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newton
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 10 2006, 07:19 PM)
QUOTE (yesitdid+Mar 10 2006, 06:59 PM)
Helloe all, I see that nothing has changed since I was last here. I had to attend an emergency meeting of sorts and have been away for a few days.

Seems to be close to 100 pages since I last read this thread. However I don't believe that I missed anything. Last I looked there was a new wrinkle in that some were attemting to change the design of the towers to solid concrete core walls.


Riiiight,, and a holograph plane actually covered for the bombs planted in the towers too.

You didn't. For instance Christopher is looking expecting to see buckling through the debris cloud. blink.gif He insist the core had concrete around it when even the other CTers have pointed out evidence to the contrary.

you REALLY have to get the idea out of your head that 'CTs' agree on avery single aspect, or that they even need to.
you see, the whole reason we're 'CTs' in the beginning, is because we're not into GROUPTHINK

we all agree on the most important thing. the towers were demolished. the exact how, why and who is still not nailed down, although the admin is obviously complicit, as is arsoNIST and the 911 Ommission.
adoucette
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 03:53 PM)
you REALLY have to get the idea out of your head that 'CTs' agree on avery single aspect, or that they even need to.
you see, the whole reason we're 'CTs' in the beginning, is because we're not into GROUPTHINK

we all agree on the most important thing. the towers were demolished. the exact how, why and who is still not nailed down, although the admin is obviously complicit, as is arsoNIST and the 911 Ommission.

You are not into THINKING at all.

Your list of the "complicit" doesn't stop there:

For your theories to hold up you need to add in FEMA, NYFD, NYPD, Gov and Mayor of NY, NORAD, FAA, Insurance Companies, Silverstein etc etc etc.

Arthur
Commen sense
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 07:53 PM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 10 2006, 07:19 PM)
QUOTE (yesitdid+Mar 10 2006, 06:59 PM)
Helloe all, I see that nothing has changed since I was last here. I had to attend an emergency meeting of sorts and have been away for a few days.

Seems to be close to 100 pages since I last read this thread. However I don't believe that I missed anything. Last I looked there was a new wrinkle in that some were attemting to change the design of the towers to solid concrete core walls.


Riiiight,, and a holograph plane actually covered for the bombs planted in the towers too.

You didn't. For instance Christopher is looking expecting to see buckling through the debris cloud. blink.gif He insist the core had concrete around it when even the other CTers have pointed out evidence to the contrary.

you REALLY have to get the idea out of your head that 'CTs' agree on avery single aspect, or that they even need to.
you see, the whole reason we're 'CTs' in the beginning, is because we're not into GROUPTHINK

we all agree on the most important thing. the towers were demolished. the exact how, why and who is still not nailed down, although the admin is obviously complicit, as is arsoNIST and the 911 Ommission.

I never said every CT must agree on everything. I don't know where you got that from. I'm only pointing out even people who you say they aren't into "GROUPTHINK" don't believe the core has concrete. Nothing in my post suggest every CTer agrees on everything. I have disagreed with people on my side aswell.

PS: Just because you have a minority view doesn't mean you aren't groupthinking.
Gary
QUOTE (a_ht+Oct 6 2005, 04:28 PM)
I am not an Israely information agent, and I take offense.

I work at the American society of civil engineer, an office which contributed massively at the NIST report. I work at the public relation department, so if I seem angry when I post, its because my *** is on the line; they want to shut down our department because of people like you who oppose the official version. Politicians don't want another scandal.

A ht,

I then presume you are aware that The NIST modified the results of the computer models to achieve the "proper" result?


NIST contracted with Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. to conduct tests to obtain information on the fire endurance of trusses like those in the WTC towers…. All four test specimens sustained the maximum design load for approximately 2 hours without collapsing… The Investigation Team was cautious about using these results directly in the formulation of collapse hypotheses. In addition to the scaling issues raised by the test results, the fires in the towers on September 11, and the resulting exposure of the floor systems, were substantially different from the conditions in the test furnaces. Nonetheless, the [empirical test] results established that this type of assembly was capable of sustaining a large gravity load, without collapsing, for a substantial period of time relative to the duration of the fires in any given location on September 11. (NIST, 2005, p. 141;)

The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower. For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the "probable collapse sequence," although it does not actually include the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached...(NIST, 2005, p. 80, fn. 12;)

“the pulling forces on the perimeter columns by the sagging floors were adjusted” (NIST, 2005, p. 142;)

To the extent that the simulations deviated from the photographic evidence or eyewitness reports [e.g., complete collapse occurred], the investigators adjusted the input, but only within the range of physical reality. Thus, for instance,…the pulling forces on the perimeter columns by the sagging floors were adjusted... (NIST, 2005, p. 142;)

-NIST determined that there was no evidence that any of the samples had reached temperatures above 600 ºC. (NIST, 2005, pp. 176-177;)
Christophera
Good logic, only hampered by the lack of definitive design configuration.

Gordon wrote
Alternatively and in the absence of that downward movement then the core would have protruded upwards by two and a half stories and interfered with or raised the hat truss and associated roof objects by that amount.

Yes, and the same would be true for WTC 1, although there was less load.

Gordon wrote
Logic would dictate that you are correct since initiation failure must affect the load bearing elements. The core was the main load bearing element and it is this area where any factors likely to initiate collapse had to be effective, rather than be limited only to effects upon the perimeter columns.

What I learned and remembered from that 1990 documentary, the perimeter walls took 50% of the gravity load, the interior box columns took 30% and the concrete core took 20%. The core was mostly there to keep the building from twisting. Steel structures of this size have inherent problems of flex, the engineer, Yamasaki, chose a steel reinforced concrete core in a rectangular tube configuration to deal with this and add a minimum of weight and a maximum of torsion resistance.

The documentary did say that after time is was anticipated that the settling of the steel structure might put up to 50% on the core, but that the core could handle that.

Meaning that after 35 years, the core was taking 1/2 the gravity load so shagsters point and your are well made. “What happened to the buckled wall and the core behind in the crumple zone of tower 2?” The steel core columns if the existed have to buckle or be cut. If they buckle inward the diagonal bracing that was supposed to be there would resist making perpendicular local buckling that would push out adjacent floors on the north side (see image above). As the descent advanced, the dimension outward would increase and the north face would deform as the upper north wall is inside the lower and no longer held by it in the photo. The north east corner of the core was undamaged as was the concrete shear wall on the north end, the narrow end of the core.

user posted image

The documentary actually went into the mysterious aspects of the core during construction. One was when forced evacuation of the floors took place unannounced, unplanned with serious economic impacts on concrete contractors. There was never any reason for this given other than “inspection”. Which didn’t figure then, or now, because building inspectors inspected everything already
The economic impact were so serious, the video stated, that the main contractor shut down the concrete work for a period of days and threatened a lawsuit. This, it was explained, triggered a re negotiation of the contract based on the port authorities now known agenda of secrecy, adding more mystery to the core in the documentary. The contractor was reimbursed and given enough of a schedule to be able to coordinate many crews movements across the towers through the hallways to accommodate the mysterious inspections.

I remember video of these migrations of workers through the hallways of the tower core with PA security standing in the hallway crossing while the crew ran across the core in single file. There was a stack of white 5 gallon buckets in the hall by the corner.

Phil Jayhan of Let’s Roll 9-11 remembers hearing about these evacuations and said so numerous time in his posts at the bb.

In thinking about my issue regarding the 47, 1,300 foot columns and the fact that if they existed, they had to be cut. Wherein the entire visual event MUST change from a relatively contained, continuous series of detonations producing low frequency booms, to one where there are a high speed series of very sharp, large “crack” spaced at distances over the 1,300 foot length of the supposed steel core columns in order for leaning, buckling core columns to NOT be seen in pictures of the towers demise. The below image should show those steel core columns if the existed. No one has ever given a decent explanation of why those columns are never seen.

user posted image

The necessity of cutting 47, 1,300 foot tempered steel columns is also applicable to the concrete core, because the 47 hand fabricated, tempered steel columns actually existed ringing the core, as far as I know from the 1990 documentary. Meaning I also need to show how that was done consistent with what I describe as the structure.

I’ve studied high explosives some and have experience with low density high explosives in construction blasting. My studies also included a perusal of demolition techniques associated with civilian work as well as military actions.
A shape charge is the only way to efficiently cut steel with high explosives, and they make a very sharp explosion. Then I thought about the floors and how they might be used to form an enhanced shape charge around the interior box columns because of the restraint of the concrete above a layer of C4 plastic explosive and the steel floor pan below it.

