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[not spam] The Bjorkman challange - $1,000,00 prize!
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10-10-2015 4:00pm#1This guy is offering 1 million to anyone who can complete his 9/11 related challenge. I dont know if it has been done since but according to the website it hadnt been done from 2010 to 2014.
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/chall.htmYou are requested to describe a structure where a small top part C can crush the much bigger bottom part A from above, when top part C is dropped by gravity on bottom part A.
The structure with parts C and A can look like the structure right or below, e.g. a square block of any material/elements (e.g. steel or wood floors and pillars or whatever) connected together plus plenty of air between the elements! All elements and joints of the structure must evidently be weak and break easily! The total structure can have any mass or density, e.g. density 0.25 (kg/cm3) or 250 (kg/m3), i.e. light, like the WTC towers that were mostly air ... like a bale of cotton.
The top part C is the 1/10th top of the total structure! It has mass M kilograms (kg)! M can be 1 kg or 100 000 000 kg! It does not matter.
The drop height is max 3.7 meters!
The bottom part A is the 9/10th bottom of the total structure. It has mass 9 M kilograms. It means A is 9 times bigger than C!
When top part C with mass M impacts bottom part A from above after a free fall drop of 3.7 meters by gravity (g = 9.82 m/s²), it applies 36.334 M Joule energy to the (total) structure with mass 10 M.
Will bottom part A with mass 9 M be crushed into rubble by top part C with mass M? Can 3.63 Joule energy initiate a collapse destruction of 1 kilogram of A?
That's the Challenge! According US authorities incl. US presidents of all kinds, security advisors, agencies, experts, universities and plenty idiots of all types it happens all the time!2
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THATS what I'm talking about. It's a compelling argument!
Anywhere online that we have any serious blueprinting / CAD model for the towers? Further, how heavy were the inertia-dampers on the top of each tower?
blueprints reproduced here
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/plans/frames.html
also thanks for the [not spam] on the header, i suspected the spam alarms would be wailing as soon as i posted it
could we be on the verge of an 'afterhours drinks' type situation? A CT engineers meet up & build off???? 0 -
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His challenge appears to be faulty, explanation below
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/26j2r8/step_right_up_who_wants_to_take_the_the_anders/
Also it seems he is the assessor, it's up to him to decide to accept these explanations or not
This is a sample reply from Bjorkman on the issue
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=191251&page=2
Also having a look around the site, he also believes atomic bombs weren't dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/bomb.htm
and that no one traveled to the moon
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/moontravel.htm
Some guy on reddit brings up the gravity affect and disses the guys website. great stuff :rolleyes: i dont really care about the guys world views, world views dont change the experiment one bit. and of course he's the assessor, its his money/experiment.. anyway, i dont think he needs worry about putting his hand in his pocket anytime soon.
What reddit guy fails to mention is that newtons third law supercedes any natural gravitational force in this case. there wasnt enough power in the top portion that fell, to both destroy the building below and twist & cut the steel while hitting the ground in approx 9 secs & 12 secs.
you cannot have that kind of destruction and speed with a much larger structure below, unless you have a force pushing from above. if you are in or studied business, the concept looks like this:
in any situation there is (generally) only a given amount of energy, where it gets used doesnt matter. if you use it to do one thing, it will ease off doing something else.
you'd need to drop the top section from much higher to do anything near what they expect us to believe actually happened.
by the way, the scaling effects on gravity didnt stop mythbusters giving it their best debunking shot. but they failed to bring their own towers down without explosives.
even if you built a full scale model and flew 2 767s into them, i suspect you'll be left waiting.
also, im just wondering. we are talking about 1 tower here. we havent even asked how the top of the north tower managed to topple almost 30 degrees and yet still not land top first on the ground (attached pic). another fine slice of once off physics.0 -
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DamagedTrax wrote: »how is the challange faulty?
He just seems to change it, change the goalposts and ignore people who provide him solutions and explanations
I mean just have a look at French technique of vérinage demolition
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I mean just have a look at French technique of vérinage demolition
i probably dont have to tell you this but each building in that video was mechanically pulled at the centre point so that mutual destruction is guaranteed.
those buildings being demolished fall completely inline with newtons 3rd. infact they are perfect scientific examples of why the towers didnt come down that way.
you drop half the building and by the time the energy is run out destroying the other half, you have a perfect pile of rubble left right on the floor (exactly as the science suggests will happen).
at WTC, after the point of mutual destruction shown in the video you posted, there are still 90 odd floors left to destroy. if the top section has already destroyed itself and an equal amount from the opposing force.. where does the energy or mass come from to destroy the rest of the floors, frames, girders, concrete, people, furniture, fixings?
EDIT: ive never seen this type of demolition before so i looked it up and low and behold it only works on non steel framed buildings.0 -
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It's not to do with halves.
it is 100% to do with halves! read up on the demolition method you've just used as an example. it is science in action, newtons 3rd law... and it is not used on steel frame buildings for that very reason.
