Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
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Explain building 7...
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20:22 USS Liberty - Egypt was framed on that attack.
I'm sure a lot of us experienced some version of this:
"Turn on the TV NOW!"
"Ok, what channel?"
"It doesn't matter."
For sure
i watched it when i was a freshman in HS and they made an announcement to turn on the TV. My teacher called over to the office to ask what certain channel and it was that direct answer-"it is on all of them." Being in PA, when they said one hit in our state, our anxiety went through the roof. We had kids whose parents worked near the crash site there too.
I was in my first year of high school so I was 11. (Uk) Our form teacher (I think in America you call them home room teachers) her boyfriend was in New York at the time and we all saw on the massive projector screen in the main hall the second plane hit the tower. Our teacher was distraught and was sent home. The next day she was in school. Her boyfriend was fine. Few years later I start college. Who's my form tutor there....yup, the boyfriend of my old high school form tutor lmao.
Yoooo, "it doesn't matter", made my hair stand.
@@ozzyflo6509 sameeee
A few years back, I was talking to one of my soldiers, and I asked him, "Where were you when the towers fell? " and he said he wasn't born yet. I realized that he was fighting a war that was started before he was born. It was a weird thing to think about.
I had the same thing happen on my most recent deployment with both of my soldiers. Mind blowing
@@JoshuaTurnbow-vz9kp hell, soon we'll have officers that were born post 9/11. That will really break my brain.
Thatâs crazy man I applaud yours and the young soldiers bravery if your being truthful ab that đ«Ą
so 20 years later what exactly are you still doing there?
â@@dave5254well things didn't exactly get much better when we left.
US High School teacher here, can confirm we show videos and talk about it the September 11th attacks every year. I avoid the most graphic videos out there, but I'm sure some teachers are less careful.
I used to be super in to building 7 conspiracies. The way it so smoothly falls down. However there is a rarer video where you see all the windows start to pop and you can clearly see the AC unit or whatever on the roof sink first before anything else goes. Demo buildings dont do that. There is also a recent video of a building falling after an earthquake i saw, somewhere in the middle east i think, it slides down in on itself just like building 7.
I laughed out loud when Simon started talking about people being smart â being experts in everything. I have a PhD, that doesn't mean I'm a structural engineer either. In fact, having a doctorate makes you realise just how much other people with doctorates DON'T know.
Humility vs hubris. One person says "I have a PhD, I'm obviously a genius" while a more self aware and humble person would say "I have a PhD, and I still know so little". Knowledge makes me feel like the latter.
Iâm sorry but people who have playlists with videos about top 7 sims 4 mods donât have a PhD
@@Supreme_Sals Aw, that's adorable. You think we don't also like to y'know, mindlessly play games? What do you think people with a PhD who look at data and read papers all day do to relax? Read heavy dusty tomes or something?
@@sweetistweeter why u so mad thenđ idk buddy just seems like a big load of horse shit that âMr. PhDâ over here spends time not just playing, but watching videos and going deep into fucking sims 4đ but hey thatâs just me
@@sweetistweeter and Iâm sure itâs just a coincidence that you made all your playlists private nowđ€Łđ€Łđ€Łlmao
Simon being able to look at a script and accurately guess the length of the video is amazing and a genuine gift.
would love to know how many script pages he already burned thru!
When you have been doing it as long as he has, you get plenty of practice
Not a gift, the man puts in many hours reading scripts and has put in the work. Not a gift but due to hard work!
@@micktompson101 dashed with a little of humanity. Which is hard to find. At times.
No, it really isn't. In film and TV 1 page is the approximate equivalent of 1 minute. I'm sure his scripts are subject to similar standardized time estimates.
my two favourite conspiracy theories are that the plane in knoxville was swallowed up by the ground and building 7 collapsed due the office furniture fires. both were started by NIST.
Knoxville?
Great video Simon! I just started watching this channel a week ago (too busy watching your other channels. Thatâs a lot of content keeping me busy) and itâs my favorite of your channels. Great writing and research from Jehron!
I was 24 and in the Army at Fort Benning when this happened. In fact, I was moving out of my house on post that day. It was insane. Benning was an open post (no guards or gates) at the time and I thought that was crazy. The freeway started and ended into the place, for crying out loud! It was home of the infantry, Airborne School, Sniper School, School of the Americas (training school for other countries), and a portion of Ranger training. It would be an easy target for terrorist. Of course that changed after 9-11. During that day though, it was nearly on lock down. To come back from getting dinner for the night, which was a half mile away, it took an hour to get back on post. It was a nightmare of a day for all involved. My infantry buddies knew that there was more than likely going to be a war because of the attacks.
Itâs interesting reading the commoners from people who were very young when this happened. Makes me feel old. My son was only five months on 9-11. Heâs 22, which makes it hard to fathom that it happened over twenty years ago when it feels like it was only a couple years ago.
One of the fascinating little wrinkles about this is the reason there's footage of the first plane hitting. There were two French guys doing a documentary about NYC fire fighters, and they were out shooting a newbies first fire in the arena and happens to be rolling and just looked up. I remember seeing the finished documentary a few years later, and it was quite heartbreaking to watch. It goes from becoming familiar with the fire fighters in their station, a couple of small events, to suddenly witnessing everyones worst day in their life's.
I can't find it any more, but it's really worth watching, most of all because it doesn't go in with 9/11 as a basic premise, and through that really captures the sudden gigantic tragedy of it all.
Jules Naudetâs 9/11 documentary? He was filming with some firefighters while they were checking underground pipes, then heard the plane and you know the rest.
The French brothers made the best doc on 9/11 I've seen.
Yeah it's a Great documentary
And the 9/11 attack is just the backdrop to the story
And in my humble opinion makes it that much better
The brothers get separated and don't know what has happened to the other and the way its filmed and the visceral feeling of dread that they both was feeling makes it a great movie about NYFD and the way it impacted the hole department
Sadly it's very hard to find the film online but if you search for foto of first plane hitting the WTS then sometimes there is links to the film (Sometimes)
I remember that day like it was yesterday had just gotten home from the store whit som groceries to make dinner I live in Norway so it was 3 pm to me not early morning as it was to Americans
Turned on the telly and the first thing i saw was the second plane hitting the tower
I was like what's this a new film or something then it hits me that the ticker in the bottom of the screen was moving an it read plain hitting WTS I just satt down and didn't move for 5 hours I was mostly in shock and disbelief as to what I was seeing
I will never forget that day even if I gets to be a 100
And needless to say I didn't make dinner that day it's the only thing I don't remember exactly what I did about food
RIP 343 NEVER FORGET WHAT HAPPEN THAT DAY
just saying đ§đ»
There's also the second plane crashing was broadcasted live across the world by different outlets, including ones who's coverage was from international reporters on the ground (who were in ny for a conference)
It's back on youtube. If you can't find it.. I shall post the link
Sometimes odd things happen. When I took my job across the street from the towers, my mom asked if itâs safe to work there. I replied that it was probably the most secure since they already bombed it. This was June 2001. Just a coincidence, neither of us had foresight. The reality was that the ground shook really bad. My window faced the marina so I didnât know what was unfolding on the other side. We thought that NY had a massive earthquake. You really felt it. We went outside to the marina after that for a cigarette. While there, the United plane came over the river, dipped down as if was going to kill us and pulled up to hit the 2nd tower. I was not hypnotized and it was close enough to hear the engine and read the writing on the plane as clear as day. Through everything, it didnât feel real. Watching the people jump, it felt like a movie. My brain couldnât comprehend. I think conspiracies are popular because it has hard to comprehend that a military giant was defeated by a terrorist group. That means it could happen again. Itâs easier for people to process a conspiracy theory and feel safe.
likewise on Netflix a few years back I stumbled on an old documentary about the pentagon. It was basically a PR piece, going on about how secure it was, but ended with the line "the only way to destroy this building would be from the air" (paraphrasing). Publish date, late 2000. oh that aged like milk.
