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Originally posted by Darkwing01
Please refer to the Delft collapse aftermath again and repeat that line.
This isn't necessarily about whether the collapse or not, the point is moot because natural collapses can obviously be complete. This is about whether the observed collapse time is achievable in an iterated pancake collapse model.
You have yet to make a point concerning that video.
All this time I have been asking you how the collapse would arrest, I have said nothing about collapse time. We have been talking about the WTC specifically, and how that specific collapse would arrest, which you claim would happen.
Are you revoking that claim? Do you agree that you can not think of any way how the collapse would arrest once it was initiated?
Originally posted by Darkwing01
If you had watched the video you would know what my point was, but I will enlighten you: Most of the floor mass was left hanging from the columns afterwards.
Collapse INTERFACE.
Have you not been reading?
What is the point if you are reading a penny romance novel and commenting on the moon landing while we are talking?
My objection to the pancake model was always that it cannot be made to collapse in the observed time, my objection to the crush down model is that it cannot be made to collapse completely.
Stop conflating the models, they have nothing to do with one another.
In all likelihood, a pancaking floor system will NOT collapse to completion given sufficient iterations (i.e. each iteration reduces the likelihood of the next iteration occurring), but completion itself is not at the root of the problem with pancakes.
Stop thinking like a bull in a china shop, there are subtle points here that need to be clearly distinguished.
Originally posted by ANOK
Amazing.
It has been explained to you over and over again why the collapse would arrest.
Your post sounds like nothing but an appeal to people to believe what you do. You offer no real science to explain why the collapse wouldn't arrest, you just want people to think that is what would happen.
If you ignore the physics, like equal opposite reaction, and momentum conservation, then you can claim anything can happen. If I ignore those laws of physics then I could claim a meteor could hit the Earth in Kansas, and keep on going until in comes up through the floor of a Chinese steel company.
Yes that is the extent of your logic PLB. The poster who claimed to be an electrical engineer, what happened to that claim btw? We're not stupid here on ATS PLB, lies are caught out pretty fast as you must have realised.
It's amazing what you give away about yourself by what and how you reply.
My post was not about me, it was about the inability of Darkwing to explain the claim on which he bases his believes. I have explained it enough times to you. You ignore it, remember.
If you ignore the physics, like equal opposite reaction, and momentum conservation, then you can claim anything can happen. If I ignore those laws of physics then I could claim a meteor could hit the Earth in Kansas, and keep on going until in comes up through the floor of a Chinese steel company.
Originally posted by Darkwing01
You asked me to explain what happens in every natural collapse happens and then basically refused to believe that there exists such a thing as elastic collisions exist or that they are mediated by the electromagnetic force.
If that is what you think "failing to explain" means (i.e. failing to make you understand the nature of reality), then yes, I have failed to explain.
Then explain which floor would eventually arrest the collapse. How is this possible when there is the mass of at least 12 unsupported floors above it? How can a single floor support the mass of 12 floors?
Which floor is going to arrest this mass? How come this floor is capable of holding this mass? Explain this.
So at some moment in time, all the mass of the at lest 12 floors must be resting, without moving, on a floor that was able to stop it. Which floor is capable of doing that? How come this floor is capable of holding the mass of at least 12 floors?
Once the collapse arrested, which floor is holding the mass that is arrested? How is this floor capable of holding this mass without failing?
You think the majority of mass falling not down (the direction gravity is pulling it), but falling to the side? What force is causing this to happen? How is this a reasonable assumption to make?
I am not asking why a force pushed out the mass. I am asking which force was responsible for it. Or in other words, how was the mass pushed out
how is the majority of the mass pushed outside.
Explain how the majority of the mass is pushed aside. I am not asking how some mass is pushed aside, I am asking how the majority of the mass is pushed aside.
You are claiming the majority of the mass is ejected. Explain how. Your cup falling on a desk is a complete failure.
Now back to the question. You are claiming the majority of the mass is ejected. Explain how.
What matters is how the majority of the mass did not ended up on the floor, or in other words, how it ended up outside the perimeter of the floor. Explain that.
You can as well say it arrested because of origami. That has about as much explanatory power as your explanations.
It seems to me that you are the one having trouble making that distinction, as those were your answers to my request for an explanation. But I am glad you now realize that you have no explained a thing.
Originally posted by Darkwing01
So what you are saying is that a falling box is NOT what happened, but a falling box is what needed to happen to get your pancake to happen...
Nope.
The sane and ratrional look at videos of the collapse and see air being squeezed out rapidly from between the falling/failing floor that provides the only resistance the the descending rubble. The sane and rational see this as the collapse front. The sane and rational see the air being pushed between the ext columns after the windows are gone.
Therefore, the sane and rational also realize that any of the delusional claims of mass being lost over the side must also address the problem of how to get all this mass through the window gaps, which were what, 3' wide?
The sane and rational realize that it is a delusional claim to proclaim that floors were blown to pieces small enough to fit through the window gaps.
And that little tickle you feel in your head is the last of your sane and rational part of your brain being destroyed by cognitive dissonance. when you repeat the delusion of mass being ejected.....
I see, what do you think about the Shanksville crash site? I've always suspected that our military shot it down, because members of the military hint at that pretty strongly.
As an FAA employee who was actually working that day I can tell you that fighters were scrambled. The problem on 9/11 was that the hijackers turned off the transponders and radar contact was lost. Only a few voice contacts were made, but the tapes clearly indicated voice change in the cockpits. They decended below Class A airspace to be able to fly low enough to visually spot the targets. If we could not see them, then we could not direct the fighters. If an aircraft goes NORDO, they normally remain at altitude. If contact is not regained, then fighters can be dispatched, but the bases from which they are launched may be hundreds of miles away. It can take 30 minutes to put pilots in the cockpit of a F-16 and get it airborne, on course to intercept. Prior to 9/11, interceptions were very rare. Usually only international or suspected drug runners. I really doubt 67.
I just summarized the movie, I never said those hundreds of assertions were 100% factual.
You can say anything you want. Proving it is more difficult. This whole notion is BS.
Yeah I believe Bin Laden was in on it, the government used him as a scapegoat. I think this because the CIA trained and funded the organization that eventually evolved into Al Qaeda, and Bin Laden was one of the most prominent members.
Thanks for the summary got a lot out of it. Ill check out the whole video when I get a chance. Never really thought about it until now but, it doesn't seem like anyone had anything remotely close to proof that Bin laden was connected. This has really raised a lot of questions in my head.