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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/6/2007 6:58:04 AM   
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       I'm sorry to be seeing this thread turn into yet another rehash of the 9/11 events (even if I did reference that example myself earlier).

      The people who pursue these things walk a dangerous path.  There is much madness to be drawn into and some fall prey to it.  Others self-destruct with drugs, trying to stay alert to every possible connection.  And then there are the ones whose death by suicide or one vehicle accident becomes another tentacle itself.

     Why would anyone pursue a career or hobby where paranoia is part of the job description?



i think its difficult to avoid bringing up conspiracies or believed conspiracies when talking about conspiracy theories and tin hats.   i have found interesting points can evolve from letting a thread go where it will as can be seen other threads that took me into global warming, and area that was never a huge interest of mine but nonetheless i learned a quite a bit from the banter even though it was somewhat off topic.

Those are very good points. 

So then you are saying that 3 good reasons to close ones eyes to a conspiracy theory is to keep from going insane?  Avoid being forced to be vigilant?  Avoid being killed and having it labeled a suicide?

My take on what you said is that you are suggesting we sacrifice our freedom for security?  That is  possibly what is nothing more than a false sense of security then, since what you described, is that not domestic terror, and mass media programming?

The problem of course in my mind remains the same.   Take 911 for example, or kennedy.

What if there really was a conspiracy in the kennedy case.  It stands to reason that if the ruling elite or the mafia, or the cia, murdered him the most likely reason would be because he was going against them.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend. (most likely doing something good for us)

What if there really is a conspiracy with 911?

That is an alternative conspiracy since after all, its an alternative conspiracy theory vs the governments conspiracy theory.  Seems we are on pretty equal grounds here.  Unless the governments conspiracy theory carries more weight because they are the government.  i guess i am assuming that we all realize that the governments version is in inarguably a conspiracy theory.  er maybe we dont realize that?

What does the government have for evidence that their theory is valid?  any bodies other than the 4 or 5 found alive so far?  We are chasing OBL around and bombing afghanastan because we conveniently found a paper passport that survived unscaved, without so much as a singe mark from the inferno of intense heat that melted all that steel.  Then a trunk load of maps conveniently in the trunk of a car.

Now i personally find that to be absolutely superior police work.  Even magical.  Extremely fortunate! 

What if we produced gw bushs passport on the site?  What would we think then?   Can anyone provide good arguements for the governments conspiracy theory?   What do we know?  How do we know if it was arabs?   Does anyone have a better way to separate the tin hats from a real conspiracy than to work our way through one and see what turns up in the end?  i made a long list that i am not sure makes sense since i was nearly sleeping when i made it LOL  We dont have to argue the points line item by line item but it would be helpfuo if there was a list that we could see illustrating those points that could possibly used to validate the goverments version other than a passport that susrvived all that intense heat.  All i have seen so far is points that invalidate the governments theory!

Why one conspiracy over the other?  Where does security become domestic terror?


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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/6/2007 3:40:59 PM   
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I know presenting actual engineers explaining why and how the WTC towers came down won't shut the loons up but hopefully everybody else will read this article:
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html  


Geez thanks a lot dom ken your my hero!

Since it seems so many are still chasing their tails on the collapse of the towers that i frankly thought we put to bed long time ago i felt i would share with you some of the latest findings and analysis of the subject.

i think enough evidence is out to prove beyond any doubt that neither fire nor air craft crashes dropped those buildings.....and for those who need a 2x4 across the head just hold on for a couple more years till the subpoenas start to fly.

If you want nice drama you will not find it below, only very boring drab technical data in very easy laymans terms.


First 7 different perspectives of the sounds of fire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeZAN5wn-eA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAKfBA8lBYg&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_n5gJgQ_U&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLe5mE5rR4I&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW6HdCbU_ZY&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSP4TXUpSmc&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW6HdCbU_ZY&mode=related&search=

Kevin Ryan Formerly of Underwriters Labs  Speaks out on 911
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=718236659434732032&q=kevin+ryan

Maybe we can get back to talking about conspiracies again instead of re-hashing old new now.


