>Hong Kong
Not since 2020, China pretty much turned HK into a Soviet-style satellite >Tokyo
Frankly, I'd agree and say it's between the two. But I'd say New York, because it's a better representation of the state of the world, which isn't good.
Yeah I feel a bit sad looking back at them now, they feel like something truly lost to time like the Titanic will be in 2 decades.
NYC had the most cultural influence. It was THE place to go if you had anything to do with art or the creative processes, that and money israelite connection I suppose. I highly doubt it's true anymore.
But to answer your question whatever city in Taiwan that has the most semiconductor fabrication tech.
Just because it's a shithole doesn't mean it isn't important. When the world thinks of America they picture the statue of liberty and the new york skyline.
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the world doesnt think of america, and when they do it's the capitol.
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>When the world thinks of Americ
That's where you're wrong kiddo
I hate homosexuals like you who get self-righteous because you aren't getting enough attention at home. Terminal online b***h, you have no clue of the world before 9/11.
>i cant stop sucking american penis
lets hear what your country is famous for... because right now youre on OUR internet using our language talking about our media and celebrities joking about our culture because everything you do no one cares about. i wish you a painful death away from anything american including our medicine and tech advances. die away from us
Americans are so pathetic and deserve everything bad that happens to them lol, and I say that as a mexican Chad living in the USA, I support your country dying for all the damage you have caused
No worries anon. We're waiting for the country to die off too, along with all the kind white people.
It's going to be fun what happens after that.
t. white guy
It’s wild to me knowing this is the only footage known in the world of the first plane hitting the towers and it was just an accident because a guy was shooting a documentary:
Some other guy got footage of it but by accident too and didn't even realize it until later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=uVy46nIB46E&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F&feature=emb_title
The Ninth of November, 2001, vs the sinking of The Titanic. You can magic up GoPro footage from the POV of every person involved from one of the two. Which are you picking?
Probably Titanic because it would be fascinating seeing GoPro footage of an event from a century ago, but then again knowing what exactly happened on 9/11 would also be fascinating.
Still going with Titanic but tough choice.
Titanic easily because there is nothing. There’s probably so much that historians got wrong/survivors remembered incorrectly. The fact that only a few survivors said explicitly that the ship broke up is testament to that
>over a hundred firefighters died on the 19th floor of the South Tower because they didn't share the same frequency as the police who realized that the tower was beginning to fall apart
The more you read about 9/11 the more you realize people give Mo Atta and his crew too much credit.
We have the benefit of hindsight, but they didn't realize that 15 minutes later another plane was coming right at the South Tower. Had the second plane never been hijacked, the South Tower would have the safest place to be because it was raining fire and metal in the plaza and streets.
Pentagon attack footage, the only footage we have is from some shitty security camera stills.
Also footage from inside the towers during the attacks but I imagine everyone was too panicked inside to get any.
>Also footage from inside the towers during the attacks but I imagine everyone was too panicked inside to get any.
The best they could do was evacuation footage via Casio pocket pc.
>Jules Naudet's entire footage in HD >Whatever footage this guy in the window managed to capture https://youtu.be/83E5w_ZexGQ?si=0gkUeI3AdVdogAy6&t=642 >The photos of the jumpers from inside the impact zone the FBI got ahold of >The supposedly real lol superman video of the plaza where the jumpers landed that FBI also got ahold of which is apparently in use for an ongoing trial for one of the Al Qaeda people
True, but this entire hunt happened because some anon said he saw footage of bodies hitting the base of the North Tower. This recording
Hey guys, they found the video which might actually be the LOL SUPERMAN video
is pretty much Lol Superman 6 years prior to 9/11. A cameraman catching a jumper turn into paste without a hundred feet between them would be up there with the Neudet tapes.
I could imagine Americans self censoring and even deleting their footage if they took any in the atmosphere that followed the attacks. This was before a time when every kid had a camera with them at all times, so it would have been responsible adults who got the shots.
So I have a bit of an autistic obsession with studying 9/11,
>Jules Naudet's entire footage in HD >Whatever footage this guy in the window managed to capture https://youtu.be/83E5w_ZexGQ?si=0gkUeI3AdVdogAy6&t=642 >The photos of the jumpers from inside the impact zone the FBI got ahold of >The supposedly real lol superman video of the plaza where the jumpers landed that FBI also got ahold of which is apparently in use for an ongoing trial for one of the Al Qaeda people
sums it up pretty good. A little more on the second thing he mentions- it's speculated the man in one of the left side windows is holding a camcorder. Common sense would make you think there would be no surviving remnants of it in the collapse, but as his third point says, the FBI is confirmed to have acquired at least some photos from the inside, so it's not implausible.
