MIRACLES AND WONDERS

[GliderGuider]

Last week, USA Today reported a joint effort between Qualcomm and American Airlines' to allow passengers to make cellphone calls from aircraft in flight. According to the story, the satellite-based system employs a "Pico cell" to act as a small cellular tower.

"It worked great," gushed Monte Ford, American Airline's chief information officer. "I called the office. I called my wife. I called a friend in Paris. They all heard me great, and I could hear them loud and clear."

Before this new "Pico cell," it was nigh on impossible to make a call from a passenger aircraft in flight. Connection is impossible at altitudes over 8000 feet or speeds in excess of 230 mph.

Yet despite this, passengers Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick and Edward Felt all managed to place calls from Flight 93 on the morning of September 11. Peter Hanson, en route to Disneyland with his wife and daughter, phoned his dad from Flight 175. Madeline Amy Sweeney, a flight attendant, made a very dramatic call from Flight 11 as it sped to the North Tower. Barbara Olson made two calls, collect, to her husband at his government office from Flight 77 as it made its way to the Pentagon.

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NY Press article

Interesting, funny and frighting - all at once.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. I always had problems with that

Concerning the phone calls made on 9/11/01 -- someone ought to look into it.

A.K. "Kee" Dewdney has developed an elaborate tinfoil-hat theory -- the "Ghost Riders" theory (and more recently, Operation Pearl) -- to explain it. The problem is that, unlike most tinfoil-hatters, Kee's theory is well-constructed, and he explains where the forensic evidence might be found. Most of the weird 9/11 theories out there are pretty shoddy, but this one is the most solid I've yet seen.

Yep, it's a puzzle, all right. The confirmation -- or "debunking" -- of his idea, either way, should spill a lot of light on the events of 9/11.

--bkl

[GliderGuider]

2. Kee Dewdney is actually a friend of mine

I did my Computer Science degree at the university where he taught, and he is also a personal and family friend. I have the highest regard for him - he published a column on computer games in Scientific American for a number of years, and is a deep and broad thinker.

His analysis of the Pentagon crash (http://physics911.org/net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3">The Missing Wings) was my Road to MIHOP Damascus experience. His cell phone experiments were crude but convincing.

[Abe Linkman]

3. buscho apologists HAVE to defend the bogus phone calls...or else...

Since the alleged cell phone calls are integral to the Official Conspiracy Theory, PR flacks and regular folks who simply don't know all the facts HAVE to defend the phone calls as being real...and since they can't do that, they have to at least cast doubt on claims that cell phone calls from airliners on 9/11 were impossible to make.

[number6]

4. yes, very

Interesting,:think::smoke: