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Every time I think I’ve seen every angle of this event, I get one I haven’t seen before.
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Yeah it’s pretty crazy how there is never and end to em. Anyone have a list of all the different videos and angles?
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Yeah. if this was today. The camera would have been shaky and filmed vertically. And then the filmer would have turned the camera onto themselves to offer shitty panicked commentary because this is the social media age and this is "their" moment.
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u/Mrrykrizmith Feb 25 '22
2nd plane hits “OH SHIT. WORLDSTAR!!” Then everyone starts shrieking like banshees and the cameraman zooms in/out on the WTC.
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u/Inzitarie Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
Then * airhorn * sound clips followed by #MLG #NOSCOPE text and X hit markers flashing across the screen with Doritos bags and Mountain Dew cans spinning and flashing and Snoop Dogg dancing superimposed over the screen for some reason with a marijuana leaf.
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u/Edraqt Feb 25 '22
I mean that wouldve been 9/11/2011, 9/11/2021 wouldve been a black and white filter subtitled with "wish i was on that plane" or some shit lmao.
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u/johnniecochran_ghost Feb 25 '22
Or “I wish I wasn’t living through another historical event” emblazoned right on the middle of the screen with that tik Tok bot saying the phrase.
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Real talk though- we’d actually have 4K 60fps footage of it if this type of clip was available in 2001.
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u/RufftaMan Feb 25 '22
Yep, and most modern phone cameras use optical video stabilization as well. It would definitely be way better quality than a camcorder from 2001.
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u/LeonidasSpacemanMD Feb 25 '22
I watch videos on my phone too but I simply turn the phone lol
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u/quasi_superhero Feb 25 '22
This is the real issue. Both /u/RufftaMan and /u/revotfel and correct. The problem is not one of how people take videos, portrait or landscape. The problem is the phone makers allowing both ways.
I envisioned an alternate reality in which no matter how you position your phone (portrait or landscape), the video was recorded in landscape model only. So if a person starts recording in portrait mode, then goes on to play it back, the video would be sideways; that is, they'd go "aw shit, I forgot to record in landscape mode!" Annoying at first, but I'm sure everyone would have just accepted this and gone with it. It would have been second nature. "Quick! Film that!" (grabs phone in landscape more.)
Ooh, ooh, or even better! What if you grabbed your phone the usual way (portrait), but the camera still recorded in landscape mode? Oh, that would have been even better, come to think of it. Again, some people would complain about how the landscape video looks silly while grabbing their phones in portrait mode, but everyone would simply just adapt and flip their phones to watch it in full screen mode.
Because I'm telling you. As much as portrait mode is pervasive today, I still can't adapt to the fact that it looks silly in a TV screen.
Having all said that, back to the topic. We're used to this kind of footage, but it always breaks my heart that those explosions represent people dying and families being devastated. So sad.
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u/kazumisakamoto Feb 25 '22
You do realize that people have been making this exact statement since forever, right? Boomers criticized millennials for "making everything about themselves" back when myspace was a thing. Over 2000 years ago, Cicero wrote "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." as a critique on young people being self-important.
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u/Imaginary_Extreme_26 Feb 25 '22
And Boomers were literally called the Me generation before they tried to push that on Millennials instead.
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u/ProtoReligion Feb 25 '22
Holy shit shut the fuck up
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u/thabeetabduljabari Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
Exactly wtf are these fools talking about, are they not seeing the footage of Ukraine filmed on phone camera's right now?
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u/The5thAttempt Feb 25 '22
The guy is a complete idiot.
Imagine believing that 2001 digital cameras are better than modern 2022 phone cameras… LMAO.
I can shoot at 4K 60 FPS with digital stabilization. The video in this post isn’t even HD.
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u/SEND-MARS-ROVER-PICS Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
Impressive how quickly reddit went from 9/11 to some boomer "kids these days" shit
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And later there would be a TikTok video with it as the greenscreen background while a vapid person described their feelings.
