September 11 ...10 years on.

[Pickle']

I was in year 5, Dont remember much but i do remember trying to con a day off school because of it

 

[Fekason]

I had been at dinner with US military personnel in Canberra, and turned the TV on when I got back to the hotel to check what was on. Caught the initial newsflash almost straight away.

Spent the whole night up, and many nights thereafter.

 

[Jonno]

i woulda been in gade 3 or 4?
cant remeber at all, i rember family friends got back from nyc the day before it though.


to everyone talking about cheese tv....

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[Kieran263]

Yeah I was only young when I saw it, and didn't completely comprehend what happened until a few years later.
But personally I feel like the Norway terror attacks at the youth political gathering hits home more, but that's
probably just I understand what goes on around me more than I did when I was 9.

 

[Shedvl]

The incident was very sad, but I do believe that it's also sad how much of a "worldly" impact this had.

As many people that died in that incident die every single day to preventable causes such as malaria or starvation.

Sometimes it's a good exercise to put these things in comparison.

As I said in original post...

"I think because it was such a huge number of deaths in an instant and it was premeditated."

 

[ari666]

Really? People actually believe this was a conspiracy? Very very sad...

i cant believe people watch the footage of the twin towers free-falling and they think it was due to a jet flying into it!!!! how naive can you get?

 

[some_guy]

i cant believe people watch the footage of the twin towers free-falling and they think it was due to a jet flying into it!!!! how naive can you get?

Because it CAN happen Ari, high temperature could easily melt the steel foundations. Avgas/ jet A1 fuel is highly explosive stuff man.

The building designers themselves admitted that they had not allowed in their design parameters for planes to crash into the buildings.

 

[minux]

i cant believe people watch the footage of the twin towers free-falling and they think it was due to a jet flying into it!!!! how naive can you get?

About as naive as someone thinking this was a government plot...there has been a good video put together recosntructing how it happened, pretty much gives a big #### you to the conspiracy theorists. Hard to argue against pure physics...

 

[Rusty]

About as naive as someone thinking this was a government plot...there has been a good video put together recosntructing how it happened, pretty much gives a big #### you to the conspiracy theorists. Hard to argue against pure physics...

Wouldn't happen to have a link to this vid by any chance?

 

[ari666]

Avgas/ jet A1 fuel is highly explosive stuff man.

lol, kerosene man. really low burning temp but a low flash point which makes it perfect for powering jets, not so good for melting steel rated to 2000deg F