This thread has gone on long enough. It is nothing more than a vehicle to spread false information and wild supposition. It should be closed.
And, further, a note:
While I like to debate the events of 9/11 as much as anyone, it seems that each debate with each 9/11 conspiracy poster that appears at SF starts and ends the same way: with outrageous speculation. The events of 9/11 are well-supported and the conspiracies, again and again, do not wash. The 'normal' explanations are always more reasonable and better found, which results in each discussion degenerating into even more absurd 'conclusions' based on ridiculous assumptions/assertions/inferences. Maybe it's time that there was a general ban on 9/11 threads: it seems that no conspiracy poster can deal with the subject unemotionally.
Alternatively, though, here's an idea:
A formal debate for it.
Choose, among the lot of you, the very very 'Truthiest' 9/11 conspiracy poster from the site: make a Group, debate it endlessly, dial up the great Ziggurat on Mars and ask them what they think. Do as you like. Then, choose your David and send him forth to face:
me. In open debate, we shall see if your god favours your impressions, or whether in fact rationality shall stand the day, in that great British tradition, whether you're British or not, according to SF debate regulations. It shall be like unto a dance-off but without a scrawny DJ with gold teeth.
Your spiritual opposition
Then, once and for all, it might be said that 19 religious reactionaries armed with box cutters attacked the cockpits of four aircraft and took control of the planes to crash into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon (which actually happened), or whether Pentagon Zionists remote-controlled near misses, dropping nuclear-tipped/thermobaric cruise missiles into each of those buildings as they flew over them instead of hitting them, while using advanced space-based teleportation technology to remove the aircrew, passengers and terrorists (wait...
not those, obviously), giving them facelifts and identity overhauls and releasing them all into the general populace with the name 'Mary'. That's why you see so many Marys around these days. Stands to reason!
The prize? Let's see... How about this? If you win, as judged by a panel of reasonable competents (taking firm note of those two words), I shall, theretofore and oncetoall, leave SciForums foreverdyever, may Myuu praise my holy bones.
And if
I win... how about the assorted Excellencies of SF elevate me unto a Mod-hood? I suspect my candidacy would be opposed by
a collection of freaks elements of the Modocracy, but surely such a noble action in the defense of non-Cthulianism should be sufficient vetting of my character and - more likely - my toleration? Surely it can be seen that I desire nothing more than
unbridled power a chance at a fair shake for my fellow SF-ers? And by which I certainly do not mean giving them all a good hard shake. What greater service for SF - and incidentally mankind - could there be than hands-down refuting a scenario the facts of which have eluded a fourth of the American population?
And how could it be a losing bet for the Troofers? If I am beaten, I am silenced. If I win, I can only implement the rules as approved by SF and Staff. As my third cousins would assuredly have said:
can't say fairer than that, now can I?
Come on, Troofers: Put your balls where your mouth is.