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Originally posted by weedwhacker
It is what happens in crashes. It is chaotic. Items of low mass can be affected in very, very different ways than more compact, dense massive ones.
Really....this is not a secret, the information is everywhere, if one cares to look, instead of scoffing.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Lillydale
No....the Flight recorders do NOT 'always survive', nor are they 'always recovered'.
I already put everything in my long post, scroll up.
If one chooses not to read it, or chooses to reject logic in favour of nonsense, then there's nothing that can be done about that.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
It appears you aren't fully taking into account the MASS of the buildings, and the energies involved.
I see that there also seems to be the misconception that the Recorders are somehow completely impervious to desturction:
...'lost' devices that are specifically designed to be recoverable no matter what the circumstance.
No, they will not survive "no matter what the circumstance." That is an impossible goal. They are designed to survive what has been shown, historically, to be recorded from previous accident investigations.
They can withstand incredible amounts of G-force. Being solid state today, they will survive a lot of abuse....but immense crushing under hundreds of tons of hot debris? The metal casings are unlkely to survive that, intact. They were involved in a very intense fire, for a very long time. Longer than most airpalne accident fires burn, because there was so much additional material, in the buildings, to contribute to the blazes.
...the DNA of EVERY TERRORIST could survive...
Isn't it painfully obvious that in absence of a DNA match with any known crew or passenger or firefighter or office worker from the building...that by process of elimination that DNA must have bbelonged to a terrorist?
I don't see why that's a difficult concept to grasp.
Five years after the 9/11 attacks, technicians in the New York City medical examiner's office have identified about half of nearly 21,000 body parts recovered near the site of the World Trade Center.
Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the office, says work has been complicated by the discovery in the past year of 760 fragments of remains in a nearby office building being prepared for demolition. One set of remains was matched to a 9/11 victim this year.
Seven years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the remains of 13 of the 19 men responsible have been identified and are in the custody of the F.B.I. and the New York City medical examiner’s office.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Isn't it painfully obvious that in absence of a DNA match with any known crew or passenger or firefighter or office worker from the building...that by process of elimination that DNA must have bbelonged to a terrorist?
I don't see why that's a difficult concept to grasp.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by jam321
Back to the word of the day: No. I do not know, nor understand the motives behind this man's claims about a "hijacking' of American Flight 11 before takeoff. It is patently absurd to believe it true in any way.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by truthquest
Back to the claim though, it seems ridiculous that the hijackers would be allowed to take off after entering the cockpit.
This will turn out to be just another in a long line of steaming piles of moose droppings.
This is ludicrous from the get-go, it is so outrageous it doesn't even bear examination.
There is NO WAY this is true. Absolutely not. Zero possiblity.
Then they had a list of every tourist, visitor, and client in the buildings that day and were able to gather a sample of each and every person so they had a pool from which to use this process of elimination?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Lillydale
Honest, this isn't really about DNA, not here. Lilly, this is a common tactic, displayed repeatedly. Why not move it over to a thread specfic to DNA???
Isn't it painfully obvious that in absence of a DNA match with any known crew or passenger or firefighter or office worker from the building...that by process of elimination that DNA must have bbelonged to a terrorist? I don't see why that's a difficult concept to grasp.
Missing Bodies
More Than 1000 Bodies Are Unaccounted for
The number of people believed to have been killed in the World Trade Center attack hovers around 2,780, three years after the attack. 1 2 No trace has been identified for about half the victims, despite the use of advanced DNA techniques to identify individuals. Six weeks after the attack only 425 people had been identified. 3
A year after the attack, only half of the victims had been identified. 19,906 remains were recovered from Ground Zero, 4,735 of which were identified. Up to 200 remains were linked to a single person. 4 Of the 1,401 people identified, 673 of the IDs were based on DNA alone. Only 293 intact bodies were found. Only twelve could be identified by sight. 5
The aircraft impacts and fires in all probability would not have destroyed a single body beyond positive identification. Nor have building collapses ever been known to destroy human remains beyond recognition. However, the buildings were destroyed in a manner that converted most of their non-metallic contents to homogeneous dust, including the bodies. This destruction of the bodies assured that no exact determination could ever be made regarding who was piloting the jets at impact, and the condition of the people on board.
This is one of many examples in which evidence which could either confirm or refute the official story was destroyed. For example, a finding that the people onboard Flights 11 and 175 had been killed by some means before reaching the Towers would undermine the official story of multiple hijackings. The effective cremation of the bodies eliminated most of the evidence that would support such a finding.
Human Remains Discovered in 2006
About a year after the official program to identify victims had ended, more human remains turned up on top of the Deutsche Bank Building, which stands about 400 feet to the south of the location of the former South Tower. According to the Associated Press, more than 300 human bone fragments were recovered from the roof of the 43-story skyscraper as workers removed toxic debris in preparation for a floor-by-floor take-down of the building. Most of the fragments were less then 1/16th inch in length and were found in gravel raked to the sides of the roof of the building. The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation purchased the building and is planning to begin its deconstruction in June, after removal of toxic waste -- including asbestos, lead, and other materials deposited on it by the destruction of the Twin Towers.
Some victims' family members, indignant that the human remains in the Deutsche Bank remained undiscovered for so long, said that the planed deconstruction should be postponed until the building is thoroughly searched for other remains. According to the New York Daily News, as of the second week of April, 2006, 1,151 of the 2,749 people killed in the attack have not been identified, and the medical examiner holds more than 9,000 unidentified human remains.
Honest, this isn't really about DNA, not here. Lilly, this is a common tactic, displayed repeatedly. Why not move it over to a thread specfic to DNA???
Then they had a list of every tourist, visitor, and client in the buildings that day and were able to gather a sample of each and every person so they had a pool from which to use this process of elimination?
But, before you go, consider taking this thought with you:
A little bit of research into the actual methods, techniques, and science of DNA collecting, matching and forensics might be worthwhile study subject.
Just sayin'.....
Oh, and just for a hint: Let's say (and glad this is probably not the case) that you personally knew a visitor, tourist or client that was in o ne of the Towers that morning, and was never seen again. Is it fair to then assume that perhaps that individual might have been a victim in the collapse of the building? Is it not obvious that the individual would have personal items in his/her bathroom, bedroom, car...whatever...from which a representative DNA sample could be isolated, for a hope of a match at some time in the future???
Over simplified, but isn't that the basis of how DNA works, in such cases???
According to the New York Daily News, as of the second week of April, 2006, 1,151 of the 2,749 people killed in the attack have not been identified, and the medical examiner holds more than 9,000 unidentified human remains.