QUOTE(Spot @ Apr 6 2007, 03:13 PM) [snapback]293893[/snapback]
Your analogy sucked. A 100lb person can kill a 200lb person by applying the correct force. You decided loaded planes were a "slap", which I refuse to agree to.
Look, I have given you every opportunity NOT to demonstrate that you are a moron. And yet, you insist.
Let us say we're watching a video of an event: Here's what we see in the video:
A 100lbs person slaps (one hand, open-handed slap on the face) a 200lbs person.
Alternatively, the 100lbs persons expertly punches the 200lbs person.
The 200lbs person staggers and falls over, collapses.
A few minutes later, paramedics pronounce the 200lbs person dead.
That is what is "obvious" and what we KNOW, we have OBSERVED happened.
A 200lbs person, alive and standing. A 100lb person person, alive and slapping/expertly punching the 200lbs person. After the slap/expert punch, the 200lbs person staggers and falls over, collapses. A few minutes later, the 200lbs person is pronounced dead.
What caused the 200lbs person to stagger, collapse and die?
Sticking with the OBVIOUS, and awaiting for preponderant evidence to the contrary, one would HYPOTHESIZE that the slap/expert punch by the 100lbs person caused the 200lbs person to stagger, collapse and die.
Still, plausible as that hypothesis might be, it is NOT a foregone conclusion. It has to be established as 'good enough' to actually explain the event, causally AND superior to alternative hypotheses. E.g. we must enquire into the condition of the 200lbs at the time of the slap/expert punch and between the time of the slap/expert punch and his/her collapsing and dying.
Planes crashing into WTC-1 and WTC-2. Fireballs. Fires. Collapse of WTC-1 and WTC-2. You say, go with the obvious. Thus, Planes crashing into the buildings. Fires. Collapse of the buildings into rubble.
If you can't understand the analogy then it's your fault.
QUOTE(beasty @ Apr 6 2007, 03:14 PM) [snapback]293894[/snapback]
You shouldn't have let yourself get sucked into the idiocy.
What is the idiocy?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to take on the analogy with a punch, instead?
A punch CAN kill a person. It HAS killed a person. It is physically possible for a punch to kill a person. A punch killing a person does not violate the laws of physics, or the known characteristics of the desing and structure of a person.
Still, the obvious explanation COULD BE WRONG. Going with the obvious is not science. It's not even disciplined thinking.
It's cowdoody.