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up to 32 casualties

i don't know yet one girl i know can't get in touch with her brother...i really hope he's alive

actually...i skipped classes today for some reason...something told me that i shouldn't go...so i just slept i woke up at 10:20 am and saw this huge mess.. 22 people dead now :cry:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech. ... index.html this is my school...and this is very scary first william morva the first day of classes, then 2 bomb threats 2 weeks ago...and now this discuss

i couldn't wear them. my eyes won't tolerate em for some reason. i couldn't keep em in for more than 3 hours without them being unbearable...so i just wear glasses still...or none at all as my vision isn't bad. only need them to read the board in class

me too august 19th for me...how about you

cool project :) about that trebuchet...they are TONS of fun. for the boy scouts there was a "Catapultary" camp style thing that i went to. my troop didn't exactly build a "trebuchet" persay...was more along the lines of a catapult. we won the longest distance award though :). it was built using really big poles and square and diagonal lashings...very sturdy...very fun. one troop built a HUGE trebuchet...but apparently they didn't do their homework too well as when it swung over the frame it was too top heavy and made the whole thing collapse haha. have fun with your further project(s)

Pault go read a physics book so you can comment on my post...cause you comment every1 else's but leave mine alone...are you hiding from it? or just didn't see it?

7/10 just because i'm a freshmen and have to deal with BS engineering classes. they make the first ones just so ridiculous and..well..i dunno...just BS to weed people out who don't belong in engineering. it will be a 10/10 when i'm a junior...that's when i learn stuff that matters

dude that's preposterous we didn't land on the moon...it happened in Hollywood oh...and the Titanic didn't sink at all..we planted a boat out there I wonder if a Titanic conspiracy exists. :-k That would be hilarious! :P actually... http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... stitanic0d man thinks they sunk it on purpose to claim funds from insurance companies

dude that's preposterous we didn't land on the moon...it happened in Hollywood oh...and the Titanic didn't sink at all..we planted a boat out there

i didn't even see the video..before i was interpreting the title alone that video was disgusting...and those people have no idea what being a Christian is even about. what or how could anyone misinterpret the Bible THAT badly to create like a hate group... they're condemning people and promoting hate...two contradictory things against their "faith" simply disgusting..

i got a zune and i loved it better than my ipod... EXCEPT that it cannot be used as an external harddrive...that was depressing other than that..Zune>ipod then when i was at a urinal it fell out of my shallow pocket and into the urinal causing it to die :(

agreed they're like hippies that complain about how much the government sucks when they don't take a stand or do anything about it but smoke weed stereotype for a second...but i felt it was necessary

pault did you even read what i typed? that took a long time and i feel like you just said "i don't care what the laws of physics say...i still say the government did it!"

