{"id":38568,"date":"2013-08-26T06:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/this-way-to-the-fortress-of-solitude.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:40:38","slug":"this-way-to-the-fortress-of-solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/26\/this-way-to-the-fortress-of-solitude.html","title":{"rendered":"This Way to the Fortress of Solitude!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I guess the classic 60s Superman Fortress of Solitude idea made a lot more sense before radar and satellites and the like. \u00a0Of course, back then, it wasn't a giant stack of icy crystal pick-up sticks, but a big door in the side of an icy mountain, with a ginormous arrow-like key pointing to it. \u00a0Since only Superman (ha!) could move the key, it should still have been safe, but it still seemed a bit … unsubtle.<\/p>\n

These arrows don't point to the Fortress of Solitude. In fact, they point east and west (well, some of them do). \u00a0A cool story of a quickly-obsoleted solution.<\/p>\n

More at\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/b73MB2<\/a>,\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/vnfHZw<\/a>,\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/NhoHuo<\/a>,\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/vyTfba
\n(h\/t<\/a> Mary)<\/div>\n

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These Really Exist: Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America<\/a>
\n Every so often, a hiker or a backpacker will run across something puzzling: a ginormous concrete arrow, as much as seventy feet in length, just sitting in the middle of scrub-covered America. What are these giant arrows? Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings solves the mystery.\n <\/p>\n

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I guess the classic 60s Superman Fortress of Solitude idea made a lot more sense before radar and satellites and the like. \u00a0Of course, back then, it wasn't a giant stack of icy crystal pick-up sticks, but a big door in the side of an icy mountain, with a ginormous arrow-like key pointing to it. … Continue reading “This Way to the Fortress of Solitude!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43675,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/b5-rewatch-3x09-point-of-no-return.html","url_meta":{"origin":38568,"position":0},"title":"B5 Rewatch: 3×09 "Point of No Return"","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Jul-14 6:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Martial Law spreads to B5, as Londo seeks an escape from his fate.A-Plot: This is the biggie. 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