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27th June 2011, 05:43 PM | #41 |
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This is a common assertion by truthers - specifically, that black smoke proves that the fires were oxygen starved, which is equivalent to the claim that black smoke can only come form an oxygen starved fire. Once we accept that black smoke can come from a fire with plentiful oxygen, then black smoke is no longer proof of anything relevant.
This too is a common assertion by truthers - specifically, that normal building fires cannot achieve temperatures hot enough to melt steel, and that only thermite can achieve such temperatures. Once we accept that building fires can achieve temperatures hot enough to melt steel, then melted steel is no longer proof of anything relevant. And this, too, is a common assertion by truthers - specifically, that the observation of explosions is proof that explosives were present in the buildings. Once we accept that explosions are commonplace events in building fires, then explosions are no longer proof of anything relevant. So if you want to argue that black smoke, melted steel and explosions are all common observations in normal building fires, but could also occur if the buildings were demolished using explosives, then nobody will seriously contest that claim, for the simple reason that it does nothing to disprove the generally accepted narrative. Dave |
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We'll admit we're building strawmen if you admit that recognizing that there are other possible causes for each of those elements pretty much wipes out 90% of the supposed "evidence" that has been claimed proves that the WTC buildings were destroyed by some sort of controlled demolition. So, which is it Red? Are you willing to toss out all the major Truther talking points just to score a point against us? |
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I look forward to seeing how he tries to extricate himself from this one.
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You guys are really starting to bore me. And I'm convinced, it's you, and not the Twoofies, who live in their mothers' basements, have no jobs, no girlfriends to speak of.
It's been less than 24 hrs. Get a grip. PS. This thread still has nothing to do with 9/11. Nothing. |
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I'm impressed. Although the "none of you guys have a life but for some reason that doesn't apply to me" ploy isn't exactly original, it isn't one of your usual ways of running away from the issue.
But I'll take note that the questions of whether black smoke shows that a fire was oxygen starved, normal building fires can soften steel, or explosions demonstrate the presence of explosives, all have nothing to do with 9/11. Nothing. I may remind you of that declaration some time, if it's OK with you. Dave |
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Report me then. I am sure that the mods will ignore it.
Would you care to address my post earlier in the thread? I have a full time job, a wife, and play golf on occasion. This is fairly local for me (I pass by it every couple weeks on my way to Disney or one of the other parks in the area) and it intrigued me. Not only as a debunker, but as a firefighter too. Now, would you care to actually address the argument, instead of running away from it and attacking the posters here? |
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Uh, what steel? The building was a prefabricated wooden structure, possibly built for the World Fair in Knoxville and trucked to Florida. Proving, of course, that there is no relevance whatsoever to any building on 9/11.
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You didn't post in the barrage of obnoxiousness, taunting and poisoning the well. You probably realize that some people have busy lives and can't always spend the better part of their day in pissing matches.
But as far as your "argument", check my post above. This building was absolutely nothing like any building destroyed on 9/11. |
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Well, I admit, I thought he would take a different approach instead of flat out ignoring what he posted.
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The effort to clarify this at least is appreciated. Yes if it's a wooden structure then we don't expect it to be anything like the WTC.
While there was curiosity on the actual construction, it was not the main point of the thread which was about the idea that reports of explosions always = bombs and parodying what the truth movements defines as its benchmark evidence of controlled demolitions. That doesn't require answering to a barrage of flooding questions to actually address, nor should it take the entire day... When you attacked the argument in the OP you went after something entirely irrelevant to the actual point that was being made. If you don't want to answer to a million obnoxious posts that's one thing, butyou jumped into the thread on the wrong topic altogether |
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Thanks for the civil tone, as usual. If you admit that this hotel was constructed nothing like any at the WTC, what's the point of the comparison? Obviously, Tri's point was to, as you say, "parody" Truther thinking. I guess that's the problem with these threads. Mockery has replaced any constructive discussion. I don't doubt Tri can find instances where people say stupid stuff on the internet. That's no revelation. But threads that do nothing but conflate all questioning of 9/11 into "Truther Logic" is dumb beyond belief. It's merely an attempt at diminishing and conflating all skepticism toward official explanations. Pointless, at best.
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Well, this hotel seems like it was demolished with explosives in a similar manner to the WTC. Witnesses heard explosions, how is that not relevant? We're just carrying out your logic here.
