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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The enclosed server racks were locked and the only people who could open them were employees of the Shimizu Corp., he said. Didn’t the host of NIST scientists think that was worthy of mention?

No, why would they? That's absolutely normal for any sort of serious corporation or business that has a lot of important servers. Even the six-man IT company I used to work for kept the server room locked when not in use.

You might as well say that NIST should have mentioned that they had a coffee machine and low-fat milk.

They either did not know that the 81st floor was full of “battery-looking things” or decided not to mention it. How odd.

How astonishing! A company with hundreds of servers had put them on UPSes to provide emergency backup power! Them and about a million other companies.

You're not making a very strong case for a conspiracy by someone other than Osama bin Laden by pointing at absolutely normal business activity as if it were a sign of some dastardly malfeasance. Servers under lock and key! UPSes! A coffee machine! Some of the offices had white boards!!!

UPSes are heavy as fuck. They contain lead-acid batteries, like in your car. They are much, much heavier than thermite, which is usually made of a mixture of aluminium and iron-oxide. Having to reinforce the floor of an office that uses lots of heavy servers and lots of heavy batteries is perfectly normal.

I'd like to keep an open mind, but if this is the best evidence you have, it's pretty slim stuff.