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This is mostly for Tony and Chris7.
Here's some light reading as to how an old iron worker (like myself) could walk that beam off that seat no problem. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/steel/01.cfm#a Just imagine what would happen if the real fires didn't heat everything exactly evenly.
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With the flange stiffeners the flange never comes off the original seat so why do you mention it needs to drop to the pg plate?
Being able to push the girder by 4.75" maximum when it would need to be pushed about 10" isn't what most would call hanging on by a fingernail. There are a number of ways to design demolition devices to survive office fire temperatures. |
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The calculations which prove the NIST collapse initiation theory to be impossible consider sagging, shortening, buckling, etc.
Simply throwing stuff at the wall, with little to no basis or linkage, to help enable a continuation of a belief even when faced with superior data which contradicts it, is what Ryan Mackey says those with an Irreducible Delusion do. I think he was right on that, as I am starting to see real evidence of the phenomena. |
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I read the information at the link you provided and the point you are making about heating a beam on its side here and questioning the calculations because you think it makes a difference is getting to the point of silliness.
My point is that there are no circumstances under which fire could have caused the collapse of WTC 7. NIST took the best shot at trying to explain it being due to natural circumstances by fires and their explanation does not work. You really should read Ryan Mackey's discussion of what an Irreducible Delusion is and give it some thought as to whether you are trapped in that mindset. |
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And you make this point with hand calculations, without answering tfk's questions about your assumptions, then hand-wave away his points in this post?
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You'll have to forgive my skepticism but, Do you ever plan to be able to back up this statement with some real engineering? So far, you only seem to be hoping picking at items in isolation is enough.
There comes a time where just raising a doubt is not going to cut it. I hope you took this into consideration in your letter to NIST. |
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Where in your post do you directly address his questions with proof that your assumptions are correct?
Is it here? How about here? Here maybe? How about here? Is it this response? Or is it this one? |
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The Truth Movement.....still not at 1%
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Tony...
If you can't answer tfk's questions then you should find another Engineer who is competent/experienced enough to answer them... Since you have not yet answered them please go talk so someone else who can explain them to you. So far you are making yourself look like a rather incompetent Engineer by not being able to answer EVEN ONE of the questions/issues that Tom raised. If you think Tom's questions/comments were difficult then you are in for a surprise if NIST bothers to answer you....if you can't even engage with ONE experienced, competent Engineer then how do you hope to have a discussion with several from NIST? Or hundreds from academia? Or thousands from industry? You are out of your element....drop the 9/11 stuff and stop making yourself look foolish to those of us who are working Engineers....go back to doing whatever it is you do at work day to day. |
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Are you even saying anything here? It sounds like blah, blah, blah..... blah and you then have the nerve to try and impugn my abilities. Wow.
You are either too incompetent yourself to realize I did answer tfk's questions by showing them to be irrelevant or are intent on being an annoyance by repeating nonsense here saying I didn't answer them. It is clear that those of you who refuse to believe that the NIST explanation of fire being the cause for WTC 7's destruction is impossible will look for any way to put off being forced to acknowledge it. I am done here as I really don't have time for those of you trying to maintain your Irreducible Delusion. I knew Ryan Mackey had something right there, he just wasn't pointing it in the right direction. |
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“Much of the 9/11 story has not been told to the public" - Steven Badger, attorney for insurance litigators affected by the WTC disaster. |
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Did I have to say the columns could not have failed by reason of fires for you to understand?
If you are representative of the level of technical understanding here it isn't surprising that you and a number of others like Ozeco, Triforcharity, and DGM, don't see why the NIST explanation for the collapse initiation of WTC 7 is impossible. |
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Try answering Tom's questions Tony....
Incorrect. Answer the questions.....if you can't simply admit it and move on. Tony....the vast majority of the worlds experts agree with the general conclusions of NIST. So "those of us who refuse to believe" is actually around 99.99% of the worlds Engineers... Again....answer the questions Tony. Answer the questions Tony. Or is this another case where one of US has to answer the questions for you (Tom already did that)? Answer the questions Tony. |
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You assume so, ergo? Let's take Tom's first point:
Notice the term I highlighted. That means that we are dealing with a non-linear equation. You may not know what that means, and I do. I have had advanced math classes and have had to work with non-linear equations. That also means that you can't take a linear approach, as Tony does with his equations. Tony does not directly respond to this assertion with a derivation that shows that there would be no difference, either by deriving the appropriate equations or doing a computational analysis that shows a negligible difference. |
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Actually I resent that remark.
