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re: 9/11 After 13 years
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:37 am to Champagne
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:37 am to Champagne
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Anybody know where those black boxes ended up?
The recorders from Flights 93 and 77 were found. Those from 11 and 175 were not.
You are aware that Flight 11 and 175 were involved in high speed collisions with, multiple story fires within and ultimately complete, pancake collapes of 2 thousand-foot skyscrapers, correct?
A firefighter who worked in the recovery indicated - I can't directly quote, but this is a very accurate paraphrase:
We worked for weeks at that site. These were 100+ story office buildings, full of desks, filing cabinets, computers, and so forth. The biggest piece of debris I found, other than part of the building itself, was part of the keypad from a phone (holding fingers about 2 inches apart.)
Therefore, while designed to sustain a crash and fire (again 93 and 77's did), perhaps it isn't all that shocking to imagine the fire (potential energy of roughly half a megaton of explosives from the aircraft) and force of the collapse of 2 ~300,000 metric ton buildings, might be just enough to pulverize 2 well built pieces of technology. Maybe?
This post was edited on 9/11/14 at 11:39 am
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Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:42 am to Ace Midnight
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Therefore, while designed to sustain a crash and fire (again 93 and 77's did), perhaps it isn't all that shocking to imagine the fire (potential energy of roughly half a megaton of explosives from the aircraft) and force of the collapse of 2 ~300,000 metric ton buildings, might be just enough to pulverize 2 well built pieces of technology. Maybe?
Why, no. Those boxes are indestructible. They were found, in one piece and fully operational, and spirited off, under cover of darkness, to Dick Cheney's basement, where they are to this day. Didn't you know that?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 11:52 am to Ace Midnight
quote:And yet a paper passport made it through all that, in near pristine condition, helping to identify one of the "terrorists" on board.
Therefore, while designed to sustain a crash and fire (again 93 and 77's did), perhaps it isn't all that shocking to imagine the fire (potential energy of roughly half a megaton of explosives from the aircraft) and force of the collapse of 2 ~300,000 metric ton buildings, might be just enough to pulverize 2 well built pieces of technology. Maybe?
Posted on 9/11/14 at 1:36 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:
We worked for weeks at that site. These were 100+ story office buildings, full of desks, filing cabinets, computers, and so forth. The biggest piece of debris I found, other than part of the building itself, was part of the keypad from a phone (holding fingers about 2 inches apart.)
Therefore, while designed to sustain a crash and fire (again 93 and 77's did), perhaps it isn't all that shocking to imagine the fire (potential energy of roughly half a megaton of explosives from the aircraft) and force of the collapse of 2 ~300,000 metric ton buildings, might be just enough to pulverize 2 well built pieces of technology. Maybe?
Probably. More likely than not. Smashed into bits of lost debris.
OR WERE THEY ???
Just kidding. Greater weight of evidence shows they were destroyed and lost.
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