Keep in mind that the concrete over the explosive and the steel under it constrain and direct the explosive force into a narrow jet of gas capable of cutting 2 inches or so of tempered steel. This happens on 3 sides with lower columns and on 4 with upper columns as the tapered core wall gradually moved inward while the tower went up and the columns had to remain plumb so access to 4 sides was possible.

User posted image

The core was poured in 40 foot tiers. It was noted that there were inspection holes on each rebar randomly placed on the inside walls of the cast concrete core over each of the rebar so that conditions of corrosion could be monitored.

In 2002 on a bb called 9-11pi.com (now gone) someone stated that it was know that for a few weeks following the leasing of the towers that people trying to access lower floors had trouble getting elevators to their floors. They had to go above their floor then come down. This was explained as happening because of maintenance to the elevators required by the elevator company. Has anyone else heard this?

My point being that we have estimated 5 floors compressing on the east face of tower 2 that is close to 40 feet, one tier of concrete pour. If that one tier was detonated first on that side with 1/2 of the north and south faces horizontally, to initiate the beginning of the fall, 200 milliseconds after the floors detonated cutting the interior box columns, then the box columns and the beams connecting to the outer walls could into lower floors without having any deformations on the outside of the building, just as we see in the top image.
Christophera
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 10 2006, 08:25 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 07:53 PM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 10 2006, 07:19 PM)
QUOTE (yesitdid+Mar 10 2006, 06:59 PM)
Helloe all, I see that nothing has changed since I was last here. I had to attend an emergency meeting of sorts and have been away for a few days.

Seems to be close to 100 pages since I last read this thread. However I don't believe that I missed anything. Last I looked there was a new wrinkle in that some were attemting to change the design of the towers to solid concrete core walls.


Riiiight,, and a holograph plane actually covered for the bombs planted in the towers too.

You didn't. For instance Christopher is looking expecting to see buckling through the debris cloud. blink.gif He insist the core had concrete around it when even the other CTers have pointed out evidence to the contrary.

you REALLY have to get the idea out of your head that 'CTs' agree on avery single aspect, or that they even need to.
you see, the whole reason we're 'CTs' in the beginning, is because we're not into GROUPTHINK

we all agree on the most important thing. the towers were demolished. the exact how, why and who is still not nailed down, although the admin is obviously complicit, as is arsoNIST and the 911 Ommission.

I never said every CT must agree on everything. I don't know where you got that from. I'm only pointing out even people who you say they aren't into "GROUPTHINK" don't believe the core has concrete. Nothing in my post suggest every CTer agrees on everything. I have disagreed with people on my side aswell.

PS: Just because you have a minority view doesn't mean you aren't groupthinking.



QUOTE

For instance Christopher is looking expecting to see buckling through the debris cloud. blink.gif He insist the core had concrete around it when even the other CTers have pointed out evidence to the contrary.




To say I think the core had concrete around it misrepresents my position. Why do you do this, why are you here?

If anyone has posted raw evidence contrary to the core I have not seen it. If such exists, why haven't you posted it?

OpelGT73
QUOTE
If anyone has posted raw evidence contrary to the core I have not seen it. If such exists, why haven't you posted it?


Um how about this picture?

User posted image

I don't see any concrete there..... or any concrete pouring operation.... do you?


newton
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 08:08 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 03:53 PM)
you REALLY have to get the idea out of your head that 'CTs' agree on avery single aspect, or that they even need to.
you see, the whole reason we're 'CTs' in the beginning, is because we're not into GROUPTHINK

we all agree on the most important thing.  the towers were demolished.  the exact how, why and who is still not nailed down, although the admin is obviously complicit, as is arsoNIST and the 911 Ommission.

You are not into THINKING at all.

Your list of the "complicit" doesn't stop there:

For your theories to hold up you need to add in FEMA, NYFD, NYPD, Gov and Mayor of NY, NORAD, FAA, Insurance Companies, Silverstein etc etc etc.

Arthur

only key players. most of the soldiers in those armies 'just follow orders'.

there was a lot of chaos, that day, too.
where is your proof that every one with a firemen's outfit and gear was a real fireman, and not a mercenary? same goes for cops and, well, FEMA are mercenary already.

the insurance company has been implicated.
silverstian has been implicated.
the mayor has been implicated.
pataki? probably. don't know enough. i hate politics.

anthrax, anyone?
JamesX
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 08:57 PM)

anthrax, anyone?


Oh the arabs did the anthrax for sure, newton. Didn't you see the letters that came with them?

Very convincing stuff.

newton
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 07:38 PM)
QUOTE (Mel_Guest+Mar 10 2006, 02:07 PM)
Not if you were going to be 'in control' of the collapse.

Doesn't matter if it was collapsed by way of CD.

No one could have predicted what damage the plane would do and what impact that would have on the "control" aspect.

So, once it started downhill, no one would be "in control" of it.

As it was, WTC 7 took some pretty serious licks, it could just as easily been flattened by upwards of 50 stories of WTC 1 landing on top of it.

Arthur

so, the top fifty stories could just jump on over, eh?

sure. why not. lol.

i guess, then, you agree with me that it was a silly place to put an 'emergency command bunker'?
???
QUOTE
My point being that we have estimated 5 floors compressing on the east face of tower 2 that is close to 40 feet, one tier of concrete pour.


Not unless you are also questioning the height of each floor. The accepted height of each floor is 12.4 feet.

That makes 5 floors 62 feet, or if you accept 12 feet as a floor height then it is 60 feet. 150% greater than 40 feet.

40 feet is closer to 3.2 floors in height.
adoucette
QUOTE (newt+)
where is your proof that every one with a firemen's outfit and gear was a real fireman


TOO FUNNY.

Arthur
Commen sense
I just can't let christopher get away with this any more. Sorry, but he is now saying "My studies also included a perusal of demolition techniques associated with civilian work as well as military actions."

It appears he is blaming someone for hypnotizing him...

"Finally, it is important to understand that there is no scientific data, whatsoever, to support the notion that hypnosis could possibly involve telepathy."

User posted image

http://algoxy.com/psych/images/apabarabasz.jpg

Here Christopher asks Consumer Affairs to take some kind of action against native American people who hypnotize medical personnel...

"Your concerns about various medical professionals who have been influenced in their care of the public with post hypnotic suggestion administered by native American people.

User posted image

http://algoxy.com/psych/psyimages/conaffair.jpeg

It looks like he suggested hypnotizing people people under Nitrous Oxide.

User posted image

http://algoxy.com/psych/psyimages/confirmsbcomh.jpg

He wanted to hypnotize sex offenders and drug addicts...

User posted image

http://algoxy.com/psych/psyimages/foiarequestmh.gif

Here he wants the arrest and booking record of people going back 100 years. An observant senator didn't buy the reason.

User posted image

http://algoxy.com/psych/psyimages/oconnell.jpeg

I'm thinking he pretened to be a mental health professional. I'm thinking hes the one who needs help.

That he is now an expert in explosives is laughable.
adoucette
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 05:08 PM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 07:38 PM)
QUOTE (Mel_Guest+Mar 10 2006, 02:07 PM)
Not if you were going to be 'in control' of the collapse.

Doesn't matter if it was collapsed by way of CD.

No one could have predicted what damage the plane would do and what impact that would have on the "control" aspect.

So, once it started downhill, no one would be "in control" of it.

As it was, WTC 7 took some pretty serious licks, it could just as easily been flattened by upwards of 50 stories of WTC 1 landing on top of it.

Arthur

so, the top fifty stories could just jump on over, eh?

sure. why not. lol.

i guess, then, you agree with me that it was a silly place to put an 'emergency command bunker'?

So does this makes the NY contingent the ringleaders?

I mean this command bunker was finished in '99, thus planning started, oh '98 or so?

So they must have been planning ahead.

laugh.gif

Top 50 stories just Jump over?

No, think about it newt, you are in the 23rd floor of a 47 story building that stands a couple of hundred feet from a 110 story building that is going to be run into by a jet and then allowed to burn for an hour or so and then explosives will get set off to bring it down.

Do ANY of the possible outcomes involve you being squashed?

Arthur
Commen sense
BTW jackovsky, I don't talk about your mother because you don't like it. I talk about her because you like it. Why else whould you come back for more?

Speaking of your mother, how is the whore?

(He said it doesn't bother him...) biggrin.gif
newton
QUOTE (???+Mar 10 2006, 09:22 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 09:08 PM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 07:38 PM)
QUOTE (Mel_Guest+Mar 10 2006, 02:07 PM)
Not if you were going to be 'in control' of the collapse.