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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/6/2007 4:30:41 PM   
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Who to believe materials engineers writing in a peer reviewed scientific journal or nobodies on youtube? Guess I'll have to side with the engineers. Now of course you'll expand your conspiracy to include every materials engineer in the world who disagrees with your idiocy.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/6/2007 4:55:08 PM   
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Who to believe materials engineers writing in a peer reviewed scientific journal or nobodies on youtube? Guess I'll have to side with the engineers. Now of course you'll expand your conspiracy to include every materials engineer in the world who disagrees with your idiocy.


oh yeh UL and MIT are all no bodies.... 
Every materials engineer?  Yeh using the newly invented bush applied science and physics LOL

dude if you cant cant even read the rediculously simple charts he made just for you laymen i am sorry but you belong in the 2x4 club...   if you think calling me or tothers names gives credibility to your claim well...  What are you a bush spokesman?

Kevin Ryan Formerly of Underwriters Labs  Speaks out on 911
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=718236659434732032&q=kevin+ryan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeZAN5wn-eA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAKfBA8lBYg&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_n5gJgQ_U&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLe5mE5rR4I&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW6HdCbU_ZY&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSP4TXUpSmc&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW6HdCbU_ZY&mode=related&search=



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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/6/2007 7:54:10 PM   
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believe materials engineers writing in a peer reviewed scientific journal


dude if you cant cant even read the rediculously simple charts he made just for you laymen i am sorry but you belong in the 2x4 club

As does everybody who believes what is written "in a peer reviewed scientific journal". Such journals are a source of information, but that is all. I have noticed mistakes in such journals. Those mistakes are only the tip of the ice berg. What is far worse than the mistakes in a few of the articles in such journals are the plain stupidities in the interpretations given of the facts that are observed in many of the articles.
 
Whatever is written in such a journal is not true by definition. I am the ultimate arbiter of whether such an interpretation is true or not. Believers are not qualified to discuss such matters, as to them it apparently is not science or an application of scientific knowledge that counts, but some irrational religion.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/6/2007 8:56:27 PM   
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I can’t believe that no one has ever espoused the idea that I am about to espouse now, so if someone beat me to it I will yield credit. Until then I am calling this Marc2b’s Conspiracy Axiom.
 
A secret is the hardest thing in the world to keep. After all, the fun of having a secret is the power it gives you over others (I know something you don’t). But if at least one other person doesn’t know, then nobody knows you have the power of the secret – which is no fun at all. Thus at least one person has to be told. People blab. Wether it is for the fun of having a secret, or through being bribed or to seek fame, it is the rare person who can truly keep a secret. The more people who have to keep the original secret, the more likely someone will blab. A conspiracy of two would be difficult to keep quiet, as the numbers of people involved goes up, so does the likelihood that the conspiracy will be exposed. Thus Marc2b’s Conspiracy Axiom is: The more people alleged to be involved in a conspiracy, the less likely the conspiracy actually exists.

Of course, the beauty of believing in a conspiracy is that a conspiracy can never truly be disproved. Lack of evidence is taken as proof of the existence of the conspiracy.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/6/2007 9:49:49 PM   
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Who to believe materials engineers writing in a peer reviewed scientific journal or nobodies on youtube? Guess I'll have to side with the engineers. Now of course you'll expand your conspiracy to include every materials engineer in the world who disagrees with your idiocy.


My Daddy reads popular mechanics for fun, in one edition recently they "debunked" "conspiracy theorists" for their "extremists" ideas. I was immediately turned off from their "peered reviewed article" when I read the word "extremist" within the text of this article within the first paragraph

Now if the writers of this article had referred to those people with questions in their mind about the events leading up to 9-11, and the facts surrounding 9-11  with some respect , I would have read their explanations with some sort of feeling that I was getting reliable information. But as it was, their treatment of laymen as whacked out weirdos for asking questions about 9-11 (I am a person with questions) read like an opinion piece, not a scientific article.

You want to present something as being reliable fact, snuff the personal animosity and the attacks and get on with presenting your expertise... otherwise you sound worse than the whackos with some pretty good questions.

