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July 5, 2006
Science??? Engineering?? I think not!
So, someone in the Democratic Underground decides to "prove" that an airplane flying into the World Trade Center and blowing up would not actually make the building collapse.
How does he do this? He builds a square out of Chicken Wire!!!
Yes, chicken wire and a cement stepping stone. Right.
And chicken wire is not even made out of steel - it is galvanized iron - does anyone know the difference between steel and iron out there?
If so, perhaps you should let the DU 'brains' in on the secret.
Aside from the fact that his entire experiment is totally bogus, isn't it sad that 5 years after 9/11 they are still trying to blame the Bush Administration? At some point, don't these people need to chill out and perhaps see a shrink?
Reality-based community - my ass!
Hat Tip to John for the link.
Posted by Beth at July 5, 2006 4:27 PM
Comments
It's an embarassment this is taken seriously.
It uses galvo chikin wire instead of steel.
The structure is different to the building in so very many ways.
Where's the scaling corrections? That fondue warming fire would never have made the metal get as hot.
What's the point of explaining it? Some of the best minds have already worked on this problem and somehow I trust them more than some bucket chemist on the net with an agenda to fill.
Posted by: Trias at July 6, 2006 5:50 AM
Chickens everywhere are embarrassed by the use of their wire in the use of this experiment.
Posted by: hdw at July 6, 2006 10:23 AM
Ah, but there's a flaw in your argument:
Twasn't chicken wire, it was [b]rabbit fencing![/b] - a much more robust product and therefore a much better simulation of the steel structure of the Twin Towers. (yeah, right!)
We'll just ignore the pitiful nature of his 'fire' and the fact that you can not come remotely near simulating the blast furnace effect of a closed tube with only a few holes in it by using a square of open mesh.
Posted by: KCSteve at July 6, 2006 3:48 PM
I laughed hard when I saw it, but I'm not sure if it was because the "experiment" was so lame, or that it is being taken seriously by anybody with no more than two adjacent functioning brain cells.
Posted by: J Rob at July 8, 2006 7:29 AM
I love how he responded, that people were only upset about that post, and that they weren't tackling his other "experiements," like the one that supposedly "proved" that the video was doctored (no planes hit the towers).
Posted by: E.M. at July 10, 2006 4:20 PM
Is there an award for the dumbest DU post? I doubt this guy would win but he should at least be nominated.
Someone mentioned that the guy is a biomedical researcher. I wonder if this is representative of the quality of research he does on the job? If so I think there's a stem cell research position open in South Korea.
Posted by: Janette at July 16, 2006 11:24 AM