Doesn't matter if it was collapsed by way of CD.

No one could have predicted what damage the plane would do and what impact that would have on the "control" aspect.

So, once it started downhill, no one would be "in control" of it.

As it was, WTC 7 took some pretty serious licks, it could just as easily been flattened by upwards of 50 stories of WTC 1 landing on top of it.

Arthur

so, the top fifty stories could just jump on over, eh?

sure. why not. lol.

i guess, then, you agree with me that it was a silly place to put an 'emergency command bunker'?

Are you on crack??

The only way that having a command center there is "silly" is if you assume that the WTC towers, the only buildings close by that are taller than WTC7 are going to crash down on it.

When the command center was established that was not considered likely.

why are you ignoring the elephant in the room?

i tried crack once, about 20 yrs. ago. i didn't like it.

'when the command center was established'.

okay, here comes the elephant....

why would they establish a command center at all? do any other cities in the ENTIRE WORLD that you know of, have emergency command centres (outside of the military)?

what would make mayor crook think that he needed blast proof windows when he is way up in the air?
why would mayor crook decide to spend FIFTEEN MILLION!? of taxpayer money on something so frivolous and impractical?
why would anyone with foresight think that the world trade center(a proven target) would be the best place to put such a BIZARRE BUNKER IN THE SKY?

are YOU on crack?

-----------of course, the reinforcement at the pentagon on the ONE WALL that was struck is completely unrelated, although a nearly IDENTICAL COINCIDENCE, right?
newton
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 10:07 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 05:08 PM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 07:38 PM)
QUOTE (Mel_Guest+Mar 10 2006, 02:07 PM)
Not if you were going to be 'in control' of the collapse.

Doesn't matter if it was collapsed by way of CD.

No one could have predicted what damage the plane would do and what impact that would have on the "control" aspect.

So, once it started downhill, no one would be "in control" of it.

As it was, WTC 7 took some pretty serious licks, it could just as easily been flattened by upwards of 50 stories of WTC 1 landing on top of it.

Arthur

so, the top fifty stories could just jump on over, eh?

sure. why not. lol.

i guess, then, you agree with me that it was a silly place to put an 'emergency command bunker'?

So does this makes the NY contingent the ringleaders?

I mean this command bunker was finished in '99, thus planning started, oh '98 or so?

So they must have been planning ahead.

laugh.gif

Top 50 stories just Jump over?

No, think about it newt, you are in the 23rd floor of a 47 story building that stands a couple of hundred feet from a 110 story building that is going to be run into by a jet and then allowed to burn for an hour or so and then explosives will get set off to bring it down.

Do ANY of the possible outcomes involve you being squashed?

Arthur

user posted image

user posted image

minted in 1998.

http://www.glennbeck.com/news/05172002.shtml

p.s this was the first hit on a google search.....

http://www.google.com/search?q=american+twenty+dollar+bill

think about that, androids.

p.s. 1998 is 666 X 3, and also if you do the alphanumerics(a=1, b=2, c=3, etc.) for nineteen ninety eight and add the value of the letters, it equals 666.

interestingly(to me), i just noticed that the owners of at least one of the (alleged) planes used on 911, have the zip code 60666.

nothing to see here. move along.
adoucette
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 06:18 PM)
why would they establish a command center at all? do any other cities in the ENTIRE WORLD that you know of, have emergency command centres (outside of the military)?

what would make mayor crook think that he needed blast proof windows when he is way up in the air?
why would mayor crook decide to spend FIFTEEN MILLION!? of taxpayer money on something so frivolous and impractical?
why would anyone with foresight think that the world trade center(a proven target) would be the best place to put such a BIZARRE BUNKER IN THE SKY?

-----------of course, the reinforcement at the pentagon on the ONE WALL that was struck is completely unrelated, although a nearly IDENTICAL COINCIDENCE, right?

Don't know about the entire world.

Do know that NYC is larger than the next 3 largest cities in the US combined though.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html

So what they "need" in NYC might not be the same as other cities need (or can afford). I searched on the web a bit and couldn't find any good articles explaining the "need". I did find some bitching about it though.

Why go up? My guess is because if you go DOWN in NYC you got water problems.

As to the Pentagon. Are you sure about that? I thought that it had was just finishing renovation, but that it wasn't the first to be renovated.

Arthur
RealityCheck
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 11:04 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 06:18 PM)
why would they establish a command center at all?  do any other cities in the ENTIRE WORLD that you know of, have emergency command centres (outside of the military)?

what would make mayor crook think that he needed blast proof windows when he is way up in the air? 
why would mayor crook decide to spend FIFTEEN MILLION!? of taxpayer money on something so frivolous and impractical?
why would anyone with foresight think that the world trade center(a proven target) would be the best place to put such a BIZARRE BUNKER IN THE SKY?

-----------of course, the reinforcement at the pentagon on the ONE WALL that was struck is completely unrelated, although a nearly IDENTICAL COINCIDENCE, right?

Don't know about the entire world.

Do know that NYC is larger than the next 3 largest cities in the US combined though.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html

So what they "need" in NYC might not be the same as other cities need (or can afford). I searched on the web a bit and couldn't find any good articles explaining the "need". I did find some bitching about it though.

Why go up? My guess is because if you go DOWN in NYC you got water problems.

As to the Pentagon. Are you sure about that? I thought that it had was just finishing renovation, but that it wasn't the first to be renovated.

Arthur


Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.
Commen sense
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 11:04 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 06:18 PM)
why would they establish a command center at all?  do any other cities in the ENTIRE WORLD that you know of, have emergency command centres (outside of the military)?

what would make mayor crook think that he needed blast proof windows when he is way up in the air? 
why would mayor crook decide to spend FIFTEEN MILLION!? of taxpayer money on something so frivolous and impractical?
why would anyone with foresight think that the world trade center(a proven target) would be the best place to put such a BIZARRE BUNKER IN THE SKY?

-----------of course, the reinforcement at the pentagon on the ONE WALL that was struck is completely unrelated, although a nearly IDENTICAL COINCIDENCE, right?

Don't know about the entire world.

Do know that NYC is larger than the next 3 largest cities in the US combined though.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html

So what they "need" in NYC might not be the same as other cities need (or can afford). I searched on the web a bit and couldn't find any good articles explaining the "need". I did find some bitching about it though.

Why go up? My guess is because if you go DOWN in NYC you got water problems.

As to the Pentagon. Are you sure about that? I thought that it had was just finishing renovation, but that it wasn't the first to be renovated.

Arthur


Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

That IS sort of backward logic. "I want to hit the pentagon so let me aim it at the reinforced section..." DUH! blink.gif

Sort of like flying an airliner into a building then blowing it up. Heh! Decisions, decisions...
RealityCheck
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 12:21 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 10 2006, 11:04 PM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 10 2006, 06:18 PM)
why would they establish a command center at all?  do any other cities in the ENTIRE WORLD that you know of, have emergency command centres (outside of the military)?

what would make mayor crook think that he needed blast proof windows when he is way up in the air? 
why would mayor crook decide to spend FIFTEEN MILLION!? of taxpayer money on something so frivolous and impractical?
why would anyone with foresight think that the world trade center(a proven target) would be the best place to put such a BIZARRE BUNKER IN THE SKY?

-----------of course, the reinforcement at the pentagon on the ONE WALL that was struck is completely unrelated, although a nearly IDENTICAL COINCIDENCE, right?

Don't know about the entire world.

Do know that NYC is larger than the next 3 largest cities in the US combined though.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html

So what they "need" in NYC might not be the same as other cities need (or can afford). I searched on the web a bit and couldn't find any good articles explaining the "need". I did find some bitching about it though.

Why go up? My guess is because if you go DOWN in NYC you got water problems.

As to the Pentagon. Are you sure about that? I thought that it had was just finishing renovation, but that it wasn't the first to be renovated.

Arthur


Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

That IS sort of backward logic. "I want to hit the pentagon so let me aim it at the reinforced section..." DUH! blink.gif

Sort of like flying an airliner into a building then blowing it up. Heh! Decisions, decisions...


Hahahahehehe......Well, CS, you just paid me back in full for that time " I slayed you", hehehe. That did me more good than a walk on the beach, Thanks! hehehe.

trondh
Scholars Call for Release of 9/11 Information
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND
OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:*
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT,

On Behalf of the People of the United States of America, the Undersigned Scholars for 9/11 Truth Hereby Petitions for, and hereby demands, Release of the Following kinds of documents, video and films, and physical evidence to the public for study by experts and scholars investigating the events of 9/11:

1. Immediate release of the full Pentagon surveillance tapes, of which five frames (only) have been released via the official ASCE report, as Judicial Watch has also requested. We further demand release of the video tape seized by FBI agents minutes after the Pentagon hit, from the fuel service station near the Pentagon, as well as any other videotape which shows the 9/11 strike on the Pentagon.

