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kylebisme

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Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Oh I see how it works now. "The will of the people" now means whatever you truthers want it to mean.
It means allowing people to the freedom to vote for or against a new investigation as they choose, rather than having that choice stripped from them by the powers that be.

Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Again, you'd have an argument if there was ANY SHRED OF EVIDENCE.
We've got conclusive proof that the official conspiracy theory is false, the most flagrant example presented in the OP. You on the other hand have your head buried deep in the sand to ignore anything of the sort.
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: kylebisme
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Originally posted by: kylebisme
By the way, 80,000 New Yorkers petitioned to have the possibility of opening a new investigation put to vote, but the will of the people was shut down by the powers that be.

Wow, 80,000...
That is the number they stopped at because that is the number of people they were told would need be needed to put the idea of a new invesgtation to vote.

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Let me know when you get at least 20% of the population...
It was around 66% of New Yorkers calling for new probe according to a Zogby poll back in 2004, and I've seen no evidence to suggest the numbers have dropped since then.

First off, what were the polling questions? Those can heavily skew the results.

Second, the poll wasn't whether it was a conspiracy, but whether the government had foreknowledge. Foreknowledge could mean anything, as most people would agree.

That the government had foreknowledge of 9/11 is entirely possible, I firmly believe that. That the government actually brought the towers down is NOT what the poll sought and is what YOU seek to prove.

You're trying to bolster your argument by using that poll and you're failing miserably, just as with the remainder of your argument.
 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: Number1
Your link mentions 80K who want a referendum. How about you tell us how many did not want a referendum. Let me guess...
I'm not intrested in guesses.

Originally posted by: Number1
And you lectured us in a previous post for talking about things other then the OP and even said you would not comment any more on anything else.
Sure enough, I let you falsers refusal to address the facts of the OP sway me from my previous plan.

Originally posted by: Number1
Your body wildehorse referred us to an article by David Ray Griffin as a good read about "WTC7 Mysterious Fall".
Rather, he referred to a book, but I wouldn't expect a falser like yourself to respect the difference.

Originally posted by: Number1
David Ray Griffin is a man of faith, a retired professor of philosophy of religion and theology
A man of faith in God, as am I. I figure a solid understanding of theology helps one know better than to ascribe Godly qualities of being all knowing, all powerful and all loving to human entities such as our government and media hence vesting them with such faith like you falsers absurdly do, atheists and otherwise.

Originally posted by: Number1
How did he become an expert in building collapses.
From what I've seen of him, his understanding seems to be derived from rigorous research and investigation, rather than deferring to others to do his thinking for him as you are so obviously fond of doing.
 

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Originally posted by: kylebisme
By the way, 80,000 New Yorkers petitioned to have the possibility of opening a new investigation put to vote, but the will of the people was shut down by the powers that be.

Thousands of people have petitioned to have dihydrogen monoxide (water) banned. Thousands of women have signed petitions to have women's suffrage ended. All your statistic proves is that some people are stupid. Actually, you've proven that repeatedly in this thread.

Again, who are you to claim that what happened is a physical impossibility. In doing so, you are claiming that the vast, vast majority of physicists of the world, engineers, architects, etc., are idiots. And, your credentials to do so are...? How dare you claim that an overwhelming majority of professionals in those fields are wrong about basic physics? (While demonstrating that you have multiple conceptual problems with physics yourself.)

As far as proving your first point, you've done no such thing. You've done nothing other than put forth a claim - that it was impossible. You have yet to provide proof of the impossibility, backed by sound scientific reasoning. You obviously cannot do so yourself, so you repeatedly link to other sites. The same sites that have been debunked over and over and over.

Perhaps what you need is this:
debunked: To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham, or exaggerated claims of

 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
First off, what were the polling questions? Those can heavily skew the results.
I looked though questions years and considered them reasonable. I'm not going to dig them up for you now though as you are free to do your own homework.

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Second, the poll wasn't whether it was a conspiracy, but whether the government had foreknowledge.
Rather, 50% suspect foreknowledge, while 66% called for another investigation.

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
That the government actually brought the towers down is NOT what the poll sought and is what YOU seek to prove.
I don't seek to prove anything, but rather my interest in discussing the facts and letting the chips fall where they may, while your interest is obviously in doing anything but.
 

