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Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 29th September 2011, 05:23 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 3,128
Posted By ktesibios
As an immature, obnoxious high school dropout I...

As an immature, obnoxious high school dropout I must object most strenuously to the defamation inherent in the implication of trooferism.

I also want it known that I am not now, nor have I ever...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 16th September 2011, 06:03 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 4,054
Posted By ktesibios
The bolded part is pure horse patooties. If you...

The bolded part is pure horse patooties. If you had been paying adequate attention you would know that the contention is that a non fly-by-wire plane cannot be remote controlled against the will of...
Forum: USA Politics 15th September 2011, 10:46 AM
Replies: 257
Views: 9,234
Posted By ktesibios
Every time Bachmann opens her mouth I can't help...

Every time Bachmann opens her mouth I can't help imagining poor old Ron Paul haunting coffee shops, endlessly telling anyone within earshot all about how he was bug**** crazy before it was hip.
...
Forum: USA Politics 11th September 2011, 04:53 PM
Replies: 140
Views: 3,509
Posted By ktesibios
I grew up in a town (Haddon Township NJ) which...

I grew up in a town (Haddon Township NJ) which was surrounded by dry towns (Haddonfield, Collingswood, Haddon Heights & Audubon). You cold always tell exactly where the boundary line was on any...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th September 2011, 07:05 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,236
Posted By ktesibios
I should highly recommend that he get thoroughly...

I should highly recommend that he get thoroughly checked out and treated for any conditions found that could cause a stroke, e.g. high blood pressure.

BTW, I recovered quite well; the only lasting...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th September 2011, 06:58 PM
Replies: 72
Views: 4,358
Posted By ktesibios
The Department of Defense actually did...

The Department of Defense actually did experiments to determine the risk posed by vertically fired bullets falling back to earth.

IIRC, what they found was that even military rifle bullets lost so...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 8th September 2011, 08:03 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,236
Posted By ktesibios
Your friend's experience sounds an awful lot like...

Your friend's experience sounds an awful lot like what happened to me. Back in '99 I had an episode where I started having trouble with incoordination and weakness in my left arm and leg. The...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 8th September 2011, 07:53 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,073
Posted By ktesibios
Connecting the pickup directly to the output...

Connecting the pickup directly to the output connector with no other components and using a robust connector type like an XLR are both good ideas. If you find a standard XLR-type jack doesn't fit...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 8th September 2011, 11:16 AM
Replies: 287
Views: 22,662
Posted By ktesibios
It's truly unconscionable that thesse two should...

It's truly unconscionable that thesse two should have been boinking in the lift at Motherwell.

I mean, isn't that what the lost luggage queue at Fenchurch Street station is for?
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 5th September 2011, 03:05 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 3,135
Posted By ktesibios
This... assumption that the Pentagon simply must...

This... assumption that the Pentagon simply must have been bristling with video cameras capturing everything going on outside seems to me closely related to the common troofer assumption that the...
Forum: USA Politics 28th August 2011, 02:28 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 2,429
Posted By ktesibios
IIRC Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley used to call...

IIRC Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley used to call them "dimmycrats". This wasn't a play on words- it was Dunne's rendering of Mr. Dooley's Irish accent into print.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 25th August 2011, 06:35 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 3,936
Posted By ktesibios
I had, after looking at his posting history,...

I had, after looking at his posting history, entertained a vague hope that trustbutverify might be attempting a Poe, but there are enough diagnostic signs in the above that I really have to comment....
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 25th August 2011, 06:00 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,318
Posted By ktesibios
When I was hospitalized with a stroke a few years...

When I was hospitalized with a stroke a few years back they had me hooked up to some sort of wireless EKG monitor- the usual electrodes on the chest, connected to an electronics package that went in...
Forum: USA Politics 25th August 2011, 05:42 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 3,841
Posted By ktesibios
Whenever I read about one of her...

Whenever I read about one of her didn't-engage-brain-before-starting-mouth moments ($2 gasoline, anyone?) I can't help but picture poor old Ron Paul, wandering around endlessly telling anyone who...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 18th August 2011, 12:51 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 2,094
Posted By ktesibios
One of the options considered for One Meridian...

One of the options considered for One Meridian was to dismantle it to below the fire floors, build a new roof and make a shorter building out of it. Whether this was rejected for technical or...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 18th August 2011, 11:22 AM
Replies: 79
Views: 11,254
Posted By ktesibios
NIST measured the motion of WTC2 in response to...

NIST measured the motion of WTC2 in response to the plane impact as shown in the videos of the impact. Their purpose in doing this was to test their structural model of the towers by comparing the...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 18th August 2011, 09:53 AM
Replies: 26
Views: 2,094
Posted By ktesibios
IIRC that's just what they had to do with One...

