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September 11th That You Have Never Seen
- hscontinuity 3y agoMoments in history like these, now have a material place in history with exacting detail thanks to technological feat. May the cosmos bless those lost that day, heal those whom aided recovery, and may their memory never fade. And, may moments like these become exceedingly rare as we humans continue to evolve.
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- plufz 3y agoI believe everybody should have empathy for people that have been murdered. I'm not American and I think the US has done a lot of horrible things, in Palestine and other places. But why would that hinder my empathy for American victims? Just because the US people show too little empathy with Palestinians why should I stop showing empathy? Has that way of thinking ever led to anything positive?
- The5thElephant 3y agoFollowing this line of logic no one should have empathy for anything except the victims of the worst disaster or atrocity in history. A lot of the people who are rightly supporting Palestine now showed no empathy or support for the many much larger atrocities happening daily elsewhere in the world, will you criticize them in the same way?
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- UberFly 3y agoProbably getting downvoted for relativism. Tragedies are always complicated. The "if this is bad then that's equally bad" never really holds up.
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- ajsnigrutin 3y agoYep, and civilians, and bomb a wedding in a country you're not even at war with. It's especially bad with mobilization of people... We can act as if we're a democracy, but even if we have a referendum (vote) if we want to fight <this war>, you get a bunch of people who won't have to go to the front lines and die (women, pensioners, disabled people) decide if a minority (young men) will die there. Forced mobilization should not exist in a democratic society, if you don't get volounteers to fight (and possibly die), you already know the democratic choice of the people whose opinion actually matters.
- qingcharles 3y agoIncredible photos, especially the one of a kind person covering the remains of body parts. From the days when having a camera on you was a rare event.
- whoiskatrin 3y agoGave me the chills when I saw them
- detourdog 3y agowe had treos.
- qingcharles 3y agoI think the first Treos came out in 2002, though? I thought I had my T68 camera phone on 9/11, but it turns out I didn't get it until 3 months later. I watched 9/11 unfold on an 8" LCD hooked to PC my friend and I had installed in his car. I remember most news sites on the Internet were totally hugged to death that day.
- detourdog 3y agoYou maybe correct. I kinda of remember a co-worker getting one as a bonus. The place was in lower Manhattan and everything changed after that. It could have been some Palm or Handspring spring board or somebody was making a treo accessory that turned into the Treo of 2002.
- nunez 3y agoYou were big money if you had a Palm. My uncle had one because he did IT for lawyers. It was undeniably bad ass but so so limited compared to Treos (which came later) because mobile internet had not been established yet.
- ta1243 3y ago> From the days when having a camera on you was a rare event. I was listening to Come From Away - the musical based on the planes that were diverted to Gander on 9/11, and it made me realise how much I take a mobile phone for granted. Very few had phones in those days, especially ones which roamed internationally. There was no real way to look at the news unless the plane could receive live TV somehow (some could), many on the planes didn't even speak English, and there was no google translate in your pocket. Made me realise what a change has happened in 20 years (and well I guess smartphones were ubiquitous by the 15th anniversary). Looking back over history the change in the way we live between say 1995 (when IT in many offices was still very new and often limited to very specific tasks) and 2015 is shocking, moreso than the gap from say 1975 to 1995 We're nearly halfway through the 2015-2035 period, I wonder how much AI will change things over the next decade.
- martythemaniak 3y agoIt'll never cease to amaze me that people look at photographs like this and think "Uhhmm ackshually, the planes had nothing to do with this, it was <insert nth truther variation here>" Here's an annotated high-res one that made the rounds on reddit a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fhigh-quality-photo-of-the-north-towers-impact-hole-on-9-11-v0-byyzbrx44s5c1.jpg%3Fs%3D0ff8ab5a448540fa4786faffbb4605214cb9b843 https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh...
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- okdood64 3y agoThanks for the laugh buddy.
- jonhohle 3y agoI don’t think anyone doubts that planes hit the buildings except WTC7. University of Alaska Fairbanks published a paper which suggests fire was not the cause of WTC7 collapse[0]. Memories can be faulty, but I remember news reports from the time of a controlled demolition of WTC7 to avoid a more catastrophic collapse later. In the midst of all the chaos I thought it crazy that they could set that up so quickly, but before long the building was down. 0 - https://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7 https://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7
- Sakos 3y ago> I don’t think anyone doubts that planes hit the buildings The doubt is whether the plane crashes could've made the buildings collapse. And they exist, because I've argued with them in real life.
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- mholm 3y agoTo those who haven't visited, the 9/11 memorial in NYC is very powerful and well done. I don't think there's a dry eye around by the time you get to the end.
- mypastself 3y agoThere’s a solemnity to it that I’ve rarely experienced elsewhere. There’s even something sorrowful about the acoustics of the space, than I wasn’t able to fully grasp rationally.
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- user3939382 3y agoI’ll never forget the plywood sign bolted over the Burger King, with letters that were obviously spray painted in a rush “Temp Police HQ”.
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- mjmsmith 3y agoA 20-year-old corner of my site: https://camazotz.com/wtc/ https://camazotz.com/wtc/
- VikingCoder 3y agoI was on Reddit (er, Slashdot? er, Digg? Something?) on 9/11 and the days that followed. I downloaded a ton of images and videos. I have a CD someplace. I'm sure there are other people who did, too. It feels like a shame that these aren't collected...?
- UberFly 3y agoYou should start it. Accept more pics from the public as it goes.
- pcardoso 3y agoI was also /. when I first read about it. Ran to the TV and there it on live TV. Still a very fresh memory.
- ta1243 3y agoSlashdot was about the only site that remained up. Just. https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/World-Trade-Towers-and-Pentagon-Attacked https://slashdot.org/story/01/09/11/1314258/World-Trade-Towe...
- wolverine876 3y agoTop comment: > Apparently it was Palestinian terrorists that did it (so TV is reporting).. People just love to jump on BS. But the rest of the comment from September, 2001 is shocking to read in December, 2023: > ... I was in Isreal once on business, and I saw what the Israelies do to the Palestinians, and what I saw made me sick to be an American because of how our government supports what the Israelis do to those people.. > Basically, the isrealis take palestinian land bit by bit to make settlements for Israelis only, and shoot/run over/kill Palestinians with the guns, helicopters and bullets that we, America give the Israelis. ...
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- UberFly 3y agoEmotional looking at those pics and descriptions. Damn.
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- paul7986 3y agoWorked at BMG/RCA Records (now the Adobe building) in Times Square on this day. I witnessed from our 41st office building floor the North Tower collapse.
- j0hnyl 3y agoThis is intense. I was in high school in downtown manhattan at the time. Seeing these photos is surreal, it brings me right back to that day over 20 years ago. I think aside from that, the curation of the photos captured the feeling of that day and those after quite well.