Chris7 I guess I need to clarify, because you misunderstood. I'm agreeing with you and you are still arguing with me.
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C: I can’t resolve the question of whether nanothermites can be high explosives.
C7: The articles I posted say that they have created explosives based on thermite reactions and there are things they don't reveal.
Yes, and Ryan Mackey claims almost the opposite and gives reasons that also sound good to me. My question, can nanothermite be a
high explosive, is unresolved in my mind, so I quote both sides. Your quote is compelling enough to be included in my narrative, and it carries weight.
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But if an experiment could prove the presence of nanothermites in the World Trade Center dust, then that argument would have no weight anyway, because there simply would be no benign reason for the appearance of tons of nanothermites in the World Trade Center.
C7 That does not make any sense. There is no benign reason for nano-thermite to be in the dust so it has a great deal of weight.
OK, let me try to rephrase because you didn't understand what I said and I can see why: I wasn't clear. Ryan stated that nanothermites would be a poor choice of material for a controlled demolition. You quoted articles that show that nanotechnologies can be used for explosives. But if nanothermites are in fact found in the dust, then
Ryan's argument becomes moot, because the nanos are THERE, and there would be no benign reason (such as its well-known use to preserve wool in suits

) for lots of nanos to be there... it could ONLY be there for evil reasons.
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So looking at the thermitic experiment itself, here are reasons both for and against accepting the argument for nanothermites...
It's not a question of arguments, it's a question of evidence.
All we do on this thread is argue, are you kidding?
As for my faith-based belief in people's goodness, I do not deny that any country can do terrible things. We know this from Nazi Germany and countless other examples. But in Nazi Germany, anyone who talked was shot. Here, you get fired, and then you take your case to court, to the media, to Congressional hearings. The argument that
someone would do the right thing if hundreds of people were involved in a conspiracy of this magnitude is a valid one, and can be rebutted only by a faith-based belief in the complete evil of every single individual involved. It is to deny that there is even a shred of willingness anywhere in our species to sacrifice for something greater than ourselves. To say that not even one person with 911 insider information out of hundreds would do one brave deed is a statistical impossibility held onto by someone who has an incredibly dark view of his own species.