dadeck @dadeck

I find these World Trade Center simulations by Kostack Studio fascinating because they remove the smoke and let you see the collapse much more clearly. In the real footage, so much is hidden by fire, dust, debris, distance, and chaos that many people come away with the impression that the towers simply dropped straight down into their own footprints. But that is not really what happened. These simulations make it much easier to see that the collapse begins in the heavily damaged and fire-weakened region, the upper section starts moving and tilting, and the destruction then propagates downward through the structure. The towers do not simply disappear vertically into their own footprints. Large portions of the upper structure and exterior are moving outward and to the side as the collapse develops. Much of that motion is simply obscured in the real videos once the enormous debris cloud forms. And this is also why I find these simulations useful when people describe the collapses as looking like “controlled demolition.” Strip away the smoke and dust and the resemblance becomes much less convincing. What you see is a highly asymmetric structural failure beginning around the aircraft-damaged and fire-affected floors, followed by an enormous moving mass progressively overwhelming the structure beneath it. There is tilting, rotation, exterior columns peeling away, debris being thrown far outside the building footprint, and structural failure occurring chaotically as the collapse moves downward. That is very different from the neat mental image usually implied by “controlled demolition,” where structural supports are deliberately severed in a carefully timed sequence to produce a predetermined collapse. And importantly, we already know what preceded these collapses. Both towers suffered massive aircraft-impact damage. Fireproofing was stripped from portions of the structure. Large, uncontrolled fires then burned across multiple floors - for about 56 minutes in the South Tower and about 102 minutes in the North Tower - heating and weakening structural components until collapse initiated. Once that upper mass began moving, the loads imposed on the floors and structure beneath became vastly greater than anything they had been designed to carry. The result was progressive collapse. No, an animation is not proof simply because it looks convincing, and these are not official NIST simulations. They are visualizations built under particular assumptions. But as visualizations, I think they are extremely useful. They let you see something the original footage often cannot show clearly: beneath that enormous cloud of smoke and debris was a complicated, violent, asymmetric structural failure - not two buildings neatly dropping straight down into their own footprints. A note on the simulation: this is not intended to reproduce the collapse down to the exact motion of every beam, floor panel, and fragment of debris. No practical simulation could do that. Its value is in modeling the large-scale structural behavior - how the major sections deform, move, tilt, separate, and progressively fail. Think of it as a visualization of the mechanics and overall collapse behavior, not a frame-by-frame reconstruction of where every piece of steel ultimately landed.

This was so good, Dire Straits reposted it.

Dire Straits 🎸 @DireStraits77

4 days ago

WoW 🎸🫶

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Well said

Lewis Miles @Maga4liberty

4 days ago

Rubio just blew my mind‼️ The man who understood communism the most, just explained it to the least of us.

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This had me laughing so hard I was crying. These guys are awesome.

Anna 🇺🇸 @realAnn_29

6 days ago

Ugly pants exchange at the airport and it got better every swap. Why? 😂

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LOL - this is good.

John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich

5 days ago

Ladies, do you agree with this woman?

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Simple Science Experiments You Can Try At Home 🧪🧫

October 27, 2019 I flew to NYC at my own expense to give very important testimony to the American people on Maria Bartiromo’s show. I stayed in a hotel near the studio, again at my own expense. This was during the Special Counsel Durham investigation, which I assisted. I am an eyewitness to the Grand Conspiracy against President Trump, which started in 2015, directed by Obama and implemented by the CIA, MI6, the FBI, and the media. I spoke to Maria and her producers for weeks in advance to make sure they understood the importance of the story. I was not paid a cent for all the hours I spent on this. It was really important that a major network finally told the truth to the American people. On the morning of the interview, I was driven by a car arranged by Fox. I had hair and makeup done. The interview was recorded. Then someone in the Fox leadership ordered that my interview not be aired. After the public outcry, Maria even retweeted the demand for it to be shown. A one-minute extract was then shown weeks later behind the Fox Nation paywall. The full interview was never aired. Someone blocked it. The presidential election was one year away.

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Democrat Liberal YES. Conservative NO. Kids sit under that every day. Then they go home to parents, neighbors, and churches that do not match the approved label. That is cognitive dissonance on a loop. The school is not teaching them how government works. It is teaching them that half the country is the wrong answer. Disagreement becomes a character flaw. That is how a civics wall turns into a breeding ground for contempt.

