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I was at ground zero in May. I think they did a good job with the memorial BTW (aside).
Not to prove anything but I did walk from the hole where the North Tower was to the block where building 7 once stood.
It's
a
long
way
away.
Just saying

junkmail says

Not to prove anything but I did walk from the hole where the North Tower was to the block where building 7 once stood.

It's

a

long

way

away.

Just saying

The twin towers were very tall buildings.

Heraclitusstudent says

Dozens of columns just happened to all be totally destroyed at the same exact instant.

As we have explained, it was not at the exact same instant. The video evidence proved that. Also, the columns were not independent. They were connected through the building, so their collapses were also not independent events.

Hater says

Collapse? Or explosion?

Obviously it's a collapse.

Hater says

I presume you must be joking now.

Hater says

I presume you get paid to act so obtuse?

I'm sorry. I presumed only someone playing a giant irony card would have felt able to post that image up, but I was a bit thrown by all your previous conspiracy type posts.

Wow... I go away for a few days and you all went nuts.

YesYNot says

As we have explained, it was not at the exact same instant.

Let's focus on the 3 top corners seen on many videos. Based on what would you say they didn't fall at the exact same moment?
Below is a frame from a video of the building after falling by about 10 floors, the shape of the building is still intact, but for a slight sagging in the middle. The corners appear still largely level.
But even 0.5 second difference at the start of the fall would translate in 11m difference in height after 2.5 seconds of free fall. This would be clearly visible. The front of the building would be torn but it isn't: you clearly see the floors, still largely horizontal.
So again based on what would you say they didn't fall at the exact same moment?

That isn't a slight sagging and I see you fail to mention the collapse of the penthouses. Try this on for size (the timing's obviously off as the person spliced two sections of film together):

www.youtube.com/embed/OUkvnfV606w

Rashomon says

That isn't a slight sagging and I see you fail to mention the collapse of the penthouses.

Irrelevant: first because we already established that we are talking of the exterior shell, and second, demolitions typically start from the inside to control the fall toward the inside. So the penthouses prove nothing either way.
The relevant fact remains the synchronicity of the collapse of the exterior shell, in particular for opposite corners.
A progressive collapse cannot explain this. And cannot explain either the sudden free fall. Free fall is what happens in absence of any structures below.
You guys still no explanation other than some kind of fluke.

Heraclitusstudent says

Irrelevant: first because we already established that we are talking of the exterior shell, and second, demolitions typically start from the inside to control the fall toward the inside. So the penthouses prove nothing either way.

The relevant fact remains the synchronicity of the collapse of the exterior shell, in particular for opposite corners.

A progressive collapse cannot explain this. And cannot explain either the sudden free fall. Free fall is what happens in absence of any structures below.

You guys still no explanation other than some kind of fluke.

Utter nonsense. Those internal collapses are integral to the process of the global collapse.

Hater says

Collapse or explosion?

Yep--it's quite fortunate that the planes decided to crash into the floors that were pre-wired for a demolition.

Heraclitusstudent says

Based on what would you say they didn't fall at the exact same moment?

The scale of that image of the building is huge. The scale of a beam getting sheared is small (6 to 12 inches of vertical, maybe). What appears about level is a 15 foot difference, and when things initially start to move, it takes a full second to start a freefall. That is shown by the high school physics teacher you referenced. So, there is plenty of room (time and space) for sequential shearing of beams.

So first off, not every conspiracy is a theory. Second many of these facts have been stated before, by American physicists, first responders, and other eye witnesses. Third, false flag attacks go as far back as Fort Sumter.

I think what we really need to know is what to call people who believe a story backed by no facts, simply because a central government says so. Fanatics? Governmentarians? Or how about brainwashed, uneducated(though highly indoctrinated), illogical, irrational, automatons.

oh seriously, go fuck off all you loser retards!

In the history of the world, there has never been an event that believing a conspiracy theory more clearly proves you are fucking dumb beyond worth of an opinion

This is it.

1. It was a controlled demolition.
Reasons this means you are fucking retarded:
A. Why bother with control? you're terrorists, knock the fucking thing sideways, take out multiple blocks in NY.
B. drilling and wiring controls for a controlled demolition would take thousands of hours, and expertise. That would have been noticed ,by say the 50,000 people working there.
C. If you want to blow it up, one bomb near a structural element downstairs would do it, and take it down near instantaneously, you know like a big truck...
D. If you are going to blow it up, why bother with the not exactly trivial problem of hijacking planes.
E. The plane crash actually allowed everyone on lower floors to escape. Why would you want that as a terrorist, blow it up all at once, and drop it! It would have killed 50,000.

