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Originally posted by network dude
Maybe you could look into the Shanksville thing as well.
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Originally posted by johndoex
edit to add: Mods, i know our posts are off topic, but please consider a split before a delete... thank you
Originally posted by johndoex
A 757 reported to have caused the damage at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 is analyzed based on topography, obstacles, flight data, physics, and witness statements.
Originally posted by ipsedixit
Excellent video. Congratulations on all the hard work. I hope that it pays off in court one day, when various members of the Bush administration and the armed forces and their assistants are finally indicted.
In the mean time I hope that people you know and trust are setting up their networks of safe houses to get you guys out of the country if/when the mass arrests start.
Originally posted by pinch
Too bad it isn't verified or validated as correct or has any of the other elements of a professional model or simulation that is used for discovery, analysis or demonstration purposes.
But who cares? It looks good!
Originally posted by jthomas
have refused for over two years to interview any of the over 1,000 people with direct access to the wreckage inside the Pentagon,
Originally posted by ipsedixit
I hope that knowledgeable people on this forum will give that a try. I hope we get some solid stuff, no ad hominems, no jailhouse lawyer smarm.
Bold mine.
One area affecting the potential return on investment in M&S is credibility. Lack of M&S credibility can severely constrain M&S uses - and hence limit the possible payoff from using M&S. Many people consider computer models a new plateau in the art of deception. Brian Arthur, an economist from Stanford University, captures a common perception by noting that, early in his career, he believed "by and large people who couldn't think analytically resorted to computer simulations...[and] that you could prove anything you wanted by tweaking the assumptions deep in your model." Computer M&S are permeating every discipline and are being accepted as necessary tools, but the use of those M&S must be watched carefully.
Originally posted by pinch
In addition, I haven't seen anything anywhere that states with authority that this data is indeed the final, unambiguous and definitive data set from the AA77 FDR. PffT has provided no documentation, no official correspondence, nothing with the stamp of legitimacy regarding the data.
Originally posted by pinch
That would indeed help, but what Captain Bob really needs to do is have the organization that is responsible for the data verify and validate his usage/interpretation of the data in his simulation.
This quote exemplifies something I have been talking about for a while regarding this simulation:
Bold mine.
One area affecting the potential return on investment in M&S is credibility. Lack of M&S credibility can severely constrain M&S uses - and hence limit the possible payoff from using M&S. Many people consider computer models a new plateau in the art of deception. Brian Arthur, an economist from Stanford University, captures a common perception by noting that, early in his career, he believed "by and large people who couldn't think analytically resorted to computer simulations...[and] that you could prove anything you wanted by tweaking the assumptions deep in your model." Computer M&S are permeating every discipline and are being accepted as necessary tools, but the use of those M&S must be watched carefully.
Anyone can take any data from anything and build a simulation. How that data is used and interpreted and afterward, what the simulation says/does is the core of Captain Bob's dilemma, which boils down to professional "credibility".
It has been established that the data in the flight data recorder stopped at a specific point before impact. Anything after that point in time is speculation, and that speculation can be twisted or shaped to fit anyone's desires. In addition, I haven't seen anything anywhere that states with authority that this data is indeed the final, unambiguous and definitive data set from the AA77 FDR. PffT has provided no documentation, no official correspondence, nothing with the stamp of legitimacy regarding the data.
Further, I am in no way, shape or form prepared to accept Captain Bob's nor his group of aviation "professionals" assurance that his interpretation of the data is accurate.
If Captain Bob was serious about this "simulation" being an accurate and credible representation of events, he would submit the sim to an outside professional organization that is experienced in FDR particulars and simulation development from same.
This simulation, however, is not designed for professional analysis, for the above reasons. What it is designed for is the un-aviation-educated layman, using slick graphics and images with a haunting melody playing in the background with the intention of trying to sway people towards his line of thinking. The fact that some here on ATS have gushed over this thing with compliments such as "Excellent video!" and "Great Job, Rob!" is prima facie evidence of this.This sim wouldn't make it past the first day in court is it were to be introduced as a valid and verified simulation of what happened.
ipsedixit
Like it or not, these issues are in the court of public opinion because that is where the Bush administration chose to make it's case. In that court the Bush team is getting shellacked.
Originally posted by tezzajw
Yet at the same time you don't require any documented proof from the government to prove that the alleged wreckage belongs to AA77?
Originally posted by SPreston
ipsedixit
Like it or not, these issues are in the court of public opinion because that is where the Bush administration chose to make it's case. In that court the Bush team is getting shellacked.
Indeed. The Bush Regime is an administration based on lie after lie after lie. Every person in the entire world has the right to suspect that anything coming out of the Bush Regime is a lie.