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Old 9th November 2007, 06:37 PM   #1
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How did Jeremy Glick's phone call last til 11:43:49am?

And Todd Beamer's until 10:49:29am?
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Old 9th November 2007, 06:42 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by TC329 View Post

Either someone made a mistake with the chronology or members of the U.S. government orchestrated devastating attacks for no particular purpose.
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Old 9th November 2007, 06:52 PM   #3
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I'm inclined to believe the latter for no particular reason.

This is the smoking gun.

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Old 9th November 2007, 06:55 PM   #4
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How did Jeremy Glick's phone call last til 11:43:49am?
And Todd Beamer's until 10:49:29am?
I guess it's the guv doing weird stuff for no reason other than to confuse brave truthseekers like yourself.

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Old 9th November 2007, 07:09 PM   #5
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http://www.post-gazette.com/headline...2gtenat4p4.asp

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She heard Beamer saying, "God help me. Jesus help me." He addressed his cohorts, still calm, saying, "Are you ready? OK," Jefferson said. She did not complete the phrase that Lisa Beamer relayed in an earlier interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in which she quoted her husband using a family catch phrase: "Are you guys ready? Let's roll!"
"That's the last I heard from Todd Beamer," Jefferson said. "The line was still open, but it was silent."
For the next 15 minutes, Jefferson stayed on the line. As Verizon's operations staff told her that the plane had gone down.
"At that point, I was very upset and emotional," Jefferson said. "I was crying." She took no more calls that day.
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Old 9th November 2007, 07:23 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by TC329 View Post
How did Jeremy Glick's phone call last til 11:43:49am?


LINE LEFT OPEN!!!!!!!! (better research will result in better posts)

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Old 9th November 2007, 07:26 PM   #7
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Yes das line vas left open - Elementary my dear truther!

LINE LEFT OPEN

This means the line was still open for over an hour! The people still died, but the phone line was left open. You could fill a book with what TC329 does not know about phones and communication; let alone 9/11.

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Old 9th November 2007, 07:27 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by pomeroo View Post
Either someone made a mistake with the chronology or members of the U.S. government orchestrated devastating attacks for no particular purpose.
False dichotomy. The time might also have been tampered with by the Discordians.
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Old 9th November 2007, 07:42 PM   #9
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And here I thought that a misdirected space beam had caused a shift in the time-space continuum when it bounce off of WTC7 and struck a communications satellite at precisely the moment that Flight 93 landed in Cleveland...or maybe that's too simple of an answer....
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Old 9th November 2007, 07:44 PM   #10
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Terrorcell, where have you been?

If this is the best you can bring than you should stay at lcf or wherever they cater to your delusions.

I'm *almost* surprised you would even post such nonsense.

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Old 9th November 2007, 07:51 PM   #11
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Because 9/11 was an inside job, duh.
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Old 9th November 2007, 07:52 PM   #12
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Seventh time, Dom: tell us, right now, what these people and agencies have said about your flight 93 claims.

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Old 9th November 2007, 08:21 PM   #13
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IIRC, according to "Among The Heroes," Lyz Glick passed the phone to her father after Jeremy went to join the fight. The father walked outside and stood by a fence. The FBI broke onto the line, asking him to stay on because it was one of the only calls left connected to the flight. He did so for about two hours in the same position. Then he hung up.

I should stop being surprised at what Truthers want to cast in a sinister light.
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Old 9th November 2007, 08:41 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by boloboffin View Post
I should stop being surprised at what Truthers want to cast in a sinister light.
Well, it would be easier to stop being surprised if they wouldn't keep casting mundane and expected things in a sinister light...
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Old 9th November 2007, 09:45 PM   #16
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Wow. Is this your best stuff, TC? The latest smoking gun?

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Debunked in 40 minutes.
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Old 10th November 2007, 03:58 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by JAStewart View Post
Debunked in 40 minutes.
I've seen better.
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I'll add this to the JREF record book.

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Old 10th November 2007, 06:53 AM   #20
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I thought this was the fasted debunk:

http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=98267

That video debunked itself!
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I knew it! The link helps prove the "cell phones are tools of evil" theory!
When will you people wake up and realize that cell phones are part of a great mind control conspiracy heaped upon us by the Crystalline Entity, Sleestaks and the Snorks !!!! They have combined their efforts to control us all!!! Get with it people and know your enemy! KNOW YOUR ENEMY!
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And on average, the two phone calls lasted until 11:11:11.

111111!
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Most (rule10)s in a single post: 21 (don't remember who did that)
I think that was me.

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How did you come to the mistaken conclusion that 9/11 was an inside job ?
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Originally Posted by jhunter1163 View Post
I'll add this to the JREF record book.