2. Steel doesn't melt in a jet fuel fire.
Reasons this means you are fucking retarded:
A. Steel doesn't need to melt to lose structural strength. FFS, google the yield curve of structural steel. If you don't know what yield curve means, why the fuck are you commenting at all on this? you lack the requisite intelligence/engineering knowledge to have an opinion.
B. The design of the building had it's structural support near the outside. The plane crash alone cut many of the supports, meaning the remaining few were carrying more than their design load, and loads off to the side, which puts twisting/bending moments on a beam. Beams resist force 100 times better pushing down on the beam, then bending it. Take pencil, push it straight into the floor try to break it, then take the ends, and snap it in half, it this isn't intuitive to you.

Going to get coffee, this is just a start. There are few subjects in the world, that prove someone is stupid more than arguing 911 was something else.

Would the Gov ever reveal that strategic buildings have explosives built in for quick detonation and razing in case of attack?

truth will find you says

oh seriously, go fuck off all you loser retards!

In the history of the world, there has never been an event that believing a conspiracy theory more clearly proves you are fucking dumb beyond worth of an opinion

This is it.

Your small mind is apparently so rattled by the truth bitch-slapping you, that your English has become severely impaired, leaving your ranting barely comprehensible. Next time just stick with "Nu'uh, nu'uh!"

Oh nuttboxer, the fucking retard who thinks not buying in 2010 san diego, was smart, has an opinion! What a surprise that, as usual, and per your history on here, it is dumb as fuck!

truth will find you says

B. drilling and wiring controls for a controlled demolition would take thousands of hours, and expertise. That would have been noticed ,by say the 50,000 people working there.

http://yournewswire.com/911-tower-had-power-turned-off-for-36-hours-weekend-before-attack/

"A former data center worker who worked at one of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings before the 9/11 attacks has come forward with bombshell information that suggests explosives were planted in the buildings in the weeks prior to the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Scott Forbes was employed by Fiduciary Trust Company International, located on the 97th floor of the South Tower at the WTC complex. He says there were some very strange events in the weeks leading up to the attacks, including; a complete power down of the building for over 36 hours, and mysterious ‘engineers’ doing work in the building using spools of wire just days before the 9/11 attacks.

“The power down was on the Saturday and Sunday prior to 9/11, so that would have been the 8th and 9th of September,” Forbes said, who has never seen or heard of a similar occasion aside from the original bomb scare in 1993.

Forbes said the building was turned over by the New York Port Authority Saturday morning for the power down and was handed back over to the Port Authority some thirty hours later, leaving a massive security gap.

Forbes also said that he witnessed many people who looked like “engineers,” dressed in coveralls, carrying toolboxes and spools of wire who were coming and going during the blackout period....

...In a 2003 investigative report titled “Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United,” Margie Burns explains:

George W. Bush’s brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family....

...To this day the 9/11 Commission and the New York Port Authority deny the fact that the reported power down took place. The power down is likely one of the key elements being covered up by parties involved along with the actual disappearance of security tapes from the WTC complex."

NuttBoxer says

I think what we really need to know is what to call people who believe a story backed by no facts, simply because a central government says so

Do you have an example of such a story?

Indiana Jones says

"A former data center worker who worked at one of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings before the 9/11 attacks has come forward with bombshell information that suggests explosives were planted in the buildings in the weeks prior to the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Scott Forbes was employed by Fiduciary Trust Company International, located on the 97th floor of the South Tower at the WTC complex. He says there were some very strange events in the weeks leading up to the attacks, including; a complete power down of the building for over 36 hours, and mysterious ‘engineers’ doing work in the building using spools of wire just days before the 9/11 attacks.

“The power down was on the Saturday and Sunday prior to 9/11, so that would have been the 8th and 9th of September,” Forbes said, who has never seen or heard of a similar occasion aside from the original bomb scare in 1993.

Forbes said the building was turned over by the New York Port Authority Saturday mornin...

Awesome. So the theory is that the government was secretly working WITH Al Qaeda to fly the two planes into the WTC so that they could then set off the explosives and demolish the buildings! EUREKA!!!! You solved it.