IIRC that's just what they had to do with One Meridian Plaza in Philly- add reinforcing on the fire floors to make the structure stable enough to tear down.

I worked in downtown Philly at the time...
Forum: USA Politics 11th August 2011, 04:32 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,498
Posted By ktesibios
Funny, one would think that anyone who has ever...

Funny, one would think that anyone who has ever used a wet bulb/dry bulb psychometer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometer) would be able to figure out that temperature and humidity have real...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 11th August 2011, 02:26 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,178
Posted By ktesibios
umm... it seems to be kind of de rigeur for rival...

umm... it seems to be kind of de rigeur for rival conspiracy-peddlers to accuse each other of working for The Man, just as conspiracy skeptics are commonly taxed with being a "paid shill".
...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 11th August 2011, 11:37 AM
Replies: 210
Views: 6,318
Posted By ktesibios
What a load of fetid dingo's kidneys. The...

What a load of fetid dingo's kidneys. The light-gathering power (the "gain" if you will) of a telescope is equal to the ratio of the area of the telescope's aperture to the area of the fully-dilated...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 5th August 2011, 02:12 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 4,780
Posted By ktesibios
It appears that the term "martial law" also...

It appears that the term "martial law" also applies to a rules-lawyering parliamentary maneuver which House leadership can use to force a vote on a bill without the waiting period normally required...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 4th August 2011, 09:30 AM
Replies: 10,858
Views: 556,351
Posted By ktesibios
Doorknob... butt... mind... they don't......

Doorknob... butt... mind... they don't... intersect...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 28th July 2011, 06:12 PM
Replies: 147
Views: 10,251
Posted By ktesibios
And here...

And here (http://la.indymedia.org/news/2011/07/247111.php) we have Indymedia pest Stephen Lendman doing his best to uphold Rule 34 of conspiracism (more here...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 26th June 2011, 04:32 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 4,690
Posted By ktesibios
Until recently trains running on the Northeast...

Until recently trains running on the Northeast Corridor in the USA were supplied with 11 kVAC 25 Hz power from the catenary wires. This was a legacy standard that originated in the problems of motors...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 26th June 2011, 03:19 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 10,270
Posted By ktesibios
Permit me to be of assistance

For wollclark: Here (http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf) (click the word "here") is a link where you can download the full text of the USA PATRIOT ACT as a .pdf. It's searchable by...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 25th June 2011, 12:17 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 4,690
Posted By ktesibios
Some electronic clock chips, e.g., the MM5314N...

Some electronic clock chips, e.g., the MM5314N (http://athsam.fortunecity.com/Data_Base/MM5314N_clock_alarm.htm) use the 50/60 Hz line frequency as their timing reference. OTOH, I have a cheap clock...
Forum: USA Politics 25th June 2011, 11:09 AM
Replies: 93
Views: 4,573
Posted By ktesibios
Dude, you totally ripped off REO SpeedwagonKinky...

Dude, you totally ripped off REO SpeedwagonKinky Friedman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Friedman#Issues_and_positions):p
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 24th June 2011, 03:03 PM
Replies: 116
Views: 7,799
Posted By ktesibios
I'm at a loss to understand what the relevance of...

I'm at a loss to understand what the relevance of examining the columns from the impact zones would be for the purpose of understanding the collapses. If you want to work out the effect of the impact...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 24th June 2011, 01:30 PM
Replies: 292
Views: 23,738
Posted By ktesibios
Welcome to the forum, rjblaskiewicz. I just...

Welcome to the forum, rjblaskiewicz.

I just read your article via Dave's link and it seems to me that you missed out on a good business opportunity.

I woulda made a claim to the entire...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 24th June 2011, 10:54 AM
Replies: 9,205
Views: 837,000
Posted By ktesibios
Y'kno, when I read books like The Rocket and the...

Y'kno, when I read books like The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the coming of the Missile Age or The Treasure of the Concepcion, which had their origins in what must have been unbelievably...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 24th June 2011, 10:37 AM
Replies: 3,578
Views: 205,915
Posted By ktesibios
It isn't just having been watching during Apollo....

It isn't just having been watching during Apollo.

Those born after the Apollo program ended look to history and see just what's in the spotlight- Apollo 11, mostly, in isolation. Hence they are a...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 17th June 2011, 02:46 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 2,968
Posted By ktesibios
OT, but I thought it might be worth mentioning...

OT, but I thought it might be worth mentioning that it was experiments with ways to suppress the blackening of the envelope that led Edison to discover the "Edison effect", which turned out to be the...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 16th June 2011, 03:21 PM
Replies: 920
Views: 112,916
Posted By ktesibios
Suddenly I have a mental image of a judge...

Suddenly I have a mental image of a judge frantically paging through a thesaurus and hollering for some crossword-puzzle dictionaries in a vain attempt to find a way to say "bat**** crazy shinola" in...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 16th June 2011, 12:04 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 2,968
Posted By ktesibios
Yep. Simple rule of thumb for small high vacuum...