@@taleyajoinson4703 To be fair, they were realistic about their chances.
This sort of black swan bullshit that the Jihadist muslims pulled *doesn't have to be anticipated.* You can't prepare for everything.
The response just has to be good.
America let its rescue workers die of filament cancer.
Bush exploited the political goodwill to attack Saddam in a dynastic revenge war.
NATO has furthered the cause of Jihadist islam in the middle-east to the point where they run several nations now.
@@JoshSweetvale yeah I wasn't starting a geopolitical discussion, simply pointing out an ending line on a documentary that in hindsight takes on a disturbing new dimension
ââ@@taleyajoinson4703 Interesting note on the Pentagon, the particular wedge that the plane hit had just finished a billion dollar extensive structural renovation for strengthening the building and updating the buildings infrastructure like bathrooms, plumbing, communications, wiring, and so forth. Because of this renovation that had taken several years to finish for that one wedge of the building alone, not only was the damage far more contained, the offices located there were largely empty as most staff had not yet moved back in. They tell you about this if you ever get to go on a Pentagon tour, and I recall my guide saying that if American Airlines 77 had hit any other wedge of the Pentagon, the death toll may have been well over 1000 because the one it hit was the first to undergo renovation and the majority of Pentagon staff were crammed into other offices throughout the building.
I'm not sure why a conspiracy theory should make me feel any safer...
I have 15:30 theory beaten by a coworker - he suggests the planes themselves were holograms that were âso real that you could touch them and youâd be fooledâ and when questioned about how visual misdirection through some type of medium (ie the âstealth glassâ panes that do a semi-okay job of making whatâs behind them disappear) has just come around in recent years, he said âTheyâve had this tech since the 80âsâ đ it physically hurts me to listen to them sometimes
How would anyone expect someone to tell the truth, when they have been long known for lying? đ€„
He wont address that
I will never respect a teacher more than the one who on September 11th told us that we had to talk to our parents at the end of the day. Did not show us the video of what was going on. Every other teacher was. There's something you show to people who are nine (my age at the time)
I Completely Understand Your Views But The Reasoning Behind Those Other Teacher's Is Because They Knew History Was Happening Literally Right Before Our Very Own Eye's...
I was 7. My teacher didnât show us anything, but she stopped class and said âSomething really bad happened in New York. The World Trade Center, the Twin Towers, were attacked and a lot of people died. The school is closing and youâre all going to go home early. The buses will be here soon. Pack up.â Then when I got home, both of my parents were there watching the TV. I donât remember much else, except them silently staring at that image of the two towers with smoke pouring out of them.
@@sabrinaschell4938 thank you for letting me know I wasn't the only one with this experience
@@thagreatfrank3071 I'm just responding to say that I respect those teachers as well but history doesn't have to be shown to a 9-year-old while people are jumping out of Windows
@@thagreatfrank3071 I get and respect your point, but there are some things kids shouldnât see. This was one of them, as well as about half of whatâs on the internet
I've always felt that flight 93 gets overlooked. Ordinary people with no relevant training just going about their lives sacrificed their lives to save others at the chosen target. I struggle to believe only 1 person could overpower the terrorists in the cabin and then the cockpit and crash the plane into a field and not a town. So there must have been a group of selfless heroes on that plane. I feel finding 1 person these days who would actually do this and not focus on their own safety would be hard. Those heroes deserve far more respect and recognition for the sacrifice they gave.
Part of the disparity in focus is geographical. Iâd say that is the largest part. NYC is a major focus of global attention, whereas Cow County Pennsylvania receives no attention from anyone.
I do think great efforts have been made to remember Flight 93. The Flight 93 National Memorial is a stunning remembrance of the people and the event. It creates a sense of isolation and scale that speak directly to the emotions and experiences of the people onboard and their friends and loved ones.
Itâs worth the trip to see it.
It was shot down. By Ohio national guard.
Allegedly
Supposing the people on flight 93 did fight back and it wasn't shot down, they had heard that everyone on the other hijacked planes died in these crazy attacks so they knew they would die if they fought back or not. To me that tips it to way more likely a group of people say fuck it and try to get control or at least not let it hit its target
@@TheJoshestWhiteBraindead, Allegedly
@@ynk-4372 nope. Hey we're all dug into our positions here.
Not that 9/11 was an inside job but many people knew something awful was going to happen and sat on this information. Even 9/11 commission admits to lots of serious insider trading going on
Cancelled flights. Adjusted insurance policies to cover such a specific event. The Presidents response when he heard the information(which that could be nothing but felt should be mentioned).
Personally I always thought 9/11 went down like Pearl Harbor did, there was information to suggest an attack was coming and maybe even what the objective was but it was spread throughout the US Intelligence Community as a whole rather than one particular organization and nobody got all the pieces and put them together until it was too late to do anything.
@@Lorekeeper72 The truth which is pretty much known now is people at the very top did in fact know of the impending attack at Pearl harbor but allowed it, giving them a reason to enter the war. Gulf of Tonkin, example. 9/11 is another example, and even lied about WMD's in Iraq to invade.
Nono, he's not crazy, this was actually shown to us in school as children.
I remember when it happened, every class in my building wheeled a TV infront of the classroom when I was 8 and showed us the live news of the planes crashing and people jumping from the towers.
I also was 8
This guy is right everything the government tells us itâs true, I should never be skeptical
Are you being deliberately obtuse or can you just not help it?
Our government would NEVER EVER lie to us!!!
"people, keep eating up the bullshit- billions of flies can t be mistaken
Fr. This guy âsarcasticallyâ called himself a sheep. But said it with some truth. He reminds me of someone who would say âI hate the governmentâ but relies on them take care of everything he believes in.
@@Mcali1984and you believe the tin foil hat wearing idiots and whatever they say.
I definitely am not someone who would consider myself as having been traumatized by the 9/11 attacks, not even remotely. Yet every time I see the footage, particularly that of the people having to choose between burning to death and jumping to their deaths, It gives me the most god-awful anxiety! I was 19 when it happened and yes, I remember exactly where I was. I remember the entire day with a crystal clarity that I remember nothing else from my life.
Its not exactly the event itself that is causing people trauma. Its that the country drastically changed or became more open about policies the US gov put effort into keeping quiet(including the attitudes people had as well.)
People literally had to change their publicly shared 'politics', basically how they interact with others or else face quite serious repercussions(not criminal exactly but social, employment, etc)
That isnt going to happen without some psychological effects. My dad for example worked in the oil industry. Was always left leaning but the second his career was on the line? It was a complete about face. This occurred more often than people want to admit, and with it came divorces, fighting, etc etc.
I was a bit traumatized at 5 after my parents were talking about how this possibly was the start of a nuclear war,even at 5 I knew about how a single bomb could kill the city I called home,so it was more my parents reaction to the attacks than the attacks themselves. I will never forget the anxious look on my moms face when she picked me up and told me she loves me no matter what happens.
Or my dad saying we were about to get into a huge war and if it went nuclear he hoped the bombs hit our roof.
Iâve been down a CZcams rabbit hole. Watching 911 survivor stories. My first one a guy sitting on a piece of concrete fell 22 stories riding it down and lived. The way he told it you felt you was right next to him experiencing it. He told his story with the greatest little detail.
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I can relate. I was also 19 and remember where I was (in a college class). I think the fear of that day stays with us, you know? I still have an emotional reaction to the footage or even when it is referenced in movies indirectly....thats not to say I suffered trauma or anything. There were real victims that day.
I'm sorry but I hate it when people say it was an inside job. It definitely was not!! And a man did walk on the moon!! Ugh so frustrating!!
2977 people died. That 2996 counts the monsters who perpetrated it as people.