From Wiki:The technique. . .is used in France to weaken and buckle the supports of central floors promoting the collapse of the top part of a building onto the bottom resulting in a rapid, symmetrical collapse
if you take out a predetermined space from the middle section of the building, the force and mass of the falling section will destroy the lower section, while being destroyed in return (and in equal measure) by the non moving lower section, until all the energy has been spent and you are left with a static mass.
with equal and opposite force you can only have a symmetrical outcome (which is exactly what we see in your video). infact, looking at it again it could almost be used to prove some sort of demolition at WTC, since the top section of the north tower can be clearly seen crumbling away as it takes out an approx equal sized lower section (discounting explosives for arguments sake).
this science is not arguable, there are no lingering questions about newtons law. it is both observable and proven beyond doubt. the only argument is whether it is observable at the WTC on 9/11.
here it is with vehicles. 1 moving smaller section (car) smashes into stationery larger section (truck). the car can only do so much damage because all the energy is being used up in the destructive process that we can see happening. eventually the car runs out of energy and stops. this works on the vertical plane aswell as the horizontal.It's to do with the mass of the top floors crashing down on the floor below the weakened floor, and each subsequent floor (plus the increased mass)
It doesn't have to crush a specific portion of the building, just the floor below
now you're back at the pancake theory which NSIT dismissed long ago. but for arguments sake.. how does falling concrete turn people to dust and cut steel? remember it is using its energy to crush floors and even more energy to keep this 'domino effect' of falling floors going (without slowing down amazingly!). how does it possibly manage to destroy everything else?
remember NSIT do not support the pancake theory now.
this is what a pancake collapse looks like, ground zero it is not.
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The below doesn't look 50/50 to me (go to 3:17)
This is just for the Bjorkman challenge, it's a smaller A crushing a larger C section
I'll agree with you here. that looks about 35/65. but i would suggest that the top half is destroyed as a structure by about 3:42. we cannot see the rubble outcome unfortunately. that would make sense given that the theory behind verinage demo is to remove the central floors, as i pointed out earlier.Correct and Newton's laws of motion weren't broken on 911 either
"In their original form, Newton's laws of motion are not adequate to characterize the motion of rigid bodies and deformable bodies."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion
as you are talking about pancaking below, ill assume that whatever you read was in relation to the pancake effect? and then yes, you are spot on. newtons 3rd law cannot apply.
if you are talking about the official report, again you are right.
If you're talking about my theory that the top half was destroyed pretty early on in the collapse, then we'll have to disagree. My own undertsanding of physics, what i perceived visually and the scientific research of others, backs my point up... BUT what i will say that i find very confusing (and partially the reason i love the debate on it), is that there are people equally convinced on the other side. maybe both sides are wrong? maybe something happened that day that we dont yet understand?
Which is what the building was as soon as it started to give way, a building made up of thousands and thousands of components
except only 15% of those components gave way (and proceeded to destroy the other 85%) according to the official storyThe physics of the WTC is a hell of a lot more complex, but essentially the same principle, the components of each floor below can't hold the momentum and combined mass of the components of the floors above - and gravity is moving in one direction
you are claiming again something that the official report doesnt support.
NSIT stateThe weakened core, weakened by fire and impact, couldn't hold the massive weight from tilting. As with the perimeter column, the massive load on the deformed core columns gave way.NIST’s findings do not support the “pancake theory” of collapse, which is premised on a progressive failure of the floor systems in the WTC towers
are you arguing that NSIT are wrong and that it was a pancake collapse? because if not, im starting to get lost.0 -
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I'm trying to help someone win a million here
i cant see how that video could even be considered. its way outside the ratio parameters for top section vs lower.Destroyed is a difficult word to use here. It was a dynamic mass that was increasing in mass as it fell (some material was ejected sideways, but most of it was falling only one way: down)
The building wasn't designed for that. To borrow an analogy, I could place a brick on a delicate drinking glass which can easily support it, but drop that brick from several feet up and it would be a different story
You make it sound like a smaller chunk and a larger chunk mutually and equally obliterating each other one floor at a time - it was the combined mass of 29 stories which was growing and gaining momentum, it was dynamic, steel columns were not just hitting other columns, they were misaligned (from being compromised laterally), they were hitting floor pans - which were in no way designed to take those kind of loads, puncturing through
Those floor pan's were not getting any stronger on the way down, and the mass was only increasing. If the majority wasn't going sideways, it meant it was going straight down, increasing in weight and density
ok, so you've basically given the current official theory there instead of the pancake theory you gave earlier. in that case there is no argument left. you agree with it, i dont. we are at an impass, so lets put a pin in it
there's not much more that i can add without reiterating what ive already posted. after that im stepping outside my knowledge base so i could only add conjecture and supposition as the 2 tower collapses still baffle me and constantly make me question my ideas.
building 7 is a different story though :P
on a slight tangent: looking at the entire day objectively, would you agree that an independent investigation would only be a good thing for all concerned?0 -
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well the floor loads were essentially the same the higher you went up, even though the steel structure shed weight the higher up you went. The floors should have all been load-rated similarly to each other.
but that again suggests the pancake collapse. which in turn doesnt answer the question of the cut steel.
911 is like a feckin mobius strip. every time you think you turn a corner you end up right back where you were 5 minutes ago 0 -
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