Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-27 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
leaking pen wrote: this is not true. we have footage that shows the collapse of the inside of the building for the first few seconds, and arial footage showing it from the inside. Really! I didn't realize that. Is it possible to "line up" the view from the inside and the images from the o

[Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-27 Thread Steven Vincent Johnson
It is interesting that many can not seem rid themselves of a nagging suspicion that explosives had to have been strategically placed (in advance) on the specific WTC floors that the passenger jets slammed into. I'm reminded of an old saying: "Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rop

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-27 Thread leaking pen
this is not true. we have footage that shows the collapse of the inside of the building for the first few seconds, and arial footage showing it from the inside. On 2/27/07, Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Palmer wrote: > I do not think they went down in freefall, after a

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-27 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Nick Palmer wrote: I do not think they went down in freefall, after a few seconds the rate looks like it nearly stabilises as the resistance from the undamaged structure below just about cancels the acceleration of the mass above - I suspect this figure of 9 or 10 seconds need to be examined

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-27 Thread Nick Palmer
I do not think they went down in freefall, after a few seconds the rate looks like it nearly stabilises as the resistance from the undamaged structure below just about cancels the acceleration of the mass above - I suspect this figure of 9 or 10 seconds need to be examined from the videos and

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Steck wrote: >ANY resistance from 'pan caking' or structural failure would have shown up >in a significant increase in collapse time... several orders of magnitude >more. That is incorrect. Many buildings have collapsed, on purpose and by accident, and they fall nearly as quickly as with a

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-26 Thread John Steck
-j -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:50 AM To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? Let me say something here, people: This is a science forum. Please apply a modicum of quantitative thinking, basic ph

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread John Berry
On 2/22/07, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh dear it's unbelievable one can believe such things. My remote controlled live whales scheme pales in comparison :) Oh look, your rhetoric made solid evidence disappear. *poof* Good job you don't have to deal with all those nasty facts.

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Michel Jullian
Oh dear it's unbelievable one can believe such things. My remote controlled live whales scheme pales in comparison :) Michel - Original Message - From: "John Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: No Therm

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Berry wrote: There were also reports of two of the planes landing safely at an airport, yes really. (according to the Mayor anyway: http://www.rense.com/general68/says.htm) The transponder signals were turned off over an airport and turned back on, but it would not have been possible fo

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread John Berry
Well I must say at first I didn't believe it, but when you look at the evidence the planes were clearly switched. It starts off with the boarding of some of the flights, there were oddities with different gates and such, very confusing, the details of one of the planes was given, it was boarding

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Zell, Chris
esday, February 21, 2007 1:14 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? That's my point exactly. What I am saying has solid evidence to back it up, and you counter with 'Bush is a twit'. Which while obviously true, no one is claiming he did any of the tec

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
leaking pen wrote: Umm, so, if there were no suicide pilots, who was flying? The planes were remote controlled, by CIA agents hiding behind the grassy knoll, of course. Haven't you been following the discussion? You've really gotta get with the program, Pen. The passengers were all off

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Jed, you have said more than once that (nearly) all the expert engineers /knew/ it would collapse. That's absolutely not what I read in the mainstream press reports . . . These reports were premature, and wrong. Later interviews and testimony by experts revealed th

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Michel Jullian
Stranger and stranger. So how do you qualify the pilots, if not suicide pilots? Michel - Original Message - From: "John Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? > That's my point exactly. &

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread leaking pen
Umm, so, if there were no suicide pilots, who was flying? On 2/21/07, John Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's my point exactly. What I am saying has solid evidence to back it up, and you counter with 'Bush is a twit'. Which while obviously true, no one is claiming he did any of the technic

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread John Berry
That's my point exactly. What I am saying has solid evidence to back it up, and you counter with 'Bush is a twit'. Which while obviously true, no one is claiming he did any of the technical stuff, members of the intelligence community did that. Further no one is claiming there were suicide pilots

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread John Berry
That's my point exactly. What I am saying has solid evidence to back it up, and you counter with 'Bush is a twit'. Which while obviously true, no one is claiming he did any of the technical stuff, members of the intelligence community did that. Further no one is claiming there were suicide pilots

