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Stardate 20010912.0735 (On Screen): The Washington Post put up a set of pictures of the disaster. Five of them are mind boggling.

This picture simply isn't believeable. It looks like something that was created with Photoshop, or like a still from a movie. It's not the kind of thing you expect to ever see in real life.

This one is the same way. It seems as if it was done with a miniature. It's almost as if our brains can't accept that this really happened -- or perhaps it's because we've seen this dozens of times in movies but never before in real life.

I can't find words to talk about this.

Another one that looks like a Hollywood special effect. I suspect we won't be seeing any more "disaster" films for quite some time, and good riddance.

After the collapses yesterday, for a while I hoped that all that had happened was that the top part of each building had fallen off, leaving the structure beneath it still standing. Now I know that didn't happen. There's nothing left, simply nothing. It's all gone. Eventually the smoke and dust will clear and we'll get a picture of the site taken from the air, but I no longer need to see it. It's all gone. Now I know. (discuss)