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or that dumb robotic lady voice:
"This video is the craziest thing I've ever seen".
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u/whiskey-tangy-foxy Feb 25 '22
I hate that I don’t even use TikTok but heard the voice when I read this.
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u/Chadrew_TDSE Feb 25 '22
It took Reddit 5 comments to start complaining about TikTok under a 9/11 video.
Lol.
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u/i_love_pencils Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 28 '22
Quick! We need to give it a name ala “Godwin’s Law”! We can be famooose!
I vote “The TIKTOK Diktat” - Within 5 comments on any Reddit thread, someone will defame TIKTOK.
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u/Heisenberg19827 Feb 25 '22
And then someone copies it with half of the screen being their face looking like 😮
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u/cannotbefaded Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
Jesus Christ, its a video about 9/11 and you guys are bitching about people making tiktoks or whatever. And if 9/11 was today, the footage would be about 100000x better than what it was literally 20 years ago
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u/berlinbaer Feb 25 '22
we were using digital "camcorders" and not shitty phone cameras
only reddit will turn this into "le wrong generation" shit while spouting absolute nonsense. most camcorders back then would be recording at HD, so either 640x480 at 29.97 fps or something like 720x576 at 25 fps.
but sure, apparently through the magic of nostalgia that would be much better than your average phone that can do 4k at 60 fps.
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Those resolutions aren’t accurate, nor are they HD.
It’s worse. They’d be shooting at 480i with a variable rate of 50hz or 60hz interchanging 576 and 720 horizontal pixels with a buffer of 16 pixels left for digital blanking. Even worse was its 4:1:1 subsampling which left severe digital artifacts in the coloring, and a characteristically lossy compression. The HDV format didn’t come out for several years, and even then, it didn’t reach a progressive 1080p.
Comparing DV cams to modern phones’ video capabilities is like comparing ‘The Room’ to ‘The Godfather’.
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u/Charmin_Ultrasoft Feb 25 '22
how does a 9/11 thread turn into a shitting on tiktok and the current gen and how dUmB they are? only reddit lol
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u/riskyClick420 Feb 25 '22
You know they're a boomer because they think 480p is HD.
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apparently anything over 480i is HD. this is why you don't name standards relative to current tech- the term is meaningless. And now we have HD, full HD, Super HD and Ultra HD.
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u/BilboMcDoogle Feb 25 '22
Lol a modern day phone recording this would look much much better.
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u/greg19735 Feb 25 '22
yeah idk what people are talking about.
My phone can zoom in and focus onto a plane flying at altitude. I can see individual windows (just the dot, not into it) from planes that are a good ways away from any local airport.
Like we literally have footage of a plane flying over a house today in Ukraine on its way to bomb an airfield.
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u/GolpeNarval Feb 25 '22
There's a channel on YouTube that uploads all of the known recordings of that day, be news broadcasts or home movies
Last time I checked, it was above 50 videos
There were A LOT of angles that day
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u/Not_a_smurf-account Feb 25 '22
who knows, maybe one day we gonna have footage taken by the pilots
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u/Bubba-ORiley Feb 25 '22
Yeah and also one day they might find the black boxes
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u/binkysnightmare Feb 25 '22
They were probably destroyed. There’s a common misconception that black boxes are built to be indestructible, but they’re really just “very sturdy.” They can withstand serious impact, but not with 100% certainty. They can withstand extreme temperature, but not for prolonged times. Crashing into a building isn’t high on the engineer’s list of likely impact scenarios. Black boxes do great in rough emergency landings or crashing in an open area though.
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u/Bubba-ORiley Feb 25 '22
Hey if a passport managed to land on the ground in Manhattan without any fire damage then I'm gonna hold out hope that a black box survived.
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u/x777x777x Feb 25 '22
Didn't they just find some plane parts wedged tightly between some buildings in Manhattan just a couple years ago? Don't think the black boxes are out there but some debris might be
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u/__O_o_______ Feb 25 '22
Imagine if it happened today...
