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> To what end?

“Because some people just want to see the world burn”, unfortunately.

The idea that someone would actually fly two commercial airliners into downtown manhattan to take out the World Trade Center was also pretty unlikely, circa 2000 and 2001.

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The thing about airliners is that they run out of fuel or get shot down. It's not like you can hijack a few and use them repeatedly for decades. They only way they're decent weapons is if you use them immediately.

I think the last 23 years has shown that, luckily, those people are mostly idiots.

I suspect many people in HN could whip up mass violence with drones if they wanted to. Luckily the people who can generally have better things to do.

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