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IBM Targets UFOs, Ghosts, and Goblins With Search Tool
coondoggie writes "IBM wants to help you find out if UFOs are real. Well, sort of. With UFO sightings seemingly on the rise, Big Blue is teaming with The Anomalies Network to offer UFO Crawler, a new search engine specifically tuned to search for information about the paranormal, unexplained or just plain bizarre. The search tool employs IBM's OmniFind Yahoo! Edition enterprise search software and the UFO Crawler should help users precisely target and gather information from relevant sources, including thousands of documents and files collected in the vast Anomalies Network archive, as well as multiple global resources across the Web on topics such as such as ghosts, conspiracy theories and extraterrestrials."
Where to begin with the errors in this post. Let's start with:
"12 uneducated Muslim extremists"
Uneducated? Is that what you called Mohamed Atta with his Architecture degree from Cairo Univeristy and his Masters degree obtained in Germany? Or Abdulaziz al-Omari, also with a University degree? Many of the hijackers were educated. Not that all of them needed to be to wield a box cutter and cut up a few flight crew members in order to execute someone elses well-conceived hijack plan.
"They were able to fly the aircraft with pinpoint precision with only commercial pilot licenses at best (airline transport licenses really are required for this level of precision"
Wrong. ATP certificates are required to act as pilot in command of an airliner, but most flights you can take on an airline are flown 50% or more by the First Officers (copilot) who only have commercial pilots certificate. They will frequently fly one entire leg of a flight from takeoff to landing and let the captain fly the next leg. This is how they build the flight time to become an ATP. You must have already demonstrated proficiency in precision instrument flying and high performance manuevers to get your commercial certificate. There are no additional "precision" maneuvers learned for an ATP cert. It is only a matter of hours (1500 PIC) and an additional flight and written test. As a licensed Private Pilot, I have to say you sound like you know little about the subject. It is more difficult to fly precision manuevers in a Cessna 172 than in the airliners flown by these pilots, which are far more stable and easy to manuever, particulary when already in flight and trimmed for cruise. Nothing but throttle, yolk, and rudder were needed to accomplish the 9/11 hijackers task, which are the most elementary flight controls. Most home 'pilots' flying a computer flight simulator at 100% realism settings can accomplish the same feat with ease after a little practice. The hijacker pilots had real flight training by comparison. Now if you want difficuly, try shooting an ILS approach in a Cessna 172 in IFR conditions with winds gusting and moderate to heavy turbulance. Once you can do that, then you can discuss this with me from a position of authority.
"Further, they managed to vaporize all but a supposed APU wheel. "
Yeah, that and the other few thousand other pieces of wreckage, including the landing struts, engine sections, larger pieces of fuselage, etc. I guess you missed the photos of the other parts, so that means they don't exist, right? I mean if a website you found says there was only one piece of wreckage and has a picture of it, that must be right, huh? By the way, you don't have to melt aluminum or titanium in a high speed collision with reinforced concrete. It will mostly atomize into dust upon impact, as can be see in decades old military crash test videos found all over the net.
Let's see if you can count more than one piece of wreckage here:
http://www.rense.com/general32/phot.htm
And learn what happens when jets meet reinforced concrete walls, like those in the Pentagon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_RGM4Abv8