Thursday, August 31, 2006

This Is the Kind of Nonsense the Deniers Come Up With



Watch the video (it's only seven seconds long). Notice how the bridge appears to be moving in the background? Well, of course, it's just an artifact of the camera panning back at the same time as the helicopter doing the videotaping is moving to the viewer's left.

But that's not what the Deniers think. They see something very suspicious, possibly the smoking gun!

Of course, what they're really observing is a very common phenomenon that I first noticed as a child on long car trips. When we'd see a water tower in the distance, especially if there was a hill in between, it always seemed like the water tower was moving parallel to us. This is because the angle of view of something close to you changes more rapidly than the angle of view of something far away.

Update: I love one of the comments left on that YouTube video:

Maybe the sooper-nano-mini-nuklear thermite bomb was moving the bridge, or Larry Silverstein was "pulling it"... lo

11 Comments:

At 31 August, 2006 11:01, Blogger Simon Lazarus said...

Is this what these losers are basing their ideas on? That a camera panned back to film the WTC fires and the bridge "appears" to be moving?

Can someone tell me where such nutjobs have been? I have to tell you - I am scared shitless that I have been living with these psychos breathing the same air as me.

They truly need some help. Whew.

 
At 31 August, 2006 12:08, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

Once again...rediculous beyond words...but i am sure NESSIE will have the answer :)

 
At 31 August, 2006 12:15, Blogger Pepik said...

The thing is they are going to keep "discovering" things like this for years, if not forever.

 
At 31 August, 2006 13:51, Blogger shawn said...

Thanks to these nutjobs I have lost nearly all my faith in humanity.

 
At 31 August, 2006 20:39, Blogger rocketdoodle said...

It's awfully sane in here without nessie piping up.

 
At 31 August, 2006 21:10, Blogger nes718 said...

it's just an artifact of the camera panning back at the same time as the helicopter doing the videotaping is moving to the viewer's left.

I dunno about that observation. The towers keep their size and perspective while the bridge is changing position. If the angle of the building changed then you might be correct but doesn't look that way.

But who the hell cares? The buildings still collapses at near free fall speeds. Nothing changes THAT!

 
At 01 September, 2006 05:13, Blogger shawn said...

The buildings still collapses at near free fall speeds. Nothing changes THAT!

They have to fall at free-fall for it to matter at all.

 
At 01 September, 2006 09:59, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

would someone please their camcorder, go outside and perform the same trick, and then post it so Nessie can be convinced...lol.

 
At 01 September, 2006 14:00, Blogger nes718 said...

would someone please their camcorder, go outside and perform the same trick, and then post it so Nessie can be convinced...lol.

Get on a chopper and do the same thing and I'll be convinced.

 
At 01 September, 2006 15:57, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

ya right...If you were convinced about anything said in here, or any prove provided you...it would be a first.

 
At 01 September, 2006 20:30, Blogger Falco98 said...

Hmm.. this seems to be merely an artifact of the common helicopter-mounted gyro-stabilized long-field zoom video camera shooting the buildings as the helicopter flies around the towers.. why isn't it just that simple?

 

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