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By John Daly
UPI International Correspondent


Washington, DC, Jun. 13 (UPI) -- Insider notes from United Press International for June 8

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7. Reynolds, who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas A&M University said, "If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling." Reynolds commented from his Texas A&M office, "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings."
 

llkoolkeg

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Everyone knows that the Chills Alien from Area 51 is really to blame. He used his mind-control ray on those poor muslims who were innocently on their way to an Exacto/Stanley Trade Convention.
 

$tinkle

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if you want to howl even more about this, check out what the ya-ya sisterhood is saying over at dummocratiKKK wunderground

i'd offer choice pieces, but something this good has to be appreciated in its entirety
 

Andyman_1970

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Reynolds, who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas A&M University
rrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhttttttttttttt...................when you get a degree in engineering feel free to call me and we'll talk........ :rolleyes:
 

$tinkle

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It is well-known that the hole in the west wing of the Pentagon, less than 18-foot diameter, was too small to accommodate a Boeing 757, but the North Tower’s hole wasn’t big enough for a Boeing 767 either, the alleged widebody airliner used on AA Flight 11 (officially tail number N334AA, FAA-listed as "destroyed"). A Boeing 767 has a wingspan of 155’ 1" (47.6 m) yet the maximum distance across the hole in the North Tower was about 115 feet (35 m), a hole undersized by some 40 feet or 26 percent
who needs an engineering degree? just watch tom & jerry, looking for jerry to wear the dog disguise, which always sends tom running scared thru a wall, leaving a perfect tom-shaped hole.

can't you understand this?
 

Andyman_1970

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It is well-known that the hole in the west wing of the Pentagon, less than 18-foot diameter, was too small to accommodate a Boeing 757, but the North Tower’s hole wasn’t big enough for a Boeing 767 either, the alleged widebody airliner used on AA Flight 11 (officially tail number N334AA, FAA-listed as "destroyed"). A Boeing 767 has a wingspan of 155’ 1" (47.6 m) yet the maximum distance across the hole in the North Tower was about 115 feet (35 m), a hole undersized by some 40 feet or 26 percent
hhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm...........let me think, which is stronger, steel or aluminum???? I guess they faked the surveliance video of that 757 impacting the ground just before hitting the side of the Pentagon...........that couldn't have disipated some of the energy..................nah couldn't have........ :nuts:
 

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Andyman_1970 said:
hhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm...........let me think, which is stronger, steel or aluminum???? I guess they faked the surveliance video of that 757 impacting the ground just before hitting the side of the Pentagon...........that couldn't have disipated some of the energy..................nah couldn't have........ :nuts:
Yeah I know... People always say there was not enough aircraft parts to be a crash site. Ever seen a plane crash in real life...I have. I watched a Beechcraft Bonanza crash into a golf course at my first job flying. Other than the prop that snapped off before it hit the ground we could not even tell a plane had hit the ground. Just a small blackened 7-10ft hole about 4 ft deep. There is an old airforce film showing an F-4 fighter hitting a cinderblock wall doing over 500 mph. It TOTALLY atomized the ENTIRE aircraft... NOTHING LEFT!!!!
 

Changleen

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Andyman_1970 said:
hhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm...........let me think, which is stronger, steel or aluminum???? I guess they faked the surveliance video of that 757 impacting the ground just before hitting the side of the Pentagon...........that couldn't have disipated some of the energy..................nah couldn't have........ :nuts:
I'd like to see such a video.
 

Changleen

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Andyman_1970 said:
rrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhttttttttttttt...................when you get a degree in engineering feel free to call me and we'll talk........ :rolleyes:
I have a degree in Engineering.
 

Changleen

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I have to say I'm really impressed with the high quality of your counter-arguments against the controlled demolition theory. However I suppose people who have conditioned themselves into blind belief structures over the years are the last people who are ever going to have the balls to actually question their leaders and examine the evidence for themselves.

Anyone care to explain to me how the Jet fuel weakened the towers enough to cause their collapse given that it doesn't burn hot enough?

Anyone care to comment on the fact that despite that the bottom 2/3 of the towers suffered no damage, they offered no resistance to the fall of the upper section?

Anyone care to comment on the collapse of WTC7 8 hours later?

You guys are all 'Yeah, right' and 'huh huh look at the conspiricy nut' but you have nothing to discount any of these points other than half cocked explanations carried out by interested parties, (which are mostly disputed by serious independant critics) and your own blindly held beliefs.
 

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Changleen said:
Anyone care to explain to me how the Jet fuel weakened the towers enough to cause their collapse given that it doesn't burn hot enough?
What is the temperature of Jet Fuel burning? What is the melting point of steel girders?

Changleen said:
Anyone care to comment on the fact that despite that the bottom 2/3 of the towers suffered no damage, they offered no resistance to the fall of the upper section?
What is the weight of the top third of the Tower? How much weight is the bottom 2/3 of the Tower is design to hold up if you collapse the weight of the top third on it?

Changleen said:
Anyone care to comment on the collapse of WTC7 8 hours later?
What hit it? How much diesel fuel burnt before the collapse?

Changleen said:
You guys are all 'Yeah, right' and 'huh huh look at the conspiricy nut' but you have nothing to discount any of these points other than half cocked explanations carried out by interested parties, (which are mostly disputed by serious independant critics) and your own blindly held beliefs.
I should point out that all I know about you Changleen is that you post a lot in the PD forum. So this is more of a personal thing for me and not a criticism of you or your opinions.

