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Sabre,
One is not convicted of libel on a definition in a dictionary. You have to bring a case in the courts. So, I won't talk to you until you get rid of your silly nit-picking attitude. I don't think you have the slightest idea of what constitutes a libel case in the English courts. |
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Ambrosia,
You said about RARDE, what is hard to understand. I don't think you have followed the structural debacle of that organisation before the English appeal courts. Both Mr Fereday and Dr Hayes had cases thrown out by them on the evidence they had provided evidence at the primary trials. Start with the MacGuire case for one. |
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Do be sensible, Sabre. But you've proved yourself not worth engaging with.
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Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment. No, nothing too hard there. The second word would seem to be a clue...
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So, then, when you made this statement (directed to me) in your post #12:
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How so? You've completely ignored my questions. When I ask for a response, you've gone so far as to throw me some personal insults.
Are you upset that I don't buy your story? Or do you not like people pointing out your lack of research? Either way, I'll ask one of my questions again: Why do you find it surprising that PA103 experienced explosive decompression from the IED? |
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@CharlesNorrie
I'm just trying to follow the conversation, as this topic is not my forte.
However, please allow me to second or third or fourth the request for you to use the quote function. It's difficult and silly to have to scroll up and try to figure out what specific points you are addressing in your writing. If you are having trouble understanding it, please see the 'help' section or FAQ, or as suggested, even send a PM (private message) to a moderator. Thanks. |
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Everybody else is perfectly content to accept that the two-trail pattern is a result of the way the aircraft disintegrated. The AAIB report is in the public domain for all to read. Where are all the air accident investigators in other jurisdictions coming forward to point out that the official AAIB explanation is so horribly wrong? Rolfe. |
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Red between the lines, Sabre. And unlike you I haven't spent 20 years doing nothing.
I don't find it at all surprising that Pan Am 103 experienced decompression, which happened very quicly indeed when the first explosion took place. I don't know about this quote function, Carlitos. Rolfe, just because because everybody else is happy to accept a two trail pattern, doesn't mean I am. Please read my analysis again and again, if necessary until you are physically sick. NO OTHER AAIB with run with this potato, but it sill exists, to uote a more famous physicist than me. |
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You made the following observation in your blog article:
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The answer in the AAIB report, Sabre, is inadequate. No explanation is given as to why the break-up happened. I don't know why, but I can see dissimulation when I see it. It will cause me great sorrow when the AAIB (a very decent organisation) is challenged in their findings all to support the wrongdoings of a US state terrorist organisation.
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For the sake of disclosure, I want you to be aware of my qualifications with aircraft. I spent 6 years in school studying airframe and powerplant mechanics. I also spent 4 years working with small aircraft at a local airfield. I've also spent time working with several investigators that are employed by the NTSB...as well as with a gentleman that worked with the TSB in Canada.
I'm not pointing this out to be boastful, but merely so you stop treating me like some little kid who doesn't know what they're talking about. |
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Read back through the threads posted here on this topic and you will see that that is not so. I am very well aware of RARDE's track record in previous cases.
That is beside the point though. AAIB do air accident investigations, they don't do forensic research on explosives and are not best qualified to work out what type of explosive is what. They also had a lot of work on at the time! Why RARDE was used and not a n other explosives lab is a good question, but it is not one that you have asked. I have asked two questons of you in particular that I would very much like you to answer. i) How do you know there were two bombs aboard PA103? Surely your theory cannot rest on "there were two debris trails therefore it follows that there must, and can only have been, two explosive devices" ii) What qualifies you to decide which parts of the AAIB report are fact and which are 'written padding'? I have a whole raft of questions I would like to debate with you about John Parkes, I've only ready his report, you've spoken to him in person. Unless you can answer these two basic starter questions though it's pointless going further. |
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This isn't very polite Charles. You have no idea what Sabretooth has been doing for the past 20 years. And you yourself have ridiculed others for spending what seems to you to be an excessive amount of time considering the Lockerbie affair. This continual injunction to "read between the lines" is irritating and will get you nowhere. If you want people to understand your thesis, you have to explain it in plain, understandable terms. Then why are you so hung up on this fictional seciond explosion then? I explained one way to use it in an early post. Just click on the button labelled "quote" in the bottom right area of the post you want to quote. And be careful to close the quote tag and open it again if you want to make comments in the middle of a quoted passage. I PMed you with information about an easy way to get pasted quotes to show up as quotes - just highlight the quoted passage you pasted in, and click on the little speech-bubble icon above the reply form. It's not difficult. What's wrong with you Charles, a child could understand this. Charles, I've read your fantasy quite enough to see it for a fantasy. You have to realise by now that you have not succeeded in making a convincing case with that document. You need to ask yourself where you have failed in this, and try harder to explain yourself. Not throw temper tantrums and tell people to "read between the lines". Rolfe. |
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Then Sabre, show your understanding is worthy of your training.
