Posted on 09/06/2006 7:45:51 AM PDT by Vasilli22
Good points! Again, I lived in Battery Park City (just across the street) for several years. You are right; the towers were huge - high, and "thick." The street between the towers and 7 was indeed just a crevice, as other pictures have shown.
Being on the 100th floor gave the same view as you'd get from an airplane after takeoff. There were days when "fog" obscured the tops of the towers. But it wasn't fog so much as a cloud!
These people are absolute kooks. What on Earth has happened to create this many absolute fools?
oh, BS!
I SAW it happen!!!!!
I watched it live... As people plummeted to the ground. I watch as the second plane hit, a huge fireball of exploding jet fuel. I watched as the fires raged out of control. I watched as a concerned president was told the news that we were at war. I watched as the reports came in live from the Pentagon. I watched the smoke and fire billowing from the heliport entrance. I watched as the towers fell, and people ran for their lives, those not dead or dying already.
I didn't then and don't now need an EXPERT to tell me what happened that day. I certainly don't need an anti-American lying "academic" telling me what I saw didn't happen.
They're taking a $hit on America and the 9/11 victims, and are now trying to rub our noses in it
A leading scientist is defined in the article as a lecturer in physics and/or assistant professor. This is a caricature of itself. I kept looking to see if it was Scrappleface.
It was the Joooooooooooooooooooooooos!!!
ping!
You had to go and say "bombings", didn't you? ("See! See! This guy worked there for ten years and admits that planes weren't responsible!")
Seriously though, it does seem that the more absurd beliefs require a near-total absence of familiarity with the area. It's like they watched the whole thing on a 10-inch TV and concluded that the collapses weren't that violent or even very messy.
"Fires, what fires? That's just some smoke. The jet fuel would have burned off immediately, I read where some professor said that. And #7, why, it survived the controlled demolitions of the towers and came out practically unscathed. Just look at this picture here of a tiny section of the back of #7, you can clearly see a few floors of it sticking up over the buildings behind it, and those few floors look perfectly fine to me!"
/idiocy
Now ArlKay OveRay and the elders of 'you know who' are going to take away by Jewish Banking conspiracy membership/ATM card.
Thanks, I did not know that.
In August of 2001, I went to a convention at the World Trade Center Marriott. I lived in the city, so I took the train down, but most of the attendees were from out of town and stayed at either that hotel, or at the World Financial Center Marriott down the street.
At some point during the evening of 9/11, I thought to check in with the email group for that convention, since I'd ended up meeting several of them. On the website, I saw a lot of messages like "I wonder if the Marriot is still standing" and "gee, I hope so" and I thought, are they kidding? They were all right there for an entire weekend not three weeks ago, did they NOT notice how close the hotel was to both towers?
So I typed a response to the effect of Sorry, there is absolutely NO chance that the Marriott survived, it was too close, in all likelihood it's been squashed flat (turns out I was pretty accurate), and if you're going to hope for anything, just hope that the staff and guests got out before the building was destroyed (unfortunately not all of them did).
One person replied "But it looked like the towers fell straight down", and I responded "Yes, they did fall straight down, straight down on top of the hotel and every other building around them, and they weren't made out of feathers", and some other person chimed in with "well, I know it's a slim chance, but it looked like all that stuff was just billowing down in a cascade, isn't it possible that it could all just pile up in the spaces between the buildings, and the buildings themselves will be in fairly good shape when it's all cleared away?" At that point, #7 had already come down, the local news was saying two or three others appeared likely to do the same, and I gave up trying to explain why they shouldn't go ahead and reserve the Marriott for the next year.
I gave up on the group altogether in October of that year, when it turned out that quite a few of them were (much to my surprise) peaceniks who didn't want us to do anything militarily in response. Life's too short to slum with some folks, even if you share other common interests...
LOL ... If my memory serves...wasn't the hotel actually connected to the south tower? I can only recall ever entering the place through WTC lobby. If so that would mean that there was no space between the buildings.
You're better off without dealing with that kind of nonsense. Good story though.
I know it was connected to the South tower by a little walkway, and I do mean a little one. I don't think it took 30 seconds to cover it at a Midwesterner's pace. There may have been access to the North tower as well, I don't remember it in the lobby, though. I just remember the bar. :D
But you went outdoors on the plaza side of the hotel and looked up, you'd think "Damn, we're wedged right in here between those two mammoth towers that I can't even see the tops of..."
Who could argue with that? ;D
Number of people in that group who have practical experience with doing anything other than pulling their puds: ZERO
He's a research physicist alright. Nuclear fusion. No background in structural engineering. He's also a crank looking to make a name for himself. Evidenced by the fact that he submitted his papers for peer review - to a committee of "peers" that he hand-picked from within his own 9/11 conspiracy organization-. He knows damn well he'd be a laughing stock if he ever submitted anything to an *actual engineering journal* for peer review.
A small matter of importance to conspiracy theorists. All they really care about is propagating the next Big Lie.
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc_062907.html
Well, I guess we’re still waiting. However I did find the phrase ‘hypothetical blast’ and the context in which it was used in the above quite interesting.
Well, Professor, if the powers that be within the U.S. Government actually killed 3,000 fellow Americans, wouldn't it be logical for them to kill an additional 75 academics to keep the atrocity quiet?
Sleep tight ..... or with the fishes.
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