I'm assuming the Pentagon was also a controlled demolition then too? It would almost have to be, right?

Or was that the cost of getting terrorists to blow up the WTC--allow them to also blow up the Pentagon? Collateral damage I guess. Acceptable losses to our Government.

Heraclitusstudent says

But even 0.5 second difference at the start of the fall would translate in 11m difference in height after 2.5 seconds of free fall. This would be clearly visible. The front of the building would be torn but it isn't: you clearly see the floors, still largely horizontal.

there are still elements connecting the building sides together. Once again, this is just fucking stupid.

Indiana fucktard, 200,000 people visited the world trade center daily, even on a weekend, likely 100,000+ That would have been on cnn, not just a memory from one person....

truth will find you says

Indiana fucktard,

Classy!

truth will find you says

Heraclitusstudent says

But even 0.5 second difference at the start of the fall would translate in 11m difference in height after 2.5 seconds of free fall. This would be clearly visible. The front of the building would be torn but it isn't: you clearly see the floors, still largely horizontal.

there are still elements connecting the building sides together. Once again, this is just fucking stupid.

What do you mean? That one side pulled down the other through an horizontal beam? Now THIS is fucking stupid.
Too many people here are ignorant of basic laws of mechanics to even understand what they are talking about.

Heraclitusstudent says

What do you mean? That one side pulled down the other through an horizontal beam? Now THIS is fucking stupid.

Too many people here are ignorant of basic laws of mechanics to even understand what they are talking about.

Yes, and the ignorant asshat is you.

Once again, as a terrorrist, the LAST THING, literally LAST THING you would invest time/money/planning into, would be a controlled demolition. Especially hours after another incident.

How fucking stupid are you? not a rhetorical question, your posts are indicating very very stupid!

truth will find you says

Once again, as a terrorrist, the LAST THING, literally LAST THING you would invest time/money/planning into, would be a controlled demolition. Especially hours after another incident.

Inside job, not terrorists. Duh.

truth will find you says

Once again, as a terrorrist, the LAST THING, literally LAST THING you would invest time/money/planning into, would be a controlled demolition. Especially hours after another incident.

Who said terrorists did it?
You make a judgement about what people would or would not do.
I make a judgement about what steel columns would or would not do.
Plenty of people do and say stupid things. That includes you. So...

Heraclitusstudent says

Who said terrorists did it?

You make a judgement about what people would or would not do.

I make a judgement about what steel columns would or would not do.

Plenty of people do and say stupid things. That includes you. So...

I'd say blowing up a building with people inside is terrorrists. you have another word?

IF you give any belief to this conspiracy stuff, then you are very fucking stupid. I am not. AND I actually do know my engineering, your posts indicate that yo don't.

truth will find you says

I actually do know my engineering, your posts indicate that yo don't.

Thank you for this brilliant engineering argument. You convinced me that 20 or so outer columns were all equally weakened by fire and simultaneously gave way and fell like stones.

Moron.

Heraclitusstudent says

You convinced me that 20 or so outer columns were all equally weakened by fire and simultaneously gave way and fell like stones.

It wasn't the outer columns that failed, it was the drooping floor beams separating from the columns that caused the collapse. Did you even read the official report?

astronut97 says

It wasn't the outer columns that failed, it was the drooping floor beams separating from the columns that caused the collapse. Did you even read the official report?

Thank you for that pearl. I now understand floor beams can all fall suddenly independently by separating from columns supporting them.
And the columns, well... they all suddenly and simultaneously turned to ether and fell vertically like rocks.
That clinches it.

Heraclitusstudent says

Thank you for that pearl. I now understand floor beams can all fall suddenly independently by separating from columns supporting them.

There aren't any floor beams genius. There were floor trusses. Floor trusses with many tons of concrete on them. Once a couple twist enough, something easily accomplished with the heat of an uncontrolled fire, to fail the rest can't support the additional weight. Once the trusses are gone nothing holds up the outer walls. Look at the video at comment 132. You can clearly see the floor trusses inside the building on the left side give away and go down internally before the outer walls collapse.

Why don't you go look up how the buildings were built so you can have some basic understanding of what you are talking about.

bob2356 says

There were floor trusses.

Whoops, that's what I meant to say, trusses not beams.

