Who cares to debate the events of 9/11/2001 based upon the laws of physics?

Half item. We haven’t agreed what it means. :wink:
Still, excellent effort.

Not even so much as a, “By your leave…”, or, “You’ll miss me when I’m gone!”

Should we organize a search party? Perhaps alert the authorities and the media?

He can’t have simply vanished, like a hot knife through butter … what?

My general rule on things like this is: if 99% of people think something is true but you don’t believe it, you MAY be a genius, but you’re probably just wrong.

gawd …

It was amusing when it was pointed out that most experts ( and laymen, frankly) disagreed with his asessment of how the plane should have acted when it hit the tower he immediately went whining and pointing at AE911T…

…who give zero indication that they agree with his asessment of what the planes should have done when they hit the tower.

I’m still unclear what he thinks should have happened to the planes, although I suspect he has an idea that an aluminum airframe would somehow act like aluminum foil and simply crumple when it hit a wall.

I think the OP believed it would be like an empty beer can hitting a block wall. It would crumple in, maybe denting the outside of the building and breaking a few windows, perhaps going into the first office, exploding on impact with the fireball outside the building, then falling down the building in a fireball of burning plane debris and falling bodies and luggage. Perhaps to fall right on a coyote with an umbrella for protection…

What? No mention of the orbital mind control lasers?

What if we launched the plane from a treadmill/conveyor belt? Would that be enough to cut a skyscraper in half?

I thought this too. But someone did bring up the beer can analogy, and I don’t think JJ ever responded to it. But yes, I think many people are under the misconception that airplanes are very, very weak.

Here is a youtube of a 777 undergoing destructive testing of the wings. No not the same stresses that would occur slamming into a building, but I find it interesting.

[channeling Jay_Jay] Irrelevent, the alleged airplane was a 767 and this test is fake. Anyway, what about 64% of freefall and 36% weight? [/cj_j]

The OP has posted about 246 replies to this thread over about 2.7 days and has now become completely silent for over 8 hours. I suspect he is off looking for more vulnerable minds to fuck with. We should probably pronounce this thread dead.

I suspect he’s trying to find his meth dealer.

Even the, er, logically creative have to sleep sometime, don’t they?

Do not personalize arguments in this fashion.
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Withdrawn. Appy-polly-logies.

I think that he honestly believes that when two objects crash into each other, the weaker one breaks, and the stronger one doesn’t. Period, no exceptions. He refuses to entertain the notion that sometimes, *both *of them break - or that there are other factors involved besides strength.

Jay_Jay, Here’s a bunch of real-time reactions to the events of the day.
I think it speaks for itself.

I apologize; I almost certainly misinterpreted what you wrote.

I’m still doing that, because I do not understand your second paragraph here. Are you saying the fuel wasn’t ignited? It sounds like it, and that’s what caused me to belabor your post. If not, I apologize again.

It’s true. Even the Law & Order empire can’t keep all the actors in New York fed.