I was in my kindergarten class as a young kid on the morning of 9/11. I remember a teacher bursting into our class, terrified; she spoke to our teacher who turned on a lil TV in the corner. They both left the room... and so us kindergarten children sat alone in our classroom, confused by the planes on TV kamikaze-ing into tall buildings we knew nothing about at such a young age.
Shoutout to Ms. Castañeda, what a fantastic job of making your incredibly young students feel safe and secure đ
This one is wild đ
I was also in kindergarten during 9/11. All I really remember is our teacher got all of us kids into the classroom closet and we stayed in there until our parents picked us up. Don't really remember anything else about that day
I was in 1st grade I think. Same story. Teacher turned on a small tv in the corner and I remember seeing the building burning on the news
Ohhh and now you are victimized, suffering PTSD talking about it on TikTok
Very similar to my memory of it. Shout out to the teachers that went above and beyond to do their job that day. Mrs. Phillips.
I remember my mom being really late to pick us up because the gas station was super backed up with panic buyers. Weird how young the writer is đ Makes me feel old too
you feel old? I was 23! Mucking around late night on IRC (I'm in Australia) and a mate pinged in with "someone just flew a plane into a building in the US". At the time we all thought it was just another "hahahah dumbfuck did X" comment, but then he just went... "CHANNEL 10. NOW" Tuned in just time to see the second plane hit. Woke up my sister, my mother and we just sat there staring. Felt like the eve of WWIII.
I was 5. After I got picked up from kindergarten we went to the grocery store,gas station though I donât recall it being super busy offhand,and McDonaldâs. She was freaked out worried this was the start of a possible nuclear attack.
I remember when my dad got home from work and they were watching the coverage while I was playing with Hot Wheels,my dad said to her,âwe are about to get into a huge war. If it goes nuclear,I hope the bombs hit the roof of the house.â The idea of bombs hitting our home freaked me out for days till they explained the actual situation wouldnât lead to that after learning more.
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I had the exact same experience growing up post 9/11 (I was 4 so I don't remember). Every year we would watch documentaries and talk about it, some kids had stories about their memories or loose connections. It was really drilled in our heads to the point that I it's abstract to me now.
In my humble opinion thatâs by design. I am a believer that the US government still lies about their involvement in the attack at whatever level it might have been. Theyâve never even opened the idea that it was anyone else than a couple of terrorist from a 3rd world country. Iâm only a quarter through the video but Iâd like to see what it could contain to possibly change my mind
Texas here, we didn't watch many documentaries, but almost every year we watched the footage of the planes hitting the towers, people jumping, and the tower collapsing. We learned very little. We were just traumatized from a very young age for seemingly no reason
There are American kids that have somehow grown up without fully knowing what happened.
A co-worker told me her brother recently had to make his teenage daughter drop everything she was doing and watch several CZcams videos.
Apparently she'd made it all the way to 17 year old and didn't know what 9/11 was.
It's not entirely surprising,, I mean it was incredibly shocking and horrible and many people wouldn't want to relive it,, though why it wasn't taught at her school is pretty baffling,, you'd think that the worst single attack on US soil since the civil war would be studied alot,, but that's the American education system for you,, it's mostly one of,, if not the worst education system in the developed world,, I was 11 when it happened,, watched it before going to school and it was horrifying,, I'm now incredibly fearful of heights because of it,, so i can understand why alot of people don't like talking about it,, but someone has to teach people about it,, there are significant lesson's that were learnt from it that need to be taught and upheld
Additional information about fireproofing in general : calling it "fireproofing" can be considered a misnomer in some respects. NOTHING is truly "fireproof" - everything has a heat failure point. In building codes, what we refer to as fireproofing is used as part of specific tested assemblies of construction materials and methods, and is given a rating in hours. This rating indicates that if constructed exactly as tested, that intact assembly will not fail from heat in a fire for at least as long as that rated time. Building code will then dictate where rated assemblies are required and how high they must be rated. These requirements take into account the usage, size, and anticipated occupant load of a building, along with the paths for occupants to exit in an emergency. The requirements for fire ratings are then set based on the ability and time needed for the average person to exit a building (or section of it to a different fire zone within the same building, on their way to complete egress of the space to the public way) or for a handicapped person to reach what is known as an "area of rescue assistance" which is rated to allow for rescue personnel to reach that person and get them out.
The thing is, the highest rating in the International Building Code is 4hrs, and remember, this is a modern standard within the last few decades, and relies on contractors and inspectors to ensure that the exact assembly and method has actually been installed. Now, because there is always an additional factor of safety required in every design phase, even slight insufficiencies are unlikely to ever endanger human life. However, much like we don't expect even the best constructed building to stand if a meteor were to directly impact it, the building codes cannot anticipate every single horrible thing humans can think of to deliberately harm others and cause engineering failures. The fact that the towers stood for several hours after the impacts - a disaster for which they were not designed - and allowed so many below the point of impact to exit is actually proof that the "fireproofing" did exactly what it was supposed to - it bought time for occupants to exit by increasing the amount of time to failure for structural components of the building.
When humans are intent on destruction, we can attempt to mitigate the results and harm after the fact with things like building codes, but we cannot entirely prevent loss of life this way. The only way to do that is to stop humans from hurting each other. While a lofty goal on a global scale, we can all do our part by seeing others as humans and starting our discussion about what is best for society rooted in reality instead of conspiracy.... đ đđđ
Study fire heat index of jet fuel, interior building materials, TV, phone, office furniture, carpet. None of it combined has the heat BTU output to even weaken steel! Furthermore, steel acts as a heat sink when heat is applied!
the STEEL was MELTING, enough said.
Instead of being willingly ignorent , look at the facts involving forensic science then! Look at the possible heat gain from articles in the building burning. Nothing can burn and develop the temptures to weaken steel. Look at the heat gain from jet fuel, it does not have the capability to melt or weaken steel. Study the periodic table, notice steel is always stronger then aluminum. Think newtons laws of motion, what is one law that proves this is impossible? For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. How come on 9/11 this law of nature did not occur? Ever seen a car at a high speed hit a oak tree dead center? What occurs when the car begins to hit the solid oak tree? The tree slows and stops the car, the car will wrap itself around tree. Think. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Why do you think the steel building with four to six inch thick steel beams, did not slow or stop the aircraft? Because it was fake! Use your mind God has given and stop being brain dead like biden!@@peterfiolet
@@MissionaryForMexico You are a fool.
I am not nitpicking. But the event was 102 minutes, rather than several hours. About halfway into the event, tower 2 fell. Tower one fell at 102 minutes.
Let it be known that Simon Whistler did not kill himself.
9/11 happened when I was 6 years old and in 1st grade. I went to school in small town america at the time, and the principle came over the intercom and told all teachers to turn their tvs to the news so that we could all watch and mourn together. Why they thought of showing 5-11 year olds the live footage as it was happening is a mystery to me. The worst part is that it was the day before picture day, so every single portrait was a kid unable to smile at all or having a very forced or empty smile on their face while you can see the terror and sadness in our eyes. And my parents and brothers were watching the coverage when I got home, too. It was also less than a year after I experienced my first earthquake having never heard the term in my life.
The most distinct memories I had were watching the black pixels falling from the buildings on tv and just Knowing that those were people not wanting to burn or choke to death. My brother who is 9 years older than me says he saw me recreating the event with my blocks, and that it looked like I was trying to figure out the physics. Although that may be projection bc he believes the inside job theory.
I've always thought that society focused more on revenge and conspiracy than they did the victims and their families. Whether it was an inside job or not, people died and families were destroyed that day. Many more were killed in the chaotic aftermath. Many were killed by the lasting health issues. And many are still unaccounted for, sometimes arguing whether they were a victim of the attack or another crime happening During the attack (often trying to peg the missing as a "lesser" individual so they can find any way to keep them from being tied to the attacks at all, there's an infamous case like this). The person I think about the most is the mother who got a final voicemail from her son on the 4th plane telling her that they're taking back the plane from the hijackers. She states in an interview how she just knew her son led that charge.
