A W Smith
Philosopher
The person that started the thread was talking specifically about explosives used in CD, although it was worded a little misleadingly. No mention of Bazant.
well actually its in the thread title
The person that started the thread was talking specifically about explosives used in CD, although it was worded a little misleadingly. No mention of Bazant.
No idea. The OP doesn't even mention Bažant except in the thread title.Wait. Is the person that started this thread a truther?
well actually its in the thread title
The person that started the thread was talking specifically about explosives used in CD, although it was worded a little misleadingly. No mention of Bazant.
No mention of Bazant except that the title of the thread was "Bazant was right!!!"
So are you claiming that Bazant's calculations were wrong?
No mention of Bazant except that the title of the thread was "Bazant was right!!!"
Who cares? His calculations can be right, wrong, or invent a whole new mathematics. Without the intact upper block crushing straight down it doesn't matter what his calculations are.
Only truthers claim that Bažant's model "explains WTC".
No. One. Else.
From the OP (bolding mine):Wait. Is the person that started this thread a truther?
Gee looks very much like the WTC's doens't it? An excellent visual debunk of CD and how once the collpase begins it ain't gonna stop! And they did it on a much smaller building to boot!!!
When you show any interest in understanding what you're discussing please let us know. :\
The discussion is becoming rather pointless since you're making an argument based on a malformed understanding of what you're talking about.
You've been asked by several people already which scenario would be more biased toward collapse arrest. Would you agree with the assessment that Bazant intentionally biased his model in favor of collapse arrest or not? You're answer will tell us how much you actually understand about the model, rather than enlighten everyone about the problems you have with how people interpret his work. :\
Are you going to fill in this blank or not?
From the OP (bolding mine):
I believe the inability of the collapse to arrest itself is the parallel being drawn between the Bazant model and the collapse shown in the linked video. At no point does the OP make an assertion that the Bazant model is, or was meant to be, an exact recreation of either WTC collapse. I can't imagine why ayone would argue otherwise.
Lets try this:
Bazant's model shows that under the best of circumstances, That being a column end on column end impact,. That the towers could not arrest collapse.
Truthers theorize, that you could drop an intact upper section on an intact lower section. (From 2 miles up in banned forum member "heiwas" case) and the collapse would immediately arrest
The OP shows an example of collapse from an intact upper section impacting an intact and not weakened lower section.
Therefore: Bazant limiting case model proven correct.
A W. I'm not to familar with Heiwa but it sounds like he is saying that Bazants calculations are incorrect. Is that right?
It doesn't ****ing matter! His model requires an intact upper block crushing straight down. Without that as the starting point you aren't even discussing Bazant's model...you'd be discussing some completely other model which I'm all for because at least then you'd be talking about what actually occured on 911 and not giving truthers a nice little strawman to argue against. Congrats.
Hokulele said:This is why I, and others, have asked you if you believe that the collapse as seen would be more or less likely to self-arrest than Bazant's model. Do you have an answer for this?