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The Professor says

So why are we in Afghanistan?

Oil.

The Professor says

Lets assume that it took 10 tons of explosives (20,000 lbs)to blow the buildings. If one man could carry 50 lbs of explosive in a rolling toolbox and place it near columns it would take one man 400 trips or 10 men 40 trips to place all the explosives.

Difficult does not mean impossible.

Nice thought. So 400 big rolling toolboxes left all around the wtc and no one would notice. Good thing Marvin Bush was on the job.

I thought you claimed many times that is was proved that thermite did it? All a toolbox full of thermite would do is make a really intense fire.

For someone who claims to be a professor who has read extensively on the subject there are an awful lot of convenient holes in your knowledge base. Especially when people have written about these things several times on this post. Severe short term memory loss like this is serious, you should have it checked out.

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Bigsby says

Fire can weaken steel. The WTC fires weakened trusses. There are videos clearly showing the outer columns of the twin towers bowing inwards at the point where the floors collapsed. Obviously those columns gave way and...

... go ahead tell us the rest of the story.

It collapsed. You keep posting up videos of it.

The Professor says

Yeah it happens. Sometimes you forget what I post. Memory is short on these boards.

It was a month ago tomorrow that I discovered AE911truth.org

I have been learning more and more and my mind has changed as I review more evidence.

I don't remember you providing any convincing evidence?

Learning more and more? Let us all guess where you've been 'learning.'

And no evidence would convince you. Facts are not an issue to you as shown by the videos you post up and that you claim are proof. Your belief in this conspiracy is an article of faith, not a matter of science, so you don't care what evidence is supplied. You will simply dismiss what we say and move onto your next video or cut and paste job.

The Professor says

I've only been studying for a month.

We need a new investigation to fill in the holes.

You've been 'studying' for a month? Why is it that you haven't managed to progress beyond one conspiracy website in all that time? Is that your normal course of rigorous intellectual pursuit? And no we don't need a new investigation to answer the ridiculous claims of conspiracists. Let us all just imagine if such an investigation were carried out. And let's imagine that it didn't conclude that the buildings were brought down by CDs. I think we can all imagine what you'd then be posting up on here.

The Professor says

The evidence is already there.

That is why there is no need to do another investigation. As a professor, you should know that investigations aren't redone because a bunch of conspiracists with bizarre Youtube videos want it so. Oh wait, I forgot you aren't a professor.

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The Professor says

Bigsby says

I am actually a postgrad

What discipline?

By postgrad do you mean high school?

I think you're talking about yourself. And like I said, it wasn't in a related field so it's irrelevant what I did as a postgrad. Of course, I could just make up shit like you and pretend to be a structural engineer or some such to try and give the pretense of bolstering my arguments. However, there's no need to do that as I can simply rely on the work of actual experts, people who don't require a constant stream of inane Youtube videos to make their points.

And I take it that you are allowed to insult others, whereas...

The Professor says

Is there any other reason you don't want an investigation?

Because one was already done? You just don't like it as it doesn't mesh well with your conspiracy theory. Look, it's very simple, investigations aren't redone because a bunch of conspiracists post up Youtube videos with arrows pointing at puffs of forced air being expelled after the building starts to collapse, or because people post up videos 'showing' controlled demolitions that strangely enough only fellow conspiracists can actually see (but obviously not hear), or because...

Just as a heads up Bgamall, I can see that you've responded to my post from the front page. However, you are on my ignore list, so I can't see your actual posts (and I don't seem to be able to unignore without signing up to premium service). As such, I suggest you direct your drivel to others as you won't be getting any further responses from me.

The Professor says

Waiting for a list.

Yet another childish response from someone claiming to be a professor. The lists are those involved in the reports, and, if you like, those who haven't signed up to your conspiracy website. As I've already said before, actual scientists don't generally spend their time forming little internet groups to disprove outlandish conspiracy claims.

