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umbrarchist

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  1. Their oath is to defend the Constitution against enemies Foreign and "Domestic". How many of Donny 2 Dolls Executive Orders have violated the Constitution in how many ways?
  2. Are you contradicting yourself? How is Science a "Belief System" if you say Facts and Belief are different? One problem is that people do not use the word 'SUSPECT' very much. Just because something happens to be true or false that does not necessarily mean that sufficient evidence can found to determine the condition. Scientific certainty means multiple tests always yield the same result. Facts, no Belief required. The problem is so many people certain about Belief.
  3. At what point does the US military not doing something about Trump become "Dereliction of Duty"?
  4. My point was that LaMalfa is either wrong or lying. I don't care which. But the DIMocrats are stupid for talking about CO2 being 5%. So people in positions of political power don't know what the hell is going on. As the CO2 keeps going up everyone will be affected whether they pay attention or not. Of course if there is a methane tipping point in the Arctic tundra, then . . .
  5. How much did that drive the price up? 🤣😆🤣 How many homes of American Pope's are there?
  6. Oblivious and indifferent does not mean unaffected. Is it possible figure out which side is less Dumb? Lamalfa is Repugnacan and the Democrats are guessing that CO2 is 5% or more of the atmosphere. Lamalfa is implying that CO2 is such a low % in the atmosphere that it doesn't matter. It has been 3,000,000 years since it was as high as it is today, 420 ppm, and back then it was coming down very, very slowly. Like maybe 1 ppm every 10,000 years. We are now pushing it up at 2 ppm per year. Everyone should know CO2 is < 1%. 99% of the atmosphere is Oxygen and Nitrogen. Most of the rest is argon. I had to look that up. But 3 million years ago the oceans were 100 meters higher. It would take hundreds of years to rise that high, but a 2 meter rise would stop tens of millions of people from being oblivious. But these ignoramuses cannot have an intelligent debate on the subject. .
  7. Does failing to figure out LIES create complications? .
  8. What kind of engineering? You didn't notice that you cannot find the Weight of ANYTHING? These words were not used in the entire report: Tons Pounds Kilogram Gram Lb. This entire story is about lots of MASS falling down. MASS that was held up for 28 years. A single concrete floor slab was 600 tons and there were 87 of them. I know that off the top of my head. Then they talk a temperatures a lot although there was nothing there to measure temperatures at the time. It is speculation. And then they used the phrase "may have" seventeen times. Great certainty there. Why not a simulation by now? Just raise the top 20 stories of the North Tower and drop them. 2 second fall, impact at 64 ft/sec or 43.6 mph. But again that would require distribution of mass information not even mentioned by MIT. The nice thing about simulation is that it can be repeated with different parameters. I must say that I regard the "conspiracy" bullshit as an insult since I have not said anything about it and do not give a damn. It is just your projection.
  9. Maybe Leo(Bob) can introduce Chicago Deep Dish Pizza to Italy. Faulty assumption. There were only two Black pledges in the White fraternity. I heard the arguments were Epic. 🤣
  10. How many people learn to HATE reading in school so they don't look? Since I started reading SF in 4th grade I might have been 8 or 9. But no one ever suggested it. To me they were all just books until then. My very first SF book mentioned Computers. It was used to navigate the starship. That book is also how I learned that the Sun was a star and that all of the stars are suns. And how far away stars were. Blew my mind, long before Star Trek. Then there is this: Harvard seasons private universe That is from 1988. I laughed my ass off when I saw it back then. What JOB needs for people to know what causes winter and summer? But it is so peculiar for "Educated" people to not know. It was never in any course I took, but you can't help but encounter "Orbital Mechanics" if you read enough science fiction. The sky never looked the same again.
  11. Reading WHAT? I do not LIKE to read. It is like a negative 2 experience. So a book has to be a Positive 3 at least. That is the trouble with school. They force us to read Negative 2 books to get a grade. I read The Scarlet Letter and didn't give a damn about it. I refused to read Catcher in the Rye. A White boy so stupid he gets kicked out of multiple prep schools? To hell with him!
  12. Actually I consider the collapses of the towers relatively unimportant compared to economists ignoring the depreciation of automobiles and other Durable Consumer Goods since 1950. Black Americans not figuring when White experts are lying becomes part of that. One of the verifiable PhD economists that Blocked me on BlueSky was a Black woman. 🤣 I note that you made no comment about my analogy with the Hummer and the Volkswagen. Was it complicated?
  13. An attempt at sarcasm? It is not as boring as basketball?
  14. I have NeVeR said anything about a hijacking of any planes. I keep saying that I am talking about physics. Stuff that high school kids should understand to a degree and experts should be able to track down data for or even recompute from scratch. There are lots of skyscrapers around the world. #1. Skyscrapers MUST support their own weight. Does anyone think level 105 contained the same amount of steel as level 5 that had to support the weight of 21 times as many stories? #2. So where is the data on the tons of steel and tons of concrete on each level? #3. Why haven't EXPERTS asked about and been discussing such data for 23 years. #4. This data involves the Conservation of Momentum and the speed of the collapse. Analogy using cars: If a Hummer going 30 mph hits a parked Volkswagen Beetle it is going to slow down because of the change of Momentum due to the impact. If a Volkswagen Beetle going 30 mph hits a parked Hummer it is going to slow down more than the Hummer did. Everybody knows this from life experiences even if they cannot do the calculations. So where have EXPERTS discussed this phenomenon in relation to the top of the North Tower falling onto the intact lower 85 stories and the collapse time being less than 30 seconds. See: Nothing about a hijacking. That is a people issue not a physics issue.
