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World Trade Center 'surfer' struggles to comprehend his survival 20 years later
Yahoo News! ^ | Mon, September 6, 2021 | Tori Richards

Posted on 09/07/2021 11:19:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: BenLurkin

That time of day, the right side (your left) of the plane should have more shadowing, especially the vertical stabilizer. Notice the dark street directly below the nose of the a/c. I realize that the buildings are much taller than the tail of the plane. The shiny part of the engine intakes is directly at the bottom, when it should be at about “7:30” when viewing the intakes like a clock face.


41 posted on 09/07/2021 12:13:36 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: SlipperySlope99

jeeeeezz, everybody need to google/wiki ‘tourist guy’ and get this over with .


42 posted on 09/07/2021 12:14:46 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd ((>> ☼ << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if s/he's white?")
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To: AppyPappy
No one put bombs in the building.

Trump never said they did, but he posed the question. He also mentioned that the Towers withstood the 1993 bombing from it's foundation, and the foundation is the most vulnerable part of the building.

If the Towers can withstand a bomb directly at its base, then how can planes themselves bring them both down?

43 posted on 09/07/2021 12:15:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: SlipperySlope99

Yes. I figured that out too late


44 posted on 09/07/2021 12:18:05 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: BenLurkin

t’s real. He’s the one who took this picture. Sadly, his friend didn’t make it.
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I hope to God you forgot to put the sarcasm tag after your stupid post.


45 posted on 09/07/2021 12:18:55 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The bomb was relatively small. The planes were huge AND made a big bunch of fire.


46 posted on 09/07/2021 12:20:05 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, I know it’s fake. Was trying to make a little joke.
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Excellent. Guess I should have read the whole thread before mouthing off. Sorry.


47 posted on 09/07/2021 12:21:56 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: God luvs America
Yes. I figured that out too late

It's probably the first time in 15 years I thought about tourist guy, so I don't blame you for not knowing.
48 posted on 09/07/2021 12:22:13 PM PDT by SlipperySlope99
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To: sunny bonobo
"May your next ski trip include schussing through the woods...."
49 posted on 09/07/2021 12:22:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: discostu
The bomb was relatively small.

It was literally the same size as the truck bomb that destroyed the Murrah building in OKC.

50 posted on 09/07/2021 12:22:35 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: AppyPappy

“That’s lunacy. No one put bombs in the building.”

Good thing you are wired in!


51 posted on 09/07/2021 12:24:24 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: fwdude

“There are all kinds of fake stories out there.”

And how, Wally!


52 posted on 09/07/2021 12:25:49 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: God luvs America

You, my friend, are one of the few here, who knows the proper usage of TOO! TY!


53 posted on 09/07/2021 12:27:41 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

And literally dozens of them would have fit in those planes. And the WTC was dozens of times bigger than the Murrah building. And that bomb didn’t actually destroy the Murrah building, it managed to take out one or two supports and led to a partial collapse. The planes blew out multiple floors of both towers, WAY more explosive force than the truck. But even that wasn’t enough to take out the supports. It wasn’t until the first started weakening the trusses. Once the trusses started going the buildings were doomed, because then the entire weight of the building above the fire landed on the next set of trusses, breaking them, repeat.

Really, all of this was discussed quite thoroughly 20 years ago. It’s all pretty well known.


54 posted on 09/07/2021 12:32:57 PM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu
"Really, all of this was discussed quite thoroughly 20 years ago. It’s all pretty well known."

Yes, but then that doesn't allow for looney conspiracy theories to be generated to pin blame on said looney's pet focus-of-hate.
55 posted on 09/07/2021 12:40:45 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Cui bono?


56 posted on 09/07/2021 12:41:26 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus (Jesus, Rex Universalis)
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To: nickcarraway

I thought this was apocryphal?


57 posted on 09/07/2021 12:42:10 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: hoe_cake
I don’t understand the ‘surfing’ reference. Like he ‘rode down concrete’. I can’t picture this.

He surfed out on Brian Williams back.

58 posted on 09/07/2021 12:42:39 PM PDT by OSHA
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To: nickcarraway
FWIW, here's what it took to take down Detroit's Hudson building which was 25 stories tall back in 1998:

CDI’s 12 person loading crew took twenty-four days to place 4,118 separate charges in 1,100 locations on columns on nine levels of the complex. Over 36,000 ft of detonating cord and 4,512 non-electric delay elements were installed in CDI’s implosion initiation system, some to create the 36 primary implosion sequence and another 216 micro-delays to keep down the detonation overpressure from the 2,728 lb of explosives which would be detonated during the demolition.

59 posted on 09/07/2021 12:48:12 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
What if the Truthers and all the people we mocked in the 2000s were right?

They were not and are not right. The wing span plus body of those aircraft was almost as wide as the buildings. Slamming into the towers at maximum possible speed, they were like missiles with a very wide wingspan. In simple terms, they decapitated the buildings. Once the planes hit, it was inevitable that the buildings would collapse. The wonder is not that they did, but that they stood up for so long before finally falling. The strength of those buildings is what saved many thousands of lives that day. The only people who could not get out were those trapped above the impact zones in each building.

60 posted on 09/07/2021 12:49:02 PM PDT by Avalon Memories (Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...)
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