LunarRay

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Originally posted by: BeauJangles

Oh I see how it works now. "The will of the people" now means whatever you truthers want it to mean. Again, you'd have an argument if there was ANY SHRED OF EVIDENCE. You've provided absolutely nothing meaningful. You've shown no ability to even understand the basic facts of what happened and you willfully deny anything that threatens your primitive perception of what happened on that day.

Considering neither of you idiots seem to be terribly good at math, let's see.

80,000 / 20,000,000 = .4% of the population of greater New York thinks that there should be a reinvestigation of 9/11. I bet you .4% of the population also believe Obama is an alien or that Elvis is still alive, or that the Holocaust never happened.

I don't know about the 20 million... but, I know for sure 100% of my sisters both want an investigation. Me... I like C-Span. So, I'd enjoy that kind of thing... watching hearings and like that.

I don't know that I'd be a 'truther', actually.
I'm pretty good at math, well.... quite good at math! I got my plus and divide down pat... even can reverse it.. if I really have to.
That you do not concede there exists a shred of evidence that does not conform to the 'official' version places you firmly in the cement of the majority. That is a strong place to be but it also tends to bind you to one possibility and obviates accepting an alternative or parallel position even if it is deemed plausible by other expert scientists. New evidence might just pop into the picture or a new interpretation of the old evidence.
... my primitive perception of what happened... I know what happened, I think... Some terrorists flew planes into three buildings and a field. Some buildings fell and lots of citizens and others died. A tragedy of epic proportions.
I'd love to open an investigation that answers some questions for me... but, that is not a good use of tax dollars unless they are already on the payroll... Ideally the Chairman would be Chris Shays.
 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: DrPizza
All your statistic proves is that some people are stupid.
Says the guy who challenged me to make the OP and has yet to adress it.

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Again, who are you to claim that what happened is a physical impossibility.
I'm a person with a solid grasp of the physics involved.

Originally posted by: DrPizza
In doing so, you are claiming that the vast, vast majority of physicists of the world, engineers, architects, etc., are idiots.
Rather, you are claiming that the vast majority of physicists, engineers, and architects in this world have taken the time to look into the fall of WTC7, while I highly doubt that is the case, and am fairly sure you can't prove anything of the sort. I find your claim particularly dubious considering the Zogby poll I linked above found only around 28% of NYC area residents even knew WTC7 fell, and they live right around it.

Originally posted by: DrPizza
As far as proving your first point, you've done no such thing.
I provided the facts to prove it right there in the OP, and neither you or anyone else has been able to refute them, not that one could rightly expect anyone to.
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: kylebisme
I looked though questions years and considered them reasonable. I'm not going to dig them up for you now though as you are free to do your own homework.

Rather, 50% suspect foreknowledge, while 66% called for another investigation.

You use it as evidence, you back up the evidence, otherwise don't bring it to the table. You have the burden of proof.

Investigation into what?
 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: LunarRay
That you do not concede there exists a shred of evidence that does not conform to the 'official' version places you firmly in the cement of the majority.
It puts him in the majority here on this forum anyway, but in the grand scheme of things even just believing al Qaeda was behind the attacks puts him in the minority.
 

LunarRay

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller

That the government had foreknowledge of 9/11 is entirely possible, I firmly believe .

I don't!.... I mean, to think that is possible would be grounds to seek and investigation with the expectation of an indictment for... dang most everything... they are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution ... [somewhere in that document is the implied right for people to live and that would be a good start]



 

kylebisme

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Originally posted by: LegendKiller
You use it as evidence, you back up the evidence, otherwise don't bring it to the table.
I'll do that just as soon we finish discussing the evidence I provided in the OP. Granted, that point could never come as long as you are unwilling to even start addressing the facts I presented in the OP.

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Investigation into what?
That is explained in the article I linked.
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: LunarRay
Originally posted by: LegendKiller

That the government had foreknowledge of 9/11 is entirely possible, I firmly believe .

I don't!.... I mean, to think that is possible would be grounds to seek and investigation with the expectation of an indictment for... dang most everything... they are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution ... [somewhere in that document is the implied right for people to live and that would be a good start]

FDR had "foreknowledge" of Pearl Harbor. Hindsight is 20/20. There's reasons why you don't always believe your "foreknowledge".
 