Frankly I think I'm fine with the superman video never surfacing, it's just such a grim concept and wouldn't likely shed any light on any mysteries.
Here are some more grails considered possible to exist or confirmed but lost: >Footage of the first impact: Many NY media outlets had cameras pointed at the towers, supposedly their cameras always were running but it's debatable if they were recording at the time of impact. >Lobby Footage: As far as I know, no footage of the lobby at time of impact exists or is available to the public, but CCTV was almost certainly running then. When the planes impacted, fireballs shot out of the elevators into the lobby. Like superman this is not something I'm sure I'd want to see as you'd likely be seeing people burnt to death at extreme heats. >There was a man who actually scaled down about 20 stories of the outside edges of the north tower, starting from above the impact zone. If any more footage of him exists, I'd like to see it. You can find some but he's hard to spot and disappears eventually. >The black boxes: If I recall correctly, none were recovered. >Confirmation of how high the firefighters got: It's speculated that by time of the collapse, firefighters had reached the impact zone of the north tower, this seems especially since we at least have confirmation the firefighters who went into the south tower first made it to that impact zone in a shorter time frame, albeit it was lower. Confirmation could exist, but I'm not sure. Either way they were all grade A heroes.
>There was a man who actually scaled down about 20 stories of the outside edges of the north tower, starting from above the impact zone. If any more footage of him exists, I'd like to see it. You can find some but he's hard to spot and disappears eventually.
This is the most incredible one imo. If only the dude survived, he'd have one hell of a story to tell.
why has nobody done a plot twist yet where the camera pans to the NYC skyline to show the towers to be still standing revealing that the work was set in an alternate timeline the whole time?
Holy shit the colors and lighting here look beautiful. I always found it amusing how when under construction the towers looked like unwrapped chocolate coated waffles.
They should have just been rebuilt. Let the country heal, but no they WANT to have a scar to b***h about, to have a definitive mark in all of their media reminding the whole country that there was a time BEFORE 911 and that they live in the time AFTER 911.
They should have rebuilt the towers and make them taller as frick you. Too bad, realtors destroyed that dream by buying most of the land around the WTC.
There's something about the 90s that's extremely comfy.
Why did CIA and Mossad have to do it? 9/11 was the exact moment the west collectively went to shit.
I don't get it either, American cultural export was at its peak then and nobody seems to take an issue with it much because it appeals to almost everybody. It managed to bring down the Soviets too so you know it's a proven formula. Why ruin that good thing?
It's amusing how the new tower prohibits any media depiction of destruction to it. Look at this, even the meteors avoided the tower for some reason kek.
>Farewell Address >Back To The Future >SEGA SDI >WWF >The Simpsons >Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego >The Pelican Brief >Seven >Iron Man >Neon Genesis Evangelion >Phillips Advertisement >The Tick >Independence Day >AT&T >Extreme Ghostbusters >Men in Black >Armageddon >The Matrix >Spiderman Unlimited >Disappearing Acts >Batman Beyond >Deus Ex >The Lone Gunmen >Telegate
How did they all foreshadow it bros?
Did anyone else but me like the WTC? They were not great architecture, I admit. But going up 110 stories with no setbacks and a mostly column free interior is brute force engineering. Each floor was almost an acre in size. Their structural system is a huge departure from other supertall skyscrapers of the era like the Sears Tower and John Hanwiener Building.
I liked them a lot from an engineering perspective despite the annoying low ceilings and asbestos in the floor and ceiling tiles. The lobby was magnificent, I love the bright white aluminum cladding and marble. >They were not great architecture
Debatable. Aesthetically they may have been on the minimalist side (people joked about them being the boxes the towers came in) but I always found an elegance to their simplicity even if on a macro scale it didn't necessarily match the art deco of NYC.
And besides, how often do you get to see two massive 110 story towers standing right next to each other like that and have them be fully spaced and functional buildings? Would wager if it wasn't for the asbestos and some of the jank courtesy of outdated building codes it wouldn't have been such a headache for the Port Authority to renovate or maintain even if they might have been somewhat representative of the old mid-century American futurism.
