Capstone
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I'm no expert here, but a couple of things from the MVA's "progress report" did pique my interest:
So this report simultaneously supports the paint scheme explanation for the presence of iron oxide and aluminum silicate ...and debunks it via the concession that no such formula for primer paint exists.
Also from the MVA report:
What's interesting about the temperature highlighted above is that it was apparently low enough to avoid the ignition reaction reported in Harrit's paper.
From the abstract to Harrit's paper:
If the point was to debunk Harrit's conclusions, why didn't the MVA scientists simply repeat his methodology?
But all of the egghead stuff aside, until someone explains how a 47-story skyscraper (that wasn't hit by an airplane or even a significant amount of debris from the other fallen buildings) can collapse symmetrically into its own footprint in less than 7 seconds ...without the use of explosives, I'll continue to have no choice but to believe that explosives were used.
On a personal level, it's not like I want to believe this kind of shit about elements of my own country's government. If anything, my efforts have been aimed at finding reasons not to believe it. Problem is: those reasons are scarce to begin with ...and the few I've found have never stood even the most superficial tests of scrutiny.
At the time of this progress report, the identity of the product from which the red/gray chips were generated has not been determined. The composition of the red/gray chips found in this study (epoxy resin with iron oxide and kaolin pigments) does not match the formula for the primer paint used on the World Trade Center towers. (table 1)[16] Although both the red/gray chips and the primer paint contain iron oxide pigment particles, the primer is an alkyd-based resin with zinc yellow (zinc chromate) and diatomaceous silica along with some other proprietary (Tnemec) pigments. No diatoms were found during the analysis of the red/gray chips. Some small EDS peaks of zinc and chromium were detected in some samples but the amount detected was inconsistent with the 20% level of zinc chromate in the primer formula.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) contain some information about product materials. According to the MSDS currently listed on the Tnemec website,[17] 55 out of the 177 Tnemec coating products contain one or two of the three major components in the red layer: iron oxide and/or kaolin (aluminum silicate) pigments. However, none of the 177 different coatings is a match for the red layer coating found in this study. [emphasis Capstone's]
So this report simultaneously supports the paint scheme explanation for the presence of iron oxide and aluminum silicate ...and debunks it via the concession that no such formula for primer paint exists.
Also from the MVA report:
Chips of interest were ashed in a muffle furnace using a NEY Temperature Programmable furnace operated at 400 [degrees C] for 1 hour.[emphasis Capstone's]
What's interesting about the temperature highlighted above is that it was apparently low enough to avoid the ignition reaction reported in Harrit's paper.
From the abstract to Harrit's paper:
When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.[emphasis Capstone's]
If the point was to debunk Harrit's conclusions, why didn't the MVA scientists simply repeat his methodology?
But all of the egghead stuff aside, until someone explains how a 47-story skyscraper (that wasn't hit by an airplane or even a significant amount of debris from the other fallen buildings) can collapse symmetrically into its own footprint in less than 7 seconds ...without the use of explosives, I'll continue to have no choice but to believe that explosives were used.
On a personal level, it's not like I want to believe this kind of shit about elements of my own country's government. If anything, my efforts have been aimed at finding reasons not to believe it. Problem is: those reasons are scarce to begin with ...and the few I've found have never stood even the most superficial tests of scrutiny.
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