I have seen videos that made me question what we have been told, and I have questions in my mind. Kinda like those people who were told to believe in magic bullets and that Jack Ruby gunned down Oswald out of the goodness of his Red White and Blue gansta thug mafia ass... yeah right.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/7/2007 12:03:15 AM   
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PM isn't a peer reviewed journal.

Anyone with actual experience trying to get published, publish or perish, can tell you some fairly basic things. First these journals do not deal in TRUTH but in facts. If I write an article claiming the data says X, if it doesn't say X then the reviewers are going to tell the editor that and good bye paper. Second if the data for a paper is inadequate or the least bit shaky and it gets bye the reviewers then the letters column of the journal will soon fill up with detailed deconstructions of the mistakes in said article until the journal either prints a clarification or the authors admit their error. Since no such thing happened in this case I'm going to stick with the competent engineers.

Now as to the old canard about common sense and these sorts of things, common sense is often very wrong. Take the issue under discussion. Should the WTC towers have toppled over when the structural members of one floor failed? Common sense developed in dealing with our normal life experiences say yes. Unfortunately virtually no one has pertinent life experience to arrive at the correct answer based on 'common sense.' The structure was built to be flexible vertically in order to withstand the wind but rigid horizontally with minimal structural support so as to allow a full acre of office space per floor. When the planes hit the towers they cause local damage to a number of structural members and also delivered many tons of jet fuel into the structure. As the resulting fires burned the structural members heated unevenly due to variations in the intensity of the fire which caused these steel members to expand and warp. Eventually this started causing these steel members to come loose from each other which eventually exceed the ability of the surviving members to support the weight of the structure. When this happened the entire tower above the failure came down, the 15 feet or so, to hit the floor immediately below the failure. The structure, not being designed to support this dynamic stress, failed again and again all the way down. Since the wind was essentially calm on 9/11 the center of gravity of the upper floors was not displaced from that of the lower floors and the whole structure came straight down. In order for the structure to topple on the way down the collapse would have need to pause at some point so that what minimal lateral acceleration the upper section had gained would have had time to work. Since it is quite clear that once the first collapse started there was no chance that a lower floor would bear the stress for even a few seconds this never happened.

Now as to the demolition theory. The sort of demolition postulated is accomplished by drilling holes into the structural members and placing explosives which when detonated in a precise order cut the upper floors structural members and cause the building to pancake down. Now since the collapses started at the impact points as can be clearly seen from the videos that means that either the conspirators were able to hit the exact floors desired with the planes or their detonation plan was flexible enough to allow the floor where the demolition explosives started to be altered in real time. Go find someone who knows the field and they can give you some idea of the amount of work required to rig 50 or 60 floors of both towers for a controlled demolition. So show me the evidence that huge work crews were in the towers drilling holes in structural members immediately before 9/11. This isn't a job that 3 black ops guys could pull off and is simply to big to have been done with no body noticing especially as it would have required tearing out walls to get access to those load bearing members. Even if nobody noticed the work what about the huge bundles of wire leading from each floor down the conduits and out of the towers to wherever the control board was placed?

Then we get to some other unanswered problems of this theory. Who did it? Mostly I've seen people blame the shrub administration. Now as everyone knows Rumsfeld was a major power player in this group. Do you think he would have gone along with crashing a plane less than 100 yards from his person? Note that multiple eyewitnesses place him on the ground within moments of the plane hitting the Pentagon helping remove the wounded. Now I'm sure no one is going to claim that even a professional pilot could crash a jumbo jet so precisely as to damage the Pentagon and allow the SoD to show physical courage but not put the SoD in harms way. So who else? Why?

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/7/2007 3:42:19 AM   
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
First these journals do not deal in TRUTH but in facts.

no comment on this one.

Rather than doing a peer review on your comments i will pull a few excerpts from your bible and comment on them.

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The egg-crate construction made a redundant structure (i.e., if one or two columns were lost, the loads would shift into adjacent columns and the building would remain standing).

