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15th July 2014, 02:14 PM | #41 |
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So its to establish exo/endothermic property but forget establishing production/nonproduction of molten metal? Experimenter bias on display? If primer isn't applied to, then scraped off of, a metal surface, what is any of this supposed to prove anyway? |
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I did notice you didn't actually refute my points.
Why is it when people ask you to support your view you can't. Could it be because you have no idea what your talking about? I'm prepared to back up everything I've said (and have to date). I'm waiting for you to step up. Can't, can you? |
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15th July 2014, 10:18 PM | #43 |
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Mark Basile, is a dolt on Chemical Engineering. How can he do a rational study when he can't read for comprehension and make sup lies about corroded steel. Is he speading lies on purpos, or is he an idiot. 911 truth, 13 years of BS, and lies.
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He is suppose to be a Chemical Engineer? He can't comprehend the paper proves it was corrosion if fire up to 1000 C, and not thermite/thermate. Basile can't read a report and understand it was corrosion not thermate. http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_apc.pdf Is Basile an idiot, or a liar for 911 truth. How can a someone who makes up lies about a report he can't understand do a study on dust? Will Basile do like Jones and Harrit and make up a conclusion? I expect another fake conclusion, like Jones and Harrit. The faith based followers of 911 truth will fall for the fake conclusion, ignoring the fact there is no thermite damage to any WTC steel. The followers of 911 truth don't understand science, falling for lies from nuts in 911 truth. Basile fails to understand FEMA's Appendix C, he can't do a valid study. |
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Using an independent lab that has no idea that the dust is from the WTC or from 9/11
And then start telling them what to do. |
16th July 2014, 02:59 AM | #45 |
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Who will interpret the results? The independent lab or Basile et al?
If the latter, we already know that the data in the ATM paper does not support their conclusions. |
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You have created an irrefutable argument by making sure it is devoid of any science points. Could it be because you are the one who has no idea what they are talking about? I've read through all your posts in this thread and you keep trying to sell 'sizzle' while claiming it is steak. Maybe if you attempted to illustrate how the process Mark Basile is following is not scientifically valid as it relates to his stated goals...past or present? Georgio has started a new thread where you can reveal to the world why you feel Mark Basile's current research is so pointless; Is Mark Basile's WTC Dust Study Pointless? http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=280539 Show us that Mark Basile is "following a road that doesn't lead to Rome." Unlike Jim Millette who never got there, stopping his research once he decided the road "looked right." |
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Millette found clay in the dust. Jones and Harritt did no test find out what the dust was, they tested to fool a fringe few who can't think for themselves.
After running test on dust, Jones and Harrit found the heat energy in the dust did not match thermite, so they made up an excuse, and lied, saying they had thermite, and nuts in 911 truth agree. Harrit and Jones run a DSC which does not match thermite, and say thermite. Looks like 911 truth papers end with a false conclusion with proof not found in the paper - Millette explains what is in the dust, 911 truth cult members ignore it, out of ignorance. The real proof the Jones/Harrit fake paper is nonsense; 13 years and nothing. Plus, there was no steel damaged from planted thermite, no planted thermite. A fantasy of Jones based on zero evidence, thermite. Basile claims that steel at the WTC was damaged by thermite. He implies the steel in Appendix C is thermite damage. It is fire damage done at 1000C or less in fire. The paper talks of eutectic, and rules out thermite due to the damage done took place at or below 1000 C. Basile has no clue this rules out thermite, and spreads fantasy. http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_apc.pdf Why is the entire 911 truth movement too lazy to get help with this report. 911 truth says this steel melted, and remain clueless idiots in a movement of lies mocking the murder of thousands. What will 911 truth do about their fake studies?
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Basile acts like a paranoid conspiracy theorist who has no clue on 911. What is his story on Flight 77, and Flight 93. With no damage to steel at the WTC from thermite, his study is finished now. It will be funny if he lies and claims he found thermite. |
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I see reading comprehension is not one of your strong suits. What I said is the update on progress for the study shows no resemblance to the original proposal and is also pointless.
You ignored that naturally. Tell us, were the known paint chips he's testing now separated using the same criteria specified in the proposal? The topic here is not the proposed study, just the update work. Answer this first question then I'll explain (as if I should have to) why it's pointless. |
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Oh I see.
You are under the impression that a brief update about the progress on the original proposal should already encompass results from everything listed in that proposal. Maybe you need help understanding what an update means? This sounds very much like the naive complaint that Dr. Harrit et al did not include every scrap of data from their research in the finished 2009 Bentham paper. I suggest your complaint is very premature since we are talking about a simple "update" and not the completed report. |
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There's been an up-date to the site. The $1000 from the "physics challenge" seems to have evaporated. They're back down to $5002 for the total.
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Beachnut, you are wrong when you say that "Jones and Harritt did no test find out what the dust was." Jeff Farrer did TEM and Kevin Ryan did FTIR. Results of these materials characterization tests were never released. Steven Jones then went on to do a THIRD test, as he wrote here: “After our paper was published, we went to another lab trying to get XRD patterns that would definitively resolve the question of whether elemental aluminum was present. But like Dr Farrer's TEM results, there was no clear pattern of ANY aluminum-bearing compound in the XRD results. These results have surprised me, not satisfied me. So we go to further experiments.”
So you see Beachnut, Jones/Harrit/Ryan/Farrer did the tests all right, they just didn't like the results and never published them! Gotta stay accurate about these things ya know... |
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I think we know where the $1000 has gone..................
