![]() |
Quote:
|
The first 18 minutes? What about the next 18 years?
Are you claiming that the initial confused reports from a developing situation are typically accurate and reliable? Have you ever followed a developing news story? It seems unlikely. Tell me how you think the eyewitnesses were all got at. Can you think of any plausible way the plotters could hope to suppress every photo and video from cameras being pointed at the towers from miles around after the first crash? No. Its absurd. |
Quote:
First, you'll need to explain away the existence of four great ******* airliners, their passengers and crew, their families and the thousands upon thousands of eyewitnesses who saw their demise. With their own eyes. Please proceed. |
Quote:
None of the evidence supports any of your ludicrous claims. You ineptitude begs the question of how much time you have spent in the real world in any meaningful way. These are the facts: On September 11th, 2001, 19 Al Qaeda operatives hijacked 4 commercial jetliners and used them as missiles to strike both towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon while the last plan was scuttled during a passenger revolt. As a result of the attacks the US invaded Afghanistan and then later Iraq. Afghanistan was where bin Laden and Al Qaeda was based. Iraq was a mistake based on a not very bright President being pushed into a war driven by right-wing ideologues. Our inability to leave either country is due to a long list of reasons which receive very little debate in this country. Your claims of CGI aircraft do not hold up to the 500,000+ eye witnesses in Manhattan that day. The missiles you claim were used were not operational and the prototypes are all accounted for, in fact all tactical air-to-ground missiles were accounted for on 9/12/2001. Your claim that these attacks were faked in order to get us into a war is wrought with inconsistencies the biggest one being that if the US Government was willing to go to such unrealistic lengths to fake an attack in the largest city on the eastern seaboard then they would have also PLANTED WMD'S IN IRAQ TO BE "FOUND" BY OUR INVASION FORCES. That you claim not to understand the damage in the photographs is your failure, not ours. As usual a few members here have been willing to explain the mechanics behind the damage caused by the 767's wings only to have them dismissed with no counter explanation conducted at the same intellectual level. All we get from you is a glorified "Nah ah," and nothing of substance...if you respond at all. You dodge more posts than you respond to which suggests that you know you're trolling us with a BS claim. |
Quote:
The fireball was jet fuel, missiles don't carry that much. A 1,000 pound warhead would have done far more damage than the airliners did and they would have heard the blast in New Jersey. Throw in the fact that they could get the AGM-158 JASSM to work reliably until 2009 and you're left with a big nothing here. Here's a cool video of the AGM-158 in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ5xoJfqXA4 Doesn't look anything like 9-11. |
Quote:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia |
A few things
The box columns at the level the plane hit tower 1 had 2 flanges of 1/2" plate connected to 3 webs of 1/4" steel. The OAL dimension was 13 1/2" x 14"... but the box column was hollow and 90% air. These columns would not do well against a 500 mph impact of a wing, a pressurized cabin, and aluminum structure of an air frame, landing gear, tanks full of liquid, or engines and assorted actuators/motors. second the photos you use were taken AFTER the damage and collapsing interior structure had impacted the facade... collapsing slabs and so on. |
And i will ask Yankee again: What evidence WOULD you accept that your notions are mistaken and you are wrong? What would convince you?
