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Commen sense
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 02:30 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 07:18 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 07:12 AM)
i'll spell this out one more time.

a 'shill' is TOOL of a 'grifter'. the grifter is behind the scam, and 'he' is the benefactor of the 'grift/scam'.

a 'shill' can be a willing, complicit TOOL, or an unwilling TOOL whose views JUST HAPPEN to help the 'grifter' with his 'grift'.

k?  you can be in the murderer car without agreeing with the motives and goals of the 'grifter' murderers.

mmmmmmmmm'k?

So basicly your saying your a murderer because you're helping Osama get away with his murder right? I agree. wink.gif

no.
i think murder is wrong.
i think osama was involved.
i think bush is osama's bum buddy, and they and saddam have menage a trois at camp david.

k, 'liberal' whose worried about 'activists' getting 'sidetracked'?

u have no evidence of explosives

u have no evidence the governmet did shait

u are letting Bush get away with real murder in Iraq because ur idea is laughable and will never be taken serious

u are letting them muddy the push for an investigation into Bush's real crimes

u should be ashamed

k? u childish twit?
HEH!
QUOTE (Common NonSense+Mar 12 2006, 06:54 AM)
Cars flip over all the time when buildings collapse.  It's a natural occurance. 

At least that's what they told me in training before they put this computer in front of me.

They also told me that if I type in a large font no one will notice that I lie

YOU HAVE TO USE ALL CAPS AND BOLD, TOO! DUH! WHAT DIVISION ARE YOU IN? HEH!
RealityCheck
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 07:23 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 07:11 AM)
Hi newt. Makes me wonder just how reliable/factual a witness (not witless) YOU would have made if you had been there under all that stress/angst/panic? I wonder which 'movie script' would have been uppermost in your mind that would have 'coloured/tailored' what YOU saw and heard while trying to ensure you didn't die in the middle of all that was happening?

RC.
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holy non-sequitor, batman! get the cognitive dissonance repellent!!!!

why? why would that have any relevence at all to the reality of 911, reality check?

what i would do or report is completely moot, as far as i can tell.

but, you're a scientist, so what do i know?

eraserhead.

p.s. i'm not a mechanical recording device like a camera, or a video recorder with audio, or a VCR recording the live news broadcasts. they're not quite as confused by stress as humans, i hear.


Sorry newt, I had to go make some dinner. Back now.

Do you have a particular problem with my wondering what sort of things YOU'D be 'describing' (and in what 'imagey') if YOU had been caught up on the spot in the traumatic events of 9/11? Did I offend you by asking that?

Where's the non sequitur? Were their not 'interpretations' of 'sounds' being discussed? What's upset you so much?

RC.
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newton
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 07:38 AM)

u have no evidence of explosives

-----------------except for sonic signatures and pictures of violent ejections of debris, and nearly frictionless collapses of three steel frame buildings, two of which were award winning 'engineering marvels' when they were built, and molten metal, and pyroclastic flows and burned and flipped cars and the complete pulverisation of everything in the building including people, plastic, glass, concrete and wood into an ultrafine dust........

u have no evidence the governmet did shait

------------------except 'able danger' and 'northwoods' and bush's slip saying he saw the FRIST plane crash into the tower on TV, rumsfeld's slip that the terrorists used planes AND missiles AND (inaudible)............(i REALLY wonder what (inaudible) was. probably just cursed, realising he'd fooked up royally, lol)

u are letting Bush get away with real murder in Iraq because ur idea is laughable and will never be taken serious


-----------------------i TRIED to arrest him, but the entire military and legal might of the USA stopped me(by the way, he's YOUR boy, not mine, i'm not 'letting him get away' with anything, common clod)


u are letting them muddy the push for an investigation into Bush's real crimes

------------------------------------------and you!? what are YOU doing, 'liberal' crusader for justice?


u should be ashamed

k? u childish twit?

------------------------------------that means a lot coming from you. i'll rethink my whole life now. thanks, man.

*insert three mocking laughing sun worship icons here*
newton
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 07:46 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 07:23 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 07:11 AM)
Hi newt. Makes me wonder just how reliable/factual a witness (not witless) YOU would have made if you had been there under all that stress/angst/panic? I wonder which 'movie script' would have been uppermost in your mind that would have 'coloured/tailored' what YOU saw and heard while trying to ensure you didn't die in the middle of all that was happening?

RC.
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holy non-sequitor, batman! get the cognitive dissonance repellent!!!!

why? why would that have any relevence at all to the reality of 911, reality check?

what i would do or report is completely moot, as far as i can tell.

but, you're a scientist, so what do i know?

eraserhead.

p.s. i'm not a mechanical recording device like a camera, or a video recorder with audio, or a VCR recording the live news broadcasts. they're not quite as confused by stress as humans, i hear.


Sorry newt, I had to go make some dinner. Back now.

Do you have a particular problem with my wondering what sort of things YOU'D be 'describing' (and in what 'imagey') if YOU had been caught up on the spot in the traumatic events of 9/11? Did I offend you by asking that?

Where's the non sequitur? Were their not 'interpretations' of 'sounds' being discussed? What's upset you so much?

RC.
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i'm not upset.

it's irrelevent. pure speculation. (i know you're more fond of pure speculation than empirical evidence, but i need a springboard to do any relevent extrapolation)

if i was there, i assume all the bad guys would be in jail by now, due to my impeccable heroic infallibility.

seriously, though. what's your point? i had a cop point a gun at my head once(he was chasing a suspect through a bus station, pointed his gun at the perp(alleged, lol) and the perp whipped around a corner leaving me in the line of fire.

i've been in quite a few life and death scrapes, dude, so i REALLY don't get your point. i drive fast, i've scaled buildings with my bare hands, operated cranes, been chased by a bear, etc. the mind goes into hyper-drive in intense situations and becomes MORE observant.

you know, 'time slowed down' is a common comment from experiencers of intense phenomena?

Christophera
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 01:56 AM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 12 2006, 01:31 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 09:01 PM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 11 2006, 09:00 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 05:50 PM)
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 05:23 PM)
The puffs are initiated by the buckling.  Part of the puff is the fireproofing covering the perimeter columns being crushed.  Some is drywall from the offices.  The puffs have a light color on the lower half of the buckled east side as the collapse starts.  The same dust above the buckled zone has a darker color because the soot from the fires above is mixed in with it.

but the spire has been relieved of any crushing forces from above, so what would cause the remaining core columns to buckle? (which, by the way, i don't see any of. i see a straight spire get whacked on one side by some explosive force, and then begin to tip as a straight spire, and then fall straight down.)

i know RC has a theory about it, but surprisingly, i don't agree that things were moving around much at the base. it is also clear from the debris pile photos that the towers were peeled like a banana at the base. which indicates, forces radiating predominantly outward. obviously, this is also apparent for the (ultra fine) dust cloud.

That peeling effect is from the core exploding and pushing outward on the beams between the interior box columns.

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No it's not. It's from falling apart all on it's own..




Okay, you say it falls apart on its own. Why is it going up so much?

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Hi Chris, everyone. Isn't that about where the lower half of the core temporarily obstructs the downward collapse of the 'central' part of the debris 'plug' formed by most of the upper core, its inner concrete floor slabs and hat-truss?

If so, that's EXACTLY where I would expect an EXTRA AMOUNT of 'UP-rebound/SIDE-expulsion' effects before the remnant core itself succumbs to the DOUBTLESS damage that such a 'rebound/expulsion' PILE-DRIVER 'hit' would have done to all its 'integral' geometry/interconnections.

So Chris, in fact, that extra 'explosive-looking' effect AT THAT LEVEL shows that it was the collapse to that stage that produced it...and not high-explosives. That's how I connect the height/effects with the core remnant height/status information presented by you guys. Ciao!

RC.
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Okay, I'm certain that I'm just not qualified or experienced in physics enough to really understand some of the more esoteric concepts put forth here.

Can any one properly sequence the math needed to quantify 'UP-rebound/SIDE-expulsion' effects?

Particuarly in regard to the following image.


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RealityCheck
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 08:00 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 07:46 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 07:23 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 07:11 AM)
Hi newt. Makes me wonder just how reliable/factual a witness (not witless) YOU would have made if you had been there under all that stress/angst/panic? I wonder which 'movie script' would have been uppermost in your mind that would have 'coloured/tailored' what YOU saw and heard while trying to ensure you didn't die in the middle of all that was happening?

RC.
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holy non-sequitor, batman! get the cognitive dissonance repellent!!!!

why? why would that have any relevence at all to the reality of 911, reality check?

what i would do or report is completely moot, as far as i can tell.

but, you're a scientist, so what do i know?

eraserhead.

p.s. i'm not a mechanical recording device like a camera, or a video recorder with audio, or a VCR recording the live news broadcasts. they're not quite as confused by stress as humans, i hear.


Sorry newt, I had to go make some dinner. Back now.

Do you have a particular problem with my wondering what sort of things YOU'D be 'describing' (and in what 'imagey') if YOU had been caught up on the spot in the traumatic events of 9/11? Did I offend you by asking that?

Where's the non sequitur? Were their not 'interpretations' of 'sounds' being discussed? What's upset you so much?

RC.
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i'm not upset.

it's irrelevent. pure speculation. (i know you're more fond of pure speculation than empirical evidence, but i need a springboard to do any relevent extrapolation)

if i was there, i assume all the bad guys would be in jail by now, due to my impeccable heroic infallibility.

seriously, though. what's your point? i had a cop point a gun at my head once(he was chasing a suspect through a bus station, pointed his gun at the perp(alleged, lol) and the perp whipped around a corner leaving me in the line of fire.

i've been in quite a few life and death scrapes, dude, so i REALLY don't get your point. i drive fast, i've scaled buildings with my bare hands, operated cranes, been chased by a bear, etc. the mind goes into hyper-drive in intense situations and becomes MORE observant.

you know, 'time slowed down' is a common comment from experiencers of intense phenomena?


Wow! What a guy! Pity no-one else could measure up. I bet all those people having two 110 story buildings falling around them will be pissed that they TOO weren't SUPERMAN, heh? What a guy!

Tell me, how much UNEXPECTED 'prior terror' did you have to 'process' before your 'observations'?...you know, from planes coming to visit, exploding and raining burning debris all over everything and stuff like that.....you know, expected/everyday like thousands of people falling and dying while you're running for your life and not knowing if you are running fast enough to make it.

Do you seriously compare a momentary and/or anticipated experience to that day of compounding and mounting terror and chaos and shambles on a scale probaly not experienced by those people ever in their lives before? Seriously, you would carry on as 'superman observer'? Amazing! I'm impressed, really. Pity you WEREN'T on the spot....then we could all know the truth and all this CTer nonsense assertions would, as you say, be unnecessary....because you would have the culprits behind bars in no time. Wow!

RC.
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newton
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 08:17 AM)
Pity you WEREN'T on the spot....then we could all know the truth and all this CTer nonsense assertions would, as you say, be unnecessary....because you would have the culprits behind bars in no time. Wow!

RC.
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yeah. pity.

oh, well. cape was at the cleaners. what can i say.

once again, cameras and recorders are not subject to the kind of bias you're implying has some kind of relevance.

the shocked and confused empirical evidence matches what the numerous, all wrong, all saying the same thing(the thing that matches the empirical evidence, you know?) witnesses said.

ie. BOOOOOOM

it's a good thing 'private dicks' like you and conman sense are helping clear things up.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 08:28 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 08:17 AM)
Pity you WEREN'T on the spot....then we could all know the truth and all this CTer nonsense assertions would, as you say, be unnecessary....because you would have the culprits behind bars in no time. Wow!

RC.
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yeah. pity.

oh, well. cape was at the cleaners. what can i say.

once again, cameras and recorders are not subject to the kind of bias you're implying has some kind of relevance.

the shocked and confused empirical evidence matches what the numerous, all wrong, all saying the same thing(the thing that matches the empirical evidence, you know?) witnesses said.

ie. BOOOOOOM

it's a good thing 'private dicks' like you and conman sense are helping clear things up.


BOOOOOOM. Hmmmm sounds like something that a 110 story building would 'say' for the camera/sound recorder. Are you sure you weren't there? Because your 'description' of that building collapse sounds so uncannily lifelike (or should that be 'deathlike'?).

Anyway, that's all the evidence we need, right? That sound BOOOOOOM says it all, heh? BOOOOOOOM: Planes hit. BOOOOOOM: Planes explode. BOOOOOM: top of building hits bottom half. BOOOOOOM: 2x110 stories of steel and concrete hit the ground.

Amazing! Let's wrap it up folks; nothing more to see here! move along, move along. (sorry, just couldn't resist using Foxx's favourite line/motif at least once in my life, hehehe). Cheers!

RC.
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gordon
A revision to the BIGGEST COLLECTION OF IDIOTS EVER ON ONE THREAD.
It obviously requires TWO large Mini-buses to hold these clowns:


Whereas the annual general meeting of everybody who thinks you talk sense can be accomodated in a phone box.
Gordon
hereward
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 05:51 AM)
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 12 2006, 05:45 AM)
QUOTE
by the objective scientist

...bearing on the physics as presented, I tend to ignore unless pertinent in some direct way to the observed physical phenomena.


Yep... these are typical occurrances every time a building collapses...

Cars turned upside down... must been the wind squishing out of those pancaking floors...

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/files/aftermath01.jpg

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and Melted Buses for sure ! Always happens when those cool dust clouds squished out by pancaking floors pass by...

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/files/Terrorist17.jpg

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YOU, mr. scientist are a joke.

foxx. i'm sorry to say it, but you obviously weren't listening when reality check PERFECTLY DESCRIBED the whole scenario(he's a scientist, and doesn't need to do 'research' like us peons and phd.s).

you see, it was the GREEN LEAVES that caused those tires and all the glass of those vehicles to disappear(and LOOTERS! damn new yorkers!)

i for one, am really glad to have a little conman sense and a good reality check(think hockey) around this TOO CHAOTIC TO EVER UNDERSTAND world.

Amidst all the banter, one wonders, what the hell would make a bus melt like that?

I have read a few reports of cars spontaneously combusting just before the collapses...

And nobody seems to have any explanation other than that the cars were hit by burning debris... but witness have reported cars exploding... which is quite distinct from, say, being hit with a pice of burning debris.

What makes cars explode???? I am at a loss to explain this.

(: hereward
hereward
FIRE PATROLMAN PAUL CURRAN

At that time I went back to the north tower again, and they were stretching a line. A lot of car fires erupted. All of a sudden cars were blowing up everywhere.

I went back and I helped a guy stretch a line. The guy was all by himself. I helped him stretch a line and started putting water on the car fires. I remember distinctly walking past 118 Truck. 118 Truck was parked right on West Street north of Vesey
*********************************************

EMT FREDDY BURGOS

When the first building came down, after the dust lifted from that one, in front of me, the other ambulances, most of them not Fire Department, private or some other ambulances, burning.

FIREFIGHTER RICHARD CARLETTI
Basically they wanted engines was booster tanks to come down and extinguish the car fires then going.

FIREFIGHTER RONALD CIFU
Even after the collapse when we were starting to relay water to the car fires.

many of the firemen reported this. Lots of the cars and fire engines and ambulances parked along West HW and Vesey and Liberty exploded.

www.nytimes.com/pages/nyr...onspecial3 /

WORLD TRADE CENTER TASK FORCE INTERVIEW

EMT PATRICIA ONDROVIC File No. 9 1 10048

graphics8.nytimes.com/pac...110048.PDF

En route to the alarm, I saw the two towers burning. We parked in the middle of Vesey Street between West and the West Side Highway. My partner and I grabbed our stretcher, went to put it in the back of our vehicle, and at that time, I think it was the lobby of the building behind us blew out.

Everybody started running, I didn't see him again that day. He got thrown one way, I got thrown the other way. Stuffs blowing up. So I ran back out and I started running west again on Vesey. At that point, there was a car on the corner of the West Side Highway.

As I was running up Vesey, the first car blew up on me on the corner of Vessey and the West Side Highway. That set my turnout coat on fire, that set my hair on fire. I kept running. I ended up running through this park, and I couldn't even see where I was running anymore. I kept running North through North Park. As I was running up here, two or three more cars exploded on me. They weren't near any buildings at that point, they were just parked on the street. Stuff is still blowing up behind me, as I'm running. I can hear stuff exploding. I could hear rumbling, the street under me was moving like I was in an earthquake. (this was obviously when WTC2 fell). I've been in those, so I know what they feel like. It felt like an earthquake. There was no where safe to go. As I was running north in this park, and then I could start seeing again a little bit, and I just kept looking in the sky.
And firemen's fireproof coats-like this ladies and socks caught fire.

RONALD COYNE EMT WTC2
MY SAFETY COAT WAS ALREADY ON FIRE. MY SOCKS WERE ON FIRE
I was just covered with burns and bruises and I could hardly breathe.


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adoucette
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 07:12 AM)
i'll spell this out one more time.

a 'shill' is TOOL of a 'grifter'. the grifter is behind the scam, and 'he' is the benefactor of the 'grift/scam'.

a 'shill' can be a willing, complicit TOOL, or an unwilling TOOL whose views JUST HAPPEN to help the 'grifter' with his 'grift'.

k?  

It is VERY clear who the SHILLS are and what they are about

$$$$$$


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The New World Order Exposed, by Victor Thorn, Sisyphus Press, 565 pages. This mammoth book tries to show how 9-11 was one piece in a large puzzle, the big picture being the attempt by the tiny global elite to control the world…

Pentagate by Thierry Meyssan, is the second book by a French author whose photographs, posted on the internet, questioning whether a Boeing hit the Pentagon stunned the world.

Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster- Why the official story of 9/11 is a monumental lie by David Icke He has a huge website and has written many books and lectured all over about “the ruling class,” who has sought to control humanity for thousands of years.

" '9/11' " facing our fascist state & what a plot!, by Don Paul is a very easy read (he doesn’t bother with footnotes) which includes everything Don believes to be true (even if their isn’t any evidence beyond an online article…)

All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass Persuasion by William Thomas is a useful overview and analysis, but the book isn’t easy to get- you have to order it from his website or send the author a check or money order

The War on Freedom- The 9-11 Conspiracies by Jim Marrs. Jim has written extensively on “conspiracies” and throws in some weird stuff which invites the reader to dismiss the entire book. At times he distances himself and says some people allege that “blah, blah, blah…”

War and Globalization- The Truth Behind September 11th, by Michel Chossudovsky Also a Website and magazine, Global Outlook
adoucette
QUOTE (hereward+Mar 12 2006, 08:50 AM)
And nobody seems to have any explanation other than that the cars were hit by burning debris... but witness have reported cars exploding... which is quite distinct from, say, being hit with a pice of burning debris.

What makes cars explode???? I am at a loss to explain this.

(: hereward

What makes cars explode?

Duh

Its called a GAS TANK.

But the fact is, virtually all the pictures are simply burned out vehicles.

They are burned out because there was almost no attempt made to put out the fires.

Because the people who could were:
A) Dead
B ) had no equipment
C) had equipment but no water pressure
D) worried about more important things, like finding their friends or finding fresh air

Arthur
adoucette
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In the second collapse the core was not visible as it was after the first. This indicates that the core failure initiated at the base by the relatively slower acting thermite like charge was not as far advanced in the first collapse as it was in the second.So what could have caused the perpetrators to decide that it was necessary to set off the charges early on this tower? A question that I believe was being asked recently, but one with a very obvious but uncomfortable reply. Fire crew had just arrived on the first fire floor and were in direct radio contact.

Gordon.


So by your estimation the Fire crew took longer to go DOWN 6 stories as it took to CLIMB 78 stories???

BOY, them NYFD are one bunch of MORONS.



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In the second collapse the core was not visible as it was after the first. This indicates that the core failure initiated at the base by the relatively slower acting thermite like charge was not as far advanced in the first collapse as it was in the second.So what could have caused the perpetrators to decide that it was necessary to set off the charges early on this tower? A question that I believe was being asked recently, but one with a very obvious but uncomfortable reply. Fire crew had just arrived on the first fire floor and were in direct radio contact.

Gordon.


So by your estimation the Fire crew took longer to go DOWN 6 stories as it took to CLIMB 78 stories???

BOY, them NYFD are one bunch of MORONS.




You seem to be missing the point. If the floors pulled the columns in, how is it that those two corners and possibly more, remain standing up to six seconds after collapse. How did the spandrel plates become disconnected? Why just these corner sections remaining? How is it that large sections of the walls are falling outwards? Why are the first expulsions on the corners with subsequent expulsions staggered inwards as collapse progresses?How did the upper section of core become disconnected?

Gordon.


Gordon,

THERE ARE NO OUTSIDE CORNER COLUMNS.

The corners we are talking about are the MASSIVE CORNER COLUMNS of the CORE.

The 4 Corner Columns of the Core carried 20% of the Core's load.




Gordon CONTINUES with his meltdown.

Sad really,

Of the CLOWNS, at least he showed SOME promise of lucidity.

Pity.

Arthur
metamars
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 09:30 PM)
QUOTE (Adoucette+)


I POST A PICTURE OF THIS TREE

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Arthur


Metamars comes back with THIS question:

Can you place this tree on a steet map?


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Metamars,

LOOK A LITTLE PAST THE TREE, PAST THE WORK LIGHT THEY HAVE SET UP TO SHINE ON THE SITE.
See the SMOLDERING PILE???
LOOK A LITTLE PAST THAT.
WHAT DO YOU SEE STICKING UP????

Does THIS help you place the tree?

Not sure how it could have BEEN any closer.

Arthur

You're still not answering my questions. Note well that the tree seems to be completely undamaged. Seems rather unlikely that the tree would be apparently so close to the fallen debris, with no visible damage.
hereward
http://killtown.blogspot.com/

KT: You talked about the cars blowing up in your WTC Task Force interview, correct?

PO: Yes.

KT: Can you estimate how many vehicles blew up around you?

PO: At least three and some were on fire as I was running by. I was still on the south side of Vesey running west. The burning cars were between my ambulance and about the middle of the 6 World Trade where the lobby doors were at.

KT: Where you running on the street, or up the sidewalk?

PO: Up the sidewalk.

KT: When these vehicles blew up, was it kind of like what you would see in the movies where the vehicle pops up in the air when it explodes with a fireball coming out?

PO: I remember parts flying off -- I think I got hit with a car door. I remember they were also on fire, but I don't specifically recall the movie type fireball, but there was a loud bang as the door flew off the one car I was running past.

KT: Do you have any idea what was causing these vehicles to catch on fire and/or explode? Was the air temperature really hot as you were running by these cars?

PO: I don't know what was causing them to blow up. I didn't know at the time that I was trying to outrun a skyscraper falling on me, but after I found out what I ran from. I figured it was the impact of the building falling and residual effect. I am not an engineer, so I can only guess at a probable cause. I don't remember feeling any extreme heat.

KT: Could you tell if the vehicles blowing up on the street were only parked next to the WTC 6?

PO: I was only paying attention to my immediate surroundings, if there were any vehicles not near me blowing up, I wasn't aware of them, just the ones closest to me.

KT: What type of vehicles were they (cars, SUVs, trucks -- civilian, non-civilian) that were on fire or had blown up?

PO: They were unmarked cars, most likely privately owned. I didn't see any SUVs, trucks or any "official" vehicles on fire.

KT: Were these cars all parked next to each other?

PO: They were parallel parked. There was no discernable order to what was on fire. It was all very chaotic.



adoucette
What they LEFT OUT of that blogspot (wonder why?)

As I was running north in this park, and then I could start seeing again a little bit, and I just kept looking in the sky. Cause the captain was saying there's another plane heading in our direction, I was looking for another plane. I saw something in the sky, it was a plane, but it was way out. It looked like it was over Jersey or something, then it wasn't there anymore. I saw a small fireball, and it was gone. I saw two other planes. One came in one way, and the other came in the other way, and there was a plane in the middle that was way far off in the distance. Then the plane in the middle just disappeared into a little fire ball. It looked like the size of a golf ball from where I could see it. And the other two planes veered off into opposite directions. I just kept on running north. About fifteen blocks later, I had no idea that that was just the first tower that had come down. I had no idea at that time that that's what that was, and the other buildings were being affected, of course, by that building falling.


he tells us to take the vehicle, put me and Charles in the back of the vehicle and go
three blocks south. Charles told him, are you out of your mind? We're not safe where we are, let alone three blocks south. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Get in the ambulance and go three blocks south. At that point I got really upset. I said, do you realize they just blew up our triage sector? Everybody back there is dead, everybody back there is gone. There is no reason for us to go back there, we don't have the proper protective equipment, we don't have the proper vehicles. There's no way I'm going back there, there's no reason to go back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, don't be hysterical, just go back three blocks south. I'm not going three blocks south, he's not going three blocks south, this ambulance is not going three blocks south. Sean started telling him we're not safe where we are now, and we were fifteen blocks away. It was certainly not safe there.
He was the whole time saying.. .cause at that point I was screaming at him, cause he wasn't in there. We were telling him what we saw, and he just wouldn't listen. Yeah, yeah, I know. I hadn't realized that the first tower had fallen.


Arthur
adoucette
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 10:22 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 09:30 PM)
QUOTE (Adoucette+)


I POST A PICTURE OF THIS TREE

User posted image

Arthur


Metamars comes back with THIS question:

Can you place this tree on a steet map?


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Metamars,

LOOK A LITTLE PAST THE TREE, PAST THE WORK LIGHT THEY HAVE SET UP TO SHINE ON THE SITE.
See the SMOLDERING PILE???
LOOK A LITTLE PAST THAT.
WHAT DO YOU SEE STICKING UP????

Does THIS help you place the tree?

Not sure how it could have BEEN any closer.

Arthur

You're still not answering my questions. Note well that the tree seems to be completely undamaged. Seems rather unlikely that the tree would be apparently so close to the fallen debris, with no visible damage.

Why, if something doesn't LAND on it, what do you think was going to HURT IT since the tree is obvious proof (as if we needed any more) that there was NO PYROCLASTIC CLOUD.

NOT EVEN A 100 C one, let alone the 1,000 K one that Hoffman postulates.

