The NIST's latest explanation of the WTC7 collapse is so farcical that one has to believe the theory is being promulgated by people inside NIST who are "signaling" to the public by the lameness of this hypothesis that NIST has been hamstrung on this issue by government pressure.

Been looking at the latest color photos of alleged bigfoot. That could just as easily be a partly decomposed Gorilla. These guys could claim to have "found" it, and after milking the hoopla for all its worth as being a bigfoot then plead innocent of any participation in a fraud because they were fooled as well.

Also: Gorilla Haven in Morganton, GA.
http://www.gorilla-haven.org/

In honor of the Grail's having the courage to post an article as dangerous as the anthrax posting authored by "Allie" I have just made a $25.00 contribution. Thank you TDG.

That looks very much like the blond phase of the Gibbon Ape. The white ring of hair around the face is exactly right. So is the apparent size of the animal. I used to have one of these as a pet back in the 1960's. They can run on their hind legs for brief stretches. I bet this an escaped Gibbon Ape.

Bo Long

Hawkins recent exhalations about UFO's being the province of wackos reminds me of how many physicists I personally know whose reputed love for hard science and data suddenly evaporates when looking into the subject of UFO's. Many of the most diehard and mouthy skeptics haven't looked very deeply into the data at all. Essentially they find the subject threatening to their typically giant (read childish) egos which might crumble when confronted with the idea that there might exist a species of intelligence vastly ahead of us in scientific knowledge, so they just ignore the research which doesn't prevent them from holding forth on the topic anyway.
Not to cruelly generalize about scientists, but many of the best are ridiculously childish especially emotionally which means that they tend to wall off huge swaths of reality as a defense mechanism, and is probably what makes them so good at focusing on specific tasks. They don't call MIT "Aspergers U." for nothing.
Bo Long