I do know you will never actually do anything to challenge NIST because you will never be able to competently address the subject on their level. I do know people like ergo do care, That is in fact your intended audience. If you do actually ever produce a coherent/relevant reply. By all means, let me know, I'd love to read it. |
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“Much of the 9/11 story has not been told to the public" - Steven Badger, attorney for insurance litigators affected by the WTC disaster. |
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The truth can sting sometimes........
The problem is that his analysis is incorrect.........incorrect in the methodology and incorrect in the conclusions. At certain points he oversimplifies the analysis and at other points he is just simply wrong. If he was correct........you can be 100% certain that many other (more competent) engineers would already have discovered these "obvious facts" and there would be a debate within the community. There is no debate. There is no debate because his errors.....some obvious and some more subtle.... cause most other Engineers to dismiss his analysis and ignore his babbling. So that leaves us with the internet.....and to be more specific internet chat rooms, debate forums, and blogs.....and those chat rooms and debate forums are ones like this.....like the JREF where people debate conspiracy theories and other insane nonsense. That is where you see these discussions....the forums that are more science minded like physicsforums.com do not entertain 9/11 discussions because the topic is considered pseudo science. If you do not grasp this reality almost 11 years after the event.....and continue to have the delusion that there is a real debate over this issue...then no one can save you from yourself. Just go on believing it for the rest of your life....it won't be any different in 50 years then it is today. |
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They think that they can "Disprove NIST and blow this thing wide open" by a few quick calculations, drawings in MS Paint, and some Excel spreadsheets, without even trying to prove their own "Controlled Demolition" beyond some "looks like" speculation and half-thought out guesswork.
It's basically the laziest campaign against an "evil empire" anyone could conceive of. |
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The underlying problem in logic is that they take one apparent anomaly out of context and think it proves something. This topic of "walk off" and the "thermXte" threads suffer from the same error.
If NIST was wrong on walk off (and that is a big "if" not yet argued effectively) that error is only one link in a case for CD. There are another dozen links to establish and until all links are proven the alleged error over "walk off" remains nothing more than an anomaly. The situation with thermXte is analogous. Proving that there was thermXte on ground zero is no more than (say) 5 or 10% of a CD case. Unless the other 90-95% can be proved thermXte remains an anomaly. Tony S's shifting the objective from "Prove CD" to "Prove NIST was wrong" only confuses the gullible. And it opens the door to another standard truther bit of false logic. The idea that an error in detail by NIST somehow (a) invalidates all of NIST's work AND/OR (b) proves CD. Whether stated explicitly or left implicit both those concepts are of course ridiculous. |
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And why would the perps think to use ceramic devices? And what incendiary - and its ignition system - would survive the temperatures experienced? And what incendiary can perform fast enough to be useful in a CD?
Simple questions, Tony, but ones that your endless research into NIST failings are well, and deliberately, designed to obscure. You have no plausible theory of your own. If you did you'd publish it. Or, deep down, are you embarrassed by the sheer absurdity of those CD thoughts that bubble through your mind? |
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My apolgies, it was C7 who claimed the 2" plate could "catch" the girder if it fell to the W.
In which you claim that the 3/4" inch stiffeners on the top flange would stop the bottom flange folding with only ~2" of that flange remaining on the plate? That would be a truly remarkable claim, so I must have misunderstood you. |
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Anyone that believes any sort of explosives and or other demolition type devices could have been installed in a building occupied 24/7 in lower Manhattan, without having a least one person come forward out of the 10's of thousands that would have had to be involved, is either 1) willfully ignorant, 2)terminally stupid, or 3)both
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"No one said the air at Ground Zero was safe to breathe." -Mark Roberts, 11/5/2007 [The bad air was amazingly confined to the Ground Zero site? "Who knew"] "I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink." -Christie Todd Whitman, EPA Press Release, 9/18/2001 |
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