More trees:

User posted image

Notice window boxes and street planters (so we are not just talking about GROUND temps either)

User posted image

If these were any closer you would have to first lift the debris off them.

User posted image

Notice how GREEN some of these look, so it must not be specie specific.

User posted image

NEED MORE???

Or do you consider THESE fake as well???

Arthur
adoucette
QUOTE (hereward+Mar 12 2006, 08:50 AM)
Amidst all the banter, one wonders, what the hell would make a bus melt like that?

User posted image

I have read a few reports of cars spontaneously combusting just before the collapses...

And nobody seems to have any explanation other than that the cars were hit by burning debris... but witness have reported cars exploding... which is quite distinct from, say, being hit with a pice of burning debris.

What makes cars explode???? I am at a loss to explain this.

(: hereward

What????

Remember this from the Rita evac in Texas?

user posted image

user posted image

They believed it started in the brakes.

Arthur
adoucette
Slick Gordy:

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My evidence is the photograph, the downward movement of the spire prior to visible collapse initiation of the perimeter column collapse.
Gordon



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My evidence is the photograph, the downward movement of the spire prior to visible collapse initiation of the perimeter column collapse.
Gordon



By the way. Your theory falls down on one basic observation. The core failed first, evidenced by the early movement of the antennae. There is no way for your theory to hold up with this factor.
Gordon



QUOTE (Arthur+)

Well, apparently you were wrong.


QUOTE (NIST+)

"Photographic and videographic records were reviewed to identify structurally-related events. Where possible, all four faces of a building were examined for a given event or time period to provide complete understanding of the building response. Observations from a single vantage point can be misleading and may result in incorrect interpretation of events. For instance, photographic and videographic records taken from due north of the WTC 1 collapse appeared to indicate that the antenna was sinking into the roof (McAllister 2002). When records from east and west vantage points were viewed, it was apparent that the building section above the impact area tilted to the south as the building collapsed."





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No Arthur. I was right. I said it moved. It did move. If that is not correct perhaps you can enlighten us as to how something, anything, can tilt without moving.

Gordon



Was MOVE DOWNWARD ==> becomes == CAN TILT.

WEASEL


Arthur


Bonedry
laugh.gif STEEL STEEL STEEL STEEL, MY GOD PEOPLE, MINIMAL TO THE ENTIRE EVENT WAS THE gd STEEL! MORESO WAS THE 6 FLOOR HOLE IN THE STRUCTURE, THAT HAD NO CORE, WAS BLOWN UP FROM INSIDE, AND THE ONLY LINKS HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER WERE GONE, THE TRUSSES. THE HEAT ONLY NEEDED TO BE HOT ENOUGH TO CHANGE TEMPER, AND NOT OF THE STEEL, BUT OF THE BOLTS HOLDING THE STRUCTURE TOGETHER, AS THERE WERE NO RIVOTS OR WELDS, NOR MASONRY, NOR NOTHING ELSE. THE SIGNIFICANCE TO THE DEVISTATING HEAT NOT TEMPRETURE WAS ALL THAT WAS NEEDED TO HAVE THE FEW REMAINING COMPONENTS TO FAIL. THE PLANE WENT THROUGH THE BUILDING, AND IF IT DID, THEN THE CORE WAS GONE! 3 FLOORS AND 3 FLOORS DOWN THE TRUSSES THAT HELD THE OUTER TO THE INNER WERE GONE! THE EXPOLOSION THAT WAS EQUILIVANT TO 5 TONS OF TNT BLASTED ALL THE INNER COMPONENTS ON ALL SIDES. ON THE NORTH TOWER WE HAVE ON THE OUTER HOLLOW TUBE STEEL SKIN ONE GIANT HOLE ON THE ENTRY AND ONE EXIT EFFECTING MULTIPLE FLOORS, WE HAVE ON ANOTHER A WING THAT SLICED IT ALL THE WAY ACROSS, ABD ANOTHER INCLUDING ALL THAT HAD THAT BLAST. WITH THE CORE GONE, THERE WAS NOTHING INSIDE THE STRUCTURE TO KEEP IT FROM FALLING, AND THE OUTER SKIN HAD VERY LITTLE EITHER, AND IT WAS NOT A DIRECT LOAD BEARING SYSTEM WITHOUT BEING HOOKED TO THE CORE. SO WE HAVE THE CORNER ATTACH BRACKETTING BASICALLY HOLDING UP THE TOP PORTION FROM THE 70 FRRT TO THE BOTTOM. THE FIRES HEAT CHANGED THE TEMPER OF THE CONNECTING BOLTS, AND THEY GOT SOFT TO WHERE THE WEIGHT SHAEARED THROUGH THEM, AND IT FELL. wHY THIS CONTINUING DIATRIBE ONLY ABOUT THE STUPID TEMP ON STEEL, YOU ALL ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING PHYSICS HERE, BUT ON ALL ASPECTS OF EVENT, NOT JUST ONE THAT BRINGS IT EASY TO COME TO YOUR CONVOLUTING OUTCOMES. gO AND GET ALL THE FACTORS, AND ALL THE EVENTS OF JEULES, AND POUNDS FEET, AND IMPACT AND EXPLOSIVE RATIOS, APPLY ALL NECESSARY SCIENCE AND ACTIONS. TO PLACE THIS REPEATING IDEA TO JET FUEL ON STEEL IS AN ASSNINE APPROACH, AND IN GUIDED BY AGENDA, AND NOT SCIENCE!
Commen sense
QUOTE
u have no evidence of explosives

-----------------except for sonic signatures and pictures of violent ejections of debris,


---------------------------------------Except that debris is explained away easily by a build up of pressure from falling floors within the building. The evidence is the slow start to these ejections which progress. The evidence is you never produced an explosive which can cut structural steel yet explodes backward to explain this.

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u have no evidence of explosives

-----------------except for sonic signatures and pictures of violent ejections of debris,


---------------------------------------Except that debris is explained away easily by a build up of pressure from falling floors within the building. The evidence is the slow start to these ejections which progress. The evidence is you never produced an explosive which can cut structural steel yet explodes backward to explain this.

and nearly frictionless collapses of three steel frame buildings, two of which were award winning 'engineering marvels' when they were built,


------------------------------------------Except that the videos do show a collapse with lots of friction which slowed the floors down. Except that CT videos produced by 22 year old media enthusiast stop the fall timer at the time the perimeter columns hit the ground instead of the building. A clear indication the whole CT argument needs lies to support it.

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and molten metal


-------------------------------------------Except that there are a number of ways this metal could have become that hot. Including the event itself creating enough heat and insulation to sustain this effect, pockets large enough to keep cars under the towers untouched by debris.

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and molten metal


-------------------------------------------Except that there are a number of ways this metal could have become that hot. Including the event itself creating enough heat and insulation to sustain this effect, pockets large enough to keep cars under the towers untouched by debris.

, and pyroclastic flows and burned and flipped cars


------------------------------------------Except the no 212 degree F pyroclastic flow burns cars yet leave people and trees alone. And no explosion HOPS over cars to flip others.

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and the complete pulverisation of everything in the building including people, plastic, glass, concrete and wood into an ultrafine dust........


------------------------------------------Exept that you would expect a 110 story office building collapse to pulverize it's 2-3 inch concrete floors in what can only be discribed as the mother of all jack hammer effects. You would expect everything else in the building to sucome to the effect.

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and the complete pulverisation of everything in the building including people, plastic, glass, concrete and wood into an ultrafine dust........


------------------------------------------Exept that you would expect a 110 story office building collapse to pulverize it's 2-3 inch concrete floors in what can only be discribed as the mother of all jack hammer effects. You would expect everything else in the building to sucome to the effect.

-----------------------i TRIED to arrest him, but the entire military and legal might of the USA stopped me(by the way, he's YOUR boy, not mine, i'm not 'letting him get away' with anything, common clod)


-------------------------------------------u r creating a laughable conspiracy theory which will be tied together with the real conspiracies which followed 9/11 in a neat little bow. That makes him you're buddy, not mine. Especially since I'm not the one who thinks the thousands of americans who would have to be involved in this mass murder love the idiot so much they would go to jail for him. YOU are, k? You think hes Jesus Christ, k? numbskull newt?

QUOTE
------------------------------------------and you!? what are YOU doing, 'liberal' crusader for justice?


----------------------------------------------------------------------------right now stopping people like you from letting Bush get away with murder. Soon I'll be working to get democrats in power so they can investigate Bush's real crimes. The ones the republicans said they would investigate but never have. People like you who work for Rove (Know it or not) are making that effort difficult.

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QUOTE
------------------------------------------and you!? what are YOU doing, 'liberal' crusader for justice?


----------------------------------------------------------------------------right now stopping people like you from letting Bush get away with murder. Soon I'll be working to get democrats in power so they can investigate Bush's real crimes. The ones the republicans said they would investigate but never have. People like you who work for Rove (Know it or not) are making that effort difficult.

------------------------------------that means a lot coming from you. i'll rethink my whole life now. thanks, man.


Glade to be of service. wink.gif

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well said and if you don't believe it then that is to do with any research into the subject

Check out this info below for necessary links

As a core member of the UK and Ireland 911 Truth Campaign what I say here is backed up by the likes of former MI5 officer David Shayler, authors Ian Henshall, Rowland Morgan, Nafeez Ahmed etc – see http://nineeleven.co.uk.

There is no longer any debate. 911 was an inside job – the evidence was overwhelming years ago. Please don’t take my word for it – do your own reading/watching - there are dozens of good books and films let alone the many websites. There are even peer reviewed scientific papers now. If you have yet to see a film regarding 911 (Fahrenheit 911 does not count) then I recommend Loose Change 2.

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Remember there categorically were no wmd in Iraq and our top politicians fed the public false information over and over – tens of thousands of people have died. Ask yourself – who benefits?

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http://officialconfusion.com

Local press coverage
9/11 'THE WORK OF SECURITY CHIEFS'
Bristol Evening Post

Recent mainstream news article
Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence
Yahoo newswire

HERE ARE A FEW 911 LINKS – mainly streaming video

Analysis of the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon:

Loose Change (2nd Edition) Contains animations of the attack on the Pentagon and a very thorough analysis of both the attacks on WTC and the Pentagon:
Loose Change 2nd Edition

Martial Law – Alex Jones. Out of the ashes of the September 11th tragedy, a dark empire of war and tyranny has risen. The Constitution has been shredded and America is now a Police State. This film exposes not just who was behind the 9-11 attacks, but the roots and history of its orchestration.
Martial Law 9/11 - Rise of the Police State:

Face the Facts – 911truthbristol.com – a punchy to the point 45 minute overview of the key 911 issues. Plus links to other 911 related films, which give the viewer a wider understanding of state sponsored terror and the manufacturing of war for profit and power. Face the Facts

Guerilla News Network Aftermath: 911 Unanswered Questions Highlighting the inconsistencies with protocol on 911 and the motives behind elements of the US government orchestrating the attacks.

Painful Deceptions - This video deals with pretty much, every unanswered question surrounding the attacks. Painful Deceptions - An analysis of the September 11th Attack

This recent presentation by Dr. Steven Jones (Department of Physics and Astronomy - Brigham Young University) is primarily focused on the collapses of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 on 9/11.
9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions

Here are the related documents that go along with this presentation:
Jones's research 'white paper'

Steven Jones has joined: Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Acoustic profile of the explosives used to bring down the towers. Recorded by an eyewitness, who filmed the entire attack from peer 51. This video contains footage you can't find anywhere else.
911 Eyewitness

There are some who maintain that the mythical 9/11 hijackers, although proven to be too incompetent to fly a little Cessna 172, had acquired the impressive skills that enabled them to fly airliners by training in flight simulators. Nila Sagadevan is an aeronautical engineer and a qualified pilot. Here he explains how the maneuvers Hani Hanjour had to go through to reach the Pentagon are virtually impossible.
The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training


About suspicious events on the stock market up to 911

Ever since the attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon, disturbing questions have been raised about the possible involvement of some parts of the U.S. security apparatus or Administration. These questions have been supported by extensive circumstantial evidence and has been investigated by several U.S. Congressional Committees. Furthermore, the U.S. media have reported on the well known relationship which exists between President George W. Bush, the Carlyle Group, several oil companies and the Bin Laden Family.

Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD in 1977 when he exposed evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA. The Truth & Lies of 9-11 is a filmed lecture at Portland State University, where Ruppert uses only government documents, official statements and press reports as the basis of his investigative work. This pioneering, groundbreaking expose of 9-11, now two years old, paints a stark and accurate picture of our world today and tomorrow.
Truth and Lies of 911


Debunking the Kean commission report about 911

David Ray Griffin explains PNAC and the neocon's dream about an American empire in relation to 911
911 and the American Empire

Here he literally debunks the entire report as a 170 page lie:
The 911 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions


Specifically about 9/11 in relation to PNAC (Project for the New American Century)

Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bülow, express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story.
Attack or Godsend
Alternative link:Attack or Godsend


About the media as complicit in the cover-up of 9/11

This is a ground-breaking 44-minute video by Barrie Zwicker. He was the first mainstream journalist in the world to go on air (in January 2002) and ask hard questions about the official story of 9/11. He analyses the use of fear to befuddle the public. He deconstructs the so-called "war on terrorism". He examines in depth the failure of the military on 9/11 and George Bush's highly inappropriate behaviour that day. He finds the 9/11 Commission to be a total cover-up operation. Throughout, he analyses the role of the mainstream media as complicit in keeping the public massively misinformed and befuddled.
The 911 news special you never saw

Perspective on 9-11 excerpts the portion of Painful Deceptions that covers the collapse of Building 7 -- which includes five videos of the Building 7's implosion Jenkins combines the best parts of the work of others, sticks to substantial evidence, and frames the presentation of that evidence in a historical context that facilitates its objective examination.
Perspective on 9/11


Download links to most videos listed above
http://www.question911.com/links.php

Links to high resolution XviD's and DivX: Conspiracy Central (Searched on 911). You will have to sign up HERE to see the download links and you need a bit torrent client to download them

Other Documentation for those who wants to check the facts for themselves:

911 data archives
Truth Bristol 911 links

NIST report:
http://wtc.nist.gov/reports_october05.htm

Comments from other experts on this report:
http://wtc.nist.gov/wtc_public_comments.htm

Eyewitness testimonies:
http://www.mjbarkl.com/locked.htm

911 reading room:
http://911readingroom.org/bib/

Pictures, reports, articles etc.
http://911research.wtc7.net/


Precedents, motives and a history of bankers raping nations with artificial inflation to throw them into war

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers. Info: http://www.themoneymasters.com/


The Money Masters 1 of 3
The Money Masters 2 of 3
The Money Masters 3 of 3
Commen sense
QUOTE (HEH!+Mar 12 2006, 02:40 AM)
QUOTE (Common NonSense+Mar 12 2006, 06:54 AM)
Cars flip over all the time when buildings collapse.  It's a natural occurance. 

At least that's what they told me in training before they put this computer in front of me.

They also told me that if I type in a large font no one will notice that I lie

YOU HAVE TO USE ALL CAPS AND BOLD, TOO! DUH! WHAT DIVISION ARE YOU IN? HEH!

IF IT BOTHERS A CTers WHO REPEATS THE SAME ARGUMENT ALREADY ADDRESSED OVER AND OVER, YES! Heh!
ScottS
Newton wrote:

"an aluminum tin can rips through steel columns, without the wings shearing off, or the tail shattering, and in fact, there is no visible decceleration of the plane as it 'butters' it's way into the building. (modifies...not even a crumple)"

So are you a blue screen and or hologram theorist?

Seems Newton has taken a strong turn against Hoffman/Jones etc.
Guest
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 03:37 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 03:19 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 01:41 AM)
When I'm gone from this Earth I SINCERELY hope that I'm talked about for as long and as often as the CT'ers have talked about Schneibster since he's been gone.

Threatening to axe someone you disagree with on a public physics forum does tend to leave a lasting impression. Wouldn't you agree? No?

I guess if your stupid enough to to think he could go through the monitor... blink.gif

Did I forget to add the "I will hunt you down" part. So sorry. It says a lot about the murderer car that this guy is their hero for whom they feel such an obligation to come to his defense.
Commen sense
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 07:40 AM)
A revision to the BIGGEST COLLECTION OF IDIOTS EVER ON ONE THREAD.
It obviously requires TWO large Mini-buses to hold these clowns:


Whereas the annual general meeting of everybody who thinks you talk sense can be accomodated in a phone box.
Gordon

That's the most moronic thing I've heard from this moron yet. The cters are in such a minority even the civil engineers in Jones's BYU think you guys are a joke.

You sound like Bush projecting yourself on others. Heh!
newton
okay, i think your right, gordon. i think there were two corner columns on each corner.
why wouldn't there be? the three column perimeter spandrel plates can be seen at diffent heights than these two corner columns in some of the aerial photos of construction phases.
arthur, just keeps doing the regular song and dance, deny, deny, deny, proved, admit but obfuscate and forget earlier proven variables.

you brave bush defender(s) have been pushing the possibility of a 'syringe theory' that can send out a 'pulse' and claim extreme chaos as an excuse to not possible analyuse the collapse, and yet won't admit that such a 'pulse' could be COOLER AIR in the maelstrom of MOSTLY HOT churning and expanding gases.

the surrounding buildings are covered in SOOT like after a HUGE EXPLOSION.

and, hereward, that IS weird the way cars were reported spontaneuosly exploding when there was no visible heat source. this may point to some kind of exotic secret weapon working on unknown principles.
perhaps this is also why trees were spared, where materials with a higher degree of volatility exploded. i was never a fan of the syringe theory.

perhaps, also, it was due to a random rain of hot balls of thermite.

and, reality check. i'm sorry to be inaccurate.

it was BOOOOOM(tower hasn't budged),..........some 17 to 20s of blessed peace

and then as the tower goes instantly into freefall(as per brazant zhou's analysis)....
...BOOOOM, .....BOOOOOOMooooBOOOOOOOOOOMooooooooooBOOOOOOOOOMoooBOOOOOOOM
(and then no more noise while the spire staggers, and then plummets. once again that is NO NOISE from the collapse of the spire(as recorded from hoboken).

the sound wave graphs clearly show massive percussive spikes that do not match the smooth descent of the tower. one would need to see sudden movement, and then a sudden stop to produce those sounds with a falling object hitting another, like the noise of a drum. the kinetic energy of the stick is translated instantly to the drum head(notice the stick now bounces back up).
explosions taking out core support totally makes sense of the sounds vs. motion comparison and the HUGE PERCUSSIVE SPIKES.

Commen sense
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 08:33 AM)
QUOTE
In the second collapse the core was not visible as it was after the first. This indicates that the core failure initiated at the base by the relatively slower acting thermite like charge was not as far advanced in the first collapse as it was in the second.So what could have caused the perpetrators to decide that it was necessary to set off the charges early on this tower? A question that I believe was being asked recently, but one with a very obvious but uncomfortable reply. Fire crew had just arrived on the first fire floor and were in direct radio contact.

Gordon.


So by your estimation the Fire crew took longer to go DOWN 6 stories as it took to CLIMB 78 stories???

BOY, them NYFD are one bunch of MORONS.



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QUOTE
In the second collapse the core was not visible as it was after the first. This indicates that the core failure initiated at the base by the relatively slower acting thermite like charge was not as far advanced in the first collapse as it was in the second.So what could have caused the perpetrators to decide that it was necessary to set off the charges early on this tower? A question that I believe was being asked recently, but one with a very obvious but uncomfortable reply. Fire crew had just arrived on the first fire floor and were in direct radio contact.

Gordon.


So by your estimation the Fire crew took longer to go DOWN 6 stories as it took to CLIMB 78 stories???

BOY, them NYFD are one bunch of MORONS.




You seem to be missing the point. If the floors pulled the columns in, how is it that those two corners and possibly more, remain standing up to six seconds after collapse. How did the spandrel plates become disconnected? Why just these corner sections remaining? How is it that large sections of the walls are falling outwards? Why are the first expulsions on the corners with subsequent expulsions staggered inwards as collapse progresses?How did the upper section of core become disconnected?

Gordon.


Gordon,

THERE ARE NO OUTSIDE CORNER COLUMNS.

The corners we are talking about are the MASSIVE CORNER COLUMNS of the CORE.

The 4 Corner Columns of the Core carried 20% of the Core's load.




Gordon CONTINUES with his meltdown.

Sad really,

Of the CLOWNS, at least he showed SOME promise of lucidity.

Pity.

Arthur

Hes already announced his bias way back. I knew he was just another CTer. One who stands to make money off the idiots who believe him no doubt.
metamars
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 03:11 PM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 10:22 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 09:30 PM)
QUOTE (Adoucette+)


I POST A PICTURE OF THIS TREE

User posted image

Arthur


Metamars comes back with THIS question:

Can you place this tree on a steet map?


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Metamars,

LOOK A LITTLE PAST THE TREE, PAST THE WORK LIGHT THEY HAVE SET UP TO SHINE ON THE SITE.
See the SMOLDERING PILE???
LOOK A LITTLE PAST THAT.
WHAT DO YOU SEE STICKING UP????

Does THIS help you place the tree?

Not sure how it could have BEEN any closer.

Arthur

You're still not answering my questions. Note well that the tree seems to be completely undamaged. Seems rather unlikely that the tree would be apparently so close to the fallen debris, with no visible damage.

QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 10:22 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 09:30 PM)
QUOTE (Adoucette+)


I POST A PICTURE OF THIS TREE

User posted image

Arthur


Metamars comes back with THIS question:

Can you place this tree on a steet map?


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Metamars,

LOOK A LITTLE PAST THE TREE, PAST THE WORK LIGHT THEY HAVE SET UP TO SHINE ON THE SITE.
See the SMOLDERING PILE???
LOOK A LITTLE PAST THAT.
WHAT DO YOU SEE STICKING UP????

Does THIS help you place the tree?

Not sure how it could have BEEN any closer.

Arthur

You're still not answering my questions. Note well that the tree seems to be completely undamaged. Seems rather unlikely that the tree would be apparently so close to the fallen debris, with no visible damage.

Why, if something doesn't LAND on it, what do you think was going to HURT IT since the tree is obvious proof (as if we needed any more) that there was NO PYROCLASTIC CLOUD.

NOT EVEN A 100 C one, let alone the 1,000 K one that Hoffman postulates.

More trees:

user posted image

Notice window boxes and street planters (so we are not just talking about GROUND temps either)

User posted image

If these were any closer you would have to first lift the debris off them.

user posted image

Notice how GREEN some of these look, so it must not be specie specific.

User posted image

NEED MORE???

Or do you consider THESE fake as well???

Arthur

You still haven't answered my question, though I would guess that the interesection with the pink building should be identitfiable, if I made a trip to the ground zero area.

Can you pinpoint these on a map, or not?

BTW, these are (hopefully) not idle questions. I am not capable of doing a fluid hydrodynamics calculation, myself, but I believe that I may be able to make a rough approximation of the drop off of temperature with distance. *

As was discussed extensively earlier in the thread, nobody expects that the dust clouds would not rapidly cool off as they moved away from the source of their heating. To give yet another analogy, if you are deep frying something and it splatters hot grease on you from a very close distance, you may well get burned. If any grease ever reaches you from, say, 18 inches, you will not.

Now, if "proof by analogy" were sufficient, I might well change my name to "Reality Check 2". However, it is not sufficient, and so I do not claim that a calculation of plausible scenarios is not desirable. Quite the opposite, as is crystal clear from my previous writings on the subject.


============================

* Basically, an an initial analysis would involve these types of considerations and approximations:


- determine the concrete's mass
- assume the dust cloud is initially "made", but confined to a cylinder centered on the WTC footprint, with radius chosen such that it's area equals half the area of a WTC building footprint, and height chosen to match that observed in photographs and videos
- get an estimate for how long the dust cloud was produced (I would probabably just infer a figure from Hoffman's paper; IIRC, the dust cloud continued to be emitted from it's point of origin for many seconds after the collapses completed)
- assume that equal volumes of the dust cloud (at constant density) leave the cylinder/origin during this time interval, per unit time
- Note that volume of a cylinder increases as the square of the distance, so volume is dropping off as the inverse square of the distance
- Initially, I would just ignore the energy sink represented by the ambient air which mixes with the dust cloud, though I would add this in during a second pass.
- Following Hoffman, I would also assume that heat transfers are essentially instantaneous between concrete particles and gasses.


BTW, one obvious physics question in my mind regarding all of this is: If gasses expanded due to heat, they obviously much contract as they cool off. However, I fully expect that the suspended concrete particles should not be "inclined" to contract in a similar sense as the ambient gasses. Thus, their location within a volume of air will be determined simply by dynamical considerations - i.e., where they were pushed to by ambient gasses - and thus using the boundary defined by the concrete particles (i.e., the "front") as some kind of indication of a temperature boundary is very misleading.

I'm sure adoucette has thought all this through, right? I'm sure he considered well not only the similarities, but also the differences inherent between a volcanic pyroclastic flow and a WTC pyroclastic flow. Am I correct here, or incorrect?

Of course, I'm being sarcastic, but I note, once again, that adoucette has not agreed that a hydrodynamical elaboration of Hoffman's central ideas would be a good thing. That is hardly a scientific attitude, quite inappropriate for a physics board.



newton
when the perpetrators are in jail, EVERYONE will make money by not having all their tax dollars and public assets funneled into the hands of the neocon crone army.

there are no democrats, common sense. have you not seen enough pictures of kang(bush) and kodos(clinton) holding hands?

you're not a satanist, are you? or a 'texas longhorns' fan?
metamars
I might add: if the rough calculation I have sketched out is done and it supports Hoffman, then I expect adoucette to become an eager proponent of a more elaborate and realistic analysis.

But I'm just speculating,here!! laugh.gif
Guest
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 01:28 PM)
QUOTE (hereward+Mar 12 2006, 08:50 AM)
And nobody seems to have any explanation other than that the cars were hit by burning debris... but witness have reported cars exploding... which is quite distinct from, say, being hit with a pice of burning debris.

What makes cars explode???? I am at a loss to explain this.

(: hereward

What makes cars explode?

Duh

Its called a GAS TANK.

