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That is basically the same story I read but with more detail than I remember, if it was included.

It seems Taylor Swift picked a strategic moment to crack nuts. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5108695/taylor-swift-endorsement-kamala-harris

Thanx, I just found this: If you consider my emotional state to be more important than a physics problem that has affected the world, that is your business. I left a comment: ============================= This leaves all of the engineering schools in America with a peculiar physics problem. How do they explain the collapses without talking about the distribution of steel down the towers? Think about the shape of the 10,000 tons of wrought iron in the Eiffel 🗼 Tower. How was the steel distributed down the North Tower. Do you think level 105 contained the same amount of steel as level 5 that had to support the weight of 21 times as many stories? I downloaded the NCSTAR1 report in 2007. No data on the horizontal beams in the core. .

Ships have sunk for centuries. What sense does it make to not talk about the distribution of steel down a collapsed skyscraper when the steel is what held it up in the first place?

No, I did not see it. What did they say about the thermal capacity and conductivity of steel? Let's say you have a cubic foot of air at 75° fahrenheit. Then you raise the temperature to 2000° fahrenheit. Assuming you could do this with 100% efficiency and no loss of energy (probably impossible) then it would be some specific amount of energy required to do that. However a cubic foot of air weighs less than 2 ounces. A cubic foot of steel weighs in the neighborhood of 490 pounds. Steel is about 95% iron with various controlled impurities. So if you brought a cubic foot of 2000° air in contact with a cubic foot of steel at 75° fahrenheit what would happen? The surface of the steel would get hot but it would rapidly conduct heat deeper into the steel, the temperature of the air would drop starting convection currents. Once the temperatures stabilized I bet the temperature of the steel block would not rise 5°. We still have the issue of AUTHORITY Never telling us how much steel was in any area of the building. 100,000 tons of steel divided over 116 levels is 862 tons per level. There should have been less toward the top, but one of my complaints is that they do not tell us the distribution. But that comes to 1700 cubic feet of steel in around 500,000 cubic feet of space per level. A bit much to heat up to weakening in 2 hours. Of course then there is the conductivity problem. The vertical beam sections would have been 30 to 36 feet long. 12 feet of a beam could be on a level that was on fire and 24 feet not. The heat is conducted away. But for the most part I may not arguing about the fire. I am saying the collapse supposedly caused by the fire is impossible. The falling top of the North Tower would either stop after destroying less than 30 stores below, or it would fall down the side. So how can there be 150+ skyscrapers around the world over 1000 feet tall, but not plenty of "experts" able to figure out and tell us the distribution of steel down the towers and why so many videos where they do not even discuss the distribution of steel. Look at the Eiffel Tower.🗼 Believe what you prefer. Belief is not science.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/arts/james-earl-jones-dead.html RIJ: Reincarnate In Joy

GDP is Grossly Distorted Propaganda We have a Cash Flow Economy rather than a Net Worth Economy. Curiously Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" multiple times in Wealth of Nations. I don't even know if my high school had an accounting course when I was there but the US could have made accounting mandatory since Sputnik. Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of Das Capital. This was before the invention of gas powered automobiles. Planned Obsolescence did not become a thing until the 1920s. Then television advertising got added to the mix in the 1950s. But doesn't planned obsolescence mean unnecessary manufacturing which means unnecessary CO2 put into the atmosphere? Is there some reason Black Americans could not have been teaching accounting to Black kids without haole permission? Of course someone would blab. Economic Wargames: https://www.spectacle.org/1199/wargame.html .

When have you ever heard any economist talk about depreciation of anything besides money? What has happened to the depreciation of all of the automobiles purchased by American consumers since Sputnik? .

This is Star Trek day, Sept 8. There are a bunch of series premiers on YouTube.

I would not have paid attention to Marcus Garvey when I was 12. Every time I think of him I envision that ridiculous uniform. Hubert Harrison I would pay attention to but I did not learn about him until last year. I used to read Mohammed Speaks newspaper before Malcolm X was assassinated. Then I came across that business about a Black scientist creating White people and wondered why Malcolm was involved with them. I read his autobiography in high school trying to understand his connection with them.

And who "owns" the land and collects the rent in the Afro-American community? Who has to send Black kids to schools that are not worth a damn? So the next generation cannot get jobs worth a damn to pay the rent. I know a Black woman who lost her leg from being shot by her mother. She is the mother of that 50+ year old "General" I mentioned. What kind of world views do kids create in their minds? I was called "goofus" but reading Hard science fiction gave me a perspective beyond The Hood. Do we need a little Intellectual Segregation from the White morons? .

