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William Seger

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13. ... oh, and a fired physics professor
Sun Mar 30, 2014, 09:34 PM
Mar 2014

... who doesn't understand Newton's Third Law, or at least doesn't understand why his attempt at apply it to the WTC collapse ought to include the mass and inertia of the debris layer itself, which acted on the lower block but not the upper block. What this video really proves is that Bazant is more observant than these "truther scientists," and it doesn't take a physicist to see what they're missing. Jones also seems to be unaware that Bazant's actual argument, based on actual quantitative analysis which structural engineers seem to understand quite well, was that the structure could not possibly absorb the energy that was unleashed. If any competent structural engineer could show that Bazant's analysis is wrong about that, he or she would immediately become very famous. Instead, we get "Newton's Third Law" and "missing jolt" horseshit, and you still don't understand why experts don't take "truthers" seriously.

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Robert McCoy [View all] wildbilln864 Mar 2014 OP
Excellent. nationalize the fed Mar 2014 #1
great stuff, thanks for posting! n/t wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #2
How is a self-cleaning oven relevant to WTC7's collapse? AZCat Mar 2014 #3
Another clueless architect doesn't understand why the towers fell? Huh. William Seger Mar 2014 #4
I think I'd... wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #5
But then you need a different excuse to ignore Bazant William Seger Mar 2014 #9
bazant already .... wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #10
... oh, and a fired physics professor William Seger Mar 2014 #13
more anti-truth nonsense! wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #14
Oh, I "grasp conservation of momentum" well enough William Seger Mar 2014 #17
more nonsense! n/t wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #18
almost 2000 Architects & engineers! wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #6
Why do you ask us to shovel through this again? William Seger Mar 2014 #7
bull wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #8
I think I'll "go with" the guy who did the study William Seger Mar 2014 #11
this Les Robertson? wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #12
It sounds like he was "admitting" that he saw something William Seger Mar 2014 #15
they did recover some... wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #16
You have already admitted William Seger Mar 2014 #19
wrong! wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #20
Actually, you can't even prove that William Seger Mar 2014 #21
we know your schtick william! wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #22
And yet, this "we" you're referring to William Seger Mar 2014 #23
yadayada, blah blah! wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #24
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