patrick.net

I also dont see why the towers went down in a tight footprint, instead of tipping over, like a pez despenser.

Bop69, I will think of this comment whenever you tell other people how to live. The towers didn't tip over like a tree, or if you prefer a Pez dispenser, because they were strong enough to resist the airplane impacts; each had been designed specifically to withstand a 707, an earthquake, and NYC's 100mph windstorms. The towers fell because heat from the fires weakened their structural steel until it buckled, at which point gravity pulled them down. As anyone with even a grade school education could explain to you, gravity always pulls down. As anyone who has studied even high school physics could tell you, when the upper floors of a building come down, they strike the lower floors with a force proportionate to the square of their velocity, in addition to their weight. Your inability to comprehend this fact, more than a decade after witnessing it in action, shows truly astonishing stupidity. What amazes me about ignorance is, the most ignorant people are the most blind to their own ignorance, and opine with arrogant certitude about how other people whom they've never met should be required to live their own lives. I count that as one of the costs of Bronze Age religions; people listen to a preacher, and if they feel like they understood the sermon, they feel like they know all they need to know, even though those sermons are a little short on science.

I thought it just was vibrated into failure.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I suppose, since heat is a vibration, I will give you this one. Yes, vibrations in the form of heat caused the buildings to fail. Most people would call those vibrations by a more common name: fire.

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 25, 9:08am

I suppose retirement constitutes losing your career.

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 25, 10:32am

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afb7eUHr64U

I was not aware of a fire raging there. No footage really shows that kind of thing, but I see your point. It just seems kinda odd. I thought it just was vibrated into failure. Was the fire due to the planes crashing or something else and it just happend to match the time frame of the crashes? That could have been the case. Totally serious questions here, not any type of bs.

WHat do you think about the straight drop vs a lopsides tip over for the big buildings?

There's this thing called the internet that has videos like this on it:

Are you saying that doesn't look like a rather serious fire?

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 25, 11:43am

He was a tenured professor. As you aren't actually a professor, perhaps you should google how difficult it is to get rid of such employees. He was put on paid leave and shortly after that retired without fighting his case. That in no way shape or form constitutes being forced out.

And you don't look at the evidence. You simply keep repeating all your go to truther spiel. Unbiased indeed.

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Bap33 2013 Jul 25, 12:48pm

guys guys guys ... you mis-read my posts. I am not suggesting anything weird happened, I'm just asking questions outloud. Geeze.

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 25, 7:24pm

guys guys guys ... you mis-read my posts. I am not suggesting anything weird happened, I'm just asking questions outloud. Geeze.

No, you made a completely inaccurate statement that you have now glossed over.

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 26, 2:00am

Bap33 says

I am not suggesting anything weird happened, I'm just asking questions outloud. Geeze.

You're just questioning the government BS and something weird did happen; for the first time in history a steel framed building supposedly collapsed from office fires.

Blah, blah, blah. Every steel frame building is of course constructed the same. Every fire is the same. Oh, hang on...

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 28, 9:09am

Bigsby says

Blah, blah, blah. Every steel frame building is of course constructed the same. Every fire is the same. Oh, hang on...

Do you have anything to add to the debate Bigs?

There's nothing to debate. You will just go ahead and post up the same old videos/arguments whenever you want to stroke your ego and then willfully ignore all evidence to the contrary.

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 29, 10:41am

Some contrary evidence to counter the above 'facts'? How about everything that hasn't been filtered through your bullshit conspiracy websites? Real science, real research. You should try it some time 'professor'.

64 puhim 2013 Jul 29, 10:51am

No steel frame buildings have ever collapsed from fire alone. World trade Center Seven collapsed from fire alone according to the official story.

lol, these fools on Patnet don't care about facts.

"NO STEEL FRAME BUILDING HAS EVER COLLAPSED FROM FIRE ALONE, EVER "

A steel framed building has burned for over 24hrs and not fallen.

On top of that we are now we supposed to believed that this steel and concrete reinforced buildings ( 3 of them) all BENT under fire and collapsed (never ever happened before or will happen again) and still fell like a PANCAKE! Not toppled over but shredded, disintegrated and EXPLODED!

WAKE UP YOU FOOLS! WAKE UP!

NASA already produced the heat indexes for the fires and they are not high enough to melt the "reinforced steel" made in Japan, to very high standards.
It did not burn for very long either and the fire suppression systems kicked in producing grey smoke. confirmed by witnesses and fireman on the scene inside the building.

Many fireman witnesses confirmed explosions in the basement producing molten lava of the connecting columns well before the collapses. No fire every reached the basement.

!

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 29, 11:06am

Puhim, the physics, metallurgy and demolition expert, speaks.

