How to control people

[sooey]

Abraj Al Bait

(You'd need rather a lot of your windmills to keep it going)

 

[cumbriahandyman]

 

[Whitespirit66]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uburb-worrying-social-moral-implications.html

 

[sooey]

I got it wrong Apparently the loudspeakers can only be heard to about seven kilometres.....so that's alright then.

By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS

Published: Jul 30, 2011 22:51 Updated: Jul 30, 2011 23:02

MAKKAH:The Makkah Royal Clock Tower, the second tallest tower in the world, will start emitting 16 light beams to a height of 10 kilometers Sunday evening to announce the beginning of Ramadan.

The loud speakers installed at the top of the tower will carry the sound of adhan (call to prayer) from the Grand Mosque to seven kilometers far. The powerful lights in white and green blinking at the time of adhan can be seen from a distance of 30 kilometers. The lights are also helpful for people with hearing difficulties to know prayer times.

The clock face is white and indicators dark during daylight and green and white at night

 

[cantaloup63]

Is it just me or does that clock make you think "Trumpton".

"Here is the clock, The Trumpton Clock. Telling the time,
steadily, sensibly, never too quickly, never too slowly.
Telling the time... for Trumpton!"

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub

 

[sooey]

It reminds me more of............


And the people bowed and prayed,
to the neon god they'd made.
And the sign flashed out it's warning,
in the words that it was forming.
And the sign said the words of the prophet are written on.........

 

[sooey]

There's a better picture here, which shows the true height of this thing. The two columns in the foreground are each the same height as big ben.

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2073/20110721151021.jpg

 

[matt1e]

The insignia above the clock face reminds me the insignia they put on a certain make of guitar headstock, cant think of which at the mo though due to the beer and wine I've consumed!

 

[Paul_C]

The loud speakers installed at the top of the tower will carry the sound of adhan (call to prayer) from the Grand Mosque to seven kilometers far. The powerful lights in white and green blinking at the time of adhan can be seen from a distance of 30 kilometers.

Meanwhile the authorities are forcing "energy saving" light fittings on us, and will no doubt be only too quick to send an environmental health officer around to make threats about "noise pollution" if we happen to have a street party and make a bit of extra noise on a single occasion, even when nobody in the area is complaining about it.

Talk about double standards......