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4th December 2015, 04:58 PM | #401 |
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I think it's preposterous to think the planes hit some precise location in the towers... as in floor 96... I don't think that almost any pilot could pull that off... elevation wise I mean. How do they know the floor... there were no floor number and the architecture had few clues at all.
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If we are being factual and accurate then requested fits the bill nicely. "Compelled" isn't factual OR accurate here.
I couldn't help but notice you didn't address any of my questions, or more to the point; why we should even care since how fast something falls tells us nothing about what caused it to fall. You keep running with the fantasy that NIST was forced/coerced/compelled by some CT nutters to admit a minor and irrelevant detail which was already contained within their data and did not effect their findings one tiny bit if that works for you. Clearly it has been a winning argument so far, winning broad and overwhelming support from the general public as well as the professional engineering community. |
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I agree with you that it is easy to consider a more viable argument for use of thermXte.
My position remains unchanged - I go to the basis of the argument: 1) thermXte is only relevant in the context of a viable CD hypothesis; 2) There is no viable CD hypothesis. Therefore thermXte is irrelevant. No point trying to prove that a tool can achieve something when the something did not happen. Like proving that firearms can kill and tediously arguing merits of calibres, projectile design and propellant powders - when there has been no murder - there is no body and nobody missing. Even if the effectiveness of the tool is proven it does not prove it was used in an event which did not happen. Whatever numbers we apply there is still 98% of the proof missing. The objectives and motivation are long past being serious about understanding. trolling for irritation and gratuitous personal insults and "keep the discussion circling" are clearly the two dominant objectives. |
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As far as I can see the NIST addressing this was more of a half assed attempt to respond to what at that time was a surge brought about from the creation of "loose change" and the frustration people felt about the (political) response to 9/11.
It's a moot point. They tried to explain it to layman but, engineers are not very good at this (especially when they were never tasked to). In steps people like Tony Sz to decipher what they mean to say. The rest is history. The question people leaning on the fence should ask, "Why are so few engineers 9/11 truthers?". |
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NIST tried to be transparent - responding to an issue that was and still is a non-event.
It happens routinely in Government Agencies who need to communicate with a diverse audience. Whether or not they were aware at that time that Chandler was a dishonest incompetent at physics - in the position that NIST was the choice is simple - either ignore and be misrepresented OR explain. And with "explain" the choice is between taking on the dishonest nutter or issuing a valid professional response sufficient to address what could be the legitimate enquiry from a lay person with no comprehension of the physics. (And that dichotomy is correct. "Nutters v the rest". Genuine honest truthers - of which few remain - fit in the second category - "legitimate enquirers with insufficient understanding of physics".) So they got a request about "free fall" - which is expected and a non-event for any person who is honest and understands the physics. "free fall" does not mean CD - the lie that the truth movement persists in. So NIST gave the correct answer - if they were aware of Chandler's dishonest agenda they simply chose to wear any comeback - ignore whatever dishonest spin that Chandler et al put on the truth. With the obvious corollary that no physics competent engineer could believe that "free fall == CD" And one part of the answer is "because most of them understand physics." The more in depth questions could include: "How well do they - average run of the mill practising engineers - understand physics?" "Can they apply physics to the complexity of a dynamic 3D failure when their normal working life practice is designing buildings to code to remain standing and with a big crutch of FEA supporting them?" OR a "meta-level" example: "Does the demographic groups of "engineers" include more? less? or about the same proportion of non thinkers who are susceptible to obsessions as is found in the "general population"?" and about a dozen more.... |
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My palate isnt the issue. The ridiculous notion that AE911T has significantly influenced anything that NIST has said or produced is the issue.
Did NIST think the short time, 1.2 sec iirc, of at, and briefly above, g have any bearing on how and why the building collapsed? No, and rightly so. |
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My point leads directly to yours. The 911TM simply never envisioned creating a viable hypothesis.
