Re: [Vo]: Re: Lifter aerodynamics

2007-02-20 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:34 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Lifter aerodynamics Yes I mean drag, but there may be other aerodynamic forces to consider. Also I don't think the profile is

Re: [Vo]: Better way to sequester CO2- re branson

2007-02-20 Thread Wesley Bruce
Thanks robin Your correct. Good black coal can be 80% carbon 20% hydrogen. In clean burning coal the CO2 reaction is a big part of the energy but if CO2 is chilled and sequested you loose most of that energy and all that counts is the energy output of the hydrogen. That's why the coal

[Vo]: ocean biomass and biofuel

2007-02-20 Thread Wesley Bruce
Back in the 1980 Jacques-Yves Cousteau championed a ocean based biofuel technology that has since been lost. The technology involved buoy based nutrient up welling pumps powered by methane. The Methane was produced from kelp plants grown on a mesh net attached below the water line. The deep

Re: [Vo]: OT: Whoa, Fido....

2007-02-20 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Jed wrote: That brings up another important point. This administration is incompetent ... So why does anyone imagine that this administration is capable of orchestrating and carrying out the largest deception in history, and magically persuading thousands of top experts all over the world to go

[Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Taylor J. Smith wrote: Now, a world oil glut appears to be developing. Not according to the Atlanta Constitution today: http://www.ajc.com/search/content/business/stories/2007/02/20/0220bizoil.html Saudis' cutbacks raise oil concerns Some question country's reserves Drivers who remember

[Vo]: NIST cuts through the Twin Towers BS

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is the antidote to the nonsense published here and elsewhere by conspiracy theorists: http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm Example: As documented in Section 6.14.4 of NIST NCSTAR 1, these collapse times show that: “… the structure below the level of collapse initiation

Re: [Vo]: Johnson's analysis

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: . . . Nevertheless, a vocal group can not accept these explanations as plausible. For them, it would seem that there MUST be additional more sinister explanations, that missiles and/or strategically positioned chemical explosives had to have been used as well.

[Vo]:

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
Yes, Vo's and fellow Patriots everywhere - it is time to come-down hard on those conspiracy theory nut-cases who want to ruin this country with false accusations of cover-ups. Like you-know-who (not Santa) it is high-time for enforcement officials to make a list and check it twice for these

Re: [Vo]: Re: OT: Whoa, Fido....

2007-02-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Jed Rothwell wrote: Harry Veeder wrote: I suspect the WTC towers were designed with a structural weakness to make any future demolition easy. ABSOLUTELY NOT! That would be insane. The WTC Towers were one of the strongest structures made up to the 1970s. They withstood the effects of the

Re: [Vo]: OT: Whoa, Fido....

2007-02-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Taylor J. Smith wrote: Jed wrote: That brings up another important point. This administration is incompetent ... So why does anyone imagine that this administration is capable of orchestrating and carrying out the largest deception in history, and magically persuading thousands of top

[Vo]: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
No thermite, right? Come on Patriot-Actors and assorted skeptics... I can hear you muttering it already, even over cybespace: Maybe the image has been photoshopped riiight http://69.55.11.240/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=138415Disp=385

Re: [Vo]:

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
You left something out of this armchair analysis of the psyche of those who want to believe it was an inside job: Bigotry. If it was an inside job then it was Americans who destroyed our own buildings. That's obviously possible -- evil wicked mean and nasty, but possible. What Americans

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Harry Veeder
I've also heard Iran has to import gasoline because their oil refining capacity is limited. Harry Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Jed Rothwell wrote: The Iranians are destroying their own oil fields without help from us. Their fields are in such poor shape from mismanagement and bad

Re: [Vo]: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Jones Beene wrote: No thermite, right? Come on Patriot-Actors and assorted skeptics... I can hear you muttering it already, even over cybespace: Maybe the image has been photoshopped riiight http://69.55.11.240/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=138415Disp=385 This is just my

