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Posted: 9/10/2004 4:44:37 PM EDT
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Nope
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Posted: 9/10/2004 4:49:15 PM EDT
[#2]
The lips don't follow the words.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 4:49:51 PM EDT
[#3]
prescient, and very tin-foil hatty
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Posted: 9/10/2004 4:50:45 PM EDT
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Nope ........... but the similarities are interesting
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Posted: 9/10/2004 4:51:13 PM EDT
[#5]
Yeha, ive shown it to MANY people and they were all pretty freaked about it.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 4:51:25 PM EDT
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I quit the Xfiles after the 4th season, got boring
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:01:38 PM EDT
[#7]
Whoa, whoa, whoa....
Is this an actual X-Files episode, with that specific language, that was aired 2 years prior to Sept 11th? Everyone cut the crap out and just answer the fricking question. OK? Eric The(Peeved)Hun 
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:09:24 PM EDT
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I think this is a Lone Gunman show. They made it as a spin off of X-Files, but it died pretty fast. The show did air what is shown according to some poeple on the net.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0243069/ |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:09:59 PM EDT
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That wasn't an episode of the X-Files, it was an episode of Lone Gunman. It was a spinoff, that lasted for maybe four or five episodes. The pilot episode had to do with remotely controlling a passenger flight and flying it into a building.
Yes, it did air. In 99 I think. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:14:38 PM EDT
[#10]
I need to get the sound card fixed in my puter!
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:14:59 PM EDT
[#11]
Nothing like giving the terrorists ideas, eh?
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:16:15 PM EDT
[#12]
Did that episode air in the middle east?
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:16:21 PM EDT
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I've seen it, but it took the clip to evoke the memory. Long forgotten by 9/11.
That part about the Cold War is over, the arms market has gone flat, crash an airplane and there's plenty of tinpot dictators begging to get smart bombed... Yeah, where's my Reynold's Wrap? |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:18:00 PM EDT
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Not just any building... Of course, if Flight 93 had continued to its assumed target, we'd be all talking about how Tom Clancy was a prophet. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:18:16 PM EDT
[#15]
freaky
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:18:21 PM EDT
[#16]
I'm kidding for the most part. They do have cells here and they aren't all poor and sheltered either. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:20:09 PM EDT
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Must be the remote control part was too hard to work out....
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:21:48 PM EDT
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One thing that Dale liked to advertise is that he used news reports and current intelligence in his stories. He published excerpts in the front of his books. Frankly, it would be damn hard to think hard enough to give our enemies "ideas". Down with that absurd objection! |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:22:21 PM EDT
[#19]
DAMN.......
 I have not seen that before, interesting......
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:28:16 PM EDT
[#20]
Seriously, it doesn't take a genius to think of crashing an airliner into the tallest landmarks in the western world's greatest city. The X factor was finding a suicide crew.
When the news came in that the first tower was hit by a "plane" my co-workers thought Cessna. Someone said "could it be terrorism?" I chimed in "With a Cessna? No way. If terrorists want to really do some harm they'd use a 747." I could only shake my head when I had heard what really happened. The Twin Towers were ground zero for the terrorists....it was target number one "against the greedy and satanic west." looks like a good episode.....however, the show sucked huge donkey balls. RIP "Lone Assmen" |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:29:53 PM EDT
[#21]
Yep. It was the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen which was a spinoff of X-Files. It originally aired in March of 2001.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:31:20 PM EDT
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Seriously, not to be a jack-ass, but do you some of you REALLY underestimate our enemy's abilities to the point that you think they have to watch American TV to get ideas on how to attack us???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:31:27 PM EDT
[#23]
Maybe Osama had all of the episodes on Betamax and viewed them in his cave???? |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:31:36 PM EDT
[#24]
Man I miss that show. Damn shame it didn't make the cut.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:33:40 PM EDT
[#25]
It sucks to see how some movie/TV companies look to make money out of a tragedy. Shameless!
