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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:05 PM
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To be curious is the beginning of the scientific method.
Edited on Sat Aug-22-09 04:19 PM by Bonobo
Q: Why did fires burn for 8 weeks? That doesn't usually happen..
A: Who knows!? Are you saying it was thermite or something? You're an idiot. Shut up.

Q: Molten steel? Fuck that. What about ANY molten metal!? What's that doing there? Pouring out of windows? From a kerosene fire?
A: Well you saw it, so I guess it's normal. Are you an expert metallurgist now?

Q: Why have we never seen photos of the plane flying into the Pentagon? My local 7/11 has better camera surveillance than that!
A: So are you saying it was a missile!? You're an idiot. So what happened to all those people!

Q: Why did buildings suddenly fall due to fire? That never happened to any other buildings in history? And 3 of them?
A: So what are you saying? Obvously it fell from the fires. Are you saying a little green man did it? Shut up, idiot.

Q: WT7 wasn't even hit by a plane and it fell -just like the others. Why?
A: Don't you know anything? Have you even READ the NIST report!? Come back when you have an engineering degree and maybe we'll talk, idiot.

Q: Where was NORAD that day? How come jets weren't scrambled from a nearby base?
A: Oh, so now you're an expert on the military! Fucking nut bag....

Q: Why do you believe an administration that has been proven to gave lied about just about everything related to foreign policy, torture, the war vs. Iraq, Blackwater, etc.?
A: Well, even a stopped watch is right twice a day, I guess.

Does this sound like curiosity to you? Or does it sound like the graveyard where curious minds go?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:25 PM
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1. To refuse actual answers for no good reason shoots the scientific method execution-style.
Why did fires burn for eight weeks? Because they had the fuel to do so - the contents of huge office buildings.

Why have we never seen photos of the plane flying into the Pentagon? Because there are none. Your local 7/11 wouldn't have had any better photograph or video recording of that event.

Why did buildings suddenly fall due to fire? They didn't. The onset of the progressive collapses in all three was a gradual process.

WTC7 wasn't even hit by a plane and it fell - just like the others. Why? Because it was hit by debris from WTC1 which started several fires. Those fires burned unchecked for seven hours in the lower floors. Eventually a section of the building built to accomodate both an electrical substation and WTC ramp access already on the site failed, kicking off the collapse.

Where was NORAD that day? Trying its damnedest to find out where problems were and get to them. The actual tapes of their efforts are in the public domain.

Why do you believe an administation, etc.? Because they aren't the only ones we get this information from.
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:29 PM
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2. All your "answers" simply amount to "it must be so because alternatives are unthinkable".
You have tailored your answers to fit retroactively. A logical error is in their somewhere but I am unsure as to the correct terminology for it.

But clearly your arguments are circular. Turtles on turtles as my old Anthro prof used to say.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:29 PM
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3. Not true. Not true at all.
Edited on Sat Aug-22-09 04:30 PM by Bolo Boffin
And misrepresenting my positions and stated facts so blatantly doesn't speak well for your claim on the scientific method.
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:32 PM
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4. So do you support a full and independent investigation? If not, why not?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:47 PM
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5. What else is left to do? n/t
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:51 PM
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6. To satisfy those who feel it was not full, like me and many others. You did not answer the question.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 05:47 PM
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8. Your personal incredulity is no cause of concern for me.
Not when you cite the types of things in the OP that cause your personal incredulity to speak up.
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scott75 Donating Member (218 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:17 PM
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25. Defining incredulity..
Incredulity is the quality of being incredulous. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incredulous">Merriam Webster defines incredulous as:
1 : unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical


The term admit in the context given above is generally used to denote when someone is wrong but refuses to acknowledge it.

However, there is an "or" in the definition above.

The term accept is far more ambiguous than admit. Surely you acknowledge that simply accepting things that we are told by others is not always a good thing.

To get a further understanding of the term, I believe it would be wise to post the definition of credulous. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/credulous">Merriam Webster's definition of the term:

1 : ready to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence <accused of swindling credulous investors>
2 : proceeding from credulity <credulous superstitions>


So yes, it's not good to not 'admit' when one is wrong, but I think you would agree that it's not good to believe people based on 'slight or uncertain evidence' as well.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 04:53 PM
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7. SuperLame.
If you aren't able to deal with the details, why bother starting the conversation?
(or were you just posting a baseless rant?)
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:30 AM
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14. There's the proof that your "curiosity" has nothing to do with your 9/11 opinions
All of your questions have answers that don't involve any conspiracy, so you intentionally ignore them and then disingenuously try to claim that "All your 'answers' simply amount to 'it must be so because alternatives are unthinkable'". How do you reconcile your alleged "curiosity" with your willful ignorance? Richard Feynman once said that science is the way we avoid fooling ourselves. You instead prefer the anti-scientific method, apparently because you have the opposite purpose.
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:01 PM
Response to Reply #14
139. 10 Bonus points to WS for quoting Feynman n/t
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 01:50 PM
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17. WTF????? World trade fallicies!........
1. Do you people actually believe the contents to the towers offices were what was on fire?
First of all one worker on the site famously said the biggest item he saw from the wreckage was a telephone key pad. Most of the contents were pulverized lying
in a pile. Where is the oxygen to feed this fire of office contents. The building was full of asbestos and other fire retardant articles. Most of the structural steel had fireproofing on it.
Your arguments about the fire being an inferno that could get hot enough to weaken steel when the buildings were still standing depended on your claim of all the oxygen from the wind to fuel the fires.
Now the bottom of a pile containing little to no oxygen is perfectly capable of sustaining a weeks long fire hot enough to melt workers boots?
2. There are no photos of the planes hitting the pentagon???
Tell that to the workers of the hilton who had the hotel security tapes of the crash confiscated by the FBI moments after the crash as they were watching them.
3.Without any of the bucking and gradual sagging normally seen in such an event. It also looks just like the recent top down demolition video of the chinese building right down to the side expulsion of girders.
4.ok sure, I still think the real reason for seven coming down was the SEC evidence from investigations on ENRON and others on wall street that was housed there.
5.The actual redacted transcribed tapes you mean. How come you guys never mention that detail??
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 07:13 PM
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9. Building fires don't burn for 8 weeks
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 08:10 PM
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10. Why not?
if you dumped all the combustibles from the TC in a six story pit and set it on fire, just how long do you think it would burn?

