Thought You'd Heard Them All?

T.A.M. said:
You know, seeing this guy, his behaviour, and the behaviour of some of the other truthers, I am beginning to wonder if there isn't a case to be made that the truth movement, and those at the front of it, are a serious risk to the mental health of those they preach to.

Seriously. If this guy has gotten into this state, and we have seen worse, through his readings, and subsequent paranoia, do we not need to look at whether the truth movement is not unlike a catalyst for paranoia, and possibly psychosis...

TAM;)
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I've considered this often. I got into an argument with a truther about this. I had him agree that they didn't really have any proof of a 9/11 conspiracy, and he argued that they were just trying to find evidence. Then I asked him, wasn't it irresponsible to spread this paranoid thinking around...wouldn't some budding young Timothy McVeigh get pushed over the edge by it?

And he laughed, and said: "Oh, the crazy people are going to be crazy, no matter what we do!"

So, I guess you might as well milk their craziness in order to make a little profit.
 
I recently finished a book on the building of the Pentagon (The Pentagon: A History: bySteve Vogel--Highly Recommended) and noted that the building was put up in a little over a year, and that thousands of pilings had to be driven into the ground to support the massive weight. They also had to bring in huge amounts of dirt and rock (much of it dredged from the bottom of the Potomac) to build up the ground and prevent flooding.

Not a lot of time to dig miles deep...evenifwehad had that technology in1941-1942 (and I think if we had done itlater, some of the 20,000 or so employees on the average just might have noticed it.

Another FTB (Full-Tilt Bozo, stolen proudly from Robin Williams).
 
I'm ashamed to say I am unaware of that acronym, LashL. *chagrined look*
 
Sabrina said:
I'm ashamed to say I am unaware of that acronym, LashL. *chagrined look*
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programs - form flow 2.24 - open form - DA 4856.

You're too young for this but back in the old days, you would be "circling, initialing, and signing block 12"
 
Just some tidbits: The deepest mines in the world at the TauTona or Western Deep Levels in South Africa, which is about 2.2 miles deep. (They have plans to more than double that depth by 2015, extending their operations to about 4.6 miles into the Earth.) The deepest humans have ever dug is the Kola borehole on the Kola Pennisula in Russia (near the Finnish border) in 1989. That was 7.5 miles deep, and they only stopped because the drillbit would be rendered inoperable at the temperatures reached if they continued (300 C, 575 F).

So, yeah, digging out a 9-mile hole at some kind of width at hundreds of degrees in 1942? Yeah. Sure.
 
Rahne Everson said:
Just some tidbits: The deepest mines in the world at the TauTona or Western Deep Levels in South Africa, which is about 2.2 miles deep. (They have plans to more than double that depth by 2015, extending their operations to about 4.6 miles into the Earth.) The deepest humans have ever dug is the Kola borehole on the Kola Pennisula in Russia (near the Finnish border) in 1989. That was 7.5 miles deep, and they only stopped because the drillbit would be rendered inoperable at the temperatures reached if they continued (300 C, 575 F).

So, yeah, digging out a 9-mile hole at some kind of width at hundreds of degrees in 1942? Yeah. Sure.
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I have the feeling the guy actually meant 4,000 feet. Which still doesn't make his idea any less ludicrous. And the fact that he can't actually articulate his ideas just adds to the humor factor.

But yes - the possibility of roughly 9 mile subterranean building from the 40s is right out.
 
Rahne Everson said:
Just some tidbits: The deepest mines in the world at the TauTona or Western Deep Levels in South Africa, which is about 2.2 miles deep. (They have plans to more than double that depth by 2015, extending their operations to about 4.6 miles into the Earth.) The deepest humans have ever dug is the Kola borehole on the Kola Pennisula in Russia (near the Finnish border) in 1989. That was 7.5 miles deep, and they only stopped because the drillbit would be rendered inoperable at the temperatures reached if they continued (300 C, 575 F).

So, yeah, digging out a 9-mile hole at some kind of width at hundreds of degrees in 1942? Yeah. Sure.
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Actually, people have drilled through the seabed where the crust is thin and almost made it to the mantle. They may have by now. I remember a Japanese team was close a few years ago. I think they're going to build housing down there.
 
Why would anyone want to dig that deep?

That's where the Reptillian Humanoids reside. Anyone wanting to visit down there must be either an adrenalin junkie or a clean out nutbar.
 
Hyperviolet said:
Why would anyone want to dig that deep?

That's where the Reptillian Humanoids reside. Anyone wanting to visit down there must be either an adrenalin junkie or a clean out nutbar.
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If you can get past the reptoids you'll eventually hit the Apatosaurus Preserve. And if you've ever chowed down on some southern-style apatosaurus ribs, you'll know why people would bother.
 
I guess all the workers get there by Metro since there is no way enough parking on the surface.
 
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