His diddling of the sound track on the video shows him to be only slightly more ethical than a skid road bum with a brick at the window of a liquor store. He is deliberately lying in support of a massive fraud intended to sow discontent with the government.
Did I mention he makes stupid freaking remarks as well?
He's a disgusting example of a human being.
Okay, so I finally took the time to go past the first idiotic statemnt in his power point presentation. That would be the FIRST point:
Symetrical collapse- all columns cut at the same time."
Mega BS! There is a gap of at least five seconds from the collapse of the first mechanical tower to the collapse of the next. It is another five seconds between the collapse of the second mechanical tower and the movement of the north side of the building. The top of the building disappears from view at 6.5 seconds, but, since we cannot see the ground level in any videos, I want to know how much longer it was until everything stooped moving. Don't give me 6.5 seconds total. We don't know that.
Now, clearly, if one of the mechanical towers totally disappears into the interior of the building, we can safely assume that the columns that held it aloft were severed.
But the other tower is still there on the roof for several seconds.
So, your idiot leader is wrong all day on that one.
The next point is a big porky lie, too. "Sights and sounds of explosions?" Vaguely explosion-like sounds, breaking-type sounds, collapsing type sounds, sounds similar to the crashing (not explosive-driven) sound that the building in the posted video makes as it crumbles, but no cutting charges.
And no window glass flying out horizontally in a single video. There was still glass in the windows on the north side of the building as it falls. we can see them breaking and just falling out of the frames.
Not one puff of smoke out the north side.
Now, if you are such a great engineer, perhaps you can tell me what sort of explosives will cut steel columns without over-pressurizing the interior of the building and sending all that thick black smoke in there shooting out sideways, taking out windows with it? Have you discovered someone capable of building a hushabomb?
Again, doofus is wrong all day.
Hoo-BOY is the next one a doozy!
"No characteristics of destruction by fire."
That is just plain idiotic. There were fires on more than half of the floors, many floors in an almost constant state of flash-over, for longer that the fire codes require the steel withstand.
He's not only wrong all day on this one, he's dumb all day.
And this one is totally weaslly:
"Government documentation."
He took a bunch of statements, excerpted them out of context and totally obliterated any clear meaning. I have no idea what he is trying to say. Probably the average rube would have no idea, either. Most engineers wouldn't. A twoofer who wants to believe will assume that he knows what Gage is saying and just accept it without question.
I, being literate in two languages and trained to a degree in arson investigations, can tell that he is a babbling fool. I am glad, considering his language skills, that he is not primarily an instructor. I would feel a need to wear a hard hat in any city where his students work, lest a piece of some structure come unfastened and bean me.
We've already discussed, and i have dismissed, "Free-fall speed of collapse." That he did not combine this with the first big hash-up is just further proof of his lack of language skills, and, considering his position, reflects badly on his actual, as opposed to supposed. level of intelligence.
I'm just an educated old fireman and I can make a point more clearly than that on just about anything that doesn't involve math or business administration. I expect an engineer to speak more clearly about matters of structural performance.
Then we get around to his monsterously stupid argumentum ad authoritam, in citing Danny Jowenko. I have to wonder about him, too. He probably never looked at a video with sound, just got to look at debris maps and whatever the WeAreChumps..er..Change people handed him. I have to wonder if he ever saw the video with the honking great slabs of walls from the north tower falling on the roof, or the divot they took out of the parapet.
Jowenko did not even know, until about five minutes before he made his ill-advised comments, that the buildings all fell on the same day. Not a very useful authority.
But it gets worse. He is one of thsoe sloppy, lazy idiots who sees square "squibs" at the top of the building and calls it mis-timed explosive charges. Now, had the moron just looked carefully at a picture of the other side of the building, he might have noticed that these apear at points at which the debris from the north tower had already removed parts of the building. This is, moreover, the one attempt he makes to show us explosive ejecta and he screwed it up with both hands. Unfreaking believeable stupidity.
Then he goes off about molten metal flowing "like lava," He does not offer us any proof of this other than a supposed quote from Mark Loiseux taken from, of all places, a neo-Nazi rag called the American Free Press. Does this fool not vet his sources? If AFP reports a drought coming, I'm building an ark. They are not even fit to line the bottom of a bird cage, although what a parrot would leave on it there would improve the quality of the content. Has it occured to him that among the contents of the site that were preserved for the museum were no huge pigs of cast iron from the basement?
And would he please explain to us how molten steel from a thermite charge would retain its heat for a month or more? Thermite is hot for minutes at most, then starts to cool like any other cast iron. This is, of course, accelerated when you mix it with tons of churning concrete as we saw in the collapse of the towers. There is no way it re-aggregates itself in the rubble pile like the metal droid from the Terminator sequel.
He does offer us a shot of the "meteor" from Hangar 17. His apparent muse, the long-unemployed S, jones showed that same thing to the world, with the same color manipulations and offered it as proof that there was molten metal.
Gage points out "aluminum doesn't rust." No problem there. It's about the only thing the fool got right. Problem is, the meteor isn't even all metal. Will somebody tell the blithering idiot that it's CONCRETE? It still has the rebar sticking out of it, it has floor trusses and pans layered in it and there is carpeting and paper with still-legible print on it all over there place. I did not think it was possible for a sloppier scientist than Jones to gain any public acclaim and along comes Gage to prove me wrong.
Then he comes out with "foreknowledge of the colapse" as evidence of CD. He quotes the fire chief as supporting that position. Okay, the chief knew it was coming down because another building fell on it and set it afire. That does not prove CD. It proves that pieces of sky scraper that fall on other sky scrapers do structural damage.
The chief did a hundred times more real science on site than Gage has done since the attack. the chief measured the faces of the building wioth a surveyor's transit and found that it was starting to lean.
Now, having analysed what Gage offers for proof, and having found him scoring zero out of a possible nine points, I need to go read something that will restore the IQ points I felt dropping out of my ears while reading his BS. He's a fraud and a fool, and I would tell him that to his face should we ever meet, and I would not be nearly as polite as i was here, where inappropriate language would get me banned.
I wouldn't even apologize for the smell of kimchi on my breath.