But the fact is, virtually all the pictures are simply burned out vehicles.

They are burned out because there was almost no attempt made to put out the fires.

Because the people who could were:
A) Dead
B ) had no equipment
C) had equipment but no water pressure
D) worried about more important things, like finding their friends or finding fresh air

Arthur

Brought to you from INSULTINGLY STUPID MOVIE PHYSICS

Ever notice how cars in movies always burst into flames the instant they collide with anything? Our favorite is when a car falling from a high place explodes the instant before it hits the ground. It's as though its gas tank gets panicky and detonates at the mere thought of striking Earth. Fortunately, the physics are not so cooperative.

Gasoline has a very narrow flammable range of about 1.4 to 7.6% gasoline vapor in air 2. In other words, the vapor-air mixture must be exactly as specified or the gas will not burn, let alone explode! Note that we say vapor. Liquid gasoline must change into vapor before it can burn (although this is no huge problem since it easily vaporizes).

For a car to explode during impact the tank must catastrophically rupture and spew a fine mist of gasoline over a large area so it can vaporize and mix with air in exactly the right proportions. The mixture must then find a source of ignition. Automobile gas tanks are built to withstand a considerable impact force and are usually located in a protected area between the beams of a car's frame. Common ignition sources in the car's engine are generally at the other end of the vehicle.

As portrayed in movies, gasoline tanks are fragile and gasoline so volatile that the vaporizing and mixing process occurs in milliseconds. It always results in an explosive mixture which always finds a source of ignition. Thank heavens it's not so easy or people would regularly be blowing themselves up while refueling at the pump.

Even when a wrecked car catches on fire it rarely explodes. A gas tank can explode if it contains an explosive mixture and there's an opening for the flames to enter. More likely, fire would have to impinge on the outside of the gas tank, vaporizing the gasoline in the tank and eventually causing it to overpressure and explode. However, if the vapors escaped fast enough the tank would not rupture. Most fires start in the engine compartment and will not spread backwards to the gas tank area unless the tank is leaking fuel on the ground. Again a whole series of events has to be just right for an explosion to occur.

Although it's actually quite rare, exploding cars are a common excuse for not wearing seat belts. Onlookers at crash sites are often so concerned about explosions that they unnecessarily jeopardize a person with a spinal injury by pulling them out of a wrecked car. The common Hollywood depiction fuels these harmful misconceptions.
newton
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 04:41 PM)
I might add: if the rough calculation I have sketched out is done and it supports Hoffman, then I expect adoucette to become an eager proponent of a more elaborate and realistic analysis.

But I'm just speculating,here!! laugh.gif

of course. HAHAHA!

'they' will ALL 'convert'.

even the intimidating invisible army of laughing, mocking 'psyorg observers'. (i REALLY think there out there, metamars. RCS said so a couple times. i'm SURE it's not just more attempts at the bandwagon technique)
reasonwhy
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 07:34 AM)
Slick Gordy:

QUOTE
My evidence is the photograph, the downward movement of the spire prior to visible collapse initiation of the perimeter column collapse.
Gordon



QUOTE (->
QUOTE
My evidence is the photograph, the downward movement of the spire prior to visible collapse initiation of the perimeter column collapse.
Gordon



By the way. Your theory falls down on one basic observation. The core failed first, evidenced by the early movement of the antennae. There is no way for your theory to hold up with this factor.
Gordon



QUOTE (Arthur+)

Well, apparently you were wrong.


QUOTE (NIST+)

"Photographic and videographic records were reviewed to identify structurally-related events. Where possible, all four faces of a building were examined for a given event or time period to provide complete understanding of the building response. Observations from a single vantage point can be misleading and may result in incorrect interpretation of events. For instance, photographic and videographic records taken from due north of the WTC 1 collapse appeared to indicate that the antenna was sinking into the roof (McAllister 2002). When records from east and west vantage points were viewed, it was apparent that the building section above the impact area tilted to the south as the building collapsed."





QUOTE
No Arthur. I was right. I said it moved. It did move. If that is not correct perhaps you can enlighten us as to how something, anything, can tilt without moving.

Gordon



Was MOVE DOWNWARD ==> becomes == CAN TILT.

WEASEL


Arthur

Disinfo Arty , are you taking lessons form RC and Con-men Scene?

When the antenna on top of the building rotates about the pivot, would not one of the directions it moves be downward?
gordon

THERE ARE NO OUTSIDE CORNER COLUMNS.

The corners we are talking about are the MASSIVE CORNER COLUMNS of the CORE.

The 4 Corner Columns of the Core carried 20% of the Core's load.




Read the post. I explained that the eight lines of vertical charges isolated the corner columns, or if you prefer - the columns at the corners (about 4 - 6 of them) into isolated vertical columns, disconnected from their neighbouring columns by severing of the spandrel plates. My evidence for this is that these corner columns remained standing several seconds after the collapse front had passed to lower storeys.

Someone talks about the movement of the antennae.
Differentiation must be made between the mode of collapse of both towers. Remembering that the first collapse had to be triggered early due to the arrival of possible witnesses. This gave less time for the thermite charge in the lower levels to take effect meaning that, and supplying our evidence by showing that, the core from impact point to ground level was still upright for a few seconds after the collapse of walls, perimeter corners and the upper sections, including upper floors, hat truss, perimeter and core columns. It then fell more or less straight down upon itself.

In the second collapse, the additional time allowed the thermite to take effect and thus allow the core to fall as one unit. Evidence for this is the inward bowing of the walls of this tower over the 10-15 mins prior to collapse, caused by the core being gradually unable to carry the full load and deflecting downwards pulling inwards on the floors and hence the perimeter columns.

It all fits together.

Ask me another.
Gordon.
reasonwhy
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 08:46 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 01:28 PM)
QUOTE (hereward+Mar 12 2006, 08:50 AM)
And nobody seems to have any explanation other than that the cars were hit by burning debris... but witness have reported cars exploding... which is quite distinct from, say, being hit with a pice of burning debris.

What makes cars explode???? I am at a loss to explain this.

(: hereward

What makes cars explode?

Duh

Its called a GAS TANK.

But the fact is, virtually all the pictures are simply burned out vehicles.

They are burned out because there was almost no attempt made to put out the fires.

Because the people who could were:
A) Dead
B ) had no equipment
C) had equipment but no water pressure
D) worried about more important things, like finding their friends or finding fresh air

Arthur

Brought to you from INSULTINGLY STUPID MOVIE PHYSICS

Ever notice how cars in movies always burst into flames the instant they collide with anything? Our favorite is when a car falling from a high place explodes the instant before it hits the ground. It's as though its gas tank gets panicky and detonates at the mere thought of striking Earth. Fortunately, the physics are not so cooperative.

Gasoline has a very narrow flammable range of about 1.4 to 7.6% gasoline vapor in air 2. In other words, the vapor-air mixture must be exactly as specified or the gas will not burn, let alone explode! Note that we say vapor. Liquid gasoline must change into vapor before it can burn (although this is no huge problem since it easily vaporizes).

For a car to explode during impact the tank must catastrophically rupture and spew a fine mist of gasoline over a large area so it can vaporize and mix with air in exactly the right proportions. The mixture must then find a source of ignition. Automobile gas tanks are built to withstand a considerable impact force and are usually located in a protected area between the beams of a car's frame. Common ignition sources in the car's engine are generally at the other end of the vehicle.

As portrayed in movies, gasoline tanks are fragile and gasoline so volatile that the vaporizing and mixing process occurs in milliseconds. It always results in an explosive mixture which always finds a source of ignition. Thank heavens it's not so easy or people would regularly be blowing themselves up while refueling at the pump.

Even when a wrecked car catches on fire it rarely explodes. A gas tank can explode if it contains an explosive mixture and there's an opening for the flames to enter. More likely, fire would have to impinge on the outside of the gas tank, vaporizing the gasoline in the tank and eventually causing it to overpressure and explode. However, if the vapors escaped fast enough the tank would not rupture. Most fires start in the engine compartment and will not spread backwards to the gas tank area unless the tank is leaking fuel on the ground. Again a whole series of events has to be just right for an explosion to occur.

Although it's actually quite rare, exploding cars are a common excuse for not wearing seat belts. Onlookers at crash sites are often so concerned about explosions that they unnecessarily jeopardize a person with a spinal injury by pulling them out of a wrecked car. The common Hollywood depiction fuels these harmful misconceptions.

Excellent post guest, why don’t you register? Reminds me of :

The NBC Fuel tank hoax.
NBC news did a story on side mounted fuel tanks on GM trucks.
The claim of the story was that when such a truck was struck, it would burst into flames. GM insisted that it's side mounted truck fuel tanks were more than sturdy enough to survive the average traffic collision.
NBC produced and aired a video segment that showed a vehicle colliding with the side fuel tank of a GM truck at low speed, and the GM fuel tank exploded.
It later turned out that the fuel tank had been rigged with explosive devices by NBC to manufacture the explosion seen in their news report!

TIME article on the NBC hoax.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/nbc.html
shagster
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 05:15 PM)

and yet, it begins to tip, and then falls straight down. really quickly.

when you watch the rick siegel video of it, you can see a puff of dust(a 'puff' which is probably a story high) which initiates the tipping.

i think perhaps the above picture of the spire shows the same explosion.


I thought you were referring to the puffs on the buckled floors of the south tower as it tilted and started to collapse. My error. The explanation I gave was for that, not the spire.

The spire feature must have had a lot of dust on it already. Some of that would have gotten shaken off as it collapsed. It does give the impression of it disintegrating, but metal doesn't disintegrate. It was oscillating quite a bit in the video. Likely the bolts at the column splices fractured from the stress and it simply fell down.

The core wasn't made to take lateral stesses. That's why there were dampers to allow the perimeter to bend without bending the core.
gordon
The core wasn't made to take lateral stesses. That's why there were dampers to allow the perimeter to bend without bending the core.


The dampers were to stop you throwing up due to seasickness.

Gordon.
reasonwhy
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 12 2006, 09:37 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 05:15 PM)

and yet, it begins to tip, and then falls straight down. really quickly.

when you watch the rick siegel video of it, you can see a puff of dust(a 'puff' which is probably a story high) which initiates the tipping.

i think perhaps the above picture of the spire shows the same explosion.


I thought you were referring to the puffs on the buckled floors of the south tower as it tilted and started to collapse. My error. The explanation I gave was for that, not the spire.

The spire feature must have had a lot of dust on it already. Some of that would have gotten shaken off as it collapsed. It does give the impression of it disintegrating, but metal doesn't disintegrate. It was oscillating quite a bit in the video. Likely the bolts at the column splices fractured from the stress and it simply fell down.

The core wasn't made to take lateral stesses. That's why there were dampers to allow the perimeter to bend without bending the core.

I have heard this so many times from the disinformation group. Were are the lateral stresses coming from?
cosmo
30 US Reps for Bush Impeachment Inquiry



March 11, 2006
Atlanta Progressive News

30 US Reps for Bush Impeachment Inquiry

1. APN Interviews Conyers, Swanson, and Goodman
By Matthew Cardinale, Editor, Atlanta Progressive News (March 10, 2006)

(APN) ATLANTA – 30 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

“There has been massive support for House Resolution 635 from a very vigorous network of grassroots activists and people committed to holding the Bush Administration accountable for its widespread abuses of power,” US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said in a statement prepared for Atlanta Progressive News.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) also released a book, Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush. The Center is extremely influential in high-profile court fights over issues such as wiretapping, the treatment of detainees by the US, and felon voting rights....


"I am taking steps against the Bush Administration’s handling of the Iraq War and its warrantless wiretapping. I am going to need you to stand with me in fighting for accountability."
-Congressman John Conyers, Jr.

“I have a Citizen Co-sponsorship page on my website, http://johnconyers.com , where over 42,000 people have added their names to the 30 Members of Congress calling for the creation of a special committee to investigate possible impeachable offenses. My website also has a form for people to write a letter-to-the-editor for their local newspaper. It is grassroots activity like this, and the efforts of thousands of others, that has led to greater awareness of and support for my resolution,” Rep. Conyers told Atlanta Progressive News.


shagster
The spire didn't stand much of a chance of standing on its own indefinately. It will lean or oscillate. That will put stresses on the splices and fracture bolts or welds. The splices were made to take compressive stresses.
shagster
user posted image

user posted image
shagster
I added a white line to the pic indicating where the far corner of the tower would be. I went over the the right of the left corner an equal number of pixels as determined from the spacing of corners on the south side. That's valid since the pic was taken from a large distance away.

The single column spire feature doesn't match up with the perimeter corner. Also, those columns that form the spire are very large. They look small from a distance, but they are actually thick.

user posted image
Commen sense
QUOTE (911truthbristolcom+Mar 12 2006, 11:17 AM)
well said and if you don't believe it then that is to do with any research into the subject

Check out this info below for necessary links

As a core member of the UK and Ireland 911 Truth Campaign what I say here is backed up by the likes of former MI5 officer David Shayler, authors Ian Henshall, Rowland Morgan, Nafeez Ahmed etc – see http://nineeleven.co.uk.

There is no longer any debate. 911 was an inside job – the evidence was overwhelming years ago. Please don’t take my word for it – do your own reading/watching - there are dozens of good books and films let alone the many websites. There are even peer reviewed scientific papers now. If you have yet to see a film regarding 911 (Fahrenheit 911 does not count) then I recommend Loose Change 2.

There is no point in arguing with those who haven’t accessed the relevant information. How people can argue an opinion based on little or no information has always bemused me. The fact is that no one ever argues once they’ve seen the evidence. If the truth is, that you simply just don’t wanna know then don’t be dismissive – just leave this thread and go and read something a bit cossier.

Sticking to the music, Eminem, Mos Def, Paris, Braintax, Public Enemy, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Photek, Blackout (Bristol dnb) are but a few artists that are now understanding the 911 ‘conspiracy’. It’s been pretty much mainstream knowledge for at least a year now and if you’re still in denial after watching some of the films below then you probably always will be.

There is a high likelihood of a war on Iran in the near future. It is imperative that you understand how the war on terror has been manufactured as part of a pretext for wars of aggression in the Middle East and the loss of civil freedoms here at home.

Remember there categorically were no wmd in Iraq and our top politicians fed the public false information over and over – tens of thousands of people have died. Ask yourself – who benefits?

Most of you, I’m sure realise, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are about controlling the world’s energy resources. The blueprint was laid out by the Neocons in the Project for the New American Century pre 911 – it doesn’t stop at Iraq.

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~ Albert Einstein

Adrian Connock
http://officialconfusion.com

Local press coverage
9/11 'THE WORK OF SECURITY CHIEFS'
Bristol Evening Post

Recent mainstream news article
Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence
Yahoo newswire

HERE ARE A FEW 911 LINKS – mainly streaming video

Analysis of the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon:

Loose Change (2nd Edition) Contains animations of the attack on the Pentagon and a very thorough analysis of both the attacks on WTC and the Pentagon:
Loose Change 2nd Edition

Martial Law – Alex Jones. Out of the ashes of the September 11th tragedy, a dark empire of war and tyranny has risen. The Constitution has been shredded and America is now a Police State. This film exposes not just who was behind the 9-11 attacks, but the roots and history of its orchestration.
Martial Law 9/11 - Rise of the Police State:

Face the Facts – 911truthbristol.com – a punchy to the point 45 minute overview of the key 911 issues. Plus links to other 911 related films, which give the viewer a wider understanding of state sponsored terror and the manufacturing of war for profit and power. Face the Facts

Guerilla News Network Aftermath: 911 Unanswered Questions Highlighting the inconsistencies with protocol on 911 and the motives behind elements of the US government orchestrating the attacks.

Painful Deceptions - This video deals with pretty much, every unanswered question surrounding the attacks. Painful Deceptions - An analysis of the September 11th Attack

This recent presentation by Dr. Steven Jones (Department of Physics and Astronomy - Brigham Young University) is primarily focused on the collapses of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 on 9/11.
9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions

Here are the related documents that go along with this presentation:
Jones's research 'white paper'

Steven Jones has joined: Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Acoustic profile of the explosives used to bring down the towers. Recorded by an eyewitness, who filmed the entire attack from peer 51. This video contains footage you can't find anywhere else.
911 Eyewitness

There are some who maintain that the mythical 9/11 hijackers, although proven to be too incompetent to fly a little Cessna 172, had acquired the impressive skills that enabled them to fly airliners by training in flight simulators. Nila Sagadevan is an aeronautical engineer and a qualified pilot. Here he explains how the maneuvers Hani Hanjour had to go through to reach the Pentagon are virtually impossible.
The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training


About suspicious events on the stock market up to 911

Ever since the attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon, disturbing questions have been raised about the possible involvement of some parts of the U.S. security apparatus or Administration. These questions have been supported by extensive circumstantial evidence and has been investigated by several U.S. Congressional Committees. Furthermore, the U.S. media have reported on the well known relationship which exists between President George W. Bush, the Carlyle Group, several oil companies and the Bin Laden Family.

Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD in 1977 when he exposed evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA. The Truth & Lies of 9-11 is a filmed lecture at Portland State University, where Ruppert uses only government documents, official statements and press reports as the basis of his investigative work. This pioneering, groundbreaking expose of 9-11, now two years old, paints a stark and accurate picture of our world today and tomorrow.
Truth and Lies of 911


Debunking the Kean commission report about 911

David Ray Griffin explains PNAC and the neocon's dream about an American empire in relation to 911
911 and the American Empire

Here he literally debunks the entire report as a 170 page lie:
The 911 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions


Specifically about 9/11 in relation to PNAC (Project for the New American Century)

Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bülow, express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story.
Attack or Godsend
Alternative link:Attack or Godsend


About the media as complicit in the cover-up of 9/11

This is a ground-breaking 44-minute video by Barrie Zwicker. He was the first mainstream journalist in the world to go on air (in January 2002) and ask hard questions about the official story of 9/11. He analyses the use of fear to befuddle the public. He deconstructs the so-called "war on terrorism". He examines in depth the failure of the military on 9/11 and George Bush's highly inappropriate behaviour that day. He finds the 9/11 Commission to be a total cover-up operation. Throughout, he analyses the role of the mainstream media as complicit in keeping the public massively misinformed and befuddled.
The 911 news special you never saw

Perspective on 9-11 excerpts the portion of Painful Deceptions that covers the collapse of Building 7 -- which includes five videos of the Building 7's implosion Jenkins combines the best parts of the work of others, sticks to substantial evidence, and frames the presentation of that evidence in a historical context that facilitates its objective examination.
Perspective on 9/11


Download links to most videos listed above
http://www.question911.com/links.php

Links to high resolution XviD's and DivX: Conspiracy Central (Searched on 911). You will have to sign up HERE to see the download links and you need a bit torrent client to download them

Other Documentation for those who wants to check the facts for themselves:

911 data archives
Truth Bristol 911 links

NIST report:
http://wtc.nist.gov/reports_october05.htm

Comments from other experts on this report:
http://wtc.nist.gov/wtc_public_comments.htm

Eyewitness testimonies:
http://www.mjbarkl.com/locked.htm

911 reading room:
http://911readingroom.org/bib/

Pictures, reports, articles etc.
http://911research.wtc7.net/


Precedents, motives and a history of bankers raping nations with artificial inflation to throw them into war

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers. Info: http://www.themoneymasters.com/


The Money Masters 1 of 3
The Money Masters 2 of 3
The Money Masters 3 of 3

Loose change is a video made by 22 year old media enthusiast who lie. The proof is the timer which stops collapse at 10:09 when the perimeter columns fall and not the whole building. The building is at about the 40th floor when it diapears in the debris cloud. More evidence of thier lies is the quotes taken out of context saying people heard explosions. Yes they heard explosions but they also said they didn't know the buildings were falling at the time.

http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/

Now why would they have to lie in order to make thier case? They have no case, that's why.
reasonwhy
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 12 2006, 10:20 AM)
The spire didn't stand much of a chance of standing on its own indefinately.  It will lean or oscillate.  That will put stresses on the splices and fracture bolts or welds.  The splices were made to take compressive stresses.

It will lean or oscillate from what? If you say a hurricane I can understand but 9/11 was a calm day. You cant just pull these forces out of thin air like RC and Con-men Sence.

Are you suggesting a new weapon that causes a structure to oscillate until collapse?
Commen sense
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 11:25 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 03:37 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 03:19 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 01:41 AM)
When I'm gone from this Earth I SINCERELY hope that I'm talked about for as long and as often as the CT'ers have talked about Schneibster since he's been gone.

Threatening to axe someone you disagree with on a public physics forum does tend to leave a lasting impression. Wouldn't you agree? No?

I guess if your stupid enough to to think he could go through the monitor... blink.gif

Did I forget to add the "I will hunt you down" part. So sorry. It says a lot about the murderer car that this guy is their hero for whom they feel such an obligation to come to his defense.

I forgot to add "If you're stupid enough to think it's easy to hunt someone down on an internet forum or go through the monitor.."

If you're that stupid then stop posting or I'm going to hunt you down, slice your back open and through salt in the wound.

Lets see how effective this threat is. Heh!
newton
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 06:28 PM)
QUOTE (911truthbristolcom+Mar 12 2006, 11:17 AM)
well said and if you don't believe it then that is to do with any research into the subject

Check out this info below for necessary links

As a core member of the UK and Ireland 911 Truth Campaign what I say here is backed up by the likes of former MI5 officer David Shayler, authors Ian Henshall, Rowland Morgan, Nafeez Ahmed etc – see http://nineeleven.co.uk.

There is no longer any debate. 911 was an inside job – the evidence was overwhelming years ago. Please don’t take my word for it – do your own reading/watching - there are dozens of good books and films let alone the many websites. There are even peer reviewed scientific papers now. If you have yet to see a film regarding 911 (Fahrenheit 911 does not count) then I recommend Loose Change 2.

There is no point in arguing with those who haven’t accessed the relevant information. How people can argue an opinion based on little or no information has always bemused me. The fact is that no one ever argues once they’ve seen the evidence. If the truth is, that you simply just don’t wanna know then don’t be dismissive – just leave this thread and go and read something a bit cossier.

Sticking to the music, Eminem, Mos Def, Paris, Braintax, Public Enemy, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Photek, Blackout (Bristol dnb) are but a few artists that are now understanding the 911 ‘conspiracy’. It’s been pretty much mainstream knowledge for at least a year now and if you’re still in denial after watching some of the films below then you probably always will be.

There is a high likelihood of a war on Iran in the near future. It is imperative that you understand how the war on terror has been manufactured as part of a pretext for wars of aggression in the Middle East and the loss of civil freedoms here at home.

Remember there categorically were no wmd in Iraq and our top politicians fed the public false information over and over – tens of thousands of people have died. Ask yourself – who benefits?

Most of you, I’m sure realise, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are about controlling the world’s energy resources. The blueprint was laid out by the Neocons in the Project for the New American Century pre 911 – it doesn’t stop at Iraq.

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~ Albert Einstein

Adrian Connock
http://officialconfusion.com

Local press coverage
9/11 'THE WORK OF SECURITY CHIEFS'
Bristol Evening Post

Recent mainstream news article
Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence
Yahoo newswire

HERE ARE A FEW 911 LINKS – mainly streaming video

Analysis of the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon:

Loose Change (2nd Edition) Contains animations of the attack on the Pentagon and a very thorough analysis of both the attacks on WTC and the Pentagon:
Loose Change 2nd Edition

Martial Law – Alex Jones. Out of the ashes of the September 11th tragedy, a dark empire of war and tyranny has risen. The Constitution has been shredded and America is now a Police State. This film exposes not just who was behind the 9-11 attacks, but the roots and history of its orchestration.
Martial Law 9/11 - Rise of the Police State:

Face the Facts – 911truthbristol.com – a punchy to the point 45 minute overview of the key 911 issues. Plus links to other 911 related films, which give the viewer a wider understanding of state sponsored terror and the manufacturing of war for profit and power. Face the Facts

Guerilla News Network Aftermath: 911 Unanswered Questions Highlighting the inconsistencies with protocol on 911 and the motives behind elements of the US government orchestrating the attacks.

Painful Deceptions - This video deals with pretty much, every unanswered question surrounding the attacks. Painful Deceptions - An analysis of the September 11th Attack

This recent presentation by Dr. Steven Jones (Department of Physics and Astronomy - Brigham Young University) is primarily focused on the collapses of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 on 9/11.
9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions

Here are the related documents that go along with this presentation:
Jones's research 'white paper'

Steven Jones has joined: Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Acoustic profile of the explosives used to bring down the towers. Recorded by an eyewitness, who filmed the entire attack from peer 51. This video contains footage you can't find anywhere else.
911 Eyewitness

There are some who maintain that the mythical 9/11 hijackers, although proven to be too incompetent to fly a little Cessna 172, had acquired the impressive skills that enabled them to fly airliners by training in flight simulators. Nila Sagadevan is an aeronautical engineer and a qualified pilot. Here he explains how the maneuvers Hani Hanjour had to go through to reach the Pentagon are virtually impossible.
The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training


About suspicious events on the stock market up to 911

Ever since the attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon, disturbing questions have been raised about the possible involvement of some parts of the U.S. security apparatus or Administration. These questions have been supported by extensive circumstantial evidence and has been investigated by several U.S. Congressional Committees. Furthermore, the U.S. media have reported on the well known relationship which exists between President George W. Bush, the Carlyle Group, several oil companies and the Bin Laden Family.

Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD in 1977 when he exposed evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA. The Truth & Lies of 9-11 is a filmed lecture at Portland State University, where Ruppert uses only government documents, official statements and press reports as the basis of his investigative work. This pioneering, groundbreaking expose of 9-11, now two years old, paints a stark and accurate picture of our world today and tomorrow.
Truth and Lies of 911


Debunking the Kean commission report about 911

David Ray Griffin explains PNAC and the neocon's dream about an American empire in relation to 911
911 and the American Empire

Here he literally debunks the entire report as a 170 page lie:
The 911 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions


Specifically about 9/11 in relation to PNAC  (Project for the New American Century)

Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bülow, express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story.
Attack or Godsend
Alternative link:Attack or Godsend


About the media as complicit in the cover-up of 9/11

This is a ground-breaking 44-minute video by Barrie Zwicker. He was the first mainstream journalist in the world to go on air (in January 2002) and ask hard questions about the official story of 9/11. He analyses the use of fear to befuddle the public. He deconstructs the so-called "war on terrorism". He examines in depth the failure of the military on 9/11 and George Bush's highly inappropriate behaviour that day. He finds the 9/11 Commission to be a total cover-up operation. Throughout, he analyses the role of the mainstream media as complicit in keeping the public massively misinformed and befuddled.
The 911 news special you never saw

Perspective on 9-11 excerpts the portion of Painful Deceptions that covers the collapse of Building 7 -- which includes five videos of the Building 7's implosion Jenkins combines the best parts of the work of others, sticks to substantial evidence, and frames the presentation of that evidence in a historical context that facilitates its objective examination.
Perspective on 9/11


Download links to most videos listed above
http://www.question911.com/links.php

Links to high resolution XviD's and DivX: Conspiracy Central (Searched on 911). You will have to sign up HERE to see the download links and you need a bit torrent client  to download them

Other Documentation for those who wants to check the facts for themselves:

911 data archives
Truth Bristol 911 links

NIST report:
http://wtc.nist.gov/reports_october05.htm

Comments from other experts on this report:
http://wtc.nist.gov/wtc_public_comments.htm

Eyewitness testimonies:
http://www.mjbarkl.com/locked.htm

911 reading room:
http://911readingroom.org/bib/

Pictures, reports, articles etc.
http://911research.wtc7.net/


Precedents, motives and a history of bankers raping nations with artificial inflation to throw them into war

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning  sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers. Info: http://www.themoneymasters.com/


The Money Masters 1 of 3
The Money Masters 2 of 3
The Money Masters 3 of 3

Loose change is a video made by 22 year old media enthusiast who lie. The proof is the timer which stops collapse at 10:09 when the perimeter columns fall and not the whole building. The building is at about the 40th floor when it diapears in the debris cloud. More evidence of thier lies is the quotes taken out of context saying people heard explosions. Yes they heard explosions but they also said they didn't know the buildings were falling at the time.

http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/

Now why would they have to lie in order to make thier case? They have no case, that's why.

common sense. the little boy with his finger in the dike.

that army of researchers and facts presented in the mountain of information above, and you want to talk about some little anomaly.

bush foooking loves you, CS.

the point about the banks is more relevent than anything else there, inho.
Commen sense
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 11:40 AM)
when the perpetrators are in jail, EVERYONE will make money by not having all their tax dollars and public assets funneled into the hands of the neocon crone army.

there are no democrats, common sense. have you not seen enough pictures of kang(bush) and kodos(clinton) holding hands?

you're not a satanist, are you? or a 'texas longhorns' fan?

And why wouldn't a CTer think the world is against him? It follows partanoid people will always think like paranoid people.

Your best hopes lay with the democrats because if you thin out the vote again you will never get enough democrats in congress to push for an investigation. But then working for Rove you should know this already...

Who are you going to hang your hope on? The green party taking over in 2006??? HAHAHA! Moron..
metamars
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 05:38 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 04:50 AM)
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 04:36 AM)
YET ANOTHER BLUNDEROUS OMISSION IN HIS SO-CALLED 'ANALYSES' WHICH IMPRESS YOU SO MUCH?


I must have missed that bit.  Perhaps you could fill me in on just one point that you have made which doen't ramble on about drivel that has little or nothing to do with the subject with the odd adjective or verb thrown in just because you have heard it somewhere on your troubleshooting/varied /groundbreaking/(insert more blowhard egobosting words here) history and think that you will sound good to some other no-mark who is similarly clueless.
Let's be clear here.  An education in a subject also confers the ability to assess the knowledge of others. 

Gordon.

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Thank-you. I was about to waste more time answering "Reality Check's" nonsense and obfuscation, but you have saved me the time.

I might add: take a representative sample of Gordon's posts, and a representative sample of "Reality Check's" posts, to ANY physicist or engineer at a local university, and ask a simple question:

Which is written by a technically competent person, and which is drivel?

Do be kind enough to post the responses you get, properly sourced, of course.



Metamars, I'm sure even YOU could randomly put together impressive-looking equations and numbers and terms STRAIGHT OUT OF A TEXTBOOK....while not understanding AT ALL THEIR MEANING AND OR USAGE IN ANY WAY.

The important thing is COMPREHENSION, not mindless COPYING AND PASTING some totally erroneous textbook terms to 'dress up' totally incompetent analysis constructs.

Haven't you learnt ANYTHING from the debacle with Jones and Hoffman et al? THEY ARE SUPPOSED PROFESSORS, FOR GOODNESS' SAKE...and look at the hash THEY made of the 'equations/figures', heh? Wake up and smell reality....numbers and equations are no substitute for objective observation and logical comprehension. HOW DO YOU THINK ALL THOSE EQUATIONS AND PRINCIPLES GOT FIGURED OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE?...it was those observations and logical comprehensions that allowed mathematical constructs to be created/refined TO REPRESENT THAT REALITY BEING LOGICALLY COMPREHENDED IN THE FIRST PLACE BY 'SCIENTIFIC METHOD' OBSERVATION and later REPRODUCTION VIA MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SAME.

Have you learned anything from that? If nothing else, take away the point that 'numbers' mean NOTHING without comprehension and context (statistics/survey constructs/analyses are PERFECT examples where the truth is NOT ALWAYS in the NUMBERS, but in the CONTEXT). And in the case of 9/11, the physics is in context only insofar as it can be demonstrated to be 'prosaic' and everyday processes/principles involved in EXTRAORDINARILY CHAOTIC AND HUMONGOUS DYNAMICS.

Once you accept that a lot of things could be happening all over the place during that chaos, then you probably won't feel so much need to invoke space lasers and space aliens and 'mysterious energy' flows. Common sense will do the job.


Lame. Your continued avoidance of even any attempt to be precise, when you could be (that is, if you really are a "scientist", with expertise or even basic knowledge in physics and chemistry), strikes me as nothing more than a way to avoid being shown up for the spewer of drivel that you are.

And, as you have been shown to be a spewer of drivel even in a qualitative way, I don't believe for a second that you are a scientist.

I note, once again, that NIST and FEMA eschewed your "wonderful insights" for the relevance of chaos theory in understanding the collapses. Even in a mumbo jumbo, non-technical way that you specialize in, where it difficult to say where and how, exactly, your thinking is off because you are so unclear in presenting anything resembling a coherent argument. Apparently, in your own mind, your invocation of chaos to explain away anything you can't, otherwise, is a real contribution. But even NIST and FEMA didn't stoop this low!

When are you going to contact NIST and FEMA to let them imbibe of your wisdom? You woulnd't want to leave them in a state of ignorance, now, would you?


QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:
QUOTE (->
QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:

if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?


shagster
The video showed it oscillating at the end of the collapse. It was struck by debris and floor sections got pulled off of it which imparted forces on it. The vibrations of the ground left over from the collapse put some energy into it also. Gravity will also effect it. That pic I posted of the single column spire is tilted slightly. That feature was all the way up to about the 75th floor. That's not going to remain stable for long unless it was perfectly vertical and no wind disturbing it.

If the core remants of the north tower still had the floors and perimeter together with it to add rigidity it would have been better able to resist forces non-compressive stresses. The north spire/feature didn't look like a complete core either. It looked more like a wall or perhaps two wall-like sections. I'd still like to see a video of what the remnant core in the south tower looked like as it collapsed. I've only see one still of it when it could be seen through the dust.
Christophera
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 12 2006, 06:23 PM)
user posted image

user posted image

Do you know what direction this image is taken from?

user posted image

The lower image of your post is a perimeter corner, but the above is a corner of the core, or the box columns surrounding it.

The spire appears as the northwest corner here.

User posted image
Commen sense
QUOTE (reasonwhy+Mar 12 2006, 12:30 PM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 08:46 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 01:28 PM)
QUOTE (hereward+Mar 12 2006, 08:50 AM)
And nobody seems to have any explanation other than that the cars were hit by burning debris... but witness have reported cars exploding... which is quite distinct from, say, being hit with a pice of burning debris.

What makes cars explode???? I am at a loss to explain this.

(: hereward

What makes cars explode?

Duh

Its called a GAS TANK.

But the fact is, virtually all the pictures are simply burned out vehicles.

They are burned out because there was almost no attempt made to put out the fires.

Because the people who could were:
A) Dead
B ) had no equipment
C) had equipment but no water pressure
D) worried about more important things, like finding their friends or finding fresh air

Arthur

Brought to you from INSULTINGLY STUPID MOVIE PHYSICS

Ever notice how cars in movies always burst into flames the instant they collide with anything? Our favorite is when a car falling from a high place explodes the instant before it hits the ground. It's as though its gas tank gets panicky and detonates at the mere thought of striking Earth. Fortunately, the physics are not so cooperative.

Gasoline has a very narrow flammable range of about 1.4 to 7.6% gasoline vapor in air 2. In other words, the vapor-air mixture must be exactly as specified or the gas will not burn, let alone explode! Note that we say vapor. Liquid gasoline must change into vapor before it can burn (although this is no huge problem since it easily vaporizes).

For a car to explode during impact the tank must catastrophically rupture and spew a fine mist of gasoline over a large area so it can vaporize and mix with air in exactly the right proportions. The mixture must then find a source of ignition. Automobile gas tanks are built to withstand a considerable impact force and are usually located in a protected area between the beams of a car's frame. Common ignition sources in the car's engine are generally at the other end of the vehicle.

As portrayed in movies, gasoline tanks are fragile and gasoline so volatile that the vaporizing and mixing process occurs in milliseconds. It always results in an explosive mixture which always finds a source of ignition. Thank heavens it's not so easy or people would regularly be blowing themselves up while refueling at the pump.

Even when a wrecked car catches on fire it rarely explodes. A gas tank can explode if it contains an explosive mixture and there's an opening for the flames to enter. More likely, fire would have to impinge on the outside of the gas tank, vaporizing the gasoline in the tank and eventually causing it to overpressure and explode. However, if the vapors escaped fast enough the tank would not rupture. Most fires start in the engine compartment and will not spread backwards to the gas tank area unless the tank is leaking fuel on the ground. Again a whole series of events has to be just right for an explosion to occur.

Although it's actually quite rare, exploding cars are a common excuse for not wearing seat belts. Onlookers at crash sites are often so concerned about explosions that they unnecessarily jeopardize a person with a spinal injury by pulling them out of a wrecked car. The common Hollywood depiction fuels these harmful misconceptions.

Excellent post guest, why don’t you register? Reminds me of :

The NBC Fuel tank hoax.
NBC news did a story on side mounted fuel tanks on GM trucks.
The claim of the story was that when such a truck was struck, it would burst into flames. GM insisted that it's side mounted truck fuel tanks were more than sturdy enough to survive the average traffic collision.
NBC produced and aired a video segment that showed a vehicle colliding with the side fuel tank of a GM truck at low speed, and the GM fuel tank exploded.
It later turned out that the fuel tank had been rigged with explosive devices by NBC to manufacture the explosion seen in their news report!

TIME article on the NBC hoax.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/nbc.html

So you morons think the cars just exploded a block away from the towers while leaving the cars next to the towers alone? Incredible hopping explosives or hopping pyroclastic flow... Which is it...

MORONS Heh!
newton
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 06:45 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 11:40 AM)
when the perpetrators are in jail, EVERYONE will make money by not having all their tax dollars and public assets funneled into the hands of the neocon crone army.

there are no democrats, common sense.  have you not seen enough pictures of kang(bush) and kodos(clinton) holding hands?

you're not a satanist, are you?  or a 'texas longhorns' fan?

And why wouldn't a CTer think the world is against him? It follows partanoid people will always think like paranoid people.

Your best hopes lay with the democrats because if you thin out the vote again you will never get enough democrats in congress to push for an investigation. But then working for Rove you should know this already...

Who are you going to hang your hope on? The green party taking over in 2006??? HAHAHA! Moron..

once again.

it's your country. not mine. mine's not much better, mind you.

i hang my hope on a conscious party, dude. an awakening of the sleeping masses.

seems to be happening.

cool, eh?

join us.
Christophera
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 06:38 PM)
bush foooking loves you, CS.

In fact, he's back in America just to honor your work.

user posted image
shagster
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 12 2006, 06:50 PM)

The lower image of your post is a perimeter corner, but the above is a corner of the core, or the box columns surrounding it.

That spire appears to be the northwest corner. I showed the two pics for comparison. The core columns of the spire structure don't look like a perimeter corner.
Commen sense
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 01:38 PM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 06:28 PM)
QUOTE (911truthbristolcom+Mar 12 2006, 11:17 AM)
well said and if you don't believe it then that is to do with any research into the subject

Check out this info below for necessary links

As a core member of the UK and Ireland 911 Truth Campaign what I say here is backed up by the likes of former MI5 officer David Shayler, authors Ian Henshall, Rowland Morgan, Nafeez Ahmed etc – see http://nineeleven.co.uk.

There is no longer any debate. 911 was an inside job – the evidence was overwhelming years ago. Please don’t take my word for it – do your own reading/watching - there are dozens of good books and films let alone the many websites. There are even peer reviewed scientific papers now. If you have yet to see a film regarding 911 (Fahrenheit 911 does not count) then I recommend Loose Change 2.

There is no point in arguing with those who haven’t accessed the relevant information. How people can argue an opinion based on little or no information has always bemused me. The fact is that no one ever argues once they’ve seen the evidence. If the truth is, that you simply just don’t wanna know then don’t be dismissive – just leave this thread and go and read something a bit cossier.

Sticking to the music, Eminem, Mos Def, Paris, Braintax, Public Enemy, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Photek, Blackout (Bristol dnb) are but a few artists that are now understanding the 911 ‘conspiracy’. It’s been pretty much mainstream knowledge for at least a year now and if you’re still in denial after watching some of the films below then you probably always will be.

There is a high likelihood of a war on Iran in the near future. It is imperative that you understand how the war on terror has been manufactured as part of a pretext for wars of aggression in the Middle East and the loss of civil freedoms here at home.

Remember there categorically were no wmd in Iraq and our top politicians fed the public false information over and over – tens of thousands of people have died. Ask yourself – who benefits?

Most of you, I’m sure realise, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are about controlling the world’s energy resources. The blueprint was laid out by the Neocons in the Project for the New American Century pre 911 – it doesn’t stop at Iraq.

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” ~ Albert Einstein

Adrian Connock
http://officialconfusion.com

Local press coverage
9/11 'THE WORK OF SECURITY CHIEFS'
Bristol Evening Post

Recent mainstream news article
Experts Call for Release of 9/11 Evidence
Yahoo newswire

HERE ARE A FEW 911 LINKS – mainly streaming video

Analysis of the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon:

Loose Change (2nd Edition) Contains animations of the attack on the Pentagon and a very thorough analysis of both the attacks on WTC and the Pentagon:
Loose Change 2nd Edition

Martial Law – Alex Jones. Out of the ashes of the September 11th tragedy, a dark empire of war and tyranny has risen. The Constitution has been shredded and America is now a Police State. This film exposes not just who was behind the 9-11 attacks, but the roots and history of its orchestration.
Martial Law 9/11 - Rise of the Police State:

Face the Facts – 911truthbristol.com – a punchy to the point 45 minute overview of the key 911 issues. Plus links to other 911 related films, which give the viewer a wider understanding of state sponsored terror and the manufacturing of war for profit and power. Face the Facts

Guerilla News Network Aftermath: 911 Unanswered Questions Highlighting the inconsistencies with protocol on 911 and the motives behind elements of the US government orchestrating the attacks.

Painful Deceptions - This video deals with pretty much, every unanswered question surrounding the attacks. Painful Deceptions - An analysis of the September 11th Attack

This recent presentation by Dr. Steven Jones (Department of Physics and Astronomy - Brigham Young University) is primarily focused on the collapses of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 on 9/11.
9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions

Here are the related documents that go along with this presentation:
Jones's research 'white paper'

Steven Jones has joined: Scholars for 9/11 Truth

Acoustic profile of the explosives used to bring down the towers. Recorded by an eyewitness, who filmed the entire attack from peer 51. This video contains footage you can't find anywhere else.
911 Eyewitness

There are some who maintain that the mythical 9/11 hijackers, although proven to be too incompetent to fly a little Cessna 172, had acquired the impressive skills that enabled them to fly airliners by training in flight simulators. Nila Sagadevan is an aeronautical engineer and a qualified pilot. Here he explains how the maneuvers Hani Hanjour had to go through to reach the Pentagon are virtually impossible.
The Impossibility of Flying Heavy Aircraft Without Training


About suspicious events on the stock market up to 911

Ever since the attacks on the World Trade towers and the Pentagon, disturbing questions have been raised about the possible involvement of some parts of the U.S. security apparatus or Administration. These questions have been supported by extensive circumstantial evidence and has been investigated by several U.S. Congressional Committees. Furthermore, the U.S. media have reported on the well known relationship which exists between President George W. Bush, the Carlyle Group, several oil companies and the Bin Laden Family.

Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD in 1977 when he exposed evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA. The Truth & Lies of 9-11 is a filmed lecture at Portland State University, where Ruppert uses only government documents, official statements and press reports as the basis of his investigative work. This pioneering, groundbreaking expose of 9-11, now two years old, paints a stark and accurate picture of our world today and tomorrow.
Truth and Lies of 911


Debunking the Kean commission report about 911

David Ray Griffin explains PNAC and the neocon's dream about an American empire in relation to 911
911 and the American Empire

Here he literally debunks the entire report as a 170 page lie:
The 911 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions


Specifically about 9/11 in relation to PNAC  (Project for the New American Century)

Was 9/11 more than just an attack? Could the Bush administration have had anything to gain from the attack? Two prominent European politicians, Michael Meacher and Andreas von Bülow, express their serious doubts about the official version of the 9/11 story.
Attack or Godsend
Alternative link:Attack or Godsend


About the media as complicit in the cover-up of 9/11

This is a ground-breaking 44-minute video by Barrie Zwicker. He was the first mainstream journalist in the world to go on air (in January 2002) and ask hard questions about the official story of 9/11. He analyses the use of fear to befuddle the public. He deconstructs the so-called "war on terrorism". He examines in depth the failure of the military on 9/11 and George Bush's highly inappropriate behaviour that day. He finds the 9/11 Commission to be a total cover-up operation. Throughout, he analyses the role of the mainstream media as complicit in keeping the public massively misinformed and befuddled.
The 911 news special you never saw

Perspective on 9-11 excerpts the portion of Painful Deceptions that covers the collapse of Building 7 -- which includes five videos of the Building 7's implosion Jenkins combines the best parts of the work of others, sticks to substantial evidence, and frames the presentation of that evidence in a historical context that facilitates its objective examination.
Perspective on 9/11


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911 reading room:
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Pictures, reports, articles etc.
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Precedents, motives and a history of bankers raping nations with artificial inflation to throw them into war

THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning  sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers. Info: http://www.themoneymasters.com/


The Money Masters 1 of 3
The Money Masters 2 of 3
The Money Masters 3 of 3

Loose change is a video made by 22 year old media enthusiast who lie. The proof is the timer which stops collapse at 10:09 when the perimeter columns fall and not the whole building. The building is at about the 40th floor when it diapears in the debris cloud. More evidence of thier lies is the quotes taken out of context saying people heard explosions. Yes they heard explosions but they also said they didn't know the buildings were falling at the time.

http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/

Now why would they have to lie in order to make thier case? They have no case, that's why.

common sense. the little boy with his finger in the dike.

that army of researchers and facts presented in the mountain of information above, and you want to talk about some little anomaly.

bush foooking loves you, CS.

the point about the banks is more relevent than anything else there, inho.

The fact that this information is on CT sites makes everything in it suspect. I've caught so many lies coming out of you sacks of shait I just skip most of it unless it catches my eye. Soon I'll just skip your pathetic post as well since your just another one gordons aplause machines like reasonwhy. dry.gif
Commen sense
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 01:53 PM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 06:45 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 11:40 AM)
when the perpetrators are in jail, EVERYONE will make money by not having all their tax dollars and public assets funneled into the hands of the neocon crone army.

there are no democrats, common sense.  have you not seen enough pictures of kang(bush) and kodos(clinton) holding hands?

you're not a satanist, are you?  or a 'texas longhorns' fan?

And why wouldn't a CTer think the world is against him? It follows partanoid people will always think like paranoid people.

Your best hopes lay with the democrats because if you thin out the vote again you will never get enough democrats in congress to push for an investigation. But then working for Rove you should know this already...

Who are you going to hang your hope on? The green party taking over in 2006??? HAHAHA! Moron..

once again.

it's your country. not mine. mine's not much better, mind you.

i hang my hope on a conscious party, dude. an awakening of the sleeping masses.

seems to be happening.

cool, eh?

join us.

Why don't you stop making my work to get rid of the fool Bush harder by pushing this swift boaters for 9/11 lies?
Christophera
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 04:28 PM)
okay, i think your right, gordon. i think there were two corner columns on each corner.
why wouldn't there be? the three column perimeter spandrel plates can be seen at diffent heights than these two corner columns in some of the aerial photos of construction phases.
arthur, just keeps doing the regular song and dance, deny, deny, deny, proved, admit but obfuscate and forget earlier proven variables.

you brave bush defender(s) have been pushing the possibility of a 'syringe theory' that can send out a 'pulse' and claim extreme chaos as an excuse to not possible analyuse the collapse, and yet won't admit that such a 'pulse' could be COOLER AIR in the maelstrom of MOSTLY HOT churning and expanding gases.

the surrounding buildings are covered in SOOT like after a HUGE EXPLOSION.

and, hereward, that IS weird the way cars were reported spontaneuosly exploding when there was no visible heat source. this may point to some kind of exotic secret weapon working on unknown principles.
perhaps this is also why trees were spared, where materials with a higher degree of volatility exploded. i was never a fan of the syringe theory.

perhaps, also, it was due to a random rain of hot balls of thermite.

and, reality check. i'm sorry to be inaccurate.

it was BOOOOOM(tower hasn't budged),..........some 17 to 20s of blessed peace

and then as the tower goes instantly into freefall(as per brazant zhou's analysis)....
...BOOOOM, .....BOOOOOOMooooBOOOOOOOOOOMooooooooooBOOOOOOOOOMoooBOOOOOOOM
(and then no more noise while the spire staggers, and then plummets. once again that is NO NOISE from the collapse of the spire(as recorded from hoboken).

the sound wave graphs clearly show massive percussive spikes that do not match the smooth descent of the tower. one would need to see sudden movement, and then a sudden stop to produce those sounds with a falling object hitting another, like the noise of a drum. the kinetic energy of the stick is translated instantly to the drum head(notice the stick now bounces back up).
explosions taking out core support totally makes sense of the sounds vs. motion comparison and the HUGE PERCUSSIVE SPIKES.

newton wrote
perhaps, also, it was due to a random rain of hot balls of thermite.

If there was thermite used up high to remove perimeter columns milliseconds before floors detonated, yes. That would definately figure.

My only problem with that is that the installation requires intimate contact with the steel. Even thermite applied to interior box column could end up flying out when floors or the core detonated. Still, installation would be difficult.

We need a map showing the locations of burned cars. The relative building faces may show that they were the sides where the demo was disguised as compressive failures.
Commen sense
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 12 2006, 01:53 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 06:38 PM)
bush foooking loves you, CS.

In fact, he's back in America just to honor your work.

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What happened to your ridiculous concrete core theory? You know, the elevator cannon barrel. which should have sent elevators and landings into low earth orbit. Heh!

Your photograph is fitting since you think hes loved by more than people love Jesus.

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The man, the myth, the conspiracy theory.
Christophera
QUOTE (hereward+Mar 12 2006, 01:00 PM)
FIRE PATROLMAN PAUL CURRAN

At that time I went back to the north tower again, and they were stretching a line. A lot of car fires erupted. All of a sudden cars were blowing up everywhere.

I went back and I helped a guy stretch a line. The guy was all by himself. I helped him stretch a line and started putting water on the car fires. I remember distinctly walking past 118 Truck. 118 Truck was parked right on West Street north of Vesey
*********************************************

EMT FREDDY BURGOS

When the first building came down, after the dust lifted from that one, in front of me, the other ambulances, most of them not Fire Department, private or some other ambulances, burning.

FIREFIGHTER RICHARD CARLETTI
Basically they wanted engines was booster tanks to come down and extinguish the car fires then going.

FIREFIGHTER RONALD CIFU
Even after the collapse when we were starting to relay water to the car fires.

many of the firemen reported this. Lots of the cars and fire engines and ambulances parked along West HW and Vesey and Liberty exploded.

www.nytimes.com/pages/nyr...onspecial3 /

WORLD TRADE CENTER TASK FORCE INTERVIEW

EMT PATRICIA ONDROVIC File No. 9 1 10048

graphics8.nytimes.com/pac...110048.PDF

En route to the alarm, I saw the two towers burning. We parked in the middle of Vesey Street between West and the West Side Highway. My partner and I grabbed our stretcher, went to put it in the back of our vehicle, and at that time, I think it was the lobby of the building behind us blew out.

Everybody started running, I didn't see him again that day. He got thrown one way, I got thrown the other way. Stuffs blowing up. So I ran back out and I started running west again on Vesey. At that point, there was a car on the corner of the West Side Highway.

As I was running up Vesey, the first car blew up on me on the corner of Vessey and the West Side Highway. That set my turnout coat on fire, that set my hair on fire. I kept running. I ended up running through this park, and I couldn't even see where I was running anymore. I kept running North through North Park. As I was running up here, two or three more cars exploded on me. They weren't near any buildings at that point, they were just parked on the street. Stuff is still blowing up behind me, as I'm running. I can hear stuff exploding. I could hear rumbling, the street under me was moving like I was in an earthquake. (this was obviously when WTC2 fell). I've been in those, so I know what they feel like. It felt like an earthquake. There was no where safe to go. As I was running north in this park, and then I could start seeing again a little bit, and I just kept looking in the sky.
And firemen's fireproof coats-like this ladies and socks caught fire.