Yea, israelites would make a terrorist attack in the city filled with israelites!
Make total sense!
And also frick the risk of getting caught!
Totally not the job of arabs who literally claim they did it as a war against the US because the later defend Israel (which is based according to pol!)
Like any office block, floors were rented out to various companies. For the WTC in particular it was mostly financial/banking firms and legal offices with a few restaurants (mainly intended for the people working there).
The whole world financial center complex of which the twin towers were a part was built with public money to revitalize lower Manhattan after container shipping came along. Manhattan was too small for the cranes and storage lots needed so they moved the port facilities to new Jersey leaving lower Manhattan in decline. The state built the towers to provide an iconic anchor and attract financial business to the area. Most of the docks were removed and landfill was used to create more land for office buildings.
They should have rebuilt the towers and make them taller as frick you. Too bad, realtors destroyed that dream by buying most of the land around the WTC.
Why would they? They were advanced designs in 1971 but in the 21st century they were kinda dated. Plus, the mid-century brutalist design wasn't very fashionable anymore. The new One WTC built a block over is larger and more efficient.
Mid century typically means 1940s-1960s. The WTC was designed in the 1960s and construction began in 1966. It just barely skirts through. And it looks brutalist to me. The designer deliberately gave it small windows because he had a fear of heights.
They had just been completed that year, it might be one of the first films to feature them.
You can also briefly see them in Taxi Driver, I feel like Scorsese was deliberately trying to cover them up though, it would've been easy to frame them and make the shot look showy. Maybe he didn't like them, being a native of the original skyline for so long.
We really ought to have began an extermination campaign of all Muslims in the middle east for 9/11. No woman or child left. From Morocco to Pakistan, total ethnic cleansing. Culmination of some 1500 years of holy wars between Christianity and Islam, we've tolerated their nonsense long enough.
It's 2001 and its 9:10 AM, you have a camera and you're across the street from the Tobin Plaza. Are your balls big enough to dodge the police and shrapnel to sneak into the plaza to record jumpers?
my uncles brother had a son whose cousin died in that
whoa... are you a ghost?
>uncle's brother's son
so him
>had a cousin
so not him
that didnt answer the question, i'm getting my vacuum
no, uncle's brother could just be another uncle, so uncle's son would be his cousin. His cousin's cousin would be himself.
>I know people who fricking DIED in that SHIT!
>my uncles brother
So you mean your dad?
I didn't even know he was sick.
same here, his flight got diverted to canada and he had a heart attack from the stress of it
What does that make us?
His name was Mo Atta, a real good man
My friends dad was a firefighter and died when they collapsed. A few people in my HS had parents that died that day.
Thank you, Simone.
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Damn, I know someone who knows someone who fricked your mother
it was me
no you didnt
Good, frick him.
My incarcerated business partner's moronic gay niece was in the tower when it got hit
My grandpa got a heart attack when he saw it because he thought it was one of the seven trumpets. Christcucks, your shitty religion killed my grandpa.
>abrams
Distasteful
Reported
Blacklisted
b***h Fringe was awesome
remember me
lmao this scene took me by surprise when I first watched it and I could not stop laughing for like 10 minutes
hands down this, might be the funniest twist of all
>no way that's a real movie
>checks wiki
hot-dog my ass, that's hilarious
I didn't realize it was a comedy
I like Kong
damn it's almost like they were iconic buildings on the skyline of the most important city in the world
>most important city in the world
keep lying to yourself
>t. seething Chink
>t. seething baby boomer
no decisive winner.
it might have been New York before 9/11 but not anymore.
I don't really give a shit about NYC but what would you consider to be the most important city of the modern world?
This question is for anyone really?
>t. boomer
it's Hong Kong competing with Tokyo
Interesting
>Hong Kong
Not since 2020, China pretty much turned HK into a Soviet-style satellite
>Tokyo
Frankly, I'd agree and say it's between the two. But I'd say New York, because it's a better representation of the state of the world, which isn't good.
Don't worry, us zoomers will never forget
>New York
Not since Osama.
>ching chong and ching chong #2
It's Tokyo, brainlet.
NYC had the most cultural influence. It was THE place to go if you had anything to do with art or the creative processes, that and money israelite connection I suppose. I highly doubt it's true anymore.
But to answer your question whatever city in Taiwan that has the most semiconductor fabrication tech.
