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ROFL.What is your pixel resolution for that statement?
What is your pixel resolution for that statement?
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Possibly correct, maybe incorrect.
Like your standards? Like "Just Plain ******"? You sure set high super intellectual standards! Outstanding.Beachnut has been stalking me with a single post I made in 2007 for a couple of months now.
The "satan" post, made famous by constant repetition by Beachnut, is from a 2007 conversation with Max Photon. Just to put that in perspective, the 9/11 forum didn't even exist at that time. I suspect Femr2 has never corresponded with Max Photon since Max stopped posting before Femr2 started.
I think this even beats the Femr2 witch hunt in absurdity.
He has repeated a single 2007 post for months. How can people be so blind as to not see this is a complete witch hunt?????
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JREF regulars, do you have any self respect left??
This is the standard you set for yourselves??
What? Is this your 2010 rewrite of 2007? Was Satan too strong? Is this inside job with CD post, or re-posting to Max?... GIven the information available to me, I cannot support 8 years of murder and theft considering how many questionable, unexplained collapse initiation and pre-initiation features exist for all 3 buildings.
Actually I do, but your version wasn't either, any more than my hypothetical "the dog out back" example was. But feel free to keep hair-splitting.LOL. Do you not think there's a difference between "a standard" and "the standard" ? I doRather ironic given the context of our prior discussion.
I asked you, repeatedly, whether your usage was standard. First you tried to dodge with the "minority" sidestep, and after I asked several more times, you said "yes". I continue to assert that your version of the term is not a standard, it is not the standard, it is not standard in any fashion. The third one covers the first two, just like your version of MIHOP includes every thing that was ever made to happen ever.You had quite a discussion with me, trying to force me to state that "USG-MIHOP" was THE standard usage. You didn't succeed.
You never admitted you misinterpreted my post about non-standard usages, and explaining when one uses them.You are now splitting semantic hairs and playing with context to desperately "be right"/"make femr2 wrong". Funny.
I'm not.If you are now changing your stance, and want to include literal MIHOP as a standard usage, great![]()
Your definition is in the post I just linked to. I also note that you seemed to have no need to ascertain my meaning of standard before you responded to the question, unless you and only you get these unilateral meaning-deciding powers. I didn't specify the context of "standard", after all.Where is my definition of "standard" ?
Please stop quote-mining. Please.I'm not attacking you.
Beachnut has been stalking me with a single post I made in 2007 for a couple of months now.
The "satan" post, made famous by constant repetition by Beachnut, is from a 2007 conversation with Max Photon. Just to put that in perspective, the 9/11 forum didn't even exist at that time. I suspect Femr2 has never corresponded with Max Photon since Max stopped posting before Femr2 started.
I think this even beats the Femr2 witch hunt in absurdity.
He has repeated a single 2007 post for months. How can people be so blind as to not see this is a complete witch hunt?????..........
JREF regulars, do you have any self respect left??
This is the standard you set for yourselves??
Let me answer this before it looks like I am avoiding the challenge.
My need for evidencce relates directly to my purpose in pursuing understanding of the WTC collapses of 9/11.
My purpose has been to be able to explain to interested persons including genuine sceptics why the towers collapsed. Specifically why the Twin Towers collapsed, WTC 7 is a different situation and I will touch on it later. In order to explain to lay persons I needed to satisfy myself as to the mechanism involved in the collapses and why there was no demolition. I am trained in civil/structural engineering and also military engineering with some demolition experience but not a high rise building specialist.
The process of explanation that I prefer is to work from the main elements of the "big picture" and pursue down into the details wherever the person I am discussing with needs to pursue more detail. The people I am talking to are rarely seeped in the mythology of conspiracy theory or those who are now referred to as "truthers". The situation is slightly different when the discussions are on an Internet forum and those joining the discussion include conspiracy theorists or truthers who are already well indoctrinated in the standard pro-CD issues. Most of my early discussions on the Internet occurred on the now defunct Richard Dawkins Forum where I was the leading "debunker side" technical poster (And sub forum moderator which led to some conflict of interest issues)
So I would start an explanation from the big picture which is simple. For each of the Twin Towers an aircraft flew into the towers, caused initial damage, started fires but initially the tower stood. Accumulating damage due to fires (and potentially some human assistance) weakened the impact and fire zone such that the top part of the tower fell and caused a rapid progressive collapse with total destruction resulting.
So much for the big picture. The evidence for it is readily available but most interested people take that big picture as given. The one question usually being "what about demolition".
From there the discussions would go further into such details as my discussion partner needed to clarify. I tried to avoid adversarial interactions if possible - not always succeeding.
So there is no easy answer to your request "Can you show your evidence and allow it to be examined by others?"
Of course I can BUT it is discussion specific. I made sure that my explanations could be backed by sound engineering forensic logic and to do that I would make sure that every element of "proof" of the mechanism of why the towers collapsed was there. So there would be from a few to dozens to potentially hundreds of different points. And I am not going to attempt to reproduce either a summary OR a comprehensive list of all the "evidence" I have called on. However that evidence was always available to the person I was in discussion with and that is where the evidence is relevant. I am not writing academic papers - different setting - different requirements.
Where my call to evidence differs from yours is that I see the visual record as merely part of the total available evidence.