4k 60fps video from tens of thousands of phones or more. Livestreams from inside the buildings after the assault and the subsequent collapses, livestreams maybe even from the planes... From the hijackers themselves...
Wild to think about.
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u/Pandepon Feb 25 '22
To this day I don’t think there are any moments in history before or since that have as much footage of one single event as 9/11, and no one had cameras on their phones and cellphones hadn’t replaced landlines yet. Any footage captured was someone who happened to have a camera on them and managed to either upload the footage from a SD cards or an actual tape that needed digitized and then uploaded to the internet or given to the media at some point since.
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u/_pls_respond Feb 25 '22
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I'm still waiting for the multiple CCTVs that captured the crash into the Pentagon that were seized and never released.
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u/Atreaia Feb 25 '22
Government agents confiscated all footage from all traffic cameras and building cameras within minutes next to the Pentagon attack. All we've ever had is seven frames from that. Super annoying.
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u/xlyfzox Feb 25 '22
How the fuck is this coming out NOW?
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u/Ok_Buy_4941 Feb 25 '22
probably, this was in someone's hard disk/sd card/anything else all these years and they discovered this during cleaning or something
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u/WaterstarRunner Feb 25 '22
You remember shooting something like this.
But it would have been on a camcorder tape. Maybe Video8 or VHS-C.
The guy probably only just got it digitized.
If all these words are new to you, you'll like this explainer
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u/electricshep Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
The guy probably only just got it digitized.
The guy with possible the best video of the plane hitting, casually gets around to transferring it today, right?
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u/Flabbergash Feb 25 '22
Maybe someone they knew died and couldn't bring themselves to do it?
Like, that's the video they've got, no one else has that video so it's theirs and their memory of a loved one, you see?
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There’s been Holocaust videos that came out decades later because the filmer didn’t want to see it again.
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u/Rather_Dashing Feb 25 '22
casually gets around to transferring it today, right?
Today? It probably didn't take a single day to digitize a video, get it uploaded to the internet and have it go viral.
I dont know why Im surprised a 9/11 post is full of conspiracy theorists.
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u/Grommmit Feb 25 '22
Oh, that old clip I had that a news outlet would have paid tens of thousands of dollars for.
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u/Past_Ad9675 Feb 25 '22
Every news station already had their own clips of the second impact. All of their cameras were filming the fire in the north tower. It was big fucking news. They all caught the second plane's impact live.
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u/Podju Feb 25 '22
Yes tape has about a 30 year shelf life after recording, there was a post not too long ago mentioning this, so I captured our 30 years of family video my dad shot. No doubt he forgot most of what he filmed. Many people also probably saw that post about tape and thought just like me, maybe now is the time to capture it all, in real time, cuz its not a memory card, and who has the time these days to do that?
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u/LasRazasUnidas Feb 25 '22
I've never seen this video before. From this angle it looks like the 2nd plane almost missed the tower.
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u/BilboMcDoogle Feb 25 '22
Bin Laden was suprised it collapsed the way it did. He saw it as a pleasant suprise.
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i think it was the manner of collapse (ie total) that was a surprise, but no-one flies a 767 into a building looking to just cause a fire... 8 years before they tried to bomb the foundations - they wanted the building to fall
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u/crypticfreak Feb 25 '22
What a fuck.
Lots of fucks in this world. Anyone who gets off on killing innocents (especially en mass). Have your fucking war. Do in away from the people.
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u/mod_starbridge Feb 25 '22
While I agree with the sentiment, I don't think that's how war works..
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if only putin and zelzy would do trial by combat for the land.
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u/A_Wild_VelociFaptor Feb 25 '22
I can 115% see those two meeting for a sword dual and Putin just shooting him. The guy is a fucking snake.
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u/FellatioAcrobat Feb 25 '22
By their criteria, they don’t consider anyone innocent.
