Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-09 Thread R C Macaulay
Gosh, golly, gee guys, you mean to say you don't trust our guv'ment ? Anybody in here ever serve in the military? Ask ole Ben Franklin why they didn't trust the king, They wrote the constitution to protect us from guv'ment, not the other way around. Don't trust the guv'ment.. don't even think

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Please note they concur with the NIST findings. And - you know this, how? I know this because I read Japanese newspapers and watch the NHK news. To be accurate, this is more a case of the dog that has not barked. Let me explain. The Japanese blogosphere and tabloid magazines are

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: No one has suggested arson per se in this discussion. By arson I meant the use of thermite or any other deliberate, controlled demolition materials installed in the building beforehand. Anything of this nature would be obvious to a trained fire inspector at the NYPD or

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Jed Rothwell You mean NIST and the NYFD and every other fire department and safety agency on earth has chosen to ignore that. No doubt they are all part of a grand conspiracy. Get used to it. Huh? Every other fire department on earth? Get real - better yet

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Edmund Storms
I hate to get involved in this cat fight, but when thermite is used, it melts only a very local region which is blown away from the area by the reaction. A molten pool of iron would not be produced. I suspect, as others have suggested, that the huge energy of the collapse would melt the

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
Ed - You could be right - but the bottom line on it is that all we need, all we have ever needed, is simply a thorough investigation which addresses all the issues. Why were we not afforded that for the millions already spent? If you have the time ... Please comment on the following criticism

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Nick Palmer
Err guys, don't get carried away with the conspiracy - try to consider how long a pool of molten metal would stay molten... Mark Loizeaux, now president of CDI and one of the contractors in the clean-up is quoted in newspaper accounts and television interviews in the weeks following 9/11 as

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Harry Veeder
on 7/9/08 9:19 pm, Stephen A. Lawrence at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here attempted to answer the following three questions? The first two would involve a little tedious research but are otherwise straightforward, but the most important -- #3 -- seems hard. 1) How much energy is

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
Nick You must be reading my mind ;-) That is why this subject could be directly On Topic Seriously, though - WTC7 was a large repository for precious metals. Check out this image: http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/gold.html ... not sure how much of it was palladium, however g

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Harry Veeder
I wonder how much molten steel was produced by cutting tourches etc. during the clean up. Harry

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Edmund Storms
On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Jones Beene wrote: Ed - You could be right - but the bottom line on it is that all we need, all we have ever needed, is simply a thorough investigation which addresses all the issues. Why were we not afforded that for the millions already spent? I suspect

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thank you, Harry! Haven't gone over those numbers with a calculator and CRC yet but it looks good at first glance -- and it provides a great place to start even if I end up disagreeing! Harry Veeder wrote: A calculation can be found here near the end of the page:

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Harry Veeder
Jones, Metal fatigue can cause an airplane to crash but this wasn't fully appreciated by the aircraft industry until the Comet disaster. Is it so inconceivable that thermal expansion in conjunction with the design of tower 7 caused the collapse? Harry

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Mark Loizeaux, now president of CDI and one of the contractors in the clean-up is quoted in newspaper accounts and television interviews in the weeks following 9/11 as seeing molten steel in the bottoms of elevator shafts three, four, and five weeks after the attack. I do

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
Harry As it is no-doubt obvious to all, I have no expertise in the specialized area of disaster analysis or hi-rise engineering, and have only witnessed demolitions on TV, therefore, I can only pass-on what I have read and studied. Sure, I have a high level of interest and have read

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread leaking pen
Considering that I use thermite to MAKE molten pools of metal, as part of a glass sculpture technique, that would be incorrect. The reaction in large amounts doesnt blow things away. Thats standard aluminum / iron (II) oxide thermite. On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Edmund Storms [EMAIL

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Jed Rothwell As far as I know Mark Loizeaux has not claimed that any of the buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition with materials implanted before the attack. I am sure that he would recognize it instantly if that were the case. If you were

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene wrote: Mark Loizeaux, now president of CDI and one of the contractors in the clean-up is quoted in newspaper accounts and television interviews in the weeks following 9/11 as seeing molten steel in the bottoms of elevator shafts three, four, and five weeks

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Edmund Storms
Of course it would be incorrect if the demolition company wanted to make molten iron. However, they generally try to use as little of the expensive thermite as possible to get the job done. When a person hears an explosion, as people claimed to do, this means that things were blown away.

