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Originally posted by jprophet420
They soaked it in MEK for 55 hours. MEK is not to weak to dissolve paint in 55 hours, sorry. other chemicals may be able to do it faster, but im sure they weren't in a rush.
For you to claim to have found an error they made is reasonable, if you provide evidence. For you to throw out a blanket character assassination against 8 scientists proves beyond a shadow of a doubt your are biased and not interested in the slightest at getting to the truth of the matter.
Originally posted by turbofan
it's NOT paint! Anyone that thinks that after reading the paper and
watching Jones explain the difference is not fit to be discussing science!
Originally posted by Skyline666
There Will Be An Investigation In The Future. You Don't Just Need The American Public To Contribute $1 or more To An Independent Investigation.
What About The Rest Of Us Around The World?
The Truth Is - The Worldwide Community Are & Will Continue To Help Funding A New Investigation.
Real "Truthers" As You Call Them, Are Not Doing This To Get Rich & Famous Or Make Money. The Goal Is To Show The Truth & Support The Process Of World Peace. -Nothing Else
Originally posted by exponentI think it is probably paint. Am I unfit to be discussing science? What qualifications do you have that I lack in order to discuss this topic? Are you a chemist? Perhaps a DSC operator? Are you trained with XEDS?
Originally posted by turbofan
If the iron spheres which are attached to partially
ignitied chips are not from a form of nano-thermite, then WHAT do you
think this might be?
Originally posted by PplVSNWO
I still can't believe we are still even entertaining the idea that the chips are paint. What cured paint ignites at the temperature that the sample did and releases as much or more heat that the control sample of nano-thermite?
Is there any paint in the world that meets these criteria? Forget about composition for now, just find evidence of a paint that is as energetic as the samples, then we can worry about finding a chemist to compair composition...
Originally posted by exponent
Paper contains more energy than Thermite, the point of explosives is that they release their energy quickly. Things which burn well release more energy, but over a longer period.
Why do we still entertain the idea it's paint? Because we are well aware that steel columns were painted with red, iron based paint, which then is known to flake off with a grey to black steel scale on one side of it.
Whats more, nobody has actually attempted to sample this paint, to eliminate Dr Jones' red chips from it, only a poor attempt has been made.
I mean when MEK did not dissolve the sample as required, why did Dr Jones not try other solvents? Why did he pick a random sample of paint he had access to rather than using a paint similar to that used in the WTC?
Originally posted by exponent
reply to post by turbofan
Without wanting to post a one liner, clearly pteridine has addressed your points. Whether you wish to admit it or not these samples share a lot in common with paint.
Now, as you obviously believe it was thermite, perhaps you could tell us what it was for? We know that it could not have done a huge amount of damage to a column, and surely a fuse would work better as a fuse, rather than a material which will leave column surfaces covered in molten iron.
I await your answer.
Originally posted by NIcon
I think Dr. Jones was making a guess that these chips may have come from an early form of these:
Originally posted by NIcon
Nope, I don't have any more information. This was just a link in one of the footnotes in the paper. Doing a search so far, all I've found is this:
Originally posted by NIcon
Okay I just took a longer lunch hour to do more searching and did find that the Patent Application Number is 20080011398 which if you enter it here
appft.uspto.gov...
the application will come up.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by jprophet420
They certainly have a better knowledge of chemistry than you good sir.
For you to claim to have found an error they made is reasonable, if you provide evidence. For you to throw out a blanket character assassination against 8 scientists proves beyond a shadow of a doubt your are biased and not interested in the slightest at getting to the truth of the matter.
The information pteridine has anonymously been providing is gratis. No acclaim or agenda involved. Anyone with any understanding can see he knows exactly what he is talking about.
You have no knowledge of actual chemistry and are incapable of recognizing it when it's staring you in the face.
You appeal to authority in referring to scientists. There are millions on the planet. So a few are whacked out or hungry enough to attach themselves to a sensationalistic agenda driven project, knowing their audience will lap it up.
999,000 honest scientists, if they ever bothered to even glance at Jone's clownishness would just snicker without even bothering to explain why.
There is a solid scientific world out there beyond the inverted pseudo-science one found on googled conspiracy websites. When someone from it bothers to give you the time of day you are incapable of recognizing it.
Mike
[edit on 29-6-2009 by mmiichael]
Excellent, then we have sufficiently proven the majority of truthers to be biased because of their blanket [ed-spelling] character assassination of over 2000 scientists involved with the NIST report.
I bet you don't agree with that logic, so it seems surprising when someone uses a legitimate complaint to rubbish a report and you object!
The rest of the world could certainly contribute, but my point is that if even 50% of the supposed people who believe in MIHOP inside the US donated $1 the simulation fund would stand at $75,000,000. Can you show me who you have contributed to and where the fund currently stands? I would put money on you not being able to in fact, because I am completely unaware of any substantive fundraising operation.
pterdine has explained from a position of more implied authority than you that this may not be the case. What authority do you have? You started off by posing questions and have now begun making statements, without any factual backing that I can tell.
Originally posted by jprophet420
As I said Ive used SEMS. The signatures dont lie, and the signature from the chips dont match the signature of paint. I'm not an expert on paint itself, no.
You would have to be sniffing the paint thinner to come to the conclusion that the SEMS lied.
www.911myths.com...
Do the chemicals discovered provide a complete thermite signature?
So far the argument seems to be that chemicals A, B, C and D are sometimes associated with thermite. Professor Jones has found them in his samples; therefore, in conjunction with other evidence (video of streams of metal from the WTC etc) this shows thermite may have been used at the World Trade Center. Although this sounds plausible at first, it’s deficient in some important areas.
First, there’s very little information about how the levels of each chemical relate to a typical thermate mix, or what you might expect to find in a post-reaction thermate residue. For example, Professor Jones reports that his “previously molten metal” sample “has (in spots) Aluminum (Al, possibly Al203) Sulfur (S) and Potassium”, along with “abundant Manganese”.
Despite thermate having far more aluminum than sulfur, though, Jones sample seems to show more sulfur than aluminum. Perhaps we’re misreading that, maybe the aluminum is consumed in the reaction while most sulfur survives. We don’t know. But it seems to us that figuring out what the relative levels of these elements ought to be, after a thermite reaction, would be useful in proving (or disproving) the theory.
And second, there are other elements that are left out almost entirely.
Professor Jones finds Sulfur on his metal samples, for instance, but doesn’t report any Barium Nitrate, even though that’s a much more significant part of the thermate mix. If that cannot be satisfactorily explained, then surely that means no thermate, at least of the type Professor Jones is describing?
Conclusion
The elements that Professor Jones reports finding have already been discovered by other WTC dust surveys, who for the most part don’t seem surprised by their presence. It seems likely that, in all cases, there are other WTC sources that can deliver far more of these elements than you would ever see from thermite/thermate.
There’s also no clear evidence that the suspect elements are available in proportions that match what you’d expect from a thermite/thermate reaction. And some products you might imagine would be produced, aren’t reported at all.
Proof of thermite/thermate, then? No. Just assumptions, and avoidance of alternative explanations for the presence of these elements. That’s just fine when you’re telling an audience what they want to believe, but convincing the rest of the world is going to take considerably more evidence than is displayed here."
All sites claiming an article about a commercial signature(s) yet not one identifies the commercial thermite producer.