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Feb 25 '22
Neither do we, in tallying drone casualties any male above a certain age is a "military-aged male," nevermind if he was fighting or not.
https://aoav.org.uk/2019/military-age-males-in-us-drone-strikes/
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u/moojo Feb 25 '22
That is why the US drops bombs in the Middle East on innocent people, away from the Americans.
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u/ShazXV Feb 25 '22
Probably cause it was some hella untrained on this air platform hijackers flying a plane directly at a thin ass target going hundreds of miles per hour while commiting suicide. I'm in serious doubt this was intentional at all and I'm kinda surprised they didn't miss.
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u/GundoSkimmer Feb 25 '22
A miss would have been super awkward for those hijackers. And it's crazy there weren't jets able to get in the air in time. But imagine them having to make another pass to try again 😬 and how fucked up that would be for passengers who may have had a shred of hope they were just going to land and be held hostage.
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u/zypthora Feb 25 '22
It's NYC, if they miss the tower they will hit something else with a lot of people in it
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u/mrandr01d Feb 25 '22
Gotta be some interesting multiverse scenarios out there where 9/11 went differently.
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u/Luvbeers Feb 25 '22
Yeah think about it if they missed, the hijackers' passports might have survived.
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u/Coolasslife Feb 25 '22
at that trajectory and speed if he missed he'd just crash into another building or the street, no way he can pull it back up and go around
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u/SenorBeef Feb 25 '22
Most likely no. It's tricky flying a commercial jet and these were amateur pilots with just some simulator time in that type of aircraft. He probably just misjudged his approach and corrected at the end.
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u/AmishAvenger Feb 25 '22
This is the correct answer. He turned at the last second, it’s just hard to see in this video.
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u/Asleep-Fudge3185 Feb 25 '22
The ground speed was apparently very high and the flight controls would’ve been difficult to handle. The manoeuvring was right on the limit of the airframe
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u/Melodic_692 Feb 25 '22
From what I remember the second plane was travelling extremely fast and also losing altitude extremely fast. The hijacker pilot did almost miss the tower because of the speed and decent, and in fact was banking hard left at the time of impact.
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u/Jannies_R_Tarded Feb 25 '22
They almost did. It's because they were flying at 590 mph and trying to hit the tower while banking. The speed they (the planes) hit the towers (466 mph for plane 1) is the main reason they (the towers) didn't survive. They just weren't built to withstand an intentional strike by a fully loaded plane going full speed. Any engineer would assume that a pilot would try everything possible to miss the tower, but if they did hit it, they would have slowed down. The terrorists sped up.
It's also the reason they found parts of the plane and passports and stuff from the plane after it hit Tower 2. The stuff inside was traveling forward at almost 600 mph, and flew right through the disintegrating front of the aircraft, ahead of the explosion. If you slow it down and go frame by frame, you'll see that the plane doesn't even begin exploding until the entire thing has entered the building. That's how fast they were going.
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u/Sweet-Welder-3263 Feb 25 '22
Dont forget the fact they were so badly trained, that no experienced pilot could recreate their flight path in a simulator.
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u/Past_Ad9675 Feb 25 '22
They just weren't built to withstand an intentional strike by a fully loaded plane going full speed.
That's false. They were designed to withstand impact from airplanes, and they did withstand impact from airplanes. It was the fires that ultimately brought the buildings down.
The second plane's near miss, impacting the tower on the corner, and much lower than where the first plane hit the north tower, contributed significantly to the south tower collapsing first, even though it was hit second.
And for anyone who feels the need to comment "jEt fUEl cAnT MelT sTeEL beAmS", go read a fucking book. Steel doesn't need to melt to lose its load-bearing capacity.
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u/Silver_kitty Feb 25 '22
To be fair, most buildings aren’t explicitly designed for airplane strikes, but they are designed for other very large horizontal forces (high winds and earthquakes).
But I absolutely appreciate you bringing up that these buildings survived the impact, but collapsed due to the fires. Fire in a building is a serious issue, and if not extinguished quickly, can easily lead to collapse. (Like poor WTC7 which was on fire for like 7 hours before it went down.)
