Friction (Edit: and possibly the nose ribs too, see http://www.flight-mechanic.com/wp-co...17/07/1-23.jpg). The wings move towards the plane as it penetrates and the wings don't, at least for as long as they remain connected to the plane (because the fuselage would pull them). That explains the inwards bowing of the steel columns.

I remember this gem. The wrongest thing ever written in the last decade (Possibly of any decade)

A burden that has been met multiple times, in spades.

https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

Nope. "The lightly damaged cladding and the sharply bent steel at the left of both impact holes" are simply proof that you don't understand the first thing about aircraft engineering and construction, and the way the towers were built.

FTFY

This has been explained to you by other posters and myself. You simply handwaved it away, dismissing it out of hand, so there isn't much point restating it.

You are wrong, you just don't know it, and won't accept it.

In spades. ;)

You sure have.

Occam is truely dead

I agree.

In Mexico, there is a saying to the effect of "there as many kinds of truth as there are kinds of bananas." I have used this sentence to describe how one's culture affects your perception. An American typically has only seen one kind of banana, and might interpret that phrase literally as saying there is one type of truth. The Truth^TM. A Mexican might know several kinds of bananas, and also several kinds of truth. Depends on your point of view.

So I posit that Occam's Razor was killed by Gillette, with 6 blades and lubrication strips for your sensitive skin. I know that it's not literally "razor" but those conspiracy charts with all of the arrows vs. a straight line to the truth makes me think that this works.

I used to ride with guys who were at the Pentagon on 9/11/2001, pulling pieces of airliner and airline passenger out of the building. I literally trusted them with my life. You’re absolutely delusional.

Maybe you’d like to turn the page and start a thread about your Apollo “hoax” beliefs? That would be amusing. I promise I’d come play.

This trainwreck of logic rolls like the classic example of conspiraziods - residential house fire with a fatality. Fire Marshall does their job, ME does likewise.

Final report lists electrical short as cause of fire, smoke inhalation as cause of death.

Enter the conspirazoid - "did you investigate the possibility of spontaneous human combustion? NO! conspiracy! 11!!ventry!

No planers are right in there.

As an aside. I believe that certain folks maintain membership in ISF to prevent discussion of their "theories" using the respect that they deserve.

You're right, but the conspirazoids generally don't care if you were a victim or a witness, unless you're on board with their delusional pov.

Yes I'd do that also. but facts that don't support the CT's belief;) are hand waved.

That a Giant Nomnom!

(I used to have a 33 rpm "audio book" of a children's tale with the (German) title "Der Riese Schmatzschmatz" ("Nomnom The Giant"), so named for the sounds he made while eating)

Flying Spaghetti Monster - don't ignore that Hir Noodliness is eternally Flying!

It probably needs prawns

A little preliminary research suggests that while many giants wore hats (cone shaped fabric hats being favored) many went bare headed. But remember too that one of the most famous (and, according to many, literally real) giants, Goliath, is usually pictured with a helmet, which opens up a whole new set of possibilities for just what made that hole. I call this the "headbutt" theory, much more palatable than the one in question, which I suspect has its syllables reversed.

Your sources are not very creditable. I have seen those before.

So Prager and Gage are all wrong. Got it. Thanks for clearing that up.

I haven't been paying attention. Have we looked at the Gojira theory yet?

My sources are the same videos and photos we all have at our disposal, but which Gage and Prager refuse to address. Happy to help.

I'm not sure. They'll look anywhere but at the lightly damaged cladding and the sharply bent steel columns, which by themselves prove the videos of the planes are fraudulent.

:jaw-dropp

Not to mention that as debris slows from its impacts with internal structures such as beams and supporting columns, it loses energy, while the structures it strikes retain the same amount of impact resistance. This means that as the debris moves into the building, it is more and more likely to be deflected by successive impacts against those columns. ergo, parts of the wing may well defect into different directions.

You mean the ones that you debunked as not being real, those videos?

N334AA.
N612UA.
N644AA.
N591UA.
Their crews.
Their passengers.
Their families.
The civilian ATCs.
The military.
The United States Government.
The First responders at The Pentagon.
The State of New York Government.
The PAPD.
The NYPD.
The FDNY.
The State of Pennsylvania Government.
The first responders at Shanksville.
Logan, Dulles, Newark, LAX and SFO airports.
And, of course, the Thousands upon thousands of eyewitnesses.

Tip of the iceberg, yankee. You'll need to explain these away with something quite a bit more substantial than your characteristic handwaves and snark.

Please proceed.

