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Originally posted by GrinchNoMore
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by L00kingGlass
Oh, dear.
You show the famous photo of beams that were cut as part of the clean-up?? Weeks later?
Sorry, but this is very well de-bunked, already.....and not "evidence" of a "thermite" charge of any sort. But now, we are jumping to C-4 or Semtex charges.....(also having NO evidence in the debris).....
....and of course, there is no sonic, nor visual evidence of these "C-4" or "Semtex" charges, either.edit on Tue 14 February 2012 by ProudBird because: (no reason given)
So they cut it with thermite or something like that WEEKS AFTER ?? You do not get metal dripping like that, not even from a plasma torch.
The thermites are characterized by almost complete absence of gas production during burning, high reaction temperature, and production of molten slag.
On 4 August 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.[1] Known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, this event spawned the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 7 August 1964, ultimately leading to open war between North Vietnam and the United States. It furthermore foreshadowed the major escalation of the Vietnam War in South Vietnam, which began with the landing of US regular combat troops at Da Nang in 1965.
“It was just confusion, and events afterwards showed that our judgment that we’d been attacked that day was wrong. It didn’t happen.” ~ Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in 1964
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by L00kingGlass
The entire fantasy of a "thermite" conflagration, in the huge WTC Towers, is just devoid of any facts or evidence, whatsoever.
No way for it to have been "installed" or "planted"...undetected by the maintenance people, nor the tenants in the buildings.
How Could They Plant Bombs in the World Trade Center?
The recent New York Times article on 9/11 implies that controlled demolition of the Twin Towers would have been impossible, because no one could have snuck in all of the explosive equipment.
I, and many others, have previously addressed this issue. I am re-posting this essay in light of the Times' hit piece on this issue.
How Could They Plant Bombs in the World Trade Center?
Recently, a smart, accomplished person told me:
"I don't believe that the World Trade Center could have been destroyed by controlled demolition . . . how could they have possibly planted bombs without anyone seeing them?"
In fact, there were plenty of opportunities to plant bombs in the World Trade Center. For example:
Bomb-sniffing dogs were inexplicably removed from the Twin Towers five days before 9-11
The Twin Towers had been evacuated a number of times in the weeks preceding 9/11
There was a power down in the Twin Towers on the weekend before 9/11, security cameras were shut down, and many workers ran around busily doing things unobserved.
And -- as an interesting coincidence -- a Bush-linked company ran security at the trade centers, thus giving it free reign to the buildings.
These are just a few of the known, public examples of opportunities to plant bombs. There were undoubtedly many additional opportunities available to skilled operatives."
In addition to these facts, demolition and building collapse experts have purportedly raised the possibility of "explosive tenants" -- i.e. tenants in the World Trade Centers who planted bombs in their own, rented space. For example, according to Webster Tarpley and others, Hugo Bachmann, professor emeritus of building dynamics and earthquake engineering at the world-famous Swiss Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich:
“In the second scenario, an additional terrorist action would have caused the collapse of the buildings. In this way, according to Bachmann, buildings like the World Trade center can be destroyed without great logistical exertion.” The article went on to say that “Bachmann could imagine that the perpetrators had installed explosives on key supports in a lower floor before the attack.” If the perpetrators had rented office space, then these “explosive tenants” could have calmly placed explosive charges on the vulnerable parts of the building “without having anyone notice.”
Originally posted by TheLieWeLive
Just the other day a friend tried to sell me on the occult sacrifice side to the story.
What does ATS think?
1. The Pentagon, on impact, was a flaming pentagram.
2. The two WTC towers could also be symbology of the Solomon columns.
3. World Trade Center building 7 which later fell the same day is also known as the Salomon building.
Now was it some kind of religious sacrifice I don't claim to know. Just something I never put together before. Some weird similarities you have to admit.
edit on 13-2-2012 by TheLieWeLive because: corrected salomon building spelling. Thanks Alfie1.
Originally posted by DeadSeraph
Originally posted by L00kingGlass
reply to post by DeadSeraph
So just make up bs stories to make it seem more plausible? Who's really doing the damage here?
Anyway, I'm done arguing the details of the incident. We already know planned criminal activity occurred that day, all this conjecture and speculation on what the planes were, who was in them, and what they had for breakfast that morning is besides the point.
I'm not suggesting ANYONE should make up BS stories. I'm suggesting you should consider the evidence and use logic to toss out ideas that...wait for it... AREN'T LOGICAL. Like remote controlled airliners. Have you considered any of the points I've made? Even if 9/11 WAS an inside job (and I believe it was), WHY would the government need to disappear 4 air liners full of people, and use remote controlled planes to ram them into the towers? There's no *need* for it if they intend to kill americans ANYWAYS to further an agenda. Think about it...