Re: [Vo]: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
not a skeptic, but, with the flow inside and out of the girder almost even, that one looks more like it sheared off at an angle, and then molten metal dripped over it. and, as someone that uses the stuff, that is NOT what thermite leftovers looks like. On 2/20/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Vo]: NIST cuts through the Twin Towers BS

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: Here is the antidote to the nonsense published here and elsewhere by conspiracy theorists: http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm Example: As documented in Section 6.14.4 of NIST NCSTAR 1, these collapse times show that: “… the structure below the level

Re: [Vo]: NIST cuts through the Twin Towers BS

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: So the combined mass continues on its way almost immediately, but now it's only moving at 16 feet/second, because it has the same momentum but double the mass. Do you mean the mass doubles because there are now two floors falling? Not quite. For one thing, the two

Re: [Vo]: Shadow Marketing Inc. Offers to Acquire D2Fusion, Inc.

2007-02-20 Thread Steven Krivit
Say what??? Who's buying whom here? And how is Shadow going to raise 2M$ in working capital, I wonder? This sounds reminiscent of something we heard last year about D2Fusion, doesn't it? Some deal was going to go through, also contingent on someone raising a quantity of working capital

Re: [Vo]:

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Like you-know-who (not Santa) it is high-time for enforcement officials to make a list and check it twice for these flagrant Patriot-Act scofflaws. To wit: Senator Max Cleland ~ Former member of the 9/11 Commission . . . A good man, but not a structural engineer. Col.

Re: [Vo]: OT: Whoa, Fido....

2007-02-20 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Taylor J. Smith's message of Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:26:25 +: Hi, [snip] Oil futures peaked at an intraday high of $78.40 on July 14, 2006, but averaged $66.25 for 2006, compared with $56.70 in 2005 and $41.47 per barrel in 2004. Now, a world oil glut appears to be developing. So

[Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
leaking pen wrote: not a skeptic, but, with the flow inside and out of the girder almost even, that one looks more like it sheared off at an angle, and then molten metal dripped over it. Exactly. Anyone who says the NIST report somehow eliminated thermite as contributory agent is seriously in

RE: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Stiffler Scientific
I have been sitting back in total OH!! over this thread. I have even had Night Mares ('Scientists Gone Wild') SO if I understand what has been going on, (Maybe) It's felt the Bush Admin is implementing a what? (State), Communist? Okay if you all feel this (the ones that are so adamant about it,

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: Exactly. Anyone who says the NIST report somehow eliminated thermite as contributory agent is seriously in error. They never considered it at all. From the NIST site: Did the NIST investigation look for evidence of the WTC towers being brought down by controlled

Re: [Vo]: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On 2/20/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No thermite, right? Come on Patriot-Actors and assorted skeptics... I can hear you muttering it already, even over cybespace: Maybe the image has been photoshopped riiight http://69.55.11.240/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=138415Disp=385 You

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
Yes, thermite, at least the more comonly used stuff, is iron II oxide and aluminum powder. it reduces the aluminum to aluminum oxide, and creates molten iron. So you get molten iron, which cools black and lumpy, and you get a blackish purplish slag laying on top of it, which is the aluminum

Re: [Vo]: OT: Finger Pointing

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
Jed Rothwell wrote: Senator Max Cleland ~ Former member of the 9/11 Commission . . . A good man, but not a structural engineer. Yes, a good man with enough guts to stand up for injustice where he sees it - and with whom hundreds of structural engineers agree - specifically about the

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jones Beene
Stiffler Scientific wrote: I can not say it more clearly, this is CRAP Agreed. And who needs a flame war on top of crap. This is my last posting on this subject. Jones

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On 2/20/07, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this provide a possible explanation for why Iran may actually be interested in a civilian nuclear power generation capability? A 50 MW heavy water reactor?? Surely you jest. Terry