Mumbai by a far shot
Tokyo. NYC has to share importance with Los Angeles and Washington, where as Kyoto doesn't even compare
It's a tossup between New York, London, Tokyo and China
This is my metric
Paris is number 1 btw Bangkok is temporarily number 1 because most of the world is a chink or pajeet and its literally in-between
NYC. I'm not American and anyone with an answer other than NYC is coping.
>most important city of the modern world?
Los Angeles
Rio de Janeiro.
I'm not american, in fact I think they're homosexuals. Even I couldn't deny that assertion
Actually you need be american and know that shithole then you would realize the assertion is false.
Just because it's a shithole doesn't mean it isn't important. When the world thinks of America they picture the statue of liberty and the new york skyline.
the world doesnt think of america, and when they do it's the capitol.
>When the world thinks of Americ
That's where you're wrong kiddo
Facts don't care about your feelings
Feelings don't care about your facts
How did any of these people know the twin towers existed before 2001? This stinks to high heaven.
>the juxtapose of king kong and brian
Red Alert 2
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This is what I think of. Especially since sso much of it takes place right on wall Street a bombing and such
this shot from ghostbusters always looked a bit eerie
This image feels like it's from another planet
Yeah I feel a bit sad looking back at them now, they feel like something truly lost to time like the Titanic will be in 2 decades.
>from another planet
jeez take it easy, i hate people who are always as hyperbolic as you, fricking homosexual
I hate homosexuals like you who get self-righteous because you aren't getting enough attention at home. Terminal online b***h, you have no clue of the world before 9/11.
He’s right. Another planet is just homosexual speak. You’re right in the feeling you’re trying to express. You just said it like a redditor
>i hate
>fricking homosexual
Cool it with the hyperbole buddy
https://vimeo.com/28171399
In the first episode about the power outage that hit NYC, the plane that's referenced is flight 911
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Later in that series:
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holy shit
They were used in an interesting way in Robot Dreams from last year.
moronic movie
It was fantastic, you're moronic.
moronic poster
They should've built them back the same way
BD rip when?
So Kermit did 9/11?
they remind me of that tragedy
American hours....
American site...
that's where you're wrong
>i cant stop sucking american penis
lets hear what your country is famous for... because right now youre on OUR internet using our language talking about our media and celebrities joking about our culture because everything you do no one cares about. i wish you a painful death away from anything american including our medicine and tech advances. die away from us
It’s twainese
Americans are so pathetic and deserve everything bad that happens to them lol, and I say that as a mexican Chad living in the USA, I support your country dying for all the damage you have caused
No worries anon. We're waiting for the country to die off too, along with all the kind white people.
It's going to be fun what happens after that.
t. white guy
*Latinx
What did Sutter mean by this?
There's going to be blowback from Bush.
Hey guys, they found the video which might actually be the LOL SUPERMAN video
>LOL SUPERMAN video
?
Some mythical le lost media video that was cut down titled lol superman depicting 9/11 jumpers hitting the ground in front of the cameraman.
damn that would be wild to see
They were soulless, and completely devoid of any beauty. I'm surprised they didn't collapse from being brutally mogged by The Empire State Building.
WHAT THE FRICK WAS THIS ONE ALL ABOUT? I remember seeing this as a young lad and just being completely bamboozled at how surreal this clip felt.
It’s wild to me knowing this is the only footage known in the world of the first plane hitting the towers and it was just an accident because a guy was shooting a documentary:
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Some other guy got footage of it but by accident too and didn't even realize it until later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=uVy46nIB46E&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F&feature=emb_title
Holy shit I never knew this existed, thanks anon.
It’s wild seeing new footage of this event pop up over 2 decades later.
I knew about it
clearly a cruise missile
Amazing if 9/11 happened today we would have footage of people streaming or posting videos from inside the impact zone to the internet.
Nobody would TikTok or IG their death anon
There's some German guy or something with his webcam in his apartment which managed to capture the first plane as well.
>accident
Those two Frenchies are part of the tribe. They set up the shot.
Rem Lazar
The Ninth of November, 2001, vs the sinking of The Titanic. You can magic up GoPro footage from the POV of every person involved from one of the two. Which are you picking?
For me, it would be the Titanic.
Titanic. I love a period piece.
Probably Titanic because it would be fascinating seeing GoPro footage of an event from a century ago, but then again knowing what exactly happened on 9/11 would also be fascinating.
Still going with Titanic but tough choice.