Incorrect.
Skilling designed it so you could cut away one whole side of the buildingexcluding the corners.

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Of equal or even greater significance during this initial impact was the explosion when 90,000 L gallons of jet fuel, comprising nearly 1/3 of the aircraft’s weight, ignited. The ensuing fire was clearly the principal cause of the collapse (Figure 4).

Incorrect.
The jets had been estimated by several sources to have had approx 40,000 L of fuel on them

Incorrect.
No account is made for the fuel that burned in the air to give us that wonderful pyro effect of terror.

Incorrect.
Since the above are incorrect the weight is incorrect and all following calculations in that regard.

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It is known that structural steel begins to soften around 425°C and loses about half of its strength at 650°C

Incorrect.

The steel was smpte119 rated.

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This produced distortions in the slender structural steel, which resulted in buckling failures. Thus, the failure of the steel was due to two factors: loss of strength due to the temperature of the fire, and loss of structural integrity due to distortion of the steel from the non-uniform temperatures in the fire.

Incorrect.
Test models have proven this is false.

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Nearly every large building has a redundant design that allows for loss of one primary structural member, such as a column. However, when multiple members fail, the shifting loads eventually overstress the adjacent members and the collapse occurs like a row of dominoes falling down.

Incorrect.

Skilling designed the structure such that it would require a loss of greater than 30% of the 47 core columns to cause failure.  

FEMA, NIST, ASCE have all documented the loss to be only a couple columns

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Now since the collapses started at the impact points as can be clearly seen from the videos that means that either the conspirators were able to hit the exact floors desired with the planes or their detonation plan was flexible enough to allow the floor where the demolition explosives started to be altered in real time.

easily done by computerized remote control.
Yes modern demolition methods is that flexible

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
So show me the evidence that huge work crews were in the towers drilling holes in structural members immediately before 9/11.

Securacom remoced ALL the power from the buildings including the video surveyliance systems 1 week prior to 911, bomb sniffing dogs were never brought back in after that time.

Go to the 911 hoax thread if you want more data as we already went over this.

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Even if nobody noticed the work what about the huge bundles of wire leading from each floor down the conduits and out of the towers to wherever the control board was placed?


Um... digitally encoded radio now days.

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Do you think he would have gone along with crashing a plane less than 100 yards from his person?

If its safe enough for me its safe enough for him i am sure and i would have done it.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
Now I'm sure no one is going to claim that even a professional pilot could crash a jumbo jet so precisely as to damage the Pentagon and allow the SoD to show physical courage but not put the SoD in harms way. So who else? Why?


Other witnesses said it was a tomahawk cruise missle and a computer did the drivin.

was never in danger.

i heard rumors thats where the auditors were looking for the 2.3 billion bucks the feds lost LOL

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/7/2007 6:10:44 AM   
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PM isn't a peer reviewed journal.

Please do not bore me with your religious peer reviewed fetishes. A fact is a fact, whether it be in a peer reviewed piece of paper or on a piece of paper that I wipe my ass with, and often incontestible. An interpretation is an interpretation, whether it be in a peer reviewed piece of paper or on a piece of paper that I wipe my ass with, and often a deluge of stupidities as most people cannot see the truth if it bit them. The most intelligent people are usually also the most stupid people. Chew on that.

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Anyone with actual experience trying to get published, publish or perish, can tell you some fairly basic things. First these journals do not deal in TRUTH but in facts.


If only they would... Unfortunately, most of the authors of articles in such journals mistakenly consider themselves qualified to interpret the facts that they present. Interpretations, though, are not facts (chew on that as well) and nearly none of those authors thus is qualified to interpret their facts.
 
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If I write an article claiming the data says X, if it doesn't say X then the reviewers are going to tell the editor that and good bye paper. Second if the data for a paper is inadequate or the least bit shaky and it gets bye the reviewers then the letters column of the journal will soon fill up with detailed deconstructions of the mistakes in said article until the journal either prints a clarification or the authors admit their error.

Facts. Data. You are boring me. Those things are limited - and you are still ignoring the interpretations that are necessary to understand the facts and data.
 