LegendKiller

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Originally posted by: kylebisme
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
You use it as evidence, you back up the evidence, otherwise don't bring it to the table.
I'll do that just as soon we finish discussing the evidence I provided in the OP. Granted, that point could never come as long as you are unwilling to even start addressing the facts I presented in the OP.

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Investigation into what?
That is explained in the article I linked.

It didn't explain anything. Was the question directed towards "did the government cause the WTC to fall through demolition charges"?

Your OP has already been refuted, many times.
 
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Originally posted by: kylebisme
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
You use it as evidence, you back up the evidence, otherwise don't bring it to the table.
I'll do that just as soon we finish discussing the evidence I provided in the OP. Granted, that point could never come as long as you are unwilling to even start addressing the facts I presented in the OP.

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Investigation into what?
That is explained in the article I linked.
You haven't provided any evidence. Your boneheaded insistance that you have doesn't make it so. All you have done is to state a claim with no evidence to back it up and then you present no explanation of the physics to expound on your claim. In fact, your pathetic attempts to explain the physics demonstrates clearly to anyone that you are in WAY over your head here.

But continue top pose and posture and pretend you know what you're talking about. Keep kicking your own ass over and over and over. I'm beyond pitying you at this point. You're simply a lost cause whose thickheadedness can't possibly ever see reason or understand the science/physics involved.
 

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Originally posted by: kylebisme

BLAH BLAH, rather than deferring to others to do his thinking for him as you are so obviously fond of doing.

I have to admit I am heavily influenced by the stuff I read. I read stuff like:

Scientific American.

Popular Science.

Popular Mechanic.

New Scientist.

AnandTech

The BBC

The CBC

The Globe and Mail

The Toronto Star

The National Post

ZD Net

ARZTechnica

Tom Hardware.

Those are respected and well established publications. When they look at 911 conspiracies it is always to debunk them. When those publications start proving that 911 was an inside job I will believe it. Why? Because those publication are credible.

I don't give any 911 twuthers web site any credibility but what really made up my mind was the debunking of the movie Loose Change proving the absurdity of most of the claims in that movie.

It's simple, it's common sense. These stories about mass murder and subsequent administrations covering up for each other is pure baloney.

Twuthers often want to concentrate on a single event that might not have been explained perfectly by official sources. They therefor conclude that everything else was an elaborate cover up. This tactic might work with gullible people out there but not with me.
 

Cogman

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Originally posted by: kylebisme
What brought down WTC7 was a near instantaneous removal of approximately 8 stories of structural support. This is proven by the following two facts; (1) acceleration indistinguishable from free fall is only possible in absence of any notable resistive force, (2) WTC7 dropped with period of acceleration indistinguishable from free fall for approximately 105 feet. To substantiate these facts:
And How do you know that the supports were simply not providing negligible resistance? Show me the math to show that the supports would have provided enough resistance to cause an 8 story fall to be indistinguishable from free fall.

1) This is simply inherent to the definition of the term free fall, as documented here:

free fall
?noun
1. the hypothetical fall of a body such that the only force acting upon it is that of gravity.
Yep, that's a definition all right.

Note they say "hypothetical" as there is always at lease some air in the way preventing a falling object to accelerate at the full acceleration of gravity, and the absence of even the any resistive force of air is only possible in the hypothetical case of a complete vacuum, but acceleration indistinguishable from free fall means that what little mass is in the way is not enough to provide any observable resistive force. For those who don't understand why this is, but would like to, I recommend starting here, and feel free to ask questions on this matter as needed.
Ok, So now we know that free-fall technically doesn't happen on earth. That's nice and all. But where is the fact that the structural supports simply were minimal? Heck, So long as each support failed or was near failing before the falling portion hit it, it would appeared to free fall.

2) While WTC7's period of free fall acceleration was previously denied by the government agencies which investigated the event, due to the widely available video evidence NIST was eventually persuaded to to admit this fact, as documented here:
You just said free fall was impossible. And they agreed, it is impossible. But a big enough group of people got together and found a number reasonably close to free fall that they conceded and used the term.

