Text 27320, 44 rader
Skriven 2009-02-07 18:31:18 av Lee Lofaso (3:800/432.0)
  Kommentar till text 27277 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Love that sand!
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Hello Robert,

>LL>An aircraft hitting a 110-story building will leave a very large gash.
>LL>But nothing much more than that.  Aside from destroying the aircraft,
>LL>that is.

RB>That was precisely what I said on the morning of 9/11, as TV
RB>commentators were talking about a possible collapse of the twin
RB>towers.

My first thoughts were of tremendous sadness, "All those people" being
doomed as the towers would be sure to collapse.  But I knew that was a
ridiculous thought, and would not really happen.

RB>"Absolutely ridiculous," were my words - "simply can't
RB>happen". I thought the worst that could happen was that the
RB>tops might break off and fall into the street - but that
RB>the entire building could collapse, like in "Independence
RB>Day" - at that time the mere thought was incomprehensible.

When watching a James Bond movie we know it is fiction but
yet the story is very believable.  Why?  Because we want to
believe the story as being true, even though we know it is
not.  When watching a real horror we do not want to know
what is true, hoping what we see is fiction, even though we
know it is not.  What we know we know, what we know we don't
know, what we don't know we don't know.  Do we really want
to know, and what the bleep do we know?

RB>Unfortunately, I didn't realize the construction of those
RB>towars at the time. That only came out later. I thought the
RB>things were solid as rock. Now we all know better.

Do we know?  Do we really know?  Do we even want to know?
If we know what we think we know we may not want to know
we think we know...

--Lee


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