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  • B BoneSoft

    Matthew Faithfull wrote:

    Ruled out by the fact that pancaking would simply have been too slow to match the observed collapse time

    I dunno, 9.8 m/s^2 with momentum seems to go a long way towards explaining the collapse time. A lot more plausible than to assume the government orchestrated the hijackings in tandem with wired explosives for the purpose of... knocking over Afghanistan?


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    Matthew Faithfull
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    BoneSoft wrote:

    9.8 m/s^2 with momentum seems to go a long way towards explaining the collapse time.

    You might have noticed that things fall with that accelaration in a vacuum, they tend to fall a teenie bit more slowly through concrete and steel. By the way I'm not assuming anything, merely commenting that this ridiculous report is such a blatant white-wash that it adds fuel to the conspiracy fires rather than putting them out with a genuine honest investigation which addresses the evidence and explain it without resorting to hand waving, magic, unexplained phenomena and new physics.

    "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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      You just keep telling yourself that - or start taking your meds again.

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      Matthew Faithfull
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      I don't think an occassional vitamin supplement is going to make your state of denial any less obvious. That would take something a good deal stronger. :laugh:

      "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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        I don't think an occassional vitamin supplement is going to make your state of denial any less obvious. That would take something a good deal stronger. :laugh:

        "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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        Matthew Faithfull wrote:

        I don't think an occassional vitamin supplement is going to make your state of denial any less obvious.

        Geeze Matthew, as a putdown, that really sucked.

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          Shh - you aren't supposed to actually read the report, just jump to wild conclusions.

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          led mike
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          Trollslayer wrote:

          Shh - you aren't supposed to actually read the report, just jump to wild conclusions.

          Of course. This is a site for software developers after all, where many believe you aren't supposed to actually read the documentation. :laugh:

          led mike

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            Matthew Faithfull wrote:

            I don't think an occassional vitamin supplement is going to make your state of denial any less obvious.

            Geeze Matthew, as a putdown, that really sucked.

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            Mike Gaskey
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            Oakman wrote:

            as a putdown, that really sucked.

            clap, clap, clap ...

            Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

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              Oakman wrote:

              triggering the pancaked collapse.

              Which did not occur. Ruled out by the fact that pancaking would simply have been too slow to match the observed collapse time and could not have occured symetrically in an asymetrically reinforced building with asymetrical fires. Even without the unexplained molten metal and eye witness testimonies of multiple eplosions and a demolition countdown this would be a pathetically inadequate explanation. Albeit that they had next to no physical evidence to go on as the crime scene was cleared without forensic examination.

              "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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              Shog9 0
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              Matthew Faithfull wrote:

              Ruled out by the fact that pancaking would simply have been too slow

              You've obviously never seen me making pancakes... :-\

              Citizen 20.1.01

              'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

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                BoneSoft wrote:

                9.8 m/s^2 with momentum seems to go a long way towards explaining the collapse time.

                You might have noticed that things fall with that accelaration in a vacuum, they tend to fall a teenie bit more slowly through concrete and steel. By the way I'm not assuming anything, merely commenting that this ridiculous report is such a blatant white-wash that it adds fuel to the conspiracy fires rather than putting them out with a genuine honest investigation which addresses the evidence and explain it without resorting to hand waving, magic, unexplained phenomena and new physics.

                "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                James L Thomson
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                Matthew Faithfull wrote:

                without resorting to hand waving, magic, unexplained phenomena and new physics.

                Where did they resort to that? Give specific examples citing the page number of the report and the exact mistake that these engineers made, if you please. Otherwise I'll just have to write you off as one more crank with no knowledge of physics who hasn't even bothered to read the report. Bah, who am I kidding. I've already written you off, but feel free to prove me wrong.

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                  So in the US NIST has finally released its report on why World Trade Center building 7 collapsed into its own footprint in around 7 seconds on the afternoon of Sept 11 2001. Thermal expansion hey, who would have thunk it. Frankly who would believe it? :suss:

                  "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                  Matthew Faithfull wrote:

                  Frankly who would believe it?

                  I'll buy it. Not because i have any particular knowledge of the subject (i don't), or because i have a good amount of faith in my Gov't (ditto)... I'll believe it because frankly there are more important things to worry about.

