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Why Is America Dotted with Giant, Concrete Arrows?
- hoopism 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6453401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6453401 Previous discussion
- fennecfoxen 12y agoParts of America are also dotted with giant concrete Christmas-tree icons, but the aviation involved with those is a little less benign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree_(aviation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_tree_(aviation)
- shirro 12y agoI like that in old Superman comics he would use one of these giant arrows as a key to the fortress of solitude. Only someone with super strength could gain entry. At the time I first read a reprint of an old Superman with the aircraft arrow they had probably been obsolete for decades, which like English police boxes just seems to make them more magical.