RONALD COYNE EMT WTC2
MY SAFETY COAT WAS ALREADY ON FIRE. MY SOCKS WERE ON FIRE
I was just covered with burns and bruises and I could hardly breathe.


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Commen sense
QUOTE
“I just remember there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions.”--Firefighter Richard Banaciski


http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...ski_Richard.txt

What do you expect the floors to sound like as they drop, one next to the other? If it didn't SEEM like explosions I would worry we weren't on earth.

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“I just remember there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions.”--Firefighter Richard Banaciski


http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...ski_Richard.txt

What do you expect the floors to sound like as they drop, one next to the other? If it didn't SEEM like explosions I would worry we weren't on earth.

“I saw a flash flash flash [at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building?”--Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory


This was one of those quotes taken out of context I told you about. Now the WHOLE QUOTE without the taking out of context part...

I know I was with an officer from Ladder 146, a Lieutenant Evangelista, who ultimately called me up a couple of days later just to find out how I was. We both for whatever reason -- again, I don't know how valid this is with everything that was going on at that particular point in time, but for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-leve] flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.

Q.: Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?

A: No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me. He said did you see anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did yc.u see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too.

I don't know if that means anything. I mean, I equate it to the building cowing down and pushing things down, it could have been electrical explosions, it could have been whatever
.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...ory_Stephen.txt

Let me guess why they left that important part out..

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“[I]t was [like a] professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear 'Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop'."--Paramedic Daniel Rivera


SO WE WERE PRETTY MUCH-MOST OF THE WORKERS WERE INSIDE THIS BUILDING. I LIKE SAID, I DONT KNOW IF ITS FIVE WORLD TRADE CENTER OR FOUR WORLD TRADE CENTER. MOST OF THEM WERE IN THE BUILDING BECAUSE THE CHIEF OR THE CAPTAIN SAID IF YOU WANT YOU CAN STAY INSIDE THAT BUILDING. BUT I DIDNT FEEL SAFE BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS TERRORIST ATTACK SO I WAS SCARED. EVERY TIME YOU HEAR PLANE EVERYONE WOULD RUN. SO I PRETTY MUCH STOOD AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE. I WOULD SEE TRIAGE, BUT I WAS PRETTY MUCH IN BETWEEN THE TWO BUILDINGS.

THEN THAT'S WHEN-I KEPT ON WALKING CLOSE TO THE SOUTH TOWER, AND THAT'S WHEN THAT BUILDING COLLAPSED.

Q: HOW DID YOU KNOWTHAT IT WAS COMING DOWN?

A: THAT NOISE .IT WAS NOISE.

Q: WHAT DID YOU HEAR? WHAT DID YOU SEE?

A: IT WAS A FRIGGING NOISE. AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS-DO YOU EVER SEE PROFESSIONAL DEMOLITION WHERE THEY SET THE CHARGES ON CERTAIN FLOORS AND THEN YOU HEAR "POP, POP, POP, POP, POP"? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT-BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS THAT WHEN I HEARD THAT FRIGGING NOISE, THAT'S WHEN SAW THE BUILDING COMING DOWN.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110035.PDF

First notice he and everyone else was scared of TERRORISTS. What do TERRORIST DO? They BLOW SHIAT UP. So it's not unreasonable for someone who is thinking TERRORIST to hear the sound of huge concrete floors falling one on top of the other to think "BOMB" first. As I said, No one has ever seen an airplane hit buildings constructed like this and the collapse if this odd combination.

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“[I]t was [like a] professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear 'Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop'."--Paramedic Daniel Rivera


SO WE WERE PRETTY MUCH-MOST OF THE WORKERS WERE INSIDE THIS BUILDING. I LIKE SAID, I DONT KNOW IF ITS FIVE WORLD TRADE CENTER OR FOUR WORLD TRADE CENTER. MOST OF THEM WERE IN THE BUILDING BECAUSE THE CHIEF OR THE CAPTAIN SAID IF YOU WANT YOU CAN STAY INSIDE THAT BUILDING. BUT I DIDNT FEEL SAFE BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS TERRORIST ATTACK SO I WAS SCARED. EVERY TIME YOU HEAR PLANE EVERYONE WOULD RUN. SO I PRETTY MUCH STOOD AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE. I WOULD SEE TRIAGE, BUT I WAS PRETTY MUCH IN BETWEEN THE TWO BUILDINGS.

THEN THAT'S WHEN-I KEPT ON WALKING CLOSE TO THE SOUTH TOWER, AND THAT'S WHEN THAT BUILDING COLLAPSED.

Q: HOW DID YOU KNOWTHAT IT WAS COMING DOWN?

A: THAT NOISE .IT WAS NOISE.

Q: WHAT DID YOU HEAR? WHAT DID YOU SEE?

A: IT WAS A FRIGGING NOISE. AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS-DO YOU EVER SEE PROFESSIONAL DEMOLITION WHERE THEY SET THE CHARGES ON CERTAIN FLOORS AND THEN YOU HEAR "POP, POP, POP, POP, POP"? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT-BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS THAT WHEN I HEARD THAT FRIGGING NOISE, THAT'S WHEN SAW THE BUILDING COMING DOWN.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110035.PDF

First notice he and everyone else was scared of TERRORISTS. What do TERRORIST DO? They BLOW SHIAT UP. So it's not unreasonable for someone who is thinking TERRORIST to hear the sound of huge concrete floors falling one on top of the other to think "BOMB" first. As I said, No one has ever seen an airplane hit buildings constructed like this and the collapse if this odd combination.

“There was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse." --Chief Frank Cruthers


there was what appeared to be at first an explosion. it appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...IC/Cruthers.txt

And why wouldn't floors falling around the building NOT APPEAR to be an EXPLOSION... blink.gif

QUOTE
"I started walking back up towards Vesey Street. I heard three explosions, and then we heard like groaning and grinding, and tower two started to come down.” --Paramedic Kevin Darnowski


Again, just more sounds like explosions as floors ram into each other. Note he doesn't say he SAW three explosions.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110202.PDF

And here is the outright LIE...

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"I started walking back up towards Vesey Street. I heard three explosions, and then we heard like groaning and grinding, and tower two started to come down.” --Paramedic Kevin Darnowski


Again, just more sounds like explosions as floors ram into each other. Note he doesn't say he SAW three explosions.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110202.PDF

And here is the outright LIE...

“ we heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions. . . . We then realized the building started to come down.” -- Firefighter Craig Carlsen


Note where these lairs but the "...."

Now for the REAL quote...

I guess about three minutes later you just heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions. At the time I didn't realize what it was. We realized later after talking and finding out that it was the floors collapsing to where the plane had hit.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110505.PDF

With that alone I should rest my case. wink.gif These CT sites are dishonest.

Here is the other lie, they split up these quote to make it seem like there are more than hey really are. You have paramedic Daniel Rivera and Stephen Gregory split up as if there are different accounts. They are the same account. What other reason would they have for splitting them up???

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“Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building." -- Captain Karin Deshore



MY BACK WAS TOWARDS THE BUILDING, TRYING TO PUSH EVERYBODY UP.
GRASSY HILL WAS THERE AND UP UNDERNEATH THAT OVERPASS, WHEN SOMEBODY JUST SIMPLY SHOUTED AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHO IT WAS, "ITS BLOWING".

I HAD NO CLUE WHAT WAS GOING ON. I NEVER TURNED AROUND BECAUSE A SOUND CAME FROM SOMEWHERE THAT NEVER HEARD BEFORE. SOME PEOPLE COMPARED IT WITH AN AIRPLANE. IT WAS THE WORST SOUND OF ROLLING SOUND, NOT A THUNDER CANT EXPLAIN IT, WHAT IT WAS. ALL I
KNOW IS -- AND FORCE STARTED TO COME HIT ME IN MY BACK. I CANT EXPLAIN IT. YOU HAD TO BE THERE. ALL I KNOW IS -- HAD TO RUN BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION.

...I WAS UNAWARE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. I THOUGHT
IT WAS JUST MAJOR EXPLOSION I DIDNT KNOW THE BUILDING WAS COLLAPSING


SOMEWHERE AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, THERE WAS THIS ORANGE AND RED FLASH COMING OUT. INITIALLY IT WAS JUST ONE FLASH. THEN THIS FLASH JUST KEPT POPPING ALL THE WAY AROUND THE BUILDING AND THAT BUILDING HAD STARTED TO EXPLODE. THE POPPING SOUND, AND WITH EACH POPPING SOUND IT WAS INITIALLY AN ORANGE AND THEN RED FLASH CAME OUT OF THE BUILDING AND THEN IT WOULD JUST GO ALL AROUND THE BUILDING ON BOTH SIDES AS FAR AS COULD SEE. THESE POPPING SOUNDS AND THE EXPLOSIONS WERE GETTING BIGGER GOING BOTH UP AND DOWN AND THEN ALL AROUND THE BUILDING.

It's time to see a transformer explosion.

http://www.stupidcollege.com/items/Electri...ormer-Explosion

All these buildings had transformers and transformer vaults.

SO HERE THESE EXPLOSIONS ARE GETTING BIGGER AND LOUDER AND BIGGER AND LOUDER AND I TOLD EVERYBODY IF THIS BUILDING TOTALLY EXPLODES, STILL UNAWARE THAT THE OTHER BUILDING HAD COLLAPSED, IM GOING IN THE WATER.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110192.PDF

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“Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building." -- Captain Karin Deshore



MY BACK WAS TOWARDS THE BUILDING, TRYING TO PUSH EVERYBODY UP.
GRASSY HILL WAS THERE AND UP UNDERNEATH THAT OVERPASS, WHEN SOMEBODY JUST SIMPLY SHOUTED AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHO IT WAS, "ITS BLOWING".

I HAD NO CLUE WHAT WAS GOING ON. I NEVER TURNED AROUND BECAUSE A SOUND CAME FROM SOMEWHERE THAT NEVER HEARD BEFORE. SOME PEOPLE COMPARED IT WITH AN AIRPLANE. IT WAS THE WORST SOUND OF ROLLING SOUND, NOT A THUNDER CANT EXPLAIN IT, WHAT IT WAS. ALL I
KNOW IS -- AND FORCE STARTED TO COME HIT ME IN MY BACK. I CANT EXPLAIN IT. YOU HAD TO BE THERE. ALL I KNOW IS -- HAD TO RUN BECAUSE I THOUGHT THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION.

...I WAS UNAWARE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. I THOUGHT
IT WAS JUST MAJOR EXPLOSION I DIDNT KNOW THE BUILDING WAS COLLAPSING


SOMEWHERE AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, THERE WAS THIS ORANGE AND RED FLASH COMING OUT. INITIALLY IT WAS JUST ONE FLASH. THEN THIS FLASH JUST KEPT POPPING ALL THE WAY AROUND THE BUILDING AND THAT BUILDING HAD STARTED TO EXPLODE. THE POPPING SOUND, AND WITH EACH POPPING SOUND IT WAS INITIALLY AN ORANGE AND THEN RED FLASH CAME OUT OF THE BUILDING AND THEN IT WOULD JUST GO ALL AROUND THE BUILDING ON BOTH SIDES AS FAR AS COULD SEE. THESE POPPING SOUNDS AND THE EXPLOSIONS WERE GETTING BIGGER GOING BOTH UP AND DOWN AND THEN ALL AROUND THE BUILDING.

It's time to see a transformer explosion.

http://www.stupidcollege.com/items/Electri...ormer-Explosion

All these buildings had transformers and transformer vaults.

SO HERE THESE EXPLOSIONS ARE GETTING BIGGER AND LOUDER AND BIGGER AND LOUDER AND I TOLD EVERYBODY IF THIS BUILDING TOTALLY EXPLODES, STILL UNAWARE THAT THE OTHER BUILDING HAD COLLAPSED, IM GOING IN THE WATER.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110192.PDF

“I took a quick glance at the building and while I didn't see it falling, I saw a large section of it blasting out, which led me to believe it was just an explosion.” -- Captain Jay Swithers


When I was giving her the oxygen, setting up the tank, you could hear a loud rumble. Somebody said run for your life. I turned to see who was yelling "run".
At that point I looked back and most of the people who were triaged in that area with the triage tags on them got up and ran. I took a quick glance at the building and while I didn't see it falling, I saw a large section of it blasting out, which led me to believe it was just an explosion. I thought it was a secondary device, but I knew that we had to go.

But one thing that did happen was an ambulance pulled up which was very clean. So I assumed that the vehicle had not been in the - what I thought was an explosion at the time, but was the first collapse.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/...HIC/9110172.PDF

First he heard the rumble. Not the so called "Explosion" which he never saw. Then he thought he heard an explosion because he saw the debris falling away from the building. He had TERRORIST on his mind and jumped to the conclusion that it was a bomb. You don't have to be a psychologist here.

QUOTE
"there were definitely bombs in those buildings,” Isaac added that “many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they’re afraid for their jobs to admit it because the ‘higher-ups’ forbid discussion of this fact.” --Auxiliary Lieutenant Fireman Paul Isaac


This is pulled straight out of someones a$$. There is NO Paul Isaac on the record saying anything of the kind. Another CT deception.

Fire officer Paul Isaac Jr. asserted that 9-11 was an inside job last September 11 at ground zero where mourners and protesters were gathered; “I know 9-11 was an inside job. The police know it’s an inside job; and the firemen know it too”, said Isaac.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/bombs_inside_wtc.html
Goodafternoon,
Guest
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 06:34 PM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 11:25 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 03:37 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 03:19 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 01:41 AM)
When I'm gone from this Earth I SINCERELY hope that I'm talked about for as long and as often as the CT'ers have talked about Schneibster since he's been gone.

Threatening to axe someone you disagree with on a public physics forum does tend to leave a lasting impression. Wouldn't you agree? No?

I guess if your stupid enough to to think he could go through the monitor... blink.gif

Did I forget to add the "I will hunt you down" part. So sorry. It says a lot about the murderer car that this guy is their hero for whom they feel such an obligation to come to his defense.

I forgot to add "If you're stupid enough to think it's easy to hunt someone down on an internet forum or go through the monitor.."

I'm going to hunt you down, slice your back open and through salt in the wound.

Is it not a little ironic that someone so concerned about all of the unjustified death in Iraq is willing to beget and support such violent imagery. Only too appropriate for the psycopaths in the murderer car. I can't wait for what's next.
reasonwhy
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 12 2006, 10:49 AM)
The video showed it oscillating at the end of the collapse.  It was struck by debris and floor sections got pulled off of it which imparted forces on it.  The vibrations of the ground left over from the collapse put some energy into it also.  Gravity will also effect it.  That pic I posted of the single column spire is tilted slightly.  That feature was all the way up to about the 75th floor.  That's not going to remain stable for long unless it was perfectly vertical and no wind disturbing it. 

If the core remants of the north tower still had the floors and perimeter together with it to add rigidity it would have been better able to resist forces non-compressive stresses.  The north spire/feature didn't look like a complete core either.  It looked more like a wall or perhaps two wall-like sections.  I'd still like to see a video of what the remnant core in the south tower looked like as it collapsed.  I've only see one still of it when it could be seen through the dust.

I agree this might be possible If the core columns were disconected from the girders, reinforced concrete floors and foundation.

Gravity driven collapse doesn’t have a mechanism for this.

Controlled demolition does.
Commen sense
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 02:15 PM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 06:34 PM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 11:25 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 03:37 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 03:19 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 12 2006, 01:41 AM)
When I'm gone from this Earth I SINCERELY hope that I'm talked about for as long and as often as the CT'ers have talked about Schneibster since he's been gone.

Threatening to axe someone you disagree with on a public physics forum does tend to leave a lasting impression. Wouldn't you agree? No?

I guess if your stupid enough to to think he could go through the monitor... blink.gif

Did I forget to add the "I will hunt you down" part. So sorry. It says a lot about the murderer car that this guy is their hero for whom they feel such an obligation to come to his defense.

I forgot to add "If you're stupid enough to think it's easy to hunt someone down on an internet forum or go through the monitor.."

I'm going to hunt you down, slice your back open and through salt in the wound.

Is it not a little ironic that someone so concerned about all of the unjustified death in Iraq is willing to beget and support such violent imagery. Only too appropriate for the psycopaths in the murderer car. I can't wait for what's next.

I didn't think you took it seriously. It only proves what an idiot you are.
Commen sense
Government covers up freight train accidents…

"The noise sounded like two freight trains going over a trestle right over your head; it was an ugly roar. My wife said the noise when the house went was like a giant pencil sharpener working.”

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/1953beecher/storiesFJ.php

Did a fright train pass over their head?

“While I was in my kitchen I heard this terrible roar coming," she said. "It sounded like a freight train coming right down my road here”

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/09/02...nado/index.html

It indeed sounded like a freight train roaring past us, and when it was gone, we came out to find things a mess.

http://www.offenburger.com/farmarchive.asp?link=20040906

It came with "the roar of forty freight trains."

http://www.tornadochaser.com/UDALL/reports.htm

“It sounded like a freight train”.

http://www.disasternews.net/news/news.php?articleid=2954

“Before I reached the bottom of the stairs, I heard the sound of a roaring freight train”
Commen sense
Who would Rove, and co like you to believe is involved in the largest mass murder and cover-up conspiracy in the world? If you ask these conspiracy nuts it’s all these people because none want an investigation…

Lets see...

user posted image

-Bush, who failed at everything he ever did. He has one of the worse approval ratings of any president rivaling only Nixon during Watergate. Yet all the people below are helping him in one way or another...

-The NYC Fire fighters who know more about building collapses than most if not all of you. It's their LIFE to know. Literally! Yet they don't call for an investigation into the MASS MURDER of over 300 of their brothers... Why? (The twisting of these peoples statements for donations and DVD sales sickens me.) We have uncovered the myth about a gag rule imposed on all fire fighters. Only 9/11 conspiracy sites say this. ONE person who sued Bush for not taking action before the event is ordered by the court not to speak to the media about the case. This is not imposing a gag rule on the whole fire department as some of these sites claim. They are lying to cover up this mass murder for either Bush or the building owner. Why? They don't even know...

CTers bring up an article in Fire House mag which says the fire department wanted to stop the steel from being sold in order to test the fire proofing and other non-bomb/controlled demolition related investigations. They twist the articles context to make it seem like the fire fighters questioned the idea that fire brought down the towers.

http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Dis...TICLE_ID=131225

http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Dis...TICLE_ID=130026

-The courts for imposing a gag rule [SEE above]

-The NYC Police department who lost over 20 lives. They didn't ask for an investigation. Motive? None...

-The NYC port Authority who lost personel. Motive?

-All the people in the pentagon who have not called for an investigation. Many who are liberal and centrist. They did or said nothing while people supposedly truck in airplane parts to cover the crime. Why? again, no answer...

-The more than 1,600 widows and widowers of 9/11 who rather have investigations of the decisions which lead to the terrorist getting away with this. They don't want to waste time investigating the mass murder of their loved ones. Even the Jersey Girls. Why? They say it's the money... [note: whenever killing someone pay off the relative. They wont say anything.]

-The media (This one I almost believe) who doesn't follow up on the biggest mass murder and conspiracy in American history. It seems no one wants a Nobel prize for journalism. Not only the American media but foreign press like like the BBC and Al Jeezera. Why? No answer here either...

-The photographers from around the world who took pictures of the towers which clearly show bowing of the perimeter columns. These photos support the NIST hypothesis that the sagging trusses lead to the collapse. Some photos also show the core intact shortly after collapse which also not only support the NIST hypothesis but discredits the "Controlled demolition" account.

-Popular Mechanics who debunked these sites are also helping Bush commit the biggest mass murder in history.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html

-PBS Nova since they created a documentary explaining in detail how and why the buildings fell. None of it said bomb.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/

-Everyone in the NIST who covers up the largest mass murder in US history. This independent org doesn't have a moral person in hundreds of employees because not one has come out exposing this so called "Conspiracy". In fact the hundreds of scientist who signed onto the report are willing to not only lie for Bush but cover up the largest mass murder in American history.

-Pataki because he sold steel to from the WTC for the construction of the USS New York. If the argument is the government sold the steel in order to cover up the crime then Pataki is one of the criminals.

-The NY city scrap yards because they also sold steel to china before all of it was tested. Bush would have needed to call them up and tell them to sell it before they could have investigated every beam. A task which would have taken years and years not to mention millions more. Ironically the republican Mayor Bloomberg could not be involved since he asked the scrap yards not to sell the steel on behalf of the fire fighters.

-EVERY STRUCTUAL ENGINEER IN THE WORLD who doesn't write a paper for a mainstream peer reviewed journal saying the towers were brought down and could not have fallen due to fire. If laymen can prove things just by looking at videos and reading interviews out of context then all those structural engineers MUST be working for Bush right? Even the ones in other countries. Why? No answer...

-The liberals who don't believe the towers were brought down. They're helping a neo-con cover-up the largest mass murder in this nation’s history. Why" No clue...

-The CIA who is in controlling the left wing media.

-anyone who thinks the conspiracy is a diversion to take liberal activist focus off of real crimes.

Even conspiracies with a few people are doomed, Look at Enron and Watergate. The more people you involved the more likely the conspiracy will fall apart. The amount of people needed for this conspiracy could fill one of the towers. It's absurd to think this many people could keep a mass murder for Bush secret for this long. Absurd...
shagster
QUOTE (reasonwhy+Mar 12 2006, 07:15 PM)

I agree this might be possible If the core columns were disconected from the girders,  reinforced concrete floors and foundation.

Gravity driven collapse doesn’t have a mechanism for this.

Controlled demolition does.

Gravity would certainly effect the lone spire feature and a wall-type structure. That single column spire feature was probably around 300 to 400 feet length and perhaps 2 feet wide. That's an aspect ratio near 200. The wall-like core structure was of comparable length.

Try building a model of something smaller, say 3 inch dia pvc pipe made of 2-foot sections joined with relatively weak joints. Extend it up about 50 feet and see if it can be kept standing vertical while only the bottom is held. A wall structure would also be unstable. If gravity truly isn't a factor, this should be easy to accomplish.
gordon
The single column spire feature doesn't match up with the perimeter corner. Also, those columns that form the spire are very large. They look small from a distance, but they are actually thick.

It does not line up with any of the three corners which you can see, but it matches perfectly with the fourth corner on the far side. What else could it be?

Gordon.
reasonwhy
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 12 2006, 11:30 AM)
QUOTE (reasonwhy+Mar 12 2006, 07:15 PM)

I agree this might be possible If the core columns were disconected from the girders,  reinforced concrete floors and foundation.

Gravity driven collapse doesn’t have a mechanism for this.

Controlled demolition does.

Gravity would certainly effect the lone spire feature and a wall-type structure. That single column spire feature was probably around 300 to 400 feet length and perhaps 2 feet wide. That's an aspect ratio near 200. The wall-like core structure was of comparable length.

Try building a model of something smaller, say 3 inch dia pvc pipe made of 2-foot sections joined with relatively weak joints. Extend it up about 50 feet and see if it can be kept standing vertical while only the bottom is held. A wall structure would also be unstable. If gravity truly isn't a factor, this should be easy to accomplish.

Here are 3 examples (Were do you get the idea the columns had relatively weak joints?):

user posted image
Guest
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 07:01 PM)
Why don't you stop making my work to get rid of the fool Bush harder by pushing this swift boaters for 9/11 lies?

Ohhhhhhhh, its youuuuurrrr work to get rid of Bush, now I get it. Thank you so much for your work on behalf of all humanity. Stand back everyone while CS takes care of this thing once and for all.
Guest
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 07:17 PM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 02:15 PM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 06:34 PM)

I'm going to hunt you down, slice your back open and through salt in the wound.

Is it not a little ironic that someone so concerned about all of the unjustified death in Iraq is willing to beget and support such violent imagery. Only too appropriate for the psycopaths in the murderer car. I can't wait for what's next.

I didn't think you took it seriously. It only proves what an idiot you are.

Um, CS, dude, a word if I may. No one outside of the murderer car takes you seriously, get serious dude.
gordon
Gravity would certainly effect the lone spire feature and a wall-type structure. That single column spire feature was probably around 300 to 400 feet length and perhaps 2 feet wide. That's an aspect ratio near 200. The wall-like core structure was of comparable length.

When you talk of the unsupported height you must take regard also that the designed load has been removed but you are correct in saying that there would be a limit to which any spire, column, whatever could stand even its own weight. You are also right to highlight that a wall and corner spire would be much stronger if connected than if disconnected. Do you now understand the imperative of separating the corners from the walls to produce the instability that would not previously have been present?
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/vid...03rd%20clip.mpg

Check out the charges at the beginning of this clip and the still standing corner columns emerging from the dust at 4 seconds onwards? How did thecorner sections become disconnected and no others? If the floors pulled the walls in why do we see large sections immediately below the collapse zone, falling outwards?
How did the core columns become disconnected at the collision point?
Those vertical charges make the whole story come together in a way that no other theory does.
Gordon.
Foxx
Actually Christophera....

This is a good representation - One I have nor seen displayed before. Did you put it together, or where did you find it?

http://algoxy.com/psych/psyimages/sitelineWTCcore.gif

User posted image

What leaps out at me about this graphic representation is the following.

Note how both planes were directed towards the center of the WTC... that is the 'plan' which becomes clearly evident here.

What's the plan? I have thought of this before, but it really gels when you look at the diagram. The plan was directed to cause the towers to fall inwards to the center of the WTC.

(Very considerate of those wacky cave-dwellers).

Now... IF I were a terrorist - wishing to inflict as much damage as possible... I would have planned to have the planes come from the east & west (or better yet both from the northeast).

That way (should I be thinking that the towers were to 'collapse' APART from considering the explosives theory and ONLY considering the hope of causing 'gravity-driven collapse')...

they would theoretically fall more outward of the center of the WTC... (hopeful to cause even greater damage - in the event of possible collapse) to surrounding properties.

Also, I would have planned to aim at the corner of the buildings, thus giving a wider target (and less chance of missing - as plane 175 almost did in trying to line up with one face). Had both planes been directed from the northeast, there would be greater chance of taking out not only the Towers, but also World Financial Center buildings and Bankers Trust... prime auxilary financial targets.