See
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...repentagon.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2000/b...0_bt218-00.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2000/20005022a.jpg
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/pa...fct-videos.html

2. Immediate release of 6,899 photographs and 6,977 segments of video footage held by NIST, largely from private photographers, regarding the collapses of WTC buildings on 9/11/2001 (NIST, 2005, p. 81). In particular, all footage relating to the collapse of WTC 7 (including shots before, during and after the collapse) must be released immediately, without waiting for the NIST report on WTC 7, which is long overdue and may be prolonged indefinitely.

3. An explanation from Vice President Richard Cheney regarding the "orders" described by Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta in his testimony before The 9/11 Commission. Secretary Mineta stated that while in an underground bunker at the White House, he watched Vice President Cheney castigate a young officer for asking, as a plane drew closer and closer to the Pentagon, "Do the orders still stand?" The officer should be identified and allowed to testify at a deposition under oath.

See http://www.911truthmovement.org/video/hamilton_win.wmv
:
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11. Release of a complete inventory of the plane wreckage and debris from flights 11, 77, 93 or 175 or any other aircraft that crashed or was destroyed on September 11, 2001, including, but not limited to:

a - the location (whether warehouses or otherwise) of all such items;
b - a catalog of photographs and videotapes taken of any and all such items; and
c - a list of all tests and examinations concerning any and all such items, including reports of such tests or examinations.

12. Release of a complete inventory of any steel, other metal or other material from the World Trade Centers, including, but not limited to:

a - the location (whether warehouses or otherwise) of all such items;
b - a catalog of photographs and videotapes taken of any and all such items; and
c - a list of all tests and examinations concerning any and all such items, including reports of such tests or examinations.

On behalf of the People of the United States of America, we demand that the cover-up in this case end and that the kinds of documents, video and films, and physical evidence described above be provided to the public for experts and scholars to evaluate and assess in their efforts to expose falsehoods and reveal truths about events on 9/11.

FOR THE SOCIETY:

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Guest
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).
Guest
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 11 2006, 01:46 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Notice my DEFT use of CAPITALS to help RC UNDERSTAND my post.
Christophera
QUOTE (yesitdid+Mar 10 2006, 06:59 PM)
Helloe all, I see that nothing has changed since I was last here. I had to attend an emergency meeting of sorts and have been away for a few days.

Seems to be close to 100 pages since I last read this thread. However I don't believe that I missed anything. Last I looked there was a new wrinkle in that some were attemting to change the design of the towers to solid concrete core walls.


Riiiight,, and a holograph plane actually covered for the bombs planted in the towers too.

Curious,

All this denial and no evidence to support the contention that the FEMA diagram show the core that existed.

Well, there is evidence a plenty for the steel reinforced, rectangular, tubular concrete core.

The below is the core of WTC 2. To reasonably say this is not concrete, one must explain why there are no steel core columns seen.

user posted image
adoucette
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

adoucette
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 10 2006, 09:46 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Of course if they had hit a NON-reinforced wedge, that would LIKEWISE be evidence of the CONSPIRACY.

From what I can tell, with CT'ers EVERYTHING is evidence of the conspiracy, its just a matter of figuring out how it "FITS"


Of course, that is the same logic that if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts looking like a nail.

Arthur
Christophera
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 10 2006, 05:43 PM)
QUOTE
by shagster
Anyone know if there is supposed to be 1x3 box columns at the 83 floor? I haven't read everything about the WTC documents and the NIST reports.

One of the diagrams states that floor 83 is the point where some box columns change to wide flange columns.


Here is the diagram that NIST alleges shows the placement of columns and sizes in the towers. Note that in the diagram which shows placement the numbers in the ovals represent the column number, and the numbers below those allegedly show the floor height at which the columns changed from box columns to wide flange columns.

I provide this merely as represented by NIST, but that does not mean that I agree with it. For one thing it does NOT show 1 x 3 core columns anywhere on the diagram, and we know from photographic evidence that they are there.

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/core_untitled3.html

User posted image

Gordon, Great stuff. The lie becomes blatantly obvious through your knowledgeable posts, but I do understand 'Schneiby-Sense' thinking you are speaking in riddles. The engineering and structural issues you are discussing will go over John Q Publics level of understanding.

ScottS, I will post some photos and enlargements of those areas later, hopefully if I can find the time later this afternoon... unlike some, (whose 'job' seems to be to sit here and have instantaneous responses) some of us have real jobs which detract from that ability.

Arthur, Your original post was almost scientifically objective, and I thank you for that... perhaps if you were to lose the constant assailing of opponents with insults and false allegations there will be hope for you. Such comments do not add at all to your position, and your bias comes through clearly in such remarks. Do you think two scientists with opposing viewpoints will convince others that one (or the other) is right by the amount of vitriolic attacks lodged against another, rather than by the actual facts presented? I will address your concerns once I have time to put together all the relevant info. You list numerous photos as references. I do have them all, but why don't you post your own pictures. As I said before it is easy to 'capture' the photos ---

While you have the adobe document open, press the print screen button on your keyboard. That will copy your whole screen to the clipboard. Open your photo editor and import from clipboard. Crop and resize as you see fit.

It does take some effort to do this, but observers will see who is actually interested in taking the time to present a well-founded case... as opposed to those who merely wish to make as many posts and comments in a stream of unsupported allegations. This is not a case of ...he who posts the most 'wins' the arguement.

You waste far too much time in slandering others with no qualitative data to support your case, and you will only convince people like RC & CS with such behaviour. But, again... Your post here...
http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtop...indpost&p=72552
was an improvement over 90% of your posts.

EDIT to add: - Just got a reply from Professor Jones on that mysterious slag photo, so I'm going to be distracted with some of his suggestions before I get back. Arthur, who did you say were CENAN PAO? {or whoever the people were who hosted those photos?}

Such an important point must be made again and again, THX.

Foxx wrote
For one thing it does NOT show 1 x 3 core columns anywhere on the diagram, and we know from photographic evidence that they are there.

An absolute fact. No doubt in this.

User posted image
User posted image
User posted image

My point here is that NO box columns are seen inside the core area. They only surround the core.


The NIST diagram is pure fiction, an intentional lie designed to confuse and mislead the public. There has been mass murder and this lie disguises the real act.
Guest
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:57 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 10 2006, 09:46 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Of course if they had hit a NON-reinforced wedge, that would LIKEWISE be evidence of the CONSPIRACY.

From what I can tell, with CT'ers EVERYTHING is evidence of the conspiracy, its just a matter of figuring out how it "FITS"


Of course, that is the same logic that if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts looking like a nail.

Arthur

It should therefore comes as no SHOCK to you, Arthur, that your RESPONSE has likewise been fully ANTICIPATED.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:57 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 10 2006, 09:46 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Of course if they had hit a NON-reinforced wedge, that would LIKEWISE be evidence of the CONSPIRACY.

From what I can tell, with CT'ers EVERYTHING is evidence of the conspiracy, its just a matter of figuring out how it "FITS"


Of course, that is the same logic that if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts looking like a nail.

Arthur


Hi adoucette. Yes, I think YOU 'hit the "nail"' (hehehe) right on the head! Based on that observation of yours, one could define the particular brand of CTers that roam these threads as "people who 'fit' things in first and 'think' things out afterward" (if at all), heh?

PS to "Guest".....thanks for your concern over my comprehension aids needs....and your indeed "deft use" of 'capitals' to that end. Somehow, though, I can't avoid the feeling that your use of same was more in the spirit of 'capital punishment' that 'comprehension facilitation'. Correct? hehehe. Cheers anyway, Guest!

RC.
.
newton
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:54 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

i think guest said it best.

'they' are smarter than 'you', and 'they' anticipate ALL the arguments, and then purposely plant disinfo to 'poison the well'.

the reaon they wanted the wall reinforced, was so they could off their opponents at the pentagon, while simultaneously ensuring that the pentagon itself was RELATIVELY safe, and be DEFINITELY safe themselves in the areas 'they' themselves were in.

ditto tower seven.

it's like one of those movie scenarios where one guy punches his buddy in the head, or a secret agent stabs his fellow agent in a non-critical area to give an 'alibi bruise', or 'proof of alliegance' wound.

p.s. if movies did not have 'matching' with real life, noone would watch them, so please don't start with that life's not a movie bull. art imitates life, and life imitates art.
Christophera
QUOTE (OpelGT73+Mar 10 2006, 08:57 PM)
QUOTE
If anyone has posted raw evidence contrary to the core I have not seen it. If such exists, why haven't you posted it?