Why do you think it burned so long? It can't be thermate so what else?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 01:55 PM
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18. ComBustables???????????
You mean all the asbestos and fireproofed steel that was mixed into your pile of pulverised concrete none of which are very combustable?
Plus this fire was burning from the bottom of the pile up not the top down. where is the oxygen needed to fuel the fires that burned for weeks?
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 02:47 PM
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20. No
Edited on Sun Aug-23-09 02:48 PM by hack89
what are office buildings stuffed with? Think for a second - it will come to you. Think about why they need sprinkler systems.

If not then google fuel loading - it will make sense then.

As for the air, think again. What possible source of air ran deep under the WTC? And don't you think that there were large pockets in the pile - there were plenty of large chunks of debris and steel columns after all.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 03:17 PM
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22. Fireproofed steel that does not burn unless the fires are super heated..
They use bellows to achieve that in foundries. Were there bellows under the towers??
And office fires are considered a low burning fire that do not achieve much intensity. Hence the black smoke in the towers firefighters said were indicative of anything but a raging inferno.
You oct friends claimed it was all the oxygen from the wind that helped super heat what would normally have been a normal low intensity office fire.
So now you claim stagnant small pockets of oxygen under the rubble are suffecient too sustain a weeks long fire?????????
Come on Hack!
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 04:02 PM
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24. Steel wasn't burning
You need to educate yourself on how hot the fires were - they were definitely not weak. Here is an excellent MIT paper on the subject. Do you know more than a MIT professor? Let me guess - he is in on it.


http://web.mit.edu/civenv/wtc/PDFfiles/Chapter%20V%20Fire.pdf

The smoke was black because of what was being burned - care to guess what color smoke oil based products like plastic and synthetic materials produce. Those smoke plumes were so large they could be seen from space - they represented tons of solid particulates being lifted miles into the sky. So tell where all that energy came from if not fires? Only a truther could look at a massive smoke plume visible for miles around and say "what a weak fire."

Give the source of air some more thought - perhaps now is the time to actually study how the WTC were constructed and how the site was developed.

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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:03 PM
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33. Your MIT study shows a strong initial fireball blast followed by a cooling of intensity
and fuel source. He has many nifty graphics showing this. After the initial burnoff of fuel explain what was left to burn other than the contents of an office.
Thereby making it an average office fire.
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:09 PM
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36. Yes - an office fire that generated a gigawatt of energy.
A fire that approached temperatures of 1000 C. It is clear you did not understand what you read. Do you understand the difference between heat and temperature?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:13 PM
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38. That was only during the initial fireball. the temperature declined as the jet fuel
burned off. Jeeesh.Your MIT guy says that very clearly.
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:34 PM
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41. No - you really need to read the entire report. Especially the conclusion
Preliminary results, based on approximate estimates of the fire conditions following the crash of the planes into the WTC Towers and the initial damage caused by the impact,shows that the fires generated very significant heat release rates and the fire temperatures were likely to have exceeded 1000° C. Given the amount of fuel available at the moment of the crash, such temperatures are likely to have lasted long enough to raise the temperature of the building material to dangerously high levels, and hence for the fires to have contributed significantly to the weakening of the towers structures and their collapse, contrary to some early speculations.


Again - you need to understand the difference between heat and temperature.

And do you realize how much energy a gigawatt is? That's about one sixth the energy a typical nuclear power plant produces in a year. Weak fires my ass.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:25 AM
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58. Steel is an exellent conducter of heat so moments of extreme heat are dispersed.
Besides in the south tower the right engine and wing went out the side of the building and much of the fuel went out as well with the fireball exploding outside the building not inside.
At best you can say the south tower steel was exposed to half the gigawatt energy the north tower was.
Plus that tower went down faster. HMMM exposed to a less intense internal explosion yet went down faster. Nice try MIT.
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:39 AM
Response to Reply #58
76. You really think you are smarter than a MIT professor? Really? nt

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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:12 AM
Response to Reply #76
93. If he was so smart he would have taken into account the little problem I pointed out...
RIGHT?
So come on and show me where he did.
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:59 AM
Response to Reply #93
112. "IF he was so smart"
In other words yes you do think you are smarter than an MIT professor. Care to elaborate on your credentials?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:54 PM
Response to Reply #112
116. No I simply said since HACK clearly implied I was NOT as smart as Mr. MIT..
To show me where Mr. MIT thought of the obvious differences between the two tower fires in his very scientific sounding paper.
Now of course he will not have to actually answer because he has made the argument about my intelligence versus his not about the fallacy in Mr. MITs paper.
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:05 PM
Response to Reply #116
140. Interestingly most if not all of us 'OCTers'...
can immediately spot the error in your analysis and see that no such error exists in the paper in question.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:02 PM
Response to Reply #140
178. Ha Ha Ha whistling past the NIST graveyard yet again? nt
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 06:44 AM
Response to Reply #178
185. Please explain what this thread has to do with NIST
be specific.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:25 PM
Response to Reply #185
192. Almost every thread on this post ends up being about NIST because that is the end all be all for ..
You official story people.
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 09:14 PM
Response to Reply #192
212. No, it isn't.
But it would be nice if the people who keep criticizing it here would actually read the damn thing first.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:36 AM
Response to Reply #212
229. I have. So forget that casual line of dismisal. Look in your book under insults for your next ...
response.
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 06:25 AM
Response to Reply #229
232. Really? Well, that's quite refreshing.
It's unusual for CTers to have actually read the NIST reports. Understanding them, though, is a whole other matter.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:28 AM
Response to Reply #58
96. Steel isn't all that great a conductor of heat.
Which is why you use it to make fireplace tools.

You forgot the left engine and wing. That was inside the building.