Now that the second Pennsylvania death has been revealed, it is clear that Gov. Shapiro's press conference (& the media coverage) was misleading. 1. Gov. Shapiro used the term "unvaccinated" to describe the two. But neither child was eligible for the MMR vaccine. The boy died right after birth, and the girl at 6 weeks. 2. Gov. Shapiro stated that the deaths were preventable. This does not appear to be the case. All the facts are not known, but the best current evidence suggests the boy likely died from trauma from delivery or resuscitation, not measles. The girl had Amish Lethal Microcephaly, a condition that virtually always results in death in the first months of life. Calling her death “preventable” was misleading in that it strongly implied she would otherwise have survived infancy (and, again, she wouldn't have been vaccinated at that age.) When Gov. Shapiro mentioned two "unvaccinated" individuals whose deaths were "completely preventable," how many listeners thought one would be a newborn with a traumatic rupture of the spleen & the other a six-week-old with a severe genetic condition that's lethal in the first few months of life? The natural impression was that Gov. Shapiro was referring to two vaccine-eligible people who died from measles because they declined vaccination. Gov. Shapiro (and the media) should apologize & publicly correct the record. The public has lost trust in health officials & the press because of misleading announcements and news coverage. This incident has only heightened that loss of trust. youtube.com/watch?v=6hYU4T…

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8 years ago… I reported on Philadelphia’s new tax on soda. The politicians promised to spend the money on early childhood education. 8 years later… here’s what happened:

Straight out of a horror movie

Alec Lace @AlecLace

a week ago

Lindsay Clancy locking eyes with the one man standing between her and a co-hosting gig on The View.

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Lest we forget who the Lindsay Clancy trial is about. 🙏

BREAKING: I'm told by four federal sources that a suspected DUI driver arrested for allegedly killing a mother and her daughter in a wrong way, head on crash on I-270 in Montgomery County, MD on Saturday is a Salvadoran illegal alien. Fox is told that ICE has placed a detainer request on 32-year-old JOSE ANTONIO CABALLERO-NALASCO with the Montgomery County Detention Center, where he is being held without bond on five charges, including two counts of negligent manslaughter by vehicle, two counts of homicide by motor vehicle while intoxicated, and one count of causing a life-threatening injury while under the influence of alcohol. I’m told that Caballero-Nalasco initially claimed to be a US citizen to law enforcement, but that he has no legal status in the US, and he has multiple siblings who are in the US illegally. Per local media reporting, the judge in the case denied Nalasco’s request for bond, arguing he is a threat to community safety. Investigators on scene found no skid marks or any evidence that he tried to stop before crashing head on into a Toyota Camry on I-270, killing a 46-year-old mom and her 23-year-old daughter. An 8-year-old girl in the car suffered life threatening injuries and is hospitalized. There were 911 calls about the wrong way vehicle on the interstate before the crash. Troopers say they found a black bag in Nalasco’s car full of open and unopened Corona beers. They say he smelled of alcohol and had glossy eyes, and later admitted he had been drinking. wjla.com/news/local/sus…

BREAKING: I’m told by multiple federal sources that the suspect in custody for strangling a woman to death in her home in Framingham, MA on Thursday is a Brazilian illegal alien w/ prior arrests for DUI & aggravated assault w/ a weapon who is believed to have entered the U.S. illegally as a gotaway in 2019. Sources confirm that ICE has now placed a detainer on 43-year-old Flavio Diaz with law enforcement in Middlesex County, MA.  Local media write up on the killing: boston25news.com/news/local/man…

Staten Island man struck by lightning while walking to a dentist appointment. Thomas Fahmy says he is grateful to be alive and went to church on Sunday to thank God for giving him another chance. "Once the lightning bolt struck me, the initial sensations that I had throughout my whole body were completely unprecedented; tingling, numbness, pain, just I feel this burning sensation." "No burns. I had multiple body exams; no burns at all. I went to church on Sunday to say thank you, God."

Wait, what? I thought Iran was winning. That's what some top analysts keep telling me,

Amit Segal @AmitSegal

2 weeks ago

Senior officials in the Iranian regime are considering fleeing due to the worsening economic situation in the country and their fear that the protests will return.

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Trump Just Hit The Button…Iran Was Just Erased | The War Is Over, U.S. Military Destroyed Everything Admiral Brad Cooper announced the U.S. moved 750 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz while Iran exported zero barrels. The U.S. blockade has given America full control of the Strait, and shipping lanes are open. Venezuela, which has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, is now debating leaving OPEC, which has long held a monopoly over oil markets. Because of all this, Iran has been begging for the MOU and peace talks. President Trump has reset the global power structure to the West…America won.

This is horrible American who was born in Austin, Texas says she recently became a Republican and says Austin “needs to turn Red” But she doesn’t just tell you, she shows you…. This is what Democrats have turned Austin Texas into…. I mean you can’t look at this and not think something sinister is going on. It’s like Democrats are intentionally destroying our cities and turning us into the third world Austin needs to vote Red, we can’t let America keep going down this path of destruction

This is Incredible! This Osprey managed to hoist out a big Gafftopsail catfish from the ocean.