|
"police that planted the plane parts..." :eek:
Talk about impossible. I made a PDF lullaby for your theory (49MB): "Airplane Debris, WTC 9/11." I posted a link and more on p. 4 of this thread with no response from you. It was not possible for NBC Chopper4 to do a live CGI. That's why Ace Baker never considered it a live shot (8 live shots, total). That's why some no-planer troll flagged my video on the subject and got it taken down. Will you be able to handle it when you find out you are wrong? What will you do then? Do you have any other hobbies? I recommend reading all of Robert Jordan's books before the TV show comes out on Amazon. It's about 4 million words of epic fantasy. Enjoy. |
Quote:
Jeff Prager claims WTC1 and 2 were destroyed with mini neutron bombs and no nanothermite. Gage (AE911T) claims they were destroyed using nanothermite and conventional explosives and no nukes. Who is correct? It is interesting that AE911T does not support missiles being used to destroy the WTC buildings. Gage, Jones have admitted the buildings were struck by the jets, but is was controlled demolition that took down the buildings. Are you saying they are not telling the truth? Please provide a link to the one concise alternative explanation regarding 9/11 that is supported by the evidence. Seems there are many authors all claiming to be correct. |
Quote:
Thus far, the skeptics have been wrong about the crashes being broadcast live, wrong about where the engine allegedly impacted, wrong about the claim that only the bolted connections were broken, and very wrong about the assumed "thousands of witnesses." So you tell me. What more will it take to convince you that you might be mistaken? |
Quote:
|
Quote:
How the holes were cut. How the videos were faked. How the towers were destroyed. Also: Background of the architect, Yamasaki. Deep ties to the CIA and the defense industry. The shady background of the WTC and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Who Knew What When? The New York City Cover-Up |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
― Stephen Hawking |
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
But I haven't made any assumptions. Nice handwave though. |
Quote:
Without doing much experimenting: never seen a pigeon (a small bird covered in feathers) going through a virtually bullet-proof aircraft cockpit window? Elementary, dear Watson. :-) |
Quote:
|
Quote:
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
You couldn't pay them enough to do it and keep quiet. You obviously have never met a New York cop. 23 NYPD officers were killed on 9/11. You can't kill a New York cop and get away with it. Don't believe me? Check their history, the percentage of NYPD cop-killers who are taken alive is very low. And if you don't think there were a few paranoid cops who looked into the 9-11 CT's over the past 19 years you're a fool. Kill one NYPD officer and it's all hands on deck until the perp is on a slab. Kill 23 and it's war, and an FBI or CIA ID won't protect you. |
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
That poster is not me. Quote:
If I toss an egg onto a concrete path on the other side of a wall, I hear the moment of impact but don't see it, I don't have to look over the wall to know it hit the path and is broken, and when I do look over the wall and see the broken egg on the path, that is evidence I was right. Quote:
Quote:
Your incredulity is not evidence. Your disbelief of facts is not evidence. A few arrows and ellipses amateurishly Photoshopped on some photos is not evidence. Your inability to understand what you are looking at is not evidence Your inability to understand what you have been told is not evidence If you choose to handwave away facts, it isn't my fault. Quote:
Here are some of the eye witness accounts, many from people who saw, with their own eyes, Flight 77 impact the Pentagon - people you claim don't exist https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/F77pentagon.html#p3 "AA 77 flew into the Pentagon over rolling hills and residential areas, clipping lamp posts and cars, as it maneuvered to avoid hilltops in a tight pattern, dipping its wings to line up with the Pentagon walls. It was seen by many witnesses on the whole flight into the DC area, because the TV news channels were reporting it and people looked to the skies and saw it come in." This is just a few of those interviewed, there are a few dozen more. Quote:
Quote:
|
1 Attachment(s)
Quote:
|
My point in invoking the snowball (bless His crusty icicles) was that a relatively fragile object - a frangible object - can damage a more sturdy thing, given the right conditions.
I don't think it's such a tricky concept. Having said that, I have been a lurker here for about four years and have read many of the older threads; not much has changed in trutherworld. |
Quote:
Furthermore, the kamikaze plane in question was a Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien Type 3, fitted with drop tanks.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/z2h19d17kb...pe-3.jpg?raw=1 http://www.internationalskeptics.com...1&d=1578210804 ... which are made of thin aluminium alloy, yet somehow, they managed to punch a hole right through half inch thick high-tensile steel structural plating! Gee, I wonder how that happened? |
Quote:
|
It's a fascinating argument that yankee451 uses to avoid talking about eyewitnesses; he doesn't think the damage looks like a plane did it, therefore there was no plane therefore there couldn't be thousands of witnesses to a plane therefore nobody was looking at the towers when the second impact happened.
And this from a guy who has conversed with eyewitnesses on these forums. The depth of denial is amazing. He just can't imagine he's mistaken about the damage, no matter how absurd the story he has to weave to explain it. |
Yankee... your problem and your engineer friends appears to be a failure to understand the physics and material science.
