'Pull It'

[Loss Leader]

This is what happens when people try to use lingo intended for use by rocket scientists. The correct acronym is MECO, which stands for Main Engine CutOff.

Darn it to heck!

I knew I had misspelled MECO but I got all caught up in finding real NASA transcripts that I forgot to go back and fix it.

 

[Loss Leader]

I have to say, perhaps the only thing funnier than Loss Leader's post ("Lock the doors") was your response.

Classic. Absolutely classic.

"Lock the doors," is real astronaut talk - or, at least, real Mission Control talk. It means to secure all records and data in the building during an emergency.

P.S. If you liked the post, please consider doing me the favor of hitting the Nominate button.

 

[Bill Thompson]

I was hired by the MIB to make sure several towers fell at the same time as the jets hit. Another aircraft was supposed to hit the other building. I am supprised that people still think that the aircrafts alone caused the buildings to fall like they did even today because the whole operation was botched.

Phillip Carr was the head of the oversight group for the top-secret MIB group in charge of placing the explosive charges within the floor boards and the overheads of each of the buildings. But he was held up in a meeting with the ETI's at Dreamland the night before so maybe there was come confusion as to if he had completed planting the charges or not.

So that is why there was such a delay. When it was determined that the charges werek, in fact, there, that is when the order to "pull it" came down.

Of course, I am kidding about this entire post.

 

[pgwenthold]

"Lock the doors," is real astronaut talk - or, at least, real Mission Control talk. It means to secure all records and data in the building during an emergency.

Oh, I realize that. I just think it is hoot to think of it in a conversation between a dentist and an electrician.

 

[Alt+F4]

Why are you implying that an academic skill-set necessarily leads to higher ethical standards than a practical one? Are you saying that people with degrees are better than people without degrees?

I'm a professional person with a Master's Degree and I wouldn't hestitate for a SECOND to rat out my bosses if I had knowledge of illegal behavior on their behalf. Oh wait, I already did that (perverted Assistant Principal + 14 year old girl).

People either have moral and ethics or they don't. Their profession or pay is irrevelant.

 

[personable]

Nevertheless a fireman needs to show aptitude and complete training before embarking on the career. Are you implying that all academics would automatically be able to do this? Why are you implying that an academic skill-set necessarily leads to higher ethical standards than a practical one? Are you saying that people with degrees are better than people without degrees?

Why are you building a strawman?

I never claimed academics could automatically trump the blue collar worker in anything he turned his hand to, I never said anything of that nature. What I did say is that I believe blue collar workers are more likely to or are quicker to betray than white collar and the reasons I think that are that the white collar will have more understanding of the principles of such action, have invested more time into his career than one who has 'walked into' his job, and is rewarded more handsomely.

Please back up assertions with evidence

Especially, please provide evidence that blue-collar workers are worse at keeping secrets than white collar ones.

Some examples of academically qualified people who have not kept secrets:

>links removed as I cannot post them<

also, the idea the politicians are good at keeping secrets is laughable.

Well, I see lots of instances where as an example, disgruntled call centre employees deride and betray their employers on forums. I don't see middle management doing this type of thing too often. I could round them up and see if I can get more links than you, though I really don't see that would aide this discussion or benefit the topic at all. To be honest it seems like silly nonsense for you to demand evidence of my opinion when the reasons given for my thinking are not being disputed, only my conclusion.

With regard to politicians, if I extend that and say that if you find their idea of them keeping secrets amusing, then would you say that they are honest all the time? Of course not - so what went wrong with that logical extension? Well, for a start I should point out that trying to keep a secret and slipping up is not the same thing as deciding to reveal one.

Moving back on topic, if you had to guess, which one of two groups would be most likely to leak information about their organization that could endanger that organization to the media first, out of a group of lawyers and another of cleaners, which would you bet on?

 

[personable]

People either have moral and ethics or they don't. Their profession or pay is irrevelant.

I think that morals and ethics are not as absolute as we would like them to be, especially malleable when money and career is involved.

 

[mcMike]

Gravy, I know you can't include videos in your excellent wtc7-document but how about link to them?

These are (propably old) but pearls in any way you look at them.

"Pull it" WTC6 with cables
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBDcXm7bc24

"Keep your eye on that building. It's coming down". Also the falling debris, fires and pre-collapse sounds can be heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr5TxKTMRx0

"What we've been fearing all afternoon is apparently happening". MSMBC reporter anticipates the collapse on news-video-clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9TL_PEMkdM