Ah yes, reminds me of a love poem.
Roses are red
Grass is green
Jet fuel doesnât burn hot enough
To melt steel beams đ„°
Sometimes it is just nice to hear you narrate. It's after dinner on Thanksgiving..my daughter's in-laws came to dinner...fun but stressful. Thanks for helping me decompress. Holidays are almost as bad as the past.
Sometimes. I've never been able to really watch Business Blaze because sometimes I want the information of the title and.... That's like two minutes of what feels like a 45 minute video.
I was 22 on 9/11/2001. I was in my last year at USF and my roommate woke me up saying âdude, a plane just hit a building in NYC!â. I remember turning on the TV and a few moments later another plane came into frame and struck the other tower. I donât remember when I first started hearing the conspiracies and I donât remember hearing some of these stories, but theyâre pure lunacy. I take specific offense to the âmelting metalâ argument. Itâs probably worth noting that fuel was NOT the only thing burning. While it acted as an accelerant, it by no means completely accounted for the goddamn CONFLAGRATION that ensued⊠Also, youâre absolutely right in your assertion. Once the structural integrity of a building that size is compromised, itâs too late to correct the issue. Itâs kind of like an aluminum can, once you crumple it, thereâs zero chance you can restore it to its original state and even if you somehow did, it would not have the same rigidity it did prior to damage. I never thought that people could be THIS stupid, but hey, thatâs America I guessâŠ
Shit.. Well, you covered my point about the fuel. Serves me right for not just watching the entire thing BEFORE commenting.
That's my biggest irritant with the conspiracy nuts, you do not need to "melt" metal to radically alter its properties. They're right in that the fuel would not have melted the beams... they're also retarded for thinking it needed to.
And as xkcd aptly put it, you don't even know at what temperature the stuff they put in chemtrails burns.
@@PetrPechar1975
Speaking as an aeronautical engineer... there is no such thing.
Plus the temperature the fuel burns at is open air burn temperatures. This is in a high building with updraft and internal compression. People forged steel burning wood or charcoal a few hundred years ago and it burns at a much lower temperature than jet fuel, but thanks to containing it in a furnace it reaches much higher temperatures.
â€â€â€thank you for sharing
Crazy how much this day affected so many lives & generations.. not only in N.Y with the Twin Towers but also with the 8+ years of war that happened after this in Afghanistan.. truly heartbreaking.
I was a college freshman. My mom came running into my room yelling we were being bombed. Turned on the TV in time to watch the second tower being hit live with my mom. Lost my brother that day. NYFD.
I'm going to assume by the last sentence your brother was a firefighter?
If so then your brother's a genuine hero, I watched that day as a 14 year old here in Britain and I'll never see greater bravery than what the emergency services did that day (and the days following) again.
@@choughed3072 Ya, he was in the first wave of firefighters that went into the tower just a few minutes after being hit. I donât believe any of them came back out.
I know we can't bring your brother back, but I, and many around the world have the ultimate respect for NYFD and all those the rushed in to rescue, as well as those who helped in the days and months after.
If you haven't seen it, I recommend watching Michael Moore's "Sicko," a documentary of his journey to find medical care for a group of 9/11 responders. If you watch nothing else, watch the part about Cuba. The amount of love and respect shown to the group there is something I've never forgotten.
Though I know your family misses him, I hope it brings them some comfort knowing how many hearts these firefighters hearts touched.
@@erinmac4750 I havenât seen that. I was 18 and in flight school (Kent State) when it happened. Considered joining the Air Force but instead finished college and joined Homeland. Still there all these years later.
Ooooof this seems like an emotive episode!
I remember where I was: sat on the school bus, we heard something on the radio, and then our bus driver (who was usually super chill) told us all to shut up and turned the radio up. And then I got home and we watched replays on the BBC and my mum watched the tv for the first time in years, and we were all just so shocked and quiet. There was nothing to say.
It was just so shocking and numbing.
I am in the U.K., and it happened around lunchtime here, but I donât think anyone at school realised what was going on until after. Because lessons didnât have a radio or tv on.
Exactly this!, that journey home and seeing my mums face as she watched the news, it still seems like yesterday for me.
spent most of the day at school and when i got home they showed wtc 7 coming down, dint think much of it till i saw the silverstein interview and he said the ny fd commented that they would pull the building...
I am a bit older than you and remember watching it on daytime tv live, we just sat, watched and didn't move for hours.
I remember seeing the first tower come down after getting sent home from school coz I was a little shit
I remember seeing the first tower come down after getting sent home from school coz I was a little shit
I donât wanna sound like one of those people; but when the buildings came down it was giving: â Controlled demolitionâ đą. Anyways 9/11 is a story that has so many empty boxes, that are and still left untouched. That day was tragedy that shouldâve have never happened đą.
One thing I donât understand is how people think that because it seemed like a controlled demolition, that automatically means it was an inside job.
If we remember back in 1993, the WTC was bombed by terrorists who had the same ideas and goals of Al Qaeda. Itâs not too far fetched that Al Qaeda was also responsible for the controlled demolition during 9/11, similar to the 1993 attack
Don't allow the social stigma that comes from being a conspiracy theorist to hinder your quest for truth. Fear prevents most people from admitting uncomfortable truths. If someone believes 9/11 was an inside job, they are no longer able to perceive their government as allies, but instead as homicidal psychopaths. So by all means, *please* start sounding like one of those people. Ignoring reality won't stop what's coming.
That's true and says a lot. Also the fact that it will never be officially investigated objectively
And the 3rd tower that happened to fall in the same manner, without a plane hitting it at all and it was asked to be "pulled".
@@gss6531 It's the domino effect!!
I nearly believed the Titanic switch theory a few years ago. Don't judge yourself for having bought into nonsense if you've gotten past that now.
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Hell of a video to watch after a Thanksgiving meal.
I was 13 in my 8th grade music class. I was raised in the NYC metropolitan area and many people in my community commuted to the city for work, including my father, who worked across the street from the World Trade Center. Our local emergency services sent aid down to the city. My town lost some people. My aunt was stuck in the subway after the attacks. Luckily my father was away on a business trip in Paris that day and was stuck in France for another week after the US shut down the airports. Quite the formative memory.
One of the black boxes was on display in the 9/11 Memorial museum exhibit that used to travel. Saw it behind glass with my own eyes. I don't believe it "survived" to the point of being usable, however.
My boss was part of that NIST study and I still had a coworker who believed at least some of these theories.
1minute in and I'm already screaming at Simon. đ€Łđ
I was working in a publisherâs office in Oxford that day. We tried to get through to the BBC or other news websites when we heard to check it out and they couldnât cope with the traffic. In the end we got through to one of the newspaper sites which fewer people were trying to connect to. It was so shocking
Sometimes Simon goes off the rails, a bit to much. However, it won't stop me from watching.
Okay, I know I'm about year or so late commenting, but I really have to addto the whole jet fuel discussion a little bit.
Or mainly one single word: Aluminium. A lot of any given plane is made out of aerospace-grade Aluminium, and once you get it hot enough, as you would in a jetfuel-started closed space fire, it BURNS practically turning into really fast thermite with some self-oxidicing capability to boot. Any waste-burning facility that deals with mere consumer-grade aluminium mut at all times keep the temperature below the actual gassification and ignition point of aluminium, as well as keeping the space oxygen deprived, because once it gets going, it'll come through any structure short of titanium you try to contain it with.