And everything you mention was dealt with in the NIST report on the towers.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:06 PM
Response to Reply #96
118. So why do my fire place tools all have wooden handles?????
Look if you have half the plane hitting inside the south tower it has half the gigawatt power. Yet it collapsed faster. Mr. Mit fails to account for this.
Furthermore according to the NIST report there were MORE core columns taken out of the south tower by half the plane ,and it was not even coming in aimed at the core but the side of the south tower.
Thats the wonder of using computer simulations to get a preordained conclusion. Little things like that.
Thats how many columns the computer said would of had to have been taken out to get the south tower collapse in the time it collapsed to fit the NIST model.
Beyond that there is no actual evidence of how many core columns were actually taken out or damaged severely.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:09 PM
Response to Reply #118
119. Half of something really big is still really big.
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 01:14 PM by Bolo Boffin
I believe you're oversimplified the NIST analysis. I would encourage you to read it yourself instead of allowing 9/11 conspiracy theorists to tell you what it says.

Your fireplace tools have wooden handles because that's what you bought. However, plenty exist without wooden handles.

And anything that can pull this trick off isn't all that great a conductor of heat energy:

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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:31 PM
Response to Reply #119
120. Yes half the big thing takes less time than the really big thing?
Now thats science!
Hold onto your fireplace tool without the wooden handle while its in the fire for a few minutes then report back.
Thats science too.
And i didn't even have to go to MIT!
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:36 PM
Response to Reply #120
122. If there are other factors involved, yes.
Most notably, the type and severity of damage, the damage being lower in the building, etc.

Science is taking all the factors into account, not cherrypicking one.

Steel conducts heat. But not that well, as the glowing middle of that piece of steel demonstrates. All the rest of that steel is plenty hot, but only the middle is glowing. Any material that can do that isn't all that great a conductor of heat. And because steel can do that, they fireproof it.

That's science as well.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:01 PM
Response to Reply #122
177. The lower building had THICKER STRONGER support beams..
Its how the building was built. And there had to have been fewer core columns damaged since the plane hit the side away from the core.
Also half the plane came out the side. Yet NIST has more core columns taken out in its model. NOW thats science!
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:05 PM
Response to Reply #177
179. Yes, you've proven your point.
You don't understand the report and you're quite content to simply mangle it for your own amusement.

Very good! You can be as silly as you want to be.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:26 PM
Response to Reply #179
193. Translation can't answer the point so time to ignore that which we cannot answer.
Now thats science the official story way!
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:31 PM
Response to Reply #193
194. You're right. I can't answer that point.
I've done my best to explain what's happening, but you have proven that you will mangle it and believe what you like. I have no power to change your willingness to misunderstand.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:38 PM
Response to Reply #194
195. Truthers 1 official story 0 nt
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 01:03 PM
Response to Reply #195
198. This is a sad game you're playing. n/t
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 01:48 PM
Response to Reply #198
199. Then why does it make me so happy?????nt
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:05 PM
Response to Reply #199
202. I don't know.
Why does playing a silly game with an event that killed thousands of people make you happy? This is a question you need to answer for yourself.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:54 PM
Response to Reply #199
204. Because you like playing games?
Just a guess. And you've demonstrated it over and over. Like BuddyBoy.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:23 AM
Response to Reply #204
227. or like YOU! nt.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:04 PM
Response to Reply #24
34. Furthermore this does nothing to explain the rubble fire. nt
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:10 PM
Response to Reply #34
37. Well, we know it can't be due to thermate
so how does the truth community explain the fires?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:14 PM
Response to Reply #37
39. I don't I just want a real frigging investigation remember. You guys have the explanations!
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:40 PM
Response to Reply #39
42. So stop claiming it couldn't be a regular fire
if you have no plausible alternative. Be honest - you have no clue what caused those fires.

Doesn't it give you pause that fire fighters and fire engineers aren't as mystified as you seem to be? They seemed to think that there was nothing unusual in what happened - have you considered that perhaps the issue here is your lack of knowledge?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:57 PM
Response to Reply #42
56. Nist itself admits the towers had oxygen depleted fires....
To quote NIST
"Nearly all indoor large fires including those of the principal combustibles in the WTC towers produce large quantities
of optically thick, dark smoke. This is because at the locations where the actual burning is taking place the oxygen is
severely depleted and the compustibles are not completely oxidized to colorless carbon dioxide and water."
The temps may have been very hot at the time of crash as the fuel burned as MIT guy says but soon settled into the oxygen depleted fire of" nearly all indoor large fires". Since Nists contention is the sustained overheated temperatures caused structural failure in addition to the damage done by the planes. I would be concerned If I were you by this admission by NIST of lower temps from the tower fires than would be needed to produce this effect. Be honest you really have not read the NIST report very well have you?
And because you think firefighters and officials were not concerned by the fires under the rubble does not make them unworthy of investigation and explaination.

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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:54 AM
Response to Reply #56
77. Nice cherry picking !
you take a NIST quote from a FAQ that is explaining why extremely hot fires can produce thick black smoke and turn it completely around. Very well done!:eyes:

It is not even from the NIST report - did you think my Google was broken?

Once again temperature =/= heat.

They weren't concerned because they knew what was causing them. Unless you have an actual quote to the contrary?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:18 AM
Response to Reply #77
94. Its from an explanation of the report.
I would think your interest in reading it would extend to their explanations of there results.
After all you admonish all the truthers to read everything NIST says because all will be explained.
NOW its cherry picking to quote their explanation?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:29 AM
Response to Reply #94
97. No, it's cherrypicking to grab one quote and twist it out of context, which is what you did. n/t
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:49 PM
Response to Reply #97
115. Cherrypicking? You mean finding an inconsistency I see..........
Twisting out of context? Is that Chubby checkers in a mosh pit?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:01 PM
Response to Reply #115
117. You should be able to demonstrate that "inconsistency."
Just because you see it doesn't mean it's there.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:32 PM
Response to Reply #117
121. Come on who is playing games now!
Jeesh.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:37 PM
Response to Reply #121
123. You are. n/t
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:43 PM
Response to Reply #94
128. Do you also accept NIST contention that the fires were extremely hot?
is the rest of the NIST statement accurate or just the piece you cherry picked?
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:15 PM
Response to Reply #94
144. Quoting someone is not always quote mining.
or cherry picking.
But cherry picking and quote mining always involve quoting.

