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To: codebreaker
Ohh, have mercy! Thank God they didn't release the entire video of the plane smashing into the Pentagon! My faint American heart wouldn't be able to stand it! I can hardly stomach these DoD stills of the explosion, as it is. I'm feeling faint now. Must lay down.
263 posted on 03/07/2002 11:35:39 PM PST by buzzcat
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To: buzzcat
"Thank God they didn't release the entire video of the plane smashing into the Pentagon!"

As a matter of fact, the sequence shown IS the entire video. The plane was going too fast to be photographed between frames. The video surveillance camera apparently takes about 100 pictures a second, if these five sequential pictures were taken in 4/100ths of a second, according to the story.

The first frame shows no plane crash; the second frame, taken at about 1/100th of a second later, shows the explosion.

So the plane traversed the entire field of view of the camera between the first and second frames in less than 1/100th of a second.

This does not seem possible. I tend to think that the story is in error and the camera possibly takes only 60 pictures a minute (one per second). This would leave a full second for the plane to cross the entire field of view without being photographed. I' m not sure at what speed the plane would have to be flying to accomplish that.

300 posted on 03/08/2002 10:31:36 AM PST by Eastbound
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