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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by timothevs » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

If anyone is confused about the BBC not syncing up with the other news coverage, it seems like the creators did not take the time difference into account. You will need to get to 13:59 GMT.

On a personal note, that's the channel I was watching on that day 20 years ago. Watching the exact same coverage again is just ... unsettling.

Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by vmception » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

photochemsyn wrote: post #62

When reviewing 9/11 attacks (likely the biggest and most disastrous intelligence failure in U.S. history, give or take Pearl Harbor), it's worth remembering that it could have been much worse. If the first plane had hit Indian Point nuclear reactor what, 30 miles from NYC and upwind? It's likely a Chernobyl/Fukushima disaster would have resulted with an exclusion zone well into NYC. That was reportedly part of the pl…

We could have done regime change in Saudi Arabia and still had petrodollars

Sometimes its useful to think inside the box

But yeah current Saudi Arabia is a good deal for the US, hard to get others so heavily intertwined financially. Might as well not touch it.

Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by w54363u6 » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by w45hljlk » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #38

Is there a way to download or mirror some, or all of this?

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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by w45hljlk » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

dharmab wrote: post #30

Wayback machine for some web news of the day: https://web.archive.org/web/20010911230123/http://www.nytime... http://web.archive.org/web/20010911204733/http://www2.cnn.co...

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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by w45hljlk » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

mathgenius wrote: post #68

ISL wrote: post #17

It is incredible reliving this experience, knowing what was to come in the two decades after.

Yes. But also, it was pretty obvious to me at the time what was going to happen, modulo some details. What I did not predict was that I would end up living in many different cities in many different countries, including Los Angeles and New York City. And by far, Americans are the most kind-hearted, generous and polite people I've found anywhere. Even the beggars in Manhatten would be more interested in how I am going…

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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by w45hljlk » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

zuppy wrote: post #43

justinzollars wrote: post #26

This website is a really good resource. The thing I remember from that day, I was 18, was that every channel on cable tv cut over to news: MTV, VH1, History Channel, every channel. cnn.com wouldn't load because it was being ddosed by all of the requests.

i remember all the news websites switched to simple plain html pages for a while, as their sites couldn’t handle the traffic. i still have a memory of a picture that i couldn’t find again: there was a never ending line of ambulances waiting, one behind another.

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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by vmception » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

vmception wrote: post #85

leesalminen wrote: post #29

9/11 was my birthday, and I was just outside of NYC in school that day. I was in math class. The phone in the classroom rang and my teacher turned on the radio (1010 WINS) immediately. After hearing what had happened she broke down in tears because her husband worked in WTC. My parents worked in NYC (as did most of my classmates' parents) and was very concerned. The school district evacuated the elementary schools to…

Oh yeah I forgot about all the confusion on what else would be attacked! People should talk about that more. Every single piece of infrastructure in the whole country was on people’s minds and locked down! Is there a documentary about that? There is so much possibility for an “isolation thriller” where people’s concerns in their small towns are more the focus than the outcome of what happened by the time the dust set…

The 21st century version of the White House would probably look so awesome, if, you know, the thing happened

Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by w45hljlk » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

amznthrowaway5 wrote: post #83

Why does 9/11 matter so much but not the many far more horrible atrocities that the US regularly supports or commits (and that 9/11 was partly a response to). Clearly some lives are considered worth far more than others.

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Re: September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time

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Post by aceazzameen » Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

notadev wrote: post #77

I was in the Navy and had been at my first command at a nuke base in the PNW. I walked to the galley for breakfast and they had some TVs you could watch while eating. I watched the second plane hit. I walked to work which was a telecommunications station. We processed messages for different regional commands and would call them directly whenever they had an emergency action message (EAM). I walked in to a completely…

Your LCPO is a good person.