And it doesn't matter anyway because no amount of evidence will change your mind. Evidence is irrelevant to you. You are no different to say creationists in that regard.

The Professor says

Bigsby says

You've been 'studying' for a month? Why is it that you haven't managed to progress beyond one conspiracy website in all that time?

I have been to a lot of websites. The least believable one claims aliens and directed pulse weapons.

The NIST official report is full of holes.

And what pray tell is the purpose of that arrow or is that an attempt at humour on your part? You do understand that is evidence for an uncontrolled collapse rather than a CD, don't you? Ejecting debris over a wide field is what a CD tries to avoid. Why not check how far the debris spread at the site of the WTC?

Seriously, that could be your stupidest post so far and that is saying something.

The Professor says

Hot enough to melt columns?

Where is the facepalm smilie when you need it?

The Professor says

Even though it looks like the top of this building is falling over, the whole building is about to explode, demolishing, top down, every intact floor below it in a cloud of pulverized concrete.

Er, your image clearly shows that the building gave way on one side, the side where debris piled high as a consequence of the plane pushing it there and so fueling a very substantial fire, the side where trusses weakened because of said fire and the outer columns bowed inwards...

And the whole building is not about to 'explode,' it's going to continue to collapse. There is after all rather a lot of weight pushing down.

You SHOULD be able to supply very clear proof of a CD. Every single one of the video cameras pointing at the buildings should have recorded multiple large explosions in rapid succession. No such videos exist. Now most sane human beings would conclude... You, however, ...

The Professor says

Your right, education is irrelevant on the Internet. We don't judge others on the claims of their expertise but the content of their posts.

And your content seems to almost solely come in the form of posting up Youtube videos and copying and pasting other people's views (and you do this almost always without any comments of your own), so how should we judge you?

The Professor says

Hot enough to melt columns?

Or maybe there was a combination of cutting and explosive charges? It's not hard to imagine a thermite shaped charge cutting device to weaken supports and then some kind of high explosive to blow the concrete to smithereens.

Use your imagination.

Sorry but I just don't have anywhere enough imagination to follow all the bizarre twists and turns in your postings. Sorry I can't imagine a shaped charge made from thermite left in a toolbox.

An alleged "professor" should at least be able to google the term shaped charge and learn that a. They are made from explosives so thermite can't be used b. they must be against a steel beam to work c. they don't cut they shatter.

If this is what you have come up with after an alleged month of studying then you really need to be checked out for early onset alzheimers.

or maybe there were aliens? debate the evidence.

The Professor says

And here is the North tower coming down. You can really hear the explosions.

What on earth are you talking about? You can't hear any explosions in that video at all. I don't think you know what an explosion is.

The Professor says

And here is the North tower coming down. You can really hear the explosions.

At what point is it that you think you hear explosions? All I hear is roar. The last video is shot from almost directly below the collapse, yet there isn't any sound of explosions at all. An explosion from a shaped cutting charge big enough to cut the steel columns in the wtc would be LOUD and would reverberate and echo a lot in lower manhatten, yet nothing in the video. It would have rattled windows across the hudson in Jersey City yet no one has ever reported that. Very strange.

Seriously, have you ever heard explosives? They make a very loud and very distinctive crack. Here is a video of a shaped charge being set off from what looks like 250-300 meters, a longer distance than the top of the towers to where the last video was shot. It rattles the camera and would leave ringing in your ears without ear protection. Where is this in any of the 17 videos? Show me the point in the last video where the camera shakes from the shock wave of high explosives. http://www.youtube.com/embed/y_RazXRM3f0

On the other hand an alien death ray would be silent. Debate the facts "professor".

The Professor says

bob2356 says

I just don't have anywhere enough imagination

Sorry about that.

Thanks for your contribution to the debate.

Anyone with enough imagination to follow your thinking would be institutionalized also. It's amazing the men in white coats let you have so much time on the computer.

The Professor says

There is an incredible amount of info out there!

