tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post7745146236920524733..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: the dead end of higher education as a means to prosperity in america...,Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-50631325231360133952012-08-31T20:18:24.442-05:002012-08-31T20:18:24.442-05:00Well, again just a quick look, BD went to Google I...Well, again just a quick look, BD went to Google Images and put in "9-11 damage" (or something like that), ton of fotos, and there were other nearby buildings at least partially collapsed, one side gone and you're looking into apartment rooms etc., and otherwise heavily damaged. Would guess the quake intensity attenuates quickly with the inverse cube of the distance from ground zero, and the ground properties with all the foundations are not radially/circumstantially homogeneous, so you wouldn't expect all adjacent buildings to be equally affected.... Uh, this is running into serious billable minutes, where should BD send the statement for the consulting fees...??Big Donnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-79424033581514015282012-08-31T11:47:55.466-05:002012-08-31T11:47:55.466-05:00I presume you are talking about WTC7, but if that ...I presume you are talking about WTC7, but if that is the case why was it the only building in the vicinity affected in that way? It is so curious how people can twist physics to come to the conclusion they want and ignore the collateral damage of the same silly explanation.umbrarchisthttp://twitter.com/umbrarchistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-18602856313021755342012-08-30T14:18:43.197-05:002012-08-30T14:18:43.197-05:00I think if you dropped a million tons of debris (t...I think if you dropped a million tons of debris (towers collapsing) directly on the ground next door to pretty much any building, whether or not that building was on fire, the earthquake effect could easily collapse that building. I've been in buildings when just a heavily-loaded 18-wheeler or railroad train passing by next door, shakes the building sufficiently to make person nervous....Big Donnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-29553651703020392362012-08-30T11:31:13.230-05:002012-08-30T11:31:13.230-05:00That old emotional analogy physics that only vague...That old emotional analogy physics that only vaguely resembles what happens in the real world.<br /><br />The lower 90 stories of the north tower were not subjected to fire. The fire lasted less than two hours so it is obvious to wonder how many TONS of steel had to be heated in so short a time to weaken. <br /><br />And curiously in TEN YEARS no engineering school has conducted an experiment to duplicate the collapse.. In fact they don't even talk about doing such an experiment.<br /><br />The Irony of Curiosity!umbrarchisthttp://twitter.com/umbrarchistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-71751425637348286912012-08-30T08:02:44.703-05:002012-08-30T08:02:44.703-05:00BD has not studied the issue of the towers collaps...BD has not studied the issue of the towers collapse other than what we have casually picked up over the years. However, recognize from well-known fundamental structural dynamics, the stress produced from the impact of a suddenly applied load is <b>double</b> the stress of the same load applied statically. And if you ever heated steel red hot with a torch, to bend it, you know that red-hot steel has virtually no strength (BD had a small hot rod machine shop as a "side hustle" back in the 1950s). So when the intense fires in the tower crash area heated the columns red hot, the vertical load of the above 10-20 floors (however many it was) crashed down and impacted the unaffected lower part of the building with something approaching double the normal vertical static load, wasn't a loading condition building designers likely would have considered.. You don't need to know the actual concrete and steel configuration in the building to believe that as a plausible scenario....<br /><br /><br />Wanna drag...??Big Donnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-41382228960317275662012-08-29T10:47:34.987-05:002012-08-29T10:47:34.987-05:00Physics is not about BELIEVING dude! How do you m...Physics is not about BELIEVING dude! How do you make a 400,000+ ton skyscraper hold itself up and withstand 100+ mph winds without getting the distributions of steel and concrete correct?<br /><br />So regardless of who did what or why on 9/11 how do educated "scientists" analyse the PHYSICS of a supposed top down collapse without that data? So when have you heard "scientists" discussing that in the last TEN YEARS. <br /><br />Fiziks is Fundamental. Resistance is Futile.<br /><br />9/11 is not about what people did on 9/11. Human beings cannot change physics and physics does not care about human beings. So how do all of the PhDs not figure out the obvious questions to ask about grade school physics.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0wk4qG2mIgumbrarchisthttp://twitter.com/umbrarchistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-1230864622100445492012-08-29T05:22:40.234-05:002012-08-29T05:22:40.234-05:00Probably way off base here so excuse BD for not re...Probably way off base here so excuse BD for not reading/following more closely, but in a nutshell,<b> just exactly what do you believe happened on 9/11</b>, e.g., Bush arranged for Arab hijackers to run planes into the buildings, after pre-installing demolition explosives, to bring down the buildings for an excuse to wage war in the Middle East...??????Big Donnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-46879463800732231892012-08-26T11:04:18.355-05:002012-08-26T11:04:18.355-05:00They do clutch shamanically to their phDs though, ...<i>They do clutch shamanically to their phDs though, as if not working <br />until you are thirty, and then only in academia, somehow makes you more <br />qualified. </i><br /><br />Urban public school districts are conspicuous victims of this PhD mafia which couldn't operate its way out of a wet paper bag with a hot, high-powered chainsaw. Some of the most pompous, idiotic, grossly overpaid imbeciles to leave a slime trail across the face of the earth.CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-738450856073489672012-08-26T10:45:45.702-05:002012-08-26T10:45:45.702-05:00As I spend 5 hours to prepare for each one hour le...As I spend 5 hours to prepare for each one hour lecture, and also know that I won't be teaching this class again (since I have no masters and was a 'emergency' hire) I find this extremely amusing.<br /><br />However, as a part time doomer I also hold no expectations of privilege and take what I can get, partially because I enjoy the experience and also because they could probably teleconference a foreign professor in for half what make in a 'fair' world.<br /><br />Do I deserve better pay? I will say that the tenured faculty seem almost willfully ignorant of their equipment slush funds and relative lives of leisure, but that's a pretty universal fiirst world condition so it's hard to hold it against them more than others. The righteousness about sabbatical in the first department meeting was amusing.<br /><br />They do clutch shamanically to their phDs though, as if not working until you are thirty, and then only in academia, somehow makes you more qualified. <br /><br />Loyalty to tribe does seem to be an effective resource strategy, and the bigger the tribe the bigger the reward. But the bigger the tribe the less it becomes about morals and values and the more it becomes about resources. Bigger tends to seem wrong.<br /><br />Maybe I'm the one clutching worthless tokens after all! Perhaps it's best to find a powerful king and bend the knee.DDnoreply@blogger.com