9/11 Insignificant?

[Bereta_Eder]

War Games movie feeling

Originally posted by Sprayber
I think Bees will be left.

Well, they are much cuter

[Dis]

nuclear winter (or huge freakin' asteroid hitting the earth) = lack of food for mamals longer than 1 foot. Short mammals will survive due to their lower food requirements.

who knows... maybe they will evolve into a species of highly intelligent apes.

[markusf]

Originally posted by Dissident
and city reservoirs are too big to contaminate. unless you want to pee in it

You would need hundreds of dump trucks worth of chemicals. That tends to get noticed.

well you could dump in a pound of some bacteria, and there are some chemicals that you only need a few hearts per million to die from... IF it did take big trucks there wouldn't be people guarding enterences to water treatment centers. There was a scare here in the summer when some of these places where broken into

[Shi Huangdi]

You know, it is probably better we don't feed these trolls. I don't think they are trying to make serious arguments at all. It is most likely people like Dominikos and markusf are just pathetic losers dying for any attention they can get, even if it is negative.

[Dis]

don't forget the cattle industry

hoof and mouth anyone?

although it might be worth it to see mcdonalds go out of business

[Dis]

since this is an unserious troll thread, I will plug my Survey here. I don't know why I posted it in Apolyton community.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40983

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
You know, it is probably better we don't feed these trolls. I don't think they are trying to make serious arguments at all. It is most likely people like Dominikos and markusf are just pathetic losers dying for any attention they can get, even if it is negative.

This thread deserves a fine layer of spam to be applied

[Dominikos]

You know, it is probably better we don't feed these trolls. I don't think they are trying to make serious arguments at all. It is most likely people like Dominikos and markusf are just pathetic losers dying for any attention they can get, even if it is negative.

If you don't like it, don't read it! You're one of the biggest whiners I've seen on Apolyton. Dominikos this, Dominikos that. You better believe it!

Now I'm ready to leave.

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~Emperor Dominik~

[Shi Huangdi]

Hey, have any of you noticed how odd the weather has been? It is late January but lately we've been getting spring-like weather.

How is the weather where you are?

[red_jon]

The reason the attacks were so overhyped was because -

A- It happened to the US
B- Those landmarks are familiar to the entire west, not just the US.

But, there were also justified reasons it was so publicised-

C- It was the largest single terrorist attack in history
D- People of many nationalities were killed, on live TV

Had it been to an EU nation, it wouldn't have been quite so publicised, but it certainly would have been big.

[Garth Vader]

Hey, have any of you noticed how odd the weather has been? It is late January but lately we've been getting spring-like weather.

How is the weather where you are?

*** ******* COLD It has been about -35 the last few mornings down from -25 the previous week. They keep saying it will get warmer, but I don't believe anymore.

[markusf]

big snow storm in vancouver, haven't seen this in years....

snow is still on the ground 2 days later? wtf ?

[rah]

"As for the claim that the attack cost over 100 billion? Thats just a load of BS, the airlines etc where all doing horrible before 9/11 with a few of the major ones already having declared bankruptcy. Most industries where just looking for a bailout"

We will never know the total cost. The ripple effect in the US was quite great. I went to Las Vegas in early November. We discussed the effect with quite a few dealers during the endless hours we spent at the tables. Most of them had only been called in for 3 days or less a week after 9/11. (the norm prior was 4-6 days a week) The hotel we were staying at was operating at less than 50% capacity when the norm is closer to 85%. This was a full two months after and one of their normal peaks. People were saying it was just starting to turn back up again. A lot of the people that canceled or didn't book were foreigners. That money is never going to be recooped. If Vegas ran at 66% of the norm for two months the cost was estimated at over 1 billion dollars. Most Companies cancel all business travel. And some still haven't resumed. The impact on Hotels, Resturants, Convention centers, taxis/limos, hookers, etc.

This doesn't even consider those companies that were literally destroyed in the collapse. The infrastructure damage, The cost of the cleanup. The overtime hours paid to workers.

The ripples keep spreading farther.

So even though the I agree that the airlines were already in trouble, this just made things worse.

I really don't think 100 billion was an Exaggeration and in the long run may be kinda low.

I guess you have to live here and actually open your eyes to see just how much was impacted from a monetary standpoint.

RAH

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by paiktis22
It's 11/9.

IIRC That's when the Berlin Wall fell, paiktis22.

[WhiteElephants]

Originally posted by red_jon
Had it been to an EU nation, it wouldn't have been quite so publicised, but it certainly would have been big.

Yeah, sort of like the way the world ignored that whole Nazi thing that happend way back when, what was it that happend again...? Or those damnable soccer holligans who did what? And what of that silly Berlin Wall episode, I can't quite remember, lets see... Not to mention that incident in the former Chech Repulic that the world largely ignored.

Do all Euros feel this sorry for themselves?

"quite so pulicised", HA!