Joe Dees wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:10:42 -0800
> >From: James Swayze <swayzej@earthlink.net>
> >To: extropians@extropy.com
> >Subject: Re: Waco Test Shows "OBVIOUS GUNFIRE"
> >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
> >
> The test actually works AGAINST the agent-firing hypothesis, as in the FLIR recreation, people are visible next to all the fired weapons, whereas in the original FLIR, no contiguous people are visible. Guns do not kill people unless other people are firing them, and such people being visible in EVERY instance of the "recreational" gunfire, but in NO instance of the original glints, the test results do not bode well for the contentions of the Branch Davidians' attorney that such glints represent gunfire.
Another reason why the people may show up in this footage and not in the original footage is that the ambient temperature and ground temperature on the day of the original incident were very close to human body temperature, while the recreation film was shot at temperatures of 69 degrees, a 30 degree difference. Additionally, there was not a fire going in the recreation to dampen the sensitivity of the FLIR at low temperatures. All of these factors, as well as the use of dyes and starches in clothing could
be contributing factors in why the people's bodies showed up in the recreation, but not the original incident.
-- TANSTAAFL!!!Michael S. Lorrey Owner, Lorrey Systems http://www.lorrey.com ArtLocate.Com http://www.artlocate.com Director, Grafton County Fish & Game Assoc. http://www.lorrey.com/gcfga/ Member, Extropy Institute http://www.extropy.org Member, National Rifle Association http://www.nra.org "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils." - General John Stark
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