There's an incredible amount of crap out there about aliens. Doesn't mean it's true.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/RUki-07sp2E

Homeboy says

There's an incredible amount of crap out there about aliens. Doesn't mean it's true.

It's not true?

bob2356 says

Homeboy says

There's an incredible amount of crap out there about aliens. Doesn't mean it's true.

It's not true?

Of course it's true. You can't find an official group of scientists who say that alien abductions aren't happening, so therefore it's true.

Why is the government refusing to investigate aliens?

The Professor says

" a mentally disturbed individual, lost in delirium, harboring wild conspiracy theories.

Yeah, that's a pretty good description of truthers.

The Professor says

"Whoever dares raise questions about the official 9/11 narrative, will be excluded from both the mainstream and “progressive” media, dismissed as a mentally disturbed individual, lost in delirium, harboring wild conspiracy theories.

In reality, the governmental spoon-fed 9/11 myth crumbles like a house of cards when confronted to facts and scientific analysis."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/911-facts-fiction-and-censorship/?print=1

Like I said, you just copy and paste. How about your input? And quite clearly the official story doesn't 'crumble like a house of cards when confronted to facts and scientific analysis.' That is just very convenient bluster on the part of conspiracists. There is nothing scientific about the quotes you copy and paste and there is nothing scientific about the videos you post up.

The Professor says

Still waiting for you to present evidence to convince me the official story is true. Again, you may have run across something convincing that I have overlooked.

You overlook anything that doesn't fit with your predetermined viewpoint.

The Professor says

Arrow came with the original picture. It illustrates that debris was thrown over 200 feet from the collapsing building.

Proof indeed of er, erm, er... Perhaps you'd care to explain what you think would happen if a building of that size collapsed without the intervention of explosives. All the debris lands in a large plastic bag planted in the center of the building perhaps.

The Professor says

Explode. The Mass is not pushing down, it is being blown out.

Complete and utter bullshit. What explosions? The building collapses. An immense amount of debris falls and ... FFS, what the hell do you think is going to happen to the debris? Your argument is just comical.

You sound less and less like a professor with every additional post you make.

The Professor says

Your arguments, and evidence, is non-existent.

Try the official reports. Try the evidence of your own eyes. Oh sorry, I forgot you see and hear explosions where none exist.

The Professor says

You need to chill. I can feel your blood pressure rise in your posts.

Is there a reason you argue so vehemently for the official story?

Do you actually have any convincing evidence to counter the evidence I have cut and paste?

Perhaps you should give more consideration to what you post (being a supposed professor and all that), then people wouldn't get so irritated responding to the constant stream of absurd stuff you seem to consider as proof.

The Professor says

We are still waiting for you to cut and paste a link to a modern steel framed building that was pulverised by a couple of hours of fire. Never happened before 9/11, never happened after.

I rather think this point has already been covered before. Do you wear permanent conspiracy blinkers?

The Professor says

You do realize you are a nut for the official conspiracy story?

Another very foolish comment from a so called professor.

The Professor says

Facts that indicate a Controlled Demolition of WTC7:
*There was trace evidence of thermite in the WTC dust.
*There was earwitness and video account of explosions.
*The official story has WTC7 falling in a manner which defied physics.
*The official report neglected or denied evidence.

Still waiting for explanations to this CD evidence.

Reread the thread.

The Professor says

I thought we established that education was meaningless on the Internet?

Argue the facts!

It's relevant when it demonstrates you to be a complete and utter bullshitter.

The Professor says

THe NIST simulation stopped before total collapse. The data that created the NIST simulation is secret and unavailable for recreation.

You'll have to explain what you think you are proving with that video.

The Professor says

Bigsby says

It's relevant when it demonstrates you to be a complete and utter bullshitter.

I see you have no facts and are reverting to personal attacks.

