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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Loose Change - Part III
Part I can be found here:http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=53102
Part II can be found here:http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=57424 |
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If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008
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Thinker
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Woo-hoo! First post in Loose Change part three! (besides the admin creation).
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"Truth is strong because it is true...Truth is justice because it is true...Don't you think it is very persuasive?"" "The truth has power for the simple reason that it is the truth. Wouldn't you prefer your truth like that?" |
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Tea-Time toad
Join Date: Mar 2005
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but loose change 3rd ed isn't even out yet!
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and The Electric Revolution
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"Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move" The revolution needs YOU! www.stopsylvia.com |
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Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
Join Date: Jul 2002
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I want to see Loose Change 3D. With funny glasses.
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Continually pushing the boundaries of mediocrity. Everything is possible, but not everything is probable. For if a man pretend to me that God hath spoken to him supernaturally, and immediately, and I make doubt of it, I cannot easily perceive what argument he can produce to oblige me to believe it. Hobbes |
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Tea-Time toad
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and The Electric Revolution
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"Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move" The revolution needs YOU! www.stopsylvia.com |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: City of Burning Churches, Australia
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funny glasses not needed
Anything new that the saviours of our world have brought to our attention? DJ Lunacy been over to debunk gravy yet?
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan I don't exactly have a Phd in physics. I have something much better. Common sense. - pagan How does one change their mind without losing face after staunchly supporting a single point of view for years? It's quite alright, you are expected to maintain your opinion even if those responsible for 9/11 confess to their crimes. - Irony, MirageMemories style |
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Ardent Formulist
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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Woo's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by aliens. |
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Ninja Wave: Techno NinjaJoin Date: Nov 2005
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Well found out something interesting Saturday. Was walking with the wife and the little one in the local park, and decided to go up to a glass case that was installed a few months ago. Been seeing it on and off for the past 2 months or so, but never took a close look. From a diatance it looked like there was a large log or something along those lines inside. Well turns out it's a support column from WTC 2 that was recoveredd in the aftermath of 9/11. It's about 6 feet long, maybe 18 inches across or so. Looking at the ends you can clearly see how the metal was twisted and torn, no sign of demo charge cut marks or thermite burn through. I will try to get some pics later this week. So looking forward to are next LC CTer claiming that the support beams were cut.
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_____________________________________________ My gun collection has killed 5 fewer people than the Kennedy clan has with cars, airplanes and golf clubs. - Ranb |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Nice to start fresh after Sentinel ruined the second thread with his unintelligible comments.
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
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More offensive idiocy at the LC Forum...
http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Ch...post&p=5433102
Originally Posted by SqueakyBoom
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Unimpressed Female
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Oh please do.....Would make an intersting way of getting banned.....
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If anyone told you that I'm a nice person, they were either from a different level of existance, lying through their teeth or mentally instable. "We? That better be you and that invisible aardwarck in your pocket you are talking about, because I KNOW you are not stupid enough to open a giant can of whoop ass by claiming you know what I think." Stop Sylvia Browne |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Outside of Detroit
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Well thats one way to explain why Sylvia Browne was wrong about the miners. "They were alive when I predicted that! But Big-Mining had them killed!"
Rule8'ing disgusting. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Let's Help out Chuck Sheen
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Amy: You should try homeopathic medicine, Bender. Try some zinc. Bender: I am forty percent zinc. Amy: Then take some echinacea, or St. John's Wort. Professor: Or a big fat placebo. It's all the same crap. |
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Just One More Question
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Someone find me a connection between:
George W. Bush Italian Greyhounds Jim Lovell Ray Romano The Flash Metallica and the Corliolus Effect. And....GO! |
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Fiend God
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: In the details...
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The Onmyouza Theatre, An unofficial international fanclub forum dedicated to the Japanese heavy metal band Onmyo-Za. "In the interests of time and space, it is not unreasonable to cite one point at a time. Citing 30 is the equivalent of citing none. Obviously." - Robert Prey |
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Unimpressed Female
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: 8th level of Hell - Maleborgia
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In regards of post 17:
Thats simple: [CT thinking cap on] The Flash, as in the cartoon character, is in reality speaking in codes, thus enabling George W. Bush to communicate with various Illuminati chapters at the same time all over the world. Same goes for Ray Romano's lines in "Everybody Loves Raymond". This particulary coorporation came about as Ray Romano are a member of the same species of lizards as both Jim Lovell and Bush not to mention the drummer, Lars Ulrich, from Metallica. The same code also presents itself if you play Metallicas tracks backwards and count the drumbeats. And don't tell me you haven't heard the satanic messages on those tracks! Metallica is, after all, the right hand of the Antichrist also known as George W. Bush. These codes are centered arround a sinister plot to change the weatherpatterns of the world by using the local atmospheric changes of greyhoundraces at specific time and places to influence the Corliolus Effect. Italian Greyhounds are particulary good at this due to their aerodynamic shape and speed. Don't tell me you haven't noticed how the weather changes when they have one of those races! It's so obvious! [/CT thinking cap off] That was....way to easy.... |
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If anyone told you that I'm a nice person, they were either from a different level of existance, lying through their teeth or mentally instable. "We? That better be you and that invisible aardwarck in your pocket you are talking about, because I KNOW you are not stupid enough to open a giant can of whoop ass by claiming you know what I think." Stop Sylvia Browne |
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Just One More Question
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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Why didn't I see it before? It's so obvious.
