Since posters here are not a monolithic entity but a collection of individuals, it would be fair to say that both these preferences are well represented. However, if you want to explore the possibility of DEW causality in the WTC collapses - preferably in a new thread with an appropriate title - I suggest you start by compiling a thorough and rigorous refutation of the following post by R.Mackey:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=2086102#post2086102
Unless and until the points raised in this post have been credibly challenged, serious debate about DEW is unlikely to gain much traction here, simply because there is at present no rational DEW position to defend.
Dave
Thanks for the tip. One reason why I see no need to start a new thread is that DEW is a part of legal challenges that this thread quite specifically deals with.
I also appreciate your reference to the above thread and post12086102. Boy was that ever b o r i n g in my opinion. There is no doubt that DEW exist and the evidence that they are found in every terrestrial venue, including orbit, is, at this point, beyond controversy even when one's sources of information are limited to unclassified sources (as mine are). I do not even want to see classified information, it simply isn't that useful.
The danger here is that people tend to fall into one of only a few categories with respect to DEW; namely,
1--Those who are convinced by the information available to them that DEW exist and are deployed.
2--Those who are skeptical.
3--Those who assert DEW are, at most, in very early stages of development and are not deployed.
Almost all so-called 'technical' discussions of DEW centering, for instance, on the "power requirement" are so assumption riddled as to be next to useless.
Consider, for example, the oft stated canard, "to destroy the WTC in 10 seconds with DEW, more power than is generated on earth in an entire day would have been needed."
OK, well, if that is the case, then why aren't the Twin Towers still standing? After all, they did disappear down to next to nothing in 10 seconds, leaving a combined debris field that was almost completely uniform in a height of LESS THAN 1 STOREY.
If kerosene (for that is what jet fuel is), gravity and a smack from a hollow aluminum tube can do that, why do we need any other kind of weapon?
Plainly, the official story relies on energy events that are far too puny to have destroyed the Twin Towers as quickly and as thoroughly as was seen.
Bringing this post more fully into the theme of this thread, one of the defendants in the cases at hand is Applied Research Associates Inc. (ARA).
It might interest posters to know that on their website, ARA boasts of having capabilities that look (I say "look") very much like taking credit for destroying the WTC.
Posters agree?
Need more proof?
What is ARA trying to tell us with this one?