Originally posted by Swing Dangler
If the dirt was hard and nonporous, wouldn't there be substantially more debris outside the crater? Woudln't the engines be located outside the
crater?
Please define what 'hard' and 'non-porous' dirt is using numerical quantities.
I'm not a soil engineer,
Then your comments about the dirt are useless, uninformed and probably disinformation.
but I know what happens if you throw something onto hard dirt as opposed to soft dirt.
The moment that logic dies... again... You admit that you are not a soil engineer, so how would you know how soil behaves when it is allegedly
struck by a 90 ton plane? You are not a soil engineer, so you know
nothing about modelling the alleged crash.
Therefore, for the OS to hold true, the dirt would need to be porous and soft, enabling the plane to bury itself into the ground.
Considering that you're not a soil engineer, I'm not expecting you to provide any proof about the soil properties of the strip mine. I do expect
you to hand wave and provide completely speculating conjecture that's ill informed though.
But lets let a more authoritative source speak on the condition of the soil:
The strip mine is composed of very soft black soil, and searchers said much of the wreckage was found buried 20 to 25 feet below the large crater. "
-Standard-Times (09/11/02)
I don't get it? You want to provide me with an authorative view on the soil, but all that you can do is to provide one unsourced quote from a
newspaper? Wow...
Since when are newspaper journalists soil engineers?
Please, unless you have some cold, hard facts about the geological conditions of the alleged crash site, you would be better off refraining from
responding in this thread...
I take it that I'll be waiting a long time before any 'soil engineer' can accurately describe the conditions, which would permit a plane to be
buried and swallowed?