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zappaman

(20,606 posts)
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:11 PM Oct 2014

The Man Who Tricked Chemtrails Conspiracy Theorists

The chemtrails conspiracy theory has been circulating for a while among the same sorts of people who believe that 9/11 was an inside job and celebrities are being controlled by the CIA. In brief, chemtrail enthusiasts think that those white trails of vapor you see pouring out of planes are actually nasty chemical or biological agents that governments are using to geo-engineer the weather, create a vast electromagnetic super-weapon, control the population, or—well, you get the idea. There's no science or proof whatsoever behind this, but plenty of people are still willing to entertain this vaguely supervillain-esque notion.

On October 1, Chris Bovey—a 41-year-old from Devon, England—thought he’d troll the chemtrails camp. During a flight from Buenos Aires to the UK, his plane had to make an emergency landing in São Paulo and dumped excess fuel to lighten the load. Since he had a window seat, Chris decided to film all the liquid being sprayed out of the wing next to him.

-snip-

Mick West—editor of anti-conspiracy theory website Metabunk, which published an article explaining why Chris’s video was a hoax—explained the history of the chemtrails theory to me. “It started back in the late 1990s,” he said. “People just noticed contrails—the condensation trails behind planes—for the first time, and got this idea that a normal contrail shouldn’t persist for very long. So if anything lasted for more than a few minutes, it must be something being sprayed.”

While chemtrails advocates might accuse sheeple of believing everything their governments tell them, they themselves tend to believe a lot of the stuff their internet tells them. West thinks its the proliferation of unverified “evidence” online that’s led to this particular conspiracy theory remaining so popular.

more laughs at link
http://www.vice.com/read/i-tricked-chemtrail-conspiracy-theorists-947?utm_source=vicefbus