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Since no such thing happened in this case I'm going to stick with the competent engineers.

Competent in which way? Data? Facts? If it was not so sad, I would laugh. You had better consult a psychologist. I bet he will confirm my assertion that many engineers are both highly intelligent and stupid.

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Should the WTC towers have toppled over when the structural members of one floor failed? Common sense developed in dealing with our normal life experiences say yes.


Depends on the circumstances, I would say.
 
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The structure was built to be flexible vertically in order to withstand the wind but rigid horizontally with minimal structural support so as to allow a full acre of office space per floor. When the planes hit the towers they cause local damage to a number of structural members and also delivered many tons of jet fuel into the structure. As the resulting fires burned the structural members heated unevenly due to variations in the intensity of the fire which caused these steel members to expand and warp. Eventually this started causing these steel members to come loose from each other which eventually exceed the ability of the surviving members to support the weight of the structure. When this happened the entire tower above the failure came down, the 15 feet or so, to hit the floor immediately below the failure. The structure, not being designed to support this dynamic stress, failed again and again all the way down.

Blah, blah, blah. That scenario will do when the structural columns have thermate attached to them every third floor, but it does not hold water when the issue are a few minor office fires.

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The sort of demolition postulated is accomplished by drilling holes into the structural members and placing explosives


It is not what I postulate, so as far as I am concerned drilling holes is not required.
 
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Now since the collapses started at the impact points as can be clearly seen from the videos


I watched the videos and I did not see that clearly at all. My independent conclusion was that it started at the very top of the towers, then went down floor by floor.
 
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ORIGINAL: DomKen

that means

If 'clearly' was true, yes.
 
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that either the conspirators were able to hit the exact floors desired with the planes or their detonation plan was flexible enough to allow the floor where the demolition explosives started to be altered in real time.

Either, yes. A homing beacon is fairly simple, but I opt for the versatile, programmable demolition sequence. It must have been fun to develop that program. Those engineer boys do like to have fun. Yolly for them.
 
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Go find someone who knows the field and they can give you some idea of the amount of work required to rig 50 or 60 floors of both towers for a controlled demolition.

It was no sweat at all. They even had coffee breaks, and popular music playing while they worked. It was fun.
 
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So show me the evidence that huge work crews were in the towers drilling holes in structural members immediately before 9/11.

As long as you cannot show me evidence that drilling occurred, I reject your peer reviewed drilling fetish.
 
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This isn't a job that 3 black ops guys could pull off

Quite. I estimate it may have required up to twenty to emplace the thermate charges.
 
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and is simply to big to have been done with no body noticing

Oh, but people did notice.
 
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especially as it would have required tearing out walls

It would?
 
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to get access to those load bearing members.

How about simply removing a couple of false ceiling tiles and a ladder with or without wheels?
 
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Even if nobody noticed the work what about the huge bundles of wire leading from each floor down the conduits and out of the towers to wherever the control board was placed?

RealOne addressed that one already. Either you are insufficiently sophisticated to have been a part of the demolition team, or you were part of the demolition team and think the rest of us are as stupid as highly intelligent engineers.

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Mostly I've seen people blame the shrub administration. Now as everyone knows Rumsfeld was a major power player in this group. Do you think he would have gone along with crashing a plane less than 100 yards from his person?

Don't you know that arsonists always are part of the audience - usually on the front row - when the building they set fire to burns down?

If anything, I suspect that your faulty arguments have convinced people that the towers were brought down by controlled demolition and that Rumsfeld was in on the conspiracy.


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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/7/2007 7:51:34 AM   
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They used peer reviewed theories, they interviewed those who were peer reviewed. Look up the article.

And as for the rest. Find a post of mine that is about the specifics of 911 conspiracy theories and purporting to know what happened and I will meet you at the above address. I have never specifically endorsed any theory.

