Shhh! Don't tell Rosie!!

Psst!! Hey, guess what? Professors at Purdue University (a school that knows a thing or two about engineering) have carefully developed an animation of just what exactly happened when the first jet ripped through the North Tower on 9/11. (h/t: Hot Air)

If you click on the above link to Purdue U., when you get there click the link at the upper-left. And give it a minute for the animation to load (it's 9 MB)

FYI, these are not a bunch of Rove-Bushco-Halliburton knee-jerk neocon Nazis. These are professional engineering instructors at a highly-regarded engineering school (although they can't put a decent football team together. Sorry, had to say it. Go Blue!!) that assessed and examined every aspect of the incident.

Uh, Rosie, before you go spouting off again, you might want to look at what people who actually KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT have to say (And that goes double for your buddy Joy Behar). Unless, of course, you just want to stay ignorant. But, if you really want to know the truth--THE TRUTH--then maybe you ought to listen to the PROFESSIONALS who said:

The simulation depicts how a plane tore through several stories of the World Trade Center north tower within a half-second and found that the weight of the fuel acted like a flash flood of flaming liquid, knocking out essential structural columns within the building and removing fireproofing insulation from other support structures.

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"The crashes and computer models you often see on television are not scientifically accurate," he says. "This provides an alternative that is useful to the nonexpert but is also scientifically accurate, so it provides a more realistic picture of the event."

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As with an earlier simulation developed by this team that examined the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, the World Trade Center simulation showed that it was the weight of the 10,000 gallons of fuel more than anything else that caused the damage.

"It is the weight, the kinetic energy of the fuel that causes much of the damage in these events," Hoffmann says. "If it weren't for the subsequent fire, the structural damage might be almost the same if the planes had been filled with water instead of fuel."

But, but, but...Rosie said that fire can't melt steel!!! She said it, it has to be true!! She knows more about engineering and metallurgy than any stupid university professor!!! She is Rosie O'Donnell, you know!!

AlGore's new book, "Assault on Reason" is really

an insult to our intelligence. I haven't read it, I'm not going to. I don't need some tree-hugging dirt-worshipper to tell me about some myth he has about "man-made global warming", when he himself spends over $1300 A MONTH on his light bill (But he buys carbon offsets!! That makes him wonderful!! Yeah, whatever. See definition of "carbon offsets" at the right). Well, apparently Joy "Hey, it's me!! the loudmouthed redhead from 'The View'" Behar has jumped, feet-first, into the swirling cesspool that is the mind of Al "ManBearPig" Gore. Once again, from The Anchoress:

I haven’t read the thing, itself, but I have now read several accounts of Al Gore’s new book, Assault on Reason, wherein he wags fingers at people who watch TV (unless, of course, they’re watching him pimp his book) and the media (particularly those who don’t stick to reporting only his side, of the “manmade” global warming story) and - by all accounts - he trashes the Bush 43 administration from start to finish, enumerating all of Bush’s “lies” and mistakes.

I’ve seen similar lists throughout the web - the collective is circulating it in order to really drill home to everyone who may not yet be fully convinced that George W. Bush is the worst, most evil man ever born from woman (if that is what Barbara Bush may be called) and also the stupidest evil super genius imaginable.

I read a transcript of the execrable morning program The View in which Joy Behar, a Gore-adoree of the first water, reads from one of these lists:

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Oh, I think it’s definitely time. Let’s do it - let’s impeach President Bush, let’s have all of this brought forward and get it all investigated and put on the real, actual record, instead of in someone’s book of dreams and opinions or in a convenient, “bumperstickeresqe” meme. Let’s get all the tawdry lists and narratives together and finally get them “on the record and testified to.” We can start with the Gore/Behar list:

You really need to do yourself a favor and read her whole post. She goes through Ms. Behar's incoherent screed, point by point, and shatters all the myths and pipe dreams of all the sad little liberals.