I'm not sure it was even driven by dishonesty. Its driven by a political world view. Dishonesty has entered into it in response to the rational arguments brought forth over the past decade. Witness the morphing of the thermite argument. First it was 'bombs in the towers', -It was pointed out that there were no telltale sounds of explosives. The response was to invoke quiet, steel melting, thermite. - That would take a hell of a lot of thermite. Response invoked thermate and nano-thermite. - Too slow to be used to time a CD Response noted inclusion of thermite in high explosives - ??? Back to high explosives. Millisecond severing of heavy steel columns still requires supersonic pressure waves ie BOOM Test dust, declare it includes thermite We found thermite , it shouldnt be there, Therefore CD, don't ask how. We will invoke thermite and high explosives any time we feel like it . Making sense, forming a coherent , internally consistent hypothesis was never even envisioned, but their obvious circular argument back to high explosives is dishonest. |
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How about the recent spat concerning iron microspheres.
Declaration: thermite is the only mechanism by which they are produced. A poster notes he burned materials in a barrel and had iron microspheres in the residue. He is attacked for not determining if these spheres were present in the old barrel and for using nonstandardized materials. Ok, therefore there ARE or are not other mechanisms by which said microspheres can be produced in an office fire(nonstandardized materials, likely presence of iron oxides). The dishonesty is obvious even if it wasnt earlier. |
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Understood and fully agreed.
1 I'm not sure that was globally true at the start of the "movement". It is overwhelmingly true now given the remnant activity comes from those fatally obsessed and those playing trolling games with "genuine truthers" a rare - near extinct - species.
2 Initially I don't think it was - many of the initial activists were "genuine truthers" - the honest ones who did not understand - were educated by participation and departed the scene. Then the ego and power obsessed opportunists rose to the prominent positions. Gage and his "henchpersons of dishonesty". And, as reasoned discussion with truthers became less and less we saw the vacuum filled by trolling. 2010-2011 onwards till we reach the current demographic. 3 Yes - but much of the origin of the political view IMO is a consequence of their obvious limited reasoning skills - they don't understand anything which is multi factor complicated. And - as I have hypothesised on several previous occasions - that led them to a life long habit of "blame the man" - which IMO becomes the political world view - "Authority is always dishonest and always wrong". Reality is "I cannot compute complicated things. Cannot be my fault. Must attribute blame to others." 4 Fully agreed. Yes - it is probably the most clearly defined multi stage morphing of a topic into more and more remote derails. I find it amusing to note that a number of debunkers are obviously interested in the science and don't care that it has lost any relevance to WTC 9/!! collapses. Contrast with the engineering physics of the collapses where there is strong resistance to digging into the understanding. - detail is welcomed on thermXte which is not relevant. But not welcomed on the engineering which is of direct relevance. Go figure. Agreed for the present so-called truthers. We seem to have thrown away the distinction between "truthers" and "trolls". And I don't see a "truther" among them. |
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Yes - another layer of distancing from relevant discussion AND
Yes - the untruths are clear and explicit. BUT - why feed the trolling? They will keep coming back for more. And the technical issue is not their interrst. Not their objective. So explaining the technicals wont satisfy them. |
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In the end the more interesting thing is how intelligent people can so easily accept flawed thinking and go into self delude mode. My thinking is that there is such a huge lack of faith in the MSM, in advertising, in PR, spin and so forth... they feel perhaps understandably, so that "truth" will not come from the usual sources... and that since the usual sources are so riddled with "spin" and so forth there is at least some reason to believe (they think) that the narratives, explanations and so forth are intentional efforts to deceive. One might argue that the - Iraq has WMDs coming so soon after 9/11 confirmed that lying to the public is their MO and so 9/11 HAD to have been a pack of lies and so they construct their own seemingly logically consistent narratives... ergo "the truth movement".
