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   zookumar yelubandi to nonsense@unsettled.com   
   Re: BBC World News reported collapse of    
   27 Feb 07 14:37:24   
   
   XPost: soc.culture.british, uk.philosophy.humanism, alt.philosophy.debate   
   XPost: rec.org.mensa   
   From: zookumar@yahoo.ca   
      
   nonsense@unsettled.com wrote:   
   > zookumar yelubandi wrote:   
   [...]   
   > >>More likely the clock is off.   
   > >         Yes, it is possible that a timestamp error may have occurred,   
   > > just as it is possible that pigs with wings can fly.  But that species   
   > > has not yet been found on our planet.   
   > >         For a logical connection of the dots, listen slowly and consume   
   > > at your own rate.   The BBC World News anchor makes the following   
   > > comment on the video at the 2min/45s mark of the 7min/15s clip: "it's   
   > > now what, some eight hours since the attack".   
   > >         So we can actually ignore the visual timestamps and look at the   
   > > logical timestamp.  The attacks occurred at around 9:00 AM NY time   
   > > (specifically, at 8:46am and 9:03am).   The BBC world news anchor states   
   > > explicitly that it is some 8 hours after the attacks (at the 2min45s   
   > > mark of this particular video).  That would mean approximately 5:00pm NY   
   > > time.   Now pan back to earlier video evidence (at the 1min15s mark) as   
   > > the female reporter points behind her and WTC7 is *still* visible,   
   > > relatively undamaged, in the background.  But the BBC anchor _opened_   
   > > with the statement that WTC7 had collapsed, e.g. at the 0min10s mark.   
   > > Salomon Brothers Building is none other than Building 7.   So we already   
   > > know that WTC7 is being alleged to have collapsed in the vicinity of the   
   > > 5:00pm NY time mark, perhaps even earlier.  But it actually collapsed at   
   > > 5:20pm NY time.  Ergo, the evidence for scripted dialogue being   
   > > dispensed by script-reading minions, is insurmountable.   
   > >         So by focussing only on the audiovisual evidence of the clip and   
   > > not its "official timestamp", it is quite obvious to any logical mind   
   > > that something is rotten in the figurative state of Denmark.  Of course,   
   > > not that it matters all that much, but the "official" timestamp, too,   
   > > comports with the BBC anchor's orientation of realtime at the 2min45s   
   > > mark (on the video).   
   > >         -zookumar-   
   > There's an old Irish saying that fits well here.   
   > "Eager eyes see far."   
      
      
           Old Irish sayings are no match for clear, concise, irrefutable   
   logic.   So, with apologies to Irish teetotallers everywhere, I remind   
   you of an even older Irish saying, "Ahye, ware's dih noar'st poab,   
   *hic*, lahddie?"   
      
      
           cheers   
           -zookumar-   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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