Originally posted by DeadSeraph
Originally posted by L00kingGlass
Originally posted by DeadSeraph
Originally posted by L00kingGlass
I'm not really sure how this is even debatable any longer. Just too many bizarre occurrences and convenient coincidences which cannot be sufficiently explained away. It's pointless to get into a point by point analysis of the event, as every detail of the case is extremely suspicious, and the collapse itself implausible after a plane hit. And more evidence keeps piling up, a veritable mountain of it.
911 certainly was a planned and carefully orchestrated attack on America by corrupt elements within the US government and possibly media. Anyone arguing otherwise is either delusional or complicit. It's as simple as that.
The former "CIA asset" explained that this act was done by only a small handful of individuals, these people must wield immense power and influence. Someone at the very top of the chain using compartmentalization to keep things under wraps. All it would take is the heads of several governmental departments, and a civilian or two.
The only question I have is what actually happened to the people on those planes after they landed at the military installation...
It makes me sick to my stomach that people that we're supposed to trust are involved in the senseless deaths of all those innocent people to further a globalist/Middle East agenda. And those pieces of garbage are still out there somewhere getting away with one of the most heinous crimes in history.edit on 14-2-2012 by L00kingGlass because: (no reason given)
How can anyone suggest the planes didn't have passengers on them? Why is this even necessary? There is ample evidence to suggest something shady happened at the highest levels of the U.S government without the need to resort to crazy theories of remotely controlled planes, missing passengers, laser beams, holograms, etc.
All that sort of thing does is detract from the issue at hand and set up a perfectly well built straw man for skeptics and government apologists to knock down. In the end, it could be as simple as the hijackers being exactly who the U.S gov. SAID they were, and they were simply guided and handled by government elements, and the attack was allowed to happen to provide a pretext for foreign wars and draconian laws. There isn't even a need for crazy theories. A comprehensive look at the evidence is all that is required to conclude the events of that day were the result of gross (or even complicit) negligence at best.
Sorry, but if people are remote controlling drone strikes from Virgina, there's absolutely no reason why someone couldn't do the same with a larger aircraft.edit on 14-2-2012 by L00kingGlass because: (no reason given)
The question is why would they even need to?
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by VoidHawk
This is so bad......it is utter nonsense....and only invented by someone who knows not of which they speak:
Any plane that has Autopilot (they did) is already rigged for remote control because even if auto pilot only keeps you on a straight course it does so by CONTROLING THE PLAIN!!!
A laptop and a few servo's could be fitted wihin a couple of hours. Job done.
Those who are not pilots make up the most incredible stories....
.....now, just to be absolutely clear.....there are things recorded on the FDRs (Flight Data Recorders) that are recovered and were readable, from American 77 and United 93. These are clearly showing certain items in the cockpit that can ONLY change by being manipulated by hand.
There are a lot of examples.....one being the simple re-tuning of a Nav radio frequency, for instance. There is "Auto-tuning", and there is a selection where you can manually change the frequencies.
Many more examples....and of course.....the AutoPilots show when they were connected, and more importantly, DISCONNECTED, also on the FDR.
These are the facts.
The rest is incredibly silly speculation that is far, far from reality.
Originally posted by TimesUp
PoudBird [sic], are you that dense?
Originally posted by djmarcone
The people who are so adamant that the official explanation is true haven't been debating that jet fuel CAN melt steel, have they?
Originally posted by snowcrash911
Originally posted by TimesUp
PoudBird [sic], are you that dense?
Sticking up for Proudbird: Why would you insinuate that?
At least he's actually looked at the FDR data (so have I) instead of promoting speculation as fact.
The autopilot and autothrottle were switched off for the last eight minutes of AA 77's flight.
The erratic piloting evident from the jerky control inputs suggests a human at the controls, not remote control.
Originally posted by TimesUp
Originally posted by snowcrash911
Originally posted by TimesUp
PoudBird [sic], are you that dense?
Sticking up for Proudbird: Why would you insinuate that?
At least he's actually looked at the FDR data (so have I) instead of promoting speculation as fact.
The autopilot and autothrottle were switched off for the last eight minutes of AA 77's flight.
The erratic piloting evident from the jerky control inputs suggests a human at the controls, not remote control.
Who told you the autothrottle was turned off, Fox News? Maybe CNN? Or the officially groomed FDR data report released as an update at some point during 9/11 month on FOXCNNMSNBCETC?
I'm still not un-convinced.
It was wrong to call ProudBird dense, but it can sometimes be very infuriating, dealing with (in my opinion) obstinate voices that continue to cause damage through, what I believe to be misguided information.
Global Hawk Clearly was operational and could perform any maneuver, even maneuvers that would seem almost impossible with a real pilot.
Show me a link to the erratic plane behavior and I will probably argue that it was all part of the script. You know, it's the little things count.