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Charles, why do assume that to "show understanding" it is necessary for Sabretooth to agree with your interpretation? What are your formal qualifications and professional experience that are relevant to this analysis? Do you not consider any possibility that it is you who are mistaken?
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Ambrosia, if We were to ask yourslef the question as to why RARDE was used, given the failures of its two Lockerbie investigators, you might come to the conclusion that they were chosen because they were broken reeds.
Please the read again my reasons for saying that there was more than one explosion. Consider the work of Mr John Parks for instance. I have never met Mr Parks I can distinguish between the plain facts and what appears to be mere opinion. |
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And I spent wearisme times with you Rolfe on Black's blogspot and now here? Why do you show so much reluctance to understand? I've told you the factual limits of my knowledge. Professional qualifications are worth nothing as compared with the necessity of trying to think.
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Originally Posted by CharlesNorrie Blog
Originally Posted by NTSB Smith AAR Report regarding PA103; Page 11; Part 2.1.2
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Whatever your associates claim about you Sabre, is essentially your claim, but your understanding of my story does not impress me, but for some reason seems to bother you. If you don't like what I'm saying, I could direct you to any number of sites on model railways and the like.
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Charles, I did not say anything about how far electromagnetic waves travel. Yes they travel for ever at the speed of light but they appear to weaken further away from their source and are overcome by noise/static and become undetectable. So to have a greater range a higher power output at the transmitter is required with more sensitive receivers.
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Charles, all this bickering and personalisation of the discussion advances your cause not an inch. You have failed to persuade anyone that there was a second explosion. You have failed to persuade anyone that baggage container AVE4041 was either present at Heathrow airport at midnight the night before, or identifiable as the container Bedford was required to select for the PA103 interline baggage during the afternoon. You have failed to persuade anyone that it was essential for any Iranian revenge for IA655 to be directly carried out by someone closely connected to that disaster. This amounts to a fail. You are trying to persuade people in general of all these points, and you are simply not succeeding. You need to address the deficiencies in your argument, not snipe and belittle those who are trying to understand you. Rolfe. |
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Charles - it has nothing to do with whether or not I "don't like what [your] saying". I am asking you for clarity. However, I'm not impressed with your constant dodging of my questions.
And I understand your story quite well...but at this point, a story is exactly what you are trying to pass off as fact. I am asking you to prove your position. What evidence did you find that supports your story? I've provided you with facts and sources to justify my disbelief. Now I ask that you return the gesture and provide some facts of your own to justify your position. This is how a civil debate is carried. But I'm sure you know this already. Don't misconstrue my disbelief as "not understanding". |
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I can't find any reasons other than.
i) there was more than 1 debris trail ii) some of the wreckage was missing and not recovered I was asking you to state them again so that perhaps I could understand them a little better. I hope that if/when you return to this forum after your suspension has elapsed you would indulge me and state them plainly once more for the record. On your website you also claim as source material for John Parks[sic], (it's actually John H Parkes. One wonders if your method to avoid libel is to intentionally misspell peoples names. It does make finding the source of your material awkward.) "Notes of a video made by me from a video interview with John Parks. Notes made 6/10/09" I would very much like to watch this interview, if such a thing is possible. |
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Damn. Repeated incivility and ignoring mod warnings. I certainly didn't report anything he posted today. I tried my best to show him how to use the quote function, including sending him a PM about it. I really, really didn't want him suspended again. And to go from 24 hours to 7 days in one leap suggests the mods weren't too happy with the way he was going. What is it about twoofers? Doesn't seem to matter which aeroplane they're hung up about, they all seem to follow the same pattern. Rolfe. |
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My physics 'O' level was 44 years ago. We learned about the inverse square law. The strength varies inversely with square of distance. Double the distance, 1/4 strength. 10x distance, 1/100th strength etc.
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My physics O grade (the Scottish equivalent) was only 41 years ago - is that a win or a lose? I got over 95% in it, too! Got an A grade in Higher physics 39 years ago. Got a distinction in pre-med physics at Glasgow University 38 years ago.
I still think that's all fairly irrelevant to the discussion. Higher degrees in engineering would be more impressive. Rolfe. |
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I suppose this thread will just die for a week now. Damn.