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:37:08 PM EDT
[#26]
You're an idiot. This aired SIX MONTHS BEFORE 9/11 so how in the hell could they be making light or making profit off of an event that had not even happened yet? Idiot. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:37:56 PM EDT
[#27]
Don't know about the rest, but I'm kidding. Some of you are so touchy.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:39:23 PM EDT
[#28]
Thanks DoubleFeed… I've been trying to remember the name of that book for weeks… Andy |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:39:57 PM EDT
[#29]
Did it really??? Damn, I guess I am an idiot, and in shock! |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 5:46:31 PM EDT
[#30]
yep |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 7:32:52 PM EDT
[#31]
Basic Infantry tactics would be a shock to most nonmilitary. Shit, there are a lot of idiots running around out there that think that using a manshaped paper target means that you have it in your mind to go out and murder people with your gun. I'll say it again: The more we know about our vulnerabilities, the less vulnerable we will be. It isn't about giving or not giving opur enemies ideas. They already have plenty. Warfare is many thousands of years old, and you will be hardpressed to find a method of warfare that hasn't been tried before. It is about understanding how to protect ourselves. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 7:50:32 PM EDT
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I remember that episode of Lone Gunman. It was well before 9/11.
Doesnt anyone remember hearing, shortly after 9/11, that Washington wanted to put together a think-tank of screenwriters and the like to come up with some other creative ways we might be attacked so that preventitive measures could be put in place? I do. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 7:56:50 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:01:59 PM EDT
[#34]
It did, I remember seeing this episode on television. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:03:29 PM EDT
[#35]
I find that very startling.
I shouldn't be suprised though. While mocking the terrorists back in 2000 while driving back to Barksdale AFB from Dallas I suggested that if the terrorists were smart then they would fly a jetliner into the WTC instead of the truck bomb which was the result of piss poor planning. I worked on cruise missiles, so to me a jetliner just looks like a big cruise missile. There's more strategy involved in our discussion, but for the sake of those who lost their lives on Sept 11, 2001 I'll say no more. 
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:03:57 PM EDT
[#36]
Umm, didn't they figure out that the idea was floated to Osama like 10 years ago or so, long before this show? They don't need ideas from us. They may be evil, but they aren't entirely stupid.
We don't need help anticipating them either. But we do need the shock of an actual major terrorist attack to really focus on stopping future attacks and hunting down terrorists. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:06:25 PM EDT
[#37]
After the X-Files movie came out I was never able to watch another episode. That was on of the all time worst movies in history.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:07:46 PM EDT
[#38]
It was the first episode of The Lone Gunmen. I thought everyone had seen this.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:09:14 PM EDT
[#39]
Yeah - my fiancee reminded me of a conversation like that we had sometime in 1998 or something (I don't remember saying it, but she swears I did), where I was also mocking the terrorists for trying to knock down one of the WTC towers with a small truck bomb, and apparently said something to the effect of "if you wanted to knock down one of those towers, the easiest way would be to fly a large jet into it" I'm sure if a group of people were really trying hard to think of a way to knock down the towers, thinking of a large jet plane is not really that far-fetched. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:13:32 PM EDT
[#40]
I concur. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:14:35 PM EDT
[#41]
Exactly. It wasn't much of a stretch of the imagination. But damn, 10 years of planning. The operation was pristine. May those jihadist SOBs be eaten by the worm. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:32:09 PM EDT
[#42]
I do remember that episode and at the time thought that was a very doable idea. The thought of it being done by remote control was a little hard to swallow though. Seem to remember them flying the plane between the towers after regaining control but I've slept since then.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:38:21 PM EDT
[#43]
... Yeah, me too. But that's what 95% of the DU crowd believe is FACT. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 8:59:21 PM EDT
[#44]
That's got to be one of the top 30 stupidest things I've ever heard. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 9:05:58 PM EDT
[#45]
... What exactly do you mean by that? Nearly every one of those conspiracy theorists on DU believes the perps were anyone but Muslim terrorists. … Specifically, they think the Bush Administration was behind it. … you don’t believe me? |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 9:07:07 PM EDT
[#46]
Don't forget what the entire premis of the Lone Gunman show was about, a group of conspiracy theory experts who publish a newspaper about conspiracy, thus there name "The Lone Gunman" a reference to conspiracy theroies surrounding the Kennedy assination. The show was a spin off of the X Files, whose main plot was yet again more conspiracies.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 9:10:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/10/2004 9:14:50 PM EDT
[#48]
Well, to further muddy the waters a bit--the technology exists. Northrup Grumman has a bird that allows exactly that: control of the plan from liftoff to landing from a remote location. Its first flight was from Edwards AFB in February of 1998. |
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Posted: 9/10/2004 9:15:08 PM EDT
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In 1996, Tom Clancy wrote "Executive Orders" in which the president, Congress, and Supreme Court are killed when a Japanese terrorist crashes a 747 into the capitol.
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Posted: 9/10/2004 9:16:26 PM EDT
[#50]
Sweet Jesus that episode was a bit too prophetic for my tastes...
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