Originally posted by rush969
Also a question:
Can you refer to the “fire team” as “it” when you say pull it?
Pull the fire team out?
* The team's poor sportsmanship made all of them look like whiners.
The pronoun them is trying to refer to the members of the team. However, neither the word team nor the word members is used in the sentence. Instead, the possessive form team's is used. A possessive antecedent may be used only for a possessive pronoun.
Correction: The team's poor sportsmanship made all of its members look like whiners.
Originally posted by adam_zapple
Thermite is not an explosive...what's this "nano-thermite sol-gel" you speak of?
Aero-Sol-Gel Synthesis of Nanoporous Iron-Oxide
Particles: A Potential Oxidizer for Nanoenergetic
Materials
Anand Prakash, Alon V. McCormick, and Michael R. Zachariah*
Departments of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Received August 8, 2003. Revised Manuscript Received January 22, 2004
There has been an increased research effort toward
use of nano-aluminum in explosives.1-
However, the nature of the sol-gel derived iron oxide
is unique because of its highly porous nature and may
afford the opportunity to infuse that material with
organics, which would lead to much higher pressurization
rates resulting from gas expansion. It is necessary
to caution the reader that these nanothermite reactions
of aluminum and metal oxides are extremely energetic.
Reactions can be very explosive in the case of a few other
oxidizers such as CuO and MoO3;
"We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it". "They made that decision to pull", he recalled, "and we watched the building collapse." Some proponents of the controlled demolition hypothesis have taken the remark as a confession that he ordered the building to be demolished.[43] Silverstein issued a statement that rejects this interpretation, asserting that it was the firefighting team, not the building, that was to be pulled.
Originally posted by rush969
reply to post by Griff
Finally!!! I´m glad to say, I agree with you.
Yes, I agree he is probably trying to “look good” for the interview. And he is telling the story “his way”. I don´t think that makes him a liar or an assassin though.
And I understand that you also agree that what he meant was to “pull the team out” right?
What he is implying really is that he accepted the decision by chief Nigro or agreed with it don´t you think?
[edit on 13-2-2009 by rush969]
