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BYU Professor on Paid Leave for 9-11 Theory
KSL.com ^
| 9/8/06
| Gene Kennedy
Posted on 09/08/2006 9:38:35 AM PDT by finnman69
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Steven Jones is one of the higher profile 9/11 loons who is certain the towers were demolished by explosives.
Good riddance from the education system.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:38:37 AM PDT
by
finnman69
To: finnman69
He needs to be on a permanent unpaid leave.
To: finnman69
To: finnman69
Good. I suggested that this wackjob ought to be fired and it looks like BYU is doing the responsible thing and starting the procees, which I am sure will be interrupted by ACLU lawyers.
To: finnman69
As might be expected, BYU shows much greater sense than UNH does. We the taxpayers are still giving our loonbattard professor a paycheck AND a forum.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:42:32 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
To: finnman69
You can bet his overseas account if filled with hezbo counterfeit.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:43:12 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: ChadGore
oops
You can bet his overseas account is filled with hezbo counterfeit.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:44:03 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: All
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:46:24 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: ChadGore
oopsThat's OK, it was probably all of that Thermite in the air from the WTC destruction by the Government...
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:47:20 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
To: frogjerk
Yea, all the depleted uranium thermite from the military industrial complex.,m .kfngh.,.,lol I can't even type it without laughing.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:51:16 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
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To: finnman69
He sites research "sites"? Come on, ksl. Just because you're a TV station doesn't mean you don't have to be careful with spelling and word choice.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:54:04 AM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
(Why does our government "of the people" do things the people don't want--overtax & overregulate us?)
To: finnman69
I notice that he was originally hired to do cold fusion research. So he was on the fringes from the get-go.
To be fair, I am among those who are not entirely convinced that cold fusion is a complete impossibility, because it's very hard to prove a negative and I like to keep an open mind. But it has certainly not been shown to be a viable field for research, and it is a field known to attract nut cases.
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:54:57 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: finnman69
Oh look! He's a man of science!
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:56:04 AM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: All
great rebuttal to the Contrrolled Demolition kooks here
http://onautopilot.blogspot.com/2006/08/controlled-demolition-they-beg-to.html
Controlled demolition? They beg to differ..
All dressed up and nowhere to go. I was going to post a long rant debunking controlled demolition as a reason why the World Trade Center collapsed but somebody has nicely put it all in a single document.
I will post a few choice bits I found that tackle the notion advanced by conspiracy theorists, namely:
2,000 lbs of RDX-grade linear-shaped charges (which could have been pre-positioned by just a few men) could cut the supports at key points so that gravity would bring the buildings straight down.
-Prof. Stephen E. Jones, Brigham Young University
Professor, meet a man who blows up buildings for a living:
The explosives configuration manufacturing technology [to bring down those buildings] does not exist
If someone were to attempt to make such charges, they would weigh thousands of pounds apiece. You would need forklifts to bring them into the building.
-Mark Loizeaux, Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Loizeaux goes on to say that the biggest commercially available charges can cut through steel that is three inches thick. The box columns at the base of the WTC towers were fourteen inches on a side. If big enough charges did exist, Loizeaux says, for each tower it could hypothetically take as long as two months for a team of up to 75 men with unfettered access to three floors to strip the fireproofing off the columns and then place and wire the charges.
Theres just no way to do it
If you just put bulk explosives in file cabinets next to every column in the building, it wouldnt knock those columns down. It would blow the windows out. It would trash the [building] and probably blow out two floors above and a floor below
but it wouldnt knock the building down.
-Mark Loizeaux, Controlled Demolition, Inc.
On to the really good stuff. It turns out yesterday, the folks over at
Implosionworld.com (gotta love the name) have released a report on controlled demolition theories at the WTC.
Their verdict the Controlled Demolition theory folks dont have the faintest idea what they are talking about.
Read all about it. (PDF) [
Mirrored at xbehome.com]
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posted on
09/08/2006 9:57:24 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: KC_Conspirator
BYU is a religious private school. I do not think the ACLU can have much influence here. The BYU administration can remove their professors for just about any reason.
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:11:26 AM PDT
by
kenn5
To: All
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:14:09 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: finnman69
evidence of thermite, a compound used in military detonations.LOL! ROTFLMAO!
Hey, guess what else thermite is used in besides military detonations?
Welding.
I wonder if any welding was involved in the building of two 110-story towers?
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:22:12 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: finnman69
No offense to any freeper Physicist (you know who you are :), but this is what happens when you send a physicist to do an engineers job. Its like trusting a college biology teacher to perform your open heart surgery... Bad idea..
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:29:11 AM PDT
by
Paradox
(The "smarter" the individual, the greater his power of self-delusion.)
To: finnman69
They need to revoke this guy's PhD (assuming he even has one).
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:35:47 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: Paradox
I've met a few of these whacko physicists over the years. One who was very entertaining was a high energy physicist who was convinced he could levitate through meditation and who was working on the ability to walk through walls. It isn't just physcists of course. I've also met some chemists, biologists, and engineers who were equally deluded.
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posted on
09/08/2006 10:46:19 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
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