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Yet the coalition of 3400 architects and engineers still do not have computer inputs of NIST's mathematical models used for simulating how the buildings were de
by pupdogg 5y ago
Yet the coalition of 3400 architects and engineers still do not have computer inputs of NIST's mathematical models used for simulating how the buildings were destroyed. As per NIST: "This information was exempt from public disclosure under Section 7d of the National Construction Safety Team Act because it was determined by the Director of NIST that release of the files might jeopardize public safety."
References:
1. https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/20-years-later-nists-world-trade-center-investigation-and-its-legacy#comment-102311 https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/20-years-later-nis...
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiwpj7aa9c8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiwpj7aa9c8
- resoluteteeth 5y agoBecause they don't want to teach terrorists how to take down skyscrapers?
- pupdogg 5y agoTwo planes are hijacked and then rammed into two of the tallest buildings in the world. Both buildings collapse, while causing another 3rd building to collapse as well. I'm not sure how a mathematical model would help/teach the terrorist any more than the already available public videos of the attacks.
- cherioo 5y agoThe model may help terrorists destroy buildings without hijacking planes.
- pupdogg 5y agoGood point but I think the planes were a crucial control for their simulation/modeling.
- postalrat 5y agoSo could computers. Ban computers?
- anonAndOn 5y agoUsing a truck in the garage in '93 didn't work. So they went back to the drawing board. We all know what happened when the Rebel Alliance got the plans to the Death Star.
- coryrc 5y agoBetter positioning and it may have worked...
- knownjorbist 5y agoIt wasn't just a 3rd building, either - there was a lot that had to be demolished.
- pan69 5y agoIt sounds unlikely to me that some terrorists have figured out a secret way to collapse skyscrapers with an airliner that architects and engineers haven't figured out already and which wouldn't be part of the curriculum of becoming an architect or engineer in the first place.
- casperc 5y agoMay I ask the HN community what your thoughts are om this? I always felt there are two parts of the “truthers”: the same crowd that is now denying covid and the ones representing this point of view. The insanity is overshadowing the reasonable people in the truther movement, but in isolation this video (and ones like it) really makes me wonder.
- h2odragon 5y agoIt isn't odd to think that some of the wilder conspiracy theories on this, and other subjects, are seeded precisely to be such bullshit as to tar any discussion of the issue. Plus the ever present rampant hucksterism that will say anything to sell stuff.
- knownjorbist 5y agoBLS estimates several hundred thousand in directly overlapping professions in the US. I suspect a good number of these 3400 are people who are not even aware their name is being used for this cause.