Would the investigation make money?
It's difficult to find accurate figures on book sales, but
by 2005 the 9/11 commission had produced at least 800,000 copies, and that was while it was a best-seller. Selling those copies at $10 dollars a piece, that's 8 million dollars. Presuming that sales didn't end there, which is quite apparent considering
Amazon is frequently restocking the book, it's reasonable to assume the commission has likely paid for itself by now, if not turned a profit.
Did the government fund the movie?..... To compare the to is like comparing an apple to a computer or a recording studio, they are not even related except that money was used.
Time to retire that piece of nonsense.
You're missing the point by leaps and bounds. The Government funded the Wars following the investigation happily, which according to estimates have cost taxpayers 90,000 TIMES as much as the 9/11 investigation. This was the most crucial investigation in the modern history of the world, and less resources were invested into it than a cheap movie about it. For the United States Government and its policing bodies to cry poverty as an excuse for the intentionally underfunded investigation is laughable, if not disturbing. To claim 'well, we didn't need more money, because we had everything all figured out' is flat-out false.
But it wasn't a "crime-scene", was it? The crimes were committed on WTC1&2, were they not?
Ridiculous. If a man's body is found burning in his shed, and his house is on fire as well, do the police treat the shed as a crime-scene, but ignore the house because the body wasn't there? The WTC complex was the crime-scene. WTC 7 is obviously part of that crime-scene. Oxy makes a fantastic point... would you care to draw us a map from an above-view of the wreckage as to where, in your mind, the crime scene would begin, and where it would end, and explain the exclusions you'd inevitably be making?
If you can invent an RF hazard-free electric detonator, let me know and Ill go into business with you, but until then, leave your cell-phone with the Demolition Safety Officer.
I hate to work this in to the argument, seeing as you're doing such an excellent job here - but a code-locking talkback system could do the job, with transceivers and a small amount of logic.
Yeah, see, no matter how much of an expert you are, you're not going to convince me for a second that the technology to send a signal between two devices, devices which aren't likely to be set off by other surrounding devices/signals, doesn't exist now/didn't exist in 2001.
Again, you are wanting the ME to look for poison in someone that has a gunshot wound to their head.
In a forensic autopsy, biological samples are typically taken / toxicological data from those samples examined, often regardless of cause of death. It's helpful in determining influencing factors. Was the victim on drugs? Were they drunk? Were they sick? Any significant genetic traits/conditions? Even if a person was shot in the head, an autopsy will more often than not check into these things.
Let's go back to coming home and finding a broken window. You LOOK at it first, if it was broken from outside and the rock in the living room looks like the rocks in your neighborhood, you don't haul it down to the university and ask them to see if it is a meteorite.
You also don't assume this rock going through your window was the expected result of all these rocks in your neighborhood being around all these windows in your neighborhood. Given it looks to you like someone threw that rock through your window, you'd obviously suspect someone of having thrown it, and would like to find out who, if anyone, did. Maybe it really was just an accident, maybe a car driving by got the rock caught in its wheel and hurled it from the road. Or maybe some asshole threw a rock through your window. Worth a bit of effort to try and find out which, I'd think.
Ahh, the language of ludicrous analogies...