  15. Just explain why you cannot find distribution of steel data AND no experts talking about it. Is that too difficult for your understanding of Physics? I am looking over that MIT PDF again. I probably haven't seen it in more than 5 years. So far lots of stuff about steel temperatures but they keep saying "MAY HAVE". But there were no fires below the 90th floor of the North Tower anyway. .
  16. No, YOU just need to learn some physics. I DO NOT CARE who did what but skyscrapers MUST be designed to hold themselves up. The really funny thing is that I can name two science fiction books written before 9/11 which contain incidents similar to the destruction of a tower. And in both cases computers were used to do simulations to analyze the events. And yet after 23 years we do not have computer simulations of the North Tower collapse. Now that ironic reality simulating art.
  17. What does "filled with fuel mean"? The fuel capacity was 24,000 gallons. Most sources say it had 10,000 gallons, 40% full, though some say 7,000.
  18. This turned up on the 4th: But the Star Wars fans say a red sword is for a Sith Lord.
  19. Unsolved problems are a trigger. How does a household keep track of wealth without noticing Depreciation of cars and doing Accounting? How do people bitch and moan about the economy without noticing planned obsolescence and the depreciation of hundreds of millions of cars? But then it is All PHYSICS! The Twin Towers Depreciated really, really fast. Faster than the barrels on artillery pieces in the Ukraine. Back in the day I intended to get Master's Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics. I applied to MIT. It cost me $50 in 1969 just to apply. Try finding what MIT said about the Twin Towers. https://web.mit.edu/civenv/wtc/PDFfiles/Chapter VI Materials & Structures.pdf It has been years since I looked for it. The word steel used 74 times. No idea how much more steel was toward the bottom. What was the story with horizontal beams in the core. There are computer simulations of climate for the next 80 years. How could you do a computer simulation of the North Tower collapse without the distribution of mass of steel?
  20. Obama Wand! The Force has Risen!
  21. I spent 13 years in Catholic schools. I decided that I was an agnostic in 7th grade. The picture of Cardinals that I posted is an excellent indication of how much I care about the Catholic Church. I decided which Catholic high school to attend. I thought the straight D's I got in religion was very funny next to my straight A's in math, freshman year. In a way what I am talking about is Mind Control. The Jesuits have a saying, "Give me a child until he is seven years old and he is mine for life." The social psychology of European Culture has affected the World! Somebody brought up 9/11. Physics vs Psychology mind control. 🤔 .
  22. My mother sent me to a Catholic school. Haoles in control! I remember one morning in 3rd grade, 8 years old, trying to keep from crying because the idea of getting through another day of ABYSMAL BOREDOM was so Repugnant. Then I discovered Science Fiction in 4th grade. Star Surgeon by Alan Edward Nourse https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/18492 After that I was hunting down Science Fiction books that my mother called "Something Crazy". She did have a set of encyclopedia outside my bedroom door. I used those encyclopedia more to look up stuff I found in SF books than I did for school. Boredom at school was no longer a problem because I could sit there giving the Nitwit Nuns less than 20% of my attention while thinking about something else entirely. I cannot recall a single book from my parents thru K-8. If they had suggested something I would have read it. The only reason I trust White people to tell me the time of day is because it is so easy to check. 🤣 So why don't Black Americans have a K-12 Recommended book list for Black kids. I have suggested books on Black websites for years. I actually think Black Americans are more stingy with knowledge than White people. And I think part of the problem is forcing kids to compete with each other. Black boys/men are real competitive but mostly about physical stuff, sports and fighting. BORING!!!
  23. When I was 10 my mother told me that my books were "Something Crazy"! I stood there looking up at her thinking about my 30 or 40 books, most of which I had read multiple times. Mostly science fiction but Jack London's White Fang was there too. I ignored my mother because the Boring Nuns she sent me to NeVeR taught science. So I wonder how underclass I would be if I had taken my mother seriously. There is this saying, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." It is undoubtedly an exaggeration, but only an exaggeration. Different kinds of power. But our reactions to the Haoles are suboptimal. .
  24. In some cities, like Salt Lake City, there are 8 blocks per mile. In Chicago the numbering system is a mile per 100. Some blocks are full size and some are smaller. State Street is the Zero line for East and West. Halsted is 800 West. 1 mile west of State Street. Stoney Island is 1600 East, 2 miles East of State Street. I am talking about FACTS! The buildings had to hold themselves up. Therefore the designers had to figure out how to distribute the steel and how much weight was where because of the concrete. Supposedly 34 tons of Jet Fuel affected an unspecified quantity of steel on LEVELS impacted by airliners. Conspiracies are Irrelevant. I am talking about analyzing PHYSICS which cannot be done without Data. I do not care what people BELIEVE. I do find it curious that so many people object to having accurate data. .

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