Odd 9/11 Coincidence...

[Canon Shooter]

Back in 2001, my 15 year old daughter noticed something a bit unusual about the flights which were involved in the attacks.

The flights were:

• American 11
• United 93
• United 175
• American 77

If you add up the individual numbers of each flight, they count upwards from 11 to 14.

Could there have been a potential 15 that day?

 

[JGalt]

And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to fifteen, no more, no less. Fifteen shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be Fifteen. Sixteen shalt thou not count, neither count thou fourteen, excepting that thou then proceed to fifteen. Seventeen is right out. Once the number fourteen, being the fourteenth number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

 

[deannalw]

Back in 2001, my 15 year old daughter noticed something a bit unusual about the flights which were involved in the attacks.

The flights were:

• American 11
• United 93
• United 175
• American 77

If you add up the individual numbers of each flight, they count upwards from 11 to 14.

Could there have been a potential 15 that day?

American 11 equals 2, not 11.

 

[Canon Shooter]

American 11 equals 2, not 11.

Ah, indeed, you're correct.

Brain fart on my part.

The first plane to hit was American flight 11. Following that, the subsequent flights, when their individual numbers were added together, resulted in the ascending numbers...

 

[Moonglow]

Good evening. The last scene was interesting from the point of view of a professional logician because it contained a number of logical fallacies; that is, invalid propositional constructions and syllogistic forms, of the type so often committed by my wife.
'All wood burns,' states Sir Bedevere. 'Therefore,' he concludes, 'all that burns is wood.' This is, of course, pure bullshit. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. 'Oh yes,' one would think. However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me, for how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder?

For example, given the premise, 'all fish live underwater' and 'all mackerel are fish', my wife will conclude, not that 'all mackerel live underwater', but that 'if she buys kippers it will not rain', or that 'trout live in trees', or even that 'I do not love her any more.' This she calls 'using her intuition'. I call it 'crap', and it gets me very irritated because it is not logical. 'There will be no supper tonight,' she will sometimes cry upon my return home. 'Why not?' I will ask. 'Because I have been screwing the milkman all day,' she will say, quite oblivious of the howling error she has made. 'But,' I will wearily point out, 'even given that the activities of screwing the milkman and getting supper are mutually exclusive, now that the screwing is over, surely then, supper may now, logically, be got.' 'You don't love me any more,' she will now often postulate. 'If you did, you would give me one now and again, so that I would not have to rely on that rancid Pakistani for my orgasms.' 'I will give you one after you have got me my supper,' I now usually scream, 'but not before'-- as you understand, making her bang contingent on the arrival of my supper. 'God, you turn me on when you're angry, you ancient brute!' she now mysteriously deduces, forcing her sweetly throbbing tongue down my throat. 'Fuck supper!' I now invariably conclude, throwing logic somewhat joyously to the four winds, and so we thrash about on our milk-stained floor, transported by animal passion, until we sink back, exhausted, onto the cartons of yogurt.

I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief. But in a nutshell: sex is more fun than logic. One cannot prove this, but it 'is' in the same sense that Mount Everest 'is', or that Alma Cogan 'isn't'.

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[ABikerSailor]

The OP demonstrates quite nicely how conspiracy theories get made and passed around as truth. Deannalw shot it down quite nicely by showing that 11 (1 plus 1) actually equals 2, which shows the hole in he theory. Thankfully, the OP agreed there was an error, and recanted a bit.

Unfortunately, most people nowadays are unwilling to see the holes in their logic, instead looking for ways to twist it around so they don't have to abandon their original premise.

 

[candycorn]

Back in 2001, my 15 year old daughter noticed something a bit unusual about the flights which were involved in the attacks.

The flights were:

• American 11
• United 93
• United 175
• American 77

If you add up the individual numbers of each flight, they count upwards from 11 to 14.

Could there have been a potential 15 that day?

I've often though that there were other flights that were not taken because we landed the planes, the terrorists on-board chickened out, or didn't make it onto the planes to start with.

I would imagine--based on nothing--if there is "something they don't want us to know", it is that there were far more terrorists operating that day than the 19 (or 20 if you count ZM) that died/are imprisoned. Why bring it up if you're the FBI? Why let the terrorists know that you know about them and drive them deeper under ground? Why bring it up that "Flight 602 out of St. Louis was supposed to be taken as well" and the passengers who are blissfully ignorant who were on that flight consider what might have happened?

 

[Canon Shooter]

Thankfully, the OP agreed there was an error, and recanted a bit.

I did, but the larger point remains.

We just found it to be an odd coincidence. And never once did I use the word "conspiracy"...

 

[whitehall]

It's possible that other terrorists missed flights or decided that they weren't ready to meet the dozen virgins yet.

 

[Moonglow]

The OP demonstrates quite nicely how conspiracy theories get made and passed around as truth. Deannalw shot it down quite nicely by showing that 11 (1 plus 1) actually equals 2, which shows the hole in he theory. Thankfully, the OP agreed there was an error, and recanted a bit.

Unfortunately, most people nowadays are unwilling to see the holes in their logic, instead looking for ways to twist it around so they don't have to abandon their original premise.

Deannlaw is actually a boolean algebraic fascist.

 

[skye]

Talking about coincidences......

just saying

 

[ABikerSailor]

This crap AGAIN?!?!?!?!?