That is why we should have a K-8 reading list. Do not trust the haoles to suggest worthwhile material. There is lots of old sci-fi in Project Gutenberg now: Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137 The Servant Problem by Robert F. Young https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/23232 Black Man's Burden & Border, Breed nor Birth by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Omnilingual by H Beam Piper https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445 Deathworld by Harry Harrison https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/28346 The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/20919 .......

These are interesting in that they were written before Gaddafi came to power but the same year that Patrice Lumumba was killed . Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed Nor Birth (1962) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 50 years later Gaddafi was taken down while a Black man was in the White House who got a Nobel Peace Prize. Obama was born in 1961 the year I started reading SF. 😆 .

More stupid than slavery. I know a "General" in his 50's who has spent more than a decade in prison and now talks about how stupid it was/is. I first met him when he was 12. What happens to kids trapped in toxic environments with elders as bad as the environment?

The entire automobile industry is bullshit. I never bought a new one. The Laws of Physics do not change style from one year to the next. Where have economists listed the annual depreciation since Sputnik? The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood

I use an app called AIReader for text to speech. It is not as good as professionally done audiobooks but it is better than some of the free audiobooks in Librivox. It has some dumb flaws like saying Drive for the abbreviation of Doctor. You would think there was a setting for that.

If you are looking for suggestions: Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez A book has to be good enough to overcome my antipathy for reading. The problem is finding them. I don't care about the quality of writing very much but the info/ideas in the story matter a lot. Daemon and Freedom are a single story spread across two books. There is a murder in the first 3 pages but the culprit is already dead. A daemon is a computer program that sits in the background and does nothing. It just waits for a trigger event to execute its code. If the code is to kill someone, it does not care. https://www.lfs.org/newsletter/030/02/Suarez.shtml There are two Black characters, male and female, but they are not involved in any way. .

Another Haole perspective on the Negro Problem: Black Man's Burden (1961) & Border, Breed nor Birth (1963) by Mack Reynolds In 1972 I read Mack Reynold’s Black Man’s Burden/Border, Breed Nor Birth, a cool looking ACE Double. I discovered the stories were reprinted from ANALOG and written a decade earlier. Yes, there are some politically incorrect aspects to these stories of a group of African-Americans who decide to unite North African countries by creating a mythical leader, El Hassan, to bring progress to suffering people. In the Introduction to “Black Sheep Astray” Mack Reynolds writes that John Campbell, editor of ANALOG , suggested elements of the series. Later, I learned there was another book in the North Africa Series, The Best Ye Breed, where the Soviets, Japanese and Americans decide El Hassan must be assassinated because he and his group controls too many vital natural resources. Mack Reynolds may have come up with this idea because of the OPEC oil crisis at the time. Nation-building isn’t a common Science Fiction theme, but Mack Reynolds–a SF writer who wrote about politics and economics–delivers a thought-provoking series. GRADE: B+ https://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler - - - - - - - 1980 SF density 0.029; Fantasy density of 0.157 JRRT.LOTR2_TwoTow.txt SF density 0.016; Fantasy density of 0.420 LMB.CursoChlALL.txt SF density 0.072; Fantasy density of 0.498 JA_Pride&Prejudice.txt SF density 0.032; Fantasy density of 0.085 I don't know if I have ever gotten an SF Density of 0.00. Because words have multiple meanings they may be used in a nonscientific context. Like the word 'orbit' might be used to refer to social relationships. But I ran across this Unschooling business a couple of years ago and started reading about it. From their description I started Unschooling myself with science fiction in grammar school. The nuns taught no science whatsoever, so I ended up using info from SF books to research things in the encyclopedia. But some stuff called science fiction is just adventure stories with no science so I am analyzing it. There are more than 1000 free SF works in Project Gutenberg. I am not going to read all of them. So I need a filter. .

I have read all 3 but could never make it half way through Dahlgren, too weird. .

