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09-14-2016, 12:54 PM
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hint: i didnt sit there and watch it through but my favorite part was the guy taking about a fire that "burnt out" with a photo of it still burning.
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09-14-2016, 01:07 PM
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then how do i know the video starts off with a bunch of first hand accounts with sounds/visuals that mean absolutely nothing--I have a funny feeling buildings make noise before they come crashing down (regardless of the method used to bring them down). Then a bunch of old white people with degrees say a whole bunch of other **** to take up time; again providing no evidence. and then mention thermite a few times?
hint: i didnt sit there and watch it through but my favorite part was the guy taking about a fire that "burnt out" with a photo of it still burning.
hint: i didnt sit there and watch it through but my favorite part was the guy taking about a fire that "burnt out" with a photo of it still burning.
The location of the fire where NIST claimed that was where the building was weakened most, was, in fact, out at the time of the picture. There were fires in floors below, but not on the floors and location NIST claimed.
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09-14-2016, 01:07 PM
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then how do i know the video starts off with a bunch of first hand accounts with sounds/visuals that mean absolutely nothing--I have a funny feeling buildings make noise before they come crashing down (regardless of the method used to bring them down). Then a bunch of old white people with degrees say a whole bunch of other **** to take up time; again providing no evidence. and then mention thermite a few times?
hint: i didnt sit there and watch it through but my favorite part was the guy taking about a fire that "burnt out" with a photo of it still burning.
hint: i didnt sit there and watch it through but my favorite part was the guy taking about a fire that "burnt out" with a photo of it still burning.
And you're right buildings do make noise before they come crashing down however the noise between steel bending and concrete cracking is much different than the noise explosives make to take out the columns during controlled demolition and thats exactly the sounds that were recorded on the twin towers as well as building 7 just before they collapsed.
I dont know about you but i'd value the guy with 60 years of experience and a masters degree in that **** than the pizza boy just out of highschool but thats just my 2c.
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09-14-2016, 01:24 PM
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In the US, for instance, there are many Doctors who espouse homeopathy and the belief that various environmental factors influence the development of autism. There are many members of the astronomical and aerospace communities who believe that aliens have visited earth and influenced the development of mankind. There are teachers who believe in young-earth creationism. And so on.
When you say "the engineers..." you are not describing a consensus opinion among a majority of the field. You are repeating the words of a small but vocal minority who appear to have some unspoken agenda (often nothing more than self-aggrandizement.) If we lend credibility to every such minority group simply by citing them as "scientists say...", then we can reasonably prove that the earth is flat, dinosaur fossils were planted by God as a test of faith, carbon emissions do not influence the global climate
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09-14-2016, 02:01 PM
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Speaking as an engineer, when an engineer sees a pool of melted metal, the most obvious thing which pops to mind is not generally "Ah, must be thermite!"
If YouTube is your preferred standard of evidence, just search around for all of the videos made by people who have built iron smelters which run on wood, charcoal, etc. Mankind would have never gotten out of the stone age if blacksmithing and metalworking required thermite to achieve.
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09-14-2016, 02:02 PM
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For any given profession, you will always be able to assemble a select group whose opinions differ markedly from both the prevailing academic consensus as well as from the results rigidly defensible scientific inquiry. And by careful selection, one can assemble a foundation of evidence to support nearly any claim. Just think about how often you hear a Christian / Catholic priest "prove" something in scripture by preferential selection of evidence.
In the US, for instance, there are many Doctors who espouse homeopathy and the belief that various environmental factors influence the development of autism. There are many members of the astronomical and aerospace communities who believe that aliens have visited earth and influenced the development of mankind. There are teachers who believe in young-earth creationism. And so on.
When you say "the engineers..." you are not describing a consensus opinion among a majority of the field. You are repeating the words of a small but vocal minority who appear to have some unspoken agenda (often nothing more than self-aggrandizement.) If we lend credibility to every such minority group simply by citing them as "scientists say...", then we can reasonably prove that the earth is flat, dinosaur fossils were planted by God as a test of faith, carbon emissions do not influence the global climate
In the US, for instance, there are many Doctors who espouse homeopathy and the belief that various environmental factors influence the development of autism. There are many members of the astronomical and aerospace communities who believe that aliens have visited earth and influenced the development of mankind. There are teachers who believe in young-earth creationism. And so on.
When you say "the engineers..." you are not describing a consensus opinion among a majority of the field. You are repeating the words of a small but vocal minority who appear to have some unspoken agenda (often nothing more than self-aggrandizement.) If we lend credibility to every such minority group simply by citing them as "scientists say...", then we can reasonably prove that the earth is flat, dinosaur fossils were planted by God as a test of faith, carbon emissions do not influence the global climate
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09-14-2016, 02:13 PM
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WKCR-FM, like most of the FM and VHF stations in town, had its transmitter on the 110th floor of 1 WTC. Now they're all back at Empire, though many of them are presently in lease & combiner negotiations to move back to WTC again. A few have decided to remain at Empire (with backups at Alpine or 4 Times) for reasons of cost and superstition.
At the time, we (Harris) were building new studios on the campus at Columbia University, and part of that entailed installing a new STL (Studio - Transmitter Link) system. We were using the Harris Aurora, which was a spread-spectrum radio system that provided a bi-directional T1/E1 line (which was still considered fast at the time) on the 2.4 Ghz ISM band.