Any comment on your hurling of truther logic under the bus? Or are you going to continue to ignore that post? |
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In this fire it was. Twoofers always say that black smoke means oxygen starved. In this fire, black smoke was present along with some pretty healthy fire. Not Oxygen Starved. Twoofers always say that explosions=explosives. In this fire there were explosions with no explosives You're not really this thick, are you? |
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Hes being purposefully obtuse. I don't know why you guys haven't had him on ignore for the last 4 years. He's been on my ignore list, and I do not MISS a single one of his asinine posts.
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But yet, it experienced black smoke, which truthers claim to be oxygen starved fires that are burning cool, or are going out.
And truthers also claim that explosions come from explosives. Which, of course, we know that fires experience explosions, without the presence of explosives. The BUILDING has nothing to do with the FIRE in this regards. The buildings CONSTRUCTION does not even come into play. |
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I think what you're looking for here is the tone... I don't do well with sarcasm or being pushy so I don't often bother personally... the content itself however does deal with a question I've asked multiple times and would be interested having some elaboration on. This isn't just from you, I've asked numerous others frankly without much input on the matter. For example, nobody disputes that people reported explosions at the WTC partly because of examples like the OP's article, and many others. However demolition proponents suggest that explosives should have been investigated as the most likely culprits without explaining why all of the things we expect to cause the same phenomenon are the least likely. If anyone has already, I honestly haven't seen it...
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Without derailing the topic and going over worn out ground, I would say that it's the other characteristics of use of explosives that have caused some witnesses to differentiate between what might be considered spontaneous explosions due to fuel and other components, and those that would be consistent with CD.
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He's likely referring to the people who likened it to a controlled demolition, which runs into the same problem as the first; people make similar comparisons all the time. There's no reason to dispute whether they said something to the effect, but like reports of explosions witnesses likening it to other things happens just as often.
Like I said earlier that's what the OP was about; if you follow that line of logic you're missing to obvious points that go against the CD argument unless you can explain how one set of features over another is more likely. This deals with witness testimony, something that is far from imperial unless you can discern the differences between simile, metaphor, and how people interpret what they see or hear. |
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I always think of this when I hear people say that the tornado bearing down on them sounded "like a freight train", from which we can only assume that there are numerous rogue freight trains which jump their tracks and demolish whole neighborhoods while yet giving them the appearance of having been blown down.
It's natural to compare something unusual (like a tornado or a building collapsing) to something you have actually heard in the past (a train, or explosions, which you've at least heard on tv). |
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Absolutely wrong. One of the main issues that many of the so-called debunkers have had with advocates for a 9/11 Truth is the seeming uniqueness of the possible scenarios outlined by scientific experts in the movement. triforcharity's OP points out that the official attacks on the WTC may not be as unique as our self-proclaimed debunker's like to imply. He raises the possibility that these kinds of thermite attacks might, in fact, be going on all around us.
This of course raises issues about why these other thermite demolitions are not being reported as such by the 'mainstream' media. When even the firefighters in attendance are pointing out how something totally new is happening here
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Translation: I have a good argument, but I'm not going to tell you what it is.
What "other characteristics of the use of explosives" are we talking about here? Is it the absence of jolts in the acceleration curve, despite the fact that nobody has ever observed any such jolts in the acceleration curve of a building that was demolished using explosives? Is it the fact that a part of WTC7's collapse was at near-freefall acceleration, despite the fact that nobody has ever observed that in an explosive demolition either? Or is this simply a statement of belief, that there simply must be some other characteristics of explosives that the collapses exhibited, and it's only a matter of time before somebody figures out what they are? Specifics, please, or you're just blowing smoke as usual. Dave |
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OK. Now, two questions:
femr2, would you describe this acceleration, at an advanced stage of the collapse well after the demolition was initiated by explosives, as a characteristic of the use of explosives? I'd argue that events this far into collapse progression are relatively insensitive to the means of collapse initiation. It may be instructive to see if there are any similar features, for example, in the acceleration curves of verinage demolitions, (although I suspect conservation of momentum will reduce the acceleration well below 1G). RedIbis, is this actually anything to do with what you were talking about? Dave |
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Related, certainly. What I'm trying to get at here is, what are the characteristics of explosive use that RedIbis claims to have been observed in the WTC collapses, and are therefore indicative of explosives having initiated those collapses.
Because any feature observed in both explosive and verinage implosions could not reasonably be described as a characteristic of the use of explosives, in the context in which I think RedIbis meant it. He's trying to claim, as far as I can see, that the truth movement is not making the claim that explosions in the WTC are indicative of explosives being used to initiate the collapse, but rather that some other characteristics are indicative of explosives. I'd like to know what he thinks he means. Dave |
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