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                    Trollslayer wrote:

                    Shh - you aren't supposed to actually read the report, just jump to wild conclusions.

                    Of course. This is a site for software developers after all, where many believe you aren't supposed to actually read the documentation. :laugh:

                    led mike

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                    BoneSoft
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                    And as such, I would imagine it might be frequented by management as well. So there's likely a mix of irrational incompetents here too. Hmm, I wonder what Iliot's position is... We know he's not much of a programmer, unless I'm thinking of another irrational incompetent.


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                      BoneSoft wrote:

                      9.8 m/s^2 with momentum seems to go a long way towards explaining the collapse time.

                      You might have noticed that things fall with that accelaration in a vacuum, they tend to fall a teenie bit more slowly through concrete and steel. By the way I'm not assuming anything, merely commenting that this ridiculous report is such a blatant white-wash that it adds fuel to the conspiracy fires rather than putting them out with a genuine honest investigation which addresses the evidence and explain it without resorting to hand waving, magic, unexplained phenomena and new physics.

                      "The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)

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                      BoneSoft
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                      Ah well, to each his own. Maybe someday I'll be watching a documentary thinking, "wow, Matthew was right." Or maybe the world will end on Dec 21 2012 and we'll never know.


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                        Shh - you aren't supposed to actually read the report, just jump to wild conclusions.

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                        Paul Conrad
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                        Trollslayer wrote:

                        just jump to wild conclusions

                        :laugh::laugh::laugh: I don't need to. I remember watching the towers fall that day, and it was pretty obvious what was the cause.

                        "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                          Trollslayer wrote:

                          Shh - you aren't supposed to actually read the report, just jump to wild conclusions.

                          Of course. This is a site for software developers after all, where many believe you aren't supposed to actually read the documentation. :laugh:

                          led mike

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                          Paul Conrad
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                          led mike wrote:

                          you aren't supposed to actually read the documentation

                          Documentation? What documentation? :laugh:

                          "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                            Matthew Faithfull wrote:

                            Frankly who would believe it?

                            I'll buy it. Not because i have any particular knowledge of the subject (i don't), or because i have a good amount of faith in my Gov't (ditto)... I'll believe it because frankly there are more important things to worry about.

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                            'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

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                            bulg
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                            like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview...

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                              Ah well, to each his own. Maybe someday I'll be watching a documentary thinking, "wow, Matthew was right." Or maybe the world will end on Dec 21 2012 and we'll never know.


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                              Paul Conrad
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                              BoneSoft wrote:

                              world will end on Dec 21 2012 and we'll never know.

                              After that date, who would really care? I plan on living life to its fullest everyday upto that date, and including that day, and afterwards. Nothings going to happen.

                              "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview...

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                                Oakman
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                                bulg wrote:

                                like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview

                                Matthew probably has a beanie for that, too

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                                  like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview...

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                                  Shog9 0
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                                  Well... no. :)

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                                    Matthew Faithfull wrote:

                                    Ruled out by the fact that pancaking would simply have been too slow

                                    You've obviously never seen me making pancakes... :-\

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                                    Paul Conrad
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                                    :laugh: That's funny :) I was beginning to think those guys were proof there are yetis out there.

                                    "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                      Trollslayer wrote:

                                      just jump to wild conclusions

                                      :laugh::laugh::laugh: I don't need to. I remember watching the towers fall that day, and it was pretty obvious what was the cause.

                                      "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                      BoneSoft
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                                      Paul Conrad wrote:

                                      and it was pretty obvious what was the cause

                                      I couldn't tell for sure what you were agreeing to there.


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                                        BoneSoft wrote:

                                        world will end on Dec 21 2012 and we'll never know.

                                        After that date, who would really care? I plan on living life to its fullest everyday upto that date, and including that day, and afterwards. Nothings going to happen.

                                        "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                        BoneSoft
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                                        Paul Conrad wrote:

                                        Nothings going to happen

                                        Of course not. It's a running joke in the office. Helps dodge some deadline discussions ;P


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                                          Paul Conrad wrote:

                                          and it was pretty obvious what was the cause

                                          I couldn't tell for sure what you were agreeing to there.


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                                          Paul Conrad
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                                          Caused by airplanes being rammed into the building and the burning jet fuel. Sorry, I'm not a conspiracy theorist...

                                          "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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