False Flag
And, as fully expected, the MAIN point of my post - that you're doing sloppy thinkers no favors by coddling their sloppy thinking - went right over your head. It was completely ignored by you, as your juvenile brain Gished its way to other, irrelevant, non-issues.
I am sorry that he is no longer with us. I do mean that.
No, you don't. Stop lying to me.
In order to stop lying to me, you have to stop lying to yourself first.
The chance of THAT happening, on this topic: smack dab between slim & none.
You don't mean ANY of this.
It's just a pathetic game of knee-jerk contrarianism, so that you can maintain some delusion of moral/intellectual superiority.
The cold, hard reality is that you are no more "intellectually superior" than kyoon & his delusions of "micro-nukes" or yankee451 with his delusions of “the building being gutted prior to the attack & nobody really working there”.
Now, on a separate note, if you took the politics out of the equation, and just showed him the collapses, he would laugh at you for saying the things you do.
ONE of the two of us never throws politics into engineering discussions.
The OTHER of the two of us, does that all the time.
And you haven’t the slightest clue how first-rate managers work.
“Laughing at their employees” is a certain strategy for a failed career in management.
Don was a supremely rational person.
He knew his strengths: organization & management.
He knew my strengths: engineering & analysis.
He would wonder where he went wrong. He would probably drop a bowling ball on your head to remind you of what freefall is.
No, he was NOTHING like you.
He knew what he did well. And he had the humility to recognize what he did not understand.
When it came to engineering, he would listen to me carefully.
That was, of course, after I’d earned his trust with successful designs.
Actually, he would just probably make you take a middle-school level physics class to remind you of the basics.
You’ve stated, over & over,
whenever it was convenient for you because you could not answer simple questions, that you’re “not an expert”.
I’ve stated several times (whether or not you’ve seen it) that I have taught a university level Engineering Dynamics course to engineering students.
ONE of us understands “middle school physics”.
ONE of us has not the slightest clue what he is bloviating about.
I encourage you, right now, to state clearly, what aspect of the collapse of any of those buildings do you think would “violate any law of physics, if it was driven only by gravity after collapse initiation”?
Feel free to use as many equations as you wish in your analysis.
I’ll … do my best … to follow along…