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by SqueakyBoom
Typical rubbish. "It was obvious..." "he'd been told..." (beautiful leading use of passive voice there) "I think..." "I only recently realized this..." However, I really feel sorry for those people. Mental illness is no laughing matter. |
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Master Poster
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Ardent Formulist
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To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. Woo's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by aliens. |
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Master Poster
Join Date: May 2006
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LOL, he did make a few intelligible points. They were all wrong, but at least comprehensible. You are correct though, the hardest part is not debunking, it is getting them to say something comprehensible in the first place.
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_____________________________________________ My gun collection has killed 5 fewer people than the Kennedy clan has with cars, airplanes and golf clubs. - Ranb |
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Downsitting Citizen
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"Please, keep your chops cool and don’t overblow.” –Freddie Hubbard What's the Harm?........Stop Sylvia Browne........My 9/11 links |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Dylan Shuts Down "No Planes" Thread
Perhaps it was hitting a little too close to home? Killtown and Holmgren were arguing that many of the eyewitness accounts of those who saw the second plane hit the WTC weren't really eyewitnesses, so Merc the Jerk assembled a bunch of eyewitness accounts.
Of course, that's getting a little too close to the argument we raise against the Pentagon nonsense; that there are plenty of eyewitnesses who saw an airliner hit the Pentagon, so Dylan closed the thread. |
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Downsitting Citizen
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"Please, keep your chops cool and don’t overblow.” –Freddie Hubbard What's the Harm?........Stop Sylvia Browne........My 9/11 links |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Oh gawd...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...56561478705121 JFK II is an incredible documentary film that totally destroys any notion of Lee Harvey Oswald being responsible for the murder of ... all » President John F. Kennedy. Packed with original and new footage, JFK II provides strong clues as to who was really behind the assassination. This examination of the ecidence is meticulous ans well-documented. JFK II ia a criminal indictment of George Herbert Walker Bush and establishws beyond a reasonable doubt his guilt as a supervisor in the conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy. EDIT: Spelling errors are unchanged from the included synopsis on google video. |
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I have some questions, hope you all don't mind. I know the Loosers keep on with them.
Might I ask what the 'free-fall' thing is all about? Is this what happens during a controlled demolition? Also, why is christophera banging on about this concrete core? What has that got to do with anything? Finally, in this: http://mouv4x8.club.fr/11Sept01/A006...sion_below.jpg What is that poking through the top of the cloud of dust? |
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
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The CTs contend that the 3 WTC buildings fell "too fast," that is, at or near the speed they would have fallen if nothing resisted their fall. Some even claim that the towers fell as fast as they would in a vacuum, i.e. true free fall. The NIST report gives CTs a little ammunition because it refers to the towers as falling at "near" free fall speed. But then NIST goes on to say that the DIFFERENCE in the actual collapse speed and free fall is accounted for by the resistance providecd by the building's structure (and by air). The CTs leave that part out. If you're talking about 2 or 3 seconds' difference, that's 20 or 30% slower than free fall, which the folks with slide rules say is within the expected range. Now, do buildings that undergo "CD" fall at "free fall" speed? No. Controlled demolitions are designed to weaken certain supporting members so that gravity can do its work, not to simulaneously remove every supporting member in the structure.
The concrete core thing is just a fantasy dreamed up by Christophera and a few others. It might have made a difference in how long the towers survived if they had concrete cores, but they didn't. That photo shows material being ejected from the 41/42 floor mechanical levels as the building collapses. It's likely that material had an easier exit on the mechanical floors, since they had vents to the exterior. ETA: Oh, you asked what's poking through the TOP of the dust cloud. Well, there's a piece of exterior wall sticking out near the top center of the cloud. Is that what you mean? |
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"Please, keep your chops cool and don’t overblow.” –Freddie Hubbard What's the Harm?........Stop Sylvia Browne........My 9/11 links |
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Downsitting Citizen
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Not long ago quite a few of them were using the phrase "faster than free fall," but that seems to have died down.
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"Please, keep your chops cool and don’t overblow.” –Freddie Hubbard What's the Harm?........Stop Sylvia Browne........My 9/11 links |
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Originally Posted by SqueakyBoom
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Two splits?! What have I done!?
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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Debunking Ninja
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. |
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Alien Cryogenic Engineer
Join Date: Dec 2001
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Well, you certainly created one of the longer thread(s) in forum history.
also, - created a quasi-battleground between the JREF and Loose Change forums. In the process you created the JREF Ninja Wave. - helped educate quite a few people as to the arguments on both sides of the discussion. - allowed me to add "government shill" to my list of titles. - given everyone a few pauses for serious thought (and more than a few chuckles) All in all, it's a great thread. I just wish the DJLegacy/Gravy thread had taken off. That would have been a good read as well. |
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