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The Man Who Tricked Chemtrails Conspiracy Theorists (Original Post) zappaman Oct 2014 OP
Just spray 'em with vinegar... SidDithers Oct 2014 #1
I miss Spiralhawk, Berlum and whatever other identities she had... zappaman Oct 2014 #2
Oh my God, that thread again! NuclearDem Oct 2014 #3
Funnier than this? zappaman Oct 2014 #4
Two very separate schools of comedy. NuclearDem Oct 2014 #6
I've always been a fan of the classics. name not needed Oct 2014 #136
Not quite as funny as melting chicken wire... n/t cherokeeprogressive Oct 2014 #24
Another DU classic... SidDithers Oct 2014 #35
Thanks for bring that up...za RobertEarl Oct 2014 #27
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! AnalystInParadise Oct 2014 #46
He'll insist it's still coming. jeff47 Oct 2014 #51
What will happen to the tons of waste? RobertEarl Oct 2014 #52
Post removed Post removed Oct 2014 #60
Not real? RobertEarl Oct 2014 #62
Too easy with you AnalystInParadise Oct 2014 #64
or just here to make anti-nuke advocates look bad. zappaman Oct 2014 #65
OMG! Are you series? This thread about chem trails got Analyst? Major Hogwash Oct 2014 #92
No. You don't appear that way at all. RobertEarl Oct 2014 #66
I don't appear intelligent to you? AnalystInParadise Oct 2014 #67
Your posts define you, not I. RobertEarl Oct 2014 #68
Since everything is Bizarro world to you AnalystInParadise Oct 2014 #69
No. I forgive you. RobertEarl Oct 2014 #70
you aren't a serious poster, quit playing games with us CreekDog Oct 2014 #141
This is weird RobertEarl Oct 2014 #143
Wasn't he thrown out of the E & E group? zappaman Oct 2014 #145
Answer zappaman Oct 2014 #53
I thought the sea star 'melting' was a problem related to Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2014 #79
Shhhhhh! zappaman Oct 2014 #81
acidification RobertEarl Oct 2014 #87
That thread is outdated because we now know the starfish are being killed by Ebola. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #117
That's real? Atman Oct 2014 #9
I wish they wouldn't include us truthers in other crazy conspiracies Politicalboi Oct 2014 #5
We know you can't help it. zappaman Oct 2014 #8
So because Harry Houdini wasn't really a spy that means Standard Oil wasn't really a conspiracy? Electric Monk Oct 2014 #21
Did Standard Oil establish a monopoly through a mind control machine? NuclearDem Oct 2014 #61
Your lack of understanding of physics doesn't mean it's a conspiracy. FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #12
+1 HuckleB Oct 2014 #131
They should - they're just as crazy. Drunken Irishman Oct 2014 #15
No, they're not. Atman Oct 2014 #23
And the Sandy Hook denialists have lots of claims of off-the-record jeff47 Oct 2014 #38
Yes, because claims of "off the record birth certificates" are exactly the same... Atman Oct 2014 #40
The fact that you believe one does not make it true. jeff47 Oct 2014 #49
we live in a country questionseverything Oct 2014 #54
Think about who the victims were. jeff47 Oct 2014 #75
I like how no one elses suggestions add up. But yours are concrete. Atman Oct 2014 #82
To quote Dr. Tyson.... Oktober Oct 2014 #86
Because yours are based on a misunderstanding of how structures are built jeff47 Oct 2014 #122
There was no heat load on the lower floors. Atman Oct 2014 #124
Because cars aren't crushed when they hit things. jeff47 Oct 2014 #125
You don't have to explain anything to me. Atman Oct 2014 #126
You make way too many assumptions about what I know. Atman Oct 2014 #127
"You can't melt steel with jet fuel." zappaman Oct 2014 #128
Actually, there are photographs of molten steel pouring out of the towers. Atman Oct 2014 #129
No there aren't. zappaman Oct 2014 #130
really, come on you are killing us here- snooper2 Oct 2014 #142
so we have established that the cia did pull off a huge ct questionseverything Oct 2014 #99
No, it actually wasn't that huge. (nt) jeff47 Oct 2014 #121
Why did there have to "hundreds of thousands" involved? Atman Oct 2014 #55
"I don't think Bush could masturbate without assistance" zappaman Oct 2014 #56
Because that's what it would take for it to be "MIC forced" or "pulling other strings" jeff47 Oct 2014 #74
I live in New England. Don't give me that "build a house" shit. Atman Oct 2014 #78
A large building has a hell of a lot more inertia than a house cpwm17 Oct 2014 #112
Wrong. zappaman Oct 2014 #113
Physics fail! cpwm17 Oct 2014 #114
Oh man I somehow missed that one! Now I understand the reference to melting chicken wire. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #120
And a 2 story barn falling down from neglect is exactly like a skyscraper hit by a plane. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #119
It is exactly the same.Made up shit! nt Logical Oct 2014 #59
+1 n/t tammywammy Oct 2014 #26
Kind of hard to argue with...but many people will, and do. Atman Oct 2014 #19
PNAC had me at "a new Pearl Harbor." nt valerief Oct 2014 #29
Yeah, but we're supposed to pretend none of that ever happened. Atman Oct 2014 #32
And when we did launch some interceptors Cheap_Trick Oct 2014 #33
...because prior to 9/11, supersonic flights over the US were illegal. NuclearDem Oct 2014 #77
Gee, I think we could've bent the rules for an emergency such as this. Cheap_Trick Oct 2014 #90
Even if we did "bend the rules" just that one time... NuclearDem Oct 2014 #93
Uh, we have a new invention called "radar" Cheap_Trick Oct 2014 #98
Yes, I'm aware of radar. NuclearDem Oct 2014 #102
Did you see how long it took them to intercept Payne Stewart's plane? hack89 Oct 2014 #105
You might want to look up what after-burners do to fuel consumption.. EX500rider Oct 2014 #80
Maybe if we'd sent up interceptors as soon as the first plane's transponder was switched off Cheap_Trick Oct 2014 #91
And again, how exactly were they supposed to locate the aircraft? NuclearDem Oct 2014 #95
The DoD has no way of knowing if a transponder is turned off hack89 Oct 2014 #137
Do you understand what top speed does for fuel consumption? hack89 Oct 2014 #88
I'd start here: EX500rider Oct 2014 #73
Can't trust Popular Mechanics. NuclearDem Oct 2014 #76
One of the greatest lines ever. NCTraveler Oct 2014 #36
These guys are almost as humorous as the chem-trail guys FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #41
Jet engines didn't fall to the street. Fusilage didn't fall to the street. Atman Oct 2014 #42
the hell they didn't jberryhill Oct 2014 #83
Whoopsie! zappaman Oct 2014 #84
Inconvenient... at best. LanternWaste Oct 2014 #101
"Jet engines didn't fall to the street. Fusilage didn't fall to the street." NCTraveler Oct 2014 #94
Same argument is made about the Pentagon plane. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #108
Correct, that was a dumb thing to say. Atman Oct 2014 #97
Bullpuckey jberryhill Oct 2014 #100
"Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel" NuclearDem Oct 2014 #103
You obviously don't have much experience with large fires. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #107
And then giant structures conveniently fall perfectly into their own footprint. Atman Oct 2014 #110
Yeah, over 40 buildings were damaged by the WTC falling "perfectly into their own footprint." zappaman Oct 2014 #111
There you go again, using actual facts as evidence. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #116
Yeah you are "not a truther" you just use exactly the same (false) arguments. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #115
Also, nice Gish Gallop once your original statement was quickly proved false. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #109
I was going to mention that jberryhill Oct 2014 #132
It wasn't a "dumb thing to say", it was an absolutely untrue and false thing to say jberryhill Oct 2014 #134
"it won't matter that each of them is untrue and false - it's the volume of them which is yellowcanine Oct 2014 #135
20 year military vet here AnalystInParadise Oct 2014 #45
Don't try logic on these fools FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #47
I feel compelled somedays AnalystInParadise Oct 2014 #48
+1000 thank you for this! nt Logical Oct 2014 #58
Almost everything you said there is totally made up shit. Wow, you scare me. nt Logical Oct 2014 #57
"I can't understand it, therefore, it's not true." NuclearDem Oct 2014 #63
"leave NO debris anywhere near the buildings." EX500rider Oct 2014 #71
Planted. zappaman Oct 2014 #72
You ever think that there is a reason? Oktober Oct 2014 #85
Interesting, I did not think we are allowed to even bring up this subject. Rex Oct 2014 #7
Nothing wrong with discussing a hoax. zappaman Oct 2014 #11
I mean the 'word that shall not be said on DU'. Rex Oct 2014 #14
Good luck! zappaman Oct 2014 #17
Will do. Rex Oct 2014 #25
investigation is being demanded by 400 Shasta residents J_J_ Oct 2014 #10
We need a Conspiracy Theory Tax. You want your favorite theory investigated, pay up. yellowcanine Oct 2014 #118
Best idea ever! zappaman Oct 2014 #123
That's great. FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #13
I handle discussion with the chemtrails folks this way... stevenleser Oct 2014 #16
That's a good idea! zappaman Oct 2014 #18
The mentally ill don't handle actual science well. SwankyXomb Oct 2014 #31
Well now that's just like asking them to give up their hopes and dreams. logosoco Oct 2014 #39
I'not a chem-trail conspiracy guy, but your test is impossible. lob1 Oct 2014 #44
Keep trying or hire a plane FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #50
There are a couple of reasons why your objection isn't quite right. stevenleser Oct 2014 #104
I'll even help out here Quackers Oct 2014 #89
Excellent! Well done! stevenleser Oct 2014 #96
Love this! zappaman Oct 2014 #106
Ha wheniwasincongress Oct 2014 #20
My elderly dad believe all this hokum procon Oct 2014 #22
So, your Dad is aware? RobertEarl Oct 2014 #34
"the military ... did use airplanes to disperse chemicals into hurricanes?" Yeah and so what? yellowcanine Oct 2014 #138
Agent orange in VN? RobertEarl Oct 2014 #139
No, because I do not claim those chemicals are causing "Chemtrails" yellowcanine Oct 2014 #140
Well RobertEarl Oct 2014 #144
Science, Bob. zappaman Oct 2014 #146
I had a lady ask me if I knew what those streaks in the sky were. Turbineguy Oct 2014 #28
TV is used to influence our thinking. The govt doesn't need chemtrails. nt valerief Oct 2014 #30
How did you keep from busting out laughing right then and there? FLPanhandle Oct 2014 #43
Chemtrails only work on crazy people jberryhill Oct 2014 #133
I loved Chemtrail Central....best place to troll paranoids on the net. ileus Oct 2014 #37
There have been multiple experiments, including 9/11 groundings... hunter Oct 2014 #147
 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
27. Thanks for bring that up...za
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:16 PM
Oct 2014

Do you know what is killing the sea stars?

Or the dolphins in the Atlantic?

Do you have any clues at all, or are you clueless?

 

AnalystInParadise

(1,832 posts)
46. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:28 PM
Oct 2014

The real question is when all life is not snuffed out by this radiation apocalypse you have been advertising, what will you do then?

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
51. He'll insist it's still coming.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:46 PM
Oct 2014

Instead of dying due to acute radiation poisoning, he'll claim we're all going to die of cancer.

And when improvements in medical care for other diseases actually result in more people dying of cancer, it'll prove him correct.

(Cancer's going to happen no matter what - our linear DNA will eventually cause it, if no environmental damage causes it first.)

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
52. What will happen to the tons of waste?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 04:18 PM
Oct 2014

Do you have any clue what we will do with the waste nukes are producing?

I guess you think flushing it into the pacific is fine? Or you just don't give a shit?

Maybe you don't care that people do get sick and die from radiation?

You'd rather just come after me instead of the producers of the pollution?

Response to RobertEarl (Reply #52)

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
62. Not real?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 06:20 PM
Oct 2014

Man-made nuclear radiation is not real? Huh?

