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Originally Posted by shakran
I must say I'm relieved to note that you're just being a pain in the ass rather than actually buying into this crap.  
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Originally Posted by shakran
Well first off, I don't know that anyone's done experiments on flying a fully loaded and fueled jetliner into a building made of reinforced concrete. Second, aluminum does not necessarily shred on impact. It can also crumple. Don't believe me? Go crush a can of beer.
People think planes are very strong, but they're really not. They're really just a really big beer can with wings. The strongest part on the plane is the wing assembly because it has to support the entire airplane. But the fuse section is just a hollow aluminum can. It'll crush, it'll crumble, and if exposed to conditions such as those at the pentagon it would probably do exactly what it appeared to do.
Besides, I personally know a guy who was there that day, and he saw a plane. Not a missile, not a laser beam, but a plane.
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I don't think there have been experiments either, but there have been planes that hit buildings. They have a ton of material to work with. I was just pointing out that there was almost no wreckage in front of the building. Also, a lot of people saw a lot of things that day. My simple question to your friend would be, "Can you say to a certainty that the plane you saw was a Boeing 757-200? Could it have been smaller? Could it have been a military plane that was painted? Could it be that the plane that you saw moving at the Pentagon at over 500 miles an hour only a few feet off the ground wasn't exactly what everyone told you it was immediately after the crash and for the next 5 years?" After all, the only footage available seems to make it clear it was a smaller aircraft present that day.
...but I don't want to threadjack. I was trying to explain my personal position on the larger matter. I'm cool discussing this in one of the other threads, though.