Not quite so, Graham. Despite the initial post being all over the place, there is NO reason the planes could not have been remote-controlled and guided into the buildings. Think curise missile.

Peace, I'm not denying it's possible to remotely control an aircraft. What I'm saying is that his proposed method of control, namely a backdoor into a gyro chip in the artificial horizon, is simply not possible. It'd be like trying to control a car by overriding the speedo and indicators. :-) You want to override stuff, it needs to be done explicitly in the auto-pilot software.

And that requires a full-blown conspiracy amongst the engineers who designed the auto-pilots, plane manufacturers and pilots. They all have to be in on it, and he's the only one who's figured it out, and now they're out to get him. Hmm...

A missile struck the building.

For once, I'm with Bruce. Too bad people saw it. And too bad there were massive bits of plane strewn around the area. And too bad they were extracting big bits of plane from the building.

It'll be interesting to see if Chomsky sues. That's a pretty serious claim, and if Chomsky doesn't sue, then that's tantamount to an admission of guilt.

Why? If I managed to get on national TV and claim that Tony Blair had been having an affair with the Dalai Lama, why would either of them bother sueing me? If it's too ridiculous for people to believe, they'll let it go as being just another nutter. In fact, sueing is more likely to draw attention to the case, and draw sympathy to the suee who inevitably will be bankrupted by the costs of defending themselves. And it'll cost you money, with no hope of getting anything back - remember that damages are relative to the impact on your reputation, so if no-one believed it then there's no damage to your reputation and you've just wasted thousands of pounds/dollars; and remember that if you do win and get some damages awarded, these guys won't have two pennies to rub together so you won't get anything anyway.

It looks like Guest Passerby has been suckered by the standard device of the paranoid troll, which is to make so many claims that you can't focus on them one at a time, and when you do try to focus on one and debunk it, they throw a half-dozen new ones at you. Quantity does not equal quality, nor does it equal truth.

Graham.