Hey Mutton-Head (man, it's fun to write that. You gotta stick around.) I wasn't saying that you distorted and lied all the time. I was referring to the major published CTs and videomakers. You asked me to point out distortions of yours, though, so here's my list. No doubt many of these are arguable, and some may come more under the headings of "opinion not backed by evidence," and "contradiction." My only criterion was "Is this an accurate representation of the facts?" I'd be glad to discuss these, maybe over the weekend if you want.
I'm amazed at the way you dove into the deep end here! One thing we've counseled people in the past is to take things one step at a time, meaning JUST one step: stop, and don't go again until the issues there have been resolved or you think are unresolvable. You said you were going one step at a time, but I think you went headlong down (probably feels more iike up) several flights.
BTW, perchance have you read my analysis of "Loose Change?"
-G
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All of the structural steel was cut into pieces no larger than 30 feet long.
Also, all of the concrete was turned into powder
What we end up with, is an equation that doesn’t balance
Not only do the falling floors not have enough power to accomplish these four things, they don’t even have enough power to accomplish each of the last two (throwing beams, pulverizing concrete) individually. It doesn’t even matter if the steel at the top of the towers was turned into melted butter. The vertical beams at the middle and bottom of the tower would be intact. (No fire, no plane impact) (I’ve included a picture of the tower being built. Judge for yourself how much vertical steel went into its construction. Notice in particular the vertical beams in the center section. These were omitted/ignored in the NIST report.)
As an experiment, take a high-rise building, and drop it on a bunch of concrete. (Yes I know, we can’t actually perform this experiment.) But I bet you would agree, the concrete would not turn to a fine powder. It would take more force than the mass of the building during free fall can supply.
As I said, the equation is way out of balance. If you add up the cost of:
1.) accelerating the top floors to free-fall speed
2.) cutting beams into pieces
3.) throwing beams out away from the building
4.) pulverizing the concrete (and everything else) to powder.
… You have a total that was more than we had in our bank account. [Metaphor]
The next step then, would be to find out where this extra force came from.
This also would solve the problem that the building collapsed symmetrically in its own foot-print.
This has NEVER happened spontaneously, from a fire, or earthquake, or hurricane, or plane crash.
But we have seen it occur hundreds of times from controlled demolitions. (Explosives inside the building at predetermined locations, exploded in a predetermined sequence.)
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However it seems like anybody who believes the official NIST account is likewise accepting generalizations, which in my opinion, are much more vague than the ones I used
Nobody can do the math now.
And the NIST wrote an official report without using these pieces
[You warned me against using metaphors and analogies]
To me the analogy would be “Is $100 enough to buy 5 music CDs, 4 hamburgers, and a large pepperoni pizza?” You might say “No,” but I think most reasonable people would say “Yes,” or at least, “Very highly probable.” In contrast, “Is $100 enough to buy 5 CDs, 4 hamburgers, a 24” TV, and cheap portable mp3 player,” I think most people would say “No.”
pulverize all of the concrete, break or bend all of the steel so that no full lenths remain,
[Analogy]
An entry in wikipedia says, “For example, a speeding bullet has kinetic energy in the reference frame of non-moving observer, but it has zero kinetic energy in its proper (co-moving) reference frame -- because it takes zero work to accelerate a bullet from zero speed to zero speed.”
the pulverizing of all of the concrete
We will also take as given that the fires melted/weakened a vast quantity of steel above the crash.
since you had no problem with the NIST version that had absolutely no specifics.
Our “gut reaction” is that it all makes sense.
There was no angular momentum
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Right now, I’m just talking science/physics.
It’s like a case of “My expert is smarter than your expert.”
Why do you think your experts are better than my experts? You appear to not be exercising the same level of skepticism to your own beliefs.
To everyone who has read studied the NIST, or the Dr. Greening report, or the Nova special….. Take a few hours, (or how ever much time you spent looking at the preceding) and read Dr. Steven Jones’ paper. Unless you only want to look at things that reinforce your already formed opinion.
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Manny says, “There is no evidence whatsoever that explosives were placed in those buildings.”Yes there is evidence. Many firemen said so.
Firemen said they found nothing but dust. No desks, no chairs, no computers, no phones, etc.
But the evidence (the steel) was carted away. That is negligence. I cannot trust their findings. It doesn’t matter whose fault it was that the evidence is gone.
it could be reconstructed like a big plastic model. The pieces and the instructions would all be there.
Some notes from Steven Jones’ paper
“I maintain that these observations are consistent with the use of high-temperature cutter-charges such as thermite, HMX or RDX or some combination thereof, routinely used to melt/cut/demolish steel. “
“Thus, we find substantial evidence supporting the current conjecture that some variation of thermite (e.g., solid aluminum powder plus Fe2O3, with possible addition of sulfur) was used on the steel columns of the WTC Tower to weaken the huge steel supports, not long before explosives finished the demolition job.”
Assumptions. Back to my question of why the steel is gone. Back to “My expert is better than your expert.”
Because the firemen’s of the testimony, which was ignored
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Oh come on, when a plane is blown-up in mid-air this is standard procedure. Are you telling me it’s too much of a leap to apply to a building? Especially the largest terrorist attack ever in US history
No, I want them to do their jobs correctly.
Let’s try to keep the metaphors and analogies to a minimum. Show me any cop who throws out crime evidence.
Real investigators don’t model, they study evidence. Stop telling me that the NIST people were real investigators.
Once again, go listen to the interviews. Stop making these guesses. I’m, not making guesses.
I don’t care who is negligent at this point. That’s not for me to decide. Well, my opinion is that whoever was in charge of the investigation was negligent.
My point is though that the NIST report is compromised
I want to add that the “assumption” that they were explosive charges is just that. It is an assumption. It can be confirmed or refuted in the investigation. The problem with the NIST report is that it takes assumptions and calls them conclusions. You can’t arrive at a conclusion until you have done the work. If many firemen says “It was if they had detonators, to take down a building.” That is a direct quote from one of the videos, spoken by an actual fireman, as three other firemen agreed.
“There is no evidence whatsoever that explosives were placed in those buildings.”
Yes there is evidence. Many firemen said so.
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A firefighter saying “It was if they had detonators, to take down a building.” Is a reasonable expert.
Whenever a workman had to cut a piece of steel away to remove it, both sides of the cut would have been marked with an ID #. The two sides would have the same number, and taken to a secure location. How much extra time and money would it have taken to mark the pieces as such.
No, I want to know everything. That means, listening to firemen, analizing steel from the crime scene.
The NIST took assumptions and called them conclusions, ignoring the firefighters statements.
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I would have just made sure that it wasn’t discarded. It had to be cleared anyway, why not put it somewhere.
The firefighters gave their opinions, and nothing was done with those opinions. They were ignored. If you were the head of the investigation, would you have ignored the testimony/opinions of the firefighters?
I would have compared their testimony to the way in which the steel was cut/torn/broken/bent. If the damage was completely inconsistent with a controlled detonation, then guess what, you just ruled it out. Conclusively. This is very basic investigation procedure.