911 - 102 mins on Channel 4
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I was up the top in Feb 2001 (just as a tourist) and it happened whilst we were on holiday in Kos
Never forget wandering into the hotel reception and thinking "why are all those people stood around the TV on a beautiful day like.......oh sh*t!"
Freaks me to think those murdering scum must have had that planned when I was stood up there
Never forget wandering into the hotel reception and thinking "why are all those people stood around the TV on a beautiful day like.......oh sh*t!"
Freaks me to think those murdering scum must have had that planned when I was stood up there
WaspsNest said:
I've stood at ground zero. Very harrowing experience when you see the scale in real life.
Very powerful stuff as said by poster above.
Incredible footage. Wait till the buggers drop.
I remember seeing that live, just turned the tv on after getting home from work (we'd had it on the radio all afternoon.) and the first thing I saw was the second tower falling. One of the most shocking things I've ever seen.Very powerful stuff as said by poster above.
Incredible footage. Wait till the buggers drop.
Mother of god, hearing the voices of the fireman (and even seeing those on the ground now) that odds on wont make it
As for the guy on 911 a few minutes back advising the guy to "sit tight" in his office
What an awful thing hindsight can be, he must torture himself every day for uttering those words
As for the guy on 911 a few minutes back advising the guy to "sit tight" in his office
What an awful thing hindsight can be, he must torture himself every day for uttering those words
I've never seen that angle of the tower falling before. I'd always thought it fell straight down but from that shot you could see the top half tip right over before it fell.Did you see that! I was thinking the same about the angle too, you could see it go lop-sided. Also, the molten stuff leaking out of the side before it fell. Cue theory's about Thermite :-o
Amazing, in a terrible way..
The documentry is putting you right there though, what a clever, clever piece of editing the whole thing is.
Anyway, thats my contribution.. if you're not watching this, you missing out i'd say.
Night all,
B
Amazing, in a terrible way..
The documentry is putting you right there though, what a clever, clever piece of editing the whole thing is.
Anyway, thats my contribution.. if you're not watching this, you missing out i'd say.
Night all,
B
To go along with the comments about the angle as it fell, I never realized that the 'towers' actually fell onto the surrounding buildings (as shown in the last clip before the break)
I remember where I was, I was on the Bus from 6th form and listening to it on an FM radio. I honestly thought 2 planes had collided OVER New York...not THIS!
I remember where I was, I was on the Bus from 6th form and listening to it on an FM radio. I honestly thought 2 planes had collided OVER New York...not THIS!
WaspsNest said:
Did you see that! I was thinking the same about the angle too, you could see it go lop-sided. Also, the molten stuff leaking out of the side before it fell. Cue theory's about Thermite :-o
Molten nothing, when several stories of a tall building collapse, where does the debris and air pressure go? Straight down through concrete floors, or through nice weak glass? stand on an empty, sealed carton of juice and watch it pop from the sides, especially apparent if filled with dust/talc. Going back to a solid building example, it can only hold so much air pressure and debris, before it starts to seak out the weakest point. As the air pressure escapes, the air buffer between the collapsing floors dissapears, the heavy floors fall into each other, gaining mass and energy, gaining strength and falling through more floors, the air and debris in between each floor is compressed faster and faster, seeking the easiest point of escape. The heavy concrete and steel falls downwards, the light air, dust, papers and 'organic matter' flies out of the comparatively thin windows.The structural design office I was working in on that day had several big screens, and about 10 mins after the first hit, we were all standing around watching the coverage transfixed.
A couple of the Engineer's weren't too far out with their back of a fag packet calcs as to when the towers would collapse, but it was still a shocking thing to see via live TV, but you just can't really equate to what it must have been to have been there.
Incredible footage in that documentary.
A couple of the Engineer's weren't too far out with their back of a fag packet calcs as to when the towers would collapse, but it was still a shocking thing to see via live TV, but you just can't really equate to what it must have been to have been there.
Incredible footage in that documentary.
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