This is really odd. I thought pretty much any one who could read would know that man-made radiation is real. So I am perplexed to read your woosiness because it makes zero sense.

I guess you don't even believe that nuclear waste is piling up at the over 400 nuke power plants?

 

AnalystInParadise

(1,832 posts)
64. Too easy with you
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 06:25 PM
Oct 2014

not sure why I even bother.

And to answer your message to me: I am quite intelligent, can't say the same about you, you actually believe that garbage you post.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
65. or just here to make anti-nuke advocates look bad.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 06:31 PM
Oct 2014

conservatives can point to his comments and say "See, they don't even know what they are talking about!"

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
92. OMG! Are you series? This thread about chem trails got Analyst?
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 12:00 AM
Oct 2014

I think he made a hugh mistake!
I can't believe he survived this long here without going transparent earlier.

That is unbelievable!!



I have been here for over 10 years and I have never seen anything like this happen here before.
A thread on a completely exposed, totally fraudulent, completely bullshit conspiracy nailed him!?!
WTF????
Just like that.

And he walked right in to it!

Fuck, bro, I've got to hand it to ya, I don't know how this thing works.



But, you could see his head 'sploding from here.





 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
66. No. You don't appear that way at all.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 06:32 PM
Oct 2014

I get that someone could actually live in denial of the dangers of nuke waste and all that. Just too hard for some to fathom. So, you are forgiven. Go, with my blessings.

 

AnalystInParadise

(1,832 posts)
69. Since everything is Bizarro world to you
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 06:49 PM
Oct 2014

I know you mean congratulations instead of condolences. Thank you RobertEarl.....Thank you.

CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
141. you aren't a serious poster, quit playing games with us
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:04 PM
Oct 2014

a serious environmentalist doesn't discount all other environmental issues to blame everything only on nuclear power.

no environmentalist does that.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
143. This is weird
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:44 PM
Oct 2014

You attack me and ignore the nuke industry that is polluting the planet.

It's really fucking weird. You should check yourself.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
79. I thought the sea star 'melting' was a problem related to
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:14 PM
Oct 2014

acidification of the oceans occurring along with other climate change phenomena.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
87. acidification
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 10:14 PM
Oct 2014

Has to do with the level of pH. pH varies at the shoreline where sea stars live, as do temperatures. The researchers are noting pH could be a factor, but the variability makes it hard to pin down. They have not yet determined why the mass wasting is taking place. They do state they have no proof of radiation causing the disease. I figure it's in the food chain. Sea stars eat mussels and high levels of radioactive metals have been found in mussels.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
117. That thread is outdated because we now know the starfish are being killed by Ebola.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 09:01 AM
Oct 2014

It is very sad. Starfish have no way to isolate the Ebola victims so they all keep getting it and dying.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
9. That's real?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:29 PM
Oct 2014

OMG, America is much stupider than I feared. And believe me, I feared we're pretty stupid already.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
5. I wish they wouldn't include us truthers in other crazy conspiracies
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:26 PM
Oct 2014

I can't help that I don't believe that fragile planes can penetrate steel and concrete and leave NO debris anywhere near the buildings. I can't help it that I don't believe the Pentagon had 40 minutes to protect DC and did NOTHING. My beliefs have facts that are hard to overlook. But I'm sure I'll hear from those who do believe planes traveling over military bases was the safest way to go for the "terrorist" when the towers were visible on the runway. Those pesky box cutters. LOL!

These chemtrail people belong with those that think buildings fall at 10 stories a second due to fire.

 

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
21. So because Harry Houdini wasn't really a spy that means Standard Oil wasn't really a conspiracy?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:44 PM
Oct 2014

That's your "logic" here.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
61. Did Standard Oil establish a monopoly through a mind control machine?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 06:20 PM
Oct 2014

The proof that Standard was establishing a monopoly didn't fly in the face of basic physics and engineering.

The ridiculous 9/11 conspiracies do.

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
12. Your lack of understanding of physics doesn't mean it's a conspiracy.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:31 PM
Oct 2014

Same with the Chem-Trail crowd. Just because they don't understand, doesn't mean it's a conspiracy.

Truthers definitely deserve to be lumped in with the other crazies, because they are too.

 

Drunken Irishman

(34,857 posts)
15. They should - they're just as crazy.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:36 PM
Oct 2014

The truthers are just as bad as the Sandy Hook deniers or those who think the holocaust was a hoax.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
23. No, they're not.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:46 PM
Oct 2014

There are mountains of evidence and obvious cover-ups (can you say secret hearings off-the-record with no transcripts) regarding WTC. There were lots of witnesses at Sandy Hook. One being false doesn't mean everything else is false.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
38. And the Sandy Hook denialists have lots of claims of off-the-record
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:52 PM
Oct 2014

activities, fake birth certificates, and so on.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
40. Yes, because claims of "off the record birth certificates" are exactly the same...
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:09 PM
Oct 2014

...as three massive skyscrapers falling down into their own footprint, even as our own military was conducting maneuvers in the very same area. I see. They're totally on the same scale as even chemtrails!

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
49. The fact that you believe one does not make it true.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:35 PM
Oct 2014

Nor did the buildings actually fall within their own footprint. They made quite a large pile. They did fall straight down, which you'd expect from basic physics - there was no significant lateral force by the time they collapsed.

Plus, your theories about the military should've responded has the minor problem that they don't arm planes that are going on maneuvers. Turns out it's a lot harder to accidentally shoot down the guy pretending to be your target when your plane doesn't have weapons.

I eagerly await your insistence that this situation is somehow different, and that an administration that could not find it's ass with both hands not only managed to perfectly engineer a massive conspiracy, they also managed to keep every single one of the hundreds to thousands involved from saying anything.

questionseverything

(9,655 posts)
54. we live in a country
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 04:27 PM
Oct 2014

where the pres ramped up the war on drugs as he had the cia import cocaine to the major cities to pay for a "secret war"

later the cia director became pres

and to this day current pres shows that bunch respect

i can not think of a wilder ct and yet it is true

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025660333

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
75. Think about who the victims were.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:07 PM
Oct 2014

Iran-Contra and the CIA importing drugs harmed "others".

Destroying the WTC harmed insiders - lots of Wall Street people died.

Imagine the Ferguson shooting except the victim was a young, white stockbroker. Reaction might be a tad different, no? We can be pretty damn sure the cop wouldn't get away with it, while the actual cop will never go to jail.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
82. I like how no one elses suggestions add up. But yours are concrete.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:36 PM
Oct 2014

Interesting. I personally had a friend who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 90th floor. He perished. I had dinner with him just two weeks before. We were there. You'd think I'd be jumping all over your white stockbroker meme. I'm not. You have convenient answers to everything, but none of them directly address the underlying issues any more than my questions do. Do they? So why are your answers the correct ones? Because you think so? You know full well that for any "evidence" you can produce (usually produced by some governmental agency, bureau, panel, committee or hired expert), I can produce an equal number of documents refuting them. Just because you say thousands of other peoples' recollections, observations, research don't match the thousands of recollections, observations, research you've accepted as truth doesn't mean you're correct. You just offered your opinion. And you know what they're like. We've all got one.

