9/11 "Official Story" believer challenge: WTC collapse
Objects falling though gravity take the path of least resistance.
Yes? No?
Of course they do.
So, looking at the WTC towers...
Let's assume that the fires weakened the steel. (Even though there have been steel framed buildings that have burned in a firey inferno for over 24 hours that didn't collapse.) And let's assume that the floor joists gave way, allowing the top portion of the building... 20-30 or so stories to fall 1-3 stories onto the lower part of the building (the 70-80 stories that were still standing).
Now obviously, according to the official story, this weight was enough to cause a "pancake collapse", floor by floor, all the way to the bottom.
Each tower was supported by a structural core extending from its bedrock foundation to its roof. The cores were rectangular pillars with numerous large columns and girders, measuring 87 feet by 133 feet. The core structures housed the elevators, stairs, and other services. These core columns were the largest steel beams ever built at the time. The outer core beams were 54 inches wide.
Great pics here...
Now, we've all seen the video of the collapse(s) a million times. As you see the tower with the antennae on it start to fall, you can see the antennae tilt slightly, indicating that the top half of the building didn't fall exactly straight down.
Now, my question to you people is...
Why did the whole building collapse into a pile of dust? Why did the top portion of the building not fall over to one side and fall off the bottom part of the building? Topple over? Following the past of least resistance?
Challenge #1: Why did it follow exact path of most resistance, straight down?
Challenge #2: And since it did follow the path of most resistance, why did it fall at essentially free-fall speed?
I won't ask you to change wiki... someone will just change it back.
Just explain it to me, please. I'm listening.
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WTC7 has been debunked... go here to read & watch videos
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In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
Who
did the debunking, was it paid for or done by the government either directly or indirectly? If it was then I would not believe a word they say - fox gaurding the hen house. Where is an independent investigation?. Where is the investigative media? Nothing!!!! MSM = TREASON
All good and fair questions.
GO! Go find out. Do your own research. Don't just stew in your suspicions. Don't allow yourself to be "played" or "punk'd, or "duped" just because you rightfully distrust big govt.
When you find the answers, get back to me on my thread here: http://www.dailypaul.com/...
I would love to know the answers.
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
Talk about "puns"....
Did you hear where they dumped everything?? [FRESH KILLS] on Staten Island. I'm not sure thats how its spelled but I know thats what they said "FRESHKILLS" just salt on the would. Does anyone know how much time they spent looking into Pear Harbor? I don't like the label [truther] it should be [The Avengers] in search of the truth... Someday?
What you believe too be true, is true too you...
Ironman01 ...you wrote
"I will not be visiting your conspiracy debunked thread , because you can't debunk what I've research for years..."
So you are convinced, case closed, no open mind, nothing can change you.
All that work for nothing! You see, you put up a video, I debunk a "fact" in the first 1 minute of that film, and ...... nothing from you.
This is the problem of the "Convinced". So let me ask you, is not your "years of research" open to challenge? Are we not allowed to 2nd guess and question your "facts" ? If not, then why should anyone bother listening to you?
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
PS, I agree that 2800 plus soldiers have died for the lie of WMD's. That 9/11 was the convienet excuse to invade saddam is true as well. 60 minutes interviewed Paul Oneil I believe, on this fact. There seems to be plenty of sources to cooberate this as true.
No Like I said , Ive been
No Like I said , Ive been researching for years...Ever since I saw our so call President sitting in that class room for almost an hour after he heard what happen that day on 9-11....So don't tell me my mind is close,I look at the Pro's and con's along time ago and indeed kept an open mind about it....But no one could explain a lot of the shit I've seen while researching this topic not even you Treg, sorry but you did not do a good job debunking anything ..That first video I posted ,"well"!, we really don't know what George Bush is referring to, so I don't trust that either(building exploding under people so they can't escape) sound a little like 9-11....I'll let that one go ....., See I have an open mind, but that does'nt mean I will take what you say as gosple truth..Or any other debunker in that case.
