I will admit that I can't justify putting my faith 100% in the video but I will put more faith in that than the testiment of people that have an understandable bias on an event they were not expecting - I just don't think you can put that much trust in them relating events accurately when the liklihood is that no-one really saw it (the first impact, that is).editor said:Right. So you'd rather put your faith in a highly compressed, artifact-laden video clip shot from miles away than trust the eye witness accounts of people who were right up close to the event? Why?
But I don't get your point. Are you saying that the first plane was remotely controlled and loaded with explosives and that the second one - witnessed by millions all over the world - wasn't?
I'm not really confident enough to say if either plane was remote controlled or whether the first plane was a passenger jet. In fact this thread covers a number of topics that some people consider to be the whole story (i.e. the conspiracy view) but I see as very seperate possibilities that may form some part of the actual truth. The main issue I have with the remote control scenario is, as you rightly pointed out, Mike, is the enourmous depth to which the conspiracy would have to run. However, in an earlier post, I showed the technology exists and has been used to control large commercial airliners in the course of experimenting with anti-misting agents in aviation fuel. So while it is unlikely in relation to 9/11, because it is possible, it must be considered an option.
It's the same with the demolition theory. Buildings do have this kind of fail safe mechanism and therefore it should be considered an option - but only if the WTC can be shown to have had this technology installed. There is footage that shows strange jets of matter being ejected at uniform intervals down the building at the time of collapse. This doesn't prove the point but it does give remit to consider it an option.
I guess what I'm getting at is that while I don't buy into all of the theories surrounding the events, I feel some deserve more consideration than others given certain pieces of evidence. Evidence which is refuted by some and may be considered low quality but when so much evidence has vanished in this case (most of the Pentagon plane, most of the plane that crashed on it's way to it's suposed target, countless government documents etc.) we have to look at what is left. Far from ideal I know.
Mike, about these 'artefacts' - can you think why they would be removed from the DVD? Honest question as you obviously know far more than I about video compression and the like.