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Critical Thinker
Join Date: May 2004
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Killtowns Science Background: ?
Well, here's the new thread.
What is your background in science? High school? College? Post-Grad? |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,937
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Dude, the guy's like a black-belt in "forensics." Don't make him get his calculator repaired: it could get ugly.
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Bandersnatch, I can really sympathise where you are going with this.
But I think we know the answer, and attacking Killtown directly, although fun, is in essence an ad hom and I think we should avoid it. Indeed, Killtown, if you are having any problems with math or getting access to research papers, please PM me and I'll see if I can help/access them for you. All PMs will be confidential. Copy the link to this post; I promise not to divulge the content of any requests for help or information without your permission. BW DrR |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: May 2004
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Dallas, TX
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Join Date: May 2006
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: In the argyle
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Making Mytheon come to life
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You know what, as a sign of good faith, I'll throw my credentials in the ring:
* 12 credits short of a BS in Computer Science * Worked in IT/MIS since '97 * Have been a sysadmin/erp admin/dba since '99 Anything beyond that is self taught. |
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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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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: In the argyle
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Actually, this fact says even more: Killtown has now put 19 respondents to his "plume" thread on "ignore."
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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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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Muse
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: sebastian. fl
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Everybody knows freedom, it's living inside your head. Everybody knows Jesus, you'll meet him when you are dead. A song, by those guys... |
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
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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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Anthropomorphic Skunk
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan
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What a fuel hog!
I'm wondering how someone whose avatar implies that the Yew Ess Gummint ruthlessly silences all dissent manages to... well, to spew so much. Isn't the Bureau of Independent Thought Quashing doing their job keeping him quiet? (Or does kt fall under the auspices of the Rumor Regurgitation Squadron? Hmmm.) |
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Orthogonal Vector
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Tarrytown, NY
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So a Rod is 16.5 feet and a hogs head is 84 gallons. So that would mean it goes 660 feet with 84 gallons or 672 gallons per mile. You get worse fule ecconomy that the shuttle crawler as that is only 150 gallons per mile.
What on earth do you drive? THe only reasonable answer I can think of is a walking drag line. |
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Anthropomorphic Skunk
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan
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@ponderingturtle: Isn't it obvious?
A Hummer. |
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A broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: About 7 Miles from the Saturn 5B
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From a button on my Wall:
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I once calculated that out longhand, so that is about the limit of my math. Did manage Trig. and Solid Geometry in High School, some scence classes in college (Major was Education, what can I say..) I'm pretty sure I'm smarter than KT, though...not that that is anything to brag about... |
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Anthropomorphic Skunk
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Unincorporated Territory of Croatan
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1.8026 x 1012 Furlongs per Fortnight -- how much [edit: area] does that come to when rendered boustrophedontically? Let us assume 3-inch furrows on 4-foot centers.
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Orthogonal Vector
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Tarrytown, NY
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There are more feet than that. I see Sear's, Clarke's, Indian, and Benoit. They only vary in the 3-7 decimal place though.
So they are close enough that it will be well under 1% difference in this. Also remember how much road conditions and driving technique can effect mileage, a much higher percentage. |
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Anthropomorphic Skunk
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Don't neglect Meffy's Metric Foot, which is 1/3 meter exactly. (Meffy's Metric Inch is 25mm exactly.)
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Alien Cryogenic Engineer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Cythraul Enfys
Join Date: May 2006
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 16 miles from 7 lakes
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science background?
I think it possible he may have stayed at a "Holiday Inn Express" once.
In his parent's room. |
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A broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Anthropomorphic Skunk
Join Date: Feb 2004
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That many? I mean... I'm proud that our allies the Bazillions and the the invisible Cretans are helping us in this grand effort.
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Cythraul Enfys
Join Date: May 2006
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Decoy
Moderator
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: A magical land full of pink fluffy sheeps and bunnies
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I am not a little teapot. |
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: In the argyle
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From Killtown's website: ![]() Remember, folks: flight 93 impacted at 580 mph, 850 feet per second, or, as Huntsman put it so well, that largely hollow shell of thin aluminum and fuel was traveling faster than a bullet from a .45. |
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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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Nasty Brutish and Tall
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Knob Hill.
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I must admit that I have never actually checked his blog. Is this real?
Coz if its real I guess that proves it then. Can't argue with them forensics. I hope this means Arkan, Gravy, MacX and everyone else will be apologising to Killtown for ever doubting his credentials. |
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A broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett's Privateers
Join Date: Dec 2003
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I just looked at that picture, Gravy....
I think that it should be posted on any site that KT goes to debate at, so that all posters therein can tell what level of expertise they are dealing with. As for science education, I think KT must have watched 1/2 hour of Nova sometime in his teens..but it didn't take. |
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If sheer righteous fury could accomplish anything worthwhile, Wolverines would have inherited the Galaxy long ago." -Web DuHavel, David Weber's "Honorverse" Series |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Posts: 1,066
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What I love about the CTers(ists) is how quickly they'll dismiss 10,000 pages of the NIST report that contain equations and variations on experiements and computer models and, well... you know. Science stuff.
But they'll take one look at pictures like the one Killtown drew and be all "Inside job!!!!" PS - KT, next time, if you could toss in a few 'happy little trees' in the background, that'd be sweet. edit: Ok, so KT didn't draw it. Found it significant enough to put on his site as evidence... but he didn't draw it. Disregard 'happy little trees' comment. |
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This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes. 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers. A Must Read. |
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Not so much a medium as a large
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: United Kingdom
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Holy *****, that's priceless! I wonder if he was making "neeeeeawng-boooom!" sounds whilst drawing it?
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Downsitting Citizen
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: In the argyle
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To clarify, I don't believe Killtown drew the picture. I think it was that moron "Spooked" whose done those wonderful Killtown-worthy "experiments."
However, Killtown uses this picture as evidence That filght 93 didn't crash in PA. It's on his site on a page devoted to flight 93 photos, maps, and diagrams. |
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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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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Making Mytheon come to life
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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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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Nov 2004
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If man came from dust, why is there still dust? |
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Anthropomorphic Skunk
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Cythraul Enfys
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Copper Alloy Canid
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Homebrew D&D Campaign Setting
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So, let me get this straight: Either the plane is so utterly fragile that any impact will send pieces flying in every direction, rather than letting it the bulk of it remain together long enough to crash into the Pentagon OR it's so absolutely sturdy and rigid it'll burrow into the ground intact.
Yeah... |
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Stop Sylvia Browne Warning: Beware of contaminated water supplies! Suspected source of contamination: Sarah-I A non-Rockstar Rambler and dissector of Doggerel |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: up in the air
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It's not either-or, it's both! Like wave-particle duality. It's quantum, man.
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Orthogonal Vector
Join Date: Jul 2006
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