A jet moving at 500mph has enormous kinetic energy. It hardly hardly matters what the material is moving with that force. The force was basically applied to the profile of the plane on the exterior of the tower.. which was at that level 1/2" and 1/4" plate, alum cladding, and glass panels. Did you look at the demonstration posted of the ping pong ball shot right thru a ping pong paddle leaving a perfect round hole? Ping pong ball almost all air inside a plastic sphere hits a paddle of perhaps 3/4" thick hardwood. The photos after the impact show as well as the result of some forces when structure was disturbed. I suppose this could be modeled in an FEA but no engineers or physicists have a problem of the "wound" damage given what the tower was made of, what hit it and how fast it was going. The only person who seems to find this not possible is YOU and to make sense to YOU... you invoke all manner of things to explain it. Like most truthers I have read... you simply do not believe what you see and you are not technically informed enough to understand what you see. I use the analogy of clouds. Unless you are a meteorologist who understand physics and fluid dynamics you can't explain the formation, the form, and the movement of clouds. And this is exactly what is happening to you. You want to THINK you are smart enough, well informed enough to understand the observation. As you can't explain it with the applicable physics, you make up another explanation with "physics you think you understand". Your explanations are so far beyond the pale that you cannot be taken seriously. |
Quote:
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/rele...mach-1.23.html |
OK fine... but a jet is not a ping pong ball and it has many elements of high density which would do more than heavily dent the structure. You would get a mutual destruction in many situations.
|
Quote:
Any more dumb Questions? |
Quote:
*ETA: forgot the elephant in the room- missiles that flew in formation that would do damage that a passenger jet couldn't, but were meant to mimic the jet for anyone looking; the reason we know the jet was a fake was because the fake would never work as one. |
I want to take this thread... which I call the Yankee syndrome to a different place.
Rather than "debunk" what appear to be rather unsupportable views of the events... hurl insults and so forth. I'd rather we discuss how this sort of thinking comes about and motivates people to go down some unorthodox paths to say the least. People who have followed the 911 discussion for almost 2 decades have seen a slew of unorthodox thinkers that are lumped into a category call "truthers". And the prolific ones produce content and gather up followers and financial support which may extend past covering research and production costs. I think some common "drivers" are: Media and official sources do not convey the unvarnished truth... about almost anything. We live in a culture drowning in PR, marketing, selling, advertising, spinning, hidden agendas and deception. We hear things like NBC is own by defense contractors or have inter locking directors with MIC corps. We hear that blood sells.. and things like patriotism are summoned to support a war...good, bad or indifferent. The average consumer has a very hard time to understand what is really going down. It's true of almost any story in the news/headlines. Most people have limited technical backgrounds to inform their thinking. And on top of that they are influenced by Hollywood productions which don't need to follow the rules of science in service to entertainment. Viewers confuse fantasy as possible and with reality. Reality seems rather boring compared to Hollywood productions. The events of 911... destruction of the towers... require more that a elementary school understanding of the world.... not even high school science can get you through 9/11. Yet most people feel comfortable in their technical ignorance because practically they don't need to understand flying to travel by air, gas engines to drive a car. We've learned to use technology built on science, physics and engineering that we don't understand... because we don't have to. People do not TRUST authority and suspect there are always hidden agendas. And this turns out to have merit. We were lied about WMD, Gulf of Tonkin and so on. Corollary is that outsiders and "amateurs" can be correct and can be trusted. They can point to critics who turned out to be right time and again. So up pops up the "free lance" free thinker with their take on whatever. One of those whatevers is what happened on 9/11. So we see all sorts of explanations surfaced by non official "actors"... CD, directed energy weapon, mini nukes, no planes, hollow towers, crisis actors, missiles camouflaged military planes and so on. Free lancers to be taken seriously have to present their theories with what appears to be critical thinking and science. They need to present a complete, consistent and coherent theory. This has to include who did it, how they did, as well as why they did it. It appears to me that almost all 911 free lancers reject that a bunch of radical Islamists could do 9/11 and they were convenient scapegoats. 