Christopher7's lie about me
You know, Chris7, for a little while there you got away with lying to me about what I said in my own video. I'm pretty angry at myself and you for letting you get away with a lie about what you call my ignorance. You said, among other things,
"A stick [or 2x4] breaks loosing all its strength suddenly. As a carpenter I have experience with this. On the other hand, a steel H beam [a more accurate term than I beam] does not break or loose almost all its strength suddenly like a piece of wood and the comparison does show a lack of understanding of the physical properties of both."
First of all, your statement is wrong wrong wrong, because in both a broken piece of wood and a buckling column, there is a near-instantaneous loss of support, as has now been pointed out to you many times (keyword Euler). I don't know how you can be proven wrong over and over again about subject after subject and have the gall to call me ignorant!
And in my video 18 (
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?video_id=2MER5PhIDt0&ns=1&feature=mhsn), after using the "stick" analogy to demonstrate how columns could bend very slowly and then collapse very quickly, I actually said, "Columns buckled, but in both cases, there is a sudden release and loss of strength." This was an acknowledgement that my stick analogy was just that, an analogy. I just now clarified this further in my video just to make all this even more painfully clear (and unnecessarily clear, except to you and other nitpickers). The whole Euler discussion was an expansion of my knowledge base, but I knew from the start that there is a difference between a clean break and buckling... BUT that both cause a sudden and drastic termination of structural support. AND I SAID THAT!!!
I also know (and you deny) that buckling Building 7 columns were shifting their loads at almost the speed of sound as they buckled, and that as a result, the first couple seconds of the collapse went down way slower, as some of the supporting columns were not all fully buckled and others were bending but not yet buckling. You have no explanation for the slower-than-freefall beginning of the outer perimeter collapse. Thermate would not cause way-slower-than-freefall collapse initiation followed by a couple seconds of freefall, nor would it bring down the east penthouse first. I can explain stage one of the perimeter collapse, you can't.
In other words, my explanation makes sense, my analogy was an analogy, I knew what I was talking about, and you were and are wrong, wrong, wrong, both in content and in the unjustified contempt in which you hold my basic competence. I'm mad at myself for forgetting that I HAD explained right from the start that there is a difference between the breaking stick and the buckling column, but I'm a lot madder at you. Disgusted, actually. I hate being lied about.