So much fiction is formulaic, read that story different characters different places, same story. Most fiction I read is science fiction but a lot of people claiming to write it do not know science and technology. They just put characters in a sci-fi setting. So a while ago I started working on a computer program that counts the use of Science words in a story. A text file is scanned and words like "gravity, orbit, laser, plastic, hysteresis, Mars" are counted individually and in total. The program computes an SF density for the work. I later added a fantasy database with words like "wizard, wand, witch, sword, sorcerer". A SF density of 1.00 would mean 1 science word per 1000 characters of text. Of course this means that I have to get a computer readable version of the work. A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C Clarke has an SF density of 1.4 Ender's Game is like 0.46. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov SF density of 0.731; Fantasy density of 0.029 OSC.EndersGame.txt SF density 0.455; Fantasy density of 0.100 FH.Dune.txt SF density 0.415; Fantasy density of 0.090 Harry Potter all Seven Books JKR-HPAll_Books.txt SF density of 0.193; Fantasy density of 0.746 NKJ.5thSeason.txt SF density of 0.189; Fantasy density of 0.030 The Harry Potter books have a much higher Fantasy Density at 0.746 than SF Density at 0.193. Curiously Jemison's work is odd with a low SF Density and a lower Fantasy Density. She does not use the usual fantasy words. I might have to add words just for her works but I died in the middle of the second book. .

This is why I concentrate strictly on the physics of the Twin Towers. I don't even deal with building 7. There are too many directions and tangents on directions to deal with them all. But structural engineers and physicists must be derelict in their duties to not solve this. I won't make any claims about it but there was, and maybe still is, a video on YouTube analyzing the flight path of the plane that hit the South Tower. The video claims that the plane flew in a STRAIGHT line, then made a turn, flew another STRAIGHT line, made a last turn and went straight into the building. That is not how a human being flies. That is how a computer flies. I have no dog in that fight. It is merely Fascinating! Steel must be properly distributed for 1400 foot skyscrapers to hold themselves up and the Conservation of Momentum does not care about conspiracies. It is just physics and lots of people with degrees sticking their heads in the sand. 925 vus .

The Laws of Physics got cancelled on 9/11! Suppose you could make a perfect computer simulation of the North Tower. You then take the top 20 stories and raise them 64 feet. That is what is so cool about computer simulations, you can do things that are impossible in reality. Then you drop the 20 stories onto the bottom 90. Of course there is simulated gravity. The 20 stories would fall for 2 seconds impacting at 64 ft/sec or 43.6 mph. You can do metric if you want but this being an American building I will stick with the primitive British system. The French can simulate the collapse of the Eiffel Tower if they want but it does not have enough concrete to be interesting. Anyway the bottom of the 91st level would impact the top of the 90th and they should proceed to destroy each other. Being adjacent levels they should not be very different so we can assume equal destruction. But because of the Conservation of Momentum and the energy expended doing said destruction the falling mass should slow down. This is the result of the Potential Energy of raising the mass 64 feet being turned into Kinetic Energy and some gets used up bending steel and cracking concrete. But then 92 has to take on 89 with a lot of crushed up mess in between. However 89 is heavier and stronger than 92. Probably not a great difference but still some. So 92 suffers more damage than 89. And the falling mass slows down some more. Now the levels keep getting stronger and heavier coming down while the falling portion gets lighter and weaker going up. Could 20 stories destroy 90 stories? And Yet! And yet! When and where have engineers and scientists been demanding accurate data on the distributions of Steel and Concrete down the Twin Towers? We cannot make the simulation without that data. Who cares about the Conservation of Momentum? Curses, foiled again! 915 vucnt .

It is really curious how encountering "the right book" can turn years of schooling on it's head. The Screwing of the Average Man (1974) by David Hapgood ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ 5 star review posted in 2015 When I read this book back in 1981, it opened my eyes to the "way life is". It is the most insightful book I have ever read on the subject of personal economics in the real world. Enlightened my scepticism. I naturally drifted into a college major in economics because of the way I thought after this book. It didn't make me rich, but I'm one of those people who likes to have a clear focal point of view. ÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷ The system depends on controlled ignorance but the suckers must BELIEVE in the System.

The *problem* is that it sabotages children's minds while they are still in grammar school. I remember preparing for school one morning in 3rd grade trying not to cry because I could not understand how I could get through another day of stultifying BOREDOM. This was in a Catholic school. They NEVER taught science. After I discovered science fiction in 4th grade it was very little sweat. I could sit there and pretend to pay attention and have lots of other things to think about. That is why we should have a K-8 reading list. Do not trust the haoles to suggest worthwhile material.