Cfrobel

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I hate to sound cynical, but they mostly just stood around the lobby until the towers fell, then stood around outside. I watched the whole video and was surprised to not see any firefighters make their way upstairs.

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I mean the impact was on the 93-99th floors. If you listen to the audio they were trying to figure out if any elevators were working in order to practically get firefighters and equipment up to the impact zone. In the South Tower one of the fittest firefighters in the department had just managed to lead a team to up to the 78th floor sky lobby when the building collapsed.

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But were any of the buildings near it damaged beyond repair?

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WTC 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, the Deutsche Bank Building and St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.

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Nobody disputes that. It just seems highly unbelievable that both buildings fell in perfect demolition style after a plane hit the upper section. If anything, the top half should have fallen but not the entire building.

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Absolutely no sign of demolition, on WTC 2 you can see the exact moment of structural failure when the perimeter columns buckle.

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Would the British have signed a peace treaty after Waterloo or would they have doubled down?

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No, the UK seemed willing to drive themselves into fiscal insolvency, peak debt to GDP ratio of somewhere between 200%-250%, to ensure a strong Continental power did not exist.

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Expanding into what?

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It's not expanding into anything, space itself is expanding.

I live nearby and occasionally enjoy going surfing and body boarding, a few months ago on a much calmer day than this I ended up dragging a drowning middle aged and out of shape man about 15 feet back to shore in knee/waist deep water. By the time I reached him, only a few minutes after I first spotted him going in, he was passed out with white fluid coming out of his nose and mouth.

Luckily we had cell service at this beach and were able to contact the fire department who responded quickly and after clearing his lungs and getting him some oxygen he recovered. The break had flattened so almost every other surfer was gone and I only remained in the water because my daughter wanted to play for a few more minutes, if we weren't still there he likely wouldn't have made it. It shocked me that even though he was there with a family of 10+ people they did nothing to help other than to scream at me to do something...

People constantly go into the ocean who don't know how to swim and have absolutely no sense of how cold the water is and how it will effect them. Deaths at the beaches in Northern CA are not at all uncommon since most either do not have any lifeguards, only have them seasonally, or a few lifeguards are responsible for patrolling huge stretches of beach.

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Globally, this is false.

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How is this false? Sea levels have significantly varied due to glaciation over time.

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My grandmother's house had 2 bedrooms, one bath, and a window AC unit added much later.
No one would stoop to buy a house like that these days.

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Where I live what you described is a 2 million dollar house.

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It would rip you apart if the initial G forces don’t kill you first

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We will likely never be able to accelerate a spacecraft to even 10% of the speed of light but you can work around your problem by only accelerating and decelerating at 1g.

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If we went to the moon, why haven’t we been back?

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It's a completely dead world, the dust itself is toxic and clings to everything. What is the value of continuing with massively expensive missions to go back?