Let me give one specific example. In considering the initial collapse ("collapse initiation") for the twin towers people would often lack an understanding of the damage that removal of (say) 25% of columns does to a building. There was often a presumption out there in trutherland that cutting 25% of columns would cause a 25% reduction in load carrying with the unsupported 25% being linearly uniformly redistributed to the remaining columns. As you would be aware that is far from the truth. So I would need to teach some basic engineering as part of the explanation - I have done many "text graphics" diagrams to show what can happen.
Now I regard the facts of basic engineering as evidence. In a court of law they would fall under the evidence available from an "expert witness".
That is merely one issue used as an example. I am aware of your tendency to call aspects of mechanism which occur out of sight "speculation" which carries pejorative overtones. I do not accept the all "out of sight" bits of mechanism are mere speculation. for example I have stated on many occasions that "once the top block started to fall the ends of the columns in the top block were bypassing the end of their other part in the lower tower." Should be obvious why that is true but look at the lack of clarity in "Missing Jolt" type papers over that single issue.
So I'm not listing even in summary all the evidence.
My own position for which I am confident that there is evidence:
For the Twin Towers - two critical stages - initial collapse where I can identify possible contributory mechanisms to the weakening of the impact and fire zone. I cannot "prove" that there were sufficient of those weakenings to cause the collapse without demolition assistance BUT the logistic and security aspects clearly say "no demolition". I am aware that NIST has given an explanation which is "perimeter led". For historic reasons of my involvement in Internet discussions I have never relied on NIST arguments - merely drawn on some of their material as evidence sources. Perimeter or core led is not of significance to me. It will remain insignificant until the unlikely event some one produces a substantial argument that changes the "big picture". i.e. validly raises the question of demolition - which is not a probable occurrence. For collapse progression - the cascading/pancaking down the open office space involved overwhelming impact loads. Sufficient to "prove" no CD required. The "peel off" of outer perimeter and "strip down" of core followed as natural consequences. All readily explainable with minimum evidence needed.
For WTC 7 I am content to accept that NIST has given a plausible explanation of the collapse of the interior followed by fall of the facades. Whether NIST is 100% correct matters little to me.
If you wanted me to produce more evidence we would need to go through a process of me explaining to you and producing evidence at each step where it was needed.
Yes.For many reasons that seem unnecessary to repeat, a natural focus is the collapse initiations....
Recall I set a framework for explanation. I will only outline the explanation I would give to a layperson who is genuinely looking for an explanation.Do you have evidence that the collapse initiation mechanisms for any of the 3 buildings was natural?..
So what? Why does that claim matter to my "interested layperson"???...Collapse initiation is a very specific event....
I said I would explain to an interested layperson - so no way will I comply with your unique style of logic......The evidence I request concerns specifically the initiation of collapse....
My "interested layperson" does not know about NIST. And I do not suffer from/am not limited by your repeated confusion of objectives. The last thing I would do to my "interested layperson" is push him towards a secondary objective of "prove NIST wrong". His interest is "why did the towers collapse?" NOT "was the official report correct?" - that may arise as a secondary matter at Stage 2 or later.Most people here would probably claim the proof is in the NIST reports, since the NIST claims to explain the how and why of each collapse....
Your need is not for evidence - rather for a coherent legitimate process of logic which joins the bits of available evidence. That method of linking the available evidence needs to be free from your preset bias towards CD plus your tactic of limiting the evidence to those bits of visual material which suit your approach.Where, in your opinion, can I find the evidence that the collapse initiations were natural?
For many reasons that seem unnecessary to repeat, a natural focus is the collapse initiations. Do you have evidence that the collapse initiation mechanisms for any of the 3 buildings was natural?
Collapse initiation is a very specific event.
The evidence I request concerns specifically the initiation of collapse.
Most people here would probably claim the proof is in the NIST reports, since the NIST claims to explain the how and why of each collapse.
Where, in your opinion, can I find the evidence that the collapse initiations were natural?
Before you even get to looking at the positive evidence as to "why it was natural" there is the even bigger situation. There has never been a realistic claim that it was "not natural".Yes there is evidence....but it's real, actual evidence and not made up fantasies by conspiracy theorists.....For many reasons that seem unnecessary to repeat, a natural focus is the collapse initiations. Do you have evidence that the collapse initiation mechanisms for any of the 3 buildings was natural?
Before you even get to looking at the positive evidence as to "why it was natural" there is the even bigger situation. There has never been a realistic claim that it was "not natural".
I think MT et al need to get that fact into their thinking before they even contemplate looking further. They are further behind the eight ball than they think. (If this billiards/snooker oriented member has the analogy right.)
"Natural" is the prima facie situation and no-one has ever made a prima facie case for "non natural".
There is no case for "non natural". Don't waste time looking.
Natural, murder? It was done by terrorists, caused by their action....
Where, in your opinion, can I find the evidence that the collapse initiations were natural?
We are so accustomed to discussing these events on the ground the truthers set. Rebutting silly piece of a picture claims for example.Hmmmm....good point Oz........
For many reasons that seem unnecessary to repeat, a natural focus is the collapse initiations. Do you have evidence that the collapse initiation mechanisms for any of the 3 buildings was natural?
Collapse initiation is a very specific event.
The evidence I request concerns specifically the initiation of collapse.
Most people here would probably claim the proof is in the NIST reports, since the NIST claims to explain the how and why of each collapse.
Where, in your opinion, can I find the evidence that the collapse initiations were natural?