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
of course, the traces of thermite are , again, iron, aluminum, and the oxides of each. ohh, and high heat. i think its safe to say the site was FULL of said materials. (besides, the sheared angle of the broken girder looks more like a shaped charge explosive cutting through. which would have

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: PROBLEM: How do you know what airplane is going to hit? I meant what floor the airplane is going to hit. Sorry about that. Did he conclude the building was brought down by explosives? Then he is a flake with a PhD, like Steve Jones. Why do we need that kind of comment in a

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Could this provide a possible explanation for why Iran may actually be interested in a civilian nuclear power generation capability? A 50 MW heavy water reactor?? Ah. Is that what they want to build? Google describes it: New satellite imagery obtained by ISIS from

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Terry Blanton
On 2/20/07, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you have to begin somewhere. For example, Canada's first reactor for power production was the 20 MW Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) Reactor. It operated from 1962 to 1987. For more historical and technical details see:

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: I thought they wanted a conventional power reactor, which, as I said, makes sense even though they have lots of natural gas. A 50 MW unit has nothing to do with energy generation, as Terry points out. Well you have to begin somewhere. For example, Canada's first reactor

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-L@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ? I meant what floor the airplane is going to hit. Sorry about that. Err, I haven't followed the debate closely (many points

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread John Berry
Actually it has been pointed out that there was a light (laser?) beam visible on the building which was probably used for painting the taget, the most likely would be a range of floors and they simply triggered the one hit. Go here: http://www.letsrollforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2195 On

Re: [Vo]: Lifters

2007-02-20 Thread Kyle R. Mcallister
Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Lifters hmmm A sheet of paper inserted in the gap of a spark plug will prevent my dad's lawn mower from working. Does that prove beyond a shadow

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Berry writes: Actually it has been pointed out that there was a light (laser?) beam visible on the building which was probably used for painting the taget . . . These were amateur pilots. An experienced pilot would have great difficulty doing that. Many of the Japanese kamikaze pilots

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
also, 5k pounds of thermite would be required to bring it down on its own. thats not the conspiracy theory. the theory is that the thermite was used to melt the concrete and weaken teh steal, allowing the rest of the natural damage from the plane to do it. that requires substantially less

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Terry Blanton wrote: On 2/20/07, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you have to begin somewhere. For example, Canada's first reactor for power production was the 20 MW Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) Reactor. It operated from 1962 to 1987. For more historical and technical

Re: [Vo]:

2007-02-20 Thread John Berry
Again until I looked into it closer I had no issue with the idea that this could be pulled off by any bunch of people with box cutters. But if you really look at the evidence On 2/21/07, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You left something out of this armchair analysis of the

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: On 2/20/07, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this provide a possible explanation for why Iran may actually be interested in a civilian nuclear power generation capability? A 50 MW heavy water reactor?? Surely you jest. No jest, it was a serious

Re: [Vo]: Re: No Thermite ?

2007-02-20 Thread leaking pen
Indeed, i recall experts being brought on teh air as the towers were burning stating they were designed to take this and more. my understanding the engineers who designed and built the suckers were shocked when they fell. On 2/20/07, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jed Rothwell

Re: [Vo]: Re: OT: Whoa, Fido....

2007-02-20 Thread John Berry
On 2/21/07, Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jed Rothwell wrote: Harry Veeder wrote: That is my point. The building was designed to withstand a severe _horizontal_ blow, but it was not designed to withstand a severe _downward_ blow. The inability of the structure to withstand a vertical

Re: [Vo]: Lifters

2007-02-20 Thread Harry Veeder
Kyle R. Mcallister wrote: Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Lifters hmmm A sheet of paper inserted in the gap of a spark plug will prevent my dad's lawn mower from

Re: [Vo]: Oil field crises in Saudi Arabia and Iran

2007-02-20 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:11:55 -0500: Hi, [snip] Terry Blanton wrote: Could this provide a possible explanation for why Iran may actually be interested in a civilian nuclear power generation capability? A 50 MW heavy water reactor?? Ah. Is that what they want