Once a person has the... everything we are told is a lie... mindset... it's not a big leap to go with a bunch of people who come from the same place of "distrust", It pretty obvious that very very few people have the technical background and first hand knowledge of the events, real objective data and so forth. Everyone faces the same set of problems... figuring out reality from "TV" presentations... of the events. So we are left with being independent detectives... and fall for whatever authority figures we find "credible" tells us. The officials either couldn't detail the collapses... faced with almost the same level of lack of hard data... or in the haste to move forward... a proper forensic investigation was not possible and so we got a melange of theory sprinkled with some supporting data. A new investigation probably can only produce different models driven by different assumptions. My take away is that the designs of the structures determined the FORM and completeness of the collapses. I don't know if this is even true... or if it can be investigated or tested. So in the case of 7wtc... there was no affirmative evidence of extensive diesel fed fires... there is no affirmative evidence that there weren't... I have not seen or read anything credible that reported on what was going on in the floors below 8 aside from the questionable (location) of the explosion Jennings and Hess claimed to have encountered below floor 8 when they were leaving before 10am. Suppose there were diesel fed fires in the load transfer region.... what would be the "difference"? Would we have not embarked on the GWOT and invaded the ME? Presumably if diesel fires caused the collapse of 7wtc... would standard framing have failed... no load transfers...? If so it might mean diesel should not be stored in office buildings... something that seems self evident and should have been a code restriction. I suspect that the investigation chose not to open that Pandora's Box... That decision involved scores of people... and non of them had any bad intentions... at best all of them could be described as not thinking and planning properly. Planning for outlier some events such as earthquakes is part of design as is mitigating risks... to health and safety in design. The new ground zero buildings all include design elements which seem to address some of the failings of the original buildings. I suppose that is sort of "lesson learned" sort of thing... and seems to support the notion that original the designs could have been more "robust" re life safety and egress issues. The recent San Bernadino incident reveals how ineffective our "system" is against "terrorists" who can find weak spots and strike. This doesn't mean that all buildings are vulnerable to collapse from CD... but surely all are vulnerable to considerable damage when struck by a large plane. Sadly there will be more San Berndinos... but hopefully no more 9/11's... rant over |
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Realistically, I think even if WTC1 and WTC2 somehow hadn't collapsed, or even if the Pentagon attack and the Shanksville crash had never happened, the War on Terror and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq would most likely have gone ahead more or less as they did. This is one of the reasons most of the conspiracy theories are pointless; the bits supposed to be the work of the conspirators are not the bits that really made a difference to history. One airliner flying into one tower would have been enough.
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In addition, there might come a point where such a person has made such a huge, public investment of ego that it becomes psychologically difficult to backtrack. Then it's all too easy to take the "In a hole? Keep digging!" route, which is what we see here from the few diehards that remain.
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I didn't say the NIST report did not back away from the diesel fuel scenario FEMA had initially postulated.
My reply concerned SanderO's continued speculation about diesel fuel having something to do with the collapse. I had to wonder if he even knows that most of it was recovered, and that its recovery makes his speculation along these lines unsupportable. |
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Not exactly true Tony, the original theory was a fuel air blast caused by the Diesel in the subterranean 30,000 gallon tank.
The fires were still spread by diesel fuel, to the contents of the buildings, once girder walk off Begins a simple fuel air blast is enough to shake the buildings structure enough to initiate girder walk off even with stiffeners and less expansion. Carbon monoxide build up could have initiated the collapse, if it was the result of oil combustion in one of the Cat gen sets, and was contained in the engines. I have seen a diesel engine explode in a fire before from a similar process. |
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Indulging one last derail off-topic,...
The planes were laser guided using the semi-active laser seeker head from a Hellfire missile mounted in the "pod" under the fuselage only visible in a few Sasquatch photo's of Flight 175 - all possible of course because the planes were switched. This begs the question that I have asked for years and never get an answer to; If the planes were switched why not put the explosives in the planes, not the buildings???? |
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Why should you be the only one concerned about "on topic"
AN answer?? ONE?? Singular?? All on it's lonesome?? there are several. First you are committing the error of thinking. Second though fifth - if the "explosives in the planes" path has been followed there would have been far less opportunity for members to parade their limited understanding of physics, even more limited grasp of logic and reasoned argument and the currently being exploited skill of focusing on irrelevant details as a means of avoiding reasoned argument validly applied to the topic. I'll leave sixth and upwards to you. |
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Correct, the collapse or loss of any building on 9/11 was largely incidental to the success of the plot. Indeed, everything the terrorists did after hijackers 4 planes would have been a victory, even if they had all crashed into empty fields. Still 4 successful simultaneous hijackings, 4 airliners destroyed, hundreds killed and major headlines all over the world. Job done.
