Better equipment allows better knowledge, and deception

We watched an interesting episode of NOVA last night, this one dealing with the history of the telescope. Current NOVA’s are hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, our modern-day Carl Sagan, or public interface with science. Sagan reminded us in his many writings that people have not gotten smarter over the centuries, but merely have better instruments available to observe natural phenomena. With better tools we make better observations.

Part of the episode was devoted to the tribulations of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century astronomer. He was found “vehemently suspect of heresy” in 1633, and put under house arrest with the understanding that he could be imprisoned or executed at any time. His crime, advocacy of heliocentrism, was really nothing more than subterfuge for enforcement of a larger regime, thought control, by the Catholic Church. The church was the predominant military and financial power center of that time. These were not stupid people, and church insiders were probably no less convinced than Galileo of the essential integrity of his work.

One talking head during the episode remarked that people were not “dumb” back then, the pretext being that we have advanced so much that incidents like the imprisonment of Galileo do not happen anymore. That is not true. Nothing could be further from the truth, in fact. We have not changed an iota.

I am not Galileo, and have no pretense or delusions about great intellectual abilities. My advantage over others is simply my situation in life – I cannot lose my job or pension, and don’t care (too much) about ridicule if I think I am right. The opinion of others is important to me, but my own personal integrity far more so. In fact, my internal constitution will not allow me to profess to believe things that I know are not true. Self-employment, or personal freedom, does that to a person.

As a person of average intellect but more than average freedom, I can easily see that 9/11 was an inside job. All I had to do was expose myself to the evidence. So too can many others, but in their positions will lose their jobs, their lives, fortunes and sacred honor if they go public. If nothing else, they will be ridiculed, and if a public person, marginalized. The United States security state is every bit as oppressive as the Catholic Church of the seventeenth century.

Below the fold is a YouTube. It a snippet from is what is called the “Hezarkhani video.” It was shown late on the evening of September 11, 2001 by CNN. It is fake. It took all day to put it together. Hezarkhani had his camera in place when bombs when off at a predetermined location on the tower, and the image of the plane flying through the building, absorbed as if into a sponge, was added later by technicians using software widely available at that time.

This is where mere bonehead science enters the discussion. What happens in the video cannot happen for real. The plane is made mostly of aluminum, and the wings are especially weak, like beer cans. The building is concrete and steel. It does not matter if a plane flying at 560 mph (itself impossible) hit the building, or the building hit the plane at that speed – the plane would be demolished and the streets below would be littered with wreckage, bodies, luggage and kerosene. The building would sustain slight damage, as it is designed like a spider web to spread the impact of such a force. People would have been hurt and killed, fire would have burned until available fuel was used up, and nothing further.

The Hezarkhani video is a jumping off place for anyone of a scientific bent with just a modicum of natural skepticism. Since what happens in that video violates Newton’s third law, then other videos, photos, and testimony of talking heads must also be false. And in fact, diligent investigators have combed through the lists of eyewitnesses to talk to people who actually saw a plane hit the building that day. Other than those connected to news networks or government agencies and paid actors featured prominently in on-the-street interviews that day, there was but one person. One.

Anyway, click below to watch the video, or not. I assume you won’t. I don’t need a lot of science to understand why not, either. I’ve been reading about this phenomenon for twenty years, writing about it for six. It is the effect of social forces on individual thought patterns and perceptions. We don’s see with our eyes alone. We are quite suggestible, and see with the whole of our minds, often overriding visual evidence provided by our sight mechanism. It’s a hard way to live, friend, much harder than openly describing what is seen. I don’t envy you.

Anyone with high quality software can do this trick. It is interesting that the camera had to be stationary, and that the monolithic buildings brought down that day provided an excellent venue for photographic overlays, which is all this is – CGI. Even so, as this video is pointing out with the red line, another impossibility is going on – not only is the plane being absorbed by the building, but the building is moving!

Knowing that, what else troubles you? Anything?
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*The camera pans right as the supposed plane hits, but the “movement” of the building is in relation to the plane – that is, if the building did not move, the plane would hit to the left of where the CGI puts it.

18 thoughts on “Better equipment allows better knowledge, and deception”

    2. OK, Swede, there are two ways to deal with you. Steve K treats you with kindness, as if you were a sentient being. I’ll give it a try:

      I selected the video I did because I know for a fact that CNN ran it late in the day on 9/11, and not again. We were all in a state of shock, so that our normal (even if inadequate) bullshit detectors were not functioning. They have not shown it again, but we have it due to people having their VCR’s on that day. The intent of whoever put it together (CNN merely aired it at someone’s insistence) was to plant the idea of planes hitting buildings in our minds. No such thing happened, as is easily seen by its violation of Newton’s 3rd law. And, if that video was altered and shown on TV, then there is a deliberate effort to deceive us.

      Your Clinton photo above – I suggest you go back to your 19 Arabs with box cutters. It’s a puzzle palace out there replete with false leads, limited hangouts and planted videos designed to make us look ridiculous. The cover-up is ongoing.

      There. I was nice. Now, my way: Newton’s ninth law – brains at rest tend to stay at rest. You are nothing more than a sounding board for talk radio and a mirror of FOX news. Indeed there are two ways to try to get through to you. Neither works. If you put up another stupid video like that, I’ll put your name on the list, which right now has no names on it, of people who ought to STFU and stay away from me.

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      1. You have proof that CNN ran it? Really?

        Are we just to take your word for it? Sounds a little Glenn Beckish.

        By the way the above tube has never found its way on talk radio (beside those late night si-fi loonies) or on Fox News.

        That said how do you explain the pentagon or flight 93? Where the cell phone conversations between spouses staged also?

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        1. I only have to discredit this one piece of evidence. If that video clip shown on CNN, was CGI everything else topples. Since it violates Newton’s third law, it is fake. Since it is fake, everything else topples.

          If you are curious about cell phone call, rubble, the pentagon, Fligth 93, people have been working on this stuff for over eleven years. avail yourself of the evidence, decide for yourself its validity.

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  2. Most scientists self-sensor to survive. Journalists too. Long before Galileo, Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1543) self-sensored and delayed publishing his helicentric cosmology fearing the Pope and fellow scientists — all working under the same oppressive cloud. Philolaus, in 4 BCE (for all you atheists and other non-christians), theorized a similar cosmology. I too seriously doubt that better tools make us better observers. Eye-witnesses still frequently make a mess of the truth. Somewhere between our unconscisous and conscious thoughts there is a sensor we all must confront. Most refuse and live life in denial. So, what is the “better tool” to cure millions living in denial to cope with irrational fear? Surely, it isn’t Prozac.

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  3. We’re all f*cked anyways… from the UK Independent:

    “Human intelligence ‘peaked thousands of years ago and we’ve been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since’

    Although we are now surrounded by the technological and medical benefits of a scientific revolution, these have masked an underlying decline in brain power which is set to continue into the future leading to the ultimate dumbing-down of the human species, Professor Crabtree said.

    His argument is based on the fact that for more than 99 per cent of human evolutionary history, we have lived as hunter-gatherer communities surviving on our wits, leading to big-brained humans. Since the invention of agriculture and cities, however, natural selection on our intellect has effective stopped and mutations have accumulated in the critical “intelligence” genes.

    “I would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas and a clear-sighted view of important issues,” Professor Crabtree says in a provocative paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics.”

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      1. The camera is steady for the explosion, allowing for a mostly seamless overlay to superimpose the image of the plane. Such overlays can be done with unsteady footage, but it takes time, and they were in a hurry that day.

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