Um how about this picture?

User posted image

I don't see any concrete there..... or any concrete pouring operation.... do you?

There are no "MASSIVE BOX COLUMNS" shown inside the core in the helicopter photos.

User posted image

The vertical steel elements seen inside the core area are elevator guide rails. Ironically the image I post is from a site that believed the official story related to the core of the tower and, ............. they had the simple integrity to not try to note massive columns where they did not exist.

I had notated a similar image, but theirs has better resolution. Mine labels all the features.

User posted image
Guest
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:06 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:57 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 10 2006, 09:46 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Of course if they had hit a NON-reinforced wedge, that would LIKEWISE be evidence of the CONSPIRACY.

From what I can tell, with CT'ers EVERYTHING is evidence of the conspiracy, its just a matter of figuring out how it "FITS"


Of course, that is the same logic that if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts looking like a nail.

Arthur


Hi adoucette. Yes, I think YOU 'hit the "nail"' (hehehe) right on the head! Based on that observation of yours, one could define the particular brand of CTers that roam these threads as "people who 'fit' things in first and 'think' things out afterward" (if at all), heh?

PS to "Guest".....thanks for your concern over my comprehension aids needs....and your indeed "deft use" of 'capitals' to that end. Somehow, though, I can't avoid the feeling that your use of same was more in the spirit of 'capital punishment' that 'comprehension facilitation'. Correct? hehehe. Cheers anyway, Guest!

RC.
.

I am highly entertained that there is no post so ridiculous or off-topic (see previous guest posts) that they do not elicit a response from the OCT police (they live inside my head). What IS it that DRIVES them? Perhaps nothing more sinister than a desire to have the most posts on this forum (you GO Arthur). Then again....
RealityCheck
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 02:23 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:54 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

i think guest said it best.

'they' are smarter than 'you', and 'they' anticipate ALL the arguments, and then purposely plant disinfo to 'poison the well'.

the reaon they wanted the wall reinforced, was so they could off their opponents at the pentagon, while simultaneously ensuring that the pentagon itself was RELATIVELY safe, and be DEFINITELY safe themselves in the areas 'they' themselves were in.

ditto tower seven.

it's like one of those movie scenarios where one guy punches his buddy in the head, or a secret agent stabs his fellow agent in a non-critical area to give an 'alibi bruise', or 'proof of alliegance' wound.

p.s. if movies did not have 'matching' with real life, noone would watch them, so please don't start with that life's not a movie bull. art imitates life, and life imitates art.



Mate, was it you who announced that TV etc "sucks your brains"? From all these examples gleaned from movies etc. that you keep using, it seems that you may be right! As you already heard, I hardly watch TV/movies/infotainment media at all. Perhaps if you watched less of the TV/media that you rail against, you might see that your 'argument' doesn't 'fit' (hehehe)......

If "they" wanted to be safe "they" would have made sure to be IN THE RE-INFORCED section while the plane would be directed at some other section....or "they" would have been altogether outside/away on some pretext or other (since you CTers seem to ascribe "them" an "infinite" ability to "manufacture" pretexts to 'wire up' the towers etc, hehehe).

BTW, newt, do you think that the Pentagon was 'wired up' to explode after the 'planned' plane hit? (Just messing with ya, mate! I know you COULDN'T be SO 'brain-sucked' as all THAT!).

How's things otherwise, newt?

RC.
.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 11 2006, 02:37 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:06 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:57 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 10 2006, 09:46 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Of course if they had hit a NON-reinforced wedge, that would LIKEWISE be evidence of the CONSPIRACY.

From what I can tell, with CT'ers EVERYTHING is evidence of the conspiracy, its just a matter of figuring out how it "FITS"


Of course, that is the same logic that if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts looking like a nail.

Arthur


Hi adoucette. Yes, I think YOU 'hit the "nail"' (hehehe) right on the head! Based on that observation of yours, one could define the particular brand of CTers that roam these threads as "people who 'fit' things in first and 'think' things out afterward" (if at all), heh?

PS to "Guest".....thanks for your concern over my comprehension aids needs....and your indeed "deft use" of 'capitals' to that end. Somehow, though, I can't avoid the feeling that your use of same was more in the spirit of 'capital punishment' that 'comprehension facilitation'. Correct? hehehe. Cheers anyway, Guest!

RC.
.

I am highly entertained that there is no post so ridiculous or off-topic (see previous guest posts) that they do not elicit a response from the OCT police (they live inside my head). What IS it that DRIVES them? Perhaps nothing more sinister than a desire to have the most posts on this forum (you GO Arthur). Then again....


Hi Guest! Unless a poster is 'beyond the pale'....which yours wasn't (and especially when one's name is mentioned), it is only common courtesy to respond if one has seen the relevant post. OK by you?

RC.
.
Christophera
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 10 2006, 10:37 AM)
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 10 2006, 02:14 AM)


Does this model show the sequence where the upper sections exerted a force upwards while simultaneously travelling downwards?  Or is that explanation pending?

Gordon.


It looked like it was relatively easy for the towers to become unzippered. The rubble didn't look like a mass of still-connected twisted metal on the ground. There were many free pieces unbent. Many perimeter panels broke away from the floor connections. It looked more like a tinker toy that came apart. The fact that a core spire about 40 or more floors and tall sections of perimeter panels remained standing with nothing connected to them is a testament to how easy it was to unzipper floors from the columns.

Absolutely, like a tinker toy that came apart. Not nearly enough tangled steel for a collapse.

Altough there is something connected to the spire. Consistency with the rest of the photographic evidence says that piece to the left is part of the shear wall of the concrete core.

user posted image

It is way too thick to be drywall which would never survive what the steel and concrete seen have survived to stand,

user posted image

momentarily.

user posted image
newton
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:39 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 02:23 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:54 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

i think guest said it best.

'they' are smarter than 'you', and 'they' anticipate ALL the arguments, and then purposely plant disinfo to 'poison the well'.

the reaon they wanted the wall reinforced, was so they could off their opponents at the pentagon, while simultaneously ensuring that the pentagon itself was RELATIVELY safe, and be DEFINITELY safe themselves in the areas 'they' themselves were in.

ditto tower seven.

it's like one of those movie scenarios where one guy punches his buddy in the head, or a secret agent stabs his fellow agent in a non-critical area to give an 'alibi bruise', or 'proof of alliegance' wound.

p.s. if movies did not have 'matching' with real life, noone would watch them, so please don't start with that life's not a movie bull. art imitates life, and life imitates art.



Mate, was it you who announced that TV etc "sucks your brains"? From all these examples gleaned from movies etc., it seemes that you may be right! As you already heard, I hardly watch TV/movies/infotainment media at all. Perhaps if you watched less of the TV/media you rail against, you might see that your 'argument' doesn't 'fit' (hehehe).

If "they" wanted to be safe they would have made sure to be IN THE RE-INFORCED section....or altogether outside on some pretext or other (since you CTers seem to ascribe "them" an "infinite" ability to "manufacture" pretexts to 'wire up' the towers etc, hehehe).

BTW, newt, do you think that the Pentagon was 'wired up' to explode after the 'planned' plane hit? (Just messing with ya, mate! I know you COULDN'T be SO 'brain-sucked' as all THAT!).

How's things otherwise, newt?

RC.
.

television is not the same as movies, first of all.

i used to watch television, because there was little else to do when i was young. i only had two stations, so quite often, there was nothing on, and so the tv was off.

i like movies. there are no commercials. there is an underlying message, usually. and it's eye/ear candy(i do have all five senses{at least}), and a chance to relax and not think. there are also hidden illuminati messages in hollywood productions(although, that's crazy CT talk, so you don't wanna know).

however, i only watch about one a month. is that okay, RC? if YOU have time and facility, check out the animated movie called, 'ghost in the shell'. watch it with the subtitles on, too, as the depth is, well, ....deeper.

in most of my adult spare time, i've read and listened to music or shagged. lots of shagging. love shagging.

but, i've always enjoyed sci-fi and fact, whether movies or books.