Just because you quote someone does not mean you have correctly portrayed their position on a subject, much less the nuances of that position.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 10:49 PM
Response to Reply #144
175. Look that part was quoted because NIST on purpose or inadvertantly contradicted its..
own position. Its the kind of thing you guys are endlessly trying to find to convince everyone truther science is not to be trusted,
If it was one of you, you would have been crowing posts ago about how stuff like this proves truthers are all lunatics.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-22-09 09:59 PM
Response to Original message
11. Does this sound like curiosity to you?
No, the truly curious will actually try to figure out the answers to their questions.

This sounds like just another silly truther looking for answers in all the wrong places.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:36 AM
Response to Original message
12. Excellent post. So far, most of the responses are right out of ...

the play book. Predictable, familiar, seemingly designed for a purpose consistent only with those for whom the OCT isn't
dumb enough.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:20 AM
Response to Reply #12
15. Another BuddyBoy post where he only questions the motives of other posters. n/t
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:16 PM
Response to Reply #15
145. Seems to be a trend. n/t
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:40 AM
Response to Original message
13. "False equivalency"
Dude, are you curious as to whether 2+2=5?
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:47 AM
Response to Original message
16. All these questions have been been provided perfectly
reasonable answers over the past seven years. You just don't choose to accept them, or fail to comprehend them. Either way. you scientific method has hit a dead end.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 01:56 PM
Response to Reply #16
19. Stomps foot I am correct, I am correct! nt
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 02:59 PM
Response to Reply #19
21. I'm sure the irony of your post is lost on you nt
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 03:19 PM
Response to Reply #21
23. All these insults have been used in the past and have been rebutted...
so look up my answer if you want.
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 07:45 PM
Response to Reply #23
27. I notice you haven't intelligently rebutted
a single one of my posts.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:05 PM
Response to Reply #27
35. There is nothing intelligent to rebutt. nt
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:48 AM
Response to Reply #35
109. Simple troll response
You apparently have absolutely nothing new to offer here. In fact, the pattern of your posts are showing you to be quite the substance-less board disrupter.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 10:54 PM
Response to Reply #109
176. Arrrghh matey prepare for boarding of the good ship intellect...
I have noticed a tendency of your posts to fill me sails with hot air that gets me ship nowhere.
Well if its a fight you be spoiling for i will run ya thru with my scabard.
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #19
26. Interesting the new crop of Truthers
Yourself...buddyboy. FAR less interested in discourse. More along the lines of petgoat and wildbill. Far lest interesting.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:16 PM
Response to Reply #26
28. Deleted message
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:36 AM
Response to Reply #26
64. As if you guys are interested in discourse... Please thats rich! LOL! nt
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:51 AM
Response to Reply #26
66. 'Far lest interesting?'
Yet, you're here anyway.

Prepare to see alot more "new" Truthers.

September 11 is coming. And lots of us haven't forgotten.



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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:04 AM
Response to Reply #66
80. And 8 years later...
your ranks are dwindling, your "movement" is moribund and people are getting disgusted when "truthers" disrupt political events.
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:35 AM
Response to Reply #66
103. Oh I'm sure
with all the same old claims recycled and rehashed.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 07:32 AM
Response to Reply #26
79. NOT at all interested in trying to get YOUR posts deleted.
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 07:32 AM by BuddyBoy

ONLY interested in exposing the truth about 9/11. We won't quit and there's more of us being born every day. You should join us,
not try to have us gagged.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:07 AM
Response to Reply #79
82. Maybe you should quit trying to smear everyone who...
doesn't buy your bullshit.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:18 AM
Response to Reply #82
84. Maybe you should quit pretending.

Most of us know the truth anyhow.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:23 AM
Response to Reply #84
85. Dude...
Your "truth movement" is on the ropes. It mostly consists of rude idiots who go around disrupting political events and alienating nearly everyone in the crowd in the same manner you've alienated just about everyone here.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:46 AM
Response to Reply #85
86. dude ...


Your posts are hilarious.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:49 AM
Response to Reply #86
87. yours are offensive...
in more ways than one.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 09:02 AM
Response to Reply #87
88. So, I take it you're playing this game because those toasted cars

and fire trucks are more evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. That's gotta hurt, so you need to bury it.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 09:15 AM
Response to Reply #88
89. What the fuck are you yammering about now?
Toasted cars?

I love the way you insinuate a position I've never taken. Amateur hour, dude.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 09:25 AM
Response to Reply #89
90. Deleted message
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 09:30 AM
Response to Reply #90
91. Dude, you've talking about a completely different thread...
why do you think I'd be addressing it here?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:30 AM
Response to Reply #90
101. Another BuddyBoy post where he only questions the motives of other posters. n/t
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:35 AM
Response to Reply #101
102. Wrong
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:08 PM
Response to Reply #102
124. So, the tag team works in pairs, eh?
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:10 PM
Response to Reply #124
125. Looks like. n/t
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:16 PM
Response to Reply #125
126. !
:rofl: nice try
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:18 PM
Response to Reply #124
127. Who?
You and BuddyBoy?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:47 PM
Response to Reply #127
129. You guys are famous.
:hi:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:04 PM
Response to Reply #129
130. yeah, well...
it's better than being infamous for putting out goofy conspiracy theories, dude.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:21 PM
Response to Reply #130
131. you blew it, all right? you blew it
:rofl:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:27 PM
Response to Reply #131
132. I see coherence isn't your strong suit either...n/t
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:29 PM
Response to Reply #132
133. Dude
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:33 PM
Response to Reply #133
135. So, you're not only incoherent...
you're also a game player...noted.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:45 PM
Response to Reply #135
136. You blew it, dude.
And so quickly. Must be getting sloppy. :wow:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:56 PM
Response to Reply #136
138. Oh, I GET it...
we're talking in "truther code". Let me get my translation guide.

Okay. The cat is out of the bag. Repeat. The cat is out of the bag. Batten down the hatches. Mayday, mayday. Project "let's see if people will buy truther bullshit" is underway. Take no prisoners. Rendezvous at Mom's basement. Avoid radio contact. Lives are in danger. I say again. Lives are in danger. Trust no one. That is all.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:05 PM
Response to Reply #138
141. Let's get out the Secret Dudecoder Ring
Must......... Deflect......... Destroy........ Detonate........ :nuke:
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:24 PM
Response to Reply #141
148. BINGO!

