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Or maybe aliens do control our government.

What hit the two buildings were alien missiles which had some kind of adaptive camouflage to make them look like planes.

It's preposterous I know, but that's what they want you to think.

Reply #150 Posted: May 16, 2010, 12:54:33 pm

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So how DID they do it then?


MAYBE

when FBI agent Ken Williams filed his report that Muslims were having flight training http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0412042phoenix1.html, it didn't get ignored as claimed by the FBI, it was actually followed up. 2 flight schools go on record to say that indeed the FBI had been asking questions about some of the hijackers. http://www.prisonplanet.com/fbi_knew_terrorists_using_flight_schools.html.

So for the sake of my argument lets say that happened. The FBI look into it and that there might be a plot to use aircraft's as a missile. They go to the CIA, as it involves foreign nationals and they do their thing and uncover the plot.

Now the CIA would report to Cheney and he thinks, cool, this is the Pearl Harbour that we have been looking for. We can secure oil, use up a big stockpile of our weapons, making him even richer and get the numbskull George W re elected. I'm sure even the Americans would have got suspicious rigging 2 elections in a row.

So they just keep tabs on the terrorists, but soon realize that their plan will not work as the World Trade centre is designed to withstand planes flying into them. They dispatch a squad of well trained black ops dudes to ensure the towers come down and possibly even help them via remote control to hit the buildings. Lots of pilots have stated it is extremely difficult to aim a plane at a building travelling at 800km/hr.

The black op team sets up quarters in building 7, and carries out it's mission. They then detonate building 7 to cover up their tracks.

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So you don't need a cast of thousands to carry this out. A few in government, a few top ranking CIA and FBI officials and the black op team. None of these would ever spill the story as they would be done for treason.

Disclaimer.. I am not saying it did go down like this, just pointing out that you do not need thousands or even hundreds in on this for it to work. I do not believe that aliens have control of our government or our minds. I am not a conspiracy theorist( whatever that means).

I like Grim just think the official story does not stack up( geddit) and have looked into it a little


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How difficult would it have been for them to do what they did?

Not very difficult at all. As long as you can fly straight and level and you know how the controls operate the aircraft and have some idea how the aircraft is going to respond, flying straight into a building is not difficult.

Those aircraft were probably flying on autopilot and had the Flight Management Computer programmed. Knowing how to disengage that and reprogramme it to get from where they were to where they wanted to go would have been the most difficult thing.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1544113.stm

And I doubt they were going at cruise speed when trying to hit the buildings

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Or maybe aliens do control our government.

What hit the two buildings were alien missiles which had some kind of adaptive camouflage to make them look like planes.

It's preposterous I know, but that's what they want you to think.


Adaptive camouflage? Like what the crazy in my last post believes?

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From your link

How much training do you think these hijackers had?

I would say the guy in the second 767 which hit the World Trade Centre was pretty experienced - unless it was luck. He didn't just fly at the building, he manoeuvred it to cause maximum damage.

He put the aircraft into a 'slip', which is when you roll the aircraft wings but keep the nose aligned with the building and that requires you to roll the aircraft using one set of controls but keep the nose pointed in the same direction using the rudders. That's not something you can pick up from manuals.

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Reply #153 Posted: May 16, 2010, 01:08:38 pm

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http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html

nice site this, thanks ck.
There are too many holes in each story, the thing i know, is that buildings of that size wouldn't fall at freefall speed, yet the top damaged section
almost behaved as the official story explains

Reply #154 Posted: May 16, 2010, 01:12:03 pm

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From your link

How much training do you think these hijackers had?

I would say the guy in the second 767 which hit the World Trade Centre was pretty experienced - unless it was luck. He didn't just fly at the building, he manoeuvred it to cause maximum damage.

He put the aircraft into a 'slip', which is when you roll the aircraft wings but keep the nose aligned with the building and that requires you to roll the aircraft using one set of controls but keep the nose pointed in the same direction using the rudders. That's not something you can pick up from manuals.

Your point was that it is difficult to fly planes into buildings.

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That's not something you can pick up from manuals.

Shit I learnt about that from a flight sim game manual, so why the fuck wouldnt that be in real flight manuals?

Reply #156 Posted: May 16, 2010, 01:24:19 pm

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From your link

How much training do you think these hijackers had?

I would say the guy in the second 767 which hit the World Trade Centre was pretty experienced - unless it was luck. He didn't just fly at the building, he manoeuvred it to cause maximum damage.

He put the aircraft into a 'slip', which is when you roll the aircraft wings but keep the nose aligned with the building and that requires you to roll the aircraft using one set of controls but keep the nose pointed in the same direction using the rudders. That's not something you can pick up from manuals.

Haha.

It's a basic flight manuver.

No wonder these conspiracy theories got legs.

They should be called ignorance theories.


Reply #157 Posted: May 16, 2010, 02:47:49 pm

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To put that quote in context, it had been asked earlier in the interview if you could learn to fly a plane solely from reading the manual.

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God just read the thing

http://www.loosechangeguide.com/LooseChangeGuide.html


I can't find the exact wording but a statement in that website questioned why buildings would be made fireproof if the structures were already mean't to be fireproof.

Arguments like that are plain stupid. Of course you would try to fireproof a building no matter how much heat the supports could stand. The idea isn't to save the structure, it's to save the people inside it.

Another statement was questioning approximations of around 10 seconds.

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9:59. New York City, New York. The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses to the ground in approximately 10 seconds.
How approximate is that measurement?

29 minutes later the North Tower follows suit, collapsing in approximately 10 seconds.
How approximate is that measurement?


Everyone knows that approximations are never exact, but questioning without reason or explanation is silly.

