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Animal

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  1. Create some crazy dance moves? Why would I need to be able to rotate any joint all the way around and back to where the limb, or whatever, was originally? I'm not trying to be an ass, I just can't come up with a reason why.. unless of course we were a species that evolved and adapted to an environment similar to the inside of a suitcase.
  2. I believe the building came down hours later on purpose because so much damage had been done by the fires in the lower levels. If it was a controlled demolition.. so what? Do you want to believe George Bush was behind all of it? Do you even know why you're so upset? I don't. Unfortunately it does seem that money may have helped Silverstein make a decision on pulling building 7 though.. From Wikipedia: Larry Silverstein, backed by a number of investors, signed a 99-year lease for the World Trade Center complex just seven weeks before it was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The deal was described in a press release on July 24th, 2001, as: "Silverstein Properties, Inc., and Westfield America, Inc. will lease the Twin Towers and other portions of the complex in a deal worth approximately $3.2 billion – the city's richest real estate deal ever and one of the largest privatization initiatives in history.[1]" The lease agreement applied to World Trade Center Buildings One, Two, Four and Five World Trade Center, and about 425,000 square feet of retail space. Silverstein put up only $14 million of his own money [2] and the $3.2 billion deal closed on July 24th. Larry Silverstein already owned 7 World Trade Center which was also destroyed in the attack. Following the attacks, Silverstein was awarded an insurance payment of more than three and a half billion dollars to settle his seven-week-old insurance policy[3]. In addition, the Silverstein group sued the insurers liable for the World Trade Center for another three and a half billion dollars, claiming that by an obscure clause in their contract, the two planes constituted two separate terrorist attacks[4]. In total, Silverstein was awarded nearly $5 billion in insurance money following the destruction of the Twin Towers[5]. In March 2006, during talks about the future of the World Trade Center site and the division of roles in the re-development for the Port Authority and Silverstein, New York State officials charged that Silverstein's greed was responsible for the breakdown in talks just minutes before a midnight deadline[6]. The Port Authority described Silverstein’s last-minute proposal as “outrageous,” and more: "'It was clearly an indication of the greed involved and not really in the public interest," said Port Authority Vice Chairman Charles Gargano. "This is not a traditional real estate project. This is a project where thousands of people lost their lives. This was an attack on New York City and America, and we expect Larry Silverstein and his group to understand the importance of this public project.'" A spokesman for Silverstein said that he was willing to negotiate at any time, and saw the deadlock as temporary.
  3. Mercury "Very toxic and dangerous." ?
  4. Hey everybody. Uhh, my name's Hunter. I'm a college student. I like science. That's me and my dog, Z.
  5. I grew up in church and in a christian family (two pastors for uncles..) and I don't know how many times I heard that crap about how it's more likely for a tornado to pass over a junk yard and spit out a 747 than it is for life to begin spontanteously. (which I think is stupid because Creation is nothing more than spontaneous generation plus bit of magic) Argh! At least spontaneous generation and evolution is probable. What about the likelyhood that humans were formed from mud and God's breath? I want to see those numbers.
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