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."

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[Spunkee]

Actually, it's fewest assumptions -- not "simplest logical explanation". This invalidates the remainder of your post, but I'll bite anyway.

911 for example... 12 uneducated Muslim extremists hijack 4 aircraft simultaneously and manage to crash 3 of them into buildings. They use box knives for this. 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).

They were in fact so precise that they managed to hit the Pentagon at 530 mph without even grazing the lawn. Just look at the pics. No conspiracy here. No doctored pics. Further, they managed to vaporize all but a supposed APU wheel. They managed to lower the melting point of titanium. The one piece of wreckage with an AA logo they did find had no scratches or fire burns. Amazing.

Try that in Flight Sim X with a 747 (smaller than the 757 that hit the Pentagon). I would bet you cash money that you overshoot or undershoot it your first 10 tries. These guys had one shot at it. Remember, you have to do this while avoiding the lawn entirely.

In fact, I don't think you'd even be able to pull off the turn toward the Pentagon without going into a high-speed stall.

Also, one of the hijacker's passport managed to fly out of the aircraft, out of the trade tower, onto the sidewalk below, where it was conveniently found... Hmm.

All of this in the most secure nation on Earth.

Now that's an awful lot of assumptions. If we went over everything in the 911 Omission Report, we would find even more.

The alternative explanations (that I won't bother reiterating here) make far fewer assumptions.