Pentagonian Folly
Good Evening. Before you read any further, scroll down and check out my entry for April 14.
Did you do it? Good. I've got more of the same.
By now, you've undoubtedly seen the new footage of the Pentagon Strike. No surprise here, I think it's a crock of shit.
As someone pointed out on the BBC this morning...we had 4 still frames from the same video all along. Now it looks like they've just pasted them together to make them 'move'.
What is this, amateur hour? Any pimply-faced teenage kid could have made that 'video' in a half hours' time with any commonly available movie software.
But here's my real issue with the video....it still doesn't show any aircraft actually striking the building.
I've been to many, many, airshows...I've seen airliners down on the deck doing maneuvers at speed...and guess what? They don't look like a big, white blur! As a matter of fact, because of an optical illusion, the big jets look even slower than they are flying when they're down low....
But don't take my word for it. Check out this video. It's of a Boeing 757 doing things you wouldn't expect a 757 to do...it looks clear and distinct to me. And pay close attention to the high-speed pass in the middle of the video....this is what it would have looked like from the ground on the morning of September 11. OK, I'll buy the fact that it's a reasonably well-shot video and the cameraman probably had some idea of what the plane was going to do....but shouldn't the Pentagon video look reasonably similar?
And how about this video? That's from a well-known hijacking and plane crash that happened in 1996...and just happened to be caught on tape. Still looks like a plane to me.
But these two should be the kicker. First, a US Navy F-14 Tomcat punching through the sound barrier...going at least twice as fast as the 757 that allegedly hit the Pentagon...and some rare footage of a F-4 Phantom being rocket-launched into the side of a nuclear reactor vessel as part of an endurance test.
Despite significantly higher speeds...neither of those aircraft looked like a white blur.
But do you know what does? How about a Tomahawk cruise missile?
Did you do it? Good. I've got more of the same.
By now, you've undoubtedly seen the new footage of the Pentagon Strike. No surprise here, I think it's a crock of shit.
As someone pointed out on the BBC this morning...we had 4 still frames from the same video all along. Now it looks like they've just pasted them together to make them 'move'.
What is this, amateur hour? Any pimply-faced teenage kid could have made that 'video' in a half hours' time with any commonly available movie software.
But here's my real issue with the video....it still doesn't show any aircraft actually striking the building.
I've been to many, many, airshows...I've seen airliners down on the deck doing maneuvers at speed...and guess what? They don't look like a big, white blur! As a matter of fact, because of an optical illusion, the big jets look even slower than they are flying when they're down low....
But don't take my word for it. Check out this video. It's of a Boeing 757 doing things you wouldn't expect a 757 to do...it looks clear and distinct to me. And pay close attention to the high-speed pass in the middle of the video....this is what it would have looked like from the ground on the morning of September 11. OK, I'll buy the fact that it's a reasonably well-shot video and the cameraman probably had some idea of what the plane was going to do....but shouldn't the Pentagon video look reasonably similar?
And how about this video? That's from a well-known hijacking and plane crash that happened in 1996...and just happened to be caught on tape. Still looks like a plane to me.
But these two should be the kicker. First, a US Navy F-14 Tomcat punching through the sound barrier...going at least twice as fast as the 757 that allegedly hit the Pentagon...and some rare footage of a F-4 Phantom being rocket-launched into the side of a nuclear reactor vessel as part of an endurance test.
Despite significantly higher speeds...neither of those aircraft looked like a white blur.
But do you know what does? How about a Tomahawk cruise missile?
posted by Unknown at
19:42
4 Comments:
Great post, Tri!!!
I doff my foil hat your way!!
These days, foil is a more respectible metal!!!
The facts are going to come out and this Reichstag of theirs will be their legacy!!!
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Jan Crumpley, At
5/17/2006 09:22:00 PM
Not that there still aren't plenty of holes in the Pentagon story, but your video analysis may be flawed. My expertise in video is fairly limited, though I do know a couple of things. Mainly that the 2 Pentagon videos that I've seen have been from nearby surveillance cameras. Normal video cameras usually record at 30-32 frames per second (fps). At that speed the transition between frames seems smooth to the human eye. At around 28 (fps) a video will start to look choppy. Many surveillance cameras, especially pre-digital ones, in order to save storage space, record between 15-20 fps. That's what give you the 'pasted together' quality of the video. Add to this that many security cameras are walleyed, the lens distorts the image to take in as much area around the camera as possible. The other videos that you posted all looked to be taken from further away with zoom lenses which do almost the exact opposite. Zoom lenses usually distort the depth perception, making objects behind the subject appear closer than they are, this is probably at least part of the optical illusion making the planes seem to fly incredibly slowly, the reverse being that planes would appear to be flying exceptionally fast. (yes I know they seem to 'hang' in real life too, my almamater, UMass, Amherst, is directly under the flight path for planes leaving Westfield AFB)
Not to kill the tinfoil, there's still plenty of questions that need to be explained, no/little wreckage being my main point of contention, there should have been plane parts strewn halfway across DC. From the video it seems like you could fit the remains in a good size footlocker.
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Anonymous, At
5/18/2006 09:45:00 AM
Things that make you go HMMMMM abound! Great post as usual, Tri.
Oh hey before I forget, check out this post today from DailyKos on Left-Libertarianism. I thought it was really well done and figured you'd appreciate it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/24/12483/4416
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Anonymous, At
5/24/2006 01:20:00 PM
Ooops.. add this to the end of that link I posted:
/24/12483/4416
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Anonymous, At
5/24/2006 01:20:00 PM
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