But you tell me that you do not find it odd that the WTC was a white elephant that had to be brought up to EPA standards by removing asbestos, they could not rent out space in it very easily, the property it sits upon was worth a literal mint, and the insurance paid twice because the building was hit twice... who profited from 911? I do not need to have the buildings wired for demolition to think that someone high up gave Osama box cutters to give to those hijackers, who were trained at our schools to hijack planes.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 7:38:29 AM   
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We seem to have another 911 thread going. Of course when talking conspiracies this will happen. I hope bringing up a diferent point of view doesn't get anyone's tinfoil in an uproar.

People who make shit happen don't generally do it hands on, they get patsies if needed, or operatives.

So let's get down to some empirical evidence shall we ?

1. The WTC suffered more damage, and/or damage in a different way than some experts say should have been. SOME, not all.

2. The Murrah building suffered more damage and/or damage in a different way than some experts say should have been.

I reject the one about the beams being cut to the rigfht length to fit on trucks, how do you think they got there ?

I reject alot of things, but I do not reject the seismic data related to the Murrah building bombing.

What I do not reject is that many buildings are equipped with integral explosive or incindiary devices for eventual demolition. It all makes sense. It makes sense because the gov is slowly but surely pissing off 300,000,000 people. It makes sense because it saves them money in the long run, in the absence of a revolt, and even during/after a revolt these devices could come in handy.

I am not saying I accept these things as fact, but possible. Many people have a hard time reserving judgment until they get sufficient fact. I prefer to let the events unfold. Not the perfect solution to say the least, but perhaps some kid will throw a rock one day and bring down city hall. Unlikely yes. Impossible ?

Imperical logic says that the only thing impossible to prove is the impossibility of something. Of course every rule has exceptions. Let's say we put someone in a big vat of battery acid. It would be so unlikely that they would survive that we would call it impossible. Repeat the test with seawater, of course using a different subject. Now just how impossible is it ? What if they were born a freak of nature and somehow could quickly adapt, grow gills or something to survive. Even that is a lot less impossible than surviving the acid bath.

Is anyone thinking of the other possibility ? Simply that the person knows how to swim.

So here come I, with my postulation about building being built ready to demolish. Even without sinister or ulterior motives this is not hard to fathom. In our throw away society this is really not a huge leap of faith. But do I believe it to be gospel ? Hell no.

Here's another card for the table. A friend of mine was working as a union bricklayer on the federal reserve building. They were told to go so far and then were temporarily laid off. This union is like a brotherhood and they are pretty sure nobody from that union worked on that building for a few days. When they got back, there was some bricklaying done miraculously.

Although I could build a house, I know little about the constructrion of large buildings. I am not drawing any quick conclusions, oh wait, I guess I am, but I am not accepting nor offering them as fact. A theory.

With the body of evidence I think OBL did indeed have something to do with 911. Even if you discard 80% of it as bullshit it is very probable that he was involved. That is not even proven, because the other empirical piece of evidence is extant. The fact is, all the perpetrators of 911 are dead. All they will ever catch is their comrades and co-conspirators.

However, there is nothing that can possibly prove that noone in the government sponsored or supported the act. Covertly of course, a rouge element ? Another mystery. After all there is strong evidence that the government sponsored the 1991 act against the WTC. Proven ? Not really. Possible ?

One has to be careful dealing with post hoc ergio propter hoc in these matters. Data are often distorted, whether intentionally or not. Therefore we must scrutinize all conclusions.

Here is the problem though, if you take the whole body of evidence of what the government does, well, I am beginning to smell a rat. Even just looking at the results of all that they do. What do they do ? They take.

One thing I do take as fact, and will put forth as such is this : The people running the world are insatiably greedy meglomaniacs.

Murrah and 911 are but two straws on the camel's back.

It is hard for people to realize just how greedy and nasty some people are. I differ from most in the fact that I used to be greedy. I understand it. Like some other vices I broke it, I broke the cycle. Greed is like a drug. Or it could be that money and power are the drugs, greed simply describes the addiction. It escalates just like any other addiction, with money and power being akin to a tolerance for an intoxicant.

Thinking in those terms makes alot of things fall into place. In fact, if you really do think long and hard, you can almost predict what happens next. Perhaps not a specific act, you can be sure of the general trend. Since the rich have the power over the government, it is logical to assume they will do what makes them richer.