In Stage 1, the descent was slow and the acceleration was less than that of gravity. This stage corresponds to the initial buckling of the exterior columns in the lower stories of the north face. By 1.75 s, the north face had descended approximately 2.2 m (7 ft).

In Stage 2, the north face descended at gravitational acceleration, as the buckled columns provided negligible support to the upper portion of the north face. This free fall drop continued for approximately 8 stories or 32.0 m (105 ft), the distance traveled between times t = 1.75 s and t = 4.0 s.
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From these facts, NIST suggests distinct stages where an initial buckling of columns on one face of the building allowed the point on the they measured roofline to drop approximately 7 feet, which then allowed for 105 feet of free fall to happen next. Note that while NIST only refers to the one point on the roofline, any video of the event will show that after the initial sagging of the roofline towards the middle, the entire roof falls symmetrically though the period of free fall and beyond, until notably asymmetrical resistive force well further down causes it to tilt. You can observe the fall of WTC7 from best two angles I've seen, compared to what little NIST released of their simulations, in this video.
And this proves? Yes, the building fell faster at a period of time. Again, I will call your attention to the fact that you have yet to prove that the resistive force of a failing support or even a full blown support would have been strong enough to slow the top section from falling.

Even two floor support failing would have been enough for the top portion to fall for several stories in a fashion indistinguishable from free fall.

Any other video of the event in existence will show the same period of free fall, and please don't hesitate to dig up more to see for yourself, and post whatever videos of the event you like. Regardless, such video evidence demonstrates that for the period of free fall, not only were the north face columns not providing any notable support, neither were those of any other face, or all of the mass that made up the floors and everything else in the building.
Gee, a column that is failing doesn't stop a huge hunk of mass from falling. Imagine that.

How exactly that complete removal of structural resistance was accomplished would require a proper investigation, as the ones we've had so far have only obscured the fact that impact damage and office fires simply can't explain anything of the sort. To view clearly visible examples of a near instantaneous removal of multiple stories of structural support for comparison sake, see the hydraulically initiated demolitions in this video. As for examples of where free fall acceleration can be observed without removal some distance of structural support by an outside force; you simply won't find even a one, as it is physically impossible.
And here you jump into the land of fiction. You simply assume that complete removal is the ONLY way without even considering the possibility of a weakened support frame. Tell me, Have YOU ever seen a steel building collapse due to weakened structural support? By what authority can you claim that this never happens? Are you a demolitions expert?

So, we are all left with a choice here; have faith in the offical story of the fall of WTC7, or accept the fact that the offical story stands in contradction to demonstrable physical reality. Which do you choose?
Or option three, accept that this post proves nothing and your continual reference to it only shows what an idiot you are.

You have shown 1 tangible piece of evidence to support your claims, you only say that it can't and shouldn't have happened.

And without showing an sort of math, your post is more worthless then the bits it takes up on the forum hard drive.

Again, Prove it. You've made these wild assertions, prove them.
 

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Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: event8horizon
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: event8horizon
Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: event8horizon
tell me the truth in this observation. an engineer actually forensically investigating the wtc 7 debris.

"One piece Dr. Astaneh-Asl saw was a charred horizontal I-beam from 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed from fire eight hours after the attacks. The beam, so named because its cross-section looks like a capital I, had clearly endured searing temperatures. Parts of the flat top of the I, once five-eighths of an inch thick, had vaporized.

Less clear was whether the beam had been charred after the collapse, as it lay in the pile of burning rubble, or whether it had been engulfed in the fire that led to the building's collapse, which would provide a more telling clue.

The answer lay in the beam's twisted shape. As weight pushed down, the center portion had buckled outward.

''This tells me it buckled while it was attached to the column,'' not as it fell, Dr. Astaneh-Asl said, adding, ''It had burned first, then buckled.''

remember, this was only 8 dyas after the attack. 15.9 mm of a36 steel gone.

and dr astaneh also said:
ABOLHASSAN ASTANEH: Here, it most likely reached about 1,000 to 1,500 degrees. And that is enough to collapse them, so they collapsed. So the word "melting" should not be used for girders, because there was no melting of girders. I saw melting of girders in World Trade Center.
http://www.nistreview.org/WTC-ASTANEH.pdf

The fact is that Mr. Astaneh-Asl concluded that the impacts and fires brought down the towers. He actually concluded later that it was because of a faulty design and never himself suggests that it was a demolition or that thermite was used. So why do you cite an expert yet ignore his conclusions?

