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12th December 2016, 01:03 AM | #1 |
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does anyone here want to support the NIST reports in a one-on-one debate with me
I have some time right now and am wondering if anyone here who supports the conclusions of the NIST reports, for the three high-rise collapses in NYC on Sept. 11, 2001, would want to debate me one-on-one as I contend that these NIST reports have been shown to be non-explanatory and incorrect.
The debate would take place on the 911 free forum, like the one I did with tfk, and the rules would be the same as those for that debate shown below. 1. The debate is restricted to the collapses of WTC 1, 2 & 7 in NYC on September 11, 2001, the NIST reports on these events, and any additional objectively verifiable information and analyses in the public domain about them. 2. Each person shall make an opening statement (of no more than 500 words) explaining what they believe caused the collapse of WTC 7 and briefly stating what they believe are the (approximately) 3 strongest pieces of verifiable evidence for/against Controlled Demolition, as "Controlled Demolition vs. No Controlled Demolition" is the heart of the debate. 3. tfk will go first after both participants make an opening statement on June 21, 2016. 4. Each person shall make no more than one post per day and cannot make another until it is responded to. 5. If a post is not responded to within a week the person not responding is considered to have forfeited his turn & the other person will proceed with his next statement. 6. Individual posts are limited to 1,000 words. If it is deemed necessary to exceed that limit, justification shall be provided by the person wanting to exceed it and agreement to by the other participant received prior to doing so. This should be done by private messaging, so as not to interrupt the flow of the debate, and should be the exception rather than the rule. 7. Each post will discuss one principle topic. Each topic consists of 4 posts. Person A will state a topic post, Person B replies, Person A counters, then Person B counters, and that topic is closed. Person B then leads off the next sequence. 8. Every point that either person brings up must be addressed in some manner by the other. Both parties will do their best to stay focused on the original topic point. 9. There shall be no name calling, denigration, or defamatory language used. Each person shall bring only technical arguments to the debate. If any derogatory comments are used they shall be addressed to arguments only, not to individuals. 10. The debate will end after a maximum of 50 total posts, or earlier if the participants mutually agree to an earlier termination, or whenever either participant decides to stop responding. |
12th December 2016, 01:36 AM | #2 |
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There is nothing to debate IMO. It is futile. The few "truther" left can be left to their belief, they will be like those who STILL believe we did not land on the moon, or like holocaust denier. It does not matter how many evidence provided to them, they will deny it.
At this point the controlled demolition dank meme is just a belief so deep anchored it will only end when the person die of natural death. |
12th December 2016, 01:41 AM | #3 |
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12th December 2016, 01:55 AM | #4 |
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Look, I am guessing you are a believer. Keep your belief. The world has moved on. History book have been written. People barely born at that time are now adult. It has been 15 years. If there was really something to that CT, it would have been known by now. But all that it is people dis-beliving the explanation of the plane hitting and killing the building.
Debate all you want. The world does not care. ETA: I have seen enough Cont dem in my summer of 20 and 21 to know what it entails. Did you ? That is a rhetoric question. No need to answer. /thread |
12th December 2016, 02:02 AM | #5 |
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12th December 2016, 02:35 AM | #6 |
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Why not take it up with NIST, since it's their conclusions you have issues with? All you can possibly get here is the opinions of a third party without access to the background data and results NIST worked from or obtained, which will be no more than an alternative interpretation to yours which can be debated endlessly with no possibility of resolution since both you and your interlocutor will be working with the same incomplete set of data.
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12th December 2016, 02:36 AM | #7 |
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What's to debate? the same debunked nonsense?
After sixteen years it gets wearisome. Fact isn't up for debate, NIST reports, despite what some may think aren't theological texts. |
12th December 2016, 03:02 AM | #8 |
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12th December 2016, 03:43 AM | #9 |
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I fully understand your need for attention Tony, however I have no desire to give attention to an over simplified protagonists.
The towers were coming apart inside before the top block fell, and your last FEA used multiple springs to dissipate to much energy from the girder, ignoring totally the leverage effects a second hinge would produce. You treated the girder as if its heating and stiffness were uniform real steel in fire doesn't act that way. |
12th December 2016, 04:03 AM | #10 |
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Oh, and one other thing: As has been repeatedly stated by numerous posters here on many occasions, and answering what I have no doubt is your unstated agenda here, Tony, there is a crucial difference between finding faults with the NIST model - which is intended to determine the most probable collapse sequence with a view to proposing modifications to building codes that will alleviate the damage in future occurrences - and establishing any doubt that the collapse was due entirely to the damage sustained by the building due to debris impact from other collapses and fires within the building. The latter would require either that any possible debris and fire related collapse sequence, rather than the specific sequence outlined by NIST, be shown to be at the very least highly implausible, or that specific and credible evidence be produced of some other cause of collapse; this does not include quote mining, vague, ambiguous or unverified eyewitness accounts, or speculation. In short, even if someone were foolish enough to take up this challenge and fail at it, it would not produce the result you want it to.
