So if I think you are 12 I’d be off by what … 3-4 years? I don’t think anyone who graduated High School or attended college or university could be so ignorant.
FYI, being educated by people more knowledgeable, smarter and wiser is not being manipulated. There’s nothing worse than people who insist that they make up their own rules, opinions, theories, or “destiny” and won’t be swayed by things like empirical evidence, science, or facts.
If it helps, the Twin Towers were 417m and 415.1m tall (cite). Acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 meters per second squared. The formula to calculate the time required to fall a distance is the square root of twice the distance in meters divided by 9.8 m/s[sup]2[/sup]. Plugging in the numbers gives the square root of 2*415/9.8, or 9.2. So we would expect debris falling from the top of the Towers to hit the ground in about nine seconds or a little more.
I am sure this proves 9/11 was an inside job in some way, but not how.
“Proof” isn’t the objective of Truther CTs. Spreading disinformation and ignorance in a general population in order to seed mistrust of otherwise reliable, non-political, institutions is the objective. At least among those who peddle them. Because they know the P.T. Barnum hypothesis is reliably accurate, and can be monetized.
Uhuh. Even if it was worth the while of most engineers, this part would give me pause:
So, who exactly are the ‘qualified judges’, and what criteria are they using to judge it? I mean, basically anyone who looks at the paper and thinks, yeah, that definitely shows the ‘official story’ is ‘a pack of lies’ is going to be suspect…yet, I’m fairly confident that this is exactly who the ‘qualified judges’ would be comprised of.
Yep. Every time one of the woo-woos tries to copy James Randi’s Million Dollar Challenge, they put so many thumbs on the scale you can’t even see the scale. There’s no way this offer is in any way objective or honest.
He also announces a $25,000 reward for anyone who writes a technical paper rebutting the study, provides it to an engineering journal, and has it accepted and published.
I’m not aware of how much a structural engineer makes, but I’m guessing the time it takes to do all that would be worth more that 25k.
Nope. If you set it up this way, you could basically ‘prove’ anything. You set up a prize that folks can get, but you pick your ‘experts’ and use your own stance to judge the merit of those who are submitting for the prize and Bob’s Your Uncle, no one wins! Which means that you were right all along…lizardmen DO control the world, and there IS no Queen of England!
If this guy wanted to be taken seriously, he’d make the prize bigger, and then put it in the hands of a 3rd party agency with respected credentials…maybe one of the respected international civil engineering organizations, to judge based on their own criteria. That won’t happen, as they would almost certainly judge the Alaskan paper to be flawed and certainly not some sort of proof that the ‘official story’ is ‘a pack of lies’. This is only going to be something that one of the faithful would look at seriously as ‘proof’ of, well, anything.