It seems fairly obvious to me (from a devious-thinking point of view) that the 'plan' was to have the buildings fall in towards the center of the complex.

CUI BONO ?




Commen sense
Peer reviewd studies supporting collapse by fire..

http://www.luxinzheng.net/publications/english_WTC.htm

4 Conclusions

The following conclusions are obtained from the simulation.

1) The reasons for the entire collapse of the towers are the structure elements¡¯ soften of fire and impact of the upper layers¡¯ collapse. From the numerical results, the towers does not collapse immediately after the impact. The north tower can go on standing. Likely, the south one dose not collapse, too, though there are some large deformations in it, which are caused by the asymmetric damage. This is consisted with the real situations.

2) Improving the structure fire resistance ability or control the fire influence area will avoid or delay the structure collapse, efficiently. We simulate the fire influence by adjusting the material property of elements. From the numerical results, even though the structure has been damaged seriously by the impact, if the influence area is smaller than 20%~25% of the survival section in the tower, the collapse still can be avoided. When more than 30~50% of the survival section near the impact zone fails, the collapse will start.

3) When the towers go into the collapse stage, the reason for the chain failure of un-impact layers is the impulse of upper collapsing floors. The impact force of upper floors is much larger than the heap load. And because there are a lot of bump and eject on the contact surface of collapsing floors and lower floors, the fragment of structure falls consecutively so that there is no chance to form a lot of heap load. So the heap load is not the critical reason for the collapse.

4) Improving the ductility of structure elements is an efficient way to avoid the chain collapse happens. In the simulation above, if the fracture plastic strain of steel structure is 0.5%, the chain collapse will take place entirely. However, if the fracture strain is improved to 1%, the impact energy of upper floors will be absorbed by the lower structures and the chain collapse will be stopped at about 100m under the airplane impact zone. When the fracture strain is improved to 5%, only part of the structure near the airplane impacting zone will be damaged, and no chain collapse will take place. Hence, if the structure has enough ductility to absorb the energy of upper floors¡¯ collapse, the chain damage will be controlled. Even though consider the influence of heap load, the towers still have much larger chance to escape from the entire collapse.
Below is the list of people who peer reviewed the only paper which passed the scrutiny of peer review regarding the WTC tragedy...

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The paper... http://www-math.mit.edu/~bazant/WTC/WTC-asce.pdf

http://www.pubs.asce.org/journals/edem.html

Editor:
Ross B. Corotis, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., NAE, University of Colorado, Boulder
corotis@colorado.edu
http://ceae.colorado.edu/new/faculty/peopl...ple.cgi?corotis

Editorial Board:
Younane Abousleiman, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
http://mpge.ou.edu/faculty_staff/faculty.html

Ching S. Chang, Ph.D., P.E., University of Massachusetts
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/cee/faculty/chang.html

Joel P. Conte, Ph.D., P.E., University of California, San Diego
http://kudu.ucsd.edu/

Henri Gavin, Duke University
http://www.cee.duke.edu/faculty/gavin/index.php

Bojan B. Guzina, University of Minnesota
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/guzina/

Christian Hellmich, Dr.Tech., Vienna University of Technology
http://whitepages.tuwien.ac.at/oid/998877.html

Lambros Katafygiotis, Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
http://lambros.ce.ust.hk/

Nik Katopodes, Ph.D., University of Michigan
http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/cee/prospective/

Nicos Makris, University of Patras
http://www.civil.upatras.gr/Melidep_gr/depi_en.asp?profid=5

Robert J. Martinuzzi, P.E., University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/2005/...ademicAlpha.htm

Arif Masud, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/bioe/faculty/core_faculty_list.htm

Arvid Naess, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology
http://www.bygg.ntnu.no/~arvidn/front.htm

Khaled W. Shahwan, Daimler Chrysler Corporation
http://www.pubs.asce.org/WWWdisplay.cgi?9800592

George Voyiadjis, Ph.D., EIT, Louisiana State University
http://www.cee.lsu.edu/facultyStaff/Voyiad...iadjis_Gbio.htm

Yunping Xi, Ph.D., University of Colorado
http://ceae.colorado.edu/new/faculty/people/people.cgi?xi

Engineering Mechanics Division Executive Committee

Alexander D. Cheng, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Chair
http://home.olemiss.edu/~acheng/

James L. Beck, Ph.D., M.ASCE
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jimbeck/

Roger G. Ghanem, Ph.D., M.ASCE
http://ame-www.usc.edu/personnel/ghanem/index.shtml

Wilfred D. Iwan, M.ASCE
http://www.eas.caltech.edu/fac_i-m.html#i

Chiang C. Mei, M.ASCE
http://cee.mit.edu/index.pl?id=2354&isa=Category&op=show

Verna L. Jameson, ASCE Staff Contact

Journal of Engineering Mechanics http://scitation.aip.org/emo/

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As opposed to the people behind Jones’s paper…

Paul Zarembka
Editor, Research in Political Economy, Elsevier Science, 1977-present, and Professor of Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/

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Critics

Some critics have claimed that Jones's analysis is similar to that of other researchers which they have disputed in the past, including claims regarding photographic evidence of demolition charges, the claim that no major persistent fires were visible at WTC7, and what they say are selectively edited quotes from Bill Manning [4]and Stephen Gregory.

A few department chairmen at Jones's university have issued critical statements, though none of these has yet addressed any of the points which Jones made in his paper and at his presentation at BYU. Chairman of the BYU department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Miller, is on record stating in an e-mail, "I think without exception, the structural engineering professors in our department are not in agreement with the claims made by Jones in his paper, and they don't think there is accuracy and validity to these claims".

The BYU physics department has also issued a statement: "The university is aware that Professor Steven Jones's hypotheses and interpretations of evidence regarding the collapse of World Trade Center buildings are being questioned by a number of scholars and practitioners, including many of BYU's own faculty members. Professor Jones's department and college administrators are not convinced that his analyses and hypotheses have been submitted to relevant scientific venues that would ensure rigorous technical peer review."[5] The College of Engineering and Technology department has also added, "The structural engineering faculty in the Fulton College of Engineering and Technology do not support the hypotheses of Professor Jones." [6]

Jones replied to the critique on December the 5th 2005, in the BYU NewsNet article "Censor rumors quelled"

He (Professor Jones) said he feels "a bit awkward" that some colleagues now question the peer review process his paper initially passed through. "My paper was peer-reviewed and accepted for publication before being made available on the Web with the editor’s approval," Jones said. "The reviewers included a physicist and an engineer, I now understand. The review has not been shown to have been inappropriate and I believe it was appropriate." Still, Jones said he willingly submitted his paper to another publication, where he is confident it will pass peer review a second time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones

Other deunking...

9/11: Debunking The Myths

PM examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/de...html?page=1&c=y


PBS Nova: Why the towers fell

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/

Whatever you believe about 9/11, the spreading of false claims helps no-one, and we’d like to play a small part in revealing some of them. We’re not about debunking entire conspiracies, then, but will use this site to zoom in on what we think are the more dubious stories, revealing the misquotes, the distortions, the inaccuracies that are so common online.

But does this make us an authority? No. If we’ve an overall message here, it’s check things for yourself. Don’t trust a site just because it’s telling you what you want to believe. Don’t believe us without evaluating our arguments and checking the references we provide, either (we’re as likely to make mistakes as anyone else). Look into the claims yourself, discover both sides of the argument, and make your own mind up. The truth deserves nothing less.

http://www.911myths.com/

http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/
gordon
However, if the fracture strain is improved to 1%, the impact energy of upper floors will be absorbed by the lower structures and the chain collapse will be stopped at about 100m under the airplane impact zone. When the fracture strain is improved to 5%, only part of the structure near the airplane impacting zone will be damaged, and no chain collapse will take place.


Bazant & Zhou state that a 3% strain is required before the WTC columns would form buckle points. Without buckle points there would be no moment through which a force could act on the column connections. Without buckle points there would be no failure.
Dr Greening talks about a vertical deflection of about 0.12 m per storey height giving a strain of over 3%, and also acknowledges that he has underestimated the value of strain energy.
The figures which I gave in my spreadsheet showed a maximum deflection before total failure as being between 12- 15 % using a factor of safety of 5.

Given these examples, two of which have been taken from supporters of the OCT, do you have any evidence or sources or calculations which lend credence to your implied support of the argument that the towers would exhibit a strain of less than 1%, and thereby continue their collapse?

Gordon.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 05:38 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 04:50 AM)
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 04:36 AM)
YET ANOTHER BLUNDEROUS OMISSION IN HIS SO-CALLED 'ANALYSES' WHICH IMPRESS YOU SO MUCH?


I must have missed that bit.  Perhaps you could fill me in on just one point that you have made which doen't ramble on about drivel that has little or nothing to do with the subject with the odd adjective or verb thrown in just because you have heard it somewhere on your troubleshooting/varied /groundbreaking/(insert more blowhard egobosting words here) history and think that you will sound good to some other no-mark who is similarly clueless.
Let's be clear here.  An education in a subject also confers the ability to assess the knowledge of others.  

Gordon.

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Thank-you. I was about to waste more time answering "Reality Check's" nonsense and obfuscation, but you have saved me the time.

I might add: take a representative sample of Gordon's posts, and a representative sample of "Reality Check's" posts, to ANY physicist or engineer at a local university, and ask a simple question:

Which is written by a technically competent person, and which is drivel?

Do be kind enough to post the responses you get, properly sourced, of course.



Metamars, I'm sure even YOU could randomly put together impressive-looking equations and numbers and terms STRAIGHT OUT OF A TEXTBOOK....while not understanding AT ALL THEIR MEANING AND OR USAGE IN ANY WAY.

The important thing is COMPREHENSION, not mindless COPYING AND PASTING some totally erroneous textbook terms to 'dress up' totally incompetent analysis constructs.

Haven't you learnt ANYTHING from the debacle with Jones and Hoffman et al? THEY ARE SUPPOSED PROFESSORS, FOR GOODNESS' SAKE...and look at the hash THEY made of the 'equations/figures', heh? Wake up and smell reality....numbers and equations are no substitute for objective observation and logical comprehension. HOW DO YOU THINK ALL THOSE EQUATIONS AND PRINCIPLES GOT FIGURED OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE?...it was those observations and logical comprehensions that allowed mathematical constructs to be created/refined TO REPRESENT THAT REALITY BEING LOGICALLY COMPREHENDED IN THE FIRST PLACE BY 'SCIENTIFIC METHOD' OBSERVATION and later REPRODUCTION VIA MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SAME.

Have you learned anything from that? If nothing else, take away the point that 'numbers' mean NOTHING without comprehension and context (statistics/survey constructs/analyses are PERFECT examples where the truth is NOT ALWAYS in the NUMBERS, but in the CONTEXT). And in the case of 9/11, the physics is in context only insofar as it can be demonstrated to be 'prosaic' and everyday processes/principles involved in EXTRAORDINARILY CHAOTIC AND HUMONGOUS DYNAMICS.

Once you accept that a lot of things could be happening all over the place during that chaos, then you probably won't feel so much need to invoke space lasers and space aliens and 'mysterious energy' flows. Common sense will do the job.


Lame. Your continued avoidance of even any attempt to be precise, when you could be (that is, if you really are a "scientist", with expertise or even basic knowledge in physics and chemistry), strikes me as nothing more than a way to avoid being shown up for the spewer of drivel that you are.

And, as you have been shown to be a spewer of drivel even in a qualitative way, I don't believe for a second that you are a scientist.

I note, once again, that NIST and FEMA eschewed your "wonderful insights" for the relevance of chaos theory in understanding the collapses. Even in a mumbo jumbo, non-technical way that you specialize in, where it difficult to say where and how, exactly, your thinking is off because you are so unclear in presenting anything resembling a coherent argument. Apparently, in your own mind, your invocation of chaos to explain away anything you can't, otherwise, is a real contribution. But even NIST and FEMA didn't stoop this low!

When are you going to contact NIST and FEMA to let them imbibe of your wisdom? You woulnd't want to leave them in a state of ignorance, now, would you?


QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:
QUOTE (->
QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:

if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?



Hi metamars! Are the space Lasers in position yet? Which 'spire' shall we disintegrate today?

Really metamars, just what is it you have against Randomness and Chaos where such widespread dynamic energies are involved?

Doesn't the video evidence of many unscathed cars, people, plants etc in an event where others WERE hit and set on fire by embers/debris, tell you the OBVIOUS? Where's the need for me to waste MY time 'quantifying' and 'numerating' things for YOU?

After all, YOU are the one with the crazy assertions. I merely comment on what I see AND LEAVE IT AT THAT if I am satisfied with the Occam's Razor outcomes.

I repeat, why don't YOU do all that 'quantifying' you demand of others? You seem to be MOTIVATED enough but TOO lazy, is that it?

So, if YOU are TOO LAZY to try and SUBSTANTIATE/SUPPORT your own wild assertions, how can you stand there with a straight face and accuse ME of not wanting to do your work for you? It is not I that has to support one conspiracy theory hypothesis after another, now is it? Or didn't you read where I said I was only in this for presenting YOUNGER Physorgforumers with an alternative view and common principles/analogies which present something for these youngsters to get their teeth into and look up for themselves....instead of just 'believing' you and your pseudo-scientific assinine and hypocritical bleating about what OTHERS should do FOR YOU...when you should be here doing 'science' for YOURSELF and your assertions, heh?

I am not asserting anything here, I am just replying to YOURS and others' assertions. OK?

So quit whining about others, and instead go ahead and REFUTE WHAT THEY SAY USING YOUR OWN 'WORK' to support what YOU are blathering on about. Fair enough?

Where's YOUR quantitative physics/analysis for whatever YOU are hypothesising, metamars? If it's so allfired important to you, why not do a THESIS on your conspiracy 'anomalies'. You are a university student are you not? If what you say is so important and true, then YOU TOO may become as famous as Jones et al! Think of joining that illustrious BYU 'hotbed of incompetence' (note that even that 'useless christian science' university has had enough of being painted with the same brush that Jones is being painted into a corner with daily).

BTW, metamars.....YOU'RE not a student of Jones at BYU, are you? That would explain a lot. He was too lazy to check his facts re Hoffman and other sources too. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where gordon got his 'one-dimensional' analysis constructs from, either. That's a great christian education you can get at BYU.....except they LEAVE OUT anything that is inconsistent with their 'beliefs'.....some scientists you and gordon are emulating for all you're worth, mate. I pity you and any other youngster mesmerised by a "christian" conman of such 'integrity' in matters of ethics and application of the scientific method.

Get back to Jones' class, metamars, the bell's gone. Cheers!

RC.
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newton
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 12 2006, 08:56 PM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 12 2006, 08:41 PM)
I can as long as you can. Been doing it for 400 pages now. Heh!


wow. what a guy. a well-focused 'liberal' 'activist', working tirelessly to protect a neocon cabal.

you're about as liberal as ghengis khan.

who signs your paycheck? hitlery clinton?

Christophera
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 12 2006, 07:30 PM)
QUOTE (reasonwhy+Mar 12 2006, 07:15 PM)

I agree this might be possible If the core columns were disconected from the girders,  reinforced concrete floors and foundation.

Gravity driven collapse doesn’t have a mechanism for this.

Controlled demolition does.

Gravity would certainly effect the lone spire feature and a wall-type structure. That single column spire feature was probably around 300 to 400 feet length and perhaps 2 feet wide. That's an aspect ratio near 200. The wall-like core structure was of comparable length.

Try building a model of something smaller, say 3 inch dia pvc pipe made of 2-foot sections joined with relatively weak joints. Extend it up about 50 feet and see if it can be kept standing vertical while only the bottom is held. A wall structure would also be unstable. If gravity truly isn't a factor, this should be easy to accomplish.


On one side, a triangle shape, a concrete shear plane, attached to a steel grid having a terminal element extending above, in line with the vertical axis.

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Around the corner another triangle and grid supporting the terminal element perpendicuarly,

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RealityCheck
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 04:28 PM)
okay, i think your right, gordon.  i think there were two corner columns on each corner.
why wouldn't there be? the three column perimeter spandrel plates can be seen at diffent heights than these two corner columns in some of the aerial photos of construction phases.
arthur, just keeps doing the regular song and dance, deny, deny, deny, proved, admit but obfuscate and forget earlier proven variables.

you brave bush defender(s) have been pushing the possibility of a 'syringe theory' that can send out a 'pulse' and claim extreme chaos as an excuse to not possible analyuse the collapse, and yet won't admit that such a 'pulse' could be COOLER AIR in the maelstrom of MOSTLY HOT churning and expanding gases.

the surrounding buildings are covered in SOOT like after a HUGE EXPLOSION.

and, hereward, that IS weird the way cars were reported spontaneuosly exploding when there was no visible heat source.  this may point to some kind of exotic secret weapon working on unknown principles.
perhaps this is also why trees were spared, where materials with a higher degree of volatility exploded.  i was never a fan of the syringe theory.

perhaps, also, it was due to a random rain of hot balls of thermite.

and, reality check.  i'm sorry to be inaccurate.

it was BOOOOOM(tower hasn't budged),..........some 17 to 20s of blessed peace

and then as the tower goes instantly into freefall(as per brazant zhou's analysis)....
...BOOOOM, .....BOOOOOOMooooBOOOOOOOOOOMooooooooooBOOOOOOOOOMoooBOOOOOOOM
(and then no more noise while the spire staggers, and then plummets.  once again that is NO NOISE from the collapse of the spire(as recorded from hoboken).

the sound wave graphs clearly show massive percussive spikes that do not match the smooth descent of the tower.  one would need to see sudden movement, and then a sudden stop to produce those sounds with a falling object hitting another, like the noise of a drum.  the kinetic energy of the stick is translated instantly to the drum head(notice the stick now bounces back up). 
explosions taking out core support totally makes sense of the sounds vs. motion comparison and the HUGE PERCUSSIVE SPIKES.


Hi newt. By the time the 'spire' collapses, all the acres of inter-floors AIR that produced the BOOOOM during main collapse had been expelled....all that was left was air surrounding weakened/collapsing 'wickerwork' core structure remnants which came apart (as can be seen in the videos) as they fell. Hardly much BOOM for your BUCK to be had there, mate.....ESPECIALLY AS THEY WOULD FALL ONTO A NICE "CUSHIONING" RUBBLE PILE from the main collapse, heh? hehehe.

That's interesting about a secret weapon for blowing up some cars and not others. Did you read it in Popular Mechanics/Science?...or was it part of the script in this month's movie quota?(just joshing ya, newt!).

BTW, I can see spandrels on the PERIMETER-corner 'ladder' in the construction photo, but all I can see in the 'spire' core-corner picture is some skinny lateral 'noggins' which are not wide enough for spandrels. Can you confirm this?

RC.
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newton
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 08:01 PM)
Gravity would certainly effect the lone spire feature and a wall-type structure. That single column spire feature was probably around 300 to 400 feet length and perhaps 2 feet wide. That's an aspect ratio near 200. The wall-like core structure was of comparable length.

When you talk of the unsupported height you must take regard also that the designed load has been removed but you are correct in saying that there would be a limit to which any spire, column, whatever could stand even its own weight. You are also right to highlight that a wall and corner spire would be much stronger if connected than if disconnected. Do you now understand the imperative of separating the corners from the walls to produce the instability that would not previously have been present?
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/vid...03rd%20clip.mpg

Check out the charges at the beginning of this clip and the still standing corner columns emerging from the dust at 4 seconds onwards? How did thecorner sections become disconnected and no others? If the floors pulled the walls in why do we see large sections immediately below the collapse zone, falling outwards?
How did the core columns become disconnected at the collision point?
Those vertical charges make the whole story come together in a way that no other theory does.
Gordon.

about two thirds of the way in, you can see the still standing core. if you focus on that area, you can see more evidence of the demolition.

excellent video, gordon.
newton
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 09:32 PM)
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That's interesting about a secret weapon for blowing up some cars and not others. Did you read it in Popular Mechanics/Science?...or was it part of the script in this month's movie quota?(just joshing ya, newt!).

BTW, I can see spandrels on the PERIMETER-corner 'ladder' in the construction photo, but all I can see in the 'spire' core-corner picture is some skinny lateral 'noggins' which are not wide enough for spandrels. Can you confirm this?

RC.
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if you put a cup of fat, and a cup of water in the microwave, which heats up faster?

so, if a car has a full tank of gas, maybe it won't explode, but if it has a vapour barrier in the airspace above it, then it does explode.

and, yes. i agree about the spire. i said before i think it's the core box columns, and their connecting 'noggins'.
Rational Realist
I found this very compelling discussion yesterday, and while having read a good chunk of it I have by no means read it all. Forgive me. I thought I would offer a response to what I thought were (mostly) very reasonable questions by adoucette..
Because I don't know how many quotes are the limit in posts on this board, my response below will be in bold or in italic.
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I'm new to this conspiracy idea that we blew the WTC.

Is there a reasonably consistent theory as to WHY we would do so?

WE? Why are you using the word, "we"? Are you suggesting this would have been the will of the people, or that you or I are involved? Certainly not. Are there elements within government who have a history of criminal behavior including the taking of innocent human life in order to pursue an agenda never agreed to by the people of the United States? Yes. Think Iran-Contra and ask yourself, where are they now? Well, they are back in power, my friend. Negroponte and Poindexter are in high positions in government to name just two of the 16 convictions from that brutal, illegal and undemocratic escapade - Negroponte is currently the National Intelligence Director, which, considering that he may have directed death squads (and was undoubtedly aware of them) in the Honduras in the 80's, should make us all stop and think.
As to whether there is a theory explaining WHY 'they' (let's call them the Future Fascist Government of the US - FFGUS?) would do it...
Yes, there is:
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I'm new to this conspiracy idea that we blew the WTC.

Is there a reasonably consistent theory as to WHY we would do so?

WE? Why are you using the word, "we"? Are you suggesting this would have been the will of the people, or that you or I are involved? Certainly not. Are there elements within government who have a history of criminal behavior including the taking of innocent human life in order to pursue an agenda never agreed to by the people of the United States? Yes. Think Iran-Contra and ask yourself, where are they now? Well, they are back in power, my friend. Negroponte and Poindexter are in high positions in government to name just two of the 16 convictions from that brutal, illegal and undemocratic escapade - Negroponte is currently the National Intelligence Director, which, considering that he may have directed death squads (and was undoubtedly aware of them) in the Honduras in the 80's, should make us all stop and think.
As to whether there is a theory explaining WHY 'they' (let's call them the Future Fascist Government of the US - FFGUS?) would do it...
Yes, there is:
"Why, of course the people don't want war. The people never want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war in which the best he can hope for is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

Nazi Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1946.


And here we are now in a "Permanent War".
Also:
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The strategic “transformation” of the U.S. military into an imperialistic force of global domination would require a huge increase in defense spending to “a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually,” the PNAC plan said.

“The process of transformation,” the plan said, “is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”

America Pearl Harbored
The Plan
Consider also, that these idealogues (let's call them PNAC, or NeoConservatives), have hijacked a political party. The Republican party, once a party of "fiscal conservatism", has doubled US debt in only 5 years. They started a war in Iraq that many of their base think is connected to 9/11 (despite much evidence to the contrary) also recently it was published that:
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The strategic “transformation” of the U.S. military into an imperialistic force of global domination would require a huge increase in defense spending to “a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually,” the PNAC plan said.

“The process of transformation,” the plan said, “is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”

America Pearl Harbored
The Plan
Consider also, that these idealogues (let's call them PNAC, or NeoConservatives), have hijacked a political party. The Republican party, once a party of "fiscal conservatism", has doubled US debt in only 5 years. They started a war in Iraq that many of their base think is connected to 9/11 (despite much evidence to the contrary) also recently it was published that:
While 85% said the U.S. mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks,” 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq.”
Recent Poll of military personell in Iraq
Also, consider that the secret Cheney Energy Task Force of early 2001 had maps of Middle East oilfields on the table, and only released through court battles: Judicial Watch
If you don't think we are headed for dictatorship, then consider this recent article:
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"The bill would make it a crime to tell the American people that the president is breaking the law, and the bill could make it a crime for the newspapers to publish that fact," said Martin, a civil liberties advocate.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1002157186
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"The bill would make it a crime to tell the American people that the president is breaking the law, and the bill could make it a crime for the newspapers to publish that fact," said Martin, a civil liberties advocate.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1002157186

If one makes the assumption that we did then I take it the following are logical assumptions:  [b] (we?-I don't recommend identifying with these people. It's bad for your soul.)


(Parts of/Officials in) The Govt either knew of or was behind the hijackings. and did nothing to stop them. Exactly.
http://tinyurl.com/owaoe



(Parts of/Officials in) The Govt either knew when or approx when the hijackings would take place.
Well, unlike during Katrina, FEMA was on scene right on time on 9/11... actually, they were a day early, and rather than go to his Office of Emergency Management headquarted in WTC7, Giuliani went down to the FEMA headquarters. http://cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp...=a091201tripod2

The Govt Someone apparently installed significant numbers of explosives and associated wiring into the WTC1, 2 and 7 prior to 9/11 (why do you assume this operation to be government?)

The Govt as above installed these under some ruse so as to not draw suspicion to the nature of all the boxes it was installing on the supporting structure of the WTC, nor the wiring. (Obviously. Probably this was done under the pretense of security enhancements, as implied earlier in this thread, and was facilitated with bomb threat calls for cover.)

The Govt installed these such that after installation their actual purpose could not be ascertained. (Since they were ostensibly hidden from plain view, this is actually unnecessary.)

The Govt came up with some "alternate" explanation to satisfy building management of the purpose of all of these boxes and wiring. Security and bomb threat inspections.

The wiring and control system was structured such that it would still work after the WTC was hit anywhere by a 757 and after the structure had burned uncontrollably for a decent period of time. Think wireless and battery powered .. elaboration to follow.

The black boxes would have to be self powered in that a central source of power could not be assumed. Yes

The black boxes would have to be "On" from the time they were set up, which would necessitate a reasonable size power supply. Low voltage/low power standby state, like the Martian rover, or your cellphone.