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12th December 2016, 05:16 AM | #11 |
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Beyond "It looks like CD", "mumble, mumble freefall mumble" and "ITS OWN FOOTPRINT!!!!!", has this ever actually been done?
After 15 years, AFAIK, we have
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12th December 2016, 05:57 AM | #12 |
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Is it 2006 again? Someone is feeling nostalgic.
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12th December 2016, 06:28 AM | #13 |
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12th December 2016, 06:52 AM | #16 |
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In other words you lack the courage to discuss 9/11 as a whole.
Before any more useless debates can happen, you have to be prepared to tie all four plane crashes together in a manner that better explains them than reality. Absent that, your pathetic little movement is just a joke. |
12th December 2016, 07:08 AM | #17 |
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Now, Now Tony's movement isn't a Joke, at this point it is pure unadulterated fraud.
It was always a fraud and always will be a fraud, with hoaxed experiments, that prove that PT Barnum's statement that, "A sucker is born everyday." was one hundred percent accurate Except the internet has made it a sucker born per second. |
12th December 2016, 07:19 AM | #18 |
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Given that not only NIST but the CTBUH, the AIA, the ASCE, Purdue University, Nordenson and Associates, and other recognized professional organizations ALL unequivocally agree that impact and fire induced damage caused the collapses of the three WTC structures, then I feel it is with these organizations with which you should debate.
OTOH, I am quite sure that all or most of them would feel it beneath them to engage in a debate on a web forum on such a fringe issue. What would you debate? AE911T's full study and report on the collapses? No, of course not. AE911T has NEVER engaged in such a report despite supposedly having a cadre of 2000+ professionals in the field whose expertise might be put to such use. |
12th December 2016, 07:25 AM | #19 |
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So, Tony, as for the value of debating on the internet:
The entire rason d'etre, it appears, of AE911T, is education about the events of 9/11. EXACTLY how has the cause been advanced by having tfk withdraw from an internet forum debate? EXACTLY how has tfk withdrawing from debate increased the technical veracity of the claims? EXACTLY how would debating a different internet poster further the cause of AE911T, or increase the veracity of the claims that AE911T make? |
12th December 2016, 07:29 AM | #20 |
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It goes back further than that to Tony's mentor, Steven E. Jones
Does anyone think such worthless experiments as this Molten Aluminum Experiment: Molten Aluminum Experiment: http://youtu.be/SQdkyaO56OY could ever duplicate a large molt of Aluminum reacting with nitrogen fire retardants in plastics? You see I can point to the actual fraudulent behavior of all the experimenters, and show how and why they are frauds all the way back to Jones. |
12th December 2016, 07:31 AM | #21 |
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Tony...no one cares.
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12th December 2016, 07:41 AM | #22 |
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12th December 2016, 07:49 AM | #23 |
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As I see it this is nothing more than a distraction, a bit of minutia. It is AE911T's continuing odd choice to pick on such minutia in the attempt to do nothing more than "prove NIST wrong". It does nothing whatsoever to further AE911T's own claims, although they seem to believe it does.
Would this be one of the major items that TSz would introduce in a debate? |
12th December 2016, 07:52 AM | #24 |
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Perhaps Tony can provide examples of when such debates have been used in the past on other scientific and engineering issues to determine facts from opinions.
The evolution versus creationism debates are religious and politically driven. They certainly NEVER influenced what science considered as true. How does science determine "what withstands scrutiny as reality based fact"? Generally it is peer review of hypotheses and experiment. At least in hard sciences like physics, chemistry and applied sciences such as structural engineering. |
12th December 2016, 08:25 AM | #25 |
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So instead of wasting your time with a pointless debate that you already know what the outcome will be (both sides claiming victory) and accomplishing exactly two things...Jack and Squat. Why not spend that free time doing something productive? There's probably an elderly person in your neighborhood who could use some leaves raked. Grab a trash bag and pick up litter in your area. Volunteer at the local homeless shelter. Hell, start a new hobby...build a bird house...learn to play the piano or take up painting.