The facts have been covered over and over in this thread. You just choose to ignore them in favour of your conspiracy theory. But hey, it's clear that your approach is to stick with a few themes that you've drawn from your website. Those are your sole go to points. Points you just repeatedly post up (devoid of any personal input of course) and claim are proof. Which college do you teach at? Is that how other professors approach research? Latch onto someone else's theory. Accept all evidence supplied in favour of it irrespective of the credibility of said evidence (amateur Youtube videos etc. etc. are all taken at face value), whilst simultaneously dismissing all evidence that runs contrary to your predetermined beliefs (such as painstaking scientific studies carried out by actual scientists using enormous amounts of data...). You really are an academic role model. Or more likely a teenager who lacks basic critical thinking skills.

The Professor says

NO it has not been covered before. Do you HAVE any evidence of a steel frame building utterly collapsing after a short fire?

Yes, it has been covered before.

The Professor says

@bigsby

This video does a little better job explaining why the NIST simulation is faulty. If it still doesn't make sense I will post some more for you later. I have to go to yoga with the wife.

May I suggest you meditate on the absurdity of your views whilst you are there.

The Professor says

@bigsby

This video does a little better job explaining why the NIST simulation is faulty. If it still doesn't make sense I will post some more for you later. I have to go to yoga with the wife.

I look forward to seeing your alternative mathematical model for what happened on that day.

In the meantime, I think the NIST response effectively covers the issue (including the fact that these models aren't meant to exactly replicate what happened, but are simply 2 distinct analyses using 2 different data sets, one of which is strikingly similar to the actual collapse). Taken from NIST FAQs:

NIST conducted two global collapse analyses, one that included damage due to debris-impact from the collapse of WTC 1, and one that did not include any debris-impact damage. These two analyses were conducted to determine the influence of the debris-impact damage on the response of WTC 7 when subjected to the effects of the fires that burned on floors 7 to 9 and 11 to 13. In its comparison of the two analyses (see NIST NCSTAR 1A Section 3.5), NIST showed that the analysis with the debris-impact damage better simulated the sequence of observed events, and it is this simulation that is considered here.
NIST believes that the simulation of the collapse, based on the analysis with debris-impact damage, does capture the critical observations derived from the digital video recording. The critical observations and corresponding failures identified in the structural analysis include: 1) east-west motion of the building beginning at approximately the same time as failure of floors 6 through 14 around Column 79, 2) the formation of the “kink” in the roofline of the east penthouse approximately one second after Column 79 was found to buckle, 3) window breakage on the east side of the north face as the buckling of Column 79 precipitated the failure of upper floors, and 4) the beginning of global collapse (vertical drop of the building exterior) within approximately one-half second of the time predicted by analysis. Both measured time and analytically predicted time, from the start of failures of floors surrounding Column 79 to the initial downward motion of the north face roofline, was 12.9 seconds (see NIST NCSTAR Report 1A, Table 3-1). The collapse observations, from video analysis of the CBS News Archive video, are covered in detail in NIST NCSTAR Report 1A Section 3.5 and NIST NCSTAR Report 1-9, Section 8.3. Only in the later stages of the animation, after the initiation of global collapse, do the upper exterior wall deformations from the NIST analysis differ from the video images.
Uncertainties associated with the approach taken by NIST are addressed in NIST NCSTAR Report 1A, Section 3.5, where it is noted, “Once simulation of the global collapse of WTC 7 was underway, there was a great increase in the uncertainty in the progression of the collapse sequence, due to the random nature of the interaction, break up, disintegration, and falling debris.” The contribution to stiffness and strength of nonstructural materials and components, such as exterior cladding, interior walls and partitions, was not considered in the analyses conducted by NIST. It is well known that such non-structural components can increase the stiffness and strength of a structural system, but their contribution is difficult to quantify. Given these factors, disparities between the video and the animation in the later stages of collapse would be expected.

The Professor says

We are still waiting for you to cut and paste a link to a modern steel framed building that was pulverised by a couple of hours of fire. Never happened before 9/11, never happened after.