But don't get too big of a head, because I have a feeling that it didn't take you days and days to learn the secret of the
Secret Dudecoder ring.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:27 PM
Response to Reply #148
151. Maybe you two can form a club or something...
and pretend you're doing important work. let me think. How about:




Have you ever thought of making yourselves, well, less of a target?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:31 PM
Response to Reply #148
155. No, Dude
it's a no brainer. :freak:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:32 PM
Response to Reply #155
156. Ah...
so you admit you're a "no-planer". After all, "no-planes" = "no brains"
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:41 AM
Response to Reply #90
108. Oh noesss!111
not a death ray reference!?! Shit this forum would make a great drinking game. :beer:
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:08 PM
Response to Reply #108
114. Yes, indeed. BuddyBoy is a Judy Wood promoter. n/t
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:32 PM
Response to Reply #114
134. Deleted message
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:19 PM
Response to Reply #108
146. Only if your health plan covers self induced severe alcohol poisoning. n/t
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:30 AM
Response to Reply #88
100. Another BuddyBoy post where he only questions the motives of other posters. n/t
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:35 AM
Response to Reply #100
104. Nope
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:30 AM
Response to Reply #84
99. Another BuddyBoy post where he only questions the motives of other posters. n/t
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:35 AM
Response to Reply #99
105. Still wrong
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:29 AM
Response to Reply #79
98. Another BuddyBoy post where he only questions the motives of other posters. n/t
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:37 AM
Response to Reply #98
106. Wrong, wrong, wrong & one for your next BS post.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:07 PM
Response to Reply #106
113. Another BuddyBoy post where he only questions the motives of other posters. n/t
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 03:54 PM
Response to Reply #113
137. You're setting the record for being wrong & deceitful
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:06 PM
Response to Reply #137
142. It's a broken record
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:12 PM
Response to Reply #142
143. You and BudduBoy make a great duo...
Have you ever thought of getting matching outfits? I even found a special phone you can use to receive calls for help, dude.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aLGof-xkxxY/ShCgdxfh-JI/AAAAAAAAABY/QRFlp-loI1Q/s320/Goofy+-+Front.jpg
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:20 PM
Response to Reply #143
147. Dude, you think you're fooling anyone?
:wow:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:24 PM
Response to Reply #147
149. Well, only if we count...
you.
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:25 PM
Response to Reply #147
150. Yes he does. That, plus it DOES take up space and time. EOM
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #150
153. A true
9-11 hijacker.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:30 PM
Response to Reply #153
154. For the record....
I found a picture of you and BuddyBoy, but I don't know who the third person in the picture is.

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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:32 PM
Response to Reply #154
157. For the broken record
DUDES!! Get a life!!
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:34 PM
Response to Reply #157
158. Define irony...
you keep posting, yet you think WE need to get lives?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:39 PM
Response to Reply #158
159. So this is your job?
:think:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:43 PM
Response to Reply #159
160. Yes, your mom hired me....
she doesn't pay very well, though....
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BuddyBoy Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:47 PM
Response to Reply #159
162. If it is, he's being grossly overpaid.

Any two-bit high-school nerd could do better. Depending on how one defines "better".
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:54 PM
Response to Reply #162
165. Free WiFi and all the $6 burgers he can get all over his face
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:00 PM
Response to Reply #165
166. You're just pissed because I didn't tip you when you took my order...
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 05:01 PM by SDuderstadt
at the counter, dude. Loved the nametag, but where's your hair restraint?




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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:02 PM
Response to Reply #166
167. Your proctologist called
The tests are back. Dudester.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #167
168. I can't imagine why my proctologist would call you....
I'm pretty sure it was yours informing you that he found your head, dude.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:10 PM
Response to Reply #168
169. She called the switchboard, routed to the
wrong cubicle.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:13 PM
Response to Reply #169
170. I see...you work in a cubicle?
Well, that's a BIG step up from the counter for you. Congratulations!

Tired of trying to one-up me yet?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:15 PM
Response to Reply #170
171. Tired of trying to one-up me yet?
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 06:27 PM
Response to Reply #171
172. I finally figured out who you really are!


"I know you are, but what am I?".
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 06:42 PM
Response to Reply #172
173. you make a distinct impression
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 06:46 PM
Response to Reply #173
174. Is that your mother?
Looks just like the person who hired me to "interact" with you. Something about underdeveloped social skills or something.
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vincent_vega_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:38 AM
Response to Reply #79
107. For the record
I have never alerted on a post on DU regarding content.

Correction. I did alert on an offensive picture plaguepuppy posted once. But that was above the pale.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:13 AM
Response to Reply #26
182. ... and just as likely to think!
What must little minds think around here? Do they think this forum is not read by people of intelligence?

The number of people seeking answers, in case you missed it, outweighs the same old name of dungeon groaners and moaners who use the same old tired fallacies over and over again, hoping curious people tire of discourse.

Fail that one.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:46 PM
Response to Reply #16
29. Would you mind repeating the one about the jets being (not) scrambled?
I haven't heard what the excuse for that is. It's just such a stickler, ya know?
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:49 PM
Response to Reply #29
30. Jet WERE scrambled out of Langley and Otis, dude...n/t
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:50 PM
Response to Reply #30
31. Why was there no interception of any of the planes? How did they travel unchallenged through
highly protected airspace?

Dude.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 08:53 PM
Response to Reply #31
32. And what "highly protected" airspace are talking about, dude?
Edited on Sun Aug-23-09 08:59 PM by SDuderstadt
Have you ever noticed that the Pentagon is about a mile away from National Airport and flights go right over it all the time? More importantly, do you know what an ADIZ is?

You should also learn the difference between fighters that are "on alert" and those that are merely "combat ready".
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:26 PM
Response to Reply #32
40. GMAFB
and answer the question -- if you can -- rather than deflect and play the kind of games already documented in this forum.