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Bap33 2013 Jul 31, 1:38am

Wouldn't 100% of the jet fuel be gone right after impact?

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Y 2013 Jul 31, 1:39am

Self recognition of one's flaws is the first step towards recovery.
Glad you've made that first step.

It is nice that patrick provides this webspace for the extremely mentally weak fringe idiots to get together.

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Bap33 2013 Jul 31, 2:10am

steele is not a fuel source, so I would expect the fuel/consumables to be removed when the fuel source is spent and the steele left standing there. Cement is not a fuel source either. So, smoldering frame makes sense.

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Bigsby 2013 Jul 31, 6:51pm

Bigsby says

Puhim, the physics, metallurgy and demolition expert, speaks.

So you got nothing but insult. Thank you for your contribution.

It's not an insult. He is none of those things and neither are you, and yet you both think you have greater insight than the overwhelming number of such people who have shown your tin-foil hat 9/11 conspiracy nonsense for what it is, complete and utter bullshit.

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Bigsby 2013 Aug 1, 7:57am

Bigsby says

you both think you have greater insight than the overwhelming number of such people who have shown your tin-foil hat 9/11 conspiracy nonsense for what it is, complete and utter bullshit.

Links? Or all you have is insult.

You have eyes and fingers. Look back at all the previous posts/threads on this topic and/or use this thing called google... but avoid using words such as conspiracy/truther/etc... I'm not going to do it for you because
a. I can't be bothered. It's easy enough to do for even those blinded by conspiracy. You will, however, simply ignore the evidence from real experts on the matter in favour of Youtube videos posted up by 18 year-olds.
b. You just want to use the opportunity to regurgitate the same old shite you've been tediously posting for months now.

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Bigsby 2013 Aug 1, 10:50am

Bigsby says

I can't be bothered

So you got nothing. Thanks for posting. If you ever come up with some real evidence please post it for us.

I'm not a physicist, metallurgist or demolition expert. What exactly do you expect me to give you? A large number of links have been posted up on numerous threads, but you have chosen to completely dismiss them all in favour of a bunch of stupid Youtube videos. The real evidence has been shown to you countless times. It's in countless places all over the internet courtesy of actual research done by actual specialists. You just choose to dismiss it all because you THINK you are so much smarter. You aren't.

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Bigsby 2013 Aug 1, 11:25am

Bigsby says

The real evidence has been shown to you countless times. It's in countless places all over the internet courtesy of actual research done by actual specialists.

Do you mean NIST, FEMA, Popular mechanics? What do you consider "real" evidence?

It does not take a physicist to see that WT7 did not come down by fire alone. Can you link to some physicist that DO believe in the official story?

It doesn't matter what site or which person anyone links to as you will simply dismiss them in favour of your uninformed conspiracy beliefs and those who reinforce them.

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Bigsby 2013 Aug 1, 12:14pm

Bigsby says

It doesn't matter what site or which person anyone links to as you will simply dismiss them in favour of your uninformed conspiracy beliefs and those who reinforce them.

So you got nothing. Come back with some evidence.

How about: http://www.nmsr.org/nmsr911.htm they are quite convincing.

You must have an unusual understanding of the word nothing.

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Bap33 2013 Aug 2, 1:54am

steele is not a fuel source. cement is not a fuel source. Right?

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Bap33 2013 Aug 2, 6:12am

Bap33 says

steele is not a fuel source. cement is not a fuel source. Right?

the yield point for steele gets much weaker when heated.

the plane crash itself severed several of the supports, so the remaining ones had to hold the entire load, which was already beyond design point, then add in the fire.

You'd know this, if you did any research, and you weren't a complete dumbass.

lol .. hey, pisa, my question was about the 3rd building. But hey, if you were not such a piaso you would know that, tu pendejo.

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Bap33 2013 Aug 2, 6:14am

steele is not a fuel source. cement is not a fuel source. Right?

why such mean talk over a simple question? I dont get you guys sometimes.

77 puhim 2013 Aug 2, 7:21am

http://www.debunking911.com/WTC7.htm

If you choose to live with shit in your head, believing this conspiracy crap, don't act so surprised when the non retarded rest of society doesn't take you seriously.

That's right call people retards, that should win them over.

It is you who is a deluded Preprogrammed Zombie, i'm surprised your not on benefits because you are obviously incapable of independent thought. It won't take much, confiscation of you bank accounts and property should get you on the right track..

Wake up Zombie!

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tatupu70 2013 Aug 2, 8:31am

According to the official story an office fire caused a beam to sag and fall
off initiating a cascade of failure where over 400 mechanical connections (Welds
and bolted connections) per SECOND failed and the building collapsed into a pile
of broken beams and pulverized concrete at almost free fall speed.

