Good answer, Mike.
LAS VEGAS-----INTENDED TO BE ATTACKED !!!
by minimus 32 Replies latest jw friends
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SixofNine
LAS VEGAS-----INTENDED TO BE ATTACKED !!!
Well minumus, it's a crappy town for sure, but I'm not sure I'd go that far. -
DevonMcBride
If a plane got low-enough or close enough to hit Hoover dam, the Air Force would shoot it down first.
Devon
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heathen
To quote our current idiot and thief , Bring it on !!!!!!!!!!
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SheilaM
Why don't they just get thousands of potbelly pigs???? Each person boarding an airliner would have to pet the pig then they would be on the aircraft. No terrorist would want to die with a pig on a plane bad karma LOL
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minimus
Nevada officials say they were never under attack. What's your thought on that??
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Blueblades
If it actually happened,then,all the "FAMILIES" sshh! I can't reveal anymore than that,would eradicate Osama and his henchmen quicker than you could say the words Jimmey Hoffer.
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Elsewhere
LOL @ the Potbelly Pigs
They could also change the seats to leather seats... pig leather (very soft and supple!).
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Derrick
I'm about to get some sleep because I leave later today for Las Vegas. I decided not to allow the terrorists to ruin my holidays and visits with the friends.
I have played the Star Wars game where you maneuver through Canyons, and it's quite unreal to imagine Hoover Dam as a dead-end to whatever ill-fated flight is detoured into this "Beggars Canyon" by terrorists. I plan on visiting Hoover Dam next week. I'm trying to imagine your scenario from the vantage point of the visitors center perched high over the dam; hearing a faint roar of unknown origin echoing through the canyon facing the dam; then witnessing the surreal scene of a low-flying airliner turning around the distant bend and racing right toward the dam.
However, I do believe the dam would be destroyed. You see, the jet fuel would melt through the dam, weakening the structure and causing a cascading collapse. By the time the water had penetrated through the dam to stop the melting, it's too late. The dam is spewing billions of gallons of water through the middle as the opening progressively widens until full failure is realized.
However, an alternative scenario could occur during cold high winds hitting the dam as the jet hits it. The jet fuselage is like aluminum foil compared to the dam's megastructure, so it would crumble and disintegrate instantly into a massive fireball. High winds would prevent the fireball from lingering long enough to melt the dam, although the blast wave would weaken the structure. This weakening would force engineers to drain Hoover Dam and spend billions reinforcing its structure. However, in this alternate scenario a collapse would not occur.
I'll report "live" from my laptop in my hotel suite at ground-zero of the strip during the new year's celebration if I can. I'm determined to remain optimistic that nothing will happen and half a million people jampacked onto the strip will return to their warm beds safely after the fireworks show.
Remember, Minimus and all, that without this eternal optimism to focus our attention to the eternal light above, there is only the gaping maw of an abyss of infinite darkness to stare into below. We must move our lives away from that darkness and move into the light because it is the light that terrorists fear the most.
Best wishes,
Derrick
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minimus
Derrick, this might be a good time to blow all your savings.