Fastest debunk: 32 minutes* (A W Smith)

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** - Bell was banned before making a post at PFT, and T.A.M. was banned before making a post at LCF, but someone had created an account with his name

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Heh. The conspiracy here is that cell phone companies rip people off when only one side of a call disconnects.
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Ah, yes. I remember that one. Nice work, Mancman.
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LINE LEFT OPEN

This means the line was still open for over an hour! The people still died, but the phone line was left open. You could fill a book with what TC329 does not know about phones and communication; let alone 9/11.
The time is the phone call from the plane not the operator to the plane. In order for it to "remain open" there has to be a connection or the call is "closed". This isn't the timing from the 911 Operator to Flight 93.
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The time is the phone call from the plane not the operator to the plane. In order for it to "remain open" there has to be a connection or the call is "closed". This isn't the timing from the 911 Operator to Flight 93.
Wrong. The connection is open as long as the network says it is open.
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Originally Posted by TC329 View Post
The time is the phone call from the plane not the operator to the plane. In order for it to "remain open" there has to be a connection or the call is "closed". This isn't the timing from the 911 Operator to Flight 93.
Nope. I've designed telephone switches, and this is just not how it typically works. If you get what is called "disconnect supervision" you can terminate a connection when either side drops, but if you don't, then you can hang for hours. Various mechanisms try to fix this, but the phone network is a multivendor solution...
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Originally Posted by TC329 View Post
The time is the phone call from the plane not the operator to the plane. In order for it to "remain open" there has to be a connection or the call is "closed". This isn't the timing from the 911 Operator to Flight 93.


And exactly how did you determine this? Please don't say: "it's obvious" or "common sense" or "clearly....". Something remotely technical or factual would be nice....
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The coward returns!

Seventh time, Dom: tell us, right now, what these people and agencies have said about your flight 93 claims.
Ohhhhhh first the King Nazi himself takes a moment to give me a personal attack! Thanks for opening the door so I could repay a compliment.

Then he forgets that I'm supposed to be on ignore because he claims he can't see me everytime I ask questions he doesn't want to answer.

But the real irony is he has the audacity to call me a coward after repeatedly hiding from an actual Shanksville debate with me.

So let's address what Mark doesn't want to :

1) Is UA93 approaches on a Southeast approach then how does the debris scatter southwest?

2) If 90% of the plane is inside the crater then how can the debris be scatteret in a southwest direction for 3-4 miles?

3) If the debris is scattered in a southwest direction then how are they 2 seperate debris fields to the southeast?

4) How can there be a seperate debris field 2 miles Southeast in Indian Lake?

5) How can there be a seperate debris field 8 miles Southeast in New Baltimore?

6) Why are Johnstown Air Traffic controllers who worked that morning under gag orders?

7) Why are West Moreland County 911 Operators who worked that morning under gag orders?

8) Why did the FBI have to set up sites in Indian Lake and New Baltimore for residents to bring all the "fuselage" debris to? I say fuselage because it was little silver/grey chunks like seen in the Shanksville area along with a black webbing like material.

9) How could human remains be recovered from Indian Lake?

10) What plane flew over Val McClatchey's house?

11) What plane flew over Susan McElwain?

12) What plane approached from Indian Lake before the crash?

13) Why did the FBI confiscate and classify the West Moreland County 911 call received from Ed Felt that morning?

14) How did so many area residents report hearing "bangs, like explosions" before the plane crashed?

15) Why does Lee Purbaugh insist there wasn't any blue on the plane he saw and he saw it flying right side up and that it was a dark grey color?


ETA : BTW, I called your list..... lol

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Wrong. The connection is open as long as the network says it is open.
You can't connect to something that no longer exists.
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You can't connect to something that no longer exists.
I don't think you know what the word "connection" means in a telephone switch context.
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1) why do 'truth' seeker sites always contain lies, spin, and misquoted information?
2) why do 'truth' videos, do the same.
3) how much money is being made in the name of 'truth'?
4) have you ever questioned the 'truth' industry ?
5) 19 men with knives hijacked airliners; on a scale of one to ten, what chance do you think of defending himself, does a pilot have when he's sat down flying a plane, and has his back to his assailant ?
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You can't connect to something that no longer exists.
The question, Einstein, is whether the NETWORK knows that the originating station is gone.

It doesn't.
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Originally Posted by slyjoe View Post
I don't think you know what the word "connection" means in a telephone switch context.
At the termination sides we refer to "seizing the line", but from switch to switch we have a connection. The defect occurs in this case at the termination.
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What you need to understand about the phone system.

You can take a Western Electric Candlestick dial phone from 1919 and with a change of connector you can usually actually successfully connect it to a residential line and make a call with it today. (The dial pulse rate changed and got faster at some point, and there are so few older phones now that some equipment ((Notably the SLC)) can no longer handle the lower rate.)

The phone network itself is absolutely not at all like the technology of 1919, fiber optics, digital switches, etc. But at all times the network had to be backwards-compatible unless there was a DAMNED good reason as there was so much installed base of switching and other gear.

But at your end, at the end of your POTS line, it is still 1919.
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