Encountered my first "Truther" today

[JSanderO]

A nephew of mine, knowing I was into science and technology, brought up the topic of WTC 7 and how it mysteriously collapsed, bucking all physical laws. When I replied with facts about it he was a bit taken aback, "you know about WTC 7?". Seems the site he had been reading had been telling him that no one knows about WTC 7, its been thoroughly suppressed and was the 'smoking gun' showing MIHOP.

He argued a bit, even using the, BBC reported it fallen when it hadn't, meme. I asked him how that worked, how does telling the BBC that a building IS going to collapse before it actually does would make any sense in the scenario of a conspiracy by gov't planners of 9/11. Seems he hadn't been told the answer to that. I believe that he's a bit more sceptical of the 9/11 TM now.

Most people are clueless about what ACTUALLY happened and the engineering and physics issues in play. Most people have a CGI Hollywood conception of reality and NO ONE has any experience with large building collapses of that scale. So with no past historical references... it's easy to speculate that the collapse defied physics and so forth.

The truth movement is is peddling junk science much the way scientology does. Fools a lot of intelligent people too. (They are just not intelligent enough to know they've been had.)

 

[Mudcat]

Most people are clueless about what ACTUALLY happened and the engineering and physics issues in play. Most people have a CGI Hollywood conception of reality and NO ONE has any experience with large building collapses of that scale. So with no past historical references... it's easy to speculate that the collapse defied physics and so forth.

I don't think it is particularly difficult to figure out the mechanics of the destruction of the WTC as long as one has paid attention in science class. I had seen the collapse exactly once on the day of and I had a pretty good idea what happened. Truthers just ignore the obvious in favor of a preconceived notion.