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Originally posted by impressme
And would that include Bush & Cheney?
Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
What exactly are 90,000 L gallons? Is it litres or gallons? It cannot be both. This report was obviously written by an individual who either does not know the difference between litres and gallons or by someone who does not know how to proofread. But, of course, we are to assume he knows how the buildings collapsed?
90,000 Litres of jet fuel equals approximately 23,775 gallons. Why would there be 23,775 gallons of fuel on an airplane traveling cross country, a trip which only requires approximately 9,000 gallons, according to the following story? Are airlines in the business of overloading their planes with fuel and wasting more fuel due to the increased weight this causes?
Secondly, the absurd 90,000 litre estimate does not take into account the approximate one hour flying time the plane was in the air prior to impact with the building.
In conclusion, this report was written by a moron. If he cannot even get the correct quantity of fuel involved, how can he even begin to theorize about how the building collapsed? If you're going to try and pull the wool over people's eyes, at least get your damn facts straight!
reply to post by rush969
And would that include Bush & Cheney?
Is it something in my writting?
Whom ever it might be, means anybody. OK?
Isn´t that clear enough? JEEEZZ......!!!!
Here you want to be funny, how many pilots do you need to tell you that commercial airliners practically fly on their own after a pilot programs the onboard computers in the cockpit.
A few thousand pilots, not a couple hundred.
A few thousand 9/11 relatives, not a few hundred.
How many?
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
MIT materials engineering professor's report on the wtc collapse
I consider this to be irrefutable because despite all the times I posted it, not one person has been able to refute it.
So please, tell me why his report is wrong.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Meaning the world is perfect and everyone always does exactly what they are idealistically supposed to in this perfect world, without exception, of course.
Getting a paper into a journal isn't "gonna cut it," either.
There have already been papers in journals
No one really needs to. The TM needs to put doubt about the NIST report into SE's heads.
The relevance of structural engineers here is being extremely over-emphasized. I notice you are apparently not familiar with the technical fields yourself, but CE's and SE's only work with static systems. Metallurgists would be more relevant to the study of heating steel to deformation or those types of things. Dynamicists are needed to analyze moving, chaotic systems. The only motions a CE or SE will commonly study are things like simple machines, basically mechanical engineering.
The internet has been wonderful for allowing free exchange of information, yes.
It's a real shame that you don't get to decide who matters and who doesn't for anyone other than yourself.
Right, so you are both equally ignorant on that particular subject.
If you are seriously going to tell me that a man who obviously knows more about how structures behave than you do is a complete nut job, then you might as well stop trying to tell me any damned thing about any building.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
I'm sorry, but your critique is largely silly. It makes no mention of the stated levels of heating necessary for structural failure, it makes no mention of the unique design of the towers,
and it makes no mention of the uneven heating which caused irregular stretching and contraction of the steel, all of which are core arguments in his report.
Your beef seems to be entirely over obvious typos, which is rather dangerous ground, seeing how none of us here are experts in spelling and grammar, certainly not me and definitely not you. What say you read it once more and then try it again.
FYI if you don't agree with Thomas Eagar, fine, but calling him a moron is being childish, and only impacts your credibility, not his.
Originally posted by Nutter
His credibility would go a lot longer if he had:
a. Included the core structure in his theory.
Originally posted by Nutter
Irregular strectching and contraction of steel causes symmetrical collapse? How so?
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
What were you saying?
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
Originally posted by Nutter
Irregular strectching and contraction of steel causes symmetrical collapse? How so?
www.tms.org...
"First, the building is not solid; it is 95 percent air and, hence, can implode onto itself. "
Explained.
Originally posted by impressme
So, you do agree that means Bush & Cheney.
Here you want to be funny, how many pilots do you need to tell you that commercial airliners practically fly on their own after a pilot programs the onboard computers in the cockpit.
Originally posted by Nutter
If you really think that that sentence explains it,
Originally posted by Nutter
Who do you believe Joey? Eager or NIST?
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
Originally posted by Nutter
If you really think that that sentence explains it,
I don't.
It's meant to start a logical thinking process in you, so that you can understand the implications of it.
I see that didn't happen.
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
However, he gets other things right, and you misrepresent what he said - "The floor below (with its 1,300 t design capacity) could not support the roughly 45,000 t of ten floors (or more) above crashing down on these angle clips. This started the domino effect "
As the joists on one or two of the most heavily burned floors gave way and the outer box columns began to bow outward, the floors above them also fell.
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
NIST.
I believe Eager gets several things wrong.
Originally posted by Swing Dangler
Now if you could answer the OP, that would be wonderful! Thanks!