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tomk52

(46 posts)
81. I thought you truthers gave up...
Fri May 10, 2013, 03:39 PM
May 2013

Sorry, I haven't checked here in awhile.

All of my comments addressed the Harrit, Jones, Farrer fiasco.

it would be nice if you responded to any one of my points?

Do you think any of the authors had the slightest prior experience performing forensic chemical analysis?

Do you agree that many tens of thousands of papers get published every year, even in quality peer-reviewed technical journals (much less rags like Bentham), that turn out to be simple wrong?

Do you think that unbiased, objective replication of results by competent experts is therefore a critical step for discovering real truth of issues?

Can you come up with any reason that, in ~5 years, none of those researchers has attempted to have their results replicated by such experts?

Can you come up with any reason, any reason at all, why they refuse to present their case to a competent review board of experienced, unbiased engineers? Or why they choose to post on the internet, present to college kids & Truther conventions instead?

Can you come up with a reason that they performed non-definitive tests themselves, when cheap, standard, definitive tests - and accredited testing labs - are readily available?

I can give you - explicitly - the one reason that explains all of the above: they KNOW they screwed the pooch, and that their paper is crap.
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Now, for your tangent…

"The NIST animation ..." NIST did no animation of the collapse of either tower. I have heard Dr. Corley state explicitly that "there is some suggestion that the cores buckled first." with the rapidly increasing bowing of the outer columns, "exactly which piece broke first" is both uncertain & irrelevant.

So, you must be talking their WTC7 animation.

Or are you just making stuff up??

"The core beams still standing while the building collapses around it"??? You're not serious, are you?

What does the 9/11 Commission Report (a report done by lawyers & politicians) have to do with the structural collapse of any WTC building? Nothing. That was done by NIST.

The planes weren't "vaporized". That's a stupid, meaningless term that truthers throw around. Parts of the planes melted (including aluminum, but not steel or titanium), parts burned (likely including some aluminum), and some number of micrograms likely "vaporized" in plasma discharges known as "sparks".

Last I heard, NO terrorist family member gave comparison DNA. It appears that they believe that their kin were the hijackers & chose not to assist in the "exoneration of their 'falsely accused' kin". Any explanation for this behavior that you'd like to offer?

3 out of the 10 hijackers were specifically ID'd in 2 NYC planes (by comparison to hair & tissue in car & hotels). Tissue samples from all 9 PA & Pentagon hijackers were GENERICALLY ID'd (as "middle eastern man", but not to specific individuals) by process of elimination. Because the families wouldn't help & they couldn't come up with comparison tissue samples.

"How does windows in lobby get blown out, but windows above are intact?" Easy, if you understand freshman mechanics. Ever bury a stick in the ground & then hit it hard enough to snap? It snaps right at ground level. Higher levels are not broken. Why?

"Janitor's testimony in Commission Report". Janitor's testimony, plus a million other people's, is 100% irrelevant to any & all topics in the 9/11 Commission Report.

Please state your conclusion regarding "Janitor's testimony", PLUS how it fits into larger narrative of 9/11 events. Note that it would have been more convincing if Rodriguez had stopped changing his story every few months...

"He felt explosion a second or two before impact."

He heard one "boom" & then a 2nd "boom". There is nothing that allows Rodriguez to determine that the 2nd boom was the impact (88 stories above), rather than one of the other 100+ "booms" that occurred at ground level as things broke, fell to the floor, fuel exploded out of elevator, etc.

"Minetta said Cheney ordered stand-down"?? Feel free to provide a reference & construct a cogent argument for this. Nobody's provided one thus far.

Looking forward to your reply...

