About 9/11 – Fifteen years ago the attacks on New York City and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, changed the way America saw itself. The largest loss of life by foreign hands in the country’s history, the attacks resonated deeply across the world. To this date, it is likely the most broadcasted incident in history – filtered for days and weeks across television sets in every corner of the earth.
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It’s been fifteen years since the attacks but there are still echoes of the event felt in the world. The United States, as well as a number of allied countries, are still in Afghanistan. Serious inquiries over the effect the dust from the attacks on the two World Trade Centre buildings are still being done, with several first responders suffering from respiratory illnesses and cancers believed to be tied to the attack. The New York City skyline has been forever changed, and let’s be real when you’re watching movies or television pre-2001 and the Towers are featured in b-roll or in an establishing heart, for at least a moment, your heart drops to your feet. In the United States, airline safety protocols are still enforced based on regulations introduced in the aftermath and a number of American laws have changed the way the country is run and how it sees itself.
Even young people who might not remember as much still know a lot about that day – or so they think. Surprisingly, for the most documented event in contemporary history there remains both questions and a lot of information that it seems that most people don’t know about.
15. Princeton Machine Predicted Catastrophy
Housed at Princeton University is the Global Consciousness Project, in effect, an experiment designed to measure the interaction between physical systems and the “global consciousness.” In effect, it’s a machine plugged into a number of different systems. Using statistical inputs it measures shifts in people’s behavior on a truly mass schedule.
On the morning of September 11th, 3 hours before disaster struck, the machine predicted a potentially cataclysmic event that would occur sometime that day. While the machine itself cannot predict what exactly that means, we all know what happened next. Many scientists are skeptical about this particular result for a number of reasons, with many claiming that if there was no major event to spur scientists to look into the numbers and results, it would have been insignificant. As human beings, we search for patterns to contribute to a greater narrative, which is why the significance of calculators like these remains tenuous. Still, it makes you wonder if we will one day be able to predict something of this magnitude – and if so, what we would do with that information.
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