Dave Rogers
Bandaged ice that stampedes inexpensively through
Consider the second point:
2. The closest there has ever been was a belief that only explosives would cause collapses like that.
I'd say this is wrong. The strongest hint that CD occurred on 9-11-01 is that WTC7 fell as if it's columns turned into cooked linguini.
Actually, it fell as if its columns had collapsed low down in the structure, and as if an initial phase of the collapse had been a multi-storey buckle across about seven storeys. Cooked linguini would have fallen significantly faster; we know that there was significant structural resistance to the collapse of WTC7.
Carlitos, does the quote function in this forum allow a person to quote individual sentences within a post? If so, let me know how. Quotation marks " " have been a standard in literature for a long, long time. Let me know why quotation marks, found in pretty much any book, don't work for you and I'll try to adjust.
It's simple enough to quote individual sentences by simply cutting out the rest of the post. Multiple quotes from a single post can be separated out by cutting and pasting the quotation tags to enclose any section of the post that you want to separate out.
The reason quote marks are good enough in literature is because, in conventional writing, it's much easier to structure the writing so as to clarify who said what. In the rather more immediate and interactive style used on this forum by everyone including you, it's very difficult to follow which comments come from which poster if the only form of discrimination is quote marks. The quote function makes it much clearer. For example, it should be very clear in this post that I've replied specifically to one statement of yours in my first paragraph, and to another in the second and third. Quotation marks are easily missed, whereas quote boxes are very obvious.
Dave