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OMA = Agents of Sinistar?

Sinistar

On the left is a new building designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). It's a 247,569-square-foot Science Centre for the Hamburg Hafencity located on the Hamburg harbor.

In the center is a screenshot from a classic 1982 arcade game known as Sinistar. In the game, you fly around in a little spaceship blowing up asteroids and collecting crystals. While you're collecting crystals, little "worker" ships are also meddling around in search of those same crystals. I'm not quite sure why you want the crystals but the worker ships are collecting them in order to build Sinistar, the "skeletal-looking boss" you see in the third image.

Could it be that the Rem Koolhaas and the rest of OMA are worker ships themselves? Is this the beginning of an all out attack upon the world by Sinistar? Why is he beginning by taking out the ships docking in Hamburg? There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this whole situation but the resemblance between the two is uncanny. Further investigation can be done at the following links:

Gizmodo's report on the "building" in question

The Wikipedia article about Sinistar
Play the full game online on Midway's website

Thanks to Steve for originally pointing out the resemblance.

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I knew he was crazy, but not THAT crazy. He's probably in league with the Germans. World War III is upon us...

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