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Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by Yankee451
Straight out of Hollywood? LOL. People like you ALWAYS make me laugh. So completely and totally ignorant of history and how people will react in bad situations.
Even before I got home that night and had a chance to listen to the news, I had figured that Flight 93 had crashed for one of two reasons...either the pilots (the UNITED pilots) had put it into the dirt or that there had been a fight on board. History, not Hollywood, is FILLED with examples of men and women that step up and take action. People like you are an insult to their memory.
As per our conversation, I will eat crow, and say that 1,000's was an overstatement. It was more than 250 people.
Because it matters not when discussing things that I have discussed. Time-temperature curves, fire progression rates, fuel loads, internal temperatures, etc. This is the first time that I felt that it would be appropriate to bring it up.
Planes impacting the towers would be an appropriate time to bring it up.
Originally posted by Yankee451
Thanks.
Agreed, they're smaller than the lobby steel; none the less, a jet wing tip can't cut it like a hot knife through butter.
Originally posted by FDNY343
Accelerate that wind to over 733 FPS, and I guarantee it can.
No, it's not that I can't prove it, it's because I won't.
Most (with a few exceptions) of my statements stand on their own merit.
I do not need to prove I was there to show that fire will burn hotter than 500 deg. F as Jim Fetzer et al. have claimed.
Damian Van Cleaf (30:18) : "I felt the mood that we were going to put the fire out. Everyone seemed to be confident — I know I was." Apparently nobody told him it had already been decided by the most senior officers running the operation that there would be no firefighting whatever. Chief Hayden, in video testimony to the National (Kean) Commission, 18 May 2004, repeating again what he had said all along : "So we determined, very early on, that this was going to be strictly a rescue mission. We were going to vacate the building, get everybody out, and then we were going to get out." None of his superiors envisaged any attempt to fight the fire in the North Tower, so who told Van Cleaf otherwise ? Why is he giving us this nonsense ? Again, from "FDNY Fire Operations Response on September 11," the McKinsey Report, August 2002 : "The chiefs dispatched units from the lobby of WTC1 to higher floors in two situations : ¶ In response to specific distress calls ... ; ¶ To ensure that floors below the fire had been totally evacuated." Nothing about firefighting.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by Yankee451
Millions round the world saw the plane on TV hundreds of others round N Y saw and some posted videos on the NET.!
You sound more and more like Jim (faulty physics) Fetzer every day and the staff put his NO PLANE thread in the hoax bin were it belongs!
I have been anything but shy in saying a plane can't cut through steel.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by Yankee451
911research.wtc7.net...
Here is section of exterior wall lying in street after being dislofged from the building
I sense you are angered by the line of questioning here...that you take offense that I don't accept the official story. Please understand that I mean no offense, but these questions need to be asked, and they should have been asked by the authorities. It is unfortunate it's come to us.
I've been bothered by this image of a whole exterior beam section lying in the street. You offered it as proof that a plane impacted the building on one side, and a wheel from landing gear "pushed out of the way" a multi-ton section of structural steel on the opposite side of the building.. On first glance, your links show a WTC exterior column section, but I took the liberty of highlighting a few details that stand out. The biggest red flag to me is the lack of damage to the column section.
For having fallen several dozen stories and impacting the street, these three column sections are remarkably intact. They are all lying parallel to eachother, with no twisting, and with only the spandrels and the tops of the columns being bent much. Note the lack of damage to the asphalt too.
There are square cuts at the top of the columns where it looks like floor joists were cut out and then they were dented in with a sledge hammer. Midway through you can see square cuts as well.
The wheel. Seriously?
The floor joist connections weren't sheared off, their bolts were removed.
The Spandrel plates appear to have been bent towards the outside, as one would imagine if an explosion had dislodged this section, however there is no scorching or jagged edges which one would expect with explosives.
The burning car or debris behind the car in the background. For being almost a quarter mile away from a kerosene fire, there's a lot of damage here.
I also don't see any bystanders, but I do see an American flag in one photo...makes me all weepy.
Looks like a crane dropped an old spare or damaged exterior wall section on the street and someone took a sledge hammer to it, stuck a wheel in it and covered it with dust, snapped a couple photographs and then buried it by dropping a building on it.
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Originally posted by Yankee451
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by Yankee451
Millions round the world saw the plane on TV hundreds of others round N Y saw and some posted videos on the NET.!
You sound more and more like Jim (faulty physics) Fetzer every day and the staff put his NO PLANE thread in the hoax bin were it belongs!
The footage was centrally fed to the major media. The same footage was used with different tweaks to chroma key, background and filters. The footage has been proven to be fraudulent. Every image with a jet in it.
As much as you'd like to associate me with Jim Fetzer, I am not him and I do not even know his positions on this anymore. If our research paths cross on no planes, then we agree on that point. If he is espousing death rays from space or imaginary mini nukes, I must disagree with his take on the matter. I believe they would have made use of tried and true conventional means considering what was at stake.
