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Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by jfj123
Technically you are correct. We would add the component of TIME.
Do you know how many columns were knocked out when the planes hit, and how many were left intact?
I can bet almost everyone on ATS knows that WTC7 also fell.
And a very disproportionate number of ATS members also believe 9/11 was an inside job. You know, I think there's a correlation here; you may be onto something. The more people know about 9/11, the more likely they are to think it was an inside job,
because it was an inside job, and only ignorant people who don't know much about 9/11 except what they saw on TV, haven't caught on.
Whatever makes you feel more comfortable, but you're still wrong about this whole thing.
Originally posted by jfj123
At some point, the structures were no longer able to redistribute the weight and a global structural failure occurred.
Do you know how many columns were knocked out when the planes hit, and how many were left intact?
Depends on who you believe.
Actually I'm not suggesting that at all
And just because a lot of people believe something, doesn't make it so, or right.
Well then, since you've determined this is so black and white, why not bring your black and white evidence to the proper authorities so they can prosecute the criminals involved.
Originally posted by bsbray11
At some point, the structures were no longer able to redistribute the weight and a global structural failure occurred.
Yes, when the "additional energy" started being released.
Do you know how many columns were knocked out when the planes hit, and how many were left intact?
Depends on who you believe.
I take that to mean "no."
So let me rephrase my question to make sure
Do you know how many exterior columns were severed? (Hint: they were outside the building, people counted them.)
Actually I'm not suggesting that at all
You still can't deny the correlation even if you aren't suggesting a relationship. Knowledge is power.
Well then, since you've determined this is so black and white, why not bring your black and white evidence to the proper authorities so they can prosecute the criminals involved.
You still have no idea what is going on in this country,
but we can come back to it later when you aren't so convinced that the roads here are still paved with gold.
[edit on 25-5-2009 by bsbray11]
Originally posted by jfj123
No additional energy needed to be added but believe what you want.
No it means, "it depends on who you believe.
Do we really need to completely derail this thread so we can count columns insider or outside? SERIOUSLY???
For the purposes of this discussion I'm only referring to WTC 1 and 2.
I never said they were so stop putting words into my mouth.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Ok, so when we start getting to the details of all this, you're going to throw your hands up and suddenly take offense?
Just tell me if you don't WANT to know whether 9/11 was an inside job or not, because believe me, I know a lot of you wouldn't want to hear it even if it WAS the truth (and it is). So just let me know if you don't WANT to know, because that's a big difference. Ignorance is a painful and touchy subject sometimes.
For the purposes of this discussion I'm only referring to WTC 1 and 2.
The "purpose of this discussion" is that 9/11 was an inside job and you can't refer to it like a bunch of Muslims did it and be racist on that count.
I think if I want to mention WTC7, or the fact that it accelerated at the rate of gravity without so much as air resistance,
I never said they were so stop putting words into my mouth.
You must think some distant cousin of the roads being paved with gold, if you think you can go into any court house and accuse federal, military or even foreign entities of something like this and get anywhere with it.
Originally posted by jfj123
No not at all but this is going to be an endless back and forth and it's the wrong thread for it.
Your truth is different from THE TRUTH. You've already decided for sure that the government was behind 9/11-100% and nothing will dissuade you from this.
A bunch of muslim extremists did do it.
Here's a problem with what you said. No matter how 7 fell, air resistance would come into play unless it fell in a complete vacuum. Keep in mind that deep space is not even a complete vacuum.
If the evidence is so black and white as you've suggested, there is no way to cover it up and no way to ignore it.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by jfj123
No not at all but this is going to be an endless back and forth and it's the wrong thread for it.
It wouldn't have to be like this if people would just stop referring to 9/11 as if it were an attack by Muslims.
Because, every time somebody says that, I'm going to do the right thing and correct them.
Your truth is different from THE TRUTH. You've already decided for sure that the government was behind 9/11-100% and nothing will dissuade you from this.
You don't know that,
but then again you apparently don't want to know anything of the other things I'm talking about either.
It's obvious which of us is avoiding the truth.
I'll ask again, how many columns did the impacts take out?
It's a question with a definite answer, that you can find in the FEMA and NIST reports, and there is no controversy here.
Why are you so repulsed by such a simple question?
A bunch of muslim extremists did do it.
The only groups I know that deal with nanoenergetic substances are the Department of Defense, and other Western military interests. Not Muslims.
Here's a problem with what you said. No matter how 7 fell, air resistance would come into play unless it fell in a complete vacuum. Keep in mind that deep space is not even a complete vacuum.
I am well aware of that! Nonetheless, the acceleration of gravity is 9.8m/s^2 and that's exactly what even NIST has measured the building to accelerate at, as well as many other people, including myself (yes, I measured it myself on a couple of different occasions). That IS a problem, and you can't explain it, and neither can anyone else who thinks the building fell by itself.
If the evidence is so black and white as you've suggested, there is no way to cover it up and no way to ignore it.
Yet you are doing just that, right now.
The evidence that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and not vice-versa, is also black and white, yet millions of people believed otherwise vehemently for many, many decades.
Like you said earlier, what a lot of people believe has no bearing on the truth. You were fooled on purpose, that's the whole point,
Originally posted by jfj123
Maybe you're the one that needs to be corrected.
I'll ask again, how many columns did the impacts take out?
What does it matter? Why are you so fixated about this?