But in the CT mind - and I have literally seen it expressed as such - because it happened it must have been made to happen. Pressing further I have had folks who expressed such sentiment tell me that if the Towers/7 had not collapsed there would be no Patriot Act, no security state, no War on Terror et. al. I honestly don't know how to penetrate that level of non-thinking. |
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Sander does know that his theory lacks definitive evidence of fires on the floors in question.
Do you understand you have even less evidence that, for instance, col 79 was severed near the top of the building, or of multiple explosions taking out lower floors? How can you possibly point out the mote in JSO's eye and ignore the log in yours? |
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Simply hijacking 4 US aircraft and killing all on board by immediately sending them into death spirals, would have been enough to garner support for war in Afghanistan. That's nearly 400 dead Americans. Took France only a few dozen to effectively declare war in ISIS. Do truthers assume that France is more of a warrior nation than the USA?
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You need to understand what was "recovered"... that would be MOST of the fuel in the underground storage tanks....
They don't know HOW much of that was pumped up and used for emergency power and of course how much was LOST "somehow" from the day tanks on the mech floors day tanks. There are NO REPORTS OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING or NOT HAPPENING ON THE MECH FLOORS AT ANY TIME AS FAR AS I KNOW. If you have reports or evidence that something or nothing happened down there... please cite it. I am perfectly aware that my TTF theory has only the structural design to support it along with a few other engineers who thought the same. YES it assumes some manner of heat failing a truss joint in a diagonal and kicking off the east to west progressive collapse. |
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Oh, a vertical progressive collapse! But but but... that CAN'T HAPPEN! Notconvinced proved that it's physically impossible! And Heiwa and...
I have this image handy for those silly claims. Even Robert McCoy, an architect who is now in the AE911 board, says that it's expected (even if he failed to see it in the case of the towers for some reason, even if they're there): [...] But it's going to come down in a pancake fashion, in a staccato kind of way, bang-bang-bang-bang-bang as it comes. It's not going to come as a smooth fall. And you're going to see puffs of pulverizing concrete, each time a floor... a series of floors hits another floor. I didn't see that. I saw billowing columns of dust when I viewed the videos.[...]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfgXDnn8V_I So Criteria seems to be contradicting McCoy from AE911T now. Don't you love it when they get their story so wrong that they contradict each other? |
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Your suggested required *vertical force would have to be simultaneously overwhelming at those corners. CD would create a uniform vertical force powered by gravity. Roaming office cubicle fires would/could not. I have never suggested that the collapse initiation was caused by the removal of perimeter columns, but, the observed free fall descent was. The global collapse of WTC7 was initiated by the implosion caused by the simultaneous failure of all the lower core columns. At the time that the perimeter was observed dropping at free fall acceleration for 8 stories, there could no longer have been any vertical perimeter resistance for a continuous height of 8 stories. My primary point is, at the time we see WTC7 dropping at free fall acceleration all of the core and perimeter columns were offering zero resistance. I am in agreement with Mr. Szamboti that preceding the observed free falling perimeter, the collapse was initiated by the implosion of all of the lower core columns. |
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Try referencing the whole passage next time Oystein. You need to explain how rapidly occurring expulsion of building material could occur at the location of the columns on both east and west ends of the building just prior to it's collapse, and it not be detonation of charges. Remember, the expulsions occur nearly simultaneously across numerous floors, and not explicitly top down or bottom up.
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So did core collapse.
Of course fire does not pull downwards. Fire merely destabilizes the structure to the point of collapse. Like in these cases for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p22OkclAU3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-6Sp7mKlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfpRO9bTfo And yes, the overload was simultaneous. When the core fell, the perimeter columns attached to it were pulled downwards all at the same time. NIST agrees, but some people in this forum including me don't, because it actually fell at an acceleration greater than that of free fall. That proves that there were forces pulling downwards (the falling core being the most plausible source of those) and in the presence of such forces, the argument that concludes that the resistance was zero is invalid. |
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Your supposed smoke is being pushed out before the collapse even starts. You cannot be that obtuse.
Watch the demolition charges run the entire building. Listen to Hess declare the floor below him exploded. Hear about the hung structure full of blown out elevator cars and floors destroyed by blasts. https://youtu.be/jKtU01qcZBM |
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