Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
arthur conan doyle
unlike most of america, i slept through it all.
sad but true: by the time i dragged my lazy ass outta bed at around eleven PDT on that ill-fated tuesday morning and flipped on the tv, it was all over but the endless replays.
which, in retrospect, is why i think i managed to retain some objectivity even as i watched in slack-jawed horror as the towers dropped over and over again in slow motion on my television screen. observed repeatedly and ex post facto, the only thing my architecturally-trained brain could think was, "wow--looks like every controlled demolition i've ever seen."
dismissed that as crazy, of course--until later, i saw the buried WTC 7 footage [i.e., the almost-ignored building that wasn't hit by an airliner on that godawful day but nevertheless obligingly and impossibly disintegrated in exactly the same way as the twin towers], and connected the dots for myself.
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As I recall at the time, the official explanation was that the fall of the towers had caused massive damage to Building 7's foundation and that underground fires had contributed more damage so that it's support was completely undermined and it just gave way.
My younger daughter was crammed into the stern of a Hudson River ferry after waiting on line for hours to get out of Manhattan, and she saw it suddenly give way.
will: you're right--that is the official story.
that building didn't merely "give way"--it neatly disintegrated in five seconds. i don't know how any adult with more than a brain stem could watch that footage and not realize instantly that something's really, really rotten in denmark.
In completely similar but unrelated news, the Echelon building is *finally* just a shell after months of what looked like absolutely no progress.
Miss you guys. I've been out whoring it up. I think I'm partly to blame for Austin being the #1 sexually active city in the US.
judi: as you can see, you haven't missed much--glad at least one of us is having fun.
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