- Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:58 am
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It's not that I felt it a complete waste of time- I've got a friend who is a big conspiracy enthusiast as well, and it's always good to see the other side. It just maddens me that people waste time creating this kind of nonsense to start with. The truth about the liberties our government is stealing from us is shocking enough, and tinfoil hat crap like this is nothing but a diversion from the real lies and abuse going on (hmm, almost like it was planned that way...)
The plane "vaporizing" isn't that remarkable if you stop to consider the amount of kinetic energy contained in a widebody airplane going what, at least 400 knots? All those other crashes he showed were relatively low speed. The Helios crash is the only one I recall specifically- it probably went in at about 100 knots, and it was completely empty of fuel. That speed would give it 1/16 the kinetic energy of the Pentagon plane. The Pentagon plane also had the misfortune of hitting the Pentagon, whose outer perimeter is something like 10 feet of solid masonry. Guess who wins that one? If you've ever seen a truly high speed plane crash, an utter lack of large debris is not uncommon. It's just that planes don't usually run into perpendicular virtually immovable objects while full of fuel and with the throttles pegged, so we're not used to seeing them.