However, what Harrit, Jones and many others are putting forth here is scientific proof. This is why people should attempt to understand their arguement even if it might require some effort. When understood, the arguement can be communicated to others – taking them from believing the OCT/BCCT is false to knowing that it is false. Likewise, the 2 second, 105 ft absolute free fall acceleration for WTC 7 is also positive proof. Hence forcing NIST to invalidate their own conclutions (but, of course, not admitting that they’ve done so). This threshold between believing and knowing might be the difference between a person engaging in activism or not.

Once we know – we act like we know.

For example if you had, saltpeter (KNO3), sulfur (S) and charcoal (mostly C), but the particle sizes were large, the material was not intimately mixed, and the proportions of the ingredients were wrong, it would not behave like “gunpowder” or “black powder” would be expected to behave, and you would have essentially nothing but a mixture of chemicals.

Since there has been no reply from Nilsen and no attempt by the NRK to follow up on this story (It’s been more than two months since Harrit’s explanation about the paint-issue.), I doubt the nobility of their intentions as well.

Still, Nilsen deserves some credit for addressing the paper itself, which is way more businesslike than most BCCT’ers, and being willing to seriously harm his own academic credibility over this. I wonder what rewards were reaped since I struggle to imagine his response as a willful self-destructive act. Self-injurious behavior is rarely preformed by science-professors, and the means to accomplish it are even more seldom the ruin of one’s own professional reputation. Maybe his reasons were purely idealistic – who knows?

Anyway, could you please explain to a layman why you perceive the stoichiometry to be fortuitous in this instance?

Indeed.

The Norwegians, as everyone else, should get back to debating real issues (if we ever really have debated them?). For how long has the truth been absent? Since Kennedy? Since the baton of what to think was given the media by the church? There is no point in discussing real issues with fake people who talk of peace publicly, but in action is really hellbent on death and carnage. Let’s identify the lies and the liars perpetrating them first – then discuss the real issues.

In the mean time every man, woman and child should engage any and all parts the savage capitalist system that forces all this violence upon us. Work less, spend less – love more.

My perception is not far from yours. What we feel about the facts will perhaps be more relevant after a proper investigation since certainty is a luxury that, if possessed, should be shared with everyone.