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
Zell, Chris wrote: More than that, I doubt the WTC buildings were as well built as the Empire State building - when it survived A collision with a WWII vintage bomber. That is incorrect. The Towers were far stronger and better built than the Empire State building. If you were to try to build

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-21 Thread Zell, Chris
Perhaps the answer lies in the Monty Python sketch in which a building is maintained by hypnosis. The problem with conspiracies is the obvious contradiction with real world government competence. Take a good look at Iraq or the intellectual depth of Bush and reason accordingly. I don't see any re

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
Indeed, i recall experts being brought on teh air as the towers were burning stating they were designed to take this and more. my understanding the engineers who designed and built the suckers were shocked when they fell. On 2/20/07, Stephen A. Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jed Rothwell

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: I wrote: PROBLEM: How do you know what airplane is going to hit? That is impossible to predict! Some other problems, equally severe, equally obvious: How do you make the thermite work when there are thousands of gallons of flaming kerosene around it, collapsing walls,

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
also, 5k pounds of thermite would be required to bring it down on its own. thats not the conspiracy theory. the theory is that the thermite was used to melt the concrete and weaken teh steal, allowing the rest of the natural damage from the plane to do it. that requires substantially less therm

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Berry writes: >Actually it has been pointed out that there was a light (laser?) beam >visible on the building which was probably used for painting the taget . . . These were amateur pilots. An experienced pilot would have great difficulty doing that. Many of the Japanese kamikaze pilots mis

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread John Berry
/21/07, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? > I meant "what floor the airplane is going to hit."

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? > I meant "what floor the airplane is going to hit." Sorry about that. Err, I haven't followed the deb

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: PROBLEM: How do you know what airplane is going to hit? I meant "what floor the airplane is going to hit." Sorry about that. Did he conclude the building was brought down by explosives? Then he is a flake with a PhD, like Steve Jones. Why do we need that kind of comment in a seri

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: PROBLEM: How do you know what airplane is going to hit? That is impossible to predict! Some other problems, equally severe, equally obvious: How do you make the thermite work when there are thousands of gallons of flaming kerosene around it, collapsing walls, no remaining telephone

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
of course, the traces of thermite are , again, iron, aluminum, and the oxides of each. ohh, and high heat. i think its safe to say the site was FULL of said materials. (besides, the sheared angle of the broken girder looks more like a shaped charge explosive cutting through. which would have b

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Zell, Chris
07 4:40 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? I have been sitting back in total OH!! over this thread. I have even had Night Mares ('Scientists Gone Wild') SO if I understand what has been going on, (Maybe) It's felt the Bush Admin is implementing a what?

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene wrote: Exactly. Anyone who says the NIST report somehow eliminated thermite as contributory agent is seriously in error. They never considered it at all. From the NIST site: Did the NIST investigation look for evidence of the WTC towers being brought down by

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
Stiffler Scientific wrote: I can not say it more clearly, this is "CRAP" Agreed. And who needs a flame war on top of "crap." This is my last posting on this subject. Jones

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
Yes, thermite, at least the more comonly used stuff, is iron II oxide and aluminum powder. it reduces the aluminum to aluminum oxide, and creates molten iron. So you get molten iron, which cools black and lumpy, and you get a blackish purplish slag laying on top of it, which is the aluminum oxid

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Exactly. Anyone who says the NIST report somehow eliminated thermite as contributory agent is seriously in error. They never considered it at all. From the NIST site: Did the NIST investigation look for evidence of the WTC towers being brought down by controlled demolition

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Stiffler Scientific
nce? I can not say it more clearly, this is "CRAP" > -Original Message- > From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 3:16 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? > > > leaking pen wrote: > &

[Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
leaking pen wrote: not a skeptic, but, with the flow inside and out of the girder almost even, that one looks more like it sheared off at an angle, and then molten metal dripped over it. Exactly. Anyone who says the NIST report somehow eliminated thermite as contributory agent is seriously in