John Berry wrote:
And what of WTC 7?
It is the only building to come down due to fire! Ever!
What is that supposed to mean? Steel frame buildings are easy to
destroy with fire. Back in the 1960s, when dad and his friends at the
National Bureau of Standards used to burn down steel frame buildings
on purpose, they found these building were actually more vulnerable
than wooden ones. They investigated many similar accidental failures,
and improved the standards.
And it wasn't a case of it being badly damaged by the fall of the
WTC towers because the other smaller buildings around it very badly
damaged (understatement) remained standing.
But what of the bone fragments found on the roofs of distant
buildings, are we meant to believe that this can be caused by a
building in free fall?
And as already mention people injured in an explosion in the basement.
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I can come up with about a hundred similar sounding urban myths about
cold fusion and zero-point energy: that some monastery in Europe is
running on a magnet powered motor, that the government has suppressed
knowledge of super carburetors, that Toyota factory forklifts run
with cold fusion power.
This is the kind of conspiracy theory nonsense is peddled by people
who are certain that cold fusion is fraud, and also by those at the
opposite extreme who are convinced that it is being suppressed by the
government. Both sides are based on extreme notions about how the
world works, such as the idea that experts cannot be trusted to do
what they are trained to do, or they know nothing, or that powerful
officials can fool, frighten, or buy off hundreds or electrochemists
or thousands of structural engineers world-wide. That is simply out
of the question. There is no chance all these experts are wrong or
bamboozled. Uninformed idiots such as Robert Park and Steve Jones
make such huge mistakes, but experts do not. If they did, bridges and
buildings would collapse all over town on their own, and the Internet
and phone network would fail every ten minutes.
Reality makes for dull reading. It is not interesting to know that
cold fusion has been attacked and ineptly suppressed by people such
as Robert Park simply because they are closed-minded fools.
- Jed