I'm not trying to have people listening to me...All I'm trying to do is show people there is strange things about 9-11, for example Norad and dick cheney order to call off jets to intercept those planes, or why G.W.B was sitting in that class room for so long, and why he claims he saw the first plane hitting the tower on the news when the news only had the second plane on video, and tell me why all the CCTV camera at the Pentagon was not working that day, and how a novice pilot steer that large plane through the front door of the Pentagon, also Treg why is it that a news reporter found bin Laden in the middle of bumble f@#K and our own Gov. said they cant find him, (H'mmm!!!!), and building 7 came straight down ,I'm sorry you can't debunk that one....The plane that crash in P.A had no bodies found and the weckages,"None"!!!,just little pieces thats it, no bigger then a phone book..I could go on and on, but it late and it is you that has a close mind... so i'm not going to waste my time...
See this video make a lot of sense,keep an open mind Treg when watching it.
http://video.google.com/v...
"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."
True believers, misleading people because it feels good.
Well Iron-man01, I probably "don't do a good job debunking anything" because you refuse to read and watch and listen .....as you said yourself, you won't go to my debunking site, hence how can I to do a "good job" if you won't even go there?
Your first video has the archetic of the WTC quoted as saying the buildings where built to with stand plane hits of a 707. That one sentance is true. BUT, the movie used him, his authority, and his qoute as something to back THEIR claim that the buildings Could Not fall because it was designed to take plane hits.
As I said, context is everything. I may review a movie and say, "I can't believe they spent $9 million making this movie. It sucks Big Time" and the movie promoters quote me saying, "Big Time $9million dollar movie!" , but would you call that Misleading? Would you call that HONEST?
So Iron-man01, I researched him for you, found out what the WTC archetect really said and thought about 9/11. I put his words in context, gave you the full quotes and link to his 2002 essay. Fact, he is not a 9/11 truther. Fact, he did not say that the building COULD NOT have came down because of plane hits to the building. Indeed, they certainly COULD HAVE.
Now, where is YOUR simple honesty to saying, you know, you are right, those filmakers stretched the truth, they made it seem as if he was on the side of the argument that the video was making, they used his authority, they took him out of context. WHERE IS YOUR HONESTY SIR, on saying, you know, you are right and thank you for pointing this ONE thing out to me.
SO, fact ONE is debunked. Why should I or ANYONE bother with fact two, three, four, five, or a thousand other facts that your 9/11 truthers all string together, IF, you can't at the very least, admit just ONE fact is no longer, a "fact" in your quiver?
For everyone reading this, take note. When one fact after another is UNCOMFORTABLY challenged and removed from the table, what else is left?
Your hatred for big government and distrust of it, certainly. But the 9/11 truth conspiracy is all smoke and mirrors.
Look, even left wing Noam Chompsky does not fall for it, and millions of his leftist followers are SHOCKED and MAD at himf for not jumping on board. Look there is libertarian Penn & Teller, two Magicians who certainly know when a Trick is being Played on them or not.... they are used to doing "slieght of hand" work, heck that is how they make their living. Then there is Dr. Ron Paul himself, not a Truther, does not buy into a conspiracy.... but certainly would like a new investigation to see who BUNGLED it all: read Dick Cheney, Condi, and GW BUSH.
When we hang our hats on "evidence" that is NOT evidence, then we are being mislead or allowing ourselves to be mislead -- probably because it feels good.
I am a long time libertarian since 1979, so I hate and mistrust big govt. But I am no 9/11 Truther, and I look hard into the claims by JBS and Alex Jones types. They come up short..... long on fear and speculation, short on facts.
Go to my thread, read the debunking conspiracies sites. Its uncomfortable, yes I will agree with that. But its better to have your feet on the ground of reality and evidence, than to be going off have crazed because it Feels good. Don't be like Iron-man01, a true believer who is 100% convinced. So closed that he on the one hand, tells me to look at yet another video, but will not go to look at mine.
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
Asking George Bush to appoint an independent investigation...