I'd been fighting like hell with the freight company to get the antennas delivered on time. The downtown antenna finally showed up on 10 Sep, so I went down to accept delivery and get it into the room. I left town that night to fly back to the factory in Cincinnati as I had some other equipment to pack up, and two guys on my crew were supposed to go back up the next day along with the station's chief engineer Richard Koziol (who passed away a few years ago), to install the antenna and aim it uptown at the studio.
The fact that Richard's daughter started vomiting that night while I was on a redeye back to CVG is one of those things that, to a religious person, is easily interpreted as Divine Intervention, and subsequently construed as "proof" that God exists.
At the time, we (Harris) were building new studios on the campus at Columbia University, and part of that entailed installing a new STL (Studio - Transmitter Link) system. We were using the Harris Aurora, which was a spread-spectrum radio system that provided a bi-directional T1/E1 line (which was still considered fast at the time) on the 2.4 Ghz ISM band.
I'd been fighting like hell with the freight company to get the antennas delivered on time. The downtown antenna finally showed up on 10 Sep, so I went down to accept delivery and get it into the room. I left town that night to fly back to the factory in Cincinnati as I had some other equipment to pack up, and two guys on my crew were supposed to go back up the next day along with the station's chief engineer Richard Koziol (who passed away a few years ago), to install the antenna and aim it uptown at the studio.
The fact that Richard's daughter started vomiting that night while I was on a redeye back to CVG is one of those things that, to a religious person, is easily interpreted as Divine Intervention, and subsequently construed as "proof" that God exists.
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09-14-2016, 02:58 PM
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Here are your "explosions"
Loud explosive sounds are exactly what one would expect to hear when a massively heavy reinforced concrete structure is heated to the point where the steel becomes soft enough and the concrete becomes brittle enough for a column or beam to shatter. When it gets hot enough, especially quickly, as would happen in an uncontrolled fire near lots of oil-based plastics/carpet/tile/etc. concrete does indeed lose the ability to bear a load.
As far as the theory that "how could the building fall if only one beam failed?" Go into your 2 story home with a basement, find a single steel beam in the basement, (if you have a large enough basement) and cut it in half. I dare you, you'll be just fine. I promise your house won't collapse, it's only one beam...
As soon as one beam fails, the entire weight of the carried load is shifted on the supporting structures - a vertically compressing load that an overheated concrete column might be able to handle, no sweat, becomes a torquing load that the same concrete column is easily outmatched by. In such a scenario, you would likely here many loud "explosions" as weight and loads shifted by inches long before you would be able to visibly see the building move from the outside.
Loud explosive sounds are exactly what one would expect to hear when a massively heavy reinforced concrete structure is heated to the point where the steel becomes soft enough and the concrete becomes brittle enough for a column or beam to shatter. When it gets hot enough, especially quickly, as would happen in an uncontrolled fire near lots of oil-based plastics/carpet/tile/etc. concrete does indeed lose the ability to bear a load.
As far as the theory that "how could the building fall if only one beam failed?" Go into your 2 story home with a basement, find a single steel beam in the basement, (if you have a large enough basement) and cut it in half. I dare you, you'll be just fine. I promise your house won't collapse, it's only one beam...
As soon as one beam fails, the entire weight of the carried load is shifted on the supporting structures - a vertically compressing load that an overheated concrete column might be able to handle, no sweat, becomes a torquing load that the same concrete column is easily outmatched by. In such a scenario, you would likely here many loud "explosions" as weight and loads shifted by inches long before you would be able to visibly see the building move from the outside.
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09-14-2016, 03:11 PM
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Here are your "explosions"
Loud explosive sounds are exactly what one would expect to hear when a massively heavy reinforced concrete structure is heated to the point where the steel becomes soft enough and the concrete becomes brittle enough for a column or beam to shatter. When it gets hot enough, especially quickly, as would happen in an uncontrolled fire near lots of oil-based plastics/carpet/tile/etc. concrete does indeed lose the ability to bear a load.
As far as the theory that "how could the building fall if only one beam failed?" Go into your 2 story home with a basement, find a single steel beam in the basement, (if you have a large enough basement) and cut it in half. I dare you, you'll be just fine. I promise your house won't collapse, it's only one beam...
As soon as one beam fails, the entire weight of the carried load is shifted on the supporting structures - a vertically compressing load that an overheated concrete column might be able to handle, no sweat, becomes a torquing load that the same concrete column is easily outmatched by. In such a scenario, you would likely here many loud "explosions" as weight and loads shifted by inches long before you would be able to visibly see the building move from the outside.
Loud explosive sounds are exactly what one would expect to hear when a massively heavy reinforced concrete structure is heated to the point where the steel becomes soft enough and the concrete becomes brittle enough for a column or beam to shatter. When it gets hot enough, especially quickly, as would happen in an uncontrolled fire near lots of oil-based plastics/carpet/tile/etc. concrete does indeed lose the ability to bear a load.
As far as the theory that "how could the building fall if only one beam failed?" Go into your 2 story home with a basement, find a single steel beam in the basement, (if you have a large enough basement) and cut it in half. I dare you, you'll be just fine. I promise your house won't collapse, it's only one beam...
As soon as one beam fails, the entire weight of the carried load is shifted on the supporting structures - a vertically compressing load that an overheated concrete column might be able to handle, no sweat, becomes a torquing load that the same concrete column is easily outmatched by. In such a scenario, you would likely here many loud "explosions" as weight and loads shifted by inches long before you would be able to visibly see the building move from the outside.
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09-14-2016, 03:48 PM
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You're right. It was a conspiracy between the Jew bankers and the leaders of the military industrial complex in coordination with the CIA, the freemasons, and the surviving original members of The Mickey Mouse Club.
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