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How photos support your own "reality"

Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases.
By Farhad Manjoo

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  • Monday, March 17, 2008 11:32 AM

    A missle from an airliner?

    Sorry, did I understand correctly that this dude thought that the airliner that crashed into one of the WTC towers was armed with a missle? Does this guy know anything about how airliners are constructed? There are no hardpoints that you could attach a missle on an airliner. You can't even modify an airliner to be missle-capable.

    And, even if there were, what would be the point? So, you're going to crash an airliner into a tower. It weighs tons, is traveling at hundreds of miles an hour and is packed with explosive fuel. But at the last second, you fire a missle? For what? To increase the impact?

    Totally dumbass.

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