The black boxes would have to be set off via radio transmission as no physical wiring would be possible. Yes

The transmission would need to be "highly secure" such that accidental tripping would not be a concern, yet they would have to still work in an environment with potentially a lot of other transmissions and other RFI noise.
UWB - Ultra Wide Band radio source would accomplish this. It is broadcast by firing digital pulses over a pre-determined bit-pattern. These are "ultra-wide" because they are essentially white noise, covering the entire available spectrum, and thus receivable over the entire spectrum. This also mitigates loss due to structual materials - where the signal will not be passed on one wavelength, it will be carried on another. By keeping pulses extremely short and tight (in the picosecond range), UWB is also low-power. Since receiving a coherent signal depends on knowing this bit-mask that is the broadcast signature, UWB is also very secure. It is currently in use for military, law enforcement and other applications. Time Domain, Inc. (one company that I'm aware of) has patents regarding this technology dating to the mid-90's.

The person setting off the black boxes would have to be in a safe location that had good visual position to see both towers.
Like the Office of Emergency Management across the street in WTC 7.

The person setting off the black boxes would need an independent power supply as local power could not be assured.
Like the Office of Emergency Management (which had it's own diesel generators, communications, computers, air supply, etc.) across the street in WTC 7.

The transmitter would have to be strong enough to send a good signal to all receivers with little chance of missed signal.
A medium power UWB signal could probably accomplish this quite easily.

The black boxes (thousands of them I presume) were of a nature that if their parts were discovered in the wreckage that their purpose would not raise suspicion.
Nobody was investigating the wreckage in the detailed fashion that you presume. The wreckage was being carted away as quickly as possible. But, likely the people involved in the cleanup, not being forensic investigators, would think nothing suspicious of some scorched computer chips among the wreckage, as these may have come from the thousands of computer and phone systems in the building.

The blasts were further "directed" so that few if any visible clues would be generated even though hundreds if not thousands of these explosives were going off in a very set pattern.
It looks obvious to me but I guess not to everyone that the collapse front is an explosive front. I think the squibs seen further down the building are likely misfires.

Though the WTC were clearly demolished by the jets and ensuing fires, and the people above the impact zones were doomed, there was some additional reason for them to collapse the towers.
Some people above the crash zones escaped alive. The towers were standing for a long time afterwards, so I don't know where you get this "clearly demolished".
A good reason to collapse the towers is to hide evidence of anything untowards on those planes. If there were a forensic investigation of the planes and something were missing, like hijackers for instance, that would be troubling indeed.
Also, the collapse of the towers and the deaths of innocents had a tremendous emotional impact on everyone watching, myself included.
I was misled into believing the implausible pancake theory for 18 months.



Since Jets WERE used against the WTC, the conspiracy of not using a Jet for the Pentagon seems mutually exclusive. If the US was behind the Jets into the WTC it makes no sense to use a cruise missile against the Pentagon.
Conjecture about conjecture.. The Pentagon is a seperate issue entirely, but to me it demonstrates the implausibility that there was no stand-down in effect. Seriously, the world's most incredible air defense system, designed to protect us from fast, high-flying relatively stealthy Russian Migs fails four times in a row to intercept slow, low-flying radar opaque aircraft... to the extent that the Pentagon is hit. Not likely accidental.
What should have happened:
http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2000/AAB0001.htm
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0505/11/acd.01.html


Just checking to see if these are logical assumptions
metamars
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 09:05 PM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 05:38 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 04:50 AM)
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 04:36 AM)
YET ANOTHER BLUNDEROUS OMISSION IN HIS SO-CALLED 'ANALYSES' WHICH IMPRESS YOU SO MUCH?


I must have missed that bit.  Perhaps you could fill me in on just one point that you have made which doen't ramble on about drivel that has little or nothing to do with the subject with the odd adjective or verb thrown in just because you have heard it somewhere on your troubleshooting/varied /groundbreaking/(insert more blowhard egobosting words here) history and think that you will sound good to some other no-mark who is similarly clueless.
Let's be clear here.  An education in a subject also confers the ability to assess the knowledge of others. 

Gordon.

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Thank-you. I was about to waste more time answering "Reality Check's" nonsense and obfuscation, but you have saved me the time.

I might add: take a representative sample of Gordon's posts, and a representative sample of "Reality Check's" posts, to ANY physicist or engineer at a local university, and ask a simple question:

Which is written by a technically competent person, and which is drivel?

Do be kind enough to post the responses you get, properly sourced, of course.



Metamars, I'm sure even YOU could randomly put together impressive-looking equations and numbers and terms STRAIGHT OUT OF A TEXTBOOK....while not understanding AT ALL THEIR MEANING AND OR USAGE IN ANY WAY.

The important thing is COMPREHENSION, not mindless COPYING AND PASTING some totally erroneous textbook terms to 'dress up' totally incompetent analysis constructs.

Haven't you learnt ANYTHING from the debacle with Jones and Hoffman et al? THEY ARE SUPPOSED PROFESSORS, FOR GOODNESS' SAKE...and look at the hash THEY made of the 'equations/figures', heh? Wake up and smell reality....numbers and equations are no substitute for objective observation and logical comprehension. HOW DO YOU THINK ALL THOSE EQUATIONS AND PRINCIPLES GOT FIGURED OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE?...it was those observations and logical comprehensions that allowed mathematical constructs to be created/refined TO REPRESENT THAT REALITY BEING LOGICALLY COMPREHENDED IN THE FIRST PLACE BY 'SCIENTIFIC METHOD' OBSERVATION and later REPRODUCTION VIA MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SAME.

Have you learned anything from that? If nothing else, take away the point that 'numbers' mean NOTHING without comprehension and context (statistics/survey constructs/analyses are PERFECT examples where the truth is NOT ALWAYS in the NUMBERS, but in the CONTEXT). And in the case of 9/11, the physics is in context only insofar as it can be demonstrated to be 'prosaic' and everyday processes/principles involved in EXTRAORDINARILY CHAOTIC AND HUMONGOUS DYNAMICS.

Once you accept that a lot of things could be happening all over the place during that chaos, then you probably won't feel so much need to invoke space lasers and space aliens and 'mysterious energy' flows. Common sense will do the job.


Lame. Your continued avoidance of even any attempt to be precise, when you could be (that is, if you really are a "scientist", with expertise or even basic knowledge in physics and chemistry), strikes me as nothing more than a way to avoid being shown up for the spewer of drivel that you are.

And, as you have been shown to be a spewer of drivel even in a qualitative way, I don't believe for a second that you are a scientist.

I note, once again, that NIST and FEMA eschewed your "wonderful insights" for the relevance of chaos theory in understanding the collapses. Even in a mumbo jumbo, non-technical way that you specialize in, where it difficult to say where and how, exactly, your thinking is off because you are so unclear in presenting anything resembling a coherent argument. Apparently, in your own mind, your invocation of chaos to explain away anything you can't, otherwise, is a real contribution. But even NIST and FEMA didn't stoop this low!

When are you going to contact NIST and FEMA to let them imbibe of your wisdom? You woulnd't want to leave them in a state of ignorance, now, would you?


QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:
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And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:

if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?



Hi metamars! Are the space Lasers in position yet? Which 'spire' shall we disintegrate today?

Really metamars, just what is it you have against Randomness and Chaos where such widespread dynamic energies are involved?

Doesn't the video evidence of many unscathed cars, people, plants etc in an event where others WERE hit and set on fire by embers/debris, tell you the OBVIOUS? Where's the need for me to waste MY time 'quantifying' and 'numerating' things for YOU?

After all, YOU are the one with the crazy assertions. I merely comment on what I see AND LEAVE IT AT THAT if I am satisfied with the Occam's Razor outcomes.

I repeat, why don't YOU do all that 'quantifying' you demand of others? You seem to be MOTIVATED enough but TOO lazy, is that it?

So, if YOU are TOO LAZY to try and SUBSTANTIATE/SUPPORT your own wild assertions, how can you stand there with a straight face and accuse ME of not wanting to do your work for you? It is not I that has to support one conspiracy theory hypothesis after another, now is it? Or didn't you read where I said I was only in this for presenting YOUNGER Physorgforumers with an alternative view and common principles/analogies which present something for these youngsters to get their teeth into and look up for themselves....instead of just 'believing' you and your pseudo-scientific assinine and hypocritical bleating about what OTHERS should do FOR YOU...when you should be here doing 'science' for YOURSELF and your assertions, heh?

I am not asserting anything here, I am just replying to YOURS and others' assertions. OK?

So quit whining about others, and instead go ahead and REFUTE WHAT THEY SAY USING YOUR OWN 'WORK' to support what YOU are blathering on about. Fair enough?

Where's YOUR quantitative physics/analysis for whatever YOU are hypothesising, metamars? If it's so allfired important to you, why not do a THESIS on your conspiracy 'anomalies'. You are a university student are you not? If what you say is so important and true, then YOU TOO may become as famous as Jones et al! Think of joining that illustrious BYU 'hotbed of incompetence' (note that even that 'useless christian science' university has had enough of being painted with the same brush that Jones is being painted into a corner with daily).

BTW, metamars.....YOU'RE not a student of Jones at BYU, are you? That would explain a lot. He was too lazy to check his facts re Hoffman and other sources too. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where gordon got his 'one-dimensional' analysis constructs from, either. That's a great christian education you can get at BYU.....except they LEAVE OUT anything that is inconsistent with their 'beliefs'.....some scientists you and gordon are emulating for all you're worth, mate. I pity you and any other youngster mesmerised by a "christian" conman of such 'integrity' in matters of ethics and application of the scientific method.

Get back to Jones' class, metamars, the bell's gone. Cheers!

RC.
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More blathering to avoid even more embarassment, eh? Let's try this one more time:

QUOTE

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory". 

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.

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* Your question being:
QUOTE (->
QUOTE

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory". 

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.

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* Your question being:


if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?





As far as your statement:
QUOTE

Or didn't you read where I said I was only in this for presenting YOUNGER Physorgforumers with an alternative view and common principles/analogies which present something for these youngsters to get their teeth into and look up for themselves


I would think that if you had any real concern for "YOUNGER" forum members, that you at least would take the time to put forth a coherent argument every 100 pages or so. Do you think that forcing "YOUNGER" members to wade through your James Joyce style of drivel might not drive them away from science? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, you labeling yourself as a scientist and then spamming this board with your drivel might not make some "YOUNGER" members give up on science?? Has it not occurred to you that your drivel, ascribed to a scientist such as yourself, might not permanently prejudice a young mind against a career in science?

From where I sit, you have about as much concern for "YOUNGER" forum members as you do for understanding the WTC collapses, as you possess any real scientific training - which is to say, none at all.

RealityCheck
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 09:43 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 09:32 PM)
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That's interesting about a secret weapon for blowing up some cars and not others. Did you read it in Popular Mechanics/Science?...or was it part of the script in this month's movie quota?(just joshing ya, newt!).

BTW, I can see spandrels on the PERIMETER-corner 'ladder' in the construction photo, but all I can see in the 'spire' core-corner picture is some skinny lateral 'noggins' which are not wide enough for spandrels. Can you confirm this?

RC.
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if you put a cup of fat, and a cup of water in the microwave, which heats up faster?

so, if a car has a full tank of gas, maybe it won't explode, but if it has a vapour barrier in the airspace above it, then it does explode.

and, yes. i agree about the spire. i said before i think it's the core box columns, and their connecting 'noggins'.


Thanks mate! I seem to remember that cars can be set on fire just as houses can in 'bushfires' here....from accumulation of burning embers in the gutters/eaves etc. The same thing happens when accumulations of burning embers/ash along their RUBBER door/boot/hood trimmings. That is, the materials are set alight and burn through to create open slit where embers/ash/heat can affect the interior and 'vapourise' the vinyl/plastics (remember that 'new car smell' from all that outgassing from plastic upholstery etc (and even after being parked for some time on a hot day you get that 'vapour' smell when you first open the door).

It is not improbable that such 'vapours' were produced more voluminously by the heat from burning embers accumulating, and were then ignited in the passenger compartment where it would be accumulating mixed with air until ignition by penetrating burning embers/ash. And even in the boot, many cars have a gas-vapour-pressure 'release' valve just to relieve any dangerous pressures caused by extremely hot days. Imagine if the heat from ingress of embers/ash heated the boot interior and tank so that the relief valve put out sufficient fuel vapour to mix with the air contained in the boot....and it was ignited by those same embers/ahs that burned through the rubber seals.

Besides, I also speculate that the TYPE of fuel involved would have something to do with why some cars were more affected than others. You know, hybrid, monofuel, Pressure-liquified natural gas, petrol, diesel, switching systems and electrics shorts, state of repair, cabin/boot 'cargo' at the time, doors/windows open/closed/ajar etc etc.

That's it, mate. Hope you are well despite our 'jousting'! Cheers!

RC.
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Christophera
QUOTE (newton+Mar 12 2006, 09:34 PM)
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 08:01 PM)
Gravity would certainly effect the lone spire feature and a wall-type structure. That single column spire feature was probably around 300 to 400 feet length and perhaps 2 feet wide. That's an aspect ratio near 200. The wall-like core structure was of comparable length.

When you talk of the unsupported height you must take regard also that the designed load has been removed but you are correct in saying that there would be a limit to which any spire, column, whatever could stand even its own weight.  You are also right to highlight that a wall and corner spire would be much stronger if connected than if disconnected.  Do you now understand the imperative of separating the corners from the walls to produce the instability that would not previously have been present?
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/vid...03rd%20clip.mpg

Check out the charges at the beginning of this clip and the still standing corner columns emerging from the dust at 4 seconds onwards?  How did thecorner sections become disconnected and no others?  If the floors pulled the walls in why do we see large sections immediately below the collapse zone, falling outwards?
How did the core columns become disconnected at the collision point?
Those vertical charges make the whole story come together in a way that no other theory does.
Gordon.

about two thirds of the way in, you can see the still standing core. if you focus on that area, you can see more evidence of the demolition.

excellent video, gordon.

This image looks east and a little north to the north tower,

user posted image

The video looks south and east some to the north tower, 26.1 seconds into it the north face of the core as shown in the above still image (left side, dust obscures the rounded top in video) is visible for 6 seconds.

http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/vid...03rd%20clip.mpg
brian
metamars, I cannot accept your reccomendation to take a sample of gordon and RCs posts here and ask who is the scientist. I would not embarrass myself.

If Reality Check is a scientist -

I will bare me arse in Bourke Street.

A good old Aussie saying which gives it the proper perspective.

newton, thanks for the laughs, you are killing them softly.

brian
Stuff like this first makes you laugh at the absurdity then angry at the insult.

March 10, 2006

Purported "Al-Qaeda Undercover Soldier, U.S.A": Last Warning to American People - Two Operations Will Occur; Your Homeland Security Agency Must Surrender; States Far Away From Washington, D.C. Such as Arizona Will Be Hit; We Await Orders From Our Commander Osama Bin Laden; America Will Be Brought to its Knees

On March 10, 2006, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) posted, on the Islamic websites, a final warning to the American people, on behalf of "Rakan Ben Williams" who defines himself as "Al-Qaeda under cover soldier, USA [sic]." --

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD111206
RealityCheck
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 10:06 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 09:05 PM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 05:38 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 04:50 AM)
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 04:36 AM)
YET ANOTHER BLUNDEROUS OMISSION IN HIS SO-CALLED 'ANALYSES' WHICH IMPRESS YOU SO MUCH?


I must have missed that bit.  Perhaps you could fill me in on just one point that you have made which doen't ramble on about drivel that has little or nothing to do with the subject with the odd adjective or verb thrown in just because you have heard it somewhere on your troubleshooting/varied /groundbreaking/(insert more blowhard egobosting words here) history and think that you will sound good to some other no-mark who is similarly clueless.
Let's be clear here.  An education in a subject also confers the ability to assess the knowledge of others.  

Gordon.

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Thank-you. I was about to waste more time answering "Reality Check's" nonsense and obfuscation, but you have saved me the time.

I might add: take a representative sample of Gordon's posts, and a representative sample of "Reality Check's" posts, to ANY physicist or engineer at a local university, and ask a simple question:

Which is written by a technically competent person, and which is drivel?

Do be kind enough to post the responses you get, properly sourced, of course.



Metamars, I'm sure even YOU could randomly put together impressive-looking equations and numbers and terms STRAIGHT OUT OF A TEXTBOOK....while not understanding AT ALL THEIR MEANING AND OR USAGE IN ANY WAY.

The important thing is COMPREHENSION, not mindless COPYING AND PASTING some totally erroneous textbook terms to 'dress up' totally incompetent analysis constructs.

Haven't you learnt ANYTHING from the debacle with Jones and Hoffman et al? THEY ARE SUPPOSED PROFESSORS, FOR GOODNESS' SAKE...and look at the hash THEY made of the 'equations/figures', heh? Wake up and smell reality....numbers and equations are no substitute for objective observation and logical comprehension. HOW DO YOU THINK ALL THOSE EQUATIONS AND PRINCIPLES GOT FIGURED OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE?...it was those observations and logical comprehensions that allowed mathematical constructs to be created/refined TO REPRESENT THAT REALITY BEING LOGICALLY COMPREHENDED IN THE FIRST PLACE BY 'SCIENTIFIC METHOD' OBSERVATION and later REPRODUCTION VIA MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SAME.

Have you learned anything from that? If nothing else, take away the point that 'numbers' mean NOTHING without comprehension and context (statistics/survey constructs/analyses are PERFECT examples where the truth is NOT ALWAYS in the NUMBERS, but in the CONTEXT). And in the case of 9/11, the physics is in context only insofar as it can be demonstrated to be 'prosaic' and everyday processes/principles involved in EXTRAORDINARILY CHAOTIC AND HUMONGOUS DYNAMICS.

Once you accept that a lot of things could be happening all over the place during that chaos, then you probably won't feel so much need to invoke space lasers and space aliens and 'mysterious energy' flows. Common sense will do the job.


Lame. Your continued avoidance of even any attempt to be precise, when you could be (that is, if you really are a "scientist", with expertise or even basic knowledge in physics and chemistry), strikes me as nothing more than a way to avoid being shown up for the spewer of drivel that you are.

And, as you have been shown to be a spewer of drivel even in a qualitative way, I don't believe for a second that you are a scientist.

I note, once again, that NIST and FEMA eschewed your "wonderful insights" for the relevance of chaos theory in understanding the collapses. Even in a mumbo jumbo, non-technical way that you specialize in, where it difficult to say where and how, exactly, your thinking is off because you are so unclear in presenting anything resembling a coherent argument. Apparently, in your own mind, your invocation of chaos to explain away anything you can't, otherwise, is a real contribution. But even NIST and FEMA didn't stoop this low!

When are you going to contact NIST and FEMA to let them imbibe of your wisdom? You woulnd't want to leave them in a state of ignorance, now, would you?


QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:
QUOTE (->
QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:

if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?



Hi metamars! Are the space Lasers in position yet? Which 'spire' shall we disintegrate today?

Really metamars, just what is it you have against Randomness and Chaos where such widespread dynamic energies are involved?

Doesn't the video evidence of many unscathed cars, people, plants etc in an event where others WERE hit and set on fire by embers/debris, tell you the OBVIOUS? Where's the need for me to waste MY time 'quantifying' and 'numerating' things for YOU?

After all, YOU are the one with the crazy assertions. I merely comment on what I see AND LEAVE IT AT THAT if I am satisfied with the Occam's Razor outcomes.

I repeat, why don't YOU do all that 'quantifying' you demand of others? You seem to be MOTIVATED enough but TOO lazy, is that it?

So, if YOU are TOO LAZY to try and SUBSTANTIATE/SUPPORT your own wild assertions, how can you stand there with a straight face and accuse ME of not wanting to do your work for you? It is not I that has to support one conspiracy theory hypothesis after another, now is it? Or didn't you read where I said I was only in this for presenting YOUNGER Physorgforumers with an alternative view and common principles/analogies which present something for these youngsters to get their teeth into and look up for themselves....instead of just 'believing' you and your pseudo-scientific assinine and hypocritical bleating about what OTHERS should do FOR YOU...when you should be here doing 'science' for YOURSELF and your assertions, heh?

I am not asserting anything here, I am just replying to YOURS and others' assertions. OK?

So quit whining about others, and instead go ahead and REFUTE WHAT THEY SAY USING YOUR OWN 'WORK' to support what YOU are blathering on about. Fair enough?

Where's YOUR quantitative physics/analysis for whatever YOU are hypothesising, metamars? If it's so allfired important to you, why not do a THESIS on your conspiracy 'anomalies'. You are a university student are you not? If what you say is so important and true, then YOU TOO may become as famous as Jones et al! Think of joining that illustrious BYU 'hotbed of incompetence' (note that even that 'useless christian science' university has had enough of being painted with the same brush that Jones is being painted into a corner with daily).

BTW, metamars.....YOU'RE not a student of Jones at BYU, are you? That would explain a lot. He was too lazy to check his facts re Hoffman and other sources too. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where gordon got his 'one-dimensional' analysis constructs from, either. That's a great christian education you can get at BYU.....except they LEAVE OUT anything that is inconsistent with their 'beliefs'.....some scientists you and gordon are emulating for all you're worth, mate. I pity you and any other youngster mesmerised by a "christian" conman of such 'integrity' in matters of ethics and application of the scientific method.

Get back to Jones' class, metamars, the bell's gone. Cheers!

RC.
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More blathering to avoid even more embarassment, eh? Let's try this one more time:

QUOTE

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory". 

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.

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* Your question being:
QUOTE (->
QUOTE

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory". 

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.

.
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* Your question being:


if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?





As far as your statement:
QUOTE

Or didn't you read where I said I was only in this for presenting YOUNGER Physorgforumers with an alternative view and common principles/analogies which present something for these youngsters to get their teeth into and look up for themselves


I would think that if you had any real concern for "YOUNGER" forum members, that you at least would take the time to put forth a coherent argument every 100 pages or so. Do you think that forcing "YOUNGER" members to wade through your James Joyce style of drivel might not drive them away from science? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, you labeling yourself as a scientist and then spamming this board with your drivel might not make some "YOUNGER" members give up on science?? Has it not occurred to you that your drivel, ascribed to a scientist such as yourself, might not permanently prejudice a young mind against a career in science?

From where I sit, you have about as much concern for "YOUNGER" forum members as you do for understanding the WTC collapses, as you possess any real scientific training - which is to say, none at all.


Oh dear! YOU make all the assinine assertions and I'M the one being embarrassed? Right THERE you prove how hypocritical you are, metamars.

I am only obliged to point to reasonable conjecture regarding the phenomena which you point to in your wild speculations. Is it my fault that your speculations don't stand up to even cursory scrutiny?

And STILL you evade the point that YOU are not doing what YOU demand of others, even though Schneibster et al have refuted the original basis for the CD conspiracy theories invoking 'free fall', exotic weapons, etc etc.

Mate, get a grip and look at yourself before going on about your perceived shortcomings in others, heh?

DO YOU INTEND TO DO ANY MORE FOR YOUR 'QUEST FOR TRUTH' THAN MERELY ASKING OTHERS TO ANTE UP THINGS WHICH THEY NEVER HAD TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Hey metamars, if your OWN 'motives' and 'science' are so woefully inadequate to the task, who are YOU to say what youngsters need? I'll tell you what they need, LESS BS and hypocrisy from YOU, for a start. Anything I say here that gets a youngster to at least stop and question all the exotic Bulldust YOU deal out is pure gravy as far as future science is concerned. Let's DO leave it to them, heh? And what have they said so far.....nothing in support of YOU, that's clear enough....or else they would be coming to bat for your side in droves, wouldn't they? See reality, act accordingly, and stop fart-arsing about and GET TO WORK on that thesis which will make you as (in)famous as Jones! Can't wait for more 'professional' "christian science" from those who let 'beliefs' dictate to their scientific integrity.

Those youngsters AT LEAST are getting an object lesson from you and your cohort as to what NOT to do if you want to be respected in REAL scientific quarters. Shame on you.

RC.
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brian
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 01:56 AM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 12 2006, 01:31 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 09:01 PM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 11 2006, 09:00 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 05:50 PM)
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 05:23 PM)
The puffs are initiated by the buckling.  Part of the puff is the fireproofing covering the perimeter columns being crushed.  Some is drywall from the offices.  The puffs have a light color on the lower half of the buckled east side as the collapse starts.  The same dust above the buckled zone has a darker color because the soot from the fires above is mixed in with it.

but the spire has been relieved of any crushing forces from above, so what would cause the remaining core columns to buckle? (which, by the way, i don't see any of. i see a straight spire get whacked on one side by some explosive force, and then begin to tip as a straight spire, and then fall straight down.)

i know RC has a theory about it, but surprisingly, i don't agree that things were moving around much at the base. it is also clear from the debris pile photos that the towers were peeled like a banana at the base. which indicates, forces radiating predominantly outward. obviously, this is also apparent for the (ultra fine) dust cloud.

That peeling effect is from the core exploding and pushing outward on the beams between the interior box columns.

User posted image

No it's not. It's from falling apart all on it's own..




Okay, you say it falls apart on its own. Why is it going up so much?

user posted image


Hi Chris, everyone. Isn't that about where the lower half of the core temporarily obstructs the downward collapse of the 'central' part of the debris 'plug' formed by most of the upper core, its inner concrete floor slabs and hat-truss?

If so, that's EXACTLY where I would expect an EXTRA AMOUNT of 'UP-rebound/SIDE-expulsion' effects before the remnant core itself succumbs to the DOUBTLESS damage that such a 'rebound/expulsion' PILE-DRIVER 'hit' would have done to all its 'integral' geometry/interconnections.

So Chris, in fact, that extra 'explosive-looking' effect AT THAT LEVEL shows that it was the collapse to that stage that produced it...and not high-explosives. That's how I connect the height/effects with the core remnant height/status information presented by you guys. Ciao!

RC.
.

This is the sort of objectivity the youngsters need eh?

Verbiage is verbiage is verbiage.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (brian+Mar 12 2006, 10:33 PM)
metamars, I cannot accept your reccomendation to take a sample of gordon and RCs posts here and ask who is the scientist. I would not embarrass myself.

If Reality Check is a scientist -

I will bare me arse in Bourke Street.

