Asking ChatGPT why helicopters didn't rescue people from the WTC on 9/11
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-12
doodlestein shares a long-held question — why didn't rescuers use helicopters, ladders or ropes to reach people trapped in the WTC on 9/11? He asked ChatGPT and found the answer interesting: there are plenty of obvious reasons it wouldn't work, but the model gave a fuller breakdown of the constraints. A casual example of using LLMs to unpack historical "why not" questions.
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