where were you?

[JohnRambo]

I was at a field campaign preparing for my masters. Half way though the campaing someone said that a jetliner just crashed into one of the WTCs (NYC is 6 hours late on us). At first I was like "you're kidding me right, there's 50 000 People passing through those buildings every day". Turned out he wasnt kidding, but we had to carry on with the field experiments, if we wanna get the certificate and not waste a year. So we'd carry on with what were were doing while the whole tragedy unfolded, once in a while someone would give us an oral update on what was hapenning in NYC. When we were riding the bus back to the youth hostel in hte evening, we speculated what was happening. We heard about the 2 WTCs and the Pentagon but not the 4th plane. Eveyone was like "wtf that must have been a major government and military conspiracy, cause USA has the best air defense in the world and stuff". When I said nah it was probably the same guys who syncronousy attacked the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania nad Uganda and that all you need for this is 1 pilot and 3 more guys with knives per plane, and they probably had more than the 3 planes that made it, they looked at me like I was crazy. And the question is not if you have the capability to shoot a passenger plane down in 20 minutes, but the question is: is someone gonna make that decision in 10 minutes based on lots of radio static and a funky radar track and no transponder. Back at the hostel we were like the only people who hadnt watched the whole thing on tv already 30 times, and the other people at the hostel were already bored of watching it the first time we watched the towers collapse.