The problem with the word conspiracy is who draws the line ? Anyone unaware of the cooperation between big business, the major media and the government must have been living in a hermetically sealed container on Funk and Wagnall's porch. Is that a conspiracy or not ?

Big business, major media and the government spend every day lying to us and taking from us.

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't take so much, if they didn't try to stifle individualism, if they didn't trick people into self destructive behavior, but they do. Why do they do it ?

Thinking backwards is easy at this point. They do it for the same reason they do everything else, to attempt to satisfy their greed. That's all water under the bridge now, the point now is that they do not give a damn about us. Not one bit.

Please prove me wrong. I'll be clicking my heels together three times.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 9:52:03 AM   
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What I do not reject is that many buildings are equipped with integral explosive or incindiary devices for eventual demolition. It all makes sense. It makes sense because the gov is slowly but surely pissing off 300,000,000 people. It makes sense because it saves them money in the long run, in the absence of a revolt, and even during/after a revolt these devices could come in handy.


actually i have found several sites that talk about where construction workers that built the buildings stated exactly this point. that is the explosives being placed in the floor linings with the concrete at wtc and other buildings as you mentioned.

Explosive demolition however is no longer standard practice in the industry.  But you are correct more to come in the future!


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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 10:23:33 AM   
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Now since the collapses started at the impact points as can be clearly seen from the videos


I watched the videos and I did not see that clearly at all. My independent conclusion was that it started at the very top of the towers, then went down floor by floor. ( by Rule).
 
 

rule, but you have to ignore actuall evidence to believe that,   http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=4  look at the picture on this page.  It clearly did not start at the top, as you and others are allegeing.

Kevin Ryan is NOT an engineer.  He was a chemist.  He was fired by a panel of engineers, for misusing his position at UL, out of his field of expertise.   I do not care how many videos he has made.




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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 3:16:09 PM   
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Now since the collapses started at the impact points as can be clearly seen from the videos

I watched the videos and I did not see that clearly at all. My independent conclusion was that it started at the very top of the towers, then went down floor by floor. ( by Rule).

rule, but you have to ignore actuall evidence to believe that,   http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=4  look at the picture on this page.  It clearly did not start at the top, as you and others are allegeing.

You are correct as far as the south tower is concerned. I am not so sure now about the north tower either. I wish those recording were shown is slower motion.
I wonder about the downwards moving ripple of smoke pouring out of the floors just before the collapse and starting perhaps two dozen floors above the first floors to collapse.
I also wonder why the first floors are collapsing. These towers were designed to cope with ordinary office fires like this, so the 'metal is expanding and pushes out the outer columns' hypothesis does not hold water. And the few beams and columns that may have suffered that fate should not have been sufficient to cause a floor collapse.
 
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Kevin Ryan is NOT an engineer.  He was a chemist.  He was fired by a panel of engineers, for misusing his position at UL, out of his field of expertise.   I do not care how many videos he has made.

I have no idea who Kevin Ryan is.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 5:46:01 PM   
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These towers were designed to cope with ordinary office fires like this, so the 'metal is expanding and pushes out the outer columns' hypothesis does not hold water. And the few beams and columns that may have suffered that fate should not have been sufficient to cause a floor collapse.
 
 
It was NOT an ORDINARY office fire!!! It had a huge high velocity impact.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 5:54:48 PM   
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Why are wasting your time with this?  You can't force sense into people's heads.

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 8:32:48 PM   
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Why are wasting your time with this?  You can't force sense into people's heads.
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i think the real question here is why am i wasting my time!

As far as why is he wasting his time?

Simple.  

Because he does not realize he is arguing with an engineer who comes from a family of engineers that work in mechanical, electroinic, thermal dynamics, heat treating industry and a host of others. :)

Its mainly because he is obviously incapable of doing rudimentary thermal dynamics or force deceleration mathematics.  i would bet you that he cannot even tell you what the design parameters were for the building and what it was designed to withstand.  MIT did and if memory serves the impact was 1/30 of what it took do any real damage to the building.

