Negative, Ghostrider, the pattern is completamente.

A Brazilian fighter plane flies just a little too close to the supreme court building in Brasilia, remodeling it for increased ventilation. I love that the offending pilot was reportedly grounded due to breaking the speed-limit.

via Time's Battleland blog: Broken-Windows Theory

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Here’s a news story with better detail of the windows after. By the way it broke, I think it looks like the building had plain sheet glass, not tempered (but I am not a glass expert, so what do I know).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHc9mifch4
- http://twitter.com/zaren Jim Schmidt
  
  I’d agree. Tempered glass would be all those little cubes, and not nearly as many jagged edges.
- ldobe
  
  Kinda funny, I heard all the commenters say “Glass” (vidro) about 50 times during the report, but they didn’t say “Window” (janela) once, or if they did I missed it.
  - Ashen Victor
    
    Obviously they never say janela:
    
    It was the glass that broke, not the windows. :)
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Probably original to the building.
Senor Schaffer

MAVERICK!!!
- Navin_Johnson
  
  Video needs one of the officials spilling coffee all over his shirt.
  - http://twitter.com/jmatthewjacob J. Matthew Jacob
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdHBsWXaHN8#t=0m36s
    - Navin_Johnson
      
      Thanks for that J,
      That was some bad ass postin’, but I still think you’re too dangerous.
    - joeposts
      
      Look out, President Clinton!
      - JonCarter
        
        Cal (Rex Reason) is still alive and living in California….
Gary Iacobucci

Brasilia is such a weird looking city. It’s alienating just in this video. The buildings are so far apart!
- tubacat
  
  I visited Brasilia a couple of years ago, which I’d wanted to do since I saw a picture of it in Life magazine when I was a little girl. My friend from Rio told me not to go, but I went anyway. It’s the worst city I’ve ever been in! Yes, the architecture is impressive, but it is cold, sterile, no people on the streets (in the “hotel quadrant” anyway), impossible to cross the huge multilane roads. I’ve traveled all over and I’ve never been more eager to get out of a place…Oscar Niemeyer may be a genius, but I bet he doesn’t live in Brasilia…
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    Looks like he lives in Rio.
    - Paulo Ugolini
      
      He does lives in Rio. This is the house he made for himself in the forest:
      http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkj4i4_oscar-niemeyer-casa-das-canoas_creation
      He doesn’t live there anymore, after all, he’s 104 years old.
      
      Nyemeier haven’t made the urbanistic plan for the city anyway, it was this other guy, Lucio Costa. Nyemeier just designs buildings.
  - Paulo Ugolini
    
    Visiting Brasilia as a tourist or living there is a nightmare. We don’t live in the future projected by Lucio Costa (the actual urbanistic designer), a utopia in The Jetson’s style, where nobody needs to walk and there’s efficient public transportation. The design also suffered a lot with the social and political transformation of the last 50 years. You may find interesting to know that the ideas behind it (Costa was a communist, as Nyemeier himself) were completely dished after Brazil suffered a neonazi coup in 1964; so the transformation of society they aspected turned to the opposite direction. For one thing, Brasilia have now 2,5 million people living in it, five times the number projected by them for the year 2000. Under communism, of course, government is supposed to regulate people’s migration completely, and create new neighbourhoods designed and constructed in the same way the main project was done. Under fascism, you know… fuck the people, they can live under the bridges or invade other people’s land for now, we can just kill them all later.
    - tubacat
      
      I didn’t think about someone from Brasilia reading this! (Probably because it’s hard to imagine people living there – I only got a glimpse of the residential neighborhoods, and even they looked a bit like something out of a Twilight Zone episode). I would apologize for dissing your city, but it sounds like you agree about its livibility… so, if appropriate, please accept my condolences! And thank you for posting the video of Niemeyer’s house in the forest – it’s very lovely!
      - Paulo Ugolini
        
        Thanks for the answer. I am sorry if what I wrote made you believe I’m offended, I’m not! I was just trying to start a conversation. For one thing, it’s very common, even for brazilians, to think Nyemeier projected Brasilia. And I think further administration, even of a projected city, is something very important in the way you experience it.
        I find amusing is to imagine what Brasilia could be – this futuresque capital of a utopic, sebastianist society, built on a mystical plateau – and to compare it with what the city actually is, with the militarism, the corruption, the dry and hot climate full of black-suited people.But before its construction, Rio de Janeiro was the capital. Do you think the idea you make of us would be different if our capital was an exuberant, sexy and musical place like Rio de Janeiro?
        
        By the way, I don’t live in Brasilia, I just visit for business. Where else have you been in South America?
Michael Robinson

I love -love- these youtube videos with their handy popups covering all the relevant parts of the video!
- Finnagain
  
  No kidding. Is there any way to stop this madness?
  - solitaire
    
    Click the little red speech bubble thing in the bottom right of the control bar to turn off annotations.
http://twitter.com/samari711 samari711

Looks like people in glass houses….

Shouldn’t fly jets
YEEEOOOOOWWWW
- Tyrone Olds
  
  Shouldn’t soar drones?
http://www.paradea.org/notes/ Teirhan

Si bueno.
bcsizemo

Here’s a lot better close up of the damage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tsKQ68ygmE&feature=related
Antinous / Moderator

Pop quiz: what’s Brazil’s official language?
- Lindz
  
  Brazilian innit.
- http://twitter.com/Noddy93 Noddy Ninetythree
  
  i believe that it is Boontling
- http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
  
  Que seria Português, eu acho.
http://www.lanika.net lanika

Dude, did you Google Translate the title? “Completamente” makes no sense at all in the context you used it 0.o
- Andrew Kane
  
  CONSEQUENTAMENTE, one should not take language advice from Richard Feynmann’s autobiography.
http://profile.yahoo.com/OMHO6ER5QJE3SIZ35VAXIRCLYM Stephan

Oscar Niemeyer the architect is now 104 years old.
A true genius.
And yes it must be single pane glazing.
quogue

But … but … how can this be …

http://mythbustersresults.com/curving-bullets

I thought this was “busted”.
- http://twitter.com/writebastard Ian Wood
  
  The house’s window was broken from these passes, but nothing else was broken. Because of the extremely unlikely circumstance of a 200-foot supersonic jet pass, and the minimal damage observed, this myth was declared busted.
  
  WHO’S BUSTED NOW
- Paulo Ugolini
  
  According to the Air Force statement, it was not the sound, but the air deslocation that broke the glasses. The jet was not over the speed of sound, just very close.