...of 9/11 is like asking Hitler to appoint an independent investigation of the Holocaust. The magnitude of the crime warrants a much greater investigation then it received, and should be a truly independent investigation. Just the fact that evidence was destroyed so quickly should raise concern. This evidence should have been preserved for many years, this will be one of the most studied cases for the next century at least. That is normal procedure in all murder cases, preservation of evidence. This was the largest mass murder in the history of this country, yet evidence was destroyed.
Who are the liars? 9/11Truthers?
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
On the contrary........
Ladies and Gentleman these are the real liars.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."
I like John Stewart. (Ironman01)
Just who is he talking about? He is talking about the administration and the neocons who support them and the MSM which goes along with the War propaganda.
So, how in anyway does this address my response to your video that YOU ASKED to be explained?
I took the time to explain to you about your video that has you convinced. I researched it for you and explained it at length. I choose the first "fact" in the first minute of the video on the designer of the WTC and what he said and DID NOT SAY, I put his statements in CONTEXT, something your precious video did not do, and I laid it all out for you.
A thank you is I think, in order, EVEN if you disagree. I am trying to reach your rational mind you see.
YET, what I get from you is that you are going to place your hands over your ears, and close your eyes to my Conspiracy Debunking Thread.....why? Because you are simply "convinced" of your "years of research". Well if you were HONESTLY researching you would want to know if your facts are holding up, or if you and many others are being played, punk'd, duped into supporting a Conspiracy for the financial benefit of the makers of the Conspiracy Theories. They get you, (and Me initially) by appealing to our already strong inclination not to Trust the MSM, the Govt, and various authority figures because we have see through other lies, (WMD's) well ahead of time. But don't let this be YOU. Keep a rational mind.
"Trust, but verify" as Ronald Reagan once said.
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
In Peace & Liberty.
Nothing!!!, just commenting
Nothing!!!, just commenting on your Truthers are Liars post, thats all..
I don't need to thank you for pointing anything out,,(I had an open mind )
you should thank me.
"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."
Get a life.
These are highly credible people that know the official story is a fantasy.
Real Patriots for 9/11 truth -- http://patriotsquestion91...
Get a life.
These are highly credible people that know the official story is a fantasy.
130+ Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials
490+ Engineers and Architects
120+ Pilots and Aviation Professionals
260+ Professors
Real Patriots for 9/11 truth -- http://patriotsquestion91...
Not possible
110 stories of steel building (world trade buildings 1 & 2 ) fell and as each story fell on the next if it took 1second for the pressure of the upper floors to bust the next floor causing it to fall, the time elapsed for the whole building to fall would have 110 seconds.
If it were to take 1/2 second to cause the next floor to collapse it would have collapsed in 55 seconds.
And we all know it took less than 11 seconds to collapse the entire building.
It was impossible for all the steel welding to be so softened as to allow it to collapsed so fast. It had to be demolished by explosives.
Liberty is our campaigns gift to the world it is our manifest destiny.
Freedom is a movement who's time has come. Our campaign will lead to world wide freedom.
This explains something most of us wonder about "(off subject)" www.ourcaucus.com
Roben, your reasoning is suspect, and most likely incorrect
Poke around here inside this Thread to find out why it may be so....
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
Dreg
The only thing suspect is you. No, that not an ad hominem, that's fact.
I suggest you change your tag to the more appropriate:
In War & Tyranny,
Dreg
Erm
Please explain how this supports the idea of a controlled demolition?
You're arguing that the floors would slow the fall of the top half of the building. Why would there being an explosive remove the laws of physics you're citing?
Your claim is that each floor is going to add half a second to the time, and using this as a mathematical justification for the use of explosives, except even with explosives, those floors are still there.
Unless you're arguing that each floor had perfectly timed explosives that went off before the tower fell, which doesn't seem plausible, I can't see how this would do anything towards proving your point?
Where are you getting this strange data that it would take a second or a half a second to push the air out of the rooms in the floors below? I really hope you're not building straw man arguments here. We're talking a ton of weight falling, given an entire rooms worth of time to accelerate directly downward here. I don't see the argument for how this particular "fact" would explain how the towers fell so fast.