 

Oktober

(1,488 posts)
86. To quote Dr. Tyson....
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 09:18 PM
Oct 2014

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it...

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
122. Because yours are based on a misunderstanding of how structures are built
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 10:39 AM
Oct 2014
So why are your answers the correct ones?

Because yours rely on a misunderstanding of how the buildings are built, and are not considering how the forces would be transmitted through those materials. Your theory relies on a cascading failure to take a while to develop, and the materials, and more importantly the connections between them, could resist the forces for a while in order to create a tipping motion.

That isn't the case. One pillar failure puts a heavy load on the nearby pillars. In a normal situation they could take the load, but they're already under strain due to the heat. So they fail too. All of those failures causes a huge upward force on the pillars across from the failures - the building is trying to tip. That causes the pillars between those two to act as fulcrums instead of stationary objects. Which puts an enormous load on the connections in a direction they are not designed to handle. So they all fail. And what happens if the middle of a see-saw collapses? One end isn't catapulted upwards, both ends fall down.

That results in a failure much faster than you think will happen. Which means you don't have enough time to develop a significant lean in the areas above the failure, which means the building doesn't have time to fall to the side. Then that floor fails and thousands of tons land on the floor below, causing that floor to instantly fail. The process repeats all the way down, and you get the building falling more-or-less straight down.

You know full well that for any "evidence" you can produce (usually produced by some governmental agency, bureau, panel, committee or hired expert)

My "evidence" is produced by basic physics. You need a large lateral force to cause the building to tip so that it falls sideways. There isn't anything providing that force, and the structure itself can not fail in a way to produce it internally.

I can produce an equal number of documents refuting them

What you have not produced is the source of the large lateral force needed to tip the building over. All you have to do is explain where that force came from.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
124. There was no heat load on the lower floors.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 02:16 PM
Oct 2014

Last edited Wed Oct 15, 2014, 05:47 PM - Edit history (1)

That was still supposedly structurally sound steel. Yet it was destroyed just the same as the top "melted" floors were. At some point, the structural components would have stopped a self-footprint implosion. But, no. Nothing tipped. Everything fell into a nice neat pile right in its own footprint. While a paper passport fluttered to the ground at the feet of a federal investigator. Seems plausible enough to me.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
125. Because cars aren't crushed when they hit things.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 04:12 PM
Oct 2014
At some point, the structural components would have stopped a self-footprint implosion.

Your car's structure is able to hold up the weight of the car. But crash the car into something, and the structure can't withstand the impact.

It takes much more structural strength to stop a moving load than to merely hold it in the air. As I already mentioned, the falling upper floors overloaded the next floor down, causing it to fail. Now you have the upper floors plus the next floor down falling onto the floor below, causing it to fail. And so on. The problem actually gets worse as the building collapses, because you keep adding another floor's worth of weight to the collapsing structure. You are claiming the opposite, that the weight would be less of a problem.

While a paper passport fluttered to the ground at the feet of a federal investigator.

So now we apparently have to explain the basic concept of buoyancy to you, as well as the massive updraft caused by those collapsing floors pushing air out of the rapidly-collapsing space.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
126. You don't have to explain anything to me.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 05:53 PM
Oct 2014

Except, perhaps, how a passport managed to conveniently blow out of the pocket of the criminal mastermind of the operation, out of a burning inferno which brought down three skyscrapers, and flutter to the ground next to a guy who could tell us the very next day who all the hijackers were. I mean, really. That sounds plausible. Unless you saw it in a movie or something, then you'd say it was the biggest load of bullshit you'd ever seen.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
127. You make way too many assumptions about what I know.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 05:58 PM
Oct 2014

But I can certainly ascertain where you're coming from.

Your "basic physics" are basically bullshit. You can't melt steel with jet fuel. Period. It does not burn hot enough, especially when all of the steel columns are covered in flame retardant coating. It can't happen. It has NEVER happened. Until these three building all miraculously collapsed into their own footprint (making the cleanup much less costly).

Atman

(31,464 posts)
129. Actually, there are photographs of molten steel pouring out of the towers.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 07:12 PM
Oct 2014

It is well documented.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
142. really, come on you are killing us here-
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:13 PM
Oct 2014

Do we have to re-hash all of the metals at WTC and their various melting points AGAIN!

Is it still 2002?

questionseverything

(9,655 posts)
99. so we have established that the cia did pull off a huge ct
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 01:58 PM
Oct 2014

ur point about who was harmed is baseless

very few families escaped losing a member to the coke epidemic

wall street insiders benefited when #7 fell as much evidence was stored there

my original point remains the same, we know the mic has pulled off an incredible ct in the cia/coke/iran/contra scandal so who is to say how often it happens?

Atman

(31,464 posts)
55. Why did there have to "hundreds of thousands" involved?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:51 PM
Oct 2014

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The ones on the planes were killed. We trained them in Florida. I don't think Bush could masturbate without assistance, but it doesn't mean there weren't MIC forces pulling other strings (hey "Dick&quot . Only the ones that needed to know needed to know. The rest could easily be left in the dark, such as the air traffic controllers who had all their tapes removed and destroyed with hours after the event. They didn't to be "in on it." Nor did the PA first responders in Shanksville...they just first responded. No one had to fill them in on what they were investigating, not while they were busy listening to fake, impossible (given the technology at the time) cell phone calls saying "Let's roll!"

You can make the points that it is too large a conspiracy, but you haven't made a single point explaining all the discrepancy in every other area. And you are dead wrong, basic physics would make a building fall over -- unless EVERY structural part of the steel collapsed at exactly the same time. Not possible. Especially not with the burning temp of jet fuel, from the top floor. No way in hell the buildings, both buildings, all three buildings, would collapse into their own footprint. Maybe one. A million-to-one odds that two might. But not gonna happen, especially for the third building which wasn't even hit. I'll tell you who sounds like the conspiracy theorist now. And it isn't me, Jeff47.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
56. "I don't think Bush could masturbate without assistance"
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 05:58 PM
Oct 2014

Although this is the only thing you wrote which I agree with...
I will say it is likely the funniest thing I will read all day...maybe this month!!!
Thanks!

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
74. Because that's what it would take for it to be "MIC forced" or "pulling other strings"
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:04 PM
Oct 2014
but you haven't made a single point explaining all the discrepency in every other area.

Because there's no point. You are not interested in reality, you are only interested in things that back up the story you want to be true.

For example:
And you are dead wrong, basic physics would make a building fall over -- unless EVERY structural part of the steel collapsed at exactly the same time.

Don't ever build a house or anything else that holds up a significant load. Because you have no idea how they work.

