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Originally posted by pteridine
I have taken up Turbo's challenge, just not the way he expected it.
Your taste in military music is abysmal. I didn't listen to Dixie and never liked it, even though it was written by an Ohioan. No wonder the South lost with a song like that.
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
Oh, I see. So you're a cheerleader, and have nothing to add yourself.
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
you just direct me to other people. Yeah, you definitely know what you're talking about.
Originally posted by SteveR
I will ask again. Perhaps you will answer this time. Why is there chips of thermite in the dust?
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
And then when it comes to, "Why hasn't anyone else published another peer-reviewed paper to "debunk" Jones academically?"
It's because, "Oh, well you see, nobody REALLY cares about him..." Even though hundreds of you spend hours every day arguing over his work?
[edit on 21-8-2010 by VirginiaRisesYetAgain]
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
And then when it comes to, "Why hasn't anyone else published another peer-reviewed paper to "debunk" Jones academically?"
So the paper is important because Pteridine is willing to talk about it?
Face it, outside a dwindling few on the internet nobody has heard of Jones' work
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
I don't care about your conventional definitions of thermite. This stuff is what it is, and it isn't paint.
Originally posted by SteveR
I'm not assuming it is the paint applied to the columns. It may or may not be paint.
First of all. There is no "conventional definition" of thermite, something is either thermite or it isn't.
There is no thermite, conventional or not, that just self-extinguishes.
If the reaction is partial, reversible or ends itself before it is complete, it cannot be thermite, based on thermite, or any form of super advanced secret thermitic material.
My gut instinct tells me it is a red herring. It is another blow to the notoriously gullible truth movement.
Try sweeping the floor in a room where an arc welder or oxyacetylene torch has been used.
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
reply to post by butcherguy
So how many feet does it take for it to freeze, falling through cool air on a sunny, ~70-degree F day?
Let's see how long it takes you to figure this out.
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
It doesn't match paint in any physical way at all, except if you say it looks like a paint chip. The similarity ends there. Not the same chemical composition, nowhere near the same ignition temperature, and not the same energy release.
You can change the main reactants, aluminum or iron oxide, and replace them with other substances. Aluminum can be replaced with magnesium, calcium, titanium, etc. The iron oxide can be replaced with boron oxide, silicon oxide, copper oxide, etc.
Besides being able to change all that, you can also reduce the particle size to very small sizes, and simultaneously decrease the ignition temperature and increase the total amount of energy released.
There are also other additives you can add to the mixture besides the main reactants that can also change the characteristics of the reaction. Using different kinds of fuels and oxidizers in the same batch of thermite is also possible.
And there is nothing that says you can't have both ingredients besides the conventional aluminum and iron oxide, as well as decreased particle sizes, and additives too.
I would love to debate any point of the above with you in detail.
My brain tells me that anyone's gut who didn't pick up on all the BS coming from our own government about 9/11, doesn't have an intuition worth speaking of to begin with.
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
That's an enormous amount of hot air for someone who is basically saying
"they could have altered the thermite to make it less effective".
Originally posted by butcherguy
Try sweeping the floor in a room where an arc welder or oxyacetylene torch has been used.
You will find plenty of nearly perfect spheres of iron rich material. It takes a fraction of a second for a sphere of molten steel that is under one millimeter in diameter to freeze in a room with an air temperature that is under 100 degrees F.
I know how long it will take you to figure out that this is a FACT.
Originally posted by butcherguy
I was listening to Coast to Coast a few nights ago, and listened to a truther saying that there were 3 to 10 TONS of unexploded explosives left in the debris at the WTC. ...
Seems like the heart of this thread is built upon such a fantastic premise.