Yours is a perfect example of how truthers glom on to one statement and try to blow it up into a huge conspiracy. That is their version of what the "truth" consists of. Fuck the forest and the trees. Focus on that one little leaf instead.

there are plenty of leaves to make a forest full of "vaporized" and "evaporated" steel.

A combination of an uncontrolled fire and the structural damage might have been able to bring the building down, some engineers said. But that would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly evaporated in extraordinarily high temperatures, Dr. Barnett said.

"steel members" the man says...........read up on:
rj lee report
http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/WTC...20Morphology.Final.pdf

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Extremely high temperatures during the World Trade Center destruction

http://www.journalof911studies...icles/WTCHighTemp2.pdf

get it through your brain that extremly high temps were reached at the wtc sites. how you might ask?

aluminothermics!!
Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe

http://www.bentham-open.org/pa...02/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM
Abstract
"We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic."
Look, kiddo. You can't link anything on 9/11 that I haven't seen already. Your links prove nothing because YOU say nothing. You pretend to link to some "OMG" moments but you are nothing but a link and run type. You post copy & paste jobs yet can't even begin to explain what they mean in your own words. I've been on this merry-go-round with you enough times to know your MO so stop providing your crap to me because I know that you're a pretender and nothing more.

Besides that, you fail to address my previous comment. Why do you cite an expert and ignore his real conclusion? Answer the question.


this is also of interest. the fbi had to pre approve wtc photographs before they were released for public view. --- thats bull...link please????


"as of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running. what concrete that wasnt pulverized into dust will continue to be removed for weeks to come. the structural steel is being removed and shipped by barge to be recycled.
all photographs shown on tv, shot on site were preapproved by the FBI. we were shown photographs that were not released for public view."

http://www.seau.org/SEAUNews-2001-10.pdf

ive read somewhere that there is a FOIA request to get the "not released for public view" shots.

the guy that wrote the article is james m williams president of SEAU.

so now we have the FBI restricting photos (from the context of the article, shots of molten metal), and regarding NIST?s work on the World Trade Center, everything had to be approved by the the National Security Agency!!!!!!

this is also of interest. the fbi had to pre approve wtc photographs before they were released for public view. --- thats bull...please provide a link concerning the FBI pre-approving .....pretty please????


http://www.seau.org/SEAUNews-2001-10.pdf
 

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tlc stated:
"The temps were measured remotely using AVIRIS.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/o...-0429/thermal.r09.html

Nothing indicates that the temps were anywhere near hot enough to melt steel."

lets take a look at what he is saying here. aviris flew over the pile 5 days after the attack. the highest temp was around 720C. ok good enough, but guess what temp sisson and bierdman suggest that the eutectic formed so that the steel can "corrode". ooooopppsss that would be 1100C. so what TLC is really saying is that he has NO idea what temp was underneath in the pile.

TLC- question for ya. how far beneath the surface could aviris "see"???

please see fema bpat report appendix c for details.
http://911research.wtc7.net/wt...allurgy/WTC_apndxC.htm

 

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Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
Originally posted by: kylebisme
Originally posted by: LegendKiller
You use it as evidence, you back up the evidence, otherwise don't bring it to the table.
I'll do that just as soon we finish discussing the evidence I provided in the OP. Granted, that point could never come as long as you are unwilling to even start addressing the facts I presented in the OP.

Originally posted by: LegendKiller
Investigation into what?
That is explained in the article I linked.
You haven't provided any evidence. Your boneheaded insistance that you have doesn't make it so. All you have done is to state a claim with no evidence to back it up and then you present no explanation of the physics to expound on your claim. In fact, your pathetic attempts to explain the physics demonstrates clearly to anyone that you are in WAY over your head here.

But continue top pose and posture and pretend you know what you're talking about. Keep kicking your own ass over and over and over. I'm beyond pitying you at this point. You're simply a lost cause whose thickheadedness can't possibly ever see reason or understand the science/physics involved.

What's funny is that this joker could simply requote his own posts that supposedly prove his point, but won't. Even said he doesn't want to post any math or physics explanations because he doesn't want to "waste the time", yet is still arguing the same points 8 pages later. That's sad.
 