What happens is one post fails. That causes the nearby posts to fail since they are overloaded. Which then cause the next-closest posts to fail. And so on until most of one floor pancakes. That is what causes the collapse - the massive weight suddenly hitting all of the floor below causes all of the posts to collapse at exactly the same time.

Also, you are acting as if there were structural posts throughout the floor. They were not. The structural load was carried by the outer curtain (cut by the impact) and the central core.

Why do they cut the posts at the same time during demolition? Safety. It guarantees the building will fall as intended. Doesn't mean buildings have to collapse sideways if there is a slight delay.

Especially not with the burning temp of jet fuel, from the top floor

Because miraculously, the jet fuel didn't ignite anything else. Oh, and you have a very interesting definition of "top floor".

You are very interested in believing something happened. As a result, you are absolutely uninterested in anything that doesn't fit your narrative. And you will continue to believe them forever, so I don't really see any point to continuing this.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
78. I live in New England. Don't give me that "build a house" shit.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:14 PM
Oct 2014

I see houses and barns all over the place here in rural-ville. They fall over. They lean. They sway until they can't take it anymore. I actually like to take pictures of them, they're very quaint. I've yet to find one, ever, that just collapsed into itself. Of course, we're actually talking about reenforced steel skyscrapers, not barns and houses. Otherwise, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. You seem to actually be affirming most of what I said even while you're trying to deny it! Thanks. I think.

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
112. A large building has a hell of a lot more inertia than a house
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 06:31 PM
Oct 2014

Plus the distance laterally that a tower must move is far greater to make it fall over.

There aren't the forces present to push a tower over. The support structures collapse well before the tower tips over, as explained above.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
120. Oh man I somehow missed that one! Now I understand the reference to melting chicken wire.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 09:30 AM
Oct 2014

Thanks! These guys are right up there with the Young Earth Creationists explaining how the Grand Canyon is the result of Noah's flood.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
119. And a 2 story barn falling down from neglect is exactly like a skyscraper hit by a plane.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 09:24 AM
Oct 2014

Dontcha know? You are actually more clueless than most truthers. But of course you are not a truther. No, not in any way. Never. Nein Nein Nein.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
19. Kind of hard to argue with...but many people will, and do.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:38 PM
Oct 2014

Planes flew miles over the Hudson River while loads of military planes were ALREADY IN THE AIR to practice against such maneuvers. Then there are the TWO billion-dollar insurance policies taken out on the WTC towers just a few weeks before the event. Then there is the Bush family connection to security in the WTC, which was shut down for days prior to the event. Of course, we have the buildings falling perfectly into their own footprint, and #7 just falling down for no reason. Oh, wait, and the terrorists training in South Florida while actually being roommates with FBI agents. Oh, and the perfectly intact passport of the leader of the terrorists, found laying in the road just hours after the event. And the fact that they were almost all Saudis, which were spirited away even as our airspace was shut down. Oops, and the BBC reporting #7 had collapsed 1/2 hour before it happened. Did I mention the Pentagon, with no debris found, and only a perfect pin-prick of a hole going through just the right part of the building? We won't even mention what Andrew Card could possibly have said to GWB in the 1 1/2 seconds he whispered in his ear during My Pet Goat.

I can understand these things and why they make no sense to some of you, just as I can understand why the chemtrail nonsense is ridiculous. Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? Sometimes conspiracies really are conspiracies. Sometimes plane vapor trails really are just vapor trails. One doesn't make the other false.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
32. Yeah, but we're supposed to pretend none of that ever happened.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:35 PM
Oct 2014

PNAC was real, it was signed and delivered, the names were on it. But no...we're all crazy to think anything about the secret oil meetings which we STILL know nothing about, and Saudis flying planes into buildings, and, and, and...we're all just crazy. It's just like chemtrails. Really, just like chemtrails.

 

Cheap_Trick

(3,918 posts)
33. And when we did launch some interceptors
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:37 PM
Oct 2014

they flew at 1/3 (500 mph vs 1500 mph) their top speed, like they were in no hurry to get there.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
77. ...because prior to 9/11, supersonic flights over the US were illegal.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:09 PM
Oct 2014

But don't let that stop you.

 

Cheap_Trick

(3,918 posts)
90. Gee, I think we could've bent the rules for an emergency such as this.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:32 PM
Oct 2014

I'm sure you don't let the speed limits stop you.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
93. Even if we did "bend the rules" just that one time...
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 08:07 AM
Oct 2014

How exactly were they supposed to locate them? The transponders were off and NORAD before 9/11 had absolutely no reason to look for threats coming from the continental US.

And what were they supposed to respond with? The fighters up doing drills that were entirely disarmed? Or do you think the entirety of ACC is on alert to handle passenger aircraft that have entirely disappeared from radar?

And even with all of that, you do realize fighters have comparatively small fuel tanks and can't maintain anywhere near that top speed for more than a few seconds, right?

 

Cheap_Trick

(3,918 posts)
98. Uh, we have a new invention called "radar"
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 01:55 PM
Oct 2014

turning the transponder off doesn't make the plane invisible to radar. If that was the case the ruskies could invade us by air. You don't think it odd that almost all of the defense force of the eastern seaboard was off on a "drill"? And yes, intercepting planes with in flight emergencies is EXACTLY what is supposed to happen.

http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Payne_Stewart

"It should be reiterated that procedures also require controllers to immediately alert the military to scramble fighter craft, if a plane deviates from its flight path and communication between the plane and controllers is blocked. This occurs whether or not the situation consists of a potential hijacking, as was the case with Payne Stuart’s Lear jet, which was intercepted by military planes almost immediately, and while communication with the jet was blocked.
Page 148, The War On Freedom, Nafeez Ahmed"

"Officials from the North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs coordinated emergency flights to monitor the Learjet's flight.
The first sign of trouble came at 10:08 a.m. EDT, as Air Force Staff Sgt. James Hicks sat in his air-control tower. A clearly troubled Federal Aviation Administration worker was issuing a distress call for a Learjet not far away.

The twin-engine craft had left Orlando, Fla., less than hour earlier and things had turned very strange. The jet was flying erratically. The pilot did not answer radio transmissions. Could Hicks, from his post at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., send a F-16 to check it out?

Hicks didn't know U.S. Open champion Stewart and at least four others were on board. Neither did Capt. Chris Hamilton, who was immediately pulled off maneuvers over the Gulf of Mexico and ordered to give chase.

The end came four hours, six states and 1,400 miles later when a chartered jet nose-dived into a South Dakota field.

Hamilton had to stop for fuel, so it took 50 minutes to close the Learjet's 100-mile lead. And once the Air Force pilot got a clear look at the smaller craft, his heart dropped.

