Jay481985

Not for the average guy in the US...or so it seemed. Or Kiev

Oh boy - now they're saying is was ~1/2 of Chernobyl...and some of it caused by issues before the tsunami hit. http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/1219205/fukushimas-fallout-worse-than-thought Chris Chernobyl surprisingly was not that bad.

First it was wikipedia, now it is youtube (I actually never use youtube except when absolutely necesary) Second the articles I mentioned and referred to used the building studies you mentioned. I only posted the youtube link because it was the quickest way to reference them. I watched the whole documentary plus the second one they broadcasted. They outlined exactly what you stated with super heated colums and girders. Clearly you dismissed the video because "it was on youtube" even though it was created by PBS. Lastly it was on tape that Osama Bin Laden mentions that he too was surprised the towers fell.

At least Buzz has the balls to put naysayers in their place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU

The Twin Towers were not a conventional strcture. The outerwall was the super structure that supported the building. The floor was linked between outerwall to inner structure.

I agree! TV documentaries on building demolition show clearly that it takes weeks to plan and strategically drill holes in concrete and steel and string wires all over the place between the explosives and computer-controlled electronic detonators. It's fantasy to think that a manpower-intensive crew could sneak in overnight or over a mere weekend to do all that and get it ready IN ADVANCE of the nation being surprised by foreign Al Qaeda teams on 9/11.Plus, it's a rule of actual conspiracies that the more people who know something, the more inevitable it is that someone will spill something sooner or later. And where would one find a skilled demolition crew who are dedicated secret-keepers AND fanatically devoted to such a conspiracy? Seems to me some thinking as well as knowledge are in order here. Someone I know is convinced TWA flight 800 was shot down. I had to explain to him SAM missiles do not explode per se but throw a ring of metal at an airplane. He still thinks it was "hit" with a missile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-rod_warhead

Wrong, dead wrong. The planes took out a corner on ea. structure, effectively eliminating a main floor girder. With the fire raging as it was, we all knew the top would come down. You havn't a clue about what your talking about. Actually the first plane hit dead center and survived longer than the second tower which was hit on the corner which fell first but was hit second.

? I'm no engineer but steel gets super heated, melts and fails and falls onto lower weakened areas, collapse was almost for sure. It doesn't quite melt but above 1000 F the strength of steel is halved or more. Nothing on the towers ever melted off per se but bracing for the floor sagged and buckled the metal skin. PBS Nova did a good episode on why the towers failed. Also it is rather alarming the percentage of people who think the planes had bombs on it or it was an inside job where someone put nano thermite (true story of people believing that)

The al qaeda video tapes show that they were even surprised the buildings collapsed

By living like it is another day

It opens tomorrow

Dtel, what's worse is http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110830/NEWS02/110830022/ Pockets of New Jersey is bad as well, I went by the ol fishing spot to see if it was still there, the road was cut off. I think the river is triple the normal height, It was touching the bottom of tree's leaves. Our place was alright for the fact that we live on a hill and I prepared the house in advance to the storm by digging trenches for the water to route around the house. Down in the next town over their downtown was 3 feet in water

Hey Amy, can we confirm our address again to make sure it doesn't go to old addresses by accident?

Mallette here is to that thunderstorm forming in the Gulf to head over to Texas.

http://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey seems Vermont and New Hampshire got the worst of it.

My driveway after irene

I am in the theory that if someone does that and needs emergency assistance, too bad. I have some nice pictures of my neighborhood. We are generally fine, power and water (non potable now) are working but the garage is flooded, a tree downed in my neighbor's garage though roof is intact. I do have a new fountain in my driveway (I will post pics) and my neighbor has a pretty damn nice looking waterfall staircase (I will post a video soon)

It is but the problem is that we have gotten 9 inches of rain when we get 4 inches for the month of August. Now the Hurricane will drop 9-12 inches.

Ah, I was wondering

It isn't a matter of wattage, but a matter of current flow that's the issue. Even at the same level of wattage, current flow will increase by going from 8 down 4 and then down to 2 ohms. Using ohms law, you can calculate out the voltage and amperage needed to reach 100 watts for a 2, 4, and 8 ohm load. At 8 ohms, you would be running ~28 volts and ~3.5 amps.At 4 ohms, you're looking at 20 volts and 5 amps. At two ohms, you're looking at ~14 volts and 7 amps. This increase in amperage correspondingly increases heat and instability, and inevitably causes an amplifier not designed for the load to shut down in self protection. For reference, a THX Select 2 receiver is designed to be stable down to 4 ohms and swing a 12.5 ampere peak in the front channels (equating to 625W at 4 ohms). A THX Ultra 2 receiver is designed to be stable down to 3.2 ohms and swing an 18 ampere peak on any channel (equating to a bit over 1000W at 3.2 ohms). What is unfortunate is that the only third party I know of that really tests amplifiers is the mostly defunct "The Audio Critic" with their power cube test. That tests stability and maximum voltage into 8, 4, 2, and 1 ohm loads with a variety of phase angles (from 60 to -60 degrees). I wish more audio rags would give that kind of info, as it would make amplifier selection a whole lot easier. Thanks. I gave as easy of an understanding as possible. You are correct sir.

Are you ATC and if so center, tracon, or tower?

That is what most receivers have trouble with. Most are rated at best 6 ohms but the rf-83 and original rf-7 dip down to 2.8 ohms meaning if you are normall at 8 ohms, 4 ohms basically doubles and 2 ohms doubles again the wattage so if the speakers are playing at any significant volume and ask for 100 watts, at 2.8 ohms it needs basically 3-4X the wattage to compensate for the ohm drop so it would ask the receiver 300-400 watts per channel which even the best have trouble to do. The crown and qsc amps are stable down to 2 ohms.

Oh our fatass governor has a glorified language.

I hope to god they are not military, different lingo.