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Old 20-September-2006, 03:42 PM
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I guess the thousand of eyewitnesses must have been fooled by a hologram.

Also, I guess the thousand of professional investigors must have been fooled too.
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Old 20-September-2006, 03:49 PM
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ACH! When I first read that original post when it first came up yesterday I thought someone was engaging in conceptual humor.

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MattMarriot's exact post can be found at the engforum.pravda.ru forums where he uses the same username.

Even there he usually posts once or twice to his own threads and never (repeat,, never) answers any questions about his hypothesis.

Hopefully, given the forum rules here, he will actually debate the subject and refrain from the ad-hom 'sheep' references, but I have my doubts.
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MattMarriot's exact post can be found at the engforum.pravda.ru forums where he uses the same username.

Even there he usually posts once or twice to his own threads and never (repeat,, never) answers any questions about his hypothesis.

Hopefully, given the forum rules here, he will actually debate the subject and refrain from the ad-hom 'sheep' references, but I have my doubts.
He won't last long if he doesn't. I promise.
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MattMarriot's exact post can be found at the engforum.pravda.ru forums where he uses the same username.

Even there he usually posts once or twice to his own threads and never (repeat,, never) answers any questions about his hypothesis.
Never answering questions posed of them is a charateristic of most deniers, 9/11 deniers or otherwise.

I tried once for months to get a particularly arrogant 9/11 denier to back up his assertions. He would not answer any question directly. Instead, he would answer with a question..."How do you explain [this or that]?" But this turns out to be the modus operandi of all CTers, a sure giveaway that they are clueless.
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You sure you're not using the BIG LIE on us?
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One problem I have with any conspircy is that there is one every group who has big mouth and shots it off and even in the most hush-hush groups there has to be at least one that would of spilled at bad moment by now
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Instead, he would answer with a question..."How do you explain [this or that]?" But this turns out to be the modus operandi of all CTers, a sure giveaway that they are clueless.
Heh. Facts? Answers? Pssh! It's all about the doubt, baby...

I sometimes wonder how easy it would be to get these folks to doubt their own birth, just by asking questions. "Do you remember being born? How do you explain the fact that no one like you has ever been born before?"
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ACH! When I first read that original post when it first came up yesterday I thought someone was engaging in conceptual humor.
Yes, when I read it I had a good laugh and thought, "Man, this is a clever joke, brilliantly satirising hoax-believers."

Oh well.
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I'm just glad someone edited out the address of his website lest I accidentally went and read it and found my eyes to e opened to the BIG lie.

I suspect there will be no actual debate from the OP.
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Ahhh, I love these hydrogen fusion bomb theories.
What these guys can't understand, the smallest fusion bomb ever build was Castle Nectar, with an approximate yield of 1.7MT, ignited by a 340kT fission bomb. And no, you cannot build them significantly smaller.
Show me how to direct the blast of a 1.7MT fusion bomb upwards.
That bomb would shatter whole NY.

Leaving aside that no raised radiation level was reported...
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- the choice of the combination of personalities used to convince people, in the first days and in the first year, about the "passengers". Ted Olson was just a conspirator celebrating the murder of his wife; for the sheep Barbara Olson was one of the last personalities that they would imagine that the "conservatives" would murder, but that was not the case for anyone aware of how the illuminati had closed all controversies about Clinton immediately after his "acquital". That proved that Barbara Olson was not playing an illuminati role.
Most of your argument is just silly, but this is dirty (I'd call it worse, but it is against the rules here and it isn't worth it). So. For the record, I'll ask you to present your specific evidence for this.

I feel sorry for the families when they see or hear things like this.
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Three kinds of objections were raised to contradict my version:
MattM- surely someone has raised a fourth kind; that it's Donkey Poop?

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I truly hope that no one took that as serious?
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I truly hope that no one took that as serious?
Well, I wasn't worried.
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I truly hope that no one took that as serious?
If I did, I certainly wouldn't be discussing it openly.
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Question for the OP to go unanswered:

I've been looking for a good conspiracy theory to throw my support behind for a long time now. I'm hoping that, in that light, you can give me some reasons why I should trust your conspiracy theory over, say, the one prestented by 911Truth which claims that planes (real ones) did hit the WTC? I mean, they have the word truth in their URL. They're already a couple of points up on you.

There's a bit of a catch to this, though. As a physics student, I really need compelling reasons accompanied by detailed calculations (preferably using equations that you derrive from first principles) to latch on to. Since I love explosions, you have a real hook I can hang my hat on. I just need you to demonstrate how a pair of plane crashes either could be simulated, or how a pair of plane crashes wouldn't be sufficient to topple such a pair of skyscrapers, while also showing how the US government has been able to cover up the giant crater that was once New York City.
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