"It's a very helpless feeling to pull up alongside another aircraft and realize the people inside ... are unconscious or in some other way incapacitated," he said.
The windows had iced over and Hamilton could see nothing.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090620003348/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_19991026/ai_n9962647/"

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
102. Yes, I'm aware of radar.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:08 PM
Oct 2014

Are you aware of how busy the northeastern corridor of US airspace is on any given day, especially around Boston and New York?

And nevermind that if the transponders are off, the only way to identify the aircraft is through process of elimination with the dozens of other passenger aircraft in the same area.

If that was the case the ruskies could invade us by air.


You keep bringing that up, and I keep telling you how much nonsense it is. Yes, NORAD can track incoming aircraft from outside the continental United States--those are called Air Defense Identification Zones, and their purpose is to restrict aircraft coming into US airspace.

There weren't ADIZes in the continental United States until after 9/11. When there is an incident with a civilian aircraft in US airspace, NORAD and the military have to coordinate with civilian ATC.

Oh, and thanks for posting that story about the aircraft, since it's exactly the same one I mentioned in an earlier post. Military had to coordinate with civilian ATC, who had the aircraft's transponder tracked, fighter had to go subsonic to reach it, and it took 50 minutes. Now imagine if that had been four separate aircraft with with transponders off.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
105. Did you see how long it took them to intercept Payne Stewart's plane?
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:20 PM
Oct 2014

that should give you pause to think.

As for the radar, without IFF it would be impossible for a fighter pilot to find one plane out of the thousands that were flying that day. And don't forget that fighter radars do not have 360 degree coverage - in the real world, fighter pilots are directed to the enemy by someone else with a big ass radar and only turn on their radars for the final intercept.

EX500rider

(10,849 posts)
80. You might want to look up what after-burners do to fuel consumption..
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:20 PM
Oct 2014
...An F-15 Consumes:
6,000 LBS/hour at normal cruise (600 minute)
20,000 LBS/hour at mil take off
160,000 LBS/hour at AB (2666/minute)
She holds
internal: 13,455 lb
external: 9,750 lb
in Fuel

So with only Internal Fuel (say you are carrying some ordinance) you get a whopping 5 minutes until the tanks are completely dry

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070618152139AAMHHeW
 

Cheap_Trick

(3,918 posts)
91. Maybe if we'd sent up interceptors as soon as the first plane's transponder was switched off
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:40 PM
Oct 2014

it wouldn't have mattered.

CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT
CHIEFS OF STAFF
INSTRUCTION

J-3 CJCSI 3610.01A
DISTRIBUTION: A, B, C, J, S 1 June 2001
AIRCRAFT PIRACY (HIJACKING) AND DESTRUCTION OF DERELICT
AIRBORNE OBJECTS
References: See Enclosure D.

4. Policy.

a. Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) of Civil and Military Aircraft. Pursuant
to references a and b, the Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA), has exclusive responsibility to direct law enforcement activity
related to actual or attempted aircraft piracy (hijacking) in the “special
aircraft jurisdiction” of the United States. When requested by the
Administrator, Department of Defense will provide assistance to these
law enforcement efforts. Pursuant to reference c, the NMCC is the focal
point within Department of Defense for providing assistance. In the
event of a hijacking, the NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious
means by the FAA. The NMCC will, with the exception of immediate
responses as authorized by reference d, forward requests for DOD
assistance to the Secretary of Defense for approval. DOD assistance to
the FAA will be provided in accordance with reference d. Additional
guidance is provided in Enclosure A.

d. DOD Directive 3025.15, 18 February 1997, “Military Assistance to
Civil Authorities”

(http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/cjcsd/cjcsi/3610_01a.pdf)

---------------------------------------------

Department of Defense
DIRECTIVE

NUMBER 3025.15
February 18, 1997

SUBJECT: Military Assistance to Civil Authorities

4.7.1. Immediate Response. Requests for an immediate response (i.e., any
form of immediate action taken by a DoD Component or military commander to save
lives, prevent human suffering, or mitigate great property damage under imminently
serious conditions) may be made to any Component or Command. The DoD
Components that receive verbal requests from civil authorities for support in an exigent
emergency may initiate informal planning and, if required, immediately respond as
authorized in DoD Directive 3025.1 (reference (g)). Civil authorities shall be informed
that verbal requests for support in an emergency must be followed by a written request.
As soon as practical, the DoD Component or Command rendering assistance shall report
the fact of the request, the nature of the response, and any other pertinent information
through the chain of command to the DoD Executive Secretary, who shall notify the
Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and any other appropriate
officials. If the report does not include a copy of the civil authorities' written request, that
request shall be forwarded to the DoD Executive Secretary as soon as it is available.

REFERENCES

(g) DoD Directive 3025.1, "Military Support to Civil Authorities (MSCA)," January 15,
1993

(http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/302515p.pdf)
------------------------------------------------------------

Department of Defense
DIRECTIVE
NUMBER 3025.1
January 15, 1993
USD(P)
SUBJECT: Military Support to Civil Authorities (MSCA)

4.5. Immediate Response

4.5.1. Imminently serious conditions resulting from any civil emergency or
attack may require immediate action by military commanders, or by responsible officials
of other DoD Agencies, to save lives, prevent human suffering, or mitigate great property
damage. When such conditions exist and time does not permit prior approval from
higher headquarters, local military commanders and responsible officials of other DoD
Components are authorized by this Directive, subject to any supplemental direction that
may be provided by their DoD Component, to take necessary action to respond to
requests of civil authorities. All such necessary action is referred to in this Directive as
"Immediate Response."

(http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/302501p.pdf)

--------------------------------------------------------------
As one can see, the June 1, 2001 revision on 'AIRCRAFT PIRACY (HIJACKING) AND DESTRUCTION OF DERELICT AIRBORNE OBJECTS' left untouched DoD's response protocol for scramble and intercept of aircraft experiencing in-flight emergencies. The June 1, 2001 revision only applied to hijacked aircraft and the destruction of airborne objects.

Since we were told that during the summer of 2001 (between June 2 and September 10) there were ZERO NORAD scrambles to intercept aircraft that experienced in-flight emergencies, that means DoD disobeyed a lawful written order.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
95. And again, how exactly were they supposed to locate the aircraft?
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 08:49 AM
Oct 2014

The only time prior to 9/11 that the military intercepted a civilian aircraft, the aircraft's transponder was active and it took the fighter close to an hour to reach it.

So how exactly were they supposed to locate three aircraft in the very crowded northeastern corridor with their transponders off and no way to track them?

And yet again, I remind you NORAD had no means of tracking aircraft inside the United States aside from coordinating with civilian ATC.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
137. The DoD has no way of knowing if a transponder is turned off
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 09:50 AM
Oct 2014

there is not a national system of military radars tracking every commercial flight in America - their radars on located on the borders looking for planes approaching America from other countries. They scramble for flights over America only if the FAA asks them too.

