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Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Originally posted by Pilgrum
the alleged Boeing
So this means you are not sure that a Boeing hit the Pentagon?
Originally posted by Pilgrum
Just trying to display a hint of skepticism because I knew you'd be watching
Originally posted by weedwhacker
NOT a mission I would sign up for, not a mission that I think any normal, feeling human being could keep silent about.
I have a hard time understanding why a reasonable, normal human being, even if in the Military, would let this be a 'false-flag'....
Originally posted by Pilgrum
Originally posted by mlmijyd
Lets see you debunk the photo that has windows intact above the impact point!
Is there a definite conspiracy surrounding windows that didn't get hit by anything not breaking?
Those were extra strong toughened glass windows (I don't have the specs on hand but it's been covered numerous times) and plenty of them in the impact zone below failed to survive when struck by parts of the alleged Boeing as shown in the same picture.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
ULTIMA, I'd really like to know, then, what actually happened to AA77.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Originally posted by Pilgrum
Just trying to display a hint of skepticism because I knew you'd be watching
Sounds more like you do not have proof of flight 77 hitting the Pentagon.
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
Except, of course, for the thousands of eyewitness, dead bodies, airplane debris scattered over acres of land, flight data recorders, radar returns,
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
that were specifically designed to be hardened to external forces? You do realize that the Pentagon is a HUGE building and you don't have a grasp of scale?
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
reply to post by shiman
Yep, Google something, open MS paint, form an opinion and state it as fact. Of course, you have no idea what you’re actually talking about, but what does actual knowledge matter? This is the internet and I made a post, so it must be true and 9-11 was an inside job!
Thank you so much for highlighting, again, the ridiculous nature of the so-called "truth" movement.
No fire truck spray? You mean the fire-resistant, white foam that is all over the wall and windows?
You do realize this picture isn't centered on the impact area, right? You do realize that the outer windows were specifically designed to resist explosions; that were specifically designed to be hardened to external forces? You do realize that the Pentagon is a HUGE building and you don't have a grasp of scale? You do realize the Pentagon’s very design (the walls) were designed with resisting (not impervious) outside attack?
Of course you don't understand - nor care - about those facts. As a member of the so-called "truth" movement you don't concern yourself with "irrelevant details".
After all, you're not concerned with the truth, nor 9-11.
[edit on 5-4-2008 by SlightlyAbovePar]
Originally posted by weedwhacker
I'd like to know, from ULTIMA and shiman, if you've ever physically visited Washington DC and seen the Pentagon with your own eyes?
I see ULTIMA lives in PA...and shiman in CA.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
So if the building was so huge and hardened how did a airframe made of thin aluminum get through the wall, hardened collumns and internal walls?
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
reply to post by shiman
I'm quite calm.
I don't claim to know it all and conversely, I don't make cursory Google searches and delude myself into thinking I am doing "research". All I did was expose your post for what it is. You might not like my characterization but, it's spot on.
I am absolutely biased. I think the so-called truth movement is an utter sham perpetuated by fear pimps who (critical to me) knowingly propagate miss-information in their own self interest. My admitted bias is used as a disqualifier by the “truth” movement because it’s easier to discuss me, than it is to discuss the issue at hand. Keep in mind, I freely admit my bias.
My beef isn't with you personally. It's with the nonsense that makes up the so-called "truth" movement. IMO, your post is a classic representation of truther thinking. That is, a cursory knowledge of the factors involved, a dismissive view towards details and representing opinions as facts.
For the life of me I can't fathom how the "truth" movement claims to be after so-called truth when their own pet theories require an absolute dismissal of the massive evidence that does not support 9-11 being an inside job. Is there some evidence that supports a conspiracy? Of course there is! There is always going to be the “unexplained”. If this evidence was all there was, they would have a strong case.
The problem is, it isn’t. In order to “buy into” the so-called truth movement, one must selectively look at very fine data points. Why? Because if you (the royal you) look at all of the evidence, the idea of a conspiracy becomes (IMO) completely absurd.
That factor is critical in my dismissal of the so-called ‘truth’ movement. Their own attitude precludes any understanding of actual truth. Anyone being intellectually honest has to give ground somewhere. Truthers never give ground on anything. No matter how ridiculous the idea, they will support it, discuss it, promote it and call you a debunker for being skeptical. Mini-nukes? Holographic illusions? Off-loading three planes worth of people and presumably marching them off to their deaths? Doppler sound effects to mask missile sounds? Explosive “pods” attached to the undersides of the airliners? A staged crash site in Pennsylvania? A world-wide fake feed of live events to presumably to “cover-up” what was really happening. And these are but a few of the ridiculous assertions discussed in all sincerity by so-called ‘truthers’.
Ultima:
The answer to your question is widely available and easily disseminated – if you’re at all interested in knowing what that answer is. Most truthers aren’t because it’s another piece of the massive pie that indicates 9-11 was not an inside job.
The answer to your question: mass, velocity & rigidity. Basically, the wings folded back into/onto the main body of the aircraft as it entered the building. The walls are very strong, the aircraft was moving very quickly and the wing root simply did not have enough structural rigidity to overcome the superior strength of the building itself. That is, the wings snapped backwards and folded into the main body of the aircraft as the wing roots started to penetrate the building. The body of the aircraft became more of a liquid (in so far as the two materials relate to each other during the impact) made up of fuel, aircraft pieces, bodies, office furniture, etc. which “flowed” more than it ‘punched’ through. This liquid-like state was produced by the massive forces involved. The mass contained the energy of the impact and transferred that energy to the structure. I am not an engineer and I relay this to you as a laymen. Don’t believe me. Do your own research. Read the actual reports. Study them in your free time and form opinions based on all of the research that has gone on.
This is corroborated by eyewitnesses, structural engineers, aerospace engineers and exhaustive research all publicly available for review.
[edit on 6-4-2008 by SlightlyAbovePar]