9/11 was a sort of MIC project... for more spending, for oil and so on. 9/11 was for money and power... more of both. Or then there are the anti zionists who believe the zionists tricked the US into wars against their enemies in the ME. Any one of these theories seems to make sense. ++++ But what are indisputable facts from the day? Even that seems to not be on solid ground if it serves the purposes of a free lancer. If we can't agree on the facts... we can't have a discussion or learn what caused the buildings to collapse as they did. We may not be able to know every fact an detail. But we surely can and must agree on the main ones. So... No... the towers were not empty No... there were no nukes No... there were no directed energy weapons No... there was no thermite of thermate used YES there were hijacked planes - I suppose without bodies we can't know who the hijackers were in certainty. If someone disappears and a murder is suspected they still need a body! We can't know motives from the events. We can't know that they intended to collapse the buildings or knew that hitting them with a jet would do that. We do know it would surely cause lots of damage. We can DERIVE who benefited from the outcome... if benefit is defined. For sure makers of military uniforms saw an uptick in their business. But it defies credulity that a uniform maker would undertake 9/11. We should not have to argue about the basic facts of the event. The collapses were first time events. (WTC2 was a repeat!) We don't have a prior reference. Everything that happens has a first. ++++ I don't think Yankee has shown credible and critical thinking informed by settled science. physics and engineering. A cursory read of his material reveals this. What is concerning is that there are other Yankees and many who believe them and support them. This is very much like cult behavior. That HAS been studied. |
Quote:
http://yankee451.com/wp-content/uplo...ge-300x223.jpg The predictable and inevitable clutch at the Kamikaze straw. Kamikaze planes did indeed cause considerable damage to steel hulls in WWII. Most Kamikaze planes that were used specifically for Kamikaze attack were little more than flying torpedoes, designed to puncture steel hulls. However what's clear when looking at these images is the wings didn't punch through the steel. From Wikipedia: Quote:
Only the engines and possibly the landing gear would be able to puncture the columns. Like what happened with the Hinsdale, the rest would have bounced off. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
Mr. Randi, I want my million dollars. :rolleyes: The illustration of the exact damage is irrelevant to the results. The point is that those exterior columns had zero load-bearing capability after the impact. Qualified structural engineers and other knowledgeable people understand this, but you clearly don't. Fail. Further, if you want to dismiss the supersonic ping pong ball video, you need to explain how and why it was faked, and why no credible critics have claimed it was. Finally, there are a lot of similar videos on YouTube, including one from Mythbusters; are they all fake, too? |
Quote:
According to the NIST, it was the fuel in the wing that gave it the mass necessary to burst through the columns. How much fuel is in the wing tip of a 767? http://yankee451.com/wp-content/uplo...wing-burst.png https://911crashtest.org/wp-content/...01/0116601.jpg http://yankee451.com/wp-content/uplo...l-tank-1-1.png |
Quote:
Good luck comparing a ping pong ball to a 767. I have a better idea, let's do our own version of Mythbusters. Mount a real 767 wing on a rocket sled and collide it at 550+ MPH into steel box columns built to the specifications of the WTC. 9/11 Crash Test |
Yankee that is not necessary. This can be modeled.
All the tables used for structural design do not require actual physical destruction testing. The columns were subject to axial loads and lateral loads in the static building. As soon as one column was destroyed the loads found new paths... they were redistributed to non damaged parts. There was some buckling likely and that can explain some movement normal to the axial loads. Regardless the towels collapsed not because the facade was damaged.. but because the core failed in several ways. There was a collapse of the core, which caused the floor plates to collapse and that less to a runaway avalanche of floor materials bypassing the columns. Columns came down when they lost bracing and lateral support from Euler buckling. |
Quote:
http://yankee451.com/wp-content/uplo...front-spar.png Why, if a wing was that strong, wouldn't it just wedge them apart? http://yankee451.com/wp-content/uplo...T-approach.gif One way to decide would be by examining the damage to the tower. Is there evidence of the impact of a massive wing spar on the right corners of the columns? Nope. http://yankee451.com/wp-content/uplo...ide-dents1.jpg |
Quote:
By the way, no one has accurately modeled that - not MIT, Purdue, NIST, FEMA, etc. Hasn't been done, because they can't prove a lie. |
Quote:
Quote:
|
Quote:
:rolleyes: Quote:
No. You simply pulled this claim out of an orifice in a flailing attempt to explain away evidence that strongly tends to disprove your assertion. The vast majority of kamikazeWP attacks were made by conventional aircraft. The US Navy estimated that approximately 3200 kamikaze pilots died, but only 755 of the rocket-powered Yokosuka MXY-7 OhkaWP were built, and not all of these were expended. Other purpose-built suicide aircraft were in various stages of development when the war ended (including an improved Ohka), but none were used operationally. Further, the Ohka was constructed mostly of wood, and had no special armor-penetrating features. Fail. Quote:
That wasn't smartcooky's point. Why don't you address the point he made, rather than the point you wish he'd made. Quote:
No. The 767s that hit the WTC towers had at least 30 times the kinetic energy of the aircraft that caused the damage in the photo. Further, to reiterate, your claim that kamikaze aircraft were specially designed to penetrate armor is simply wrong. Fail. |
Quote:
Models and time motion FEA of the plane impacts have not been done because I presume that the damage was not mysterious and looks consistent with what people expected. |
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 07:15 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin. Copyright ©2000 - 2021, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
© 2015-20, TribeTech AB. All Rights Reserved.