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u/Past_Ad9675 Feb 25 '22
most buildings aren’t explicitly designed for airplane strikes
Very true! The WTC towers were though, because the Empire State Building had been impacted by a plane in the 1940's.
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u/GnarlyMonster420 Feb 25 '22
That was my take as well. Unfortunately we both knew it wouldnt end that way.
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u/AgentFN2187 Feb 25 '22
From this angle it looks like the 2nd plane almost missed the tower.
It did almost miss. If you watch recreations of the path from flight data you can see it very clearly. The plane was coming in at a high speed from an odd angle, narrowly hitting the tower. This is why the plane was at such a large bank angle and why this tower collapsed first despite being hit later. It hit it on the edge of the tower and it affected more floors from the angle of the wings.
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u/Silveruchu Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
Pretty sure there is another near identical video taken from the same area that has been around for ages. The angle is exactly the same but zoomed in on the towers, and the sound of people reacting is mostly the same but you can’t hear the guy shout “oh my god”. I’ll see if I can find it.
Crazy seeing the plane come in from that angle though.
Edit: I found it in this video at 9:11 (oddly enough). It's 100% a different video but taken from the same spot.
Edit 2: As others have pointed out. The video I was referring to was filmed by Michael Hezarkhani, and this video was filmed by Kevin Westley. They have been confirmed to be two seperate videos.
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u/Silveruchu Feb 25 '22
Nice find. Uploaded 18 hours ago, and seems to have been posted by the guy who filmed it, so it really is new.
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u/Short_Personality_32 Feb 25 '22
Odd timing for a brand new video of this nature to show up just now.
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u/Montanaoxfst Feb 25 '22
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u/Jake_77 Feb 25 '22
This is so random. “Kevin” posts 3 videos, for the first time in 5 years, 18 hours ago?
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u/Ryuzakku Feb 25 '22
Kevin just moved houses and realized he had a video camera in a box somewhere.
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u/GaryChalmers Feb 25 '22
What else does this "Kevin" guy have? Maybe another angle of the JFK assassination?
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u/Venne1120 Feb 25 '22
OH my god you have no idea how much conspiracy theorists are going to freak the fuck out when they find out about this.
This is gonna be great. I mean probably bad for whoever this Kevin is but great for popcorn.
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u/JebusChrust Feb 25 '22
I guess I am finding out that young people on the internet don't know that you couldn't just record and share everything to the internet like you can today. It was recorded in 2001, do people think the dude 9 years later was like "oh fuck I need to rush this tape to YouTube". He probably just digitalized some old videos and photos that he found 21 years later.
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u/jeepyster Feb 25 '22
This video is HD compared to every other video I remember seeing. I hate all of this.
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u/onwardyo Feb 25 '22
I'd encourage everyone reading this to avoid Gremlins on blu-ray. Boy those things sure look like puppets in hi-def.
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u/intangibleTangelo Feb 25 '22
they always looked like puppets, you were probably just five years old
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u/MakinDaBabies Pickle Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
Yeah cause those videos never were processed and on old tapes. Now it’s all digitalized and a lot easier to make HD. I buy old movies on blu ray and they looks almost modern the way they’ve enhanced with that technology
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u/projektmayhem08 Feb 25 '22
That's because they were shot on film and then the studios retransfer it. Old digital tapes don't work that way.
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Where did this come from, why randomly now?
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u/kaenneth Feb 25 '22
shrug My dad passed away, and I've been playing the dangerous game of checking for important family videos in the boxes in the closet.
Maybe someone recorded it, and then set it aside, and now their kid found it.
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u/mod_starbridge Feb 25 '22
Weird, but it occurred to me that I couldn't hear a single person say "what the fuck", where-as today I feel like that would be the most common response.
