Ask NIST, who apparently , did study it, if only as a back-covering afterthought (see post #222).
The haphazard examination of steel (which didn't happen at Fresh Kills but at scrap yards) was mostly carried out by a small team of volunteers who struggled against the speed of the desposal process.
I was talking about reconstruction, not reconstruction "tests".
The "tweaking" I referred to was of virtual parameters in computer simulatations, not real life.
With the above exchange you display an obvious and complete non-understanding of what would be involved.
Yes, I know you were refering to 'tweaking' the computer sim initial conditions. the very same computer program was used for all sims.
In a real world test designed to test for the same things that the sims it would be a requirement to do several tests with the initial conditions different each time to account for the variables that one can reasonably expect. For instance the speed of the aircraft and the anfgle at which it hits the building will affect the type, severity and distribution of the impact damage, the amount of flammables available and the distribution and rubblization of those materials will affect fire spread and ambient temperatures. The speed of the aircraft can be determined within a range and thus testing would entail damage inflicted at those speeds. Material loading would be estimated within a range and that would be tested, AND EVERY time one tests with a different initial condition one must start with a new model.
YOU said one would require only parts of the building to be built then chafed at my suggesting that only a ten storey section would be reqyuired because the entire building collapsed.
Make up your mind, perhaps I should have stated ten stories plus two more below the fire/impact floors. Ooooh but the dersion that would ensue "the lower floors should have halted the collapse", "the debris of the collapsing upper section should have slid off to the side"....."you have to model the entire building".
Why does highlighting the skin color dynamic of the "War on Terror" upset you?
I wasn't making a "cave dwellers" argument.
You were implying that 'brown' people could not have accomplished the feat of hijacking several aircraft and using them as suicide weapons. Is there a non-bigotry reason why 'brown' people would be incapable of such actions?
I point out that all races are represented in the historical set of aircraft hijackers and that the PLO hijacked several aircraft all on the same day from several countries, flew them all to the same place and blew them up. I also remind you that in Isreal or Iraq the idea that a person who's skin color is brown can get a weapon through tight security and kill many people is not considered unlikely.
The success of the 911 operation depended on a lot more than simply hijacking aircraft. One back-of-an-envelope calculation suggested that the chances of success for the hijacks alone were 1/589824
http://911review.com/means/index.html
Four jetliners were taken over with no effective resistance.
please tell me how many hijackings have taken place over the history of hijackings in which the hijackers had much difficulty taking over. A subset would be the number of hijackings in which the multiple hijackers went into the cockpit and killed the crew outright.
Three of the four jetliners were flown into small targets,
Small??? The two tallest structures in a city skyline which would also have nothing beyond them other than ocean? The second aircraft also having the benefit of the tens of miles long smoke trail to point the way to the location of the WTC? The Pentagon, the largest office structure for hundreds of miles, of a particularily distinct shape and lying alongside a major river? Those are the small difficult to locate targets? My mother could locate those from the air and she is 75 years old.
with the Pentagon strike involving extreme aerobatic maneuvers.
Do some homework, it was a three minute descending turn involving no "acrobatics" whatsoever.
The air defense network froze for over an hour while the attack unfolded
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The air defense system designed to identify and intercept possible aggression from aircraft flying TOWARDS the North American continent. It took over an hour to get an unarmed aircraft to investigate the Payne Stewart errant jet and it was flying high and with its radar transponder on at all times.
The towers self-destructed in a manner never before seen in any structure.
Also never seen before was a large, fast , fuel laden passenger jet flown into the tallest office structures in the entire world.
The Columbia disaster is a good analog. Although ice/foam impacts had occured many times in the past at liftoff, sometimes resulting in heat sheild damage, all shuttle craft had always made it back in one piece. However, although complete vehicle loss had never before occured, Columbia burned and broke up on reentry because of heat sheild damage due to foam.ice impact at launch. By the "never before seen" logic the Columbia disaster is just as unlikely. Do you agree?
This rough calculation doesn't include, for example, the hijackers' preparations being undetetcted,
you saying that fewer than 20 fanatics cannot keep a secret? The Red Brigades operated for years and it took a lot of time to bring them down.
Not much of a problem for Saudis pre-2001
living and training in the US etc
When I was in university in Ottawa the engineering, physics and Chemistry departments were populated with scores of Chinese, Iraqis,Saudis and Egyptians. Maybe it was more difficult later on and in the USA. Got anything to back that up with?
or, of course, that the lucky war games would happen to be taking place that day/week.
While I was working at an international airport in Canada war games took place every month that directly affected the airspace around that airport. That is one small part of North America. There were also military tests conducted during that period, specifically cruise missile testing and I saw the B52's flying high and in formation above me.
that you consider it odd that exercises were taking place belies the fact that you are ill informed.
I have never suggested reconstructing the entire building. That's your straw man.
See above, you want a test of all that occured (the whole building fell down) or just collapse initiation? make up your mind and get back to me.
I've never been away from "parts of the building". That only happened in your strawy imagination.
I paraphrase your reaction in a post above "but, but, but the whole building fell down!!"
Being to the left of the Bush admin can, incidentally, leave one very far to the right on the political spectrum, as your support for the massive, unjustifiable violence against Iraqis possibly confirms.
You take quite a liberty there. I never supported the war in Iraq. What I stated above that Rummy ignored the Generals on how the war would be fought. The Pres. and vice-pres. ordered the war, I deplore that. Compounding the idiocy was Rummy feeling that he knew more than the Generals. Thus because of GWB Americans were sent to Iraq and because of Rummy more of them died than would have been the case if the Generals had been in charge of the resulting war.
I don't think left/right issues are that relevant to 911 skepticism. Anyone may be victim to the delusion that our rulers can't be common criminals of the worst kind.
I don't think left/right issues are that relevant to 911. Anyone may be victim to the delusion that our rulers must be common criminals of the worst kind.
Does your political stance allow you accept the historical existence of 'false flag" events, or, even, that the "historic" Saddam statue toppling, for example, was simply a staged PR event?
No, does the historic fact that Islamic groups have hijacked aircraft, killed civilians and conducted suicide missions to kill civilians enter into your considerations?
What does Iraq have to do with 9/11? I never bought GWB's arguement.
Neither 911 Truthers nor 911'sTruers have conclusive evidence to support their theories. In a situation where vital evidence has been destroyed and no effective independent investigation has been permitted what grounds does anyone have to be 100% decisive about how 911 happened?[
I can decsively state that there were no nukes, themite, faked aircraft, planted DNA evidence, faked FDR's, space based DE weapons and that it is entirely within the realm of high probability that the events of 9/11 are that Islamic men belonging to a group that considers itself at war with the west and with the USA specifically hijacked 4 aircraft and managed to fly 3 of them to high profile targets in within the same country that the flights originated.