Titanic easily because there is nothing. There’s probably so much that historians got wrong/survivors remembered incorrectly. The fact that only a few survivors said explicitly that the ship broke up is testament to that
What if the Titanic hit the Twin Towers?
What if the Twin Towers hit the Iceberg?
>over a hundred firefighters died on the 19th floor of the South Tower because they didn't share the same frequency as the police who realized that the tower was beginning to fall apart
The more you read about 9/11 the more you realize people give Mo Atta and his crew too much credit.
>Multiple people called 911 from the towers and were told by the dispatchers to stay put and wait for help to arrive
Can't even imagine the weight of guilt those dispatchers felt afterwards
We have the benefit of hindsight, but they didn't realize that 15 minutes later another plane was coming right at the South Tower. Had the second plane never been hijacked, the South Tower would have the safest place to be because it was raining fire and metal in the plaza and streets.
It would have been worth the small risk. Evacuation should have been immediate and complete. A lot of good men died.
What is the holy grail of 9/11 lost media?
Probably someone in one of the towers filmed all the shit happening with a camcorder and it got destroyed when the towers collapsed.
Pentagon attack footage, the only footage we have is from some shitty security camera stills.
Also footage from inside the towers during the attacks but I imagine everyone was too panicked inside to get any.
>Also footage from inside the towers during the attacks but I imagine everyone was too panicked inside to get any.
The best they could do was evacuation footage via Casio pocket pc.
>cell phone video in 2001
Fricking wild man, I remember having a razer in 2003 and it was also potato quality.
WTC was a major financial office, dude was probably rich enough to have a top-line PDA, one of those ones that cost a thousand bucks back in the 90s.
>Jules Naudet's entire footage in HD
>Whatever footage this guy in the window managed to capture https://youtu.be/83E5w_ZexGQ?si=0gkUeI3AdVdogAy6&t=642
>The photos of the jumpers from inside the impact zone the FBI got ahold of
>The supposedly real lol superman video of the plaza where the jumpers landed that FBI also got ahold of which is apparently in use for an ongoing trial for one of the Al Qaeda people
>lol superman
Something very similar to what the lol Superman tape describes was found
lol superman is the biggest reddit cringe. Thousands of people saying they saw it just to feel part of something and special. It doesn’t exist
Funnily enough, the whole search started from Cinemaphile, I think it was from /x/ or /b/ back in 2015.
Not just that but if someone caught a jumper up close and personal on tape then it would have exploded on live television and the internet.
I dunno man, even the direct photos of the jumpers or what happened at the plaza are not widely circulated even to this day.
True, but this entire hunt happened because some anon said he saw footage of bodies hitting the base of the North Tower. This recording
is pretty much Lol Superman 6 years prior to 9/11. A cameraman catching a jumper turn into paste without a hundred feet between them would be up there with the Neudet tapes.
I could imagine Americans self censoring and even deleting their footage if they took any in the atmosphere that followed the attacks. This was before a time when every kid had a camera with them at all times, so it would have been responsible adults who got the shots.
So I have a bit of an autistic obsession with studying 9/11,
sums it up pretty good. A little more on the second thing he mentions- it's speculated the man in one of the left side windows is holding a camcorder. Common sense would make you think there would be no surviving remnants of it in the collapse, but as his third point says, the FBI is confirmed to have acquired at least some photos from the inside, so it's not implausible.
Frankly I think I'm fine with the superman video never surfacing, it's just such a grim concept and wouldn't likely shed any light on any mysteries.
Here are some more grails considered possible to exist or confirmed but lost:
>Footage of the first impact: Many NY media outlets had cameras pointed at the towers, supposedly their cameras always were running but it's debatable if they were recording at the time of impact.
>Lobby Footage: As far as I know, no footage of the lobby at time of impact exists or is available to the public, but CCTV was almost certainly running then. When the planes impacted, fireballs shot out of the elevators into the lobby. Like superman this is not something I'm sure I'd want to see as you'd likely be seeing people burnt to death at extreme heats.
>There was a man who actually scaled down about 20 stories of the outside edges of the north tower, starting from above the impact zone. If any more footage of him exists, I'd like to see it. You can find some but he's hard to spot and disappears eventually.
>The black boxes: If I recall correctly, none were recovered.
>Confirmation of how high the firefighters got: It's speculated that by time of the collapse, firefighters had reached the impact zone of the north tower, this seems especially since we at least have confirmation the firefighters who went into the south tower first made it to that impact zone in a shorter time frame, albeit it was lower. Confirmation could exist, but I'm not sure. Either way they were all grade A heroes.
