Funny.
No, let's try it in German. It's much easier for me.
Achim,
OK, I understand now.
I had written a note to you, asking if English was your native language. And offering to make the extra effort to decipher your posts if it was not. I can't find that note over at the911 forum, so I must have not sent it.
My apologies for any misunderstanding over that matter. Your English is quite good. Far, far better than my (non-existent) German.
You may (or may not) find it amusing to find out that, to me, your English sounded indistinguishable from some of the off-their-medications, talking to voices in their heads nuts that respond to these threads periodically. (No disrespect intended.)
Now that I know the reason, I'll make the an extra effort to understand the points that you are making.
I would make a request: This was your first post to me (at the911forum):
http://the911forum.freeforums.org/post8489.html#p8489
In it, you cover about 20 different topics. This is simply too many. (And is the primary feature of those "voices-in-the-head" crowd.) The communication is difficult enough, please keep it to just a couple of topics.
Next subject: If you are going to post my name onto ridiculing threads over at the911forum, common courtesy (even German courtesy) would require that you at least inform me of your actions. You've done it twice, and the only reason that I've found out was I made the effort to find out if your native language was not English. (And as a result, saw your recent posts to those forums.)
So, in spite of the fact that I will give you more latitude for misinterpretation (in both directions), you are not, currently, on my most-favored-poster list.
Replying to your post above, with a bit of interpretation required:
Same problem, Tom. Your arrogance just assuming that I agree with the missing jolts theory.
I didn't assume anything. Asking if you can think of a way that the columns can hit end to end does not assume that you agree with the theory.
BTW, you posted your first post above:
I replied.
You ignored my reply, and start out on a whole new tack. I don't know about Germany, but in the US, ignoring someone else's comments is considered impolite. Perhaps you'd care to address the comments that I made.
You completely misunderstood the intention of the "visualizations".
Even tho the group over there likes to say this, it is not true. Just to be certain that I understood this specific point, I asked femr here [
http://the911forum.freeforums.org/post8487.html#p8487] to:
tfk said:
please state clearly: What is the primary purpose of your illustrations? What is the purpose of animating the motions during collapse?
He did, and I listened carefully. Here is what he said:
femr said:
Visualising various initiation mechanisms, estimate potential inter-member overlap timings, whatever. It's uses will evolve out of various questions asked of it I imagine.
He has also stated:
Primarily for the purpose of determining core column alignment during initiation, I have started work on an *accurate* WTC 1 core column 3D model.
His purpose is clear. He wants to create a model (a visualization) of the core columns in order to examine (support or refute) various collapse initiation mechanisms. He also wants to look at the first couple of seconds of collapse to investigate how the various components might collide.
This is his purpose. This is clear. I understand this. I understood it from reading his very first post.
My point is: he can't get to where he wants to go with the model that he is creating.
He has all his columns in their pristine, as built alignments. He has no damage. He shows no deformation of the beams as they bent under moment loads. He includes no dynamics into his "fractures".
I understand perfectly well that those things are unknowns. I understand that they will be difficult (or likely impossible) to determine.
My point is that the SPECIFIC THINGS that he claims to want to learn from the model are CRITICALLY dependent upon those specific details that he has left out of the model.
And I understand that femr thinks that posting "I never claimed it was a simulation", and "I SAID that I wasn't going to include those details" absolves him of the lack of judgment displayed by pushing forward with a model that has no hope of providing him the answers that are the reason for creating the model in the first place.
Now, that's my interpretation of the purpose of the visualization. Please tell me what you think that I've "completely misunderstood".
While you're at it, why don't you tell me YOUR interpretation of the purpose of the visualizations. And elaborate on whether or not you think that he'll be able to determine the things that he wants to determine from the model that he has produced.
And in the interests of keeping the topic counts down, I'll stop here.
Regards,
Tom