A good old Aussie saying which gives it the proper perspective.

newton, thanks for the laughs, you are killing them softly.


Hi brian. Are you a Melbournian Aussie?
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brian
RC, no, a travelled Scot.

RealityCheck
QUOTE (brian+Mar 12 2006, 10:45 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 01:56 AM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 12 2006, 01:31 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 09:01 PM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 11 2006, 09:00 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 05:50 PM)
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 05:23 PM)
The puffs are initiated by the buckling.  Part of the puff is the fireproofing covering the perimeter columns being crushed.  Some is drywall from the offices.  The puffs have a light color on the lower half of the buckled east side as the collapse starts.  The same dust above the buckled zone has a darker color because the soot from the fires above is mixed in with it.

but the spire has been relieved of any crushing forces from above, so what would cause the remaining core columns to buckle? (which, by the way, i don't see any of. i see a straight spire get whacked on one side by some explosive force, and then begin to tip as a straight spire, and then fall straight down.)

i know RC has a theory about it, but surprisingly, i don't agree that things were moving around much at the base. it is also clear from the debris pile photos that the towers were peeled like a banana at the base. which indicates, forces radiating predominantly outward. obviously, this is also apparent for the (ultra fine) dust cloud.

That peeling effect is from the core exploding and pushing outward on the beams between the interior box columns.

User posted image

No it's not. It's from falling apart all on it's own..




Okay, you say it falls apart on its own. Why is it going up so much?

user posted image


Hi Chris, everyone. Isn't that about where the lower half of the core temporarily obstructs the downward collapse of the 'central' part of the debris 'plug' formed by most of the upper core, its inner concrete floor slabs and hat-truss?

If so, that's EXACTLY where I would expect an EXTRA AMOUNT of 'UP-rebound/SIDE-expulsion' effects before the remnant core itself succumbs to the DOUBTLESS damage that such a 'rebound/expulsion' PILE-DRIVER 'hit' would have done to all its 'integral' geometry/interconnections.

So Chris, in fact, that extra 'explosive-looking' effect AT THAT LEVEL shows that it was the collapse to that stage that produced it...and not high-explosives. That's how I connect the height/effects with the core remnant height/status information presented by you guys. Ciao!

RC.
.

This is the sort of objectivity the youngsters need eh?

Verbiage is verbiage is verbiage.


Say what? Brian, are you even reading that upon which you comment so stupidly? Next time read AND UNDERSTAND the points being made BEFORE you open your irrelevant, incompetent mouth, heh?

RC.
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RealityCheck
QUOTE (brian+Mar 12 2006, 10:54 PM)
RC, no, a travelled Scot.


How far/widely/frequently travelled would that be, brian?
brian
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 10:55 PM)
QUOTE (brian+Mar 12 2006, 10:45 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 01:56 AM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 12 2006, 01:31 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 09:01 PM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 11 2006, 09:00 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 05:50 PM)
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 05:23 PM)
The puffs are initiated by the buckling.  Part of the puff is the fireproofing covering the perimeter columns being crushed.  Some is drywall from the offices.  The puffs have a light color on the lower half of the buckled east side as the collapse starts.  The same dust above the buckled zone has a darker color because the soot from the fires above is mixed in with it.

but the spire has been relieved of any crushing forces from above, so what would cause the remaining core columns to buckle? (which, by the way, i don't see any of. i see a straight spire get whacked on one side by some explosive force, and then begin to tip as a straight spire, and then fall straight down.)

i know RC has a theory about it, but surprisingly, i don't agree that things were moving around much at the base. it is also clear from the debris pile photos that the towers were peeled like a banana at the base. which indicates, forces radiating predominantly outward. obviously, this is also apparent for the (ultra fine) dust cloud.

That peeling effect is from the core exploding and pushing outward on the beams between the interior box columns.

User posted image

No it's not. It's from falling apart all on it's own..




Okay, you say it falls apart on its own. Why is it going up so much?

user posted image


Hi Chris, everyone. Isn't that about where the lower half of the core temporarily obstructs the downward collapse of the 'central' part of the debris 'plug' formed by most of the upper core, its inner concrete floor slabs and hat-truss?

If so, that's EXACTLY where I would expect an EXTRA AMOUNT of 'UP-rebound/SIDE-expulsion' effects before the remnant core itself succumbs to the DOUBTLESS damage that such a 'rebound/expulsion' PILE-DRIVER 'hit' would have done to all its 'integral' geometry/interconnections.

So Chris, in fact, that extra 'explosive-looking' effect AT THAT LEVEL shows that it was the collapse to that stage that produced it...and not high-explosives. That's how I connect the height/effects with the core remnant height/status information presented by you guys. Ciao!

RC.
.

This is the sort of objectivity the youngsters need eh?

Verbiage is verbiage is verbiage.


Say what? Brian, are you even reading that upon which you comment so stupidly? Next time read AND UNDERSTAND the points being made BEFORE you open your irrelevant, incompetent mouth, heh?

RC.
.

"Next time read AND UNDERSTAND the points being made BEFORE you open your irrelevant, incompetent mouth, heh?"

And the points being made were?

First you ask a question - "Isn't that about where ..."

Then you assume the answer - "If so, that's EXACTLY where ..."

Then it becomes fact - "So Chris, in fact ...."

"Irrlevant incompetent" - verbiage.

You sir are a clown.

RealityCheck
QUOTE (brian+Mar 12 2006, 11:04 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 10:55 PM)
QUOTE (brian+Mar 12 2006, 10:45 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 01:56 AM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 12 2006, 01:31 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 09:01 PM)
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 11 2006, 09:00 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 05:50 PM)
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 05:23 PM)
The puffs are initiated by the buckling.  Part of the puff is the fireproofing covering the perimeter columns being crushed.  Some is drywall from the offices.  The puffs have a light color on the lower half of the buckled east side as the collapse starts.  The same dust above the buckled zone has a darker color because the soot from the fires above is mixed in with it.

but the spire has been relieved of any crushing forces from above, so what would cause the remaining core columns to buckle? (which, by the way, i don't see any of. i see a straight spire get whacked on one side by some explosive force, and then begin to tip as a straight spire, and then fall straight down.)

i know RC has a theory about it, but surprisingly, i don't agree that things were moving around much at the base. it is also clear from the debris pile photos that the towers were peeled like a banana at the base. which indicates, forces radiating predominantly outward. obviously, this is also apparent for the (ultra fine) dust cloud.

That peeling effect is from the core exploding and pushing outward on the beams between the interior box columns.

User posted image

No it's not. It's from falling apart all on it's own..




Okay, you say it falls apart on its own. Why is it going up so much?

user posted image


Hi Chris, everyone. Isn't that about where the lower half of the core temporarily obstructs the downward collapse of the 'central' part of the debris 'plug' formed by most of the upper core, its inner concrete floor slabs and hat-truss?

If so, that's EXACTLY where I would expect an EXTRA AMOUNT of 'UP-rebound/SIDE-expulsion' effects before the remnant core itself succumbs to the DOUBTLESS damage that such a 'rebound/expulsion' PILE-DRIVER 'hit' would have done to all its 'integral' geometry/interconnections.

So Chris, in fact, that extra 'explosive-looking' effect AT THAT LEVEL shows that it was the collapse to that stage that produced it...and not high-explosives. That's how I connect the height/effects with the core remnant height/status information presented by you guys. Ciao!

RC.
.

This is the sort of objectivity the youngsters need eh?

Verbiage is verbiage is verbiage.


Say what? Brian, are you even reading that upon which you comment so stupidly? Next time read AND UNDERSTAND the points being made BEFORE you open your irrelevant, incompetent mouth, heh?

RC.
.

"Next time read AND UNDERSTAND the points being made BEFORE you open your irrelevant, incompetent mouth, heh?"

And the points being made were?

First you ask a question - "Isn't that about where ..."

Then you assume the answer - "If so, that's EXACTLY where ..."

Then it becomes fact - "So Chris, in fact ...."

"Irrlevant incompetent" - verbiage.

You sir are a clown.


Did you miss my starting qualifiers "if so"? Did you miss where I say I "would expect" IF that was so?

Did you miss the obvious conclusion to be drawn, IF those things as posited/described WERE so?

In fact, that's exactly where any gravity-driven collapse to that point would meet sudden resistance in the central portion of that falling mass. That would explain the sudden 'out/up/sideburst', wouldn't it?

Or do you have your own hypothesis?

Mate, all joking aside, the falling debris 'plug' at that point would 'rebound' and 'spill' from that transiently standing core section, wouldn't it? If that core remnant was there at that height, what I suggest would have to be reasonably considered GIVEN all those conditional IF's and EXPECTATIONS using Occam's Razor view of the facts as presented, wouldn't it?

Can you explain why it COULDN'T BE AS I OBSERVE?

And no, mate, I work alone....and your clown car is full.

RC.
.
Christophera
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 12 2006, 08:05 PM)
Actually Christophera....

This is a good representation - One I have nor seen displayed before. Did you put it together, or where did you find it?

http://algoxy.com/psych/psyimages/sitelineWTCcore.gif

User posted image

What leaps out at me about this graphic representation is the following.

Note how both planes were directed towards the center of the WTC... that is the 'plan' which becomes clearly evident here.

What's the plan? I have thought of this before, but it really gels when you look at the diagram. The plan was directed to cause the towers to fall inwards to the center of the WTC.

(Very considerate of those wacky cave-dwellers).

Now... IF I were a terrorist - wishing to inflict as much damage as possible... I would have planned to have the planes come from the east & west (or better yet both from the northeast).

That way (should I be thinking that the towers were to 'collapse' APART from considering the explosives theory and ONLY considering the hope of causing 'gravity-driven collapse')...

they would theoretically fall more outward of the center of the WTC... (hopeful to cause even greater damage - in the event of possible collapse) to surrounding properties.

Also, I would have planned to aim at the corner of the buildings, thus giving a wider target (and less chance of missing - as plane 175 almost did in trying to line up with one face). Had both planes been directed from the northeast, there would be greater chance of taking out not only the Towers, but also World Financial Center buildings and Bankers Trust... prime auxilary financial targets.

It seems fairly obvious to me (from a devious-thinking point of view) that the 'plan' was to have the buildings fall in towards the center of the complex.

CUI BONO ?

I think it was a revised mapquest page, I went further by correcting their north arrow and added the pink line to show the approxmate siteline of this image. Topozone has the wrong direction for north. Now it is hard to even find the WTC site, Vesey street etc.
I have preliminary plans (1964), about 40 sheets and they show the towers were aligned to cardinal directions, matching the 1990 documentary. No sections or details except w/regard to elevators and floor layout.

user posted image

This chain of logic is one I've traversed greatly, it is connected to the chain that tries to explain why the wrong tower fell first.

http://algoxy.com/psych/9-11scenario.html#anchor1207667

The tower tops fell in the wrong directions according to the faces hit. You are mostly correct, the fall patterns were designed to trash as much as possible, but WTC 3 was a target for the tops of the buildings in a cartoon like enactment of planes hitting towers.
metamars
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 10:41 PM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 10:06 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 09:05 PM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 06:47 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 12 2006, 05:38 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 12 2006, 04:50 AM)
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 12 2006, 04:36 AM)
YET ANOTHER BLUNDEROUS OMISSION IN HIS SO-CALLED 'ANALYSES' WHICH IMPRESS YOU SO MUCH?


I must have missed that bit.  Perhaps you could fill me in on just one point that you have made which doen't ramble on about drivel that has little or nothing to do with the subject with the odd adjective or verb thrown in just because you have heard it somewhere on your troubleshooting/varied /groundbreaking/(insert more blowhard egobosting words here) history and think that you will sound good to some other no-mark who is similarly clueless.
Let's be clear here.  An education in a subject also confers the ability to assess the knowledge of others. 

Gordon.

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Thank-you. I was about to waste more time answering "Reality Check's" nonsense and obfuscation, but you have saved me the time.

I might add: take a representative sample of Gordon's posts, and a representative sample of "Reality Check's" posts, to ANY physicist or engineer at a local university, and ask a simple question:

Which is written by a technically competent person, and which is drivel?

Do be kind enough to post the responses you get, properly sourced, of course.



Metamars, I'm sure even YOU could randomly put together impressive-looking equations and numbers and terms STRAIGHT OUT OF A TEXTBOOK....while not understanding AT ALL THEIR MEANING AND OR USAGE IN ANY WAY.

The important thing is COMPREHENSION, not mindless COPYING AND PASTING some totally erroneous textbook terms to 'dress up' totally incompetent analysis constructs.

Haven't you learnt ANYTHING from the debacle with Jones and Hoffman et al? THEY ARE SUPPOSED PROFESSORS, FOR GOODNESS' SAKE...and look at the hash THEY made of the 'equations/figures', heh? Wake up and smell reality....numbers and equations are no substitute for objective observation and logical comprehension. HOW DO YOU THINK ALL THOSE EQUATIONS AND PRINCIPLES GOT FIGURED OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE?...it was those observations and logical comprehensions that allowed mathematical constructs to be created/refined TO REPRESENT THAT REALITY BEING LOGICALLY COMPREHENDED IN THE FIRST PLACE BY 'SCIENTIFIC METHOD' OBSERVATION and later REPRODUCTION VIA MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF SAME.

Have you learned anything from that? If nothing else, take away the point that 'numbers' mean NOTHING without comprehension and context (statistics/survey constructs/analyses are PERFECT examples where the truth is NOT ALWAYS in the NUMBERS, but in the CONTEXT). And in the case of 9/11, the physics is in context only insofar as it can be demonstrated to be 'prosaic' and everyday processes/principles involved in EXTRAORDINARILY CHAOTIC AND HUMONGOUS DYNAMICS.

Once you accept that a lot of things could be happening all over the place during that chaos, then you probably won't feel so much need to invoke space lasers and space aliens and 'mysterious energy' flows. Common sense will do the job.


Lame. Your continued avoidance of even any attempt to be precise, when you could be (that is, if you really are a "scientist", with expertise or even basic knowledge in physics and chemistry), strikes me as nothing more than a way to avoid being shown up for the spewer of drivel that you are.

And, as you have been shown to be a spewer of drivel even in a qualitative way, I don't believe for a second that you are a scientist.

I note, once again, that NIST and FEMA eschewed your "wonderful insights" for the relevance of chaos theory in understanding the collapses. Even in a mumbo jumbo, non-technical way that you specialize in, where it difficult to say where and how, exactly, your thinking is off because you are so unclear in presenting anything resembling a coherent argument. Apparently, in your own mind, your invocation of chaos to explain away anything you can't, otherwise, is a real contribution. But even NIST and FEMA didn't stoop this low!

When are you going to contact NIST and FEMA to let them imbibe of your wisdom? You woulnd't want to leave them in a state of ignorance, now, would you?


QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:
QUOTE (->
QUOTE

And I repeat, if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support? Don't you think the victims of 9/11 DESERVE that little bit of effort from YOU, since you maintain that there is an official govt. conspiracy to cover the murder of all their family/friends. You say that the govt did it, but do you take the trouble to prove any of it for the sake of the victims? No. Obviously. You're too lazy; or too not-enamoured-after-all with your own stupidity. That's what comes across, met. I don't care what you think of me. I don't HAVE to care about what lazy stupid peoiple think of me. I care about YOU doing science and everyone involved a disservice by your unsubstantiated UFO/CT bulldust.

RC.


I reject the "common sense" premise of your first question. Indeed, as should be obvious to any reader of this thread (including yourself), we find the "common sense" of the NIST apologists to often be laughable - and yours may be the most laughable of all, though you do have lots of stiff competition. (We really should have a poll to settle the matter. )

Indeed, did I not just recently point out, again, that the more improbable your notion, the more you need to make it quantitative in the hopes of possibly rescuing it? Did you think that I meant "improbable in the mind of the spewer of such drivel"? I did not.

Having put the lie to this obvious twist of propaganda, your question about a physics question is a fair one, though I digress to once again point out the difference between disproving one assertion, and proving one at odds with it.

<begin digression>
If you claim that little green fairies took down the towers, and I say "no, they were taking down with thermite", but fail to prove this claim, that does not mean that the little green faires are indeed the culprits. Perhaps to a believer in Fairy Tales, yes, but you are a scientist, so you know better. Right?
<end digression>

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory".

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.


* Your question being:

if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?



Hi metamars! Are the space Lasers in position yet? Which 'spire' shall we disintegrate today?

Really metamars, just what is it you have against Randomness and Chaos where such widespread dynamic energies are involved?

Doesn't the video evidence of many unscathed cars, people, plants etc in an event where others WERE hit and set on fire by embers/debris, tell you the OBVIOUS? Where's the need for me to waste MY time 'quantifying' and 'numerating' things for YOU?

After all, YOU are the one with the crazy assertions. I merely comment on what I see AND LEAVE IT AT THAT if I am satisfied with the Occam's Razor outcomes.

I repeat, why don't YOU do all that 'quantifying' you demand of others? You seem to be MOTIVATED enough but TOO lazy, is that it?

So, if YOU are TOO LAZY to try and SUBSTANTIATE/SUPPORT your own wild assertions, how can you stand there with a straight face and accuse ME of not wanting to do your work for you? It is not I that has to support one conspiracy theory hypothesis after another, now is it? Or didn't you read where I said I was only in this for presenting YOUNGER Physorgforumers with an alternative view and common principles/analogies which present something for these youngsters to get their teeth into and look up for themselves....instead of just 'believing' you and your pseudo-scientific assinine and hypocritical bleating about what OTHERS should do FOR YOU...when you should be here doing 'science' for YOURSELF and your assertions, heh?

I am not asserting anything here, I am just replying to YOURS and others' assertions. OK?

So quit whining about others, and instead go ahead and REFUTE WHAT THEY SAY USING YOUR OWN 'WORK' to support what YOU are blathering on about. Fair enough?

Where's YOUR quantitative physics/analysis for whatever YOU are hypothesising, metamars? If it's so allfired important to you, why not do a THESIS on your conspiracy 'anomalies'. You are a university student are you not? If what you say is so important and true, then YOU TOO may become as famous as Jones et al! Think of joining that illustrious BYU 'hotbed of incompetence' (note that even that 'useless christian science' university has had enough of being painted with the same brush that Jones is being painted into a corner with daily).

BTW, metamars.....YOU'RE not a student of Jones at BYU, are you? That would explain a lot. He was too lazy to check his facts re Hoffman and other sources too. It wouldn't surprise me if that's where gordon got his 'one-dimensional' analysis constructs from, either. That's a great christian education you can get at BYU.....except they LEAVE OUT anything that is inconsistent with their 'beliefs'.....some scientists you and gordon are emulating for all you're worth, mate. I pity you and any other youngster mesmerised by a "christian" conman of such 'integrity' in matters of ethics and application of the scientific method.

Get back to Jones' class, metamars, the bell's gone. Cheers!

RC.
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More blathering to avoid even more embarassment, eh? Let's try this one more time:

QUOTE

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory". 

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.

.
.

* Your question being:
QUOTE (->
QUOTE

I'm not sure what you mean by "consistent", but I will presume you mean "non-contradictory". 

I also presume that that a comprehensive account is desirable. This is certainly my view.

So the question arises: how "comprehensive" is "comprehensive"? I recently introduced the distinction between what I call the strong and weak forms of the NIST'ian hand waving re "global collapse ensued". As NIST carries out their wonderful analysis by closing their eyes to all the anomalies, most all of which point away from their Fairy Tale intuition, should I also carry out a "comprehensive" analysis wherein I also close my eyes to evidence - much of it extraordinary - which argues against NIST's intuition?

If you answer "no, don't ignore these phenomena, also" then please explain to me why it's OK for NIST to do so.

If you answer "yes, ignore these phenomena", then I will deal with your question accordingly.

.
.

* Your question being:


if YOU aren't satisfied with common sense, and INSIST that "THEY" did it, then why don't you take the time and trouble to come up with consistent physics explanations in support?





As far as your statement:
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Or didn't you read where I said I was only in this for presenting YOUNGER Physorgforumers with an alternative view and common principles/analogies which present something for these youngsters to get their teeth into and look up for themselves


I would think that if you had any real concern for "YOUNGER" forum members, that you at least would take the time to put forth a coherent argument every 100 pages or so. Do you think that forcing "YOUNGER" members to wade through your James Joyce style of drivel might not drive them away from science? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, you labeling yourself as a scientist and then spamming this board with your drivel might not make some "YOUNGER" members give up on science?? Has it not occurred to you that your drivel, ascribed to a scientist such as yourself, might not permanently prejudice a young mind against a career in science?

From where I sit, you have about as much concern for "YOUNGER" forum members as you do for understanding the WTC collapses, as you possess any real scientific training - which is to say, none at all.


Oh dear! YOU make all the assinine assertions and I'M the one being embarrassed? Right THERE you prove how hypocritical you are, metamars.

I am only obliged to point to reasonable conjecture regarding the phenomena which you point to in your wild speculations. Is it my fault that your speculations don't stand up to even cursory scrutiny?

And STILL you evade the point that YOU are not doing what YOU demand of others, even though Schneibster et al have refuted the original basis for the CD conspiracy theories invoking 'free fall', exotic weapons, etc etc.

Mate, get a grip and look at yourself before going on about your perceived shortcomings in others, heh?

DO YOU INTEND TO DO ANY MORE FOR YOUR 'QUEST FOR TRUTH' THAN MERELY ASKING OTHERS TO ANTE UP THINGS WHICH THEY NEVER HAD TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Hey metamars, if your OWN 'motives' and 'science' are so woefully inadequate to the task, who are YOU to say what youngsters need? I'll tell you what they need, LESS BS and hypocrisy from YOU, for a start. Anything I say here that gets a youngster to at least stop and question all the exotic Bulldust YOU deal out is pure gravy as far as future science is concerned. Let's DO leave it to them, heh? And what have they said so far.....nothing in support of YOU, that's clear enough....or else they would be coming to bat for your side in droves, wouldn't they? See reality, act accordingly, and stop fart-arsing about and GET TO WORK on that thesis which will make you as (in)famous as Jones! Can't wait for more 'professional' "christian science" from those who let 'beliefs' dictate to their scientific integrity.

Those youngsters AT LEAST are getting an object lesson from you and your cohort as to what NOT to do if you want to be respected in REAL scientific quarters. Shame on you.

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Your answer is both as scientific, and to the point, as most all your other posts.

In case you hadn't noticed (you certainly at least pretend not to), it was mostly you who was singled out for criticism ito not being quantitative. And, indeed, of not even making an attempt.

Meanwhile, it is you who 1) claims to be a scientist and 2) certainly doesn't talk like one.

Furthermore, it is you who has referred to Jones and Hoffman as "idiots".

You were challenged, essentially, to put up or shut up, and you have, as expected, completely failed the test.

I have never claimed to be a scientist, and still have attempted, on numerous occassions, to be be quantititive, within the limits of my ability. As you have commented on at least some of these posts, you are completely aware of this fact. Your pretense otherwise speaks to your dishonesty.

Indeed, I recently sketched out a calculation re Hoffman to get (hopefully) a better idea of what sort of temperature drop off one might expect. My posts on this subject make it crystal clear that anything I determine from such a crude calculation - one way or another - will in no way obviate the desirability of a full blown treatment employing fluid hydrodynamics.

This is consistent with how, I am sure, an inquisitive, even scientific, mind works. Can you imagine Einstein blathering on about the principles - oh!, excuse me, the PRINCIPLES - of physics, like yourself? I sure can't. When he had some ideas that were the germ of general relativity, but realized he didn't have the appropriate mathematical background, he sought out a mathematician who could teach him differential geometry.

He did not say "I'm a scientist, listen to my bloviations about physics PRINCIPLES, and by the way, you guys are idiots".

The difference between these two approaches are like night and day.

I don't believe you're capable of doing any insightful physics calcs wrt to the collapses (in other words, I don't believe you're a scientist with any relevant background and/or expertise. Perhaps you're a plant botanist, or something equally ill-suited, but that's about it.) Furthermore, if you really are capable, then it's still quite clear you have no interest in understanding the collapses.

Your concern about "YOUNGSTERS" is yet another smokescreen, for one thing you surely are is a propagandist. Obfuscating a serious issue does nobody any good, including young people. The only people it can possibly help are the perpetrators.

At least Schneibster and, yes, even adoucette, are/were capable of making some excellent points. I have trouble of thinking of even one that you have made. Your signal to noise ratio is so low, that you are clearly in the same region as "Common Sense" - and communicate about as effectively, though your contorted "stream of consciousness" sentence structures are quite different from his.

Thus, even compared to your fellow popes, you occupy a lowly station. It was suggested to Common Sense (IIRC) earlier in this thread that he "retire". I now repeat that same suggestion to you. You do not even help your side in the debate, as least as observed by rational people. Your only contribution to your "side", in this regard, is to exhaust the patience of potential participants who don't want to deal with your blathering, which inevitably becomes peppered with ad hominems.


gordon
Bearing in mind the situation where the floors were heated up and remembering that a 250 C temp rise, approx, will put a straight, constrained steel bar beyond yield strain, the floors had no option other than to absorb the strain, sag, push the perimeter columns outwards, or, more likely, a combination with proportionate magnitudes of all three.

That effective force, greater in magnitude than the yield stress load, and acting at close to ninety degrees, its most effective angle, was unable to push the columns out to any appreciable amount and the floors had to sag instead.
When the floors cooled, and presumably not by the full amount of the rise, some of the thermally induced strain would be relieved in the floors and they would wish to contract, and could do so by either pulling inwards on the walls, relieving and reversing their own strain and that in the columns, or reversing their sag, or, more likely, a combination of all three.

We know that the outward force, the effective load on expansion was greater than yield load.
We know that the inward force was less than yield force or it would have yielded, and also because of our reasoning above.
We know that the perimeter columns were no easier to pull inwards than outwards.
We know that the steel floors were at their hottest and weakest when carrying the full expansive strain and at their coldest and strongest when carrying the contraction strain.
We know that the mass did not get bigger and thus increase the vertical force.

How was it then possible for the floors to pull the walls in with a reduced force upon contraction, but not outwards upon expansion?

Gordon.

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