I was 20 yo when the attack happened, as someone born in the bronx and raised in NY till I was 12 or 13, the news of the Twin Towers falling hit me hard. Luckily, I was living in Florida at the time, but my eldest sister and her family were still in New York, I was so worried for them, but they were fine and was nowhere near. I will never forget where I was when I found out. I was working as an electrician doing a service call, trying to figure out why their home phone wasn't working, and they had the news on. All of us, a complete stranger to these people were just glued to the TV. So, I completed my task, and too anyone wondering what was wrong with the phone, the phone company gave them the wrong number to their phone. I had to call my work phone off of their house phone, and compared the number that came to the one they had gotten and it was not the same. I had to call the office to have them call these for bill, because I couldn't bring myself to ask these distraught people for payment. That was a really weird time for me, and hope that none of us go through that again.
I was 19, walked into my community college Economics class and found the teacher crying. I saw the second plane hit live before classes were cancelled and I went to the computer in the library. Edit: do one on the JFK conspiracy theories!
JFK was definitely not killed by Lee Harvey Oswald... he was just the patsy.
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Edit to say: my friends dad worked in construction and he was working near the Pentagon that day. He said the plane flew right over him and then into the Pentagon. He had an almost front row view and it was absolutely 1000% a plane that hit the Pentagon.
I grew up in Smithsburg, MD, about 50 miles outside D.C., right near Camp David. CD was on a mountain top and my hometown was at the base of that mountain, in the valley. I was fresh out of high school and that morning I was working at the JCPenny photo studio in my local mall. Everyone was calling and canceling their appointments because everyone was terrified an attack on Camp David would happen since it was common for the President to be there. It truly was a tragedy and despite it being over 20 yrs ago that morning is burnt into my brain.
Thank you for the testimony!
There were firemen outside near the helipad tower who testified that a small looking like plane approached toward the helipad tower at which point they ran, were burned to some degree but survived, it was not a 757.
I once read that some money was missing at the pentagon that amounted to trillions of dollars on the same day that couldnât be found idk how someone loses that much money.
They didn't. The money was never stated to be lost, missing or stolen. Simply unaccounted for due to outdated systems.
Simonâs reaction to the age gap between him and Jehron was so funny⊠I was 5 years old waiting for the bus when it happened.
I can also say that Jehronâs school wasnât the only school that shared those videos of the people who died trying to escape the Twin Towers. I know for a fact that I am not alone in saying that 9/11 traumatized me repeatedly from the age of 5 years to the age of 17 years.
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I always look away when that footage is shown for one reason:
If I had to decide between death by falling or death by fire and I chose to jump, I wouldnât want anyone watching me having to make that decision unless they had to.
I was 10 years old when it happened Fr and it definitely traumatized me smh I even every now and then I will have nightmares of planes falling out of the sky to the ground and It seem so real !!
I think from everyone itâs come up around in my life that itâs the assumed experience that everyone had to watch those videos every year in school growing up in history class until like 10th grade when the teachers knew weâd seen them all in past years
I was 18 and I swear every time the day is described it gets to me. Like my heart breaks for those people all over again
Did you watch The Lone Gunmen?
The Pilot aired 3/04/01 ... five months before. It has the Government "Remotely Controlling A Plane" and flying it into the WTC.
It's awesome, especially when you consider Scenario 12D is an actual Government Think-tank Project that Chris Carter used to write the episode. ... ... and within two years ... The Lone Gunmen & The X-Files were pulled from Network TV.
See Also Event 201 & Covid-19
I was on leave from the army I was 19.
I was 18 too and yes, it was heartbreaking seeing people jump to their deaths and just knowing the fear the people on the planes must have felt, the people in the buildings trying to escape and all the innocent lives lost.
Seeing a clip of stassi who used to be on vanderpump rules, on a decoding the unknown video about 9/11 saying she's "really into conspiracy theories" has got to be one of the most unexpected, yet not so surprising crossovers considering her ability to snake her way into places she's not wanted.
I was a Freshman in High School sitting in my first period, Computer Skills class.
We stopped everything that day and watched the news in every class. I remember everyone automatically assuming it was terrorists before the second plane even crashed. Nobody ever thought âit was an accident or explosion in the building.â For some reason it seemed like EVERYBODY AUTOMATICALLY KNEW it was terrorists hijacking planes.
Probably because within minutes, the media somehow knew exactly who did it and were making sure everyone else knew too.
My dad was a first responder to the World Trade Center. He said there were body parts everywhere. He has PTSD and has had night terrors ever since.
Oh, I didn't realize you were there. Tell my dad's night terrors that there were no body parts. . .prick!
I stumbled upon an online photo album from ground zero after the towers were hit and before the collapse. These were not the "sanitized" photos that made the news cycle or the front page of the local paper, these were wholly unfiltered documentations of carnage. Unidentifiable fleshy objects were scattered all around the area, one car parked on the street below had on its windshield what looked to be like someone's lung or liver resting on it, tattered and bloodied clothes blew around in the wind with the millions of pages of copy paper scattered about, another photo showed a severed leg from the knee still wearing a shoe. There were more in the photos but I had no desire to continue on and extorted out for my own sanities sake. I can only imagine that wasn't even the worst of it, and I hope your father can one day find peace.
The body parts everywhere were from people jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. Their poor bodies just exploded on impact.
There was no rescues possible for them and that must also play a part in your relativesâ PTSD.
Thank you for doing a video on this! I wasn't born for quite a bit after but my dad was a firefighter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and helped with the cleanup afterwards as soon as he could. He ended up being one of the thousand people who got cancer afterwards (colon) and died when I was 10. He never talked about what he saw to anyone except maybe those who went with him.
So sad Iâve heard about those dear people. I hope your family was taken care of. â€
@@1emmajones there is a fund for families like mine but it's been about 6 years since we learned about it and the poor lawyer is swamped so we haven't gotten anything from it
@@sophiakirklewski1192 thatâs awful but doesnât surprise me. I hope you and your family are ok. Youâve got a lot to be proud of. X
@@1emmajones thank you :)
@@sophiakirklewski1192 I'm so sorry for your loss. It's BS how the government absolutely screwed over the first responders from all over the US that volunteered to go assist with cleanup!! I feel heartbroken for your family, and the thousands of others that are in the same situation. Your dad was (IS) a HERO! And your family should be being taken care of for the loss you've had to experience. It is DISGUSTING the way our government expects so much of it's citizens (military, police, firefighters, paramedics, etc...) but after their done using them, they're just thrown off to the side without a second thought, when it's those people that deserve to be taken care of for the rest of their lives. I have donated a ton of money to organizations who help vets and responders. Jon Stewart has done some fantastic work to be able to get healthcare for vets and 9/11 responders, did that not happen until it was too late for your dad?? (You don't have to answer if I'm being nosy, btw!)
Regardless, America thanks your family, and as I said already, have great pride in your dad- he's the definition of a hero!! â€ïžđ€đ
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there is one simple thing i did in school that can prove steel beams didnt need to melt to fail, in one word forging... you can forge steel with a hammer or bend it with very small effort when its red or white hot but even when its less hot you can do it much easier then when its at room temperature... if you leave steel bar in fire for too long it even start to sparkle
I used to like metalwork at school too! Especially when you plunged the red hot metal into cold water. One of the strange things we had to make was a 'boot scraper'! 40 years later, I've still got the one I made......somewhere!!
Yh except thereâs legit pictures of melted steel beams not just bent also if it bent it would have fell over like a jenga tower not into itself
@@natebeare9978 feel free to do a small scale experiment or simulation with propper math etc... and show us...
But they found a perfectly preserved hijacker passport
Watch the video.
If anyone knows the Moon Landing documentary Simon saw, I would very much appreciate the name. He's mentioned it on BB and I've spent literal hours looking for it.
Commenting in case you get an answer
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If anyone finds it please link! I'm curious too
You're still a youngster, Simon. I was at home with my husband, who had just gotten back from Saudi Arabia, and we hadn't heard anything until my boss called me about it. My husband was in the Air Force, so of course he had to go on alert.
