North Tower Acceleration

[William Seger]

159. LOL, what a bullshitter

You asked for sources, and I told you precisely where I first read about the faults in Ross' analysis. I just didn't waste time digging up links for you to ignore. But let's remove that from your list of excuses for ignoring those faults, just to see what you try next:

http://bit.ly/wpqn2Z

Information overload, huh. Well, let's remove that from you list of excuses, too, and link to one extensive analysis by a structural engineer (which Ross is not) who posts on JREF:

http://newtonsbit.blogspot.com/2007/05/failure-of-truth-movements-engineer.html

So now, let's attempt once again to focus on what I claimed: There is a serious flaw in Ross' analysis that isn't easy to spot, but it's impossible to ignore once you know it's there (presuming you understand it, of course): He counts some energy twice, and correcting that removes his claimed energy deficiency. If all you can do is fart in the general direction of anyone who points it out, then that's the same as conceding the issue.

My other claim is that Ross' entire approach is undermined by the observation that a column can't transmit more force than it takes to fail the column. I believe it was Bazant who first pointed that out in the context of WTC collapses, and I told you where you could find it if you think it matters, but again it's irrelevant who first noticed that problem with Ross' analysis. The only thing that matters is whether or not Ross can still transfer enough momentum away from the collapse front to halt the collapse, given that the columns don't have the unlimited ability to do that which his analysis assumes. I admit, however, that I'm merely speculating that Ross' inability to do that is the reason he disappeared from the "truther" front several years ago -- maybe he had other reasons -- but it seems none of Gage's "architects and engineers" can do it either.

Now, please stop the games and address the issues, if you can.

(I deleted a version of this post that I edited because it ended up with a bunch of backslash characters in front of apostrophes and quote marks, and it just got worse when I tried to edit again to remove them. Seem to be a bug in the new software.)