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| Mosfet | Date: Friday, 21.10.2016, 11:59 | Message # 646 |
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| eh, I'd like to see the original transmission for those references.
Also, for what we know it could be a reference to the 1974 movie "The Towering Inferno", 3 Oscars and 2 Golden Globes in 1975.
"Time is illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 22.10.2016, 01:10 | Message # 647 |
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| Out of curiosity for the stories people have of 9/11, how many saw the 9/11 events live as they happened, or were closely affected by it?
I was in high school at the time, in Arlington just a few miles from the Pentagon where one of the planes hit. Of course, it took a bit of time for the realization of what was going on to become to clear that morning. We had been hearing the spreading rumor in the halls between classes, first it was that a helicopter had hit the Trade Center... and then it progressively got weirder and weirder. None of us were thinking terrorism. Finally I got to my theatre arts class and I asked my teacher to turn on the news to see what was going on first hand. I'll never forget the instant we turned on the television was when the first tower started collapsing (not a replay). Unreal.
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| midtskogen | Date: Saturday, 22.10.2016, 07:47 | Message # 648 |
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| It was towards the end of the work day here. I didn't have TV access, but had a live stock feed, which somewhat indirectly but quite instantly indicated the seriousness as the events unfolded.
When the towers collapsed, I recalled a visit to WTC a few years earlier. During the visit I wasn't so much marvelling at what it takes to erect such a building, but more at how that building would be torn down when the time came. I got the answer, but not quite what I had been expecting.
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| spacer | Date: Saturday, 22.10.2016, 09:13 | Message # 649 |
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| and i was a 1.2 years old baby. i think i only heard of it when i was 5-10. cant remember
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| Mosfet | Date: Saturday, 22.10.2016, 13:59 | Message # 650 |
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| I was driving my car, searching for a parking place in a city nearby, when I heard the news on the radio of the first impact. By the time of the second impact I was watching TV. Since I knew a friend of mine was used to stop by at the towers rather frequently, I was freaking out. Fortunately he was elsewhere that day.
"Time is illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
Douglas N. Adams
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| Aerospacefag | Date: Sunday, 23.10.2016, 10:30 | Message # 651 |
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| For you who aren't very keen about history of this goddamn planet, you may as well check some other events that happened 11 September. Namely, about 30 years before that.
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| Watsisname | Date: Sunday, 23.10.2016, 10:56 | Message # 652 |
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| Feel free to talk about what you were doing or how you were affected on that day in 1973, too. Not too many of us were alive or old enough to remember. Or feel free to talk about other things that have happened on an 11th of September. Why not the battle of Zenta? That was a pretty important one in world history, too.
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| midtskogen | Date: Sunday, 23.10.2016, 10:57 | Message # 653 |
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| Quote Aerospacefag (  ) For you who aren't very keen about history of this goddamn planet, you may as well check some other events that happened 11 September. Namely, about 30 years before that.
11 September according to Wikipedia:
1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
1970 – The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
1974 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashes in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing 69 passengers and two crew.
1976 – A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
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| Fireinthehole | Date: Sunday, 23.10.2016, 12:34 | Message # 654 |
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| Don't forget the battle of Stirling Bridge on 11 September 1297, where William Wallace defeated the English army. 
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