Heraclitusstudent says

And the columns, well... they all suddenly and simultaneously turned to ether and fell vertically like rocks.

No, some of them didn't initially fall at all. There is a video out there showing some outer columns still standing (about 20-30 stories of them) for a few minutes.

Heraclitusstudent says

Thank you for this brilliant engineering argument. You convinced me that 20 or so outer columns were all equally weakened by fire and simultaneously gave way and fell like stones.

Moron.

Funny, YOU judging my intelligence with the reams of stupid shit you've written here.

I've decided to steal an old ladie's purse tonight. I have two choices:

1. go out dressed in a hoodie hiding my face, park somewhere discreet, look for an old lady a few blocks away, grab her purse and run.

2. Convince arab terrorists to hijack a plane, crash it in a public place, with a resulting firebomb startling birds from a tree that will fly into an old ladies face, in the confusion, she will drop her purse, and I will pick it up and run away.

SIMPLE logic dictates which one is believable above, and on 911. Simple logic that eludes a seeming neverending list of dumbfucks on here.

bob2356 says

Once a couple twist enough, something easily accomplished with the heat of an uncontrolled fire, to fail the rest can't support the additional weight. Once the trusses are gone nothing holds up the outer walls. Look at the video at comment 132.

Yep, and there is a chain reaction of dominos falling, pushing and pulling other parts. At the end of that hidden progression inside the building, the dozens of outer shell columns - so far intact and still supporting the shell - are all suddenly destroyed at the same instant and start to free fall.
Got it. Thanks!

Once the trusses are gone nothing holds up the outer walls.

Oops sorry... did you say trusses held the outer walls? Then all trusses around the building must have failed at the same instant. Very bizarre.
But it must be true because we are told so.

truth will find you says

I've decided to steal an old ladie's purse tonight. I have two choices:

1. go out dressed in a hoodie hiding my face, park somewhere discreet, look for an old lady a few blocks away, grab her purse and run.

2. Convince arab terrorists to hijack a plane, crash it in a public place, with a resulting firebomb startling birds from a tree that will fly into an old ladies face, in the confusion, she will drop her purse, and I will pick it up and run away.

SIMPLE logic dictates which one is believable above, and on 911.

You are trying to judge human actions while knowing very little about who they were, what they were trying to accomplish, directly and indirectly.
Do people do bizarre things? Do government do stupid things? Do government lie and try to manipulate people? We know they do.
How hard would it be for example for a few people to look the other way just enough to let Al Qaeda's plot succeed?

Not knowing anything outside the absolute surface of facts, you judge based on your "simple logic" - rather than the available physical evidence. I say you're more like Fox Mulder: You want to believe. Except of course in the docile sheep kind of way.
And of course you assume anyone who disagree with you must be stupid.
Every idiot thinks that way.

Heraclitusstudent says

Oops sorry... did you say trusses held the outer walls? Then all trusses around the building must have failed at the same instant. Very bizarre.

Again, have you actually read the official report ... and understood it?

astronut97 says

Again, have you actually read the official report ... and understood it?

He didn't look at the official report at all or otherwise he would have known only WTC1&2 used truss construction. WTC7 was tube construction, but used floor beams instead of trusses. I just threw that out to see if he knew anything about what he was talking about. Obviously not. Thermal expansion of the floor beams is what the official report says caused the structural failure.

I would say WTC7 actually did pretty damn well. It was designed to withstand 3 hours of uncontrolled fire (see NYC building codes revision 1968 paragraph 2b) with no sprinklers (the water mains were destroyed by the collapse of 1&2 so there was no water to fight the fire) and managed to stand for over 7.

Of course we all know that those 7 hours were spent with a team of crack military people running in and out of the building ripping out the walls to pack thermite (it takes 100lbs of thermite to destroy a beam the size used in WTC7) around the beams without any one of the thousands of people on the scene seeing them at all. Running through active blazing fires with explosives, planting the explosives, while somehow keeping the fire from damaging the explosives and detonators for as long as it took to get them all in place. Obviously the military has a secret soldier cloaking device to go along with their secret thermite explosives. Plus everyone involved has managed to keep it a total secret for 15 years now. Pretty amazing, considering the president can't get a blowjob and keep it a secret.

I love conspiracy nuts. Na,Na,Na you can't prove it didn't happen so it must be true no matter how stupid it sounds.