Letters to the Editor
jared2
Published Letters: 222 Editor's Choice: 16
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Out of Context
[Read the article: The atheist delusion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'Let me say that it does matter whether you tell the truth or not - not to god, which does not exist, but to yourself'
Please don't take my words out of context. If you read my whole post, I stressed the importance of loving your spouse and family and being truthful to them, not just to yourself. Of course we want to live in a world in which people are honest, non-violent and compassionate. We should educate our children to culivate these virtues and avoid the vices of selfishness, dishonesty, greed, violent behavior. None of this has anything to do with superstitious beliefs. My sentence has nothing to do with selfishness.
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Flying
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The closest I have come to flying is being handed the controls of a De Havilland Beaver. I could turn to the left. I could even turn to the right. I'm pretty sure I could get a small plane like a Cessna down in one piece. As for an airliner, no way. Regarding the $20,000 starting salaries for pilots. That would just about pay for a parking spot in New York, absent the car.
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TaiMalone
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or how about large office buildings like WTC 7 collapsing for no apparent reason? It seems we must all believe impossible things these days. Maybe it gets easier with practice.
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast"
Alice in Wonderland
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The Federal Reserve is a Private Bank
[Read the article: Death to the Fed! A Ron Paul manifesto]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Fed is not a government agency, but a private consortium of bankers. Private banks print our currency, set interest rates and lend money to the government at interest for their own profit. The banks, in effect, own the government.
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Cestmoi
[Read the article: Ask the pilot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"The idea that diesel fuel stored in Building 7 is to blame for the collapse was promoted by The New York Times in late 2001 and by FEMA's 2002 Building Performance Study. 1 This idea is also untenable. Fires were observed in Building 7 prior to its collapse, but they were isolated in small parts of the building, and were puny by comparison to other building fires. Let's imagine, contrary to the evidence, that debris from the tower collapses damaged Building 7's structure, that diesel fuel tanks exploded, and that incredibly intense fires raged through large parts of the building. Could such events have caused the building to collapse? Not in the manner observed. The reason is that simultaneous and symmetric damage is needed to produce a collapse with the precise symmetry of the vertical fall of building 7. This building had 58 perimeter columns and 25 core columns. In order to cause the building to sink into its footprint, all of the core columns and all of the perimeter columns would have to be broken in the same split-second.
Any debris from the towers impacting Building 7 would have hit its south side, and any columns damaged by it would almost certainly be perimeter columns on its south side. Any fuel tank explosion would only be able to damage nearby structure. The rapid fall-off of blast pressures with distance from the source would preclude any such event from breaking all of the columns in the building.
Building 7 was about 5 times as tall as it was deep.
(Furthermore the very idea of a tank of diesel fuel exploding taxes the imagination, since diesel fuel does not even begin to boil below 320ยบ F. 2 ) Fires have never been known to damage steel columns in high-rise buildings, but if they could, the damage would be produced gradually and would be localized to the areas where the fire was the most intense.
No combination of debris damage, fuel-tank explosions, and fires could inflict the kind of simultaneous damage to all the building's columns required to make the building implode. The precision of such damage required to bring Building 7 down into its footprint was especially great, given the ratio of its height to its width and depth. Any asymmetry in the extent and timing of the damage would cause such a building to topple."
From Wtc.net
Note that the official 9/11 commission has not addressed the cause of the collapse of wtc7. In addition, the other poster who raised the issue of how a very poor pilot was able to execute highly skilled moves prior to hitting the pentagon has not been addressed. This would appear to me to be even more difficult than for a non-pilot to land an airliner.