Eric Hoffer
No doubt you like Steven Jones?
What about that "Physicist" Steven Jones?
Well lets check him out?
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
How about Alex Jones?
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
How about those Loose Change guys? Who are they?
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
With all due respect, these
With all due respect, these are examples of straw men. You see, you have stereotyped a group and believe them to rely on these few people for their data. While it is possible that many "truthers" do listen to these people, it is irrelevant to the question of what actually happened on 9/11.
A cursory examination of the official story reveals contradictions that cannot be remedied. Some of these include the falsities told by top officials as to their whereabouts, including even Cheney.
If you would dismount your high horse of pretended "reason" and step onto the solid ground of reality and evidence, you might develop an entirely different picture. Tell me, for example, how a lumbering commuter jet could be piloted so precisely by a man unable to fly a tiny single engine cessna, through the best protected airspace in the country (possibly the world), over an hour after the military was on high alert. And how could this amazing pilot disable the Pentagon's anti aircraft systems? If you believe the official story, you have literally 100's of questions that you need to answer. Bush's Commission certainly refused to answer them, and the victims' families decried the failure of the commission to respond to the majority of their questions.
Time to swallow your pride and start thinking objectively.
Ok I will "dismount" freedomfan08.
But would you keep your "facts" under suspicion? Make sure 100% they indeed are facts. Please poke around my thread here and see if you are indeed on "solid ground of reality and evidence".
If we both try to get there, I sure we could shake hands when we find solid ground of reality and evidence. That is certainly the place that I wish to be.
SO.... if I don't see you standing next to me, I am concerned for my fellow RP patriot.---as you should be concerned for me too.
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
OK, let's say we fall for the official story...
even though so much of it makes no sense.
How come no one got fired for their actions on that day?
Or for their lack of action?
$40 billion spent on defense, and box-cutter wielding men from caves in Afghanistan did this?
Where is the accountability from our defense dept?
wpsmithjr
All good and valid question. We should be demanding that head roll for 9/11. First up should be Bush and then Cheney and then Rice and then... Oh this is getting exciting.
For more on why 9/11 truthers may actually have it wrong... go here
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
9/11 questions
I am neither a "truther" nor an anti-"truther", but I do wonder about something in the light of theories that the government actually planned the Sept. 11 attacks, planted thermite charges to bring the buildings down, etc.
If the goal was to cause major chaos, shock and death (as clearly, if the event was orchestrated by the government, they were unruffled by causing massive civilian deaths), wouldn't it have been to their advantage to NOT have the buildings fall straight down, into their own footprints, but to topple over sideways, knocking down other buildings and causing even greater damage? Why go to all the trouble of supposedly planting bombs and thermite charges, that would have had to go off in a closely-timed sequence, when you could make the buildings fall sideways and create even more havoc?
This brings up another question that I have never heard addressed: Would it have been physically possible for the two towers to have fallen any other way? Given that they were going to fail, is it possible that they could ONLY have fallen as they did?
I welcome any responses to these questions.
My "guess" on that
would be that they felt the WTC would be plenty enough "shock and awe" and keeping it all right there was easier to contain control of the area and all the subsequent hiding and disposing of the evidence. Also minimized the number of people seeing anything after the fact. The way out of Silverstein's problem of the billion dollar repair costs is what got them the green light to use those buildings, and Silverstein took out the "terrorist insurance policy" 2 months prior to the job.. Marvin Bush ran the security for the complex, so that handled any requirement for access to plant the charges in advance.
Just my 2 cents on the subject.
Control,and disposal of the crime scene is a damn good "guess"
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That's my one question...
People talk...People always talk..I don't know how many individuals were needed to plant charges on buildings that size....but you'd think somebody would've opened their mouth by now.
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How many people...
could you keep silent with the $2.3 trillion dollars that was reported missing the day before 9/11?
Let's see, that's 2300 new billionaires.