I have already linked to what was at stake, and you can google it if you wish, Operation Brownstone and Operation Code Angel.
If the HOAX section from ATS is what you choose to identify what's true and what's not, good luck with that.
The simplest description of this system is: The first-down line is drawn on the field with a computer so that viewers seeing the game on TV can see the line as though it were painted on the field. Here are some of the problems that have to be solved in order for this system to work:
* The system has to know the orientation of the field with respect to the camera so that it can paint the first down line with the correct perspective from that camera's point of view.
* The system has to know, in that same perspective framework, exactly where every yard line is.
* Given that the cameraperson can move the camera, the system has to be able to sense the camera's movement (tilt, pan, zoom, focus) and understand the perspective change resulting from the movement.
* Given that the camera can pan while viewing the field, the system has to be able to recalculate the perspective at a rate of 30 frames per second as the camera moves.
* A football field is not flat -- it crests very gently in the middle to help rainwater run off. So the line calculated by the system has to appropriately follow the curve of the field.
* A football game is shot by multiple cameras at different places in the stadium, so the system has to do all of this work for several cameras.
* The system has to be able to sense when players, referees or the ball cross over the first down line so it does not paint the line on top of them.
* The system has to be aware of superimposed graphics that the network might overlay on the scene. There are probably several other complications, as well... It's a tough problem!
To solve these problems, the creators of the 1st and Ten system combine hardware and software. First, each camera must have a very sensitive encoder attached to it that can read the camera's angle, tilt, zoom and so on, and send that information to the system. The system must also have a detailed 3-D model of the field so that it knows where each yard line is. By integrating the tilt, pan and zoom information with the 3-D model, the system can begin to calculate where the line should go. Then the system uses color palettes for the field and the players/referees/ball to recognize, pixel by pixel, whether it is looking at the field or something else. This way, only the field gets painted.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
Strange I didn't mention death rays or nukes (see above) ???? one of y--- sorry Jims theories
What you claim above re chroma key etc YOU HAVE to be joking they could NOT DO THAT realtime in 2001 indeed they would struggle to do it realtime today.
Apart from the STUPIDITY of that idea what about all the videos posted by good old JOE PUBLIC that day onto youtube etc, explain those to everyone! you really are clutching at straws something else you have in common with Jim.
Also Jim doesn't like to defend his posts when someone knows what they are talking about YOU also have that in common.
Have you looked up google re types of concrete yet, if you need any tips re construction let me know as its obvious to others on here YOU dont know J*** S*** about construction!
Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by wmd_2008
The simplest description of this system is: The first-down line is drawn on the field with a computer so that viewers seeing the game on TV can see the line as though it were painted on the field. Here are some of the problems that have to be solved in order for this system to work:
* The system has to know the orientation of the field with respect to the camera so that it can paint the first down line with the correct perspective from that camera's point of view.
* The system has to know, in that same perspective framework, exactly where every yard line is.
* Given that the cameraperson can move the camera, the system has to be able to sense the camera's movement (tilt, pan, zoom, focus) and understand the perspective change resulting from the movement.
* Given that the camera can pan while viewing the field, the system has to be able to recalculate the perspective at a rate of 30 frames per second as the camera moves.
* A football field is not flat -- it crests very gently in the middle to help rainwater run off. So the line calculated by the system has to appropriately follow the curve of the field.
* A football game is shot by multiple cameras at different places in the stadium, so the system has to do all of this work for several cameras.
* The system has to be able to sense when players, referees or the ball cross over the first down line so it does not paint the line on top of them.
* The system has to be aware of superimposed graphics that the network might overlay on the scene. There are probably several other complications, as well... It's a tough problem!
To solve these problems, the creators of the 1st and Ten system combine hardware and software. First, each camera must have a very sensitive encoder attached to it that can read the camera's angle, tilt, zoom and so on, and send that information to the system. The system must also have a detailed 3-D model of the field so that it knows where each yard line is. By integrating the tilt, pan and zoom information with the 3-D model, the system can begin to calculate where the line should go. Then the system uses color palettes for the field and the players/referees/ball to recognize, pixel by pixel, whether it is looking at the field or something else. This way, only the field gets painted.
Down line markers on "live" football games
In the 2003 NFL season, Sportvision unveiled the first system capable of inserting the 1st and Ten™ line in video from the popular Skycam, the mobile camera that provides aerial coverage from directly over the field of play, so all replays can have the iconic Yellow line displayed.
