http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-901683049872134071&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=undefined Very interesting debate worth watching between loose change guys and editors of popular mechanics What are your views about conspiracy theories?
So do popular mechanics... I think the scattergun approach of using all unusual phenomena to further a single agenda and basing inferences upon questions do these conspiracy theorists no favours. Some of their questions are good ones and still need answers though.
The theory about the plane disintegrating yet the bodies can be identified is a solid one, in my opinion.
Yes... though identification can happen from very small fragments of people if a DNA match is available. The photos showing the small hole in the side of the Pentagon has always puzzled me, with apparently no damage from the engines on either side of it, and I've heard no explanation which adequately explains it. The popular mechanics folks really fell down on that one in the debate, claiming that "that hole is actually 90 feet wide!" That was ridiculous, and patently untrue. Of course, saying that you don't know the explanation doesn't mean there is a sinister explanation - just that we don't yet know.
Yeah, but if the airplane apparently disintegrated (metal), then surely the bodies would have disintegrated LONG before the plane would.
The claim is not that it disintegrated wholesale ... there were parts found on the lawn of the Pentagon ... just not many I don't think anyone seriously claims the whole thing could've vapourised.
Found a very good article going through the conspiracy claims about the Pentagon and debunking them ... must say it's very well written and very convincing. It explains all the things I was wondering about. It's very easy in the face of partial information to make assumptions which further detailed research can show to be entirely wrong, however convincing and tenacious those assumptions may be... http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagon/index.html