Not saying that's what happened, but I'd shut my mouth for a cool billion.
Where do you get this that $2.3 trillion is missing?
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
In Peace & Liberty,
Treg
Interestingly enough
That whole issue fell to the wayside very quickly too afterwards. I guess we have so much money why investigate where a few missing trillion went.
If you add the 1 trillion...
that was reported missing in 2000, and the over 1 trillion reported missing a couple of years later (2003 I think), that's over $4 trillion missing.
That could pay down almost half of our national debt.
Why are we not in the streets rioting?
I don't know.
Close to 100,000 people were involved with the manhattan project
They kept it secret for a long time.
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Ventura/Paul 2008
http://www.gopeti
And how many people...
worked on the B-2 bomber? No one knew it existed until they unveiled it in 1988. All the ufo people who had seen triangular craft suddenly had an explaination.
Fear is a deterrent
if this actually did take place. It could be threats, money, hitmen and thugs who seem to be all over the world now. I don't know if this has been brought up before, but the towers were on powerdown the weekend before. Outside technicians were brought in and had full access to the buildings and those that were working there were given a weeks notice. According to an English man working there a powerdown had never happened there before.
Something interesting:
I have a relative who does Oracle implementations for international corporations, Oracle is like complete integrated computer systems for all aspects of running a company.
This guy tells the biggest corporations in the world what his price is going to be, and they pay it, so he's rich.
Anyway, I guess he was in the towers like a week before 911 for business.
Obviously he could have likely had absolutely nothing to do with the people who demolished the place, but now I have myself imagining...
The powerdown
was for the entire weekend before 9/11. All computers, data banks, security cameras were down. The outside technicians came in with huge rolling tool boxes. You can watch youtube "9/11 coincidences part 9". It has other things on it too.
What makes you think
that anybody even saw anything?
How many people are even in the building between let's say midnight at 5am, for months on end prior to 9/11?
And if they were in the building, they would be in their office most of the time anyway, and wouldn't see anything, or even think anything was up if they did see some workmen in the building.
My guess is minimal damage.
If the building toppled over sideways,and took down other buildings,then other insurance agencies would be questioning the events more than they did.
Get rid of the asbestos filled buildings for cheap,and replace a few windows etc..
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Jesse Ventura
Ventura/Paul 2008
http://www.gopeti
The other buildings did not need a billion dollars of repair.
The towers were in need of asbestos removal, and the estimate was a billion dollars. For a $15 million investment, Silverstein is making $7 billion in return, and can build much better buildings, instead of shelling out money to fix money pits. Why ruin perfectly good property for no reason? The neutron bomb is designed to destroy life, not property. Property good, life bad.
Good question about the buildings ability to fall any other way besides the way they did. Not an expert, so won't give an opinion. Trying to have an open mind, but having been lied to repeatedly by our government since I was old enough to read and reason for myself, it is difficult to be fair and impartial. I would like a truly Independent investigation.
Top 10 Reasons for a New 9/11 Investigation
Here's my column from 9/11/2007 on the topic:
The Top 10 Reasons for a New 9/11 Investigation
http://www.strike-the-roo...
My #1 reason?
1) Use of 9/11 to enable tyranny
Was 9/11 a set of false flag attacks, designed to help the Bush administration gain police-state powers and to create support for aggressive war in the Middle East ?
That is certainly possible. Bush was planning to attack both Afghanistan and Iraq before 9/11, and he attacked Iraq despite knowing Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction.
Either way, the 9/11 attacks have been used, very successfully, as cover for tyranny and aggressive war.
Bush was looking for a way to invade
the Middle East BEFORE 9/11. And the Patriot Act was planned BEFORE 9/11. These facts have been well documented.
People. It's beyond obvious....
makes no sense
If 9/11 was an inside job whose purpose was to justify attacking Iraq, why wouldn't they make it look like some Iraqis were involved with the hijacking?
They can plan the murder of thousands and demolition buildings with explosives without leaving any evidence of the use of explosives, yet they can't frame a couple of Iraqis? Please.