Its because he can only rely on the work others have done and has no clu as to all the analysis inconsistancies he puts out as biblical, as well as the erroneous knee jerk hip shot answers that were given in his pm bible.

Anyone who takes his position simply didnt or is incapable of doing the math thats incapable of even roughing it in, and has no clu as to the design parameters that skilling was held too.

If einstein said it was controlled demolition he would stand up shout einstien is a scientist and its not is field of expertise.

The basic "roughing it in" thermal dynamics math required is rediculously simple that any high school student can do it.  Of course setting up the problem for the kid would take some level of reasoning that the hs kid may or may not have enough experience with but from what i have seen in pm they would most likely do better than those guys...

The only thing lucky can do is throw his supposed experts at me who have extremely to say the least, flawed analysis.

That is why kevin ryan got fired, same reason kennedy got shot.  He didnt play the game.

Combine that with the knowledge that bush wouldnt have anything what so ever to do with it as can be seen below!

Here are some excerpts from another thread regarding just that subject:

  http://www.freedomdomain.com/skullbones.html

Excerpts from your first link:
They are required as a part of their initiation ceremony to lie naked in a coffin and recite their sexual history. This method allows other members to control the individual by threatening to reveal their innermost secrets if they do not "go-along"

George Bush's father as well as George Bush were and are members of Skull & Bones. A major key figure in Skull & Bones was William Averall Harriman. Pamela Harriman supplied the funds to elect Bill Clinton to office. Harriman was THE major backer of the Democratic Party for over 50 years. Major players in Skull & Bones have been linked to the financing of both world wars and the creation of many think-tanks and Universities in this country.

Bush's father was a major contributor to the "Hitler Project" as well as the build-up of the Soviet Union. Thus, leading to the inevidable World Wars and the eventual set-up of the United Nations in America.


its gets better!

http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm

Excerpt from the hitler project:
Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland `` Bunny '' Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush.

i wish it was only a theory, i would gladly exchange going down as a crackpot if it were only theory.

The point being that this country and the rest of the world is being run by bankers not who we or other countries elect as their leaders.

Now ole lucky wants to trust these boys people with enough power to finance world wars, build up russia, rig elections and walk away thinking they cant pull the wool over his eyes on somehting so simple as wtc by comparison.....well what can i say.



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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 8:46:28 PM   
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i think the real question here is why am i wasting my time!

Do tell.  Why are you wasting your time?

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As far as why is he wasting his time?

Simple.  

Because he does not realize he is arguing with an engineer who comes from a family of engineers that work in mechanical, electroinic, thermal dynamics, heat treating industry and a host of others. :)

If that's true, then why can't you come up with something other than link after link after link to websites run by conspiracy theorists who make their living pushing their agendas as your "proof?"  Surely someone from a family of engineers can do better than that?

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RE: Conspiracy Theories, (tin hat or otherwise) - 1/8/2007 8:56:23 PM   
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i think the real question here is why am i wasting my time!

Do tell.  Why are you wasting your time?

quote:

As far as why is he wasting his time?

Simple.  

Because he does not realize he is arguing with an engineer who comes from a family of engineers that work in mechanical, electroinic, thermal dynamics, heat treating industry and a host of others. :)

If that's true, then why can't you come up with something other than link after link after link to websites run by conspiracy theorists who make their living pushing their agendas as your "proof?"  Surely someone from a family of engineers can do better than that?

~stef


frankly i dont even have to go that far to make my point to another bonafide engineer, (at least so far), but the person on the other end of this informatin has to have the smarts to recognize the difference. no amout of math in the world will show someone who cant at least do rudimentary thermal dynamics math anything, its like a foreign language to them. 

frankly from his posts i dont even think he knows how to even begin setting the problem up or he would have seen my point long time ago.

Why those guys?  Because i like the work they are doing.  i cant say i agree with them on every single point but the overall message like 90% if i had to put a number on it is correct.  i started posting them as an easy way for me to explain this all rather than starting from groud zero and reinventing the wheel over and over.  so strictly for convenience sake.


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