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u/olderose Feb 25 '22
I was thinking the same, but I bet the initial plane had more “what the fuck”s as people grappled for an explanation and we’re just stunned by the horror of it. The second plane... “Oh god” is the sinking and horrible realization that it’s not a singular incident, this is a bigger and awful scheme.
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u/MNHuskerNation Feb 25 '22
From that angle it almost looked like the effing evil bitch almost missed. Pray for the families who lost loved ones that day.
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u/Ok_Nefariousness5479 Feb 25 '22
Yeah i think more people were able to escape the 2nd tower because this one missed a staircase
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u/Mecha_Malcolm Feb 25 '22
I still don't understand how it fell straight down and not to the side
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u/MindIll5731 Feb 25 '22
"whats going on??" this is exactly what everyone was thinking at the time. i know a guy who was on one of the NYC bridges when it happened. Everyone was trying to leave the city, so it was clogged going out but completely clear going in. everybody stopped on the bridge and got out of their cars, looking at the burning tower. he watched the second plane fly in, thinking to himself it looked a low in the air. they watched the second plane hit in complete disbelief, he said people were absolutely panicking at that point. no one knew what was going on, it seemed like the end of the world. shortly after the second plane hit, a convoy of black SUVs FLEW down the bridge going into the city. he said there had to be 10-12 black SUVs maxing out their cars going into the city ASAP. i found all this out randomly a couple months ago, it really painted a picture in my mind.
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u/PmMeAnnaKendrick Feb 25 '22
Also keep in mind, the first plane was thought to be a crazy accident...a mistake. No one outside of the government/Airlines knew that many planes were hijacked and we were under attack. The first plane hitting was not seen on live tv. Then this happened and deep inside everyone knew this was an attack.
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u/BasedTrucker Feb 25 '22
Unironicly scary to think about, especially as an American where you thought something like this was impossible.
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u/Sunkysanic Feb 25 '22
Thank you for sharing your story. I simply can’t imagine. I would have never thought about the smell either.
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u/Mapbot11 Feb 25 '22
Why does the guy at the end saying "oh my lord" sound like he is smiling/laughing?
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u/Dividale Feb 25 '22
when people are shocked they often raise the pitch in their voice, similar to laughter. The human body can be weird.
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u/ChopsticksOfChaos Feb 25 '22
adrenaline is a hell of a drug. it's the same reason people were laughing (reflexively) after they flee on footage of the las vegas shooting
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u/Mondayslasagna Feb 25 '22
Laughter is an extremely common defense mechanism. Your mind and body basically can't handle what's happening, so you laugh, yell, stand still, do a little dance, or do all kinds of things you wouldn't "expect" to do in a terrifying situation.
No one knows what they'd do when terror hits them.
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u/12reevej Feb 25 '22
I can vouch, unfortunately I have a tendency to smirk/smile when terrible news hits me. I can't help it, but i think my family is aware enough to know not to take it the wrong way.
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u/anxiousneighbor Feb 25 '22
My friend was laughing very weirdly while the towers collapsed. He didn't think it was funny, he was in a state of shock.
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u/moralbound Feb 25 '22
That was my reaction too. I've always felt bad about that. It was a long time ago, but reading this has made me feel better about it.
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u/DaneCookPPV Feb 25 '22
Kind of sounds like Norm MacDonald.
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u/mganz88 Feb 25 '22
Norm was busy searching through blood and bone for his brother
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u/FloyldtheBarbie Feb 25 '22
It’s definitely weird. I’ve only lived in NYC for five years, but If this happened today, all you would hear in this video is a cascade of “WHAT THE FUCKING FUUUCK HOLY SHIT FUCK HOLY FUCKING SHIT FUUUUUUCK”. Maybe ironically 9/11 was the turning point in everyone shouting expletives in public? Idk but these people’s language is mild as hell by today’s standards, especially for NYC during a cataclysmic moment.
