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Top 5 things I can't do because I've been banned from the LC site.

5) Go on the site to learn more about the CTers position.
4) Go on the site to dispute my being banned.
3) Go on the site to ask who banned me.
2) Go on the site to ask why I was banned.
1) Go on the site to check the rules to see which one I broke.
 
chipmunk stew said:
I've thought about this possibility, too, as have others. I haven't personally explored its feasibility. But according to the above-mentioned Jones, it's impossible. His proof? He melted some aluminum and poured it down a rusty piece of L-beam.

(about a third of the way down this page: http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html)

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It must be great to live in a universe where the laws of physics are so convenient. According to the CTer's, any simple process can be extrapolated to something huge and complex, and it will behave the very same way! Hooray for crackpot science!
 
It's actually a good thing things don't work that way, or we'd all still be paying for that "helium plus hydrogen plus compression" project I did in the 6th grade.
 
manny said:
Thermite is basically aluminum metal and rust. Could it occur on its own as a reaction between rusted metal in the building and the aircraft or the towers' aluminum cladding under heat or is sulphur necessary as a catalyst?
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You don't need sulpher. In fact, Thermite is a mixture of Aluminum powder and Iron Oxide powder. There's no chemical reaction that turns it into thermite.

Could it happen? Maybe, but doubtful. You'd have to have the rust in a powder or powder-ish form (which might happen if pieces were knocked loose as beams bent/fell), but I'm having a hard time determining how you'd get the aluminum into small enough particles.

Now after the fall, I dunno. I kinda doubt the aluminum would be powder-ized, but I'm not familiar enough with the physics of a building collapse to state one way or another.
 
NobbyNobbs said:
Top 5 things I can't do because I've been banned from the LC site.

5) Go on the site to learn more about the CTers position.
4) Go on the site to dispute my being banned.
3) Go on the site to ask who banned me.
2) Go on the site to ask why I was banned.
1) Go on the site to check the rules to see which one I broke.
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I finally sent a PM to Killtown to ask him since hew was complaining about another site baning hem. You might want to try that. I kind of want to get banned now. Well, not really but I think I'm going to bow out. I have lots of walls in my home that I can bang my head against.
 
NobbyNobbs said:
Top 5 things I can't do because I've been banned from the LC site.

5) Go on the site to learn more about the CTers position.
4) Go on the site to dispute my being banned.
3) Go on the site to ask who banned me.
2) Go on the site to ask why I was banned.
1) Go on the site to check the rules to see which one I broke.
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Well, you can still read their posts. But if you don't agree with CT, they don't want you posting there. Wish I had known that. I stated in the second sentence of my thread ihat I didn't believe their theory. Someone could have stopped me right there and saved me a lot of time.

You were banned by FM258

And I came across this quote by TheQuest, another LC mod:
Almost NO debate regarding WTC7 or the towers with the exception of the occasional Freerepublic troll. There is a reason for that. The controlled demolition evidence IS conclusive.

If we are going to enter a discussion regarding the 2nd tower strike, lets keep it friendly. No one should fear ridicule expressing their opinion.

I say as long as everyone agrees 'inside job' and controlled demolitions we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Source
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Well, I debated the "controlled demolition theory" and was banned. And I'm not part of the "Freerepublic," whatever that is.

They really need to make this policy more clear, so that people like us don't waste our time.
 
Currently the Quest (a mod) is calling me a monster so I guess my new found good will is wearing thin. I'm kind of tired of the roller coaster ride. I've got to bow out. There is no point there. In the end the dissenters are wrong and conventional wisdom of the site is right. I think it is possible to get through to fence sitters but it requires patience that I simply don't have.
 
RandFan said:
Currently the Quest (a mod) is calling me a monster so I guess my new found good will is wearing thin. I'm kind of tired of the roller coaster ride. I've got to bow out. There is no point there. In the end the dissenters are wrong and conventional wisdom of the site is right. I think it is possible to get through to fence sitters but it requires patience that I simply don't have.
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As a last hurrah, why don't you start a thread and link to the Death Star conspiracy?
 
Trifikas said:
Sorry for hitting this particular section of the party late, but just caught up.

Just as Intelligent Designers has a list of arguments they need to abandon, The LC'ers need to drop this one. Aside from being an Argument from Incredulity, Aren't most airport runways less wide then the side of the pentagon? With four stories of building as wiggle room, since you don't care wich one you hit, It seems like if you were trained to land, even if you weren't good at it, you should be able to set up an approach to hit the pentagon.

Trif
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It's worse than that.
Landing is hard because you have to come over the end of the runway at both a particular speed and altitude. Too fast or high, and you'll run off the end of the runway. Too low or slow, and you won't make the runway.
Running into something under full power, on the other hand, is pretty easy:
Pick a spot.
Line it up with another spot on the windshield.
If it moves left of the spot, turn left.
If it moves right of the spot, turn right.
If it moves up, pull up.
If it moves down, push over some more.

As long as you keep the relative bearing change to zero, you _will_ hit the spot. Even moths can do it. They normally navigate straight lines by keeping a constant bearing to a light. When that's the moon or the sun, or anything very far away, it's close enough. When it's your porch light, and they're close -- they spiral on in.
 
I have suspended the Loose Change message board from me for seven days. Further unjustified actions on their part will result in a banning.
 
TjW said:
It's worse than that.
Landing is hard because you have to come over the end of the runway at both a particular speed and altitude. Too fast or high, and you'll run off the end of the runway. Too low or slow, and you won't make the runway.
Running into something under full power, on the other hand, is pretty easy:
Pick a spot.
Line it up with another spot on the windshield.
If it moves left of the spot, turn left.
If it moves right of the spot, turn right.
If it moves up, pull up.
If it moves down, push over some more.

As long as you keep the relative bearing change to zero, you _will_ hit the spot.
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The behaviorist BF Skinner trained pigeons to use this method to pilot pigeon-guided missiles into German warships during WWII.

Some info here

Not to mention kamikaze pilots.
 
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