The thing about these ridiculous conspiracy theory questions is that most of them have logical explanations when the pyramid of false assertions are debunked. Brad has pointed one of these out already.
Three of them, just for example.
Question: Why didn't the pilots aim lower?
Answer: Because the towers were surrounded by relatively tall buildings on most sides and a jet airplane is not a helicopter.
Question: How did the fire get so hot that it melted the steel supports?
Answer: The steel didn't melt. All the fire had to do was be hot enough for a long enough period of time to alter the strucural strength of the steel so that it gave way.
Question: Where did all the rubble go?
Answer: Anyone who has ever witnessed a tall building being imploded by a professional demolition crew will have seen exactly the same outcome--a mountain of granulated rubble and tons of dust sent for 20-30 blocks with inches of it in the first few blocks. I saw a large building imploded in Detroit and then walked the area. Same thing as the twin towers.
There are an infinite number of "interesting" questions raised by conspiracist theories. Almost all of them are actually based on false assumptions. All of them are a waste of time.
Capitalism and imperialsim are not secret conspiracies. If you think they are, join a militia list where you can obsess about the Freemasons.
:-)
-Chip
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 3:04 PM Subject: RE: Osama, September 11, London, Illuminati
> >At 01:48 PM 11/18/01 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >>Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
> >>
> >>>While we're in X-Files mode here's a chain of improbability nobody
> >>>seems to have noticed. Looks like Allah was at the controls of 77,
> >>>and God was
> >>>protecting the Pentagon.
> >>
> >>What kind of point are you trying to make here? That someone else
> >>was at the controls? A CIA pilot maybe? Someone financed by Unocal?
> >>You read like your filing dispatches from Eliot & Angleton's
> >>wilderness of mirrors.
> >>
> >>Doug
> >
> >
> >well, it's interesting isn't it? if it's true, then it's probably
> >likely the identities of the men accused of S11 were forged. big
> >deal. there were reports of a lot of identity theft/mistaken
> >identity at one point. seems like a smart thing to do. have some
> >cell members take flying lessons, etc. have another set of cell
> >members do the deed, posing as the ones who took flying lessons.
> >those who took flying lessons go underground, leave the US, etc.
> >
> >this is interesting... came across Phil Agre's Redrock Eater News Service:
>
>
> I have gotten a bunch of things from structural engineers, who are
> arguing about exactly what happened. But none of them seems (after
> the fact) very surprised that the heat weakened the steel enough to
> start the collapse...
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>