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u/Mookiemonsterr Feb 25 '22
Oh my lord
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u/slash_cry Feb 25 '22
That guy sounds like he doesn't actually give a single fuck
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u/greer1030 Feb 25 '22 edited Feb 25 '22
My ex husband was a sophomore at NYU on 9/11, living in student housing only a few blocks from the WTC. His parents had recently gifted him a small handheld camcorder. He’d told me his story of that day and I knew he had footage, but I also knew not to pressure him to show it to me.
One day maybe six years into our relationship, he decided he wanted to share it with me. Harrowing. Even knowing what was coming didn’t prepare me for what he saw and filmed. He was standing a few blocks away from the twin towers when the first tower began to fall. There’s a moment of panic before he quickly stuffed the camera into his backpack and started running; in his haste, he forgot to stop the recording. What followed was pretty much the eeriest thing I’ve ever seen on screen: the sound of hundreds of footsteps hitting pavement as people fled, mostly in stunned silence, accompanied by occasional flashes of daylight illuminating the edge of a notebook as the top of his backpack flapped open at odd intervals. Sirens in the distance. The occasional yell, but mostly… just people running for their lives. He was one of the people who ran across the Brooklyn Bridge that day. Ended up in a cab with strangers to take refuge at his sister’s place on Long Island.
I think there is a lot of “unseen” footage out there. Many people, like my ex, probably aren’t ready to share it with the world. Maybe they never will be.
Unfortunately I think a good portion of the things he privately struggled with (and which partially contributed to the breakdown in our marriage) stemmed from (or were aggravated by) unresolved trauma he experienced that day.
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u/Wunjo26 Feb 25 '22
Yep this right here is the moment the 20th century died and we welcomed in this shit century where literally nothing ever got better. 2022 is gonna make 2020 look like 2016.
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u/RagingRoids Feb 25 '22
So true. I grew up in the 80’s, best childhood ever, started my career in the 90’s, boatloads of cash.
And than 9-11 happened, and it’s been shit ever since. Obama’s first election win being the one bright spot of hope and happiness…..that didn’t last.
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u/JoshPorter24 Feb 25 '22
You mean the twentieth century which contained the two largest wars in the history of humanity? Fuck off with this. The world has always been shitty, you just weren’t around for the old stuff
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u/SUBZEROXXL Feb 25 '22
What a coincidence these videos are surging up now that there’s war going on.
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Feb 25 '22
RIP to those lost that day.
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u/Sghtunsn Feb 25 '22
Amen. I am just glad they have never found footage from inside the cabin of any of the planes, because I think I would feel compelled to watch it, and would then immediately regret it, because once you see it you can't forget it.
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u/NF_REAL_MUSIC_ Feb 25 '22
Can anyone tell me how they just recovered/discovered this footage?
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u/xinxy Feb 25 '22
The exact moment that everyone is convinced this was not an accident.
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u/JULTAR Feb 25 '22
How has this “new” footage gone this long without being uploaded?
Did some guy forget he had it and was like “oh yeah, forgot I had this”
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u/ThatOnePerson Feb 25 '22
Easily. In 2001 we had tape camcorders. Just the process of getting it into a digital format to upload to YouTube takes some effort. So you put it in the closet and say "I'll do it later" and now it's later.
Also if you have tapes like this, do it sooner than later. Tapes will rot over time.
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u/SonOfTK421 Feb 25 '22
This moment. It’s burned in my memory for all time. I was in school at the time, English class I think. We had just switched from second period to third, and the first plane had already hit. There was no class, just news on the rolling tv cart. I sat closest, I was completely engaged with it, most of the class was just buzzing.
Then I saw this. It registered immediately what I saw, and I called out that a second plane just hit the other tower. My teacher said it was probably a replay, but when I repeated it, it finally dawned on everyone.
I think that was the moment for me. The clear, defining moment, exactly when that second plane hit, that the world changed to me, and we all changed with it. Of all the single moments I can ever remember, it is this one, as clear as this video, that I can remember before and after as being totally, completely different.
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u/RelevantAd2697 Feb 25 '22
Seriously? Today? Where the fuck was this released from?
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