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  1. And how long have there been 8,000,000,000 people on the planet to fuck things up? Trump and Iran are the latest and greatest stupid demonstration. The US Military should have taken him out months ago. How could nuclear submarine commanders not know enough Physics to figure out the Twin Towers Affair? 🤣
  2. . "Follow the money" Presumes that I give a damn who did it. I DO NOT! I am talking about people (everyone) understanding what could and could NOT happen. Physics! If this society was such that most people would Not believe it would the culprits have even tried it? Every high school Physics teacher should explain why they didn't question the steel distribution. But we have a society of bullshit believers.
  3. I haven't looked in this thread in months. Now the moron has gone over the top stupid with this Iran crap. It is arguably too late for the military to take his dumb ass out. If only they had done it in January!
  4. The issue is physics Not disaster. Just because the words 'building' and 'collapse' are there does not mean that they are similar. As far as I can tell the Florida collapse was a combination of flawed design and bad maintenance. Water undermined the foundation. With proper design and bad maintenance it would not have happened. With good maintenance it would not have happened even with the design flaw. Mass falling on and destroying the structure below had nothing to do with it. The WTC destruction was not about water and the top came down onto the lower portion which had to get stronger and heavier all of the way down. Which raises the question of why lots of "experts" don't demand the data though some experts have a problem. Conservation of Momentum The Beat is Physics! https://www.buildzoom.com/contractor/christine-jillian-quinn
  5. The planet cannot sustain the planned obsolescence so some peculiar things will happen before the end of this century. I just watched what I regard as a very funny video about automobiles. A White woman was complaining about the idiotic cybernetic features in overpriced automobiles. She was supposed to pay a subscription for the remote start to preheat her car. 😆🤣😆 The funny thing about the Economic Power Game that people keep calling Capitalism is that the economists are technological illiterates and the system is built on hiding information. I worked for IBM and had to write my own benchmarks to find what IBM was not telling its own employees. I never even saw the word 'benchmark' in IBM documentation. The WTC problem is that middle school kids should figure out that skyscrapers must have more steel toward the bottom. So the problem is the delusional people who have not expected to be told. So all of Gen-Z is an issue. The oldest were 5 on 9/11. I read a post of one complaining about his kindergarten teacher on 9/11. So what is the story with Zoomers who can think their way out of a paper bag? This television brainwashed consumerism that people keep calling Capitalism is an issue. Some Zoomers thank me for information that they have never heard.
  6. How long did humans exist without knowing about Oxygen? Have cats and dogs figured out Oxygen yet? Don't tell them!
  7. I never saw realtime video of the construction of the pyramids and voted against Trump Three Times without ever thinking about the Epstein files. I have suggested dozens of times on BlueSky that the Air Force is guilty of "Dereliction of Duty" for not using an A-10 Warthog to add a few holes to a golf ⛳ course and relieve the country of a "Domestic Enemy". How many Executive Orders has he signed that violate the Constitution? Haven't military officers taken oaths to defend the Constitution? But then there is the really important issue which is also related to Physics. And another case of "Experts" not dealing with Relevant Data. Automobiles depreciating due to wear and tear but the data not being incorporated into the Net Domestic Product. A few weeks ago I watched a video of a Black Woman crying about having to give up her BMW because she could not make the payments. Useless variations in over priced garbage since WWII fighter planes could do 400 mph. Physics is Eternal. Consumerism will totally crash before this century is out. Physics is a B____!
  8. When did people see oxygen? At this point the issue is how/why didn't authoritative sources bring up such an obvious issue 24 years ago? And how can they be trusted in the future to not let something that significant slide?
  9. We are all dependent upon Physics no matter what we think, believe or care about. Part of why the world is so screwed up is people out of touch with Reality. Months ago I asked a SIS to do a steel distribution estimate: The distribution of steel in a skyscraper more than 1,000 feet tall is generally such that the majority of the steel is concentrated in the lower sections of the building. This is because the lower portions must bear the weight of the entire structure above them, requiring more robust and stronger materials. Here is a generalized breakdown of how the steel might be distributed by percentage in each 10% segment of the building's height: 1. Bottom 10% (0-10%): Approximately 25-30% of the total steel 2. 10-20%: Approximately 15-20% of the total steel 3. 20-30%: Approximately 10-15% of the total steel 4. 30-40%: Approximately 8-10% of the total steel 5. 40-50%: Approximately 7-8% of the total steel 6. 50-60%: Approximately 5-7% of the total steel 7. 60-70%: Approximately 4-5% of the total steel 8. 70-80%: Approximately 3-4% of the total steel 9. 80-90%: Approximately 2-3% of the total steel 10. Top 10% (90-100%): Approximately 1-2% of the total steel These percentages are illustrative and can vary depending on the specific design, structural requirements, and architectural choices of the building.
  10. Idiot Quotient statistics are a curious thing. 75% score below 111, 5% score above 124. On the Conspiracy Theory business the amount of "Silence" about the Distribution of Steel down the Twin Towers among people who should regard it as a relatively simple Physics Problem is a rather interesting phenomenon all by itself. I have decided to refer to AI as SIS. Simulated Idiot Savant 😆
  11. The Universe does Not come in Alphabetical Order! I started reading science fiction in 4th grade. This was before Star Trek. My mother had a World Book Encyclopedia sitting right outside my bedroom door. I used that Encyclopedia looking up stuff I encountered in science fiction books at least 10 times as much as I did for school. I would not have a problem with a kid using an AI to research stuff found from reading SF. There is a YouTube video made from 1988 footage of Harvard graduates unable to explain summer and winter. I saw that in 1988 and laughed my ass off. I knew the answer but not because of school. Read enough science fiction and you will encounter Orbital Mechanics. .
  12. The Apocryphal Monolithic White People? https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/maxims-machine-gun-slaughtered-hundreds-thousands-people-63222 Hiram Maxim invented the machine gun. Any Moron can shoot it. Of course it takes an industrial society to mass produce it.
  13. The Great American Slave State! Double entry accounting is SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS old. Funny how it is not mandatory in high schools. Gotta read Thucidides and the Pelloponesian Wars.
  14. Which ones? The Smart White People, The Dumb White People, or The Brainy White People It is the technology. Any moron can shoot a machine gun. Is the problem escaping the sabotage? My mother called my science fiction books "Something CRAZY" when I was 10 years old. I ignored her. I decided to go to college for engineering at 12. No adults suggested it. Of course after 12 I never asked anybody. "Powerful?" Why are there so many homeless White Americans? How many who look prosperous are in debt to their eyebrows? This system is Bizarre!
  15. Who cares? People cannot figure out what to do in the Techno-Economic Wargame. The haoles cannot figure out something as simple as mandatory accounting in the schools. When Africa Awakes (1920) by Hubert Harrison https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69712/pg69712-images.html Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32390/32390-h/32390-h.htm

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