There are million better and more productive uses of your time than debating some faceless person on the internet about an event that happened 15 years ago...especially when you know the end result...agreeing to disagree. |
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12th December 2016, 08:27 AM | #26 |
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No I would introduce it and for the first time show the video I shot of molten Aluminum,
Steel dust and And nitrated plastics reacted in the appropriate environment. I had hoped these clowns got a hearing in court as part of a new investigation, so I could show the video there. I posted photos of a similar experiment here years ago, AlN does not float off with the oxide, it oxidizes when exposed to air with steel dust not Iron oxide. When finely divided steel oxidized in the presence of AlN, it triggers a thermite like reaction in the molt. The material continues to react, even after pouring into a pan, which is why my photo of poured aluminum into a cold pan, sitting on wood was possible. Plastics use Nitrate fire retardants and a large molt is great at creating an oxygen shielded environment for reactions to take place under it. That is the problem in most of these experiments using small amounts of materials, and not recreating the appropriate environment for the reactions to occur. They were always hoaxes and Tony fell for it and it ruined his professional representation. I feel in a way sorry for him, but no one's real fault but his! |
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Who the hell is tfk?
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12th December 2016, 09:35 AM | #32 |
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Huh? That makes Tony's post make even less sense. He made a thread, now in AAH, about when tfk was coming back to post here and he got responses.
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12th December 2016, 09:44 AM | #33 |
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My bad
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12th December 2016, 10:06 AM | #34 |
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Write a scholarly paper on your central thesis, get it successfully peer-reviewed by structural and forensic engineers, then get it published in one of the premier journals of structural and/or forensic engineering. That use of your free time should get you started on your goal of setting the record straight far more effectively than challenging anonymous laymen to debates in a backwater internet forum.
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12th December 2016, 10:21 AM | #37 |
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Much more eloquently said than how I put it in post 24.
15 years after the fact and not a single peer reviewed structural engineering paper, nor any swaying of the ASCE or any professional engineering organization to their opinion of the destruction of the three WTC structures which collapsed fully (out of a dozen destroyed structures). |
12th December 2016, 10:49 AM | #38 |
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Those are not terms for a debate. They are terms for an argument. Debate is for weighing plans of action, such as new or altered project plans, organizational policies, or public policies (i.e. new laws or amendments to or repeals of existing laws). It is not necessary that the debaters or anyone else have the intention to take the actions being debated, but it is necessary that they be plausible plans to be volitionally acted upon in the future. (So, e.g. "the universal gravitational constant shall be reduced by 10% on Sundays" or "Japanese military forces should not have bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941" don't qualify.) This is why parliamentary procedures used by legislative bodies in the U.S. at all levels of government encompasses debate about bills that are eligible for a future vote, rather than about bills that were passed or rejected last week. I would be willing to debate you on any such premise that you wish to propose, based wholly or partly on the events of 9/11. I could suggest some examples, but I prefer that you demonstrate that you understand the point in the previous paragraph by coming up on your own with a suitable premise to debate about. I also have significant time restrictions on when such a debate can begin and at what pace it proceeds, which we can discuss once a premise is agreed upon. |
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12th December 2016, 12:44 PM | #39 |
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Why this?
Here's some of what would be excluded: - No comparison of the designs of WTC3,4,5&6 to the designs of 1,2&7 - No mention of the total destruction wrought by the collapses of WTC1 & 2, ie. not only the destruction of all other WTC structures but several other buildings nearby and heavy damage to yet more. Why does AE911T always want to completely ignore the total destruction in the WTC complex? After the fires in WTC 5 & 6, in which the entire structure was absolutely and completely gutted, any objects in that structure would have been utterly destroyed. What was left of WTC 4 most likely also had similar fires, though there just aren't photos or videos of it in the immediate aftermath of WTC 1's collapse. Most certainly, contents of these structures would be more completely destroyed than the contents of WTC 7. Yet we are supposed to believe that not the fires in WTC 7, but its collapse was likely engineered to destroy something in the building. Why are the fires in these other structures not supposedly suspicious? Oh look.... look who were the tenants of WTC6, which was completely gutted by massive fires in the aftermath of the collapses of WTC 1 & 2, especially those I have in red: United States Customs Service United States Department of Commerce Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms United States Department of Agriculture – Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (AAPHIS) United States Department of Labor The Peace Corps (New York Regional Office) Export-Import Bank of the United States Eastco Building Services (building management) |
12th December 2016, 03:51 PM | #40 |
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I don't know if you are right on the semantics, but you can call it whatever you like. It would be a discussion between two individuals with opposing points of view on the NIST WTC reports (those involving WTC 1, 2, and 7) and what the public domain evidence points to as the reason for the collapses of these buildings.
If you don't like the ground rules tfk and I used why don't you eliminate what you don't like, add what you want, and post it here. I will then review it and accept it as is or make a counter proposal. |
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