Just the usual suspects. Find somebody credible, please!:D

I borrowed one of the more advanced books from a 9/11 truther's library and the answer is "No". Reference.

This fully explains why no hat was found. Slam dunk. What more proof do you need, people? It was clearly a fire-breathing giant who did it.

Why didn't "they" just put whatever bombs in the towers, blow them up, blame it on "terrorists"? Who would doubt it? They would get their wars etc?

What conspiracy people seem to do is come up with impossibly complex "shows" to explain what would be the event to start the war on terrorism and the invasions in the ME.

Terrorists had been known to use bombs for more than half a century. "They" didn't need to what Steve or Gage or others claim they did.... especially claiming that the planes were an illusion.

(Shrug) It's the kind of plot you come up with when you reverse-engineer history with no regard for the limits of reality. CTists like yankee aren't skeptics who honestly question the "official story" from a standpoint of doubt, they're ideologues who simply reject it in toto from a starting point of denial. Nothing wrong with ideology, or ideals; but it would be nice if the facts would determine the ideals rather than having the ideology define the facts.

Too dull. To be a truly special CTist you have to propose something outlandish or, ideally, utterly ridiculous. That way the ol' self-regard is maximised. Space beams, missiles, holograms all fit that bill much better than boring old real planes plus thermite.

This is a point that can't be stressed enough. Let's just say the government WAS responsible for 9/11. If they achieved it the way that Yankee describes, they literally went for the highest-risk, lowest reward method to do so. If you just went the traditional bomb route, you'd actually have more deaths (no time to evacuate), you could involve A LOT less people, and the precedent to attempt to bomb the WTC was already there from 1993, so it's a very plausible story.

But no, they had to use 2001's version of photo shop, bribe lord knows how many police, firefighters, investigators, et al at not only Ground Zero, but apparently at the Pentagon as well. They had the risk of the tv stations screwing up showing the doctored footage at the wrong time...I mean literally so many things could go wrong.

The government couldn't even keep the Pat Tillman friendly fire fiasco, just a couple of years later, under wraps. This was in another country, not one of the biggest cities in the world, with next to no media. And literally only a handful of people knew the truth. And they STILL couldn't pull that conspiracy off.

Maybe... but this would show the FACT that those with these "theories" have mental issues and problems with telling reality from fantasy.

I have met and spoken with some truthers and they APPEAR to be intelligent and rational. But something is not right in them they can't see the absurdity of their theories. They manage to do some sort of mental gymnastics... ,perhaps cognitive dissonance?

"In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, or participates in an action that goes against one of these three, and experiences psychological stress because of that. When two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people will do all in their power to change them until they become consistent.[1] The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new evidence (facts) perceived, wherein they will try to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.[2][1]"

No amount of logic, facts or reasoning will change their minds/thinking. Most in fact avoid the facts which undermine their fantasies. However we do see some try to actually convince people.. Steve Da'ak, Gage, Jones, Harrit and all the other familiar names. What they manage to do is "fool" susceptible people.

911 Truth exhibits cult-like attributes. Of course those in cults refuse to see this and deny it when shown to them.

++++

So what to do? Point people to the rational thinking and hope they will open their minds to it. Waste of time to debate them.... They LIKE to be debated and it gives their idea a semblance of credibility and stature. WASTE OF TIME

IGNORE TRUTHERS

It was Mothra. I have irrefutable photographic evidence.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...3df32905de.jpg

Looks shopped to me. It's a very subtle mistake, but I think you'll find the light poles nearby are the wrong design for that to be the real Pentagon.

Anyway, everyone knows in 2001 Mothra was killed (again) defending Yokohama from Godzilla. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzil...All-Out_Attack

It's like they say; when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, includes a fire breathing giant.

Wow...another wasted life

It’s like the Apollo hoax believers who claimed NASA blew up Challenger to prevent Christa McAuliffe from saying you can see stars in space. Yes, let’s bump her off in the most conspicuous and wasteful way imaginable... to prevent her from saying something astronauts have been saying for decades.

Just like the OP fantasy, it has the perfect CT appeal - it’s both cartoonishly overwrought and completely pointless.

When Bill Clinton was porking Monica Lewinsky, they were the only two who knew about it, yet somehow, word got out that POTUS was banging a White House intern.

The video from cameras installed in the closet haven't been released, YET. ;)

The bigger the lie the more likely it will be believed. In your case though, this is just too darned big!

Your incredulity doesn't change the evidence that proves the videos of the planes are fake.

No... the bigger the lie more likely it will be believed.... that is a Nazi propaganda technique and is not true... though repeating a lie for idiots can seem like the truth.

They were referring to British propaganda.