If you have something to say, please say it. It's not a complex question.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:40 PM
Response to Reply #40
43. Dude...it's obvious you've not tried to educate yourself...
Edited on Sun Aug-23-09 09:42 PM by SDuderstadt
just from the questions you've asked.

First of all, I'd still like to know what "highly-protected airspace" you're talking about.

Secondly, on 9/11, there were 14 ANG bases that performed the air sovereignty mission for the US, so those are the only bases that had fighters "on alert". The rest would have had fighters on a lower readiness status known as "combat-ready", meaning they can be scrambled less quickly as they must first be armed, fueled and pilots have to be mustered from wherever they are. That's why fighters were scrambled from Langley and Otis as opposed to Andrews.

In order to understand the concept of an ADIZ, it's important to understand the posture of NORAD on 9/11. Attacks were presumed to be coming from offshore, not from a domestic flight. Accordingly, when fighters are scrambled, they initially vectored to an ADIZ or Air Defense Identification Zone. Again, since these ADIZ's are over water, it contributed to the inability to intercept the hijacked airliners.

If you'd bother to educate youself, you wouldn't ask such uninformed and presumptuous questions.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:43 PM
Response to Reply #43
44. I stay out of here because of this sort of macho fucking bullshit
thank you for your time. :puke:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #44
45. Dude...I don't know how else to answer questions from people who make all kinds of sinister...
Edited on Sun Aug-23-09 09:51 PM by SDuderstadt
insinuations, yet haven't bothered to look for publicly available information to answer their questions. Otherwise, you wouldn't be demanding to know why the airliners were not intercepted as if they could have been, but people chose not to do so.

For whatever it's worth, I patiently tried to steer you towards resources where you could educate yourself, but you gave me that impatient. snarky "truther", "No, explain it to me right now", bullshit. It's been nearly eight years, dude. Why don't you know the basics?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 10:26 PM
Response to Reply #45
46. "sinister insinuations"?
"but you gave me that impatient. snarky "truther".... "No, explain it to me right now", bullshit." :wtf: :wtf:


PERHAPS WE HAVEN'T MET. I AIN'T NOBODY'S GENERIC ANYTHING, DUDE. :evilfrown: Don't EVEN try that generic, YOU"RE DOING WHAT THEY ALL DO fucking shit with me.


You guys go ahead and keep wanking each other off and making your assumptions and keeping interested people out of potentially informative discussions because of all your fucking mindgames. Including the bogus use of "Dude," dude. :thumbsdown:

Enjoy your petty battles, no one else does.

FWIW, I have educated myself to a degree possible while staying out of DU's 9/11 viper pit and I have never been convinced that any of those planes could get through without LIHOP. Why should we believe that? Everything else is gravy.

So congratulations on your sanctimonious, superior twittery. Good bye.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 10:32 PM
Response to Reply #46
47. Oh, I see...
Edited on Sun Aug-23-09 10:34 PM by SDuderstadt
this is the only place you could educate yourself? Really?

I'm still waiting to find out how you knew that they travelled through "highly protected airspace unchallenged". Not only did you get that wrong, it's flat-out "truther" language, dude. Sounds like a "sinister insinuation" to me. You didn't even know what fighters WERE scrambled and interception attempted, but they weren't in time.

Have you read the 9/11 Commission Report? How about the NIST Reports/ The BPAT's?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 10:36 PM
Response to Reply #47
48. Are you here to prevent people from returning to this dungeon?
:puke: might backfire, if that's what you're up to.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:09 PM
Response to Reply #48
49. Oh, please...
are you serious?
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:43 PM
Response to Reply #49
51. No, they're just looking for a peckfest.
Their word.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:47 PM
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:51 PM
Response to Reply #52
54. I'm not pretending, and you're trying to change the subject again. nt
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:34 AM
Response to Reply #47
63. Ok SD do me a favor go rent a cessna take off from the Washington public airport then turn suddenly
away from your plotted air plan toward the White House. Two things will be accomplished.
You will find the highly protected airspace and maybe we will be rid of your goofiness for a few days while you explain to the nice men in the suits what you were doing.
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 05:58 AM
Response to Reply #63
78. September 12, 1994 n/t
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:06 AM
Response to Reply #63
81. Are you saying any of the planes entered...
WH airspace on 9/11?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:06 AM
Response to Reply #81
92. The Clinton incident is one reason that airspace IS protected airspace.
After that and Oklahoma city.
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:28 PM
Response to Reply #92
152. You might want to rephrase that.
First off The White House WAS protected airspace at the time of that incident. Unfortunately the way you have worded your post you make it seem as if the airspace over The White House was restricted only afterward.

The second thing is that you seem to be conflating the airspace over The White House with that over the Pentagon.

These are in fact two separate locations.

Furthermore you seem to be intentionally missing the point altogether but that is par for the course so I expected it.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:08 PM
Response to Reply #152
180. No SD seemed confused as the where the restricted airspace was,,,
I just offered an innocent suggestion as to how he might find out exactly where it is.
yes I knew the airspace over the White house was protected before the Clinton incident.
I believe if a plane goes wandering off course transponderless or incommunicado over Washington it should be cause for attention paid to it.
Don't you?
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:54 PM
Response to Reply #180
181. How long was 77 off course over Washington DC?
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 11:54 PM by greyl
Seconds might be the most convenient unit to use, if you need one.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:19 PM
Response to Reply #181
190. How long was it off course before getting to washington DC? Thats just weak! nt
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:40 PM
Response to Reply #190
196. How long was its transponder off? n/t
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 01:54 PM
Response to Reply #196
201. You know protocol calls for tracking of planes that go off the flight plan if the transponder is off
or NOT! And they had no way to figure out what was going on with this plane because after all no other jets were highjacked that day!
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:06 PM
Response to Reply #201
203. The center controlling 77 when its transponder went off wasn't aware of the other hijackings. n/t
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:20 AM
Response to Reply #203
225. yeah no phones were operating that day from what I heard except for the cell phones on the jets!
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 03:08 PM
Response to Reply #201
206. Dude...can you explain precisely how planes that...
have turned off their transponders are tracked. Can you explain precisely what the mechanism is?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:19 AM
Response to Reply #206
224. Turn on the frigging radar and the plane sending no transponder signal is tracked. nt
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:25 AM
Response to Reply #224
228. Not that easy, dude...n/t
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:38 AM
Response to Reply #228
230. Your right because all the other planes keep turning their transponders on and off..
In an attempt to confuse air traffic control apon whom their lives depend! JEEESH!
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:45 AM
Response to Reply #230
231. Dude...
you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about...seriously.
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 06:55 AM
Response to Reply #180
186. No you most certainly did not.
That is a complete misrepresentation of both your post and SD's and we all know it.