'ender's game' by orson scott card was my fave book of all time. it is the single best lesson in how to get good people to do evil things that i have ever read.

larry niven had great stuff, because his grasp and extrapolation of science was BELIEVEABLE, SIMPLE and PRACTICAL('heh', we should BOTH get capital punishment, eh, RC?). ringworld, the integral trees, the puppetmasters, a mote in god's eye.....

stranger in a strange land was killer, too. 'grok', 'fair witness'. good stuff.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 03:05 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:39 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 02:23 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:54 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

i think guest said it best.

'they' are smarter than 'you', and 'they' anticipate ALL the arguments, and then purposely plant disinfo to 'poison the well'.

the reaon they wanted the wall reinforced, was so they could off their opponents at the pentagon, while simultaneously ensuring that the pentagon itself was RELATIVELY safe, and be DEFINITELY safe themselves in the areas 'they' themselves were in.

ditto tower seven.

it's like one of those movie scenarios where one guy punches his buddy in the head, or a secret agent stabs his fellow agent in a non-critical area to give an 'alibi bruise', or 'proof of alliegance' wound.

p.s. if movies did not have 'matching' with real life, noone would watch them, so please don't start with that life's not a movie bull. art imitates life, and life imitates art.



Mate, was it you who announced that TV etc "sucks your brains"? From all these examples gleaned from movies etc., it seemes that you may be right! As you already heard, I hardly watch TV/movies/infotainment media at all. Perhaps if you watched less of the TV/media you rail against, you might see that your 'argument' doesn't 'fit' (hehehe).

If "they" wanted to be safe they would have made sure to be IN THE RE-INFORCED section....or altogether outside on some pretext or other (since you CTers seem to ascribe "them" an "infinite" ability to "manufacture" pretexts to 'wire up' the towers etc, hehehe).

BTW, newt, do you think that the Pentagon was 'wired up' to explode after the 'planned' plane hit? (Just messing with ya, mate! I know you COULDN'T be SO 'brain-sucked' as all THAT!).

How's things otherwise, newt?

RC.
.

television is not the same as movies, first of all.

i used to watch television, because there was little else to do when i was young. i only had two stations, so quite often, there was nothing on, and so the tv was off.

i like movies. there are no commercials. there is an underlying message, usually. and it's eye/ear candy(i do have all five senses{at least}), and a chance to relax and not think. there are also hidden illuminati messages in hollywood productions(although, that's crazy CT talk, so you don't wanna know).

however, i only watch about one a month. is that okay, RC? if YOU have time and facility, check out the animated movie called, 'ghost in the shell'. watch it with the subtitles on, too, as the depth is, well, ....deeper.

in most of my adult spare time, i've read and listened to music or shagged. lots of shagging. love shagging.

but, i've always enjoyed sci-fi and fact, whether movies or books.

'ender's game' by orson scott card was my fave book of all time. it is the single best lesson in how to get good people to do evil things that i have ever read.

larry niven had great stuff, because his grasp and extrapolation of science was BELIEVEABLE, SIMPLE and PRACTICAL('heh', we should BOTH get capital punishment, eh, RC?). ringworld, the integral trees, the puppetmasters, a mote in god's eye.....

stranger in a strange land was killer, too. 'grok', 'fair witness'. good stuff.


Hehehe. You seem to have read all the good stuff....but where is the 'balance' which will ensure you don't go completely down the 'paranoia/pessimism' gurgler? Lighten up!

About your 'movies' and 'shagging'. It's OK by me. It's what's it doing to YOU that I find myself caring about (although it's none of my business). I have some advice: It's not the 'quantity' so much as the 'quality' we should appreciate....otherwise you're just another one of those 'mindless consumers' which the 'neo-cons' you rail against just love to 'mind control', heh?

Discretion is not only the better part of valour...it is IMPERATIVE for survival both physically and mentally in this 'eat it up' and 'consume, consume, consume' society that we westerners live in today. But as you will expect, I have no right to dictate anything to you....so I will gladly leave both the frequency and quantity of your own movie-watching and shagging to your better judgement. I have enough to be going on with my own movie-watching......

Cheers! (sincerely, lighten up, mate! I'm beginning to worry about a complete stranger!....how weird is that?).

RC.
.
Mel
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 03:30 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 03:05 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:39 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 02:23 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:54 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

i think guest said it best.

'they' are smarter than 'you', and 'they' anticipate ALL the arguments, and then purposely plant disinfo to 'poison the well'.

the reaon they wanted the wall reinforced, was so they could off their opponents at the pentagon, while simultaneously ensuring that the pentagon itself was RELATIVELY safe, and be DEFINITELY safe themselves in the areas 'they' themselves were in.

ditto tower seven.

it's like one of those movie scenarios where one guy punches his buddy in the head, or a secret agent stabs his fellow agent in a non-critical area to give an 'alibi bruise', or 'proof of alliegance' wound.

p.s. if movies did not have 'matching' with real life, noone would watch them, so please don't start with that life's not a movie bull. art imitates life, and life imitates art.



Mate, was it you who announced that TV etc "sucks your brains"? From all these examples gleaned from movies etc., it seemes that you may be right! As you already heard, I hardly watch TV/movies/infotainment media at all. Perhaps if you watched less of the TV/media you rail against, you might see that your 'argument' doesn't 'fit' (hehehe).

If "they" wanted to be safe they would have made sure to be IN THE RE-INFORCED section....or altogether outside on some pretext or other (since you CTers seem to ascribe "them" an "infinite" ability to "manufacture" pretexts to 'wire up' the towers etc, hehehe).

BTW, newt, do you think that the Pentagon was 'wired up' to explode after the 'planned' plane hit? (Just messing with ya, mate! I know you COULDN'T be SO 'brain-sucked' as all THAT!).

How's things otherwise, newt?

RC.
.

television is not the same as movies, first of all.

i used to watch television, because there was little else to do when i was young. i only had two stations, so quite often, there was nothing on, and so the tv was off.

i like movies. there are no commercials. there is an underlying message, usually. and it's eye/ear candy(i do have all five senses{at least}), and a chance to relax and not think. there are also hidden illuminati messages in hollywood productions(although, that's crazy CT talk, so you don't wanna know).

however, i only watch about one a month. is that okay, RC? if YOU have time and facility, check out the animated movie called, 'ghost in the shell'. watch it with the subtitles on, too, as the depth is, well, ....deeper.

in most of my adult spare time, i've read and listened to music or shagged. lots of shagging. love shagging.

but, i've always enjoyed sci-fi and fact, whether movies or books.

'ender's game' by orson scott card was my fave book of all time. it is the single best lesson in how to get good people to do evil things that i have ever read.

larry niven had great stuff, because his grasp and extrapolation of science was BELIEVEABLE, SIMPLE and PRACTICAL('heh', we should BOTH get capital punishment, eh, RC?). ringworld, the integral trees, the puppetmasters, a mote in god's eye.....

stranger in a strange land was killer, too. 'grok', 'fair witness'. good stuff.


Hehehe. You seem to have read all the good stuff....but where is the 'balance' which will ensure you don't go completely down the 'paranoia/pessimism' gurgler? Lighten up!

About your 'movies' and 'shagging'. It's OK by me. It's what's it doing to YOU that I find myself caring about (although it's none of my business). I have some advice: It's not the 'quantity' so much as the 'quality' we should appreciate....otherwise you're just another one of those 'mindless consumers' which the 'neo-cons' you rail against just love to 'mind control', heh?

Discretion is not only the better part of valour...it is IMPERATIVE for survival both physically and mentally in this 'eat it up' and 'consume, consume, consume' society that we westerners live in today. But as you will expect, I have no right to dictate anything to you....so I will gladly leave both the frequency and quantity of your own movie-watching and shagging to your better judgement. I have enough to be going on with my own movie-watching......

Cheers! (sincerely, lighten up, mate! I'm beginning to worry about a complete stranger!....how weird is that?).

RC.
.

"...we westerners..."?

A little slip-up, RC? heheheh!
Foxx
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 10 2006, 05:43 PM)
QUOTE
by shagster
Anyone know if there is supposed to be 1x3 box columns at the 83 floor? I haven't read everything about the WTC documents and the NIST reports.

One of the diagrams states that floor 83 is the point where some box columns change to wide flange columns.


Here is the diagram that NIST alleges shows the placement of columns and sizes in the towers. Note that in the diagram which shows placement the numbers in the ovals represent the column number, and the numbers below those allegedly show the floor height at which the columns changed from box columns to wide flange columns.

I provide this merely as represented by NIST, but that does not mean that I agree with it. For one thing it does NOT show 1 x 3 core columns anywhere on the diagram, and we know from photographic evidence that they are there.