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To put that quote in context, it had been asked earlier in the interview if you could learn to fly a plane solely from reading the manual.

I'll explain.

Turning any aircraft is a balancing act between bank and slip.

Too much rudder and you skid out of the turn.

Not enough and you skid earthwards.


This isn't readily apparent to the pilot since there are no lateral G forces.


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I think you missed my point entirely, as I can't seem to decipher your reply. The interviewee is saying he was experienced compared to someone who had only read the aircraft manual.

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flying a plane is piss easy. anyone with 30hours of flight experience in a small cessna can fly a 737 or a 747 or a 767.

you can pay $100 for half hour in a 737 simulator.

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I think you missed my point entirely, as I can't seem to decipher your reply. The interviewee is saying he was experienced compared to someone who had only read the aircraft manual.

I don't think you understood my explanation at all.

What I was saying is that slipping an aircraft in that situation was probably inadvertent, regardless of the experience of the pilot.

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Just listen to Zarkov.

Trust us, he didn't miss your point.

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To put that quote in context, it had been asked earlier in the interview if you could learn to fly a plane solely from reading the manual.

The hardest part of flying is the landing.


That wasn't a requirement for the terrorists.

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They didn't have to takeoff either :>

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I think you missed my point entirely, as I can't seem to decipher your reply. The interviewee is saying he was experienced compared to someone who had only read the aircraft manual.

I don't think you understood my explanation at all.

What I was saying is that slipping an aircraft in that situation was probably inadvertent, regardless of the experience of the pilot.

So it was chance? Like it says in the original passage that you quoted. Probably why I missed your point, I assumed you were alluding to a scenario not covered in the passage.

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They didn't have to takeoff either :>

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I think you missed my point entirely, as I can't seem to decipher your reply. The interviewee is saying he was experienced compared to someone who had only read the aircraft manual.

I don't think you understood my explanation at all.

What I was saying is that slipping an aircraft in that situation was probably inadvertent, regardless of the experience of the pilot.

So it was chance? Like it says in the original passage that you quoted. Probably why I missed your point.

Yes.

Most of the whole 911 thing was chance.

Bin Laden was more surprised than I was when the buildings fell down.

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So you don't need a cast of thousands to carry this out.
Of course you do. There's no way you could truck a few tonnes of explosives into a building without anyone knowing about it. That's where the conspiracy falls down very quickly - there would be someone, somewhere who knows about it, if it occurred. And at some point, one (and it only takes ONE) person to have a crisis of conscience and decide to spill the beans.

And don't give me the bollocks about them being popped off if they tried to tell the world, because the moment that happened the rest of them would spill the beans because they would know that's the only way they would ensure they stayed alive.

Want further proof? Read up on some game theory sometime to figure out the scenario. The consipiracy theory doesn't fit any game theory, so therefore it cannot exist. :P

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Those aircraft were probably flying on autopilot and had the Flight Management Computer programmed. Knowing how to disengage that and reprogramme it to get from where they were to where they wanted to go would have been the most difficult thing.

Um, this is wrong. Disconnecting an autopilot and FMC on a Boeing aircraft is piss easy - there is a kill switch on the control yolk. Push that and you instantly have total control. It would be the first thing taught to any anyone who is being trained on type.

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He's probably talking more about the reprogramming it part.

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You don't have to "reprogram" it. The FMC has a number of components - all of which are designed to ease the workload of the pilot. For instance, you can engage auto-throttles, which will ensure that your speed is maintained correctly. From there, you can use a vector heading on the "bug" to ensure that you fly in a straight line. You can also set an altitude hold to ensure that you stay at a pre-determined height.

I would doubt very much that the hijackers "programmed" the FMC at all. There wouldn't have been much point. They probably got the real pilots to fly them over/near NYC and then took over to complete the last manoeuvre into the Twin Towers. All of which blows another component of the conspiracy theory out of the water.

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They didn't actually hit the twin towers. They flew into a vortex forced open by a US government super secret agency that gathers alien technology and tests it for human use. The plane was a perfect test, giving them the excuse to let off the bombs.

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So you don't need a cast of thousands to carry this out.

Of course you do. There's no way you could truck a few tonnes of explosives into a building without anyone knowing about it. That's where the conspiracy falls down very quickly - there would be someone, somewhere who knows about it, if it occurred. And at some point, one (and it only takes ONE) person to have a crisis of conscience and decide to spill the beans.

And don't give me the bollocks about them being popped off if they tried to tell the world, because the moment that happened the rest of them would spill the beans because they would know that's the only way they would ensure they stayed alive.

Want further proof? Read up on some game theory sometime to figure out the scenario. The consipiracy theory doesn't fit any game theory, so therefore it cannot exist. :P


No you dont', they found traces of nanothermite at ground zero, this was before they quickly shipped all the remaining steel to India before it could be analysed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-thermite

Then you would just have to pose as a maintenance crew and set it during the wee hours

As for the planes, I must of remembered wrongly the difficulty of flying them into the buildings, forgive me it has been quite a few years since I read up on this stuff. Maybe what I remembered was they, the pilots, were surprised how well they struck the buildings. Anyway that is a small matter, we all saw them hit them.

I am only posting because lots of people here seem to think it is a huge conspiracy involving thousands.

I don't believe that  

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But still.

If the CIA figured out some arabs were going to crash planes into the world trade centre, why would they go to the trouble of planting explosives?

Arabs crashing planes into WTC is enough reason to go to war.

Doesn't matter if they fall down or not.

Therefore that theory clearly fails.



The only somewhat plausible theory would be that some bigwigs new about the plot but decided to do nothing about it.

Reply #174 Posted: May 17, 2010, 08:36:44 am