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Originally posted by: LunarRay
Well, so far, aside from a few folks who know or at least accept with some degree of skepticism that I'm trying to understand stuff when I ask a question or proffer a concept or my current understanding and ask if that is right, reasonable or if folks have issue with it, I get bombarded with prove it and such... How do I prove a question? Ask it again, maybe :D
My Dynamic Defiance of obvious Logic means......
Obvious logic... Gravity.... It stood until it fell, vertical support ceased to provide support to keep the coyote up there on the roof. Some portion fell at or near free fall acceleration. Meaning everything keeping it up fell at once or nearly at once OR only what was needed to keep the coyote up there was viable until that support ended, tout de suite.. or some variation thereof. I see symmetrical while ElFenix says it wasn't.
Dynamic defiance... Dynamic is sorta movement... not static. So, while the inside moved about, the outsides defied the fall somehow. But, obviously cuz it could and did. NIST can print a forest worth of paper and have every engineer or AIA on the planet agree but I like to visualize, in this case, what others say can't be or is be.... And that is what I'm trying and others are trying to deal with... In short, what happened and when did it happen and could it happen in any other sequence. You see, once you can visualize the sequence you can accept the reasonableness of it... IF one is not otherwise blinded to that. When one can't agree with the 'fired did it' one then is tempted to introduce other forces to show how it happened... Like steel eating termites.
The exterior of the structure consisted of columns as well. While those columns were not designed by themselves to handle the gravity load of the building (they were designed to tolerate lateral and some tortional loads) they would still stand until enough of the interior beams had broken away because the beams at each floor imparted vertical stiffness to the exterior columns. Once enough internal beams were gone and no longer imparted enough rigidity to the exterior columns, the entire exterior structure was bound to come down because those exterior columns weren't designed to handle the massive load suddenly shifted to them.

It seems to be a basic principle to me. However, I've worked closely with engineers of nearly all disciplines for close to 25 years now so it's something I'm pretty well versed in already. Maybe I'm assuming too much that others should be able to readily see what I'm already familiar with?
 
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Originally posted by: event8horizon
tlc stated:
"The temps were measured remotely using AVIRIS.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/o...-0429/thermal.r09.html

Nothing indicates that the temps were anywhere near hot enough to melt steel."

lets take a look at what he is saying here. aviris flew over the pile 5 days after the attack. the highest temp was around 720C. ok good enough, but guess what temp sisson and bierdman suggest that the eutectic formed so that the steel can "corrode". ooooopppsss that would be 1100C. so what TLC is really saying is that he has NO idea what temp was underneath in the pile.

TLC- question for ya. how far beneath the surface could aviris "see"???

please see fema bpat report appendix c for details.
http://911research.wtc7.net/wt...allurgy/WTC_apndxC.htm
Pssst. 1100C is not hot enough to melt steel either. As far as eutectic reactions, that's already been dealt with in links I posted previously. You're a dollar late and a day short on that subject, as usual.

And back to my previous question to you - How can you cite someone as an "expert" and in your next post claim he doesn't have all the data? Please explain. I expect you won't though and I see another "Oops, gotta go." post in your near future. Keep running away from any answer, kiddo. You never provide any answers as it is so I don't expect you to suddenly begin providing them now. If you can't copy & paste your responses from some truther website you're lost anyway. That much has always been clear about you.
 
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Originally posted by: event8horizon
im still waiting to hear from the pseudoskeptics how 15.9 mm of a36 steel can corrode in 8 days.
I'm still waiting to hear your own explanation of why you continually dote on that issue as if it means anything. Of course, you've never explained your beliefs in this forum and run away when questioned on those beliefs, or post some vague handwaving bullshit. There's nothing pseudo about my skepticism because it was already clear long ago that you're yet another truther poser acting as if you understand the facts when you're really simply blinded by your own ignorance.
 

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Steel doesn't have to melt in order to undergo a serious reduction in its tensile strength. You can just look at the charcoal grates in a cheap grill (and we've all owned one) to see that. Charcoal doesn't get anywhere hot enough to melt steel, but those thin steel grates will warp under the weight of those hot coals just the same. The same thing but on a much larger scale took place inside the WTCs too.
 
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