SD asked what "highly-protected airspace" was being refereed to by the person he was responding to as having been traversed on 9-11 by one or more of the hijacked jets, NOT what part of DC is restricted airspace.
Your so called 'innocent suggestion' does nothing to answer that question. It was strictly disruptive, unless you are claiming that one of the flights entered whitehouse airspace.

"I believe if a plane goes wandering off course transponderless or incommunicado over Washington it should be cause for attention paid to it.
Don't you?"
Non-sequitor. You can make all the arguments you want about what should be cause for 'attention' but it does not change the facts of wither a specific aircraft could be intercepted. The two are entirely different.
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:22 PM
Response to Reply #186
191. I believe Mr . Cheany was informed the plane would arrive at the white house
and were the orders the same???????
Does that not imply 1. They knew the plane was off course and headed towards the white house?
2. There were orders about this event??
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:41 PM
Response to Reply #191
197. Wrong....n/t
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 01:51 PM
Response to Reply #197
200. Oh well then in the face of such unassailable facts.....LOL! nt
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 02:59 PM
Response to Reply #200
205. Dude...you do know that while that whole scenario was...
Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 03:01 PM by SDuderstadt
playing out, UA 93 had already crashed, right?
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lovepg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:22 AM
Response to Reply #205
226. Or shot down by the planes that never scrambled. that would explain the wide debris field!
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:07 AM
Response to Reply #180
187. I'm not at all confused about what airspace was restricted on 9/11...
but it certainly was not the Pentagon as the airport approach for numerous flights goes right over it and I am not aware of any airliners that violated WH airspace on 9/11. If any "truther" wants to contend differently, you're welcome to provide actual evidence of it.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:58 AM
Response to Reply #81
111. .
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 11:59 AM by omega minimo
:wtf:
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:16 AM
Response to Reply #47
183. "Have you read the 9/11 Commission Report? How about the NIST Reports/ The BPAT's?
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:09 AM
Response to Reply #183
188. I'm willing to bet you haven't, MMM....
which is why many people don't think you're remotely credible on the subject.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 06:01 PM
Response to Reply #188
207. Well, as usual...
You over-estimate WHAT you know.

which is why many people think you're full of bull feathers... dude.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 06:17 PM
Response to Reply #207
210. Simple question, MMM...
Have you actually read the reports?
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:23 PM
Response to Reply #210
215. Not all the BPATs, but all else one time or other... why?
Are you trying to change the subject?
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #215
217. It's perfectly germane to the subject and I don't remotely...
believe you. If you had read the reports, you wouldn't ask some of the questions you and make some of the goofy statements you do.

P.S. How is Burt?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 11:04 PM
Response to Reply #217
220. Deleted sub-thread
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:41 PM
Response to Reply #44
50. Personally, I think he came off like Mother Nature.
Then again, that's totally irrelevant to the questions you asked and the answers you received.
I can't think of a good reason why you prefer to change the subject.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:49 PM
Response to Reply #50
53. So you agree
with rude, hamhanded arrogance and have nothing of substance to offer but badger me and cause more trouble.

What a surprise.
:sarcasm:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:55 PM
Response to Reply #53
55. Yeah, like you don't have a chip on your shoulder...
do you really deny that you're a "truther"?
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:27 AM
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:29 AM
Response to Reply #59
61. Because no one else would talk to you, otherwise?
Just a guess.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-23-09 11:58 PM
Response to Reply #53
57. Please read for comprehension.
I was primarily commenting on the fact that you changed the subject from the topic under discussion to your criticism of the personalities trying to have a fruitful discussion with you.
Now, back to the topic.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:28 AM
Response to Reply #57
60. When the belligerence begins
discussion over
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:30 AM
Response to Reply #60
62. Well, then...
stop being belligerent.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 12:41 AM
Response to Reply #60
65. You did the same thing in another very recent thread with the same question.
You received answers, then totally changed the subject to your criticism of the people answering you.
I think it's possible that "self-fulfilling prophecy" is an apt phrase for your interactions here.

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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:28 AM
Response to Reply #65
67. Yes. When the belligerence begins
discussion over.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 01:38 AM
Response to Reply #67
68. More like when you get a reply that disagrees with you, you gladly attack the poster
and leave the topic at hand behind you. Is that what you meant?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:11 AM
Response to Reply #68
69. There are plenty here who will play your games.
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 02:13 AM by omega minimo
I won't

Anyone who can disagree without being an asshole knows how to have a discussion.


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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:22 AM
Response to Reply #69
70. ...because you're superior to those imaginary people, right.
Trying to convince someone to remain on topic instead of encouraging unproductive peckfests is not a game.
In some cases though, it's a goddamn fool's errand.

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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:29 AM
Response to Reply #70
71. Um no
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 02:37 AM by omega minimo
I don't feel obligated to respond to belligerence or be attacked and then have someone pretend they were "disagreeing" and expect a discussion to continue.

That can't be so hard for you to grasp. Your machinations don't change the fact.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:32 AM
Response to Reply #71
72. "highly protected airspace unchallenged"
Is there any evidence in support of that statement of yours?
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:37 AM
Response to Reply #72
73. .
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 02:37 AM by omega minimo
I don't feel obligated to respond to belligerence or be attacked and then have someone pretend they were "disagreeing" and expect a discussion to continue.
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:42 AM
Response to Reply #73
74. Thanks so much for your contribution to the discussion.
Unsubstantiated baloney about 9/11 is always great to see posted at DU.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 02:56 AM
Response to Reply #74
75. Better luck next time.
Unsubstantiated belligerence is always a deterrent to discussion on DU. :evilfrown:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 08:12 AM
Response to Reply #75
83. Nice racket...
when challenged for proof of your goofy claims, you can just whine your opponent was "belligerent".
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:55 AM
Response to Reply #83
110. I asked a question
Edited on Mon Aug-24-09 11:55 AM by omega minimo
of someone else. You stepped in. You set the tone. Don't pass it off on anyone else.

