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Location: Houston, Texas | The FAA is charged with the responsibility to promote and encourage aviation as well as define safety requirements. The two often conflict with one another. The FAA does have the authority to mandate fuel tank nitrogen purge systems but they haven't because it conflicts with trying to keep a struggling airline industry afloat financially. |
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| Mitchrx, I just saw your post. You are correct. I read that particular book, but I also grew up in an aviation family, and it is common knowledge that twa800 was shot down by a missle, as either resulting from a nearby military training-mission accident, or resulting from an otherwise unidentified hostile source. A serious website exists on this matter, www.twa800.com. (And, if the entire video of the 911 pentagon crash should "happen" to be released before the next presidential conventions, it will rock this nation...) |
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Location: SoCal | Steve, it is not common knowledge... |
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Location: NJ | Nothing surprises me anymore . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | There is a consipracy theory to cover every eventuallity. Because many people deny the elegant simplicity of Occam's razor. |
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Location: SoCal | Occam was my kinda guy.... he obviously catered to simpletons like me. |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Steve:
...(And, if the entire video of the 911 pentagon crash should "happen" to be released before the next presidential conventions, it will rock this nation...) Several squads of lunatics, under the auspices of religious authority, hijacked air planes and crashed them into heavily populated buildings, thereby killing thousands of civilians... because they hate us. :eek:
What could possibly rock this country, USA, more?
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Occam was my kinda guy.... he obviously catered to simpletons like me. I am somewhat inclined to resond to your view of the sidebar matter at hand, relating to the theories attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham, in the affermative.
or rather:
yup.
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Location: SoCal | Finally, someone who understands me...... my wife has claimed that I'm a simpleton for years... "My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump". |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | "Stupid is as Stupid does"
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Location: SoCal | Run Forrest, run! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Just in case someone doesn't know what we're talking about, a wikipedia link to ...(YAAAAAH! why am I having so much trouble getting a link here?) Occam's" target="_blank" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor]Occam's">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor]Occam's Razor One translation, my favourite, is; Where many possible answers exist, the simplest is invariable correct. |
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