The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[wolram]

Was it the failed attempt at a postal rocket in the Western Isles?

Yes and so quick

 

[arildno]

Nope, not it.
I'm now quite terrified at the prospect of a 7 meter penis rampaging around... If I have nightmares, I'm blaming you!

Can I wish you sweet dreams instead?

 

[wolram]

There are just so many statues etc, i thought Lenin or napoleon but no luck
yet,

 

[matthyaouw]

"Standing 7 metres tall, this imposing figure seems out of this world. It towers over the place it terrorised over 100 years go."

Note emphasis

 

[matthyaouw]

No takers?
It first terrorised the area in 1898 (perhaps not literally), and made another more notable appearence in 1938, terrorising people in a more literal sense.

 

[wolram]

No takers?
It first terrorised the area in 1898 (perhaps not literally), and made another more notable appearence in 1938, terrorising people in a more literal sense.

Still trying mathyaouw, but is outside my area.

 

[wolram]

Zepplin ?

 

[JamesU]

something alien? an alien perhaps?

 

[Smurf]

honchbunkers? though I don't know what they have to do with 100 years ago.

 

[Townsend]

The Woking Martian

http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/martian/

 

[Smurf]

haha, of course, H.G. Wells publications. The radio broadcast in 1938 that fooled so many people into thinking they were under attack by aliens

 

[Townsend]

It weighs over 200 tonnes.

It was completed over a decade ago

It is built on an island

Your hint is, swastika...

Shouldn't be too hard...good luck

 

[Smurf]

manhattan project?

 

[Townsend]

manhattan project?

no...interesting suggestion though...

 

[Smurf]

hmmm, well I havn't a clue so I'm shooting in the dark here but does it have something to do with a big canon and the english channel?

 

[Townsend]

hmmm, well I havn't a clue so I'm shooting in the dark here but does it have something to do with a big canon and the english channel?

sorry...

I don't want to give you any more hints...you have more than enough to figure it out...

 

[wolram]

On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people
a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, 1/4 scale,
about 35 feet high. It still stands now, on Ile des Cygnes an island in the
Seine River, next to the Pont de Grenelle, a bridge crossing the Seine,
1.5 km downstrean (South) of the Eiffel Tower.

?

 

[JamesU]

ooooooooooo

 

[Townsend]

On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people
a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, 1/4 scale,
about 35 feet high. It still stands now, on Ile des Cygnes an island in the
Seine River, next to the Pont de Grenelle, a bridge crossing the Seine,
1.5 km downstrean (South) of the Eiffel Tower.

?

Let me refine some of my clues a bit...

It was over completed over a decade ago and less than 20 yrs ago.

It is more than 200 tonnes and less then 250 tonnes...

Probably the most important clue is the swastika...

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I've run it through google and not really found anything that looks right. Maybe one more little clue?

 

[Townsend]

I've run it through google and not really found anything that looks right. Maybe one more little clue?

The swastika I'm talking about is not the same as the Nazi swastika...

 

[Townsend]

Couple more:

The island is pretty small...I had to take a subway to get there, and I was nowhere near the United States...

 

[wolram]

The swastika I'm talking about is not the same as the Nazi swastika...

I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.

 

[Townsend]

I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.

...go from there...

 

[wolram]

...go from there...

This one ??

http://www.geocities.com/asiaglobe/gallery/hk-buddha.htm

 

[Townsend]

This one ??

http://www.geocities.com/asiaglobe/gallery/hk-buddha.htm

yep...that's the one.

 

[wolram]

Derived from "Hard Lightning" , the people are cheese on toast ?

 

[Mk]

I guessed that, the swastika has lots of meanings, it relates to Budda also.

Damn, I knew that one off the top of my head! Should have been PFing more!

 

[wolram]

Damn, I knew that one off the top of my head! Should have been PFing more!

Yep, it took me ages and several wrong turns, i suppose a certain lady would
have also solved it a lot quicker.

 

[matthyaouw]

Derived from "Hard Lightning" , the people are cheese on toast ?

Something to do with the Welsh... And Arthur's sword...