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Posted on 5/18/17 at 7:14 pm to TheIndulger
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Sadly, it doesn't matter. The terrorists won in the end. I'm reminded every time I go through TSA to get on a plane.
And I agree. We had opportunities, limited they were, to attempt to prevent it. After the fact killing him didnt really matter but hopefully we sent a message we will not stop to retaliate if you attack us. I would like to agree that all red blooded Americans will never get passive and always respond mightily when we are attacked.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 7:18 pm to The Boat
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On a clear day you could see the curvature of the earth from the top.
Impossible...you have to be up scores of miles before curve becomes apparent...
It's statements like this that cause flat earthers.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:15 pm to The Boat
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When the father and son reached the top he told his son these buildings would stand longer than mankind. They would be here for 1,000 years.
This is a dumb prediction under any circumstances
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:28 pm to goldennugget
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The real thing that blows my mind is how many mindless sheep believe the official 9/11 narrative
Here. We. Go.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:31 pm to The Boat
They've been gone for 16 years now.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:31 pm to The Boat
Does it blow your mind that jet fuel cannot melt steal beams?
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:34 pm to goldennugget
I hope I meet you one day, so I can punch you in the nose.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:35 pm to Lawyered
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as it all came full circle as I was one of the last people on earth to have been up there .
Do you have documentation of this? Something that says you were the x number person to visit the top of the towers before 9/11?
Even if you visited on the last day of August, there were likely a good bit of people who visited the top of the towers the 10 days before they came down.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:38 pm to The Boat
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When the father and son reached the top he told his son these buildings would stand longer than mankind. They would be here for 1,000 years.
Someone said even God couldn't sink the Titanic.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:43 pm to OweO
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Someone said even God couldn't sink the Titanic.
Well he sure showed them
Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:43 pm to OweO
I think there's only one building (or series in this case) that I can say with reasonable confidence will still be up in a thousand years, and they're the Pyramids. They'll be buried before they're destroyed. Mankind's most durable building is also one of its most ancient. That and some impressive dams. Other than that, most structures are far too hollow, metallic, or wooden to hold up for more than say 300 years without significant constant repair.
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Posted on 5/18/17 at 8:59 pm to IceTiger
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...you have to be up scores of miles
That is 200k+ feet up...Not certain that it takes THAT much.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:08 pm to Tiger Prawn
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Does it blow your mind that there's kids in high school now who weren't even alive when the Twin Towers came down?
damn, this actually does
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:41 pm to Crusty Juggler
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I think there's only one building (or series in this case) that I can say with reasonable confidence will still be up in a thousand years, and they're the Pyramids. They'll be buried before they're destroyed. Mankind's most durable building is also one of its most ancient. That and some impressive dams. Other than that, most structures are far too hollow, metallic, or wooden to hold up for more than say 300 years without significant constant repair.
I agree. If you think about the world trade center, people have all these crazy theories, but if you think about it, although it took some planning, if you think about it, it is a relatively easy concept.
The first plane, which hit the west tower, if I had to guess, they probably hit it a little bit higher than they intended to, but it was still able to do the job. The planes pretty much sliced through the building when they hit, not all the way through, but enough to cause damage to the structure it didn't go completely through. At that part, the damage to the structure was weak enough to let gravity do the rest of the work. When the top part of the building started to crumble, everything coming down, which includes a plane, just took out everything under it.
People are saying "jet fuel isn't enough to burn through steel". But a plane was strong enough to do the structural damage strong enough to do what they wanted to do. A commercial plane was the perfect size, anything smaller might not have caused as much damage and I don't think it would have mattered if the plane was any bigger, it would have had the same result.
Remember a few years before 9/11 when they tried to take out the world trade center? They thought they could do it by taking it out from the bottom. After they were unsuccessful, they probably went back to the drawing board and figured out exactly what it would take to bring them down.. And I don't care who said it was impossible to take them down, but they were a little over confident, because like you said, structures are far too hollow and there will be wear and tear so any structural engineer could have found away to bring them down..
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:48 pm to The Boat
I was only 11 when they fell but seeing them in older movies and shows (Friends intro) always amazes me. I actually just got back from NYC and went on the 9/11 tour when it was raining, it is very well done and would recommend it to anyone if they can find the time.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:52 pm to Jones
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Makes perfect sense to me.
It would blow my mind if the superdome wasn't there anymore. Why? Because I saw the thing every day for years.
Lol New Orleans
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:15 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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The majority of Americans live in a naive bubble world.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:48 pm to The Boat
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Does it blow anyone's mind the Twin Towers of the WTC aren't there anymore?
No. I wasn't really aware of them before 9/11.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 12:07 am to pvilleguru
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No. I wasn't really aware of them before 9/11.
You must have been pretty young on 9/11/2001.
Saw them in a lot of movies as a kid. Read about them a bunch after the parking garage bombing in 1993. Knew people that ended up doing business there.
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