Afghanistan was first on their list...
Then Iraq.
They knew after 9/11, they could get away with anything.
you're wasting your time wpsmithjr, he is only here to argue
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Bingo.
The war on your mind -- http://www.youtube.com/wa...
Real Patriots for 9/11 truth -- http://patriotsquestion91...
If we can't vote for Dr. Paul consider a vote for Constitutional Freedom, consider Chuck Baldwin -- http://baldwin2008.com
Read the column linked above; plus --
Here are four links (see bottom of this response) that give compelling evidence that thermite or the like was used to bring down the buildings. There's lots more available; all you have to do is poke around to find it.
As for your first question: the US gov (and the Bush family) has had close ties with the Saudis for years; this certainly suggests one reason why the hijackers were Saudis yet we attacked ANOTHER COUNTRY ENTIRELY after the terrorist events.
Also, as I point out in the column:
Our Constitution, our history, and international law all suggest that our response to the 9/11 attacks has been wrong and, once again, outright criminal – even aside from our systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions regarding torture. Furthermore, there exists a remedy that would have likely succeeded at capturing, killing, or otherwise neutralizing our enemies without causing all the needless death, destruction, and other negative effects of our 'Preemptive War' approach.
That remedy, listed by name in Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, is the use of letters of marque and reprisal. Congressman (and now presidential candidate) Ron Paul introduced the Marque and Reprisal Act of 2001 to deal with the problem of the 9/11 attacks by specifically targeting only the people responsible, rather than going to war with nations that had not attacked us. Early administrations in U.S. history successfully used letters of marque and reprisal to deal with piracy. Paul's legislation was ignored in favor of our present, incredibly disastrous course of action. Why?
Below, those links I mentioned about how the towers were brought down (and remember, my #1 reason for a new investigation -- that "the 9/11 attacks have been used, very successfully, as cover for tyranny and aggressive war" -- remains valid whether this or any other element of the 9/11 Truth movement is accurate; it remains valid even if the Official Conspiracy Story is completely true) --
http://www.prisonplanet.c...
http://www.rense.com/gene...
http://www.whatreallyhapp...
http://current.com/items/...
Yes, the Onus of Proof is, in the end, on us.
Yes you are right the onus of proof is on the government to "make its case". Yet the government is sloppy. I would not trust them to be able to manufacture a cell phone let alone an honest investigation. I have yet to see the government prove much of anything...they seem great at whitewashing all investigations.
Hence, even though the onus of proof is on the government, we will die of old age waiting for this to happen... (see George Carlin)
Thus, as I see it, on the fence and in the stands on this issue, this is a very good battle going on between 9/11 truthers and 9/11 debunkers. A recent book is out to debunk the 9/11 debunkers. This is exactly what we need. The interplay between the two groups is or can vet the truth.
But we can speed this along.
We can do it our selves. We can fund a fully independent (nongovernment) and privately funded commission --made to investigate the whole thing.
Someone could post up a website stating the $$ goal to raise $10,000,000. At which point a large scientific and detective panel would be funded to do research and investigations and make an official report.
Thats the easy part.
The hard part is Who Controls the Money would Control who gets on the panel.
Therefore, to make sure that does not become an issue, we on both sides should make a master list of 500 investigators or so.
Once its agreed apon that this is the list of scientists, engineers, explosive experts, detectives, investigators, etc, then and only then do we start the Money Bomb to fund their time and effort to investigate.
Just a thought,
Treg
Somebody explain this video please!
WOW!!,The offical report said that planes hit WTC., not explosives..... Let's see what the Commander and chief had to say about it..(George Bush)
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."
Pay attention to context
He was describing some of the information about future potential terror plots. He was defending waterboarding as an acceptable means of enhanced interrogation, and one of the plots they "uncovered" was one of demolition of a large building using explosives.
He was not talking about 9/11, it was something the Khalid Mohammed described after being tortured.
O.K, I'll give you that one!
Here is one you can't explain
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."