Devil's Advocate
Critical Thinker
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Didn't they release the recorders with Atta on them? I know I heard it somewhere.No, by law audio recordings of the CVR are not allowed to be released publically. Only transcripts are permitted. This web site explains the reasons as follows:
Of course, and we know the winds were about 10mph. How long does it take debris to go 2.5 miles at 10mph if they go in a straight line?Why? What's the basis for making it hard to believe - what assumptions are at work? Wouldn't the distance the debris travelled depend greatly on the prevailing weather conditions and the nature of the debris?
Obviously they did not go that far in a straight line, they would have to have arced and been carried. Which if you follow the laws of momentum, that would have taken longer. In which case, the blast would have been the biggest factor.
The report said around five seconds. Factor in distance, time, volume, and height reached. The cloud has already 'rolled' into a mushroom and had lost form, and the 'stem' or 'push' had already began to fade before this picture was taken, as is evident through is thin and stringy stem. That would indicate, to me anyway, that the explosion had a moderate volume, with minimal energy.Wouldn't whether nor not the cloud indicates a terrible explosion depend greatly on the size of the cloud and how long after the explosion any images were taken?
Otherwise the stem would have been much thicker forcing more rolling from the push into the mushroom. The mushroom in flight 93 photo is not pronounced (Pronounced as in 'rolling up'), which makes me further deduce that the explosion was not that powerful, or taken much later than the reported five seconds. (Watch some footage of ordinance going off in Iraq and you'll understand what I am talking about. Stop frames at 5 seconds after a blast)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Lcjfdra2c&mode=related&search=
That is the energy from one 2,ooolb bomb. Note it says three, but when the last hit the guy says ANOTHER dud. 2 and 3 failed.
But note how long the mushroom remained rolled and kept climbing with an unbroken stem. That is energy!
Logic, deduction, seeing bombs going off, etc.That would require a frame of reference, would it not? There would have to be some kind of expectation about what size of an explosion does to what kind of terrain - in which case, where do the expectations come from?