Secondly, transponders are turned off daily due to pilot error or equipment failure. There is no interception every time that happens.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
88. Do you understand what top speed does for fuel consumption?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 10:45 PM
Oct 2014

There is a reason jets only use afterburners for seconds, not minutes, in combat. Besides, with a full load of gas, weapons and external fuel tanks, an F15 can't fly supersonic no matter how much afterburner it used.

 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
76. Can't trust Popular Mechanics.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:08 PM
Oct 2014

After all, if it supports the Official Story, They must have gotten to them.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
36. One of the greatest lines ever.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:43 PM
Oct 2014

"I can't help that I don't believe that fragile planes can penetrate steel and concrete and leave NO debris anywhere near the buildings."

Almost onion worthy. You know how to do it.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
42. Jet engines didn't fall to the street. Fusilage didn't fall to the street.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:11 PM
Oct 2014

But the unsinged passport of the "mastermind" was found a few blocks away within hours. That's a damned fine passport.

This is what baffles me. You accept all sorts of crazy theories. I'd say, frankly that YOU are the conspiracy theorists. Planes completely destroy three buildings, two of them among the largest in the world, and everything is vaporized. The planes, the people, even eventually the buildings. But when WTC went up into a fireball, the passport of ONE MAN, the supposed mastermind of the plot, fluttered to the ground unharmed. Apparently flew out of his pocket upon impact and landed right on the street where an investigator could find it. And you expect me to believe that is a plausible story? I'd love to hear your explanation as to how his passport flew out of his clothing even as the rest of the plane and its crew/cabin were being vaporized. It's sounds like it should be a fascinating story. Maybe he opened the window and threw it out of the plane before they crashed.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
83. the hell they didn't
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:43 PM
Oct 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315518/Plane-fragment-9-11-wedged-Manhattan-buildings.html

WTF do you call this:



Oh I know... that's a fake airplane part that was planted there, right?

How is it you can do so much 9/11 "research" and say no parts came down?
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
101. Inconvenient... at best.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 02:54 PM
Oct 2014

"WTF do you call this..."

Inconvenient... at best.





Look at it this way, threads such as this certainly do illustrate the difference between a rational mind and a mind that forces facts to conform to its own biased conclusions (which is mostly likely, my first and last word on Truthers and Birthers-- bless their little hearts)

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
94. "Jet engines didn't fall to the street. Fusilage didn't fall to the street."
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 08:11 AM
Oct 2014

I'm going to assume you are kidding. There really isn't anything else to think. The claim you have made here is easily provable to be false. Proven by govt and citizens. Many parts of the plane were found. Many fell to the street. How can you claim to not know this? You would have to be trying to stay uneducated in order to believe what you typed. If it was an attempt at sarcasm it also failed. I have a hard time believing you are this disconnected from reality. Reading your posts over the years tells me you are educated on world events. That one line defies reality completely. It is such a disconnect that I don't even find it funny. It is against facts.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
108. Same argument is made about the Pentagon plane.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 05:26 PM
Oct 2014

Oops. As Ronnie Reagan once said, "facts are stupid things."

Atman

(31,464 posts)
97. Correct, that was a dumb thing to say.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 12:18 PM
Oct 2014

To be perfectly honest with you, I'm not even a "truther," or whatever. I'm just making the case that there are LOTS of unanswered questions on both sides. Many strain credulity. It's not a simple matter of "believing science," as one poster put it. If that were the case, you'd be questioning it, too, since science has shown that no amount of jet fuel and carpet and desks and chairs can burn hot enough to melt that much steel. That's science. Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel like that, it's been gone over a hundred times.

My point was, you believe jet fuel CAN melt steel, but also believe a paper passport can fly out of someone's pocket -- the one person who just happened to be the so-called mastermind of the attacks -- a paper passport could survive an inferno which brought down three steel skyscrapers. And flutter conveniently to the feet of an official investigator. Really? Which theory sounds crazier?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
100. Bullpuckey
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 02:34 PM
Oct 2014

There is no question that debris fell to the street.

Furthermore, it is not necessary for steel to "melt" in order to lose most of its strength.

Why do you think steel structural members in buildings have fireproofing in the first place?

Here's a section of the Delft Technical University library collapsing from a fire:



What what happens at 47 seconds.

Oh, right, I know... the collapse of that library was part of a complex inside job conspiracy.
 

NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
103. "Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel"
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:11 PM
Oct 2014

Of course it doesn't, that's why the steel didn't melt.

Unless you think steel completely shed of its fireproofing remains perfectly strong and capable of supporting twenty floors above it until it melts.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
107. You obviously don't have much experience with large fires.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 05:21 PM
Oct 2014

"To be perfectly honest with you, I'm not even a "truther," or whatever." Right. Sure you aren't. You just carry their water for them.

You don't even need fuel to melt steel. In major warehouse fires steel beams often start sagging considerably. If the fire is allowed to continue burning they will often eventually collapse. And the trade center buildings were not a two story warehouse. A lot of extremely hot material collapsed into a small area, mixing with plenty of oxygen with lots of combustible materials. That combined with the kinetic energy of the collapse of a tower would generate a tremendous amount of heat. And anyone who has watched a major fire has seen paper get lofted into the air and escape from a fire. Watch footage of the trade center fires on 9-11. There was paper everywhere.

zappaman

(20,606 posts)
111. Yeah, over 40 buildings were damaged by the WTC falling "perfectly into their own footprint."
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 06:29 PM
Oct 2014

was this building in the footprint?






The "fell perfectly in their own footprint" is what every truther likes to parrot, but simply isn't true.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
116. There you go again, using actual facts as evidence.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 08:46 AM
Oct 2014

Dontcha know, it is not truth which matters, but truthiness?

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
115. Yeah you are "not a truther" you just use exactly the same (false) arguments.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 08:44 AM
Oct 2014

I got it.

Oh and congratulations on consistently applying the Gish Gallop debate technique - One argument fails, never mind, on to the next "truthy fact." Something might stick if enough shit is thrown against the wall.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
134. It wasn't a "dumb thing to say", it was an absolutely untrue and false thing to say
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 02:02 AM
Oct 2014

And so now you are going to string out a list of other untrue and false things, and it won't matter that each of them is untrue and false - it's the volume of them which is supposed to add up to the truth.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
135. "it won't matter that each of them is untrue and false - it's the volume of them which is
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 09:38 AM
Oct 2014

supposed to add up to the truth." Yep. Also a classic part of the debating technique of Mr. Duane Gish, designed to have a scientifically illiterate audience say, "Golly, gee, he makes a lot of good points and his opponent doesn't even answer them." He is dead but his debating legacy lives on. Hallelujah Praise Jesus!

 

AnalystInParadise

(1,832 posts)
45. 20 year military vet here
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:27 PM
Oct 2014

your confidence in our ability to respond in under 40 minutes is gratifying but wholly wrong. We didn't arm planes over CONUS prior to 9/11 on most days. The fact that it only took us 45 minutes to get armed fighters in the air on 9/11 is a testament of our ground crews being well trained. Weapons were kept locked up, planes were unarmed, that was kind of standard OP prior to 9/11. But hey whatever.....

