Comment by RajT88
3 days ago
It is - seriously - no wonder they got destroyed. NYC is a symbol, and the towers were a recognizable icon in the skyline.
There's a high number of coincidences about the towers getting destroyed. It's no conspiracy, it's because the towers and NYC meant something in the eyes of the world with regards to the USA.
Just rattling off a few of the wild ones:
The episode of The Lone Gunmen which predicted an attack with a plane on the towers.
The Sega Master System game (I forget the name, but I own it) where it depicts a missile hitting the towers on the opening screen. It's pixels with little wings, and super spooky in retrospect.
The Dream Theater live album released on 9/11 which showed the NYC skyline burning.
There's so much stuff, I almost don't blame the conspiracy theorists. But they have the causality backwards. They also really like to ignore the fact that 8 years earlier somebody tried to blow up the towers and killed 6 people...
The album for "Party Music" from Boots Riley's band "The Coup" was scheduled to be released in September and they had to delay it due to the cover having a picture of the WTC exploding [1]
Tom Clancy's book "Debt of Honor" is very similar in a spooky way as well. Including the hesitation to shoot down commercial airliners being used as weapons. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_of_Honor
The article "Mother Earth, Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson (https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/), written in 1996 says "The collapse of the lighthouse must have been astonishing, like watching the World Trade Center fall over."
That totally freaked me out when I re-read the article a few years later.
I recall reading an article sometime around 1999 that mentioned a ban on holes being drilled between floors in the towers for running network wiring because they were beginning to worry about structural integrity. That article was disappeared after the attacks. I know I read it, but the information totally disappeared.
What wondrous things you'll be able to do with computer graphics! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu1bivgaiVw
Somewhat supporting your point, the towers were literally bombed in '93 with the intent of toppling them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...
I imagine this terrorist attack inspired some of the art on your list.
So the videogame I mentioned was from 87! I think... Around then for sure. Definitely late 80's since it was for 8 bit Sega.