Cod said:
Hasn't nothing to do with "buying into" a conspiracy theory. I'm just using common sense. The theories says that the government is covering up all the evidence. I'm just saying the plane wasn't a 757 by looking at the given evidence.
Fair enough. Usually though, saying you don't buy into a conspiracy theory implies that you accept the conventional explanation.
Because a 757 is around 40-50' in height (not sure exactly) and the Pentagon is 74' tall (exactly). Yet, only the first 2 floors were hit by the plane? Common sense tells you that's impossible unless there is a massive crater in the ground from where the plane would of hit also if it was that low. Are you going to tell me the Pentagon floors are all 12' tall? I highly doubt they are, though I could be wrong.
Several big problems here:
First, its easy enough to find out how big a 757 is. Clearly, this is an issue to you - why haven't you checked? A 757 is 44 feet tall including the landing gear
http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=101
Second, common sense? The
worst thing you can do here is rely on your common sense. In fact, that's the main problem with conspiracy theorists: instead of
actually learning how things work, they rely on preconcieved notions of how they
think things
should work. The TD and Relativity forums are full of people who think Relativity is wrong because it conflicts with their preconceptions. Don't make assumptions, don't follow your logic:
find out how things really work.
Third: 12 feet would be awful small for a building's floor to floor height. That's your preconceptions getting in the way again. Commercial buildings are rarely anything less than 15' floor to floor. Remember, not only do commercial buildings generally have higher ceilings than residences, they also need space for structural support and services (I'm constantly fighting with architects to get more space to put my ductwork in) - and this is the Pentagon, a building designed with nuclear survivability in mind. I design air conditioning systems for buildings: for one recent commercial buidling (nowhere near the size of the Pentagon), the main air conditioning supply duct was more than
four feet high. Also, don't assume the ground floor is at ground level - it rarely is.
Put all that together and there is plenty of room for a 757 to hit just the first and second floor - even if it weren't decending, which it was; even if it didn't belly-flop short of the building, which it might have; even if it didn't come apart on impact (making that tail a lot shorter than 40 feet), which it likely did; and even if the aluminum structure of the upper vertical stabilizer could have cut into a building at its strongest point (the beams holding up the floor) without shattering, which it couldn't have.
I don't believe the missle theory at all. I just don't think a 757 is what hit the Pentagon.
I don't think you are being reasonable in that assessment. Not only is the evidence for it quite overwhealming, the evidence presented by the conspiracy theorists is obviously flawed - much even appears purposely deceptive.