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/core_untitled3.html

User posted image

Gordon, Great stuff. The lie becomes blatantly obvious through your knowledgeable posts, but I do understand 'Schneiby-Sense' thinking you are speaking in riddles. The engineering and structural issues you are discussing will go over John Q Publics level of understanding.

ScottS, I will post some photos and enlargements of those areas later, hopefully if I can find the time later this afternoon... unlike some, (whose 'job' seems to be to sit here and have instantaneous responses) some of us have real jobs which detract from that ability.

Arthur, Your original post was almost scientifically objective, and I thank you for that... perhaps if you were to lose the constant assailing of opponents with insults and false allegations there will be hope for you. Such comments do not add at all to your position, and your bias comes through clearly in such remarks. Do you think two scientists with opposing viewpoints will convince others that one (or the other) is right by the amount of vitriolic attacks lodged against another, rather than by the actual facts presented? I will address your concerns once I have time to put together all the relevant info. You list numerous photos as references. I do have them all, but why don't you post your own pictures. As I said before it is easy to 'capture' the photos ---

While you have the adobe document open, press the print screen button on your keyboard. That will copy your whole screen to the clipboard. Open your photo editor and import from clipboard. Crop and resize as you see fit.

It does take some effort to do this, but observers will see who is actually interested in taking the time to present a well-founded case... as opposed to those who merely wish to make as many posts and comments in a stream of unsupported allegations. This is not a case of ...he who posts the most 'wins' the arguement.

You waste far too much time in slandering others with no qualitative data to support your case, and you will only convince people like RC & CS with such behaviour. But, again... Your post here...
http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtop...indpost&p=72552
was an improvement over 90% of your posts.

EDIT to add: - Just got a reply from Professor Jones on that mysterious slag photo, so I'm going to be distracted with some of his suggestions before I get back. Arthur, who did you say were CENAN PAO? {or whoever the people were who hosted those photos?}


--------------


QUOTE (->
QUOTE
by shagster
Anyone know if there is supposed to be 1x3 box columns at the 83 floor? I haven't read everything about the WTC documents and the NIST reports.

One of the diagrams states that floor 83 is the point where some box columns change to wide flange columns.


Here is the diagram that NIST alleges shows the placement of columns and sizes in the towers. Note that in the diagram which shows placement the numbers in the ovals represent the column number, and the numbers below those allegedly show the floor height at which the columns changed from box columns to wide flange columns.

I provide this merely as represented by NIST, but that does not mean that I agree with it. For one thing it does NOT show 1 x 3 core columns anywhere on the diagram, and we know from photographic evidence that they are there.

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/core_untitled3.html

User posted image

Gordon, Great stuff. The lie becomes blatantly obvious through your knowledgeable posts, but I do understand 'Schneiby-Sense' thinking you are speaking in riddles. The engineering and structural issues you are discussing will go over John Q Publics level of understanding.

ScottS, I will post some photos and enlargements of those areas later, hopefully if I can find the time later this afternoon... unlike some, (whose 'job' seems to be to sit here and have instantaneous responses) some of us have real jobs which detract from that ability.

Arthur, Your original post was almost scientifically objective, and I thank you for that... perhaps if you were to lose the constant assailing of opponents with insults and false allegations there will be hope for you. Such comments do not add at all to your position, and your bias comes through clearly in such remarks. Do you think two scientists with opposing viewpoints will convince others that one (or the other) is right by the amount of vitriolic attacks lodged against another, rather than by the actual facts presented? I will address your concerns once I have time to put together all the relevant info. You list numerous photos as references. I do have them all, but why don't you post your own pictures. As I said before it is easy to 'capture' the photos ---

While you have the adobe document open, press the print screen button on your keyboard. That will copy your whole screen to the clipboard. Open your photo editor and import from clipboard. Crop and resize as you see fit.

It does take some effort to do this, but observers will see who is actually interested in taking the time to present a well-founded case... as opposed to those who merely wish to make as many posts and comments in a stream of unsupported allegations. This is not a case of ...he who posts the most 'wins' the arguement.

You waste far too much time in slandering others with no qualitative data to support your case, and you will only convince people like RC & CS with such behaviour. But, again... Your post here...
http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtop...indpost&p=72552
was an improvement over 90% of your posts.

EDIT to add: - Just got a reply from Professor Jones on that mysterious slag photo, so I'm going to be distracted with some of his suggestions before I get back. Arthur, who did you say were CENAN PAO? {or whoever the people were who hosted those photos?}


--------------


posted by Christophera

Such an important point must be made again and again, THX.



Foxx wrote
For one thing it does NOT show 1 x 3 core columns anywhere on the diagram, and we know from photographic evidence that they are there.

An absolute fact.  No doubt in this.

User posted image
User posted image
User posted image

My point here is that NO box columns are seen inside the core area.  The only surround the core.


The NIST diagram is pure fiction, an intentional lie designed to confuse and mislead the public.  There has been mass murder and this lie disguises the real act.



The pictures above show for a fact that the 1 x 3 box columns did in fact exist. The NIST diagram shows for a fact that NIST has NOT provided for these in their drawing linked above.

Surely, those of you who support the idea that NIST is an honest arm of the government, and would never even consider disseminating false information will have an answer for this.

However, Christophera... I do not see any evidence that can be deduced from the above photos that the interior box columns were not there.

I see about 4 of the massive 1 x 3 outer central core columns and what appears to be the reinforced concrete lower section of a stairwell (that some survivors were pulled out of, IIRC).

But the above photos only show a very small section of the central core. The other massive 1 x 3 columns are also gone. I think what we are looking at in the above photos is just a small corner section of the core, so we shouldn't really expect to see any of the other 'interior' core columns in that small area. If you look again at the schematic diagram provided by NIST the photos are only revealing whats left of one small corner of that. So, although the above photos DO show that NIST is ... shall we say...'mistaken' on this point, they don't really support the concrete core theory... (as far as I can see).

I consider it a given that there was a massive concrete / steel structure at the base of the buildings - The underground areas were all lined with steel reinforced concrete and I suspect that in the core area this structure was surrounding the core up to the first skylobby area. I have yet to see any real evidence that it extended any higher, although I will say that the one photo you post seems incongruous - the one after the collapse that you point to and say is the concrete core.

However IF such photo actually shows a concrete core structure, such a massive structure still standing as the dust cloud dissipates would surely have been caught from other angles or in other videos, and I have seen no evidence of that at all, which makes me sceptical of that one photo. Find some from other perspectives, in the photo video archives and you might have a chance of convincing me. Until then all this talk about concrete-core is nothing more than a red herring (to me).

Of course, everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. Some hold tenaciously to the theory that there were missile pods on the planes, {or that 19 evil arabs pulled this off}.

I have investigated both theories and found both, sadly lacking in any real evidence. I'm afraid as far as I am concerned the concrete-core theory is about on par at the moment.

I just gotta ask... where on earth did you come up with this idea that the concrete (in the photo you have added comments to) was 17 feet thick !... I'm somehow sure I'm going to regret asking that.

Forgive me if I don't respond to your answer... I tend to not spend a lot of time talking about missile pods either, but I'm just curious.

Missile pods, holograms, or concrete cores don't change the demolition facts, and in my opinion those who promote such theories only detract from the main issue, whether that is their intention or not.

RealityCheck
QUOTE (Mel+Mar 11 2006, 03:41 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 03:30 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 03:05 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:39 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 02:23 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:54 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
.

From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

i think guest said it best.

'they' are smarter than 'you', and 'they' anticipate ALL the arguments, and then purposely plant disinfo to 'poison the well'.

the reaon they wanted the wall reinforced, was so they could off their opponents at the pentagon, while simultaneously ensuring that the pentagon itself was RELATIVELY safe, and be DEFINITELY safe themselves in the areas 'they' themselves were in.

ditto tower seven.

it's like one of those movie scenarios where one guy punches his buddy in the head, or a secret agent stabs his fellow agent in a non-critical area to give an 'alibi bruise', or 'proof of alliegance' wound.

p.s. if movies did not have 'matching' with real life, noone would watch them, so please don't start with that life's not a movie bull. art imitates life, and life imitates art.



Mate, was it you who announced that TV etc "sucks your brains"? From all these examples gleaned from movies etc., it seemes that you may be right! As you already heard, I hardly watch TV/movies/infotainment media at all. Perhaps if you watched less of the TV/media you rail against, you might see that your 'argument' doesn't 'fit' (hehehe).