You're using the tactic of those who act belligerent and then pretend they were "discussing" and accuse others of "whining" (aka bullying).

It's just a racket to "challenge" others and shout them down and pretend to be self righteous about it.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 12:18 AM
Response to Reply #60
184. Man, I could have told you that way up-thread...
But, wanting intelligent discourse, I usually give these fellas a try every so often, in the event they've straightened themselves out.

(snark, yeah, I'm kidding)
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:11 AM
Response to Reply #184
189. Typical "truther" post...
accuse the other side of "belligerence", all the while pretending none emanates from "truthers". Maybe if you guys would try to have a respectful debate, you might be surprised with the resulting tone.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 06:03 PM
Response to Reply #189
208. Hilarious!
"Maybe if you guys would try to have a respectful debate, you might be surprised with the resulting tone."

Yeah, we all know what that's like from you... FAIL!
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 06:14 PM
Response to Reply #208
209. How do you know that it's not you guys creating the atmosphere?
Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 06:15 PM by SDuderstadt
Seriously, maybe if you try to meet the "debunkers" halfway, you'd be surprised, despite the differences in opinions. Personally, I'm tired of being accused of supporting Bush. Frankly, I don't think you have any idea how you come off, but your combativeness triggers the same from "our side". I happen to think that, if you strip away the "9/11 was an inside job!" shrieking. there are many areas of agreement.
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:29 PM
Response to Reply #209
216. Your memory is bad, SDuderstadt. It comes from getting your buttocks walluped!
Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 10:30 PM by MrMickeysMom
We pause now for station identification while SDuderstadt is getting his ass kicked. And now... it's time for his amnesia!

:popcorn:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:55 PM
Response to Reply #216
218. I'd love for you to post a single example of when you...
didn't get your ass kicked on the facts. I can give you plenty of examples where you have. Whether it's 911 or the JFK assassination, you seem to think CT twaddle is actual fact. In fact the absolute funniest example is when you absolutely false claims about Johnny Brewer and Oswald's arrest and I produced Brewer's affidavit which exposed your false claim.

The expression ''like shooting fish in a barral'' comes to mind.

P.S. Say hi to Burt for me!
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:55 PM
Response to Reply #216
219. I'd love for you to post a single example of when you...
didn't get your ass kicked on the facts. I can give you plenty of examples where you have. Whether it's 911 or the JFK assassination, you seem to think CT twaddle is actual fact. In fact the absolute funniest example is when you absolutely false claims about Johnny Brewer and Oswald's arrest and I produced Brewer's affidavit which exposed your false claim.

The expression ''like shooting fish in a barral'' comes to mind.

P.S. Say hi to Burt for me!
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 11:18 PM
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221. Oh, I get it! You're TWINS!
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dude!

I'd love for you to post an objective analysis of why you believe only certain investigators of the JFK assassination that didn't support a single bullet theory. Coupled with this fallacy, I'd love to have you objectively lay out why you are in lock step with the 911 Commission's report that has clearly omitted and distorted significant testimony and left out more facts than all those volumes of the Warren Commission.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 11:38 PM
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223. Could you repost the first ''challenge'' so it...
Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 11:40 PM by SDuderstadt
makes actual grammatical sense?

As for your second ''challenge'', please demonstrate how I am ''in lockstep'' with the 911 CR. BTW, your ''loaded'' demands assume things which haven't been remotely proven. BTW, in another few weeks, it'll have been 8 years since the attacks. Are you guys close to solving the case? What are you waiting for?

My regards to Burt!
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:48 PM
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163. Could you be more specific?
What highly protected airspace are you referring to? Which flight went though it?
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:50 PM
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164. Make sure you're not "belligerent" to Omega....
he/she seems the sensitive type.
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Theobald Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 11:21 AM
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95. Let's take them one at a time
Bonobo "Q: Why did fires burn for 8 weeks? That doesn't usually happen.."

What do you mean by that usually doesn't happen? Underground fires can burn for years, even decades, all they need is a fuel and a source of oxegon. The contents of the world trade center had plenty of fuel and the subway systems provided a decent path for air flow, so it seems the requisite materials to sustain a fire were available. What evidence is there that the fires should not have burned for eight weeks?
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-24-09 04:43 PM
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161. Look at all those straw men. Now THAT is the scientific method at work... NOT
Look if this were 2 days after September 11th you might have a good point. But it isn't. There has been plenty of time for you to read up and find that there are plenty of reasonable answers to those questions that are not straw man constructions.
Please feel free to argue against any of those answers. Feel free to explore the topic more.
But for fucks sake drop the bullshit.

"Q: Where was NORAD that day? How come jets weren't scrambled from a nearby base?
A: Oh, so now you're an expert on the military! Fucking nut bag...."

Really? Seriously?
The question isn't even factually accurate. Never mind the straw man you constructed for an answer.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 07:17 PM
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211. Curious Is Good. Rational Also Helps
Edited on Tue Aug-25-09 07:17 PM by jberryhill

Paranoid is counterproductive.
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 09:16 PM
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213. I don't know, I think a little paranoia helps.
On a billion dollar project you can't be worried enough, in my opinion.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 10:22 PM
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214. Bonobo was talking about science, not engineering

The data is not trying to outwit you.

Really.
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-25-09 11:25 PM
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222. Fair enough.
I'm willing to admit I am wrong.
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anigbrowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 06:37 PM
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233. And now, the *rest* of the scientific method
Edited on Tue Sep-01-09 06:38 PM by anigbrowl
You begin here...
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...but there are several more stages that come after the initial burst of curiosity. Try also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method which has an excellent introduction.

See, it's easy to ask questions. Thinking through all the other possibilities, being willing to scratch ideas that you like but which turn out not to provide good answers and so on is the hard part. Sitting around asking questions without being willing to do the leg work or face the fact that many (most?) hypotheses will turn out be wrong does not make someone a scientist.


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