>There was a man who actually scaled down about 20 stories of the outside edges of the north tower, starting from above the impact zone. If any more footage of him exists, I'd like to see it. You can find some but he's hard to spot and disappears eventually.
This is the most incredible one imo. If only the dude survived, he'd have one hell of a story to tell.
That was debunked
why has nobody done a plot twist yet where the camera pans to the NYC skyline to show the towers to be still standing revealing that the work was set in an alternate timeline the whole time?
Let the river run
Let all the dreamers
Wake the nation
Come, the New Jerusalem
In the uncut Nauedet footage, you can catch a woman's reaction to a burnt body near the elevator.
mossad did it
the 1972 caper movie 'the hot rock' with robert redford. they fly a helicopter over lower Manhattan while the towers were still under construction.
>Death Star II lookin ass b***h
Holy shit the colors and lighting here look beautiful. I always found it amusing how when under construction the towers looked like unwrapped chocolate coated waffles.
>unwrapped
what? i hate morons so much kys
english motherfricker do you speak it
>everything in my country is the same as america
shit for brains. we make waffles here we dont buy them "wrapped" in plastic homosexual
Kojak
>they forgot Building 7
The memes write themselves
i missed the part where that's my problem
IIRC there's a bunch of scenes in Family Man with them; underrated cage kino too.
i saw the memorial for it not a big fan of the big hole
I like to think of it as america gaping
They should have just been rebuilt. Let the country heal, but no they WANT to have a scar to b***h about, to have a definitive mark in all of their media reminding the whole country that there was a time BEFORE 911 and that they live in the time AFTER 911.
They should have rebuilt the towers and make them taller as frick you. Too bad, realtors destroyed that dream by buying most of the land around the WTC.
You will never feel this
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King Kong 76
There's something about the 90s that's extremely comfy.
Why did CIA and Mossad have to do it? 9/11 was the exact moment the west collectively went to shit.
After the collapse of the USSR we needed a new bogeyman..gotta keep those bombers flying
I don't get it either, American cultural export was at its peak then and nobody seems to take an issue with it much because it appeals to almost everybody. It managed to bring down the Soviets too so you know it's a proven formula. Why ruin that good thing?
sad they had to rewrite the end of spider-man because of 9/11 would have been neat to see him make a big web between the towers
The King of the Hill episode was pretty great.
Such a comfy intro. I usually watch it every time.
Woke up this mornin
Got yourself a gun
In hindsight it is weird how the elites tried so hard to supplant the Empire State building with those two soulless towers.
They did that to make 9/11 more impactful on the American psyche
Empire State is just a soulless Crysler Building
The Chrysler building remains the most aesthetic building in all of NYC, and probably the world.
>Jerry hire Isis
funny how 9/11 became to americans the same as holocaust for the israelites
It's amusing how the new tower prohibits any media depiction of destruction to it. Look at this, even the meteors avoided the tower for some reason kek.
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>towers hit exactly same place as IRL
What did Michael Bay mean by this?
Too high and too low, try again
>Farewell Address
>Back To The Future
>SEGA SDI
>WWF
>The Simpsons
>Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego
>The Pelican Brief
>Seven
>Iron Man
>Neon Genesis Evangelion
>Phillips Advertisement
>The Tick
>Independence Day
>AT&T
>Extreme Ghostbusters
>Men in Black
>Armageddon
>The Matrix
>Spiderman Unlimited
>Disappearing Acts
>Batman Beyond
>Deus Ex
>The Lone Gunmen
>Telegate
How did they all foreshadow it bros?
Some were planted in there, some were cultural osmosis
Why didn't Spider Man save the twin towers?
>hammond tried, but tobey knew what the cia was up to and did it himself
man, the 1999 portal from the no way home's draft was wild
Did anyone else but me like the WTC? They were not great architecture, I admit. But going up 110 stories with no setbacks and a mostly column free interior is brute force engineering. Each floor was almost an acre in size. Their structural system is a huge departure from other supertall skyscrapers of the era like the Sears Tower and John Hanwiener Building.
>They were not great architecture
That's just wrong.
I liked them a lot from an engineering perspective despite the annoying low ceilings and asbestos in the floor and ceiling tiles. The lobby was magnificent, I love the bright white aluminum cladding and marble.
