN} is Bobby Tables' uncle.

  • Rhialto (unregistered)

    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...

  • (nodebb)

    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.

  • John (unregistered)

    About the same as an unladen European swallow.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Mike

    Ah, I knew it! Such a splendid design reminded me of classic Italian architecture from XVII-XIX century. Luigi Vanvitelli was truly a genius.

  • (nodebb) in reply to John

    ...'s egg.

  • (nodebb)

    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 Pentagon (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    The only time I've ever seen (personally) a building called "The Pentagon" was in Abingdon, Oxfordshire (England).

    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.)

  • WTFGuy (unregistered) in reply to caffiend

    @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!

  • smf (unregistered)

    @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.

  • Mary (surname redacted) (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    I used to work in security at the Pentagon. (In Abingdon)

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