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Stephen A. Lawrence If there's something more concrete, which pins the temperature and the date a little better, I'd love to see it. Well, there was, but I am having trouble finding it now. Maybe you can help. I remember seeing an image in the days (maybe

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: If you were charged with doing a thorough investigation, would not you at least interview him - hopefully with a grant of immunity from future prosecution ? I do not understand this comment. Why would he need a grant of immunity?!? This makes no sense. He is not accused

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Jed Rothwell I do not understand this comment. Why would he need a grant of immunity?!? This makes no sense. He is not accused of bringing down the buildings, is he? Not that I am aware of - but that is FAR from his only problem. ... in case you are

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: ... in case you are unaware of it, it can be a serious crime in itself to have evidence of another's serious crime EVEN IF YOUR ARE NOT INVOLVED - and to fail to make some effort to report it. Does accessory after the fact ring a bell? Of course, he and many others who

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread leaking pen
Thermite isn't expensive, isnt an explosive, and the BY PRODUCTS OF ITS USE, just when burnt on its own, is aluminum oxide and MOLTEN iron. The use i mentions is, we use a few ceramic potters together, with a thin sheet of aluminum between two, plugging the shared hole. This is placed on top of a

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Jed Rothwell You are saying he is committing a crime by not speaking up, and the government is using this as a lever to prevent him from . . . speaking up. No of course not. The crime, if there was one (and that is not clear) -- would have already been

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: - Original Message From: Stephen A. Lawrence If there's something more concrete, which pins the temperature and the date a little better, I'd love to see it. Well, there was, but I am having trouble finding it now. Maybe you can help. I remember seeing

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread OrionWorks
From a recent comment Jones made: If you were charged with doing a thorough investigation, would not you at least interview him - hopefully with a grant of immunity from future prosecution ? FWIW, I'm reminded of what a number of UFO investigators have tried to do when it came to the

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jones Beene
Stephen, However, remote sensing can't see high temperatures through an opaque mass of debris. At wavelengths emitted by very hot objects, which are in the visible band, it can only read the *surface* temperature. Yes but... Here is a page with a tiny version of the same or a similar

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note they concur with the NIST findings. And - you know this, how? I know this because I read Japanese newspapers and watch the NHK news. After all, the whitewash has only been out a few days, and yet these thousands of agenicies . . . The

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-08 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: Stephen, However, remote sensing can't see high temperatures through an opaque mass of debris. At wavelengths emitted by very hot objects, which are in the visible band, it can only read the *surface* temperature. Yes but... Here is a page with a tiny version of

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-07 Thread Jed Rothwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of WTC 7, I saw the video of that building coming down, I know a controlled demolition when I see one. It didn't fall down, it imploded. Oh do you? Maybe so, and maybe not, but here are some people who definitely do know a controlled demolition when they see

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-07 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Jed Rothwell Why do you persist in creating ridiculous straw-men to demolish? That is so juvenile. Is winning an argument more important to you than finding the truth in these allegations? No one has suggested arson per se in this discussion. We should all

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-07 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jones Beene wrote: - Original Message From: Jed Rothwell Why do you persist in creating ridiculous straw-men to demolish? That is so juvenile. Is winning an argument more important to you than finding the truth in these allegations? No one has suggested arson per se in this

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-07 Thread R C Macaulay
WT-7 building imploded and fell in a classic figuration of a controlled demolition event. The time lapse vids do not lie. The destruction of the building has not been kept a secret .. it cannot be.. BUT.. it can be debunked. It was by the NIST report. WTC firemen gave interviews on TV, their

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-07 Thread Jones Beene
- Original Message From: Stephen A. Lawrence My guess -- and it is nothing more than a guess -- is that a significant fraction of the collapse energy *did* turn into heat, and that, in fact, the amount of heat generated was large enough to melt a significant amount of steel. But

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-06 Thread OrionWorks
Howdy Richard, Howdy Steven, I don't know why the 9/11 buildings collapsed because I wasn't there. One building collapse under these circumstances does raise an eyebrow,,, two buildings collapse under identical circumstances stretches the imagination... 3 buildings collapse in like