If "they" wanted to be safe they would have made sure to be IN THE RE-INFORCED section....or altogether outside on some pretext or other (since you CTers seem to ascribe "them" an "infinite" ability to "manufacture" pretexts to 'wire up' the towers etc, hehehe).

BTW, newt, do you think that the Pentagon was 'wired up' to explode after the 'planned' plane hit? (Just messing with ya, mate! I know you COULDN'T be SO 'brain-sucked' as all THAT!).

How's things otherwise, newt?

RC.
.

television is not the same as movies, first of all.

i used to watch television, because there was little else to do when i was young. i only had two stations, so quite often, there was nothing on, and so the tv was off.

i like movies. there are no commercials. there is an underlying message, usually. and it's eye/ear candy(i do have all five senses{at least}), and a chance to relax and not think. there are also hidden illuminati messages in hollywood productions(although, that's crazy CT talk, so you don't wanna know).

however, i only watch about one a month. is that okay, RC? if YOU have time and facility, check out the animated movie called, 'ghost in the shell'. watch it with the subtitles on, too, as the depth is, well, ....deeper.

in most of my adult spare time, i've read and listened to music or shagged. lots of shagging. love shagging.

but, i've always enjoyed sci-fi and fact, whether movies or books.

'ender's game' by orson scott card was my fave book of all time. it is the single best lesson in how to get good people to do evil things that i have ever read.

larry niven had great stuff, because his grasp and extrapolation of science was BELIEVEABLE, SIMPLE and PRACTICAL('heh', we should BOTH get capital punishment, eh, RC?). ringworld, the integral trees, the puppetmasters, a mote in god's eye.....

stranger in a strange land was killer, too. 'grok', 'fair witness'. good stuff.


Hehehe. You seem to have read all the good stuff....but where is the 'balance' which will ensure you don't go completely down the 'paranoia/pessimism' gurgler? Lighten up!

About your 'movies' and 'shagging'. It's OK by me. It's what's it doing to YOU that I find myself caring about (although it's none of my business). I have some advice: It's not the 'quantity' so much as the 'quality' we should appreciate....otherwise you're just another one of those 'mindless consumers' which the 'neo-cons' you rail against just love to 'mind control', heh?

Discretion is not only the better part of valour...it is IMPERATIVE for survival both physically and mentally in this 'eat it up' and 'consume, consume, consume' society that we westerners live in today. But as you will expect, I have no right to dictate anything to you....so I will gladly leave both the frequency and quantity of your own movie-watching and shagging to your better judgement. I have enough to be going on with my own movie-watching......

Cheers! (sincerely, lighten up, mate! I'm beginning to worry about a complete stranger!....how weird is that?).

RC.
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"...we westerners..."?

A little slip-up, RC? heheheh!


Hi Mel! How's tricks? (that's a benign greeting here in Aussie...it has nothing to do with other meanings of 'tricks', hehehe).

So tell me Mel, how does a CTer read a 'slip-up' into my use of the perfectly factual phrase 'we westerners' when addressing newton....seeing as how I am an Aussie and newton is a Canadian....and both our 'societies' are commonly classified as 'western' as well as 'consumer'?

RC.
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Commen sense
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:06 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:57 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 10 2006, 09:46 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
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I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Of course if they had hit a NON-reinforced wedge, that would LIKEWISE be evidence of the CONSPIRACY.

From what I can tell, with CT'ers EVERYTHING is evidence of the conspiracy, its just a matter of figuring out how it "FITS"


Of course, that is the same logic that if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts looking like a nail.

Arthur


Hi adoucette. Yes, I think YOU 'hit the "nail"' (hehehe) right on the head! Based on that observation of yours, one could define the particular brand of CTers that roam these threads as "people who 'fit' things in first and 'think' things out afterward" (if at all), heh?

PS to "Guest".....thanks for your concern over my comprehension aids needs....and your indeed "deft use" of 'capitals' to that end. Somehow, though, I can't avoid the feeling that your use of same was more in the spirit of 'capital punishment' that 'comprehension facilitation'. Correct? hehehe. Cheers anyway, Guest!

RC.
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Problem is things usually never fit anyway. tongue.gif
Commen sense
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 03:48 AM)
QUOTE (Mel+Mar 11 2006, 03:41 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 03:30 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 03:05 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:39 AM)
QUOTE (newton+Mar 11 2006, 02:23 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:54 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 10 2006, 08:18 PM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
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From what I can find out the renovation was planned after the Murrah building was bombed in Oklahoma. Apparently only one 'wedge' had been partially done. The exterior of the Wedge that was hit.

The reinforcements were to be sequentially applied to the five wedges of the Pentagon over time. Wedge One -- one of five sections of the Pentagon -- was the first to be retrofitted, and the upgrades to the exterior wall were complete by 9/11/01. Wedge Two was apparently yet to be retrofitted. The plane crashed into the building's exterior entirely within Wedge One.

Which as you and CS have pointed out is a tad backwards if you are a CT'er.

Arthur

i think guest said it best.

'they' are smarter than 'you', and 'they' anticipate ALL the arguments, and then purposely plant disinfo to 'poison the well'.

the reaon they wanted the wall reinforced, was so they could off their opponents at the pentagon, while simultaneously ensuring that the pentagon itself was RELATIVELY safe, and be DEFINITELY safe themselves in the areas 'they' themselves were in.

ditto tower seven.

it's like one of those movie scenarios where one guy punches his buddy in the head, or a secret agent stabs his fellow agent in a non-critical area to give an 'alibi bruise', or 'proof of alliegance' wound.

p.s. if movies did not have 'matching' with real life, noone would watch them, so please don't start with that life's not a movie bull. art imitates life, and life imitates art.



Mate, was it you who announced that TV etc "sucks your brains"? From all these examples gleaned from movies etc., it seemes that you may be right! As you already heard, I hardly watch TV/movies/infotainment media at all. Perhaps if you watched less of the TV/media you rail against, you might see that your 'argument' doesn't 'fit' (hehehe).

If "they" wanted to be safe they would have made sure to be IN THE RE-INFORCED section....or altogether outside on some pretext or other (since you CTers seem to ascribe "them" an "infinite" ability to "manufacture" pretexts to 'wire up' the towers etc, hehehe).

BTW, newt, do you think that the Pentagon was 'wired up' to explode after the 'planned' plane hit? (Just messing with ya, mate! I know you COULDN'T be SO 'brain-sucked' as all THAT!).

How's things otherwise, newt?

RC.
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television is not the same as movies, first of all.

i used to watch television, because there was little else to do when i was young. i only had two stations, so quite often, there was nothing on, and so the tv was off.

i like movies. there are no commercials. there is an underlying message, usually. and it's eye/ear candy(i do have all five senses{at least}), and a chance to relax and not think. there are also hidden illuminati messages in hollywood productions(although, that's crazy CT talk, so you don't wanna know).

however, i only watch about one a month. is that okay, RC? if YOU have time and facility, check out the animated movie called, 'ghost in the shell'. watch it with the subtitles on, too, as the depth is, well, ....deeper.

in most of my adult spare time, i've read and listened to music or shagged. lots of shagging. love shagging.

but, i've always enjoyed sci-fi and fact, whether movies or books.

'ender's game' by orson scott card was my fave book of all time. it is the single best lesson in how to get good people to do evil things that i have ever read.

larry niven had great stuff, because his grasp and extrapolation of science was BELIEVEABLE, SIMPLE and PRACTICAL('heh', we should BOTH get capital punishment, eh, RC?). ringworld, the integral trees, the puppetmasters, a mote in god's eye.....

stranger in a strange land was killer, too. 'grok', 'fair witness'. good stuff.


Hehehe. You seem to have read all the good stuff....but where is the 'balance' which will ensure you don't go completely down the 'paranoia/pessimism' gurgler? Lighten up!

About your 'movies' and 'shagging'. It's OK by me. It's what's it doing to YOU that I find myself caring about (although it's none of my business). I have some advice: It's not the 'quantity' so much as the 'quality' we should appreciate....otherwise you're just another one of those 'mindless consumers' which the 'neo-cons' you rail against just love to 'mind control', heh?

Discretion is not only the better part of valour...it is IMPERATIVE for survival both physically and mentally in this 'eat it up' and 'consume, consume, consume' society that we westerners live in today. But as you will expect, I have no right to dictate anything to you....so I will gladly leave both the frequency and quantity of your own movie-watching and shagging to your better judgement. I have enough to be going on with my own movie-watching......

Cheers! (sincerely, lighten up, mate! I'm beginning to worry about a complete stranger!....how weird is that?).

RC.
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"...we westerners..."?

A little slip-up, RC? heheheh!