Conspiracy v. fact 9/11 [View all] Prog_gun_owner Feb 2013 OP
My favorite.... Frank_Norris_Lives Feb 2013 #1
Yup, ludicrous. But... tomk52 Mar 2013 #13
My apologies..... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #46
thanks for reply. tomk52 Mar 2013 #51
The engines of the plane that hit the Pentagon energetically dissasembled themselves when they diges AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #2
Ok Prog_gun_owner Feb 2013 #3
I don't know what the fuck "Thur-mate" is. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #4
The whole "official" 9/11 story is riddled with stinking-lying Republican holes Berlum Feb 2013 #5
You do realize, don't you ... tomk52 Mar 2013 #57
Could thermite cutters even survive a plane impact? Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2013 #62
Depends on what the word "survive" means... tomk52 Mar 2013 #63
Thank-you Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2013 #70
An aside... tomk52 Mar 2013 #64
Here's a picture of what tomk52 is talking about. Bolo Boffin Mar 2013 #65
Thank-you -- I was about to "Press 1 for English" Nuclear Unicorn Apr 2013 #69
You do realize that the NIST animation Politicalboi May 2013 #73
Um, the south tower core columns up to floor 50 or so are visible standing in the dust AtheistCrusader May 2013 #78
LOL ocpagu May 2013 #79
I thought you truthers gave up... tomk52 May 2013 #81
The right way to ask questions... tomk52 Mar 2013 #6
In that case, I have a first question..... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #8
Jet engines don't leave thick, white exhaust trails until ... tomk52 Mar 2013 #9
Are you saying.... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #14
I am saying that ... tomk52 Mar 2013 #16
A well-reasoned explanation for the smoke trail: greyl Mar 2013 #19
Nice animation but.... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #20
Luckily, there's VIDEO of that exceedingly short period of time. Remember that? nt greyl Mar 2013 #22
Perhaps in the grand scheme of things, ... tomk52 Mar 2013 #23
Well, that's strange because..... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #26
Well, I have to agree that this is strange... tomk52 Mar 2013 #32
One certainly can't help but admire... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #39
OF COURSE you get to ignore all those witnesses. tomk52 Mar 2013 #40
Well said! zappaman Mar 2013 #41
Wow...... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #42
... said Frank, rubbing his sore ass. William Seger Mar 2013 #43
And here is your last bastion ... tomk52 Mar 2013 #44
You and.... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #47
LOL, I had forgotten that... William Seger Mar 2013 #48
What you scoffin' at, Willis?? tomk52 Mar 2013 #53
Well, there has to be SOME explanation William Seger Mar 2013 #55
Yup. tomk52 Mar 2013 #56
2nd last bastion... tomk52 Mar 2013 #52
They'll say anything Politicalboi May 2013 #74
Saying nonsense doesn't make it true. tomk52 May 2013 #82
How did the engines penetrate through a 10' hole? BobbyBoring Mar 2013 #10
5 sentences. So much misinformation... tomk52 Mar 2013 #12
Aren't we here.... Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #15
You went thru a lot of effort to be this lazy ... tomk52 Mar 2013 #17
Good Grief! Frank_Norris_Lives Mar 2013 #21
You got a bus to catch...?? tomk52 Mar 2013 #25
We have for years Politicalboi May 2013 #75
It wasn't a 10 foot hole hack89 Mar 2013 #27
This is a 90' hole? BobbyBoring Mar 2013 #49
That is the 10' EXIT hole in the Pentagon E ring - not the entrance hole in the facade. hack89 Mar 2013 #50
Bobby, anything more to say...? tomk52 Mar 2013 #45
You say you read the FEMA/ASCE Pentagon BPAT report? tomk52 Mar 2013 #54
I have questions that don't involve the collapses Politicalboi Mar 2013 #7
Here's an answer that doesn't involve collapses... tomk52 Mar 2013 #11
Wow... what a waste of time reading this. ocpagu Mar 2013 #18
Are you kidding? tomk52 Mar 2013 #24
Several of Bazant's explanations... ocpagu Mar 2013 #30
Again, tomk52 Mar 2013 #31
On NIST site ocpagu Mar 2013 #35
Yup, I didn't think you understood either one. tomk52 Mar 2013 #37
There are pictures of seats (with bodies attached) hack89 Mar 2013 #28
Because... ocpagu Mar 2013 #29
How do you pack so much "wrong"... tomk52 Mar 2013 #58
LOL. ocpagu Mar 2013 #60
This has become a pattern. tomk52 Mar 2013 #61
Ya can't have it both ways, government apologists AlwaysQuestion Mar 2013 #33
Yeah right zappaman Mar 2013 #34
Who in this planet has ever used the expression ocpagu Mar 2013 #36
it's 2005 all over again? tomk52 Mar 2013 #38
You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place stevebreeze May 2013 #76
Because.... Frank_Norris_Lives May 2013 #77
He knows that... ocpagu May 2013 #80
There's nothing resembling sound premises or valid logical inferences in your argument William Seger Mar 2013 #59
Pro_gun_owner...Here's a link to a video that I encourage you to watch... truth2power Mar 2013 #66
"... not honestly searching for a resolution ..." tomk52 Apr 2013 #67
No thanks.... truth2power Apr 2013 #68
you seem to have a "legal" slant on things... tomk52 Apr 2013 #71
Welcome to the club Politicalboi May 2013 #72
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