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Originally posted by godsdice
I think it's absurd and a little appalling that you would somehow come to the conclusion that Flight 77 and the hundred-or-so people on that plane must have been a ploy for something dreamt up from crappy photos and half-baked information or lack thereof?

Huh ? Where did i say that ? I just wanted facts.

So, some other 'smaller' plane must have crashed into that building to make that hole that you can so accurately measure in stills (or copied from other websites).

Well, photos are not made up, to say the least. They come from the US Army itself (.mil sites...) and are in very high resolution - so basically yes, one can measure up things quite precisely. If the military had never released these very good pictures, the debate wouldnt have even existed - ppl would have sticken to the official blah blah.

This reminds me of the various websites which try to deconstruct stills from the very poor color resolution moon landing broadcast, and somehow come to the conclusion that everything was staged and recorded in a studio in Nevada.

The difference here however is, anyone can *prove* those sites are wrong. First their analysis of the photos is either misguided (i've seen one pointing at a light reflected on Armstrong's helmet as a stage light, though it was the flag...) or plain wrong (edited photos, or "look those crosshairs ! they show it's a made up photo"). Second one can easily check NASA archives, people who actually got there, people who worked for the NASA then, or even pick up a (good) telescope and scan the landing site for the hardware they left there.
So it's quite opposed. For NASA photos prove the facts. For pentagon, they don't, actually they show a total lack of evidence... And since yet no-one has shown any piece of evidence, even the officials who keep a total silence on the topic.

The Internet is great... sometimes.

Note thats a convenient way for the general media to keep their business. "Internet is a place where you cannot get any good information" is something i heard so many times on TV. How convenient for them.
30 years ago we couldnt have had this kind of debate. Now we can, but for how long ? (if you answer mark the post 'OT' plz)

As for the topic at hand, i've yet to see any technical evidence supporting either version of the facts.
(and for the "why"... there are so many possibilities, including non-conspirationist, good-will-from-the-govt schemes that we'll never really know before 2031 or 2041)