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27th June 2011, 05:33 AM | #81 |
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27th June 2011, 06:55 AM | #84 |
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Well, you know what they say about monkeys and typewriters.
Except for all the large bits of concrete wrapped around steel, as well as the loose bits, yes.
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As Abraham Lincoln once said, there is an upper limit on bull pucky. If I say I can slam dunk, that's a reasonable lie, right up until they ask me to prove it. If I say I beat Michael Jordan in a nationally televised 1-on-1 game, that's a lot more unbelievable.
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27th June 2011, 07:54 AM | #85 |
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Originally Posted by 000063
Originally Posted by DeathDart
Got any other ideas?
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27th June 2011, 08:02 AM | #86 |
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27th June 2011, 08:17 AM | #87 |
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The entire "kept 1% of the steel" canard is an attempt at misdirection for two reasons:
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I didn't immediately recall that part, but now that you mention it, I think someone did say that.
That's bonkers-level weird. See? This is why stumbling around in your yard while drunk is a bad thing. Yeah, he was a weird one at that. He was nowhere near as outlandish as some other folks (I mean, it's hard to top space beams for weirdness. Or micronukes). But he was so persistent. I swear, every time I read one of his posts, I heard a cuckoo clock go off in my head. That couldn't have been a coincidence. |
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27th June 2011, 08:23 AM | #89 |
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What a great plan! How could it possibly fail?
Like this: As a software developer, I have often found that carefully thought-out plans that work perfectly in my imagination are usually laid waste by the intrusion of the Real World. As soon as I try to actually DO what I'm planning, I am effectively bitch-slapped back to reality by all the issues that I didn't account for in my planning. Sure, it SHOULD work...but only if the universe plays nice and behaves exactly the way you expect it does. That doesn't happen, ever. Oh, and what you're describing here is especially fail-prone because so many of the behaviors you describe can be verified ahead of time as being realistic or not, and yet you make no attempt to do so. That would require actual math, and unless I miss my guess, that isn't your strong suit. |
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27th June 2011, 08:34 AM | #90 |
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Why wouldn't all these mini super magnets all just stick together in one big lump in their container?
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27th June 2011, 10:03 AM | #91 |
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27th June 2011, 10:59 AM | #92 |
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You got monopoles, I thought they had a vaccine for that.
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27th June 2011, 11:09 AM | #93 |
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If you have just a bunch of super magnets that can form a solid mass they would probably need to be moving several meters 30-40S for an impact to separate them.
Being in the whiffle structure you could have the poles covered by the whiffle structure so that they don't latch together so strongly. I visualize it like one of the beards made from bees. They chain well but don't bind side to side well. |
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True there isn't any evidence. But I find it to be a challenge to see if it could have been possible. I do have a lot of experience with this nasty little magnets. Though someone did correctly bring up, you would need to test it. The real world can make you look pretty stupid.
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27th June 2011, 11:31 AM | #96 |
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27th June 2011, 11:35 AM | #97 |
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It's a no goer - the magnets would screw with the planes electronics - that's why there are regulations governing these things. Go back and read my post on page 2. DD your idea is a DD (dead duck)
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27th June 2011, 11:37 AM | #98 |
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When I was younger and beginning to experiment with energetic reactions, I could count up to 12 on my fingers. Now I can only count up to 10.
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27th June 2011, 11:42 AM | #99 |
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Its not a dead duck.
(Bart Simpson pokes it in the eye with a stick, no reaction) Ok, maybe its a dead duck. |
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I AM NOT DEAD!
Quit poking me in the eye, who knocked me out and glued this duck suit on me? |
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I am more stupid and/or stubborn.
Which law of physics or chemistry etc says it is impossible? I learned the hard way why it is a law and not just a suggestion. You can package the magnets so that the fields mostly cancel out a short distance. When you open the package they can literally explode out and reassemble into a lower energy configuration. Not Impossible, probably a miserably frustrating process like building one of those giant domino cascades, and if you didn't care if devices were found afterwards it might be applicable for the military uses. Meeting all the criteria for this problem, if they could do it in under a year and for less than 1/2 million dollars I would be surprised. You would probably be better off taping a zippo lighter to the wing. While I believe there may have been something (like evidence in the wreckage), I doubt if there had been anything other than fuel and maybe the titanium in the turbine blades that hastened the fall of the building. |
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Sorry, it is up to you to post sources for your assertions...not my job to look up things you are claiming, you must back them yourself. So please post a source from a non-CT nonsense site for this Israeli - Stratesec connection.
And they didn't remove evidence quickly at all...again go visit Hangar 17 at JFK airport...stop repeating this long debunked meme that the steel/evidence was destroyed/recycled with haste. |
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Turbine blades are not made from titanium. Turbine blades are made from nickel based super alloys which are far heavier than titanium alloys. Yes this maybe a nitpick, but the devil is in the detail which you are sadly lacking. Your scenario is nothing but a bad script writer's hollywood fantasy. It would star Hulk Hogan, Hayden Christiansen, William Baldwin and go straight to DVD. |
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That is, very specifically, the wrong question to ask. The right question to ask is: What would be the expected observations if this happened, and were those observations in fact made? If you can't come up with a reasonable answer to the first question and an affirmative answer to the second, then you're just spinning irrelevant fantasies. And you're also way behind the competition, given that both have been achieved very comprehensively for collapse induced by fire and impact damage.
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Has deathdart told us what "law" he is talking about?
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28th June 2011, 09:43 AM | #112 |
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28th June 2011, 09:47 AM | #113 |
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30th June 2011, 07:25 AM | #115 |
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Magnets, how do they ******* work?
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