That didn't happen on 9/11 either. Some buildings were hit by large passenger jets full of fuel which took out some of the support structure of the building, then the heat of the resulting fire caused the steel beams to weaken and then collapse. It was not "pulverised [SIC] by a couple hours of fire."

When is the government going to investigate the alien invasion? The official story has too many holes in it.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/eRyZyvcyeGI

Here is absolute proof of the 9/11 conspiracy. It was in the planning stages for a long time. Even Fox TV knew about it:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/rIZ205ccX8M

The Professor says

That is the entire point. Even with secret data inputs NIST could not replicate the actual collapse in their computer model.

They go through a convoluted chain reaction where "Column 79 was found to buckle" followed by a cascade of thousands of failed structural steel connections culminating in a smoldering building imploded into its own footprint.

NIST: "Progressive collapse is defined as the spread of local damage from a single initiating event, from structural element to element, eventually resulting in the collapse of an entire structure or a disproportionately large part of it."

In other words, "A beam slipped and caused all of the other important connections in the building to fail".

Watch again, In the NIST simulation every column or beam you see falling means a weld or a bolt has failed.

That's not the entire point. You posted up a video that is devoid of context and is clearly meant to misrepresent what they did.
NIST aren't like you. They didn't have a predetermined conclusion and then made the evidence fit with that. How easy do you think it would have been to manipulate a model to fit exactly with those videos? That isn't how they work. They took the information that they believed to be accurate and created 2 mathematical models based on two very distinct sets of data (where was that explained in your video). One of those models clearly produced a result very similar to what happened. Not identical, but very similar and that demonstrates their model is a pretty good indication of what took place. Why is that so difficult for you to understand? Why do you have to dismiss the entire thing despite them clearly stating why it isn't identical? That's a clear indication there wasn't a conspiracy, but no, you take that and twist it completely. You jump straight to a video that entirely misrepresents the two simulations and deliberately places them out of context. It's very clear to me who is being deliberately misleading, and it isn't NIST.

The Professor says

I think another wrong has happened in this world and I want to know the truth. I am convinced that there is a cover up of what really happened on 9/11/2001.

I am not sure we can convince each other of what the "truth" of 9/11 is but I appreciate a civil debate on such an important topic.

If you want to know the truth, then you should stop claiming a conspiracy at every turn and realize that the truthers are clearly manipulating and distorting the facts so as to mislead the uninformed.

The Professor says

Now imagine taking a blowtorch and destroying all of the connections that might have been damaged by debris from the twin towers. Now take the blowtorch to column 79 until all of its connections were melted and destroyed.

Would this cause the rest of the building to be dragged down?

And how again are you qualified to make this engineering determination and to second-guess NIST's determination?

The Professor says

That is exactly what they did!

They predetermined that fires weakened the structure of WTC 7, causing it to implode.

They never even checked for explosives!!!

Don't be stupid. They took the available data and created the simulation using that data. That simulation shows the building falling down in a very similar manner to that witnessed (and surprise, surprise without the aid of explosives). And what the hell your lego post has to do with anything is anyone's guess. You use no data, post up entirely inaccurate and misleading videos, and then shout conspiracy every time proper research shows you to be wrong. You are simply questioning the wrong things. You are utterly dismissive of all mainstream research and entirely accepting of all the truther videos - intellectual dishonesty at its most obvious.

The Professor says

If you want to know the truth, then you should stop claiming a conspiracy at every turn and realize that the official story is clearly manipulating and distorting the facts so as to mislead the uninformed.

A lazy and childish response, one regularly used by Darrell in Phoenix/War/Realtors are Liars. The official report was a painstaking analysis carried out independently. You rely on videos posted by kids and conspiracy nuts that deliberately set out to mislead the gullible by being utterly selective and deceptive in what they portray. And as a purported academic you choose to go with the latter rather than the former. Very strange. Very strange indeed.