Still, while we're waiting, could I expand on one point that got a bit lost earlier? No Charles, you missed that one, and indeed all my questions about your imaginary baggage container system. This particular point suggests to me that you're labouring under a rather elementary misapprehension. Charles has never described his container allocation system in detail, but it seems to involve every aircraft having a number of different sets of containers which are specific to that aircraft. Possibly three. So that at any time one set is in use and the other two are on the ground. Right away we can see the flaw here. Three times as many containers as are needed in the air at any time. This is expensive and wasteful of resources. An efficient system would seek to minimise investment in equipment that would just be lying around, and to have containers in the air for as high a proportion of the time as possible. It would also incur extra expense as regards provision of sufficient storage facilities on the ground to take all this stuff. Another consideration is the man-hours lost rooting around for the right set of containers in the context of large numbers of the things being stored on the ground for varying lengths of time. However, there's another reason this system is a nonsense, at least as Charles seems to be imagining it. He seems to think every airliner only ever shuttles between two airports, like a cable-car or a yo-yo. I think he's imagining three sets of containers, with one in the air and one at each of the two airports. Of course planes don't fly like that. Even on a normal schedule, planes frequently don't go back to the airport they came from. Never mind when schedules are disrupted for some reason! If every plane was using only its own containers, it would mean it had to have a set at every airport in the world, plus one! Who's going to pay for all that, and the storage? Why do I think Charles believes that? I think that was the explanation he partly gave on Robert Black's blog. And also, that comment about the containers having "arrived from NY mid afternoon of 20 December 1988". Huh? As he seems to think that the container sets are tied to the actual planes, I can only imagine that he thinks that Maid of the Seas flew in from NY, mid-afternoon on 20th December. Where does he get that idea from? Again, I can only imagine he's working on this yo-yo idea, and also thinks the plane flew in to Heathrow from NY mid-afternoon on 21st December.
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Not mid-afteroon - and not New York actually. Maid of the Seas flew in from San Fransisco about noon on 21st December. This was why I was asking Charles what flight and what plane he was imagining these containers flew in on, mid-afternoon on 20th December from NY. I think he imagines it was Maid of the Seas, and it simply can't have been, if that plane only landed from SF (an 11-hour flight or something like that) at noon on the 21st. It would have taken off from SF about 1am GMT on the 21st. It's physically impossible for it to have landed at Heathrow less than 12 hours before that! If Charles runs to form on this, I suspect he'll decide that flights are paired to keep to his plan, it's just that it isn't the same actual plane each time. This might be a bit more sensible, but in that case, why on earth would any such system hold a set of luggage containers on the ground for over 24 hours (mid-afternoon on the 20th to 6pm on the 21st), when flights were landing and taking off several times a day? This is what I mean when I say Charles hasn't done his reading, doesn't have a command of the essential facts, and is simply making stuff up rather than thinking his thesis through. Rolfe. |
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I never saw that before, Sabretooth. Thanks for that. Rolfe. ETA: Ooooh, it's another CT! Way different from Charles's, and it seems to be in the class of "it was really an accident", similar to the Parkes story. This guy seems to think it was an accidental explosive decompression due to a faulty cargo door, and the apparent evidence of the IED due to "a rather large shotgun" being present in the luggage container, loaded, which went off as a result of the accident. That's new! |
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I generally stay out of CT and reading this convinces me I'm wise. A week or a year from now, this guy will still be spouting nonsense and ignoring or being rude to anyone who disagrees with him. Why bother?
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I and others have addressed this question here and elsewhere, both online and in the real world. For most of us, the answer is, we don't expect to convince the true believers of the error of their ways; we know that's virtually impossible. Rather, we do it for the benefit of the uninformed who might be exposed to conspiracist garbage and wonder whether there's any truth to it. We are quite confident that as long as we make an effort to present the truth, it will win out eventually. Also, for me personally, I see conspiracists as [Rule 10]ing on the graves of, variously, the Americans (and Japanese) killed at Pearl Harbor; JFK and Patrolman J.D. Tippit; all of the astronauts who have given their lives in pursuit of the exploration of space; and all of the victims of the various terrorist attacks that have become fodder for conspiracy theories. This angers me, and I feel an obligation to attempt to call attention to this behavior. ETA: I don't consider Holocaust denial to be a form of conspiracism, even though the two phenomena appear superficially similar, and there is certainly a significant amount of crossover. Deniers are in a special category of particular loathing and contempt. |
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