The ball is clearly full of pixels. I can see them from here.
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#oldwhitelivesmatter
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Isnāt that covered already by #alllivesmatter?
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Looking at how the old guy hits the deck in one smooth move like that, Iād say heās a veteran and the surprised has PTSDed him back to battlefield.
And despite his glance upwards, I think it is a surprise, because of the angle of his cap. To everyone crying fake, coincidences like this seem less unlikely than these two folks conspiring to fake something so prosaic.
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Seriously, best comment ever.
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Mall-walking for oldies is a thing, I think I heard of it first in the eighties. But I wouldnāt be surprised if it is on the decline while big box store walking is on the rise. Malls in big ass cities doing fine but some suburban malls and small town malls must be feeling the hurt big box is laying down.
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Monsanto canāt melt steel beams.
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This is why you shouldnāt throw things in stores.
Imagine if he had hit a baby. with leprosy. There would be tiny limbs everywhere.
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Only four of them, max.
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This nuttyness and room for conspiracy makes more sense when you realize that pre-2001 official NFPA publications and test pool questions for professional firefighter certifications included the answer (until that time correct) that no steel frame building had ever collapsed from fire and it was assumed that with proper construction this would simply continue to be the rule and which except for three WTC buildings continues to be the case. The WTC as I recall was certified up to a 737 strike, the collapse surprised me and I was a firefighter officer, instructor, and fire investigator at the time, it went against our training, nobody expected the buildings to collapse or firefighters would never have been allowed to enter for rescues, we were taught that you can safely enter a burning steel frame building.
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Theory and modeling isnāt a substitute for hard data. This isnāt the first time something happened that forced people to go back to the drawing board or re-write our knowledge of how things work.
All you say is true, but the circumstances for the WTC were unique and why we had never seen something like that before. Still the nutters come out. Using their logic we should never have forged steel in the first place because wood burns at a lower temperature than steel melts. I used to work at a space museum and that brought out the moon landing hoaxers.
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The collapse did not surprise me, but then I have no experience with what is and is not (and should and should not be) possible in major fires. Which is about how high the temperatures can go in practice in common kinds of fires. Which is fairly different to what can happen in theory.
All I know is that metals get softer with temperature. The easiest way to see is a torch, a steel nail, and two pairs of pliers; hold the nail by its ends, try to bend it, and heat the middle. At certain moment, far far before the metal melts, it gives way. If this temperature ballpark is about to get reached, itās time to bug out. And from what I heard about fires, the floor structures should give way far earlier than the steel frame, and there are procedures to find if the floors are structurally sound enough to walk on them. But itās considerable time since I read about it.
And perhaps make it just two. The third one was gutted by falling debris to such degree that there was not much of further weakening needed, so I am not sure it warrants inclusion. But Iāll defer here to practical experiences.
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That and a 767 is around 50% larger than a 737.
It was a unique situation and the firefighting utilitiy floors were taken out of the equation in addition to the fuel and impact, that didnāt help.
But we trusted the blanket NFPA opinion based on building engineering assessments and assumptions, 767s are not supposed to hit world record skyscrapers, and in normal cases firefighters need to feel safe trusting their officers ordering them to enter a structure. The closest previous case I know of was a B-25 hitting the Empire State building, which is no comparison in scale. These rules of thumb are important when an officer running a fire has to have a reasonable plan ready to act, we need these normal case assumptions based on code compliant building practices and normal fire behaviour with typical fuel loading so we do not have to calculate tensile strength and flame temperature while also trying to keep track of several engines and entry teams. 9-11 was unique with the impact and truckloads of air delivered jet fuel, it was an insane situation that few on the firefighting side ever really considered except in daydreams or perhaps academic training scenarios, I doubt many architectural engineers in the world even bothered to calculate the effects of an unlikely 767 impact either. You just cant engineer for everything and still afford to build the building.
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A mutant spider baby then.
Edit: with leprosy.
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I feel like a creeper going into a mall now since it all seems to be geared around tweener girls.
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It always makes me sad those low imagination conspiracy theorists, I much prefer the secret stranded cosmonaut Soviet landing hoaxers, a much richer and heroic story can be woven there than any story taking place on a terrestrial movie set.
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Same. Then I look up the video of Buzz Aldrin serving one of them a haymaker, and then I giggle and feel better. Keep knocking out stupid bitches Buzz. For all of us.
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I like LEM pilot(Apollo 14) Edgar Mitchell too, one of 12 to walk on the moon and his alien and UFO theories, he sounds like the old VA vets and their sea stores from my ambulance days, but he is one of the twelve who have walked on another world, at least his wackadoo imagines greater things rather than lesser. I always wonder what Buzz thinks of Ed.
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Me personally, I think Ed suffered a few too many cosmic rays to the frontal lobe, and visual cortex. Heās an interesting guy, but aliens? Seriously? They didnāt even go to the far side of the moon did they?
He seems like a great engineer and pilot, but not a particularly good scientist, since he never really bothered offering evidence for his claims. Which is a shame. Iād love to see evidence of his loony theories. If remote healing is possible, we might actually get socialized medicine without having to build expensive hospitals. But 100% of the evidence points to natural explanations, so heās almost surely wrong.
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I feel like he has the hard rational science side with aerospace, math, and navigation; and he has his naval officer and 60s transcendental revival fun out there sea story side. In a modern rational culture we need these sea and ghost stories, I donāt mind if they involve a gorgon or a UFO.
The problem is people who want to adjust important personal and worse public policy around a fun myth rather than just enjoying and embellishing it in the retelling.
I am not sure where to draw the line between an open mind and a mind so open it spills out on the pavement but it probably lies near some Venn intersection of entertainment, discovery, curiosity, and policy.
(edit)I think I just want to live in a universe where aliens are accessable and some folks have mutant powers, until I have proof I cant use these desires for anything but fun, but I dream of a jetpack and alien embassy sci-fi future with a desk sized computer in nearly every home.
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