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Beachnut my point is that they DID at least three tests and never included the results of those tests in the 2009 paper! And as you say, the tests they DID release like DSC do NOT provide evidence of thermite. We agree, I'm just saying it's even worse than you said.
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You would think "truthers" (not being blind sheep) would wonder what happened to the $1000 donated to the Bassile investigation. Nope, not a concern.
My guess based on facts in AE's tax files. Gage took over this fund-raiser after ANETA spent most of the money and he was un-willing to also suck-up a donation of $1000 that was never there. ANETA after the "physics challenge" donated the money to themselves. My guess, Mark Bassile asked AENTA for money to start his study and they don't have it. Gage to the rescue, he won't fund a study but, he will make sure no one cares. He will find volunteers to do pointless tests he knows will keep this dream alive. |
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Ziggy is watching, and we need to give him better quote-mining gems. He is mainly a cut and paste google U grad, and we need to help him build a legacy of woo.
I can't believe 911 truth nuts are doing a study of something that never happened on 911, and people like ziggy start a blog based on delusional claptrap. At least this fraud 911 truth followers fall for can be a free experience; unless they donate 5k to Gage's endless scam. |
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Have any of you looked at "Proposal for Labs to Study the Building Fire Dust" in the website http:\\markbasile.org? He's talking about a blind analysis with FTIR and DSC with and without oxygen in the atmosphere. If this really happens the results will be interesting. Certainly things not done by the Jones/Harrit team.
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I read the "update" and have little to comment on. Both the update and the proposal talk about the DSC tests, however. What will be interesting is to see if this lab he finds that is supposed to be doing a materials characterization test on the red-grey chips will ask, "Why are you having us do DSC, that won't tell us what the materials are?" They may not; when I was looking for a lab to do chip tests, some were willing to just blindly do whatever, and others had a protocol they explained to me. Millette was a guy who followed standard protocol for materials characterization and was very thorough, doing several tests that Harrit/Jones either didn't do at all or never released the results of (TEM and FTIR). And he had no interest in doing tests that did not help him I.D. the chips (DSC). I agree with Basile, finding a lab and moving carefully forward is important.
That said, Mark seems to be willing to publish all results no matter what. He is directing the protocol, and I did not. I just said ID the chips, I'm not telling you how how do your job. Mark could argue that he is way more qualified to direct the protocol than I was. Oystein once said Mark was one of the most honest of the 9/11 Truth people, and I have not seen any evidence yet to contradict Oystein's opinion. |
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The DSC issue is central to Mark, Jones/Harrit, etc. They are convinced that only a thermite reaction can create the iron-rich spheres, and that regular paint on steel can't do this. Dave Thomas's little experiment casts doubt on that, as does my fire chemists' assertions that near-adiabatic temps in highly localized areas can actually melt iron/steel on a micro-scale.
Basile is wanting to see if known paint does NOT burn and create these microspheres at 430 C, but the problem I see with this is that THEIR chips are known paint to anyone who looks at what materials they are composed of. So they will find other paint chips, and those may not ignite at 430C and create microspheres. We know that some paint chips don't ignite like the mystery chips. I think Tnemec chips don't, as a very important example. So if other chips behave differently when heated to 430C, this just tells us they are different from Basile's mysteryu chips. We already know from Mark Basile's burnings that the LaClede chips (or thermite as they believe) DO ignite and create iron-rich spheres. So we know in advance that the same results are likely from this blind lab study. It's not going to be news if, as they expect, some kinds of chips ignite and create microspheres and others don't. That's common knowledge I think. But the other experimental results, if fully released (FTIR/TEM etc), will show what MATERIALS these chips are made of. Let's see if the lab comes back and says this is paint, or this is thermite, or this is cotton candy, or whatever, if indeed Basile is giving the products to them blind and saying "tell us what this is" without leaking to them in any way that they are looking for thermite. If he's really doing that and not just the DSC comparisons, then I give him credit for intellectual courage. In that case, the DSC comparisons of paint and his mystery chips will show only that they are two materials with different properties (such as Tenemec and LaClede, as most of us think they are). But the materials characterization tests will trump the DSC comparisons, in my opinion. |
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I was contacted a week ago by a Truther named Wayne who others claim is a civil engineer. He wanted to discuss WTC7, and how far steel can fly from a collapsing building. Kevin Barrett, Dr. Griscom and Rick Shaddock joined in, writing, wanting to debate me on Kevin's Friday evening radio show--got quite a few correspondences, lots of name calling. And then this vicious guy named Ziggy pops up at the end to tell me I was an "embarrassment to JREF" and that my comments were "lunatic ranting." Whoever he is, he's one angry guy. Who is he? |
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Good characterisation: That's what Ziggy is, an angry, vicious guy.
He is one of the regular posters at the Debunking the debunkers blog alongside Adam Taylor, JM Talboo and others. I have had him comment on my own blog, as an anonymous, and he was angry and ranting throughout. Little substance, less structure in his thoughts. Calling your posts "lunatic ranting" is classical projection, IMO. |
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Well, if Ziggi protested the "lack of balance" using the manner and method in which he corresponded with me, naming calling, threats, no substance to anything or intelligent reply to my arguments, JREF didn't throw him out too soon.
I notice you are still here, posting. Guess the "whip" just didn't like Ziggi, but likes you, or could it be he was obnoxious? BTW, I've posted polite, mildly worded initial counter arguments on every Truther website I can find, our friend Adam's included, and I've never had a comment printed. So I guess you could say I have been banned from all Truther sites. |
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