I was in the office bringing a Reuters news feed life on our website. First news item we got over the wire was "aircraft hit world trade center, many feared dead".
We thought it was a test message until the room next door with half a dozen US colleagues over from our New York office went deadly quiet, they'd just got the same information directly from their friends in New York who had been getting ready to head out to the WTC where their offices were located.
Had the attack been an hour later I'd have lost a hundred or more (remote) colleagues that day.
There is a great youtube video where a man demonstrates that while jet fuel cant melt an I-beam it makes it so weak that by hand he is able to bend it into a L shape.
So while the steel beam is hot and soft, he can grab the hot beam by hand and bend it. because I'm sure he can't do while it's cool.
Cut the crap, tell me how a building collapsed into DUST after being hit by a plane on the 84th floor! Nuff said
âTell me howâ does mean, YOU do not understand, doesnât it?
Play Jenga.
They didn't collapse into dust, so your question is bogus.
I was 14 at the time here in England, I was on the school bus on the way home and we usually had radio one on which is usually boisterous and over the top but that day everything was sombre. No one knew or paid attention to what was being said on the radio but somehow everyone was dead quite. It wasn't until I got home and my dad called me into the front room and said "you need to come in here and watch this" I was like "why" and he said "this is the greatest terrorist attack in history, the world changes forever today"
And it did, my dad ended up doing a tour of Afghanistan with the British army in 2003 and his best mate was the first (or one of) British soldier to be killed by an IED. My dad should of been in the passenger seat if the land rover that was hit but was assigned to something else that day. Still haunts him 20 years later.
As an Israeli who grew up with terrorism, I know terrorists are impulsive but not sophisticated. I was very impressed by the level of planning of this attack, but it felt wrong. Arab terror!sts will detonate bombs but won't fly planes into buildings, and if they did, nothing would happen to the buildings. Why did the towers melt and turn into dust, from a plane hitting the building? Why did 3 towers fall? Why was there molten Lava type of fire at the bottom of the towers? Why did the air force not react? Why was Ben Laden's family allowed to leave the US? Why was the Bush family in charge of security of the towers? This is all just a mind control exercise. They give you an explanation before you can think and then a solution; Its Ben Laden, lets go to war.
Hard to test evidence that was destroyed intentionally
*All* 1.4 million tons of debris taken to Fresh Kills Landfill was sifted, examined and swabbed by hundreds of NYPD forensic officers and detectives. 236 steel samples were kept for NIST's investigation. The first steel didn't leave for China until Jan/02. The last steel didn't leave GZ until May/02. 7 tons was used in the new navy ship _USS New York._ Multiple other pieces were shipped for memorials around the country.
Simon has found yet another great writer! Great script.
Thanks! Glad you liked it
@@jbagga3 it was very well written! Thank you.
@@jbagga3 Definitely one of the better scripts I've heard here in a while. Very organized, succinct, but still extremely interesting. Keep it up!
@@eric7591 thank you so much!
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I was working night shift on 9/10. Reading the second book from an old 1980s post-WW3 America series called _Wingman._ The hero, Hawk Hunter, had to steal a piece of equipment from a NYC crime lord for a special B-1 Lancer that could fly an entire mission without a crew. The piece he needed was on the second to the top floor of one of the WTC towers. To get to it, he crashed an ultralight into a window of the floor.
Imagine what a gut punch it was when the terrorist attack happened 9 hours later.
Last week I ordered some vessies and used your code. I got the sporty ones and they feel fantastic.
Sounds like something an undercover sponsor would say. VESSI IS AN INSIDE JOB
I was in elementary school and I just remember our parents coming to get us half way through the day (we were down in Florida so there wasnât any danger for us thankfully) but I also remember it being absolutely DRILLED into us after. I remember being confused why we had to watch the documentaries about it and all that, after a while it just slipped from memory but the conspiracy theories survived!
I watched it happening live...I want to know how they altered that đđ€ŠđŒââïž
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Seriously, these conspiracy theorists never seem to want to listen to the regular people that were ACTUALLY THERE
They'll say something like "Flu shots, have been giving us Oculus virtual reality vision since the 60s" đ€·đœââïž
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oh, you just THINK you watched it life. You were hypnotised and looking at a holographic recording made earlier.
Was signed, Alex Jones.
Letâs also try to debunk how trillions of dollars came up missing somehow days before the 9/11 attacks and where the Pentagon got hit was exactly where all that paper work was located to show where all that money went⊠What a coincidence right? Letâs also not forget to mention building six and how the owner was being interviewed, and him slipping up by saying he told the firemen to pull it, which means to demolish the building with explosives, which takes weeks in advance to plant. It only takes about an hour of investigating to see that the government knew and had involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
OK. Trillions of dollars did not come up missing somehow days before the 9/11 attacks and even if it did, still not relevant to the attacks.
In what office in the Pentagon was all of this paperwork for missing money that was never missing located? Please be specific.
Also, you mean Building 7, not Building 6. Since when do firefighters blow up buildings with explosives?
Since when do firefighters take orders from commercial real estate developers?
Did you put any thought at all into that post?
@@MFitz12 bro itâs a known fact it happened and if you canât put two and two together, I canât help you
@@sams.358 - It isn't. I happen to know you are wrong and can explain in excruciating detail why. I suspect you know it too or you would have answered my very simple question which anyone making your claim should be able to answer easily.
But ya didn't.
Do you have any idea how many hundreds of times I have seen people claim "the Pentagon was hit right where the records were for the missing trillions"?
Same number of times I have asked "exactly which office was that and precisely where was it located?"
Do you know how many people have even attempted to answer that question in the hundreds of times I have asked it over the years?
Zero. Nada. Zilch. Goose egg. Zip.
They all either do what you did with a deliberately evasive off-topic derail or reversed burden of proof or they go silent.
Every time.
So, do you want to keep making baseless false statements and not get taken seriously or do you want to get it right?
Choice is yours.
@@MFitz12 you are just blabbering going on with nothing. You didnât prove or state any facts whatsoever or prove me wrong.. The very part of the building where the accounting was going for that $2.3 trillion is exactly where it got hit. Itâs a fact I donât need to tell you what room number it is but thatâs what was reported. You sound like a blabbering fool
@@MFitz12 you can make as many paragraphs as you want. Doesnât make you sound any smarter
Great video
I was 28 and unemployed at the time and what I find strange is everyone coming out of the buildings saying how they heard secondary explosions. And after 2 days,you never heard about it again. That and the dancing Israelis đ€š
I've been doing a deep dive on this topic for 2 decades. You are full of crap.
You do realize Israelis are from Israel, right?
@@kubrickking5101 - Drive-by Truthing
I grew up in the town the pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 lived in. I was too little to remember anything but I grew up with lots of personal connections to the day to the point it feels like I remember it. The pilots family still lives here and owns a large farm. My math teacher in high school had the pilotâs daughters as students when 9/11 happened. There now stands a memorial to the fallen made from a piece of the tower that points to their location.
I remember that I was teaching computer science on september 11th, in Switzerland. When i entered the cafeteria at break time my colleagues were glued to TV and said 'you have to see -- they just flew planes into the world trade center!'. My reaction was, 'yes I know, I just finished reading the book yesterday' (I believe it was a book by John Grisham) The book told almost the exact sane story of how the CIA attacked various public offices to encourage the war on terrorism.
I made my coffee and left without taking notice of the television.
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I was shopping in Chippenham UK, when I saw it in a TV shop window. More and more people began to gather around, I could not believe what I was seeing. The first tower was already smoking, then the second plane hit. I was knumb fro days after.
Also, as far as the windows blowing out goes, anyone who has ever moved a large fish tank knows it doesnât take a lot of twist to shatter or snap even the thickest glass
Truth. Lost a 55gal. that way trying to twist it around a corner.