>They were not great architecture
Debatable. Aesthetically they may have been on the minimalist side (people joked about them being the boxes the towers came in) but I always found an elegance to their simplicity even if on a macro scale it didn't necessarily match the art deco of NYC.
And besides, how often do you get to see two massive 110 story towers standing right next to each other like that and have them be fully spaced and functional buildings? Would wager if it wasn't for the asbestos and some of the jank courtesy of outdated building codes it wouldn't have been such a headache for the Port Authority to renovate or maintain even if they might have been somewhat representative of the old mid-century American futurism.
RENOVATE?
naw kid we just have to blow it up and rake in that sweeeet insurance dosh
It’s one of things where you had to be there. Footage of the plaza on a sunny day is insane. The Towers seem to go on forever.
When the israelites blew them up... oh wait that doesn't a movie.
Yea, israelites would make a terrorist attack in the city filled with israelites!
Make total sense!
And also frick the risk of getting caught!
Totally not the job of arabs who literally claim they did it as a war against the US because the later defend Israel (which is based according to pol!)
>aunt tells everyone about how she almost had a meeting in the World Trade Center the day of 9/11 and that's why we needed to invade Iraq story again
"when are you going to come down"
what did elton john mean by this ?
So what did the towers even do? Was it just a huge stack of for rent offices and meeting halls and shit like that?
Shopping malls, hotels, offices from major financial firms to US secret service, stuff like that.
If you stopped at shopping malls and hotels I would have believed you lol
Why the frick don’t you believe offices and government offices are in skyscrapers?
Think about it.
Aka "i watched videos that convinced me it was a hoax many years ago but cant remember their points"
What? No, that's not what I meant.
Like any office block, floors were rented out to various companies. For the WTC in particular it was mostly financial/banking firms and legal offices with a few restaurants (mainly intended for the people working there).
The whole world financial center complex of which the twin towers were a part was built with public money to revitalize lower Manhattan after container shipping came along. Manhattan was too small for the cranes and storage lots needed so they moved the port facilities to new Jersey leaving lower Manhattan in decline. The state built the towers to provide an iconic anchor and attract financial business to the area. Most of the docks were removed and landfill was used to create more land for office buildings.
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Why didn't they just build it again?
Nobody would want to go in it, they're death traps if something explodes in the middle of the building.
Why would they? They were advanced designs in 1971 but in the 21st century they were kinda dated. Plus, the mid-century brutalist design wasn't very fashionable anymore. The new One WTC built a block over is larger and more efficient.
>lose 2 towers
>replace it with 1
American's BTFO by arabs
I hate big cities.
OneWTC is ugly as frick
The WTC wasn't mid-century nor brutalist
Mid century typically means 1940s-1960s. The WTC was designed in the 1960s and construction began in 1966. It just barely skirts through. And it looks brutalist to me. The designer deliberately gave it small windows because he had a fear of heights.
It was built in the modernist style. Not everything built in the middle of the century was "mid century" nor was every plain building "brutalist"
Modernism is mid century.
You're free to try and define brutalism in your own words, though
>Modernism is mid century.
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reminder: asbestos was all the rage in 1971 when the twin towers were built.
Al’Qaeda: #1 in Asbestos Removal
*distribution
Yeah because it had been a wonder material in construction for decades by then
I like how the Sopranos does it.
>shows up in the opening sequence pre-9/11, then disappears after
Kino.
Serpico. It shows up in the background.
They had just been completed that year, it might be one of the first films to feature them.
You can also briefly see them in Taxi Driver, I feel like Scorsese was deliberately trying to cover them up though, it would've been easy to frame them and make the shot look showy. Maybe he didn't like them, being a native of the original skyline for so long.
>Taxi Driver
I have to rewatch that, that scene is really good.
Godspell (1973). Shot atop the almost-completed tower.
We really ought to have began an extermination campaign of all Muslims in the middle east for 9/11. No woman or child left. From Morocco to Pakistan, total ethnic cleansing. Culmination of some 1500 years of holy wars between Christianity and Islam, we've tolerated their nonsense long enough.
It's 2001 and its 9:10 AM, you have a camera and you're across the street from the Tobin Plaza. Are your balls big enough to dodge the police and shrapnel to sneak into the plaza to record jumpers?
I don't see why not, Jack Taliercio and the other dude with him managed to slip by into the plaza just fine.
No, I don't want to see that
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