Heiwa,
You better have a chat with ole Billy.
He's been publicly putting you on the hook for a cool $1 million USD.
I will refer you to his post:
http://www.topix.com/forum/topstories/TSBMT04T49GGG7HFO/post88841
In which he states
IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS ("... because that the way Billy rolls"):
"
Heiwa, aka Anders Bjorkmann, internationallly reknowned engineer
has offered one Million Dollars to anybody who can verify Bazant's hypothesis of he collapse of WTC1."
And now for the BETTER NEWS.
[I am laughing so hard that I can barely type....!!!]
And it appears that someone we might know has been a busy little bee.
Look what I've found over at the 9/11 Citizen Investigation...
http://www.rinf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20002&postcount=64
"Heiwa is Anders Bjorkmn, a Swedish Naval architect specialising in structural damage analysis. He has advised the UN and has an international reputation.
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The reason why
I offer $1M to anybody that can disprove
my axiom, &c, is as follows:
It is very simple to model a One-way Crush down process. Take an object A and put in on the ground and then another object C. You drop C on A and A is crushed.
Why is that?
<snip>
The Challenge is to
prove me wrong! "
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Will you look at that, Anders.
"... I offer $1 million..."
"... MY axiom ..."
"... Prove ME wrong ..."
All in the FIRST PERSON. How about that.
You know, Heiwa, Billy concluded his post above with the following:
"This news [of YOUR $1 million challenge] will quickly run through the world's engineering community and should cause hundreds of thousands of engineers to really look into the collapse hypothesis for the first time."
Old Billy was talking about this "going viral across the internet". Of course, he plays the role of Typhoid Annie.
You know, Heiwa, this may be the very first time that Billy's been right about anything... There may very well be "hundreds of thousands of engineers" out there in the world looking to pay off their mortgage, put their kids thru school, retire to Bora Bora. Who might just figure to let you finance their plans...
Bwahahahahahahaha...
It could not possibly happen to a pair of more deserving guys.
heh...
heh...
heh...
tk
PS. I would like a little recognition [perhaps the James Randi Million dollars?) for my psychic powers, in that I predicted, back on May 24th, that you would find some contrived reason to (is "welsh on a bet" a perjorative against the fine people of Wales??) back out of the challenge.
http://www.topix.com/forum/topstories/TSBMT04T49GGG7HFO/post89728
Unfortunately, I must admit that I was totally wrong. It was a momentary lapse of precision. If I'd hadn't been distracted, I am sure that I would have gotten it right, because these are the sort of details that I (as do most engineers) pride myself on getting just right.
I said that you'd "cancel the challenge".
I should have phrased it that you'd "find some way to back out of paying off if/when you lost the bet".
DAMN crystal ball must be broken...