Could you post a link to the relevant part of the official report? Where it describes the mechanism that you state above?

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curious2 2013 Aug 2, 10:22am

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=/data/legalview/2012/May/legalview_May9.xml&section=legalview

Bap33 says

steele is not a fuel source. cement is not a fuel source. Right?

why such mean talk over a simple question? I dont get you guys sometimes.

Looking at my e-mails recently, I saw that Bap33 had Liked one of my comments, which was nice of him, so I'll reply seriously to the two questions above.

Steel and cement are not generally fuel sources at the relevant temperatures on 9/11.

In NYC, "fireproof" buildings are designed to withstand four hours of fire, which is usually plenty of time for NYFD to extinguish the fire. On 9/11, jet airliners damaged the structure of the twin towers, and jet fuel started enormous office fires burning on multiple floors at the same time. Each floor was an acre in size. As one firefighter put it, you're looking at 40 acres of fire. Most of the jet fuel exploded outside the buildings, but the spray acted like lighter fluid on a barbecue: it got everything burning all at once. When the steel supports heated, they became more flexible, and could no longer support the load from above. After around an hour, they collapsed, killing thousands of people including hundreds of firefighters.

With a substantial % of the fire department dead, and unknown numbers of others trapped in the rubble, NYFD concentrated on trying to rescue anyone they could rescue from the rubble. More than a dozen people were rescued who would otherwise have died.

Meanwhile, WTC7 was evacuated. It was badly damaged and fires were burning on several floors. A decision was made to let it burn and collapse. That process took all day. It fell sometime in the late afternoon, having stood the required 4 hours and more.

Contrast the Deutsche Bank building across the street from the south tower. That building stood, but had to be demolished very slowly over several years.

As for why people get upset, the conspiracy theorists insist on seeing things that aren't there, and turn a huge tragedy into their own personal soapbox and ego games. The memory of 9/11 hurts. People don't like seeing it abused by nutjobs for their own agendas. I suppose it's a bit like how some veterans react to seeing punks burn the flag. Now, to return you to the usual partisan bickering, for many people that manipulation of 9/11 includes using it as a way to sell the war in Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.

I hope that answers your questions.

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Bap33 2013 Aug 2, 1:19pm

thank you for that response. I happen to think it all happened as it looked on TV when it happened. And the scope of the deal is impossible for me to grasp from tv only. My uncle went and seen Ground Zero while it was still smoldering. He is(was) a big time contractor and was amazed at the site and the sight.
Sure wish we would have just flattened one mosque for each dead American. No warning, no excuses, no second chance, and then a notice that we will do the same from hence forth. One dead American from any crazy arab will result in one flattened mosque. Period. One for One - that's a fair response. In my opinion.

81 MMR 2013 Aug 2, 2:22pm

How are muslims in southern thailand treated if they decide to take a job in the middle east? I know Indonesians are treated like dirt and certainly Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are also treated like dirt when going to Arab Countries, especially Saudi and the UAE and yet most dems apologize for them........Dems are dumb idiots, but Repubs simply don't give a fuck....so which is better of two evils???????????

http://www.dubaifaqs.com/passport-keeping-employer-uae.php

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/employers-holding-passports-is-legal-grey-area

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=21317

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/ministry-vows-act-over-illegal-passport-retention-19046.html#.UfyFC2Sgk0M

But if white people aren't being squeezed out of jobs by wogs then it's perfectly ok.

Although it was ruled to be illegal, please blow some more smoke up your ass if you think it's not still the norm for wog slaves.

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Bap33 2013 Aug 2, 2:24pm

Bap33 says

Sure wish we would have just flattened one mosque for each dead American

that is the thinking that led their zealots do do 911. I have quite a few muslim friends in southern thailand...

I did not say anything about asains lost in the lies of mohamad. asains attack for normal reasons, food, money, power, land, and chicks. asains aint crazy. I specified crazy arabs. As you well know, the arabs only see other arabs as muslams. Your friends may not know that. One dead civilian American at the hands of a self-proclaimed arab nut case = one flat masque smoldering. No warning. And, all armed arab attackers that come up against our military should be stripped nude and placed in stocks in the public square and broadcast on tv. Not harmed, not hurt, not killed, not scared, just embarassed. They fear having women see their little peepees more than they fear death. Weird.

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Bigsby 2013 Aug 2, 2:30pm

I don't recall the Bali bombers being arabs...

84 MMR 2013 Aug 2, 2:32pm

That part is a fact that most people seem to overlook......I'm too lazy to find references but that is hard to disprove....if someone is interested in doing so, I'd love to see the references.