It's a question with a definite answer, that you can find in the FEMA and NIST reports, and there is no controversy here.
Correct. And I've read them thoroughly.
It's irrelevant whether the building fell by itself. The point is that regardless what caused the collapse, it didn't fall in a perfect vacuum.
It was proven that the earth revolved around the sun and thus people stopped believing the other way.
You were fooled on purpose, that's the whole point,
Or you were.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by jfj123
Maybe you're the one that needs to be corrected.
Well are you all talk or are we going somewhere?
I'll ask again, how many columns did the impacts take out?
What does it matter? Why are you so fixated about this?
Well, the first time I asked you, it was in response to you saying that the plane impacts doomed the towers from the moment they hit them.
So I'm trying to analyze what led you to this particular conclusion, if anything.
When I asked, you revealed that you apparently think the number of columns taken out is a great mystery,
and then took offense that I was trying to actually get a legitimate answer from you.
I could've asked a lot of other questions, and I'm sure it would go about the same way. Basically I'm asking you to think about all the nonsense you believe, is why I'm asking you these questions, and why they matter.
It's irrelevant whether the building fell by itself. The point is that regardless what caused the collapse, it didn't fall in a perfect vacuum.
Sorry, I can't tell whether you are saying you measured a different acceleration, or you are just having trouble accepting what the numbers imply happened to the building.
I think if I want to mention WTC7, or the fact that it accelerated at the rate of gravity without so much as air resistance,
If all the air was pushed out of the way, just the same as the building itself was, like the (universally agreed-upon) numbers suggest, then that IS relevant to how the building fell.
Specifically, it means its own PE/KE didn't cause it. That means something else was in the building, that did all the work of destroying it, and not the building itself.
Originally posted by jfj123
I'm simply presenting an alternative view point
Do you have any background in building? Architecture? Even analyzing dead and live loads of buildings? I do so before you shoot your mouth off about "the nonsense I believe" you better actually know what you're talking about instead of parroting what you read on a 9/11 "truther" site.
You said the following:
I think if I want to mention WTC7, or the fact that it accelerated at the rate of gravity without so much as air resistance,
I responded to that by saying simply that the building did not fall in a perfect vacuum so there must have been air resistance- ie free fall within 1 atmosphere. You are claiming it fell in a vacuum.
No it isn't relevant as the building could not have fallen in a vacuum.
So the CIA did indeed torture Abu Zubaida, the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to have been waterboarded. So says John Kiriakou, the first former CIA employee directly involved in the questioning of "high-value" al-Qaeda detainees to speak out publicly. He minced no words last week in calling the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" what they are.
"It was like flipping a switch," said Kiriakou about Abu Zubaida's response to being waterboarded. But the al-Qaeda operative's confessions -- descriptions of fantastic plots from a man who intelligence analysts were convinced was mentally ill -- probably didn't give the CIA any actionable intelligence. Of course, we may never know the whole truth, since the CIA destroyed the videotapes of Abu Zubaida's interrogation.
1 Torture worked for the Gestapo.
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Actually, no. Even Hitler's notorious secret police got most of their information from public tips, informers and interagency cooperation. That was still more than enough to let the Gestapo decimate anti-Nazi resistance in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, Russia and the concentration camps.
It's surprising how unsuccessful the Gestapo's brutal efforts were. They failed to break senior leaders of the French, Danish, Polish and German resistance. I've spent more than a decade collecting all the cases of Gestapo torture "successes" in multiple languages; the number is small and the results pathetic, especially compared with the devastating effects of public cooperation and informers.
Truth is, it's surprisingly hard to get anything under torture, true or false. For example, between 1500 and 1750, French prosecutors tried to torture confessions out of 785 individuals. Torture was legal back then, and the records document such practices as the bone-crushing use of splints, pumping stomachs with water until they swelled and pouring boiling oil on the feet. But the number of prisoners who said anything was low, from 3 percent in Paris to 14 percent in Toulouse (an exceptional high). Most of the time, the torturers were unable to get any statement whatsoever.
And such examples could be multiplied. The Japanese fascists, no strangers to torture, said it best in their field manual, which was found in Burma during World War II: They described torture as the clumsiest possible method of gathering intelligence. Like most sensible torturers, they preferred to use torture for intimidation, not information.
Basically he told them whatever he thought they wanted to hear to get them to stop torturing him, regardless of whether or not it was true.
And then the video tapes were destroyed. If they did nothing wrong, why destroy potentially valuable evidence? When is it ever a good idea to destroy evidence in any case but especially a terror case.
Originally posted by Fremd
reply to post by jfj123
Basically he told them whatever he thought they wanted to hear to get them to stop torturing him, regardless of whether or not it was true.
And then the video tapes were destroyed. If they did nothing wrong, why destroy potentially valuable evidence? When is it ever a good idea to destroy evidence in any case but especially a terror case.
that's remarkably interesting.
So did this guy eat lunch with mancow or appear on his radio show?
Is that why we're talking about him?
Originally posted by Fremd
reply to post by jfj123
Basically he told them whatever he thought they wanted to hear to get them to stop torturing him, regardless of whether or not it was true.
And then the video tapes were destroyed. If they did nothing wrong, why destroy potentially valuable evidence? When is it ever a good idea to destroy evidence in any case but especially a terror case.
that's remarkably interesting.
So did this guy eat lunch with mancow or appear on his radio show?