I've dropped tempered glass panels onto the ground and have chipped concrete.
I have also had glass explode out of seemingly nowhere.
Was the building not made to be like a fly net for any commercial jet? Think it was 747 rated
@@erol4130 I doubt it. The WTC opened in 1973, so take 5 years to design and build, that means the design started before the 747 was in service. Also,how on earth would you make a building 747 proof đ. This is well before computer modelling or even advanced finite element analysis. I mean, even if there was a spec for making a building 747 proof, how on earth do they test it ? Its not like smashing a motor car into a block to iterate the design to improve passenger protection đ.
Its actually a regular occurance on buildings in China. Windows seemingly sponteneous shattering. I know of 4 occurences local to me, in fact, one was in the block I live. Building settles over time, windows are squeezed and just blow out. đ„”
The whole idea that there weren't actually any planes involved was something I'd heard. It was one of the dumbest things I'd ever heard.
How can people be that stupid?
Former AF security here. Do you know how many government employees both civilian and military would have to stay quiet for these conspiracies to work. I saw one report where it was estimated to be between 5,000 -10,000. Yeah right, no one talks even thought they could make millions with the info. Trust me someone would sell out.
Ugh they have.
Those NDA's must be air tight đ
I was working at the CAA at Gatwick airport at the time. (First proper job.) I was just coming back from lunch when it came on the news. Everyone in the office was trying to get info online (BBC News) but the site was jammed with traffic. Meanwhile a woman in the office was on the phone to someone and was calling out updates, like the second plane hitting and the towers collapsing. It was so surreal and shocking. I was in a daze for the rest of the day. Such a terrible day that is no doubt etched in the memory of millions.
Ironically, I was in history class when we found out what happened in NYC. I was also in NY state, so lots of people in my class were immediately in a panic about family and friends, so we stopped everything and watched the broadcast, then everybody went home. It was very very scary and I will probably never forget it. I did actually buy into the theory of it being an inside job for a little while when I was younger so this should be fun insanity to revisit.
I was all the way in L.A. that day and even there everyone was nervous. Not knowing what else to do, I went to work. There the rumor mill had been going and one person had stated (quite confidently) that 4 airliners have been hijacked and crashed, and that 4 MORE had been hijacked and they were on their way to California. In retrospect he obviously counted the 4 California bound, hijacked planes twice, but for an hour or so nobody knew any better so we were all a bit apprehensive. Weird day.
This also happened during my US history class well the second tower being hit the teacher turned off the tv and pulled out a world map and gave us a very detailed explanation of what lead to these events happening to this day I'm thankful that teacher did that most of us had no clue about the middle east at that time
I was in assembly. We drove past Lower Manhattan. Iâve got family who still believe it.
I was in history class as well, in Pennsylvania.
I was getting ready to start my freshman year of college at Ohio State. Classes were starting on the 16th, so I was finishing packing up for the move. Weirdly, there are 2 dorms by the football stadium on campus that are called the Towers. They house Athletes and Honors Students, and are the tallest building around, even compared to the Stadium- And that just so happened to be where I was housed! My mom called me immediately, and told me I was (under no circumstances) NOT going to be moving into my dorm room! She was worried since it's so close to the stadium (that holds 112,000 people- and is always sold out for football games!) I guess she thought everywhere that held a massive gathering of people would be a target. And I mean, that's kinda true... If a terrorist was truly looking to kill/injure A LOT of people, that's a target you could want to pick. I believe that the Hijackers picked National Symbols because they wanted the attack to have the most impact and cause the most fear among Americans, which was a mission that they were absolutely successful at. Either way, I'll never forget that day!
Not much of a conspiracy, just incompetence and ego, but the CIA and the FBI knew different parts of the same puzzle but werenât talking to each otherâŠ
I was in sixth-form when the attack happened, I had just gotten home. I turned the tv on and thought it was a film. Changing the channel showed the same thing. I remember standing in the living room frozen in place, my dad coming in, in a panic as my older sister was in America on holiday at Disneyland. He just stood next to me, holding my hand. She was fine but got stuck there for two weeks and it was horrible waiting to hear they had lanaded safely.
My grandma was a research librarian in suburban New Jersey. One day, when she was working, a middle eastern guy came in looking for books on aircraft and flying. She helped him out and went on with her day thinking nothing of it. A few weeks after 9/11, the FBI showed up and took the library's computer and records. Apparently the guy she had helped that day was one of the conspirators.
Woah. That's a crazy story dude
Whoa
Very interesting
I vividly remember pondering a vacation in the US at that time... a co-worker said: You just have to visit New York and get up on the WTC, it's an awesome view! - Basically I opted against a vacation on the flip of a coin and just a few weeks later - about the time I **would** have been there, 9/11 happened... I do have some "final destination" vibes around that incident, even though I know it's just a creepy coincidence.
The conspiracy involving the phone calls is stupid. Why don't people understand how the phone calls were made??
I was sleeping when it happened and I live in Brazil. I was woken up by my family and told that something bad was happening and to come see the news. I start watching, and like a good five year old would do, I started crying, because at the time my father and my brother were living in the US and I was worried about them. Then my family asked why I was crying, I said I was worried about them, then my family said. Oh, no they are not there, don't worry about it. Like... why wake me up then?
I like that simon did the sponsor right at the beginning. He didnt do it in the middle. Legend!!
On 9/11 i came home and wondered where my cartoons were
Scientist who loves science doesnât have the courage to apply science
Debunk Building 7
a huge sky scraper fell on it did massive amount of structural damage, the water mains were smashed and the firefighters couldnt control the fires which burned non stop in a damaged building until it collapsed as did most of the other building in the wtc complex. its so easy to debunk it that ony fools think its collapse was anything but the quite obvious outcome of all the damage that was sustained.
I was 21 when this took place. My GF's mom called us and screamed at us to turn on the news and hung up. As soon as I saw those buildings burning I turned to the GF and said looks like Bin Laden finally hit us like he'd been trying to do for years. Just a year earlier he had been responsible for the suicide attack on the USS Cole and he kept putting outs videos saying he was going to give America the bloody nose it had coming to it for violating the sacred land of Saudi Arabia with our military bases.
The other thing that came out about the towers is that in order to have the giant amount of open office space, there was no center columns. The outer shell of the buildings was structured in a way to redistribute the weight to the outside of the towers. This allowed them to have giant open spaces in a sky scrapper that wouldn't be possible with center reinforcements. What they did was use relatively small shelves at the corner of each floor to hold the entire weight of the floor. Once these shelves were either compromised by the fires or outright destroyed by the impact, the floors began to sag. Then, Sir Issac Newton takes over, and you can see the video of what happens.
Conspiracy followers, I understand that it is more comforting to believe that a sinister cabal of shadowy, faceless demons are to blame. It's frightening to think that a handful of religious zealots took a look at our open society and exploited our vulnerability. If a small number of evil people could pull off something so horrendous, relatively easily, it can make us feel like we were foolish for allowing them to hurt us. Believing that some sinister plot that carried out for years in the shadow allows us to avoid the fact that we were caught being complacent because nothing like this had ever landed on our shores.
Is it better for us to remain ignorant and smug in the assurance of our superiority, or take a hard look at the geopolitical events occurring around us and realize that the distance of our shores to other conflicts no longer means we are safe. Sadly, too many people would rather stay in there bubble than to take a look at reality.
I was 20 when 9/11 happened, I was in college and a friend of mine came up to me to tell me about the first plane hitting. She and I had our next class together and we learned about the 2nd hit during that class after the teacher turned on the new on the in-classroom television.
