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I'm confused. how come the firefighters didnt just put trampolines to catch the jumpers so they didnt all have to die? i know they werent prepared but after seeing dozens of people jump why didnt they? i cant imagine it.. i mean falling thousands of feet going at 150 mph.. which takes like 10 seconds from a high floor. and i hear that some people got killed from being hit by these jumpers.. can someone just explain to me how it was like and why they died when they hit the floor? and did their bodies totally break apart or pretty much stay intact? and what do you think was going through their minds as they were about to hit the ground or were about to jump? oh and why werent there hellicopters there to rescue people? i saw a vid on youtube where 2 people landed and it was a terrible racket.. its just the weirdest thought ever. please help.. and i hope this doesnt seem rude or anything. im 14 so when this happened i was only in first grade. then i thought it was funny, the thought of jumpers cause i couldnt imagine that at all. i didnt know they were actually dying and stuff.. and couldnt imagine how that could happen. thanks for the help btw. geez looking up all this 9/11 stuff now that i didnt know about sure is depressing.
Wow, lots of questions. Haha. Anyway, if you look into the laws of physics, there is a certain point where if you're a human falling through the air, your velocity gets to the point where you can't handle it and you die. So they would have died before they reached the trampoline (which wouldn't have been able to sustain that amount of velocity and weight... think of trying to stop a train with a trampoline). (Have you ever heard the urban myth that if you drop a penny off the Empire State Building, if it hits someone in the head it will surely kill them? That is also a product of velocity- even though it is a penny, it accelerates so quickly that it rips through anything in its path.) And 9/11 happened so fast that nobody knew what was going on and it wasn't entirely possible to really plan out the fact that people were jumping from the building. The towers collapsed very quickly after they were hit. As far as people getting hit by the jumpers, imagine getting hit by a train again. The jumpers most likely died before they hit the ground- it wasn't impact that killed them, it was physics. It would be very hard to know if their bodies were intact because of all the rubble and everything. I would be willing to guess no... the force of falling would have ripped at them, basically. Everything happened so fast that there was no way to save everyone, by helicopter or whatever. Besides that, there was so much dust/dirt in the air that nobody could see to get away or to go help people. It was just like big black clouds, and it was probably raining ashes too. Pretty scary. Imagine walking around in New York City and suddenly there are these loud noises, buildings falling down, people running/screaming, and big clouds of ash hurtling toward you. It's unreal.
(Rating: 5) Oh my god!! that sounds so scary. i feel so bad for all the people who had to experience that now.. its even worse to live and remember all that trauma.. and i cant believe that penny thing. geeez..