Yep. Simple rule of thumb for small high vacuum bulbs, like the ones in common household use:

Life varies inversely as the thirteenth power of applied voltage. IOW, reducing the applied voltage by...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 3rd June 2011, 11:52 AM
Replies: 57
Views: 6,572
Posted By ktesibios
One hypothesis I'd like to chuck into the stew is...

One hypothesis I'd like to chuck into the stew is that there really is a mindset which holds that the truth value of a proposition can be determined by how "anti-establishment" it is, or by how...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 2nd June 2011, 10:55 AM
Replies: 82
Views: 6,146
Posted By ktesibios
Umm... do pathetically laughable moldy-oldy...

Umm... do pathetically laughable moldy-oldy claims qualify as "sparks of humor"?
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 13th May 2011, 10:32 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 3,190
Posted By ktesibios
Bees should definitely not use cell phones. I...

Bees should definitely not use cell phones. I mean, how the heck are they supposed to fly safely with all that distraction?
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 6th May 2011, 05:54 PM
Replies: 598
Views: 21,518
Posted By ktesibios
Thanx, gumboot, that was very informative. I...

Thanx, gumboot, that was very informative. I don't know much about the economics of the publishing or entertainment industries, but I would like to say a few things about the pirating of sound...
Forum: Education 6th May 2011, 11:38 AM
Replies: 65
Views: 6,585
Posted By ktesibios
My experience was similar. My mom didn't try to...

My experience was similar. My mom didn't try to teach me to read, we just spent a lot of time with me on her lap as she read stories to me, pointing out the things in the pictures which the text was...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 6th May 2011, 09:58 AM
Replies: 9,205
Views: 837,000
Posted By ktesibios
Also, her head appears to be on backwards.

Also, her head appears to be on backwards.
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th May 2011, 02:36 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 15,561
Posted By ktesibios
Umm, Ben... In the case of the One Meridian...

Umm, Ben...

In the case of the One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, which was a smaller fire with no impact damage (but did include structural damage due to fire and a risk of collapse), the...
Forum: Million Dollar Challenge 28th April 2011, 07:25 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 4,317
Posted By ktesibios
^This. If you play a tone through a...

^This.

If you play a tone through a loudspeaker in a room and walk around the room, you will find that there are locations where the tone is loud and others where it disappears, demonstrating that...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 15th April 2011, 02:23 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,532
Posted By ktesibios
Umm... there are truthers who claim exactly that...

Umm... there are truthers who claim exactly that (http://www.septemberclues.info/vicsims/9-11-9%20the%20Vicsim%20Report.pdf).

I'm afraid that "think up a claim so stupid that there aren't any...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 8th April 2011, 05:38 PM
Replies: 211
Views: 18,973
Posted By ktesibios
You might try posing the question over at the...

You might try posing the question over at the BAUT forum. Chances are that some knowledgeable person would work it out and post the answer.
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 8th April 2011, 11:43 AM
Replies: 211
Views: 18,973
Posted By ktesibios
Yeah, like I'm gonna believe that the most...

Yeah, like I'm gonna believe that the most powerful defense establishment in the world could be defeated by a bunch of toque-heads living in igloos...;)
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 8th April 2011, 11:18 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,023
Posted By ktesibios
Hotmail used to have a clickable "report phishing...

Hotmail used to have a clickable "report phishing scam" button which appeared whenever you were reading something from the junk mail folder. I used to use it when I got phishing emails that attempted...
Forum: Non-USA & General Politics 2nd April 2011, 04:54 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,114
Posted By ktesibios
Even the GPS location doesn't seem to be...

Even the GPS location doesn't seem to be foolproof. i have a GPS navigation app for my phone. While I've occasionally used it to find out just where a plasce I wanted to go was, I also sometimes use...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 31st March 2011, 03:28 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 5,726
Posted By ktesibios
Nice exercise in point-missing there. I was not...

Nice exercise in point-missing there. I was not talking about the leakage of fission products, I was talking about the burst of ionizing radiation (neutrons, X-rays and gamma rays) released by the...
Forum: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 31st March 2011, 11:15 AM
Replies: 65
Views: 5,726
Posted By ktesibios
IIRC a group of firefighters were rescued from...

IIRC a group of firefighters were rescued from the remains of a stairwell after the collapses. Therefore they were on-site during the collapses, and a considerable number of firefighters and police...
Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories 25th March 2011, 05:48 PM
Replies: 224
Views: 19,503
Posted By ktesibios
Aluminum will even ignite and burn in air if you...

Aluminum will even ignite and burn in air if you get it hot enough to break down the oxide layer.

IIRC the British Navy encountered this phenomenon during the Falklands War.
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