Not to mention thermite is simply aluminum powder and iron rust. The planes were aluminum and the structure was steel which is mostly iron. Also that is the temperature jet fuel burns at in a puddle. Forging by high airflow through the burning fuel drastically increases the temperature which is how iron is heated enough to make steel industrially.
Say hypothetically, you're absolutely correct.
Where's the plane parts from the pentagon?
A handful of parts from an entire commercial plane, yet a handful of pieces at the crash site? It's absurd to put it lightly.
There's a lot of problems all around the entire thing, none of which are ever addressed and people (like you) fabricate things and ignore glaringly obvious concerns, that people with an IQ above room temperature have.
No jet fuel legit canât burn at a temp to melt steel and no iron isnât steel as we stopped using iron for steel so all the iron they found there was from as you said thermite as thatâs what it leaves behind after burning
When u can answer why engineers have came forward from day one stating the towers were designed for multiple hits from larger planes, n how the only 3 full steel structure buildings that collapsed from fire alone. And how building 7 wasn't even hit by a plane all happened on the same day. And there have been other many other buildings that have burned for longer and had more damage and still never collapsed? And i won't even ask why the Pentagon which has more cams around the building then most. Hasn't released any footage. Jus a few stills from one cam.
*stating the towers were designed for multiple hits from larger planes*
Which is relevant how? In case you missed it, the Towers _did_ take the plane impacts; for 105 & 55 minutes, respectively.
*how the only 3 full steel structure buildings that collapsed from fire alone*
Search Plasco Building: Tehran.
*how building 7 wasn't even hit by a plane*
What _was_ WTC7 hit by? Do you know?
*And there have been other many other buildings that have burned for longer*
Did they have 10,000 gallons of fuel dumped into them? Or 10 floors ignited at once? Were they actively being fought with firefighting efforts? Think any of this makes a difference?
*the Pentagon which has more cams around the building then most*
How do you know this?
Boring. Can I just point out both Towers survived the plane impacts.
@@MFitz12 but they didn't survive the planes...the fell remember?
@M Fitz. starting to think you and Tim Shea may be govt employees on here to try to cause doubt for people who don't believe this bullshit
@M Fitz. nope the impacts were the beginning of the towers going down, that's like saying somebody was shot in the chest with a rifle and 10 minutes later they died from loss of blood. Did the person survive the bullet impact? Not really hey?
I remember I was around 30 and having breakfast with my dad because at that age I'd just discovered my parents were kinda wise. The server refilling our coffee said a plane had hit a building in New York and we kinda laughed saying he must have been drunk. Then a customer came in saying a second plane had hit the other tower and we paid our bill and promptly fill up every vehicle with fuel and dry goods for each house.
I was working at ORNL when it happened and it was really nuts. They turned off all the TVs, put us on shuttles and took all our phones and pagers before putting us in a underground shelter. They briefed us that night, but didnât show us any video or pictures. The next day when we were taken back the whole country was in chaos and we were a day behind so it was really overwhelming.
I understand putting y'all in the underground shelter, but why turn off the TVs and take your phones? Can you please elaborate? Thanks.
@@LisaBowers It was part of the emergency response plan. Itâs supposed to give the people in charge time to determine whatâs going on and make plans without having to worry about the minutiae of making sure individual national security assets are protected. Once initiated the process has no mechanism to stop it. Once it starts everything is locked down and blacked out for 24 hours.
It makes sense viewed from a Cold War perspective when extreme paranoia drove everything. Foreign agents embedded in the facility could give the bad guys detailed location information or news from the inside might leak out and accidentally give spies valuable information. A call to a loved one could accidentally get everybody killed.
Not letting us know what was going on was supposed to keep people from freaking out and overpowering the security in a rush to try to get to loved ones. Potentially opening the doors onto a post apocalyptic world and killing everyone inside with fallout or other threats.
It was definitely overkill given the circumstances, but people had been designing those protocols since the mid-1940s and they werenât going to second guess it. They followed the plan to the letter.
Which was actually kind of reassuring in retrospect. It was all very organized and we wanted for nothing except information. There were games and food and a library. Everything youâd want to live in there for a long time in relative comfort.
@@StoneInMySandal Thank you so much for the explanation! Even though I was a teen in the 80s, I haven't thought with a 'Cold War mind' in a very long time. That makes complete sense.
The temp of the fuel burning theory forgets to take in account the rest of the things on the plane and in the building that also becomes fuel just look at a car fire or structure fire wich gets plenty hot and the jet fuel would be an accelerant to cause everything else present to also start burning
I think they let it happen..they built gas pipelines in Afghanistan after so they could pump Persian oil through it..or maybe it's just a coincidence they Halliburton made billions and then so did oil and gas companies.. there's a thing called the project for an American century..that stated in the new millenium they wanted to take control of Persian oil. I wonder if they invaded anywhere with oil after Afghanistan đ€,also Afghanistan is the main of producer of opium and then now there's an opioid crisis (probably going too far here)..alot of ppl profited from the attacks.. maybe it's all just a coincidence đ€
The only weird thing I can't explain is that my mom and a few other people I've talked with all claim to have seen the first plane hit. They all saw it during the weather broadcast, when the network used a live shot of the skyline as a background.
I've never seen this footage shared anywhere, and everyone says the first plane wasn't caught on film.
Mandela Effect? Conflating the memory of the 2nd plane with the first? Because only known footage was caught accidentally by someone filming NYFD documentary. It's possible they saw THAT once it was released and it merged with the previous memories.
(The human mind is weird, yo.)
@Michaelle Yoonmin4Life I would accept that as the answer if I hadn't heard *several* people make the same the same claim, totally independent of one another.
If their claims varied I would accept that they either each separately misremembered, or if they knew each other i would accept that one person's story influenced the others... but their accounts were all identical, and the majority of the people who I've heard make the claim don't know each other.
I find it unlikely that nearly a dozen people would all have the same false memory.
I want to point out that I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories and I'm not looking to advance any claims. I've just seen enough anecdotal evidence to believe that people did in fact see it, and that the footage has been lost for unknown reasons.
@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 Yeah that makes it harder to explain. I'm still not sure how the Mandela Effect works, but I have met several people that have distinct memories that don't exist, memories I also have, but never knew each other... and this was well before it became an internet spread phenomenon.
I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but when there's holes in explanations, or details don't make sense, it frustrates me as well. (JFK, like Simon for example.)
On days when my brain is exhausted from it, I chalk it up to alternative, parallel timelines. Like, I was in the reality where a certain thing happened, but somehow jumped threads.
I can't explain that either but it quiets the mind.
@Michaelle Yoonmin4Life every now and then I try to research it, but it's frustratingly difficult to find information... something theorists claim is intentional. đ
Searching "weather broadcast 911" just gives you *forecasts* and all the available news recordings start *after* the first reports.
It's odd that none of the news networks have released their full tapes from that day, leaving us to rely on people's home recordings.
@@xjunkxyrdxdog89 Its the same phenomenon occurring with one individual as it is with the numerous you heard from. Theyve talked with people too, seen videos, saw news, etc. AND Its been 20 years. Even if it was a year afterwards, their memory would be questionable.
Just today I could have sworn my friend had two clear gasoline jugs. Like SWORN...but he swore up and down that he had a green one and a clear one. Id used them both two weeks ago. Yet I was wrong as fuck. It still feels like im being bamboozled but i wasnt even concerned at the time what color they were. Yet now im adamant that both are clear? Nah. Its our mind failing us.
35:50 The "dripping" molten metal that was witnessed and the elements found in the Jones experiment were due to the aluminum cladding that covered the facades of the North and South towers. As anyone who has ever thrown a beer or soda can into a campfire can tell you, the melting point for aluminum isn't all that high.
Very true. Makes you wonder how it was then possible to melt steel beams
Almost 100k likes, boom.
Love seeing how successful Simon has become over all his channels :)
Jesus when a conspiracy theory website bans a theory :â)