Dear Gwen: A Google search on the phrase "Yellow Line Football How?" (web searches often work better when you eliminate pesky hindrances like grammar) referred us to a helpful Q-and-A column from ABC News called "The Answer Geek." The Geek lays the yellow line blame squarely on the shoulders of a company called Sportvision, who have one humdinger of a web site. Here's the gist of it, but check the site for more details: According to the site, "There are eight computers... three sets of special encoders and abundant wiring dedicated to generating the virtual first down line in video format." The virtual line is drawn on video based on the position first down marker, ridiculously exact details of of the live camera's position (including altitude and lens angle), a digital 3D model of the field, and two palettes of colors for the field and the players. The player's colors automatically override the virtual line's colors, so it appears as though they're stepping over it. The company recently won an Emmy for the floating yellow line, and unlike the lite-brite hockey puck fiasco a few years ago, the "first and ten" technology is very popular -- a recent poll quoted on Sportvision's site found that "over 92% of fans want the patented technology in every football game they watch, and more than 25% said that they are more inclined to watch a game that features the system." Sportvision has all sorts of cool new tricks up their sleeve: technology that measures the speed of a swinging baseball bat, the vertical leap of a basketball player, the height and speed of a ski jumper, and the swerving path of a NASCAR driver. So expect lots more nifty special effects soon, including a "technology enriched webcast" of the Ironman triathlon on October 14th, 2000
Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by wmd_2008
The simplest description of this system is: The first-down line is drawn on the field with a computer so that viewers seeing the game on TV can see the line as though it were painted on the field. Here are some of the problems that have to be solved in order for this system to work:
* The system has to know the orientation of the field with respect to the camera so that it can paint the first down line with the correct perspective from that camera's point of view.
* The system has to know, in that same perspective framework, exactly where every yard line is.
* Given that the cameraperson can move the camera, the system has to be able to sense the camera's movement (tilt, pan, zoom, focus) and understand the perspective change resulting from the movement.
* Given that the camera can pan while viewing the field, the system has to be able to recalculate the perspective at a rate of 30 frames per second as the camera moves.
* A football field is not flat -- it crests very gently in the middle to help rainwater run off. So the line calculated by the system has to appropriately follow the curve of the field.
* A football game is shot by multiple cameras at different places in the stadium, so the system has to do all of this work for several cameras.
* The system has to be able to sense when players, referees or the ball cross over the first down line so it does not paint the line on top of them.
* The system has to be aware of superimposed graphics that the network might overlay on the scene. There are probably several other complications, as well... It's a tough problem!
To solve these problems, the creators of the 1st and Ten system combine hardware and software. First, each camera must have a very sensitive encoder attached to it that can read the camera's angle, tilt, zoom and so on, and send that information to the system. The system must also have a detailed 3-D model of the field so that it knows where each yard line is. By integrating the tilt, pan and zoom information with the 3-D model, the system can begin to calculate where the line should go. Then the system uses color palettes for the field and the players/referees/ball to recognize, pixel by pixel, whether it is looking at the field or something else. This way, only the field gets painted.
Down line markers on "live" football games
Originally posted by Yankee451
Post something to rebut my posts then, don't post Kung Fu videos when the topic is 911. If you behave like a spoiled little girl, you will be ignored.
The design was a "tube in a tube" construction where the steel reinforced, cast concrete interior tube, was surrounded with a structural steel framework configured as another tube with the load bearing capacity bias towards the perimeter wall with the core acting to reduce deformation of the steel structure maximizing its load bearing capacity. All steel structures with the proportions of the WTC towers have inherent problems with flex and torsion. Distribution of gravity loads was; perimeter walls 50%, interior core columns 30% core 20%.
Steel, no matter what temper, no matter what bracing is used, ends up with an overall flexation that exceeds design parameters for deformations and failures occur. These were fact I learned from a documentary in 1990 about the construction of the north tower. Yamsaki's decision making process was outlined and rejected core designs identified. Both the WTC 1 & WTC 2 towers had a rectangular cast concrete core structure formed into rectangular cells that had elevators and stairways in them.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
reply to post by Yankee451
Oh and just to let you know photography has been a hobby for 30yrs so I do know a little about that as well, brought up with manual SLR cameras with actual film in the camera and video for the last 5 yrs as well.
So your little yellow line post made me
Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by wmd_2008
911review.org...
The design was a "tube in a tube" construction where the steel reinforced, cast concrete interior tube, was surrounded with a structural steel framework configured as another tube with the load bearing capacity bias towards the perimeter wall with the core acting to reduce deformation of the steel structure maximizing its load bearing capacity. All steel structures with the proportions of the WTC towers have inherent problems with flex and torsion. Distribution of gravity loads was; perimeter walls 50%, interior core columns 30% core 20%.
Steel, no matter what temper, no matter what bracing is used, ends up with an overall flexation that exceeds design parameters for deformations and failures occur. These were fact I learned from a documentary in 1990 about the construction of the north tower. Yamsaki's decision making process was outlined and rejected core designs identified. Both the WTC 1 & WTC 2 towers had a rectangular cast concrete core structure formed into rectangular cells that had elevators and stairways in them.
911review.org...
Will you now please post the video of you smacking your head against 3500 psi concrete and shaddup already?