Well, no one every said you had to be smart to write a book. Just look at Twilight.
Imean, she's a great writer... but... yeah probably not
If she said Independence Day I would probably give her a pass but this is so far removed.
When Variety asked Atwood if she “really believes that,” she clarified why she, in fact, does. “Remember the first one? Two guys fly a plane in the middle of something and blow that up? The only difference is, in Star Wars, they get away,” she said. “Right after 9/11, they hired a bunch of Hollywood screenwriters to tell them how the story might go next. Sci-fi writers are very good at this stuff, anticipating future events.”
What even the fuck.
Or Deus Ex.
But then again, she looks like she's getting pretty old, and she probably saw Star Wars way back when it first came out, so her memory of it might be iffy.
Wasn't there a copy of Deus Ex or Half Life or something on Osama's computer
The moment I read the headline, I just had to stare into space for a minute.
I know FF7 was on it, we totally coulda been bros.
I mean what, was The Lone Gunmen pilot not on the nose enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdhoc0PRr8
It was Counter-Strike: Source.
I don't know about that. With all the money Stephenie Meyer made off that series I'd call her smart.
It's like she completely forgot kamikaze pilots existed.
She must be quite a fiction writer I guess, because that's a load of crock
Margaret Atwood's a well-established and respected writer in Canada, but she's a feminist novelist and not a national security or foreign policy advisor.
Besides, in 1945, a B-52 accidentally crashed into the Empire State Building. The plane carved an 18x20' hole in the building between the 78th and 80th floors and one engine sheared through elevator cables (the elevator occupant survived) while the other went straight through the building and hit another building a block away (and 900 feet below). The B-52 didn't take down the building, and it only killed 14 people (3 crew and 11 victims in the building, at least one who fell down an open elevator shaft).
For comparison, a standard B-52 has an empty weight of 19,480lb and a max speed of 272mph and a cruising speed of 230mph. A Boeing 767-200, the model of plane that hit both World Trade Center towers*, has an empty weight of 176,650lb and an operating-altitude cruising speed of 528mph. These stats don't take into account the added mass of crew, passengers, and fuel, so the final mass of the planes that hit the towers was even higher. It's not at all surprising that a modern jet passenger liner is going to do substantially more damage to a building than a propeller-era bomber basically 1/10th its size.
Al Qaeda didn't need Star Wars to inspire them when all they had to do was the slightest bit of research on the history of American avation accidents.
*The South tower was hit by a 767-200ER which is virtually the same for this situation.
There's actually a very well known Tom Clancy novel about terrorists crashing a plane into Washington called Debt of Honor.
There's was also a shitty action film about terrorists abducting a plane in order to explode it over an American city. With poison gas or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY4EfSHyIyA
Surely you mean B-25. I'd be throughly impressed if a B-52 hit anything at all in 1945, given that they first flew in 1952.
Apparently I am super retarded and dyslexic today. Yes, the B-25, it's even in the Wikipedia article I linked and did read, mentally transposing the numbers in the aircraft model the whole while apparently.
Isn't the point being made not that the specific act itself was directly inspired but the type of act, the destruction of the ultimate symbol of an empire. That's the only way I can see to interpret this that makes sense.
"Atwood was recounting how a 2000 opera of her acclaimed novel
began with “a film reel going across the top of the stage and showing
various things blowing up” including the Twin Towers. She then said
that, after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, this aspect of the
production needed to be removed. “They didn’t get that idea from my
opera, don’t worry,” she added, referring to the terrorists. “They got
the idea from Star Wars.”
Why even bring up Star Wars at all? I feel like this was a ploy to get attention from the press for saying something so baffling.
Eh I don't really agree, the blast points were too accurate for sand people.
guys she's almost 80
my grandma started losing her mind when she was 75
Doesn't help that nobody really talks about the B25. It's all about the B17, B24 and B29.
Sounds like a joke to be honest.
Or, how about Tom Clancy's book Debt of Honor? It's about a small-scale war between the US and Japan (for dumb reasons), and ends with a Japanese airline pilot crashing a 747 into the Capitol building during a joint session of Congress (so Tom's mary-sue protagonist can become president). The book came out in 1994 so they clearly could have heard of it.
I already mentioned that a few posts up.
This is a little bit Erie considering it aired just a few months prior to 9/11. Fuels many a conspiracy, I'm sure.
My favorite part of episode 4 was when Han Solo looked over at Chewbacca and said "I got a bad feeling about this" before slamming the Millenium Falcon into floor 93 of the Empire trade center.
I'd call her lucky
Oh fuck, she's right
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/165/9b7e9e14-8ec1-4148-bfae-09fc0de0ac32/Bin-Laden-watches-Star-Wars.jpg
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