March Stundie Nominations

Loose Change continues to lead to the lulz. Financial wiz kid Andre asks “How much did Blackstone profit from WTC7?” Then manages to completely confuse Blackstone (the lender) with Silverstein (the borrower), but the Stundie is here:

“Note: $861 million insurance settlement - $383 million debt on WTC 7 = $478 million dollar profit!”

Hmmmm, now what might be missing from this calculation? Oh yeah, a 47 story skyscraper that cost $700 million to rebuild.

http://s1.zetaboards.com/LooseChangeForums/topic/1385459/1/
 
Christopher7 said:
There is no evidence of temperatures over 250°C, just speculation. The report says:
NCSTAR 1-3 pg 101
Based on microstructural analysis of the recovered structural steel, there was no evidence indicating that the pre-collapse fires were severe enough at [to] affect the steel microstructure of these pieces. Based upon this evidence, it is believed that no steel was recovered which experienced temperature excursions above 600°C for any length of time as the result of pre-collapse fires.

This does NOT say any of the steel reached 600°C, only that microstructural analysis indicates that it did not exceed 600°C.
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Reading comprehension fail - temperature excursions above 600°C for any length of time automatically transform into "microstructural analysis indicates that it did not exceed 600°C."
 
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Our newly-arrived self-proclaimed dissident NIST employee is only on 32 posts, but he's overdue for his debut here on present form.

professor smartpants said:
Most people never understand the criteria and the processes for what it takes for melting, softening or enabling molecules in the steel to "flow", there is a lot to it, needless to say.
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Clearly, just heating things above their melting point doesn't even begin to make them flow; there's so much more to it than that.

Dave
 
Well, up until now I didn't think he worked for the government, but with the redundancy of "melting, softening, or enabling molecules in the steel to 'flow'", I may have to reconsider.
 
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=4550854#post4550854

Originally Posted by Architect
I've never designed a building to resist an aircraft impact in my life.
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professor smartpants said:
All architects and designers normally do this, especially in areas of heavy congestions, near flight paths, in l;arge cities and towns. Civil engineering rules and regulations make this to be manadatory, in the same way as fire escapes are mandatory in public buildings. Trying to do research in the areas of design, architecture, building safety requirements, and numerous other areas. google away or visit a library near you for more detailed information.
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My bolding.

Good that someone can tell architects what their job is.:D
 
Dave Rogers said:
Our newly-arrived self-proclaimed dissident NIST employee is only on 32 posts, but he's overdue for his debut here on present form.



Clearly, just heating things above their melting point doesn't even begin to make them flow; there's so much more to it than that.

Dave
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Maybe just post a link to his posting history, as practically all of his posts are stundie-worthy.
 
I didn't even think about nominating this until dudalb mentioned it!

I made a topic about it here
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138459

Nomination!
The truck driver also admitted “Each burial vault holds four caskets.” I took note that if caskets were not used you could fit 40 bodies or more in each one.

So if these were to hold four troops each and the truck driver did know what he was talking about; this would mean that there are plans in advance for over 4000 U.S. soldiers deaths.

If these are not to contain caskets and only bodies are inserted there could be room for over 40,000 civilians bodies.
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I never even noticed when I made the first post that it was the authors friend and not even the author himself lol.

I almost wanted to nominate this one, but I liked the numbers one better.

From the satellite view there appears to be more sections that have been covered with the concrete lids and backfilled to look as if nothing is there.
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T.A.M. said:
I don't think we should be allowed to use the good old professor for stundie quotes...kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.

TAM:)
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I was about to say the same thing. It's a little like nominating Christophera...
 
T.A.M. said:
I don't think we should be allowed to use the good old professor for stundie quotes...kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.

TAM:)
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Try think of his nominations as a supplement to the "really funny jokes tread".

You don´t have to vote for him, just enjoy.
 
I retract my previous nomination. This thread leaves me speechless:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread448905/pg1

One of the many, many jems:
I anticipate an objection. The objection is that there are no peer reviewed scientific physical evidence of UFO’s, therefore any scientific evidence that is not peer reviewed must be dismissed. This argument is invalid, because it commit’s the fallacy of appealing to an authority of some entity(a peer group) If some authority dismisses a scientists evidence, it does not mean that the scientists evidence is false, it simply means the authority doesn't like it.
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I don't know if horribly stupid metaphors count for a stundie, but here is Richard Gage, giving an interview to Willis Carto's American Free Press:

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/911architectsfortruth_32509.html

“Where did the ‘pancakes’ go?” AFP then asked Gage, referring to the government’s “pancake” theory, wherein the heavy collapsing floors from the top overwhelmed the structure below and “pancaked” down to the bottom. Counting both towers, 220 floors were missing on that “Black Tuesday.”

“That’s what we’re looking for is pancakes,” he replied. “We’ve got the ‘syrup,’ we have no pancakes. The ‘syrup’ is the molten metal.”
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And he just gets better:

malcolmxwarrior said:
I'm gonna make the bold statement that as more of the current events transpire, the more and more the "Protocols of the learned elders of zion" becomes more Prophetic.

Notice how the Jews weren't on the list? You know why? Because it's not a conspiracy! It's the cold hard factual truth!
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You all might find this quote from "old1" amusing:

If baby "O" has a Hawaii BC it proves nothing. Hawaii was a brand new State in 1961 and issued BCs to just about any person that walked up to the window with a child under the age of consent. You know Hawaii is a group of islands some big others small. Well the locals on the small islands got around on dugout canoes. Sometimes it took months to paddle a kid to the main island to get some white man's paper filled out. The new states workers were probably less than efficient and could have cared less if they registered a foreigner as a Hawaiian.
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http://www.topix.net/forum/source/orlando-sentinel/T74KJF1AU0F6T1LLO/p16#c365

Yep, they were pretty backwards der in dem islands.
 
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