in case any1 is cba to go back to the beginning pages: lol...there is no conspiracy 1.) it's true that lots of people used words like "explosion" and "bomb" to describe what they heard, but none of that proves actual explosives were used. You can hear an "explosion" without a bomb being required, and saying something was "like a bomb" doesn't mean it was one...gun explosions sounds like explosions...doesn't make it a bomb 2.) Many readings in newspaper quotes are not nearly the exact thing that is originally said. Newspapers edit what the people say for their favor. You ever been in the newspaper? i have...i gave them comments, read the paper the next day and went "That's not what i said AT ALL". they edit it man 3.) There were numerous accounts of people claiming "i was running down the stair well, heard one explosion, then a few floors down i heard another" -a.) This particular woman i am referring to was on the 74th floor at the sound of the second explosion, yet she somehow made it out. Controlled explosions do not have a 30 minute delay before bringing down the structure. -b.) all they have is...sounded like a bomb...that's it 4.) it has been suggested that there was smoke that people could see outside the towers. There were no accounts of seeing this smoke INSIDE the towers...why not? There were people who survived in the stairwells and lower levels, and weÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢ve yet to see any of them talk about explosions or smoke from below as the buildings collapsed. And if the buildings were weakened at the basement levels, why did the very lower stories remain standing? No, air and debris can be seen pushing violently outward, which is a natural and predictable effect of rapid structural collapse. The reason why the buildings collapsed downwards was due to the fact that the buildings were actually designed to take an airplane hit. However, the impact of the airplane damaged the central structure of the building as well as stripping away some of the insulation protecting the steel columns. If you notice, the south tower fell first, even though it was hit last. If you look, the south tower was hit much lower than the north tower. This is evidence that the collapse was due to the steel structure weakening because of fire. When you heat steel, the yield strength drops. With burning jet fuel around a steel column, the design limit and even the safety factor built into the beam is totally meaningless. The column will buckle and the building will collapse. Now, the fact that the south tower fell first is proof that the impact of the plane wasnÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t the reason it collapsed (south tower was hit last and fell first). If you look at the impact points, the south tower was hit much lower than the north tower. This means that there was more load on the columns that supported the damaged section of the south tower than the north tower (more floors above it). Now, regardless if there is insulation or no insulation on a column, the fact of the matter is, according the laws of heat transfer, you will still get some heating of the steel inside even insulated columns (there is no such thing as a perfect insulation). When you heat steel, its yield point drops. Even though buildings are designed with a safety factor (general between 2 and 4, but 4 is usually reserved for bridges) the fact that the columns were being heated to undersigned levels and the fact that the airplane's impact had physically taken out some of the support columns justifies the fact that it was fire that caused the collapse. Now, because fire caused the collapse, you would expect the columns to buckle and then give way. Since there is NO more horizontal load on the building (the building already absorbed the airplane's horizontal impact energy and dissipated it through vibrations) the only load left is a vertical load. This is the reason why the buildings fell perfectly straight down. However, even though fire was the cause of failure of the columns of the floors that were hit, it doesnÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t explain why the building collapsed the way it did (i.e., straight down!). The reason for the building's demolition style collapse is due to simple physics. An object in motion tends to stay in motion; an object at rest tends to stay at rest. In this case, since the building has just begun to collapse, we can consider the building as 2 separate masses, first, the mass still stuck the ground, second the mass that is now falling. If you perform a simple experiment, you stand on a scale and measure your weight. Now, jump as high as you can and land the same scale, what is the reading on it now? Due to the fact that you jumped into the air and landed on the scale, you have now exerted an effective force much greater (for your jump, the scale will read roughly around 3 times your regular weight) than if you just stood on it. This is the reason the building collapsed the way it did. The large mass landing on top of the remaining building has a lot of momentum (lots of speed, think you tripled your weight by jumping at best, 1 meter up, you measure your height by your center of gravity, not how high your feet are off the ground. The building has fallen at least 2 stories (6-7meters) by now) and this momentum is translated to a force on the building. According to NewtonÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s laws, the section of the building is still standing must exert a force against the falling section of the building (an impulse). However, the building's design was probably only a 2 to 4 safety factor (2 or 4 times is regular weight) but with the falling section of the building moving so fast, will overcome even the undamaged safety factor of the original building, thus the building collapses downwards. There is no horizontal forces on the building, hence, no horizontal acceleration (force = mass x acceleration), thus thereÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s no way it can fall horizontally! This is simple physics.

there was no conspiracy my gosh

whod'a thought blue was even younger than 12 years old? not i i thought about saying 10..but 12 was closer to a teenager lol

who am i related to..crap i know it was a famous Roman General..Scipioni is my original name (originated from Scipio)... it's not my current last name...so no need to delete this

I'm not a teenager and I'm sure some other people reading this aren't either I wouldn't care what my age was anyway, it is me, in general so you're 12?

i wish... now that i am 18 i really don't feel like wearing braces for 2 years lol. my teeth are straight anyway, just have an overbite and my top choppers are a bit too spaced out hoping when the wisdom teeth come in they fix that

that made me laugh :lol: i'm American...but my blood is 50% german, 40% italian, and 10% random junk

sooo...erm...what does that leave then? you're ruling out government, authorities..so are you talking about your peers? since when do you peers tell you what to do? (in an orderish fashion)

There isn't one, actually. Just like there is no relation in Jesus and a fat red man in a suit that flies around with reindeer. actually...the hare was used before Jesus...it was something like a creature that brought the new life during the spring season..along with sweets and treats to children the German's took the idea of using the Hare as a representation of easter...and the eggs represent new life Wait, what do you mean 'the hare was used before Jesus'? in the B.C. time they had an easter but without jesus and that stuff no...they didn't have an easter. it was a holiday to celebrate the coming of spring. there's a difference between a holiday like that and easter :\

There isn't one, actually. Just like there is no relation in Jesus and a fat red man in a suit that flies around with reindeer. actually...the hare was used before Jesus...it was something like a creature that brought the new life during the spring season..along with sweets and treats to children the German's took the idea of using the Hare as a representation of easter...and the eggs represent new life