One night after lots of drinking I had a knockdown argument with a good friend over the WTC. We were in NY at the time, so that was the backdrop. And he thought there was a conspiracy and I did not.

One thing I learned from this argument (besides don't drink and argue) is that conspiracy theorists offer no real proof. All they can do is point out the flaws in the "accepted theories" and simply pose questions most of us cannot answer.

I did not read the FEMA report, and I have no definitive answer to what happened, because I am not a terrorist or a person inside the WTC on 9/11. I saw what we all saw on TV, and call me a fool, but it is easy to believe a jet plane crashing into a building would cause it to collapse.

I did look over one site questioning WTC7. He disputed pictures, the designs of building fuel pumps, and his conclusion was the report about the collapse was a joke. I only skimmed even just the highlights, and he seemed like a fool to me.

Again, you can call me an idiot for not questioning the government more. I guess I just don't have the time or the energy to do it.
 

MMike

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I do not know the temperature of burning jet fuel off hand. I also never recall hearing anything about the girders actually melting. However it certainly would be hot enough to heat them to glowing (because burning WOOD can do that), which would remove any kind of heat treatment they would have had. And anyone who has heated a steel bar with an oxyacetylene torch can tell you how easy it is to bend once it's glowing red. The girders didn't need to melt.

And as for the two thirds holding up the one third....come on. If you have a degree in engineering, you should understand transients. One floor goes at a time. I believe it's called pancaking. One floor goes, it fall to the next one, the impact force plus the weight is imparted on the lower floor...which causes and even larger impact and larger weight....the ituation gets worse and worse. And down she comes.....
 

Andyman_1970

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Changleen said:
Anyone care to comment on the collapse of WTC7 8 hours later?
Huh let me think a huge building right next to it collapsed - you think some rather large derbis from that rather large building damaged WTC 7, no to mention the fire...........Chang you may have an engineering degree, but you sure aren't sounding like one on this subject........ :confused:
 

Andyman_1970

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Changleen said:
Anyone care to explain to me how the Jet fuel weakened the towers enough to cause their collapse given that it doesn't burn hot enough?
Ok engineer, how hot does structural hot rolled steel have to burn for it to begin to loose it's strength characteristics? Also, those floors were made up of I beams they were light weight trusses - so is more heat required or less heat to weaken a truss over an I beam of of similar weight bearing characteristics?

Changleen said:
Anyone care to comment on the fact that despite that the bottom 2/3 of the towers suffered no damage, they offered no resistance to the fall of the upper section?
See Mike's "pancake" comments...................

If you think I'm walking in lock step with some government agency or ideology you're sadly mistaken

Changleen said:
You guys are all 'Yeah, right' and 'huh huh look at the conspiricy nut' but you have nothing to discount any of these points other than half cocked explanations carried out by interested parties, (which are mostly disputed by serious independant critics) and your own blindly held beliefs.
The only think the "other side" has offered up is a bunch of rhetoric, this joker from Texas A&M isn't even a scientist or a science background - if I'm going to consider anything I'm certainly going to have to be from someone or a party that has the credentials to back up what they were saying rather than some frothing criminal justice prof.......I'm from Missouri, you're gonna have to "show me".
 

$tinkle

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Changleen said:
I have a degree in Engineering.
a few quickies:
  • give it back.
  • bush has degrees from harvard & yale (yeah, i know it hurts)
  • from what school (so that we may look up the accreditation)?
in the interest of humble full disclosure, i am one class short of graduating (this fall) from the university of colorado (ABET accredited) w/ a bachelors in engineering (computer science major). I write that to expose that having a degree in engineering doesn't make one a proper engineer. Additionally, there're other certs an engineer could obtain to become proper/fully vested - someone will chime in w/ my missing details.
 

Damn True

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I worked the crash of the KAL flight that went CFIT on approach to Guam and we almost completely rebuilt that 747 nearly every bit of it was recovered. However, I have also been at crash sites in which you had no idea if the source of the smoking hole was either aircraft or meteor.
 

$tinkle

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lew rockwell has thoughts on this as well; unfortunately, they aren't his usual cogent analysis.

to wit:
Photos show a stable, motionless North Tower (WTC 1) after the damage suffered at 8:46 am and the South Tower after its 9:03 am impact. If we focus on the North Tower, close examination of photos reveals arguably "minor" rather than "severe" damage in the North Tower and its perimeter columns.
maybe i should show him photos of me launching off my bike, which suggest that although airborne, i am nonetheless stable & motionless. Then, i'll take a picture of his head, thus proving he doesn't have a brain, as it's not visible.
 

Damn True

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Between a rock and a hard place.
The maximum adibatic combustion temp for JP-8 is 2300K. JP-8 is a military grade aviation fuel that contains higher amounts of corrosion inhibitors, anti-ice additives, lubricants and flash point reducers. The jetliners that hit the WTC were fueled with Jet A-1. I can't find the the MA for Jet A-1 but I do know that since Jet A-1 contains very little of the above listed additives and because it is a more pure fuel burns hotter.

Even if the fuel was burning at 1/2 of MA (maximum adibatic) the temp would be more than hot enough to degrade heat treatment on the sturctural members of the WTC.

Chang, you really ought to get your info from people who know what they are talking about in regard to this stuff rather than from crackpot internet conspiracy theorists. It is your "blind belief structure" based on nonsense provided by wacko's that is the real danger here.