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
47. Don't try logic on these fools
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:30 PM
Oct 2014

It doesn't work. Just like Chem-Trail Conspiracy believers, it's a waste of time.

Just laugh at them and move on.

 

AnalystInParadise

(1,832 posts)
48. I feel compelled somedays
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:33 PM
Oct 2014

40 minutes to find pilots, find weapons crews, find weapons, get them on the planes hard points, brief the pilots and then vector them to the right coordinates? That is a minor miracle in that short period of time. Loaded planes, with loaded weapons, with crews standing next to them with just the right weapons load with pilots sitting in the cockpits waiting to take off is Hollywood fiction, or at least was in CONUS prior to 9/11/01.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
7. Interesting, I did not think we are allowed to even bring up this subject.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:28 PM
Oct 2014

That is funny what he did.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
14. I mean the 'word that shall not be said on DU'.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:35 PM
Oct 2014

Gotta remember that next time I am on a plane and they have to drop some fuel. Funny!

 

J_J_

(1,213 posts)
10. investigation is being demanded by 400 Shasta residents
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:31 PM
Oct 2014



On July 15th, 2014, citizens from Northern California rallied to create the largest attendance ever at the Shasta County Supervisors chambers (400+, chairman Les Baugh confirmed this attendance record at the start of the meeting

www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-investigation-demanded-by-shasta-county-residents/

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
118. We need a Conspiracy Theory Tax. You want your favorite theory investigated, pay up.
Wed Oct 15, 2014, 09:12 AM
Oct 2014

Truthers et al., put your money where your mouth is.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
16. I handle discussion with the chemtrails folks this way...
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:37 PM
Oct 2014

If you really believe that this is happening, pool your money with 10-20-40-50, however many it takes, other believers, buy a balloon that you can send up with equipment that measures chemicals, and send it into trails and see what you get.

I always get excuses back as to why they can't do that. Folks who push this crazy conspiracy out there know deep down it is B.S. and don't want to take any steps that might prove it is B.S.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
39. Well now that's just like asking them to give up their hopes and dreams.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:59 PM
Oct 2014

If they don't have this, they will not be able to blame their thoughts on anyone but themselves!!

lob1

(3,820 posts)
44. I'not a chem-trail conspiracy guy, but your test is impossible.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:27 PM
Oct 2014

You can't steer a balloon, it goes where ever the wind pushes it. So if you launch a balloon, the chance that it's going to go through a trail several thousand (or 10's of thousands) of feet in the air is not likely.

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
50. Keep trying or hire a plane
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:38 PM
Oct 2014

It's easy.

However, anyone dumb enough to believe in chem-trails is probably too stupid to figure out how to get a contrail sample.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
104. There are a couple of reasons why your objection isn't quite right.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:15 PM
Oct 2014

First of all is that the chemtrail conspiracy is that the government is trying to poison us with dropping chemicals out of planes. That means that the chemicals would not stay in the trail, they would disperse and fall to earth. So it is not required for the balloon to actually make contact with the trails, just get up higher and closer to them in order to get as good a sample as possible, and then compare that to a baseline which would be a day when there were no trails.

Second, balloons can be tethered, and it is also possible to attach apparatuses to them that give you some steering control. Again, considering what I said in the first paragraph, the steering could be very rudimentary. The balloon would only need to be positioned in the general area a few hundred or thousand feet below the trail.

wheniwasincongress

(1,307 posts)
20. Ha
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:40 PM
Oct 2014

Reminds me of those two fellows who created tons of crop circles and after years admitted to it... Despite "crop circle experts" maintaining that no human could possibly make such designs!

procon

(15,805 posts)
22. My elderly dad believe all this hokum
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 01:44 PM
Oct 2014

What was really maddening to me was that he was a very intelligent and educated man who worked in the avionics field his whole life... oh, and he was also a pilot himself. So he knew the science, he knew the facts, but he read all the conspiracy theory crap and accept every nutty, illogical allegation as if were the truth etched in stone.

I don't know why he was so easily duped, or what convinced him to toss aside his reason and critical thinking -- skills he relentlessly drummed into all his kids -- but he was totally and completely hoodwinked.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
34. So, your Dad is aware?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:40 PM
Oct 2014

Aware of the fact that the military, starting in the 1950's, did use airplanes to disperse chemicals into hurricanes?

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
138. "the military ... did use airplanes to disperse chemicals into hurricanes?" Yeah and so what?
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 10:02 AM
Oct 2014

It was called cloud seeding and has absolutely nothing to do with the chemtrails nonsense. In any case it was experimental under Project Stormfury and was pretty much given up as impractical and ineffective in calming hurricanes - the last flight was in 1971.
The U.S. Military also did some cloud seeding during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s to try to extend the monsoon season over North Vietnam in an effort to disrupt the movement of supplies on the Ho Chi Min Trail. Other cloud seeding experiments have been done but mostly by NOAA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding. What pray tell does any of this have to do with "chemtrails" other than the superficial fact that chemicals can be and have been sprayed out of airplanes?

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
139. Agent orange in VN?
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 12:48 PM
Oct 2014

You claim the military has sprayed chemicals out of airplanes?

Doesn't that make you a chemtrail believer?

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
140. No, because I do not claim those chemicals are causing "Chemtrails"
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 12:59 PM
Oct 2014

Chemtrail conspiracy theory
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Chemtrails" redirects here. For the Beck song, see Chemtrails (song).

A high-flying jet leaving a condensation trail (contrail)
According to the chemtrail conspiracy theory, long-lasting trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed for sinister purposes undisclosed to the general public.[1] Believers in the theory argue that normal contrails dissipate relatively quickly, and contrails that do not dissipate must contain additional substances.


 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
144. Well
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 01:46 PM
Oct 2014

You agree that the military has done such things. You are lumped in with them now. No getting out of it. You and them pretty much agree: it happens.

Turbineguy

(37,337 posts)
28. I had a lady ask me if I knew what those streaks in the sky were.
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 02:18 PM
Oct 2014

"Sure, it's the water vapor in jet engine exhaust!" It was pointed out that I was wrong and that it was a government plot to influence our thinking. Hmmm....... so how come it's only working on one of us?

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
43. How did you keep from busting out laughing right then and there?
Mon Oct 13, 2014, 03:14 PM
Oct 2014

I wouldn't have been able to contain myself.

hunter

(38,316 posts)
147. There have been multiple experiments, including 9/11 groundings...
Fri Oct 17, 2014, 04:06 PM
Oct 2014

...but I've never had to pick red-white-and-blue-hairy-fibers out of my skin.



I took this photo and it belongs to me.

They turned the sky another shade of grey.

I'm not a chem-trail guy. It's all science, but I don't think they managed to cheat their imaginary angels or devils.

Mother Nature still bats last.





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