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-06 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: And the NYFD rolled over and play dead. Because as we all know officials in New York City are timid and passive people who never question authorities. They are easily duped, and slavishly devoted to Republican administration. Plus, what would they have to gain? I mean, aside

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-06 Thread temalloy1
Quoting Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard, Won't matter.. it over,it's in the past.. in today's world, anything being instant attention is past tense. There are things which resonate, and those which don't. This doesn't. Unfortunately, you are probably right - especially with the

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-06 Thread temalloy1
Quoting Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene wrote: Won't matter.. it over,it's in the past.. in today's world, anything being instant attention is past tense. Unfortunately, you are probably right - especially with the massive payoff$$ On the other

[Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Jones Beene
Kevin Ryan, former Lab director at UL (Underwriters Laboratories - which once-upon-a-time was NIST - that is, before NIST became politicized and no longer is staffed with real scientists - and instead is being run by political appointees) ... weighs in with Dr. Steven Jones on the

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Kevin Ryan, former Lab director at UL (Underwriters Laboratories - which once-upon-a-time was NIST - that is, before NIST became politicized and no longer is staffed with real scientists - and instead is being run by political appointees) No, the two are completely

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, Fact: NO plane hit building 7 of the world trade center so the computer models used on the twin towers are invalid. What we have is a classic example of performing wonders with numbers while eating cucumbers. Won't matter.. it over,it's in the past.. in today's world, anything

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Jones Beene
Richard, Won't matter.. it over,it's in the past.. in today's world, anything being instant attention is past tense. Unfortunately, you are probably right - especially with the massive payoff$$ to the families of the 3000+ victims - some of whom otherwise would never let the story die. Is

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread OrionWorks
A slow news day. The following questions are probably directed for Jones, but anyone can chime in. I've been reading this subject thread off and on for some time, and I'm curious about a couple of things... Is it the implication that Cheney either directly or indirectly was responsible for

RE: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Rick Monteverde
, September 05, 2008 7:53 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking snip What we have is a classic example of performing wonders with numbers while eating cucumbers. /snip

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Won't matter.. it over,it's in the past.. in today's world, anything being instant attention is past tense. Unfortunately, you are probably right - especially with the massive payoff$$ to the families of the 3000+ victims - some of whom otherwise would never let the

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
OrionWorks wrote: A slow news day. The following questions are probably directed for Jones, but anyone can chime in. I've been reading this subject thread off and on for some time, and I'm curious about a couple of things... Is it the implication that Cheney either directly or

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Jones Beene wrote: Won't matter.. it over,it's in the past.. in today's world, anything being instant attention is past tense. Unfortunately, you are probably right - especially with the massive payoff$$ to the families of the 3000+ victims - some of whom otherwise

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Jones Beene
Steven, I've been reading this subject thread off and on for some time, and I'm curious about a couple of things... Is it the implication that Cheney either directly or indirectly was responsible for destroying the WTC and/or surrounding buildings? Never heard that one before. WHO DID IT?

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thank you for the extremely lucid recap. Jones Beene wrote: [ snip ] I mentioned before there had been a valid demolition permit issued by the City to the WTC owners (the Port Authority) - after the 1993 incident - and there are reports from around that time period from contractors that

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: NIST, to everyone's utter amazement, totally dodged this issue; nor did they address the large number of PROVED and documented reports at the NYC Fire Dept has on file - of large pools of molten steel - up to three weeks after the tragedy. And the NYFD rolled over and

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: I mentioned before there had been a valid demolition permit issued by the City to the WTC owners (the Port Authority) - after the 1993 incident - and there are reports from around that time period from contractors that themite was actually loaded into parts of the

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread OrionWorks
Thousands of innocent people died on Sept 11, 2001. Most died quickly, mercifully. But some I suspect died slowly and horribly. As human beings it seems to be in our nature to ponder how devastating events of this nature could be allowed happen. Why? We ask ourselves. SOMEONE MUST HAVE BEEN

Re: [Vo]:NIST debunking

2008-09-05 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Steven, I don't know why the 9/11 buildings collapsed because I wasn't there. One building collapse under these circumstances does raise an eyebrow,,, two buildings collapse under identical circumstances stretches the imagination... 3 buildings collapse in like circumstances with no