Like, say, body part? If it was a missile then WTF happened to the plane full of real people that would otherwise have vanished off the face of the planet?
I don't have a precise answer to that, however I don't think it would be difficult for the Government to have made them disappear in any number of ways, I do concede that pretty much any scenario in which they did that without just crashing the plane does seem to be going to pointless effort.
With fallacious reasoning like that you can prove pretty much anything. Take climate change - if the conspiracy is so big that all of the scientists are in on it then the evidence is worthless because it is so big the evidence is being made up by those involved.
There is a bit of a difference, I was arguing a possibility for something that would require little effort, like attaching some plane pieces to a missile, this hardly requires effort on any scale close to controlling and censoring all the evidence about an issue in the whole world.
I am aware he had his licences but even your source seems to acknowledge that a month prior to 911 he couldn't rent a Cessna 172 due to poor flying skills. I can't explain how he got his licences, but it would seem to me that if the CIA or some other secretive Government agency was going to use someone for this type of false flag operation that securing piloting licences for said operative would be one of the more straight forward elements of the conspiracy.
I have seen more than a handful of experienced pilots claim they couldn't perform the manoeuvre that Hanjour did, even if you can argue that he was a competent pilot, when skilled pilots could not do what he allegedly did something doesn't add up. Russ Wittenburg, a commercial and airforce pilot with experience flying the type of aircraft in question said; "[Flight 77] could not possibly have flown at those speeds which they said it did without going into a high speed stall.", "The airplane won't go that fast when you start pulling those high G maneuvers. That plane would have fallen out of the sky..."
Also, for the damage the Pentagon sustained the plane would of had to penetrate 9 feet of steel reinforced concrete, despite the fact the plane is made from lightweight materials. It makes no sense that the lightweight nose of the plane penetrated all these walls, yet the engine on each wing, which were 6 tonnes of steel and titanium each, did not seem to penetrate the walls.
It would be good if you could apply the same level of scepticism to the "documented" sources you rely on as you do to the "official" version of events
Building 7:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/architecture/4278874
Thermite:
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2013/12/09/how-to-debunk-wtc-thermite/
I will concede the evidence for Thermite seems to be less strong than I thought. It does seem kind of funny though, that on one hand you rely on NIST as a source, but the thermite source references at least one prior attempt by NIST to discredit conspiracy theories by using misleading evidence. The NIST source claims that tower 7 would of fallen even without the structural damage, purely cause of the fire, I don't believe that. No other steel structured buildings have totally collapsed from fire yet they would have you believe that it happened three times in one day.
Passport: Apparently a lot of debris from the plane was found on th
e street before the towers collapsed - a coincidence, sure, but not a smoking gun
I see this as a huge contradiction, the plane blew up in an inferno so hot that it caused steel to melt but an object from inside the plane, that was made with paper, a material quite susceptible to combustion, made it out unharmed!? Personally, that is one thing that I just cannot believe and it is clear to me that the passport was planted. You can't have it both ways, this fire was so hot and out of control that it brought down the World Trade Centres but not intense enough to decimate a fucking passport. A few pieces from the planes exterior making it out onto the street relatively unscathed is a far cry from a piece of paper from inside the plane making it onto the street I am afraid.
I can admit that after looking up photos of both the crashes you cited that there was less debris left than that of other plane crashes I have seen. I still feel like there is considerably more debris at both those sites than there was at the Pentagon.
I watched that video and honestly did not see the part where a plane hit the Pentagon. I wasn't sure which camera to look at and didn't feel like repeatedly rewatching a 5 minute video of poor quality to see if I could pick it up. Do you happen to know at which point in time and/or on which camera the impact is captured clearly?
That's because your response is ridiculous. I've seen Rick engage in the Pentagon debate numerous times, people get kind of sick of debunking the same crap over and over in the same thread.
I dont mean to be a prick about it - you're a smart guy, I've known you here for many years, I respect your intelligence but... I jsut wish you'd apply the same critical scepticism to the sources you rely on as you do the official story.
Maybe this has been addressed in the over forty pages of this thread before, I only recently started posting in CE&P and didn't realise it was a pre requisite that I had to read all forty pages before I could respond to the question posed by Priesttheycalledhim.
Just because I see things differently to you does not make my response or my point of view ridiculous, frankly, I think the same thing regarding your point of view in relation to a passport making it into the street and jet fuel burning hot enough to melt steel, but I don't feel the need to get condescending about it.
You are correct that I should have applied more critical skepticism to some sources that helped shape my opinion, in future that is something I will have to watch out for. However, I feel like a lot of questions remain unanswered and really, the onus is on those pushing the official story to prove that is what happened. I am not saying anything specific happened, I am calling into question the credibility and authenticity of the official account.
I used to buy into this crap myself. The thing that made me start to think was when I started engaging in the climate change debate. I realised that the denier conspiracies were ludicrous and the more I looked into it and argued the science the more I started to see correlation with the way deniers distort evidence and the stories I'd been led to believe about 9/11. It made me start to question my own beliefs and to start critically challenging the stuff I'd accepted because I was biased towards believing that the nefarious powers that would could and would be capable of such a thing. The capability side of it I can still accept that it's not outside the realm of believability - but where the whole thing departs the realm of believability is the quality of the evidence provided.
You can certainly discredit the quality of a lot of the evidence by conspiracy theorists, but equally you can on the official story. There are too many convenient coincidences and other things that just don't add up. I don't think it has been sufficiently explained how a kerosene fire could cause numerous steel structured buildings to collapse at almost free fall speed. I don't think it was some coincidence that NORAD was playing war games that day. There were many eyewitness accounts of bombs going off in all the World Trade Centre's prior to their collapse. The list goes on and on.
At the end of the day, I don't care what anybody else believes, everyone is entitled to their opinion. I didn't come into this thread with the intention or the illusion that I would change anybodies mind on this issue, I merely responded to a question.
I actually do respect your intelligence and your point of view, all I ask is that you don't mock or belittle mine. The truth is that nobody knows 100% what happened on that day, and smug as some people like to feel, they could just as easily be wrong as anybody else.