Posted by: KG4MVP December 9, 2005
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Go here and enter my sajha ID www.kessler-design.com/conspiracy From http://skepdic.com/lawofnumbers.html "What Geller and other numerologists are doing is a game, a game played with numbers and with people's minds. Sometimes it is amusing. Sometimes it is pathetic." If we start hunting for items that seem relevant but don't fit the pattern, we will soon see that there is nothing special about Geller's list or the number 11. Only by focusing on anything that we can fit to our belief and ignoring everything that doesn't fit (confirmation bias) can we make these coincidences seem meaningful. Carroll's List of Meaningless Coincidences * the planes hit a little before and a little after 9 am * there were 4 flights that crashed with 266 people in them; 2+6+6= 14 * one plane was a 767 (7+6+7 = 20) * the other a 757 (7+5+7 = 19) * the 767 has 20,000-gal fuel capacity * the 757 has a 124-foot wingspan (1+2+4 = 7) * a 767 has a 156-foot wingspan; 1+5+6 = 12 * one tower was 1,362 feet high; 1+3+6+2 = 12 * the other was 1,368; 1+3+6+8 = 18 * the supports are 39 inches apart; 3+9 = 12 * the buildings were leased for 3.25 billion; 3+2+5 = 10 * the other flights were AA 77 (7+7 = 14) and UA 93 (9+3= 12) and UA 175 (1+7+5= 13) * flight 11 had 81 passengers (8+1 = 9) * flight 77 had 58 passengers (8+5 = 13), 4 crew members and 2 pilots (total=64) * Boston has 6 letters * Massachusetts has 13 letters * Pennsylvania has 12 letters * Washington D.C. has 12 letters * Los Angeles has 10 letters * The number of hijackers was 19 (9+1=10) * Names and words that don't have eleven letters in them: Osama bin Laden, Khalid Al-Midhar, Majed Moqed, Nawaq Alhamzi, Salem Alhamzi, Satam Al Suqami, Waleed M. Alshehri, Wail Alshehri, Abdulaziz Alomari, Dick Cheney, Laura Bush, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Muslim, Islam, Pentagon, World Trade Center, terrorism, jihad, Taliban, Koran, United States, anti-American, murder, fire, hell, stupid.
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