Posted on 03/13/2018 5:41:48 AM PDT by servo1969
The fact the FBI took over the investigation doesn’t exactly have me feeling warm with confidence of getting a true answer.
Have we seen anything from the media, demanding some questions be answered?
no.
Bttt.
5.56mm
He was not "fine", he was functional.
You think they would be curious? Interested? I wonder if some are, but their editors are hammering to them “Don’t let your eye move from the ball - and that ball is Trump Trump Trump. Pornstars and Russians”
How is the reference of the 800# of force window out of line?
Very Interesting. Additional possibilities theories I’ve read:
Paddock was a smuggler - guns, drugs, human trafficking
Paddock was CIA asset with ties to Pakistan
Assassination of Crown Prince MSB, Saudi Arabia was purpose
(video of person thought to be MSB escorted out by security)
Paddock was killed by rest of Assassination team
Saudi corruption crack down -scooping up CIA assets cooperating in illegal smuggling etc. and consolidation of power-eliminate/reduce power of competing heirs to throne.
Just theories at this point that have been tossed about.
bookmark...very interesting
He spoke of hurricane proof glass. All glass is hurricane proof in small size.
Wind loads are expressed in pounds per square foot. I would expect the design load to be perhaps 120 psf
He basically dredged up a fact he didn’t comprehend and then tried to express it so the mindless reader could understand
There was no point load of 800 pounds to be resisted and 800 pounds is not a meaningful measure of glass strength.
The window approximately 4 feet wide by 8 feet high or 32 square feet x 120 psf would transfer 3280 pounds of force to the framing. The glass can easily absorb this load over the area with a deflection of less than 3/4 inch.
The curtainwall is designed to maintain a mullion deflection of less thaan about 3/4 inch. The mullions are the vertical aluminum framing containing the glass. Under high wind looad, they deflect or bow inward.
I observed the broken glass and couldn’t tell what broke it out. I would suspect repeated impact with a rifle butt. I couldn’t tell if the glass was tempered but don’t think it was because large sections remained in the curtainwall framing. The glass was ordinary annealed float glass with a reflective coating.
I overstated the load.
The windload would have been closer to 60 psf so the transferred load would be more like 1600 pounds.
The 120 number would have been windspeed on miles per hour
After posting my old brain kicked in
Not every projectile hit a human.
The parking lot was pockmarked with craters.
any foresic dude worth his salt could back the direction just by a simple study of the holes in the pavement.
bkmrk
I want to self - ping too. I really want to find this article later!
just WOW!
Thanks for the ping.... and for gaijin’s post 50.
a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma -winston churchill
#9 is particularly suspicious. Anyone have any idea why Paddock’d pay off his marker? Could the hotel sue the family for the marker?
Obama-nation bookmark.
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