Reply #203: You can believe what you wish

[leanings]

altho I can email you my resume if you really want.

So just make your argument on the basis of the facts available. Start with the emplaced SAM systems in DC, or why the AF's alert aircraft program actually WAS properly equipped to deal with four commercial airliners flying on interior lines?

I understand why people invent conspiracy theories. It's difficult to acknowledge how imperfect systems built by imperfect human beings can be. But, Christ, just look at the Columbia disaster. One of the most intricately planned and thoroughly observed and monitored and closed systems known to man. A big honking chunk of it comes off and smashes a gaping hole in the wing. And for all the planning and telemetry and observation and technical skill and money and resources and experience involved, nobody catches it and the thing burns up over Texas.

Things fall apart. The center does not hold. It's not necessarily the scheming of evil genius. In fact, it very rarely is. It's usually the FAA tower operator who holds on a minute or two extra to make sure his equipment isn't on the fritz and his boss who wants to make sure of what's going on before he brings down a shitstorm and the guy who's in the crapper while his phone is ringing off the hook and a hundred other human frailties.

But that's hard to accept. When we don't understand lightening is a natural electrical phenomenon we say gods hurl it down from mountaintops.

I've got an open mind, and I've been thru a whole hell of a lot more material on this thing than I should have wasted my time on, and it don't hold water. Period. Again, feel free to believe whatever makes you feel happy.