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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Muslims?
Perhaps not but what's the chances?
FYI, there is a heliocopter landing strip 1/2 mile south ... if it is still in operation.
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NYC is vulnerable to these sorts of accidents happening now and then, such as the fighter jet hitting the Empire State Building in the fog back in I think it was 1946. There used to be a helicopter pad on top of the PanAm Building in the 1970s until one night a chopper crashed, dismembering a passenger or two and sending debris down into the streets where it killed a passerby. All this is why so many New Yorkers (and others) initially thought 9/11/01 was an accident, even though a couple million people had just seen a passenger jet go screaming low all the way down the east side of town.
New Yorkers become so used to living with hassle on a 24/7 basis that they expect the small disasters but never think the big ones can happen there. This changed for a while after 9/11 but in the absence of more attacks the old stoicism has returned -- except when something like this happens and briefly reminds everyone of what That Day was like and that they are in the crosshairs. Pam from Atlas says she was in the area and everything went back to normal in a relatively short time as people realized what had happened.
What I fear is that someday the "Breaking News" is going to be Explosion in Wall Street Area and it won't turn out to be something like a manhole cover blasting off. Or the next plane won't be some poor guy from the Yankees running out of luck.
Crikey, are those window washers hanging alongside the building on the left? They certainly got an eyeful.
Poor Lidle, I wonder what went so wrong that it put him in a building. The air corridor is up the East River, which is pretty wide. And I thought they were supposed to notify next of kin before announcing names on TV like that.
Those aren't window washers but men doing cement work on the terraces. They continued to work once the smoke died down. The picture was taken from a friend’s apartment across the street.
As rev says, there have been accidents in the past; about one a decade. And, as I note, there is a helicopter landing pad near by. That was another hypothesis I considered. However, Islamic attacks are several per year in Western countries. Thus, the first working hypothesis is SJS … Sudden Jihad Syndrome. It was too small for organized jihad but as we note there are independent Muslims who spontaneously combust with religious fever.
But sometimes it’s only an accident. I have no hesitation to list all the possibilities in order of probability. But probability is a way to manage ignorance … time and effort brings us the facts.
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NYC is vulnerable to these sorts of accidents happening now and then, such as the fighter jet hitting the Empire State Building in the fog back in I think it was 1946. There used to be a helicopter pad on top of the PanAm Building in the 1970s until one night a chopper crashed, dismembering a passenger or two and sending debris down into the streets where it killed a passerby. All this is why so many New Yorkers (and others) initially thought 9/11/01 was an accident, even though a couple million people had just seen a passenger jet go screaming low all the way down the east side of town.
New Yorkers become so used to living with hassle on a 24/7 basis that they expect the small disasters but never think the big ones can happen there. This changed for a while after 9/11 but in the absence of more attacks the old stoicism has returned -- except when something like this happens and briefly reminds everyone of what That Day was like and that they are in the crosshairs. Pam from Atlas says she was in the area and everything went back to normal in a relatively short time as people realized what had happened.
What I fear is that someday the "Breaking News" is going to be Explosion in Wall Street Area and it won't turn out to be something like a manhole cover blasting off. Or the next plane won't be some poor guy from the Yankees running out of luck.
Crikey, are those window washers hanging alongside the building on the left? They certainly got an eyeful.
Poor Lidle, I wonder what went so wrong that it put him in a building. The air corridor is up the East River, which is pretty wide. And I thought they were supposed to notify next of kin before announcing names on TV like that.
The Yankees ran out of luck in the playoffs.
Those aren't window washers but men doing cement work on the terraces. They continued to work once the smoke died down. The picture was taken from a friend’s apartment across the street.
As rev says, there have been accidents in the past; about one a decade. And, as I note, there is a helicopter landing pad near by. That was another hypothesis I considered. However, Islamic attacks are several per year in Western countries. Thus, the first working hypothesis is SJS … Sudden Jihad Syndrome. It was too small for organized jihad but as we note there are independent Muslims who spontaneously combust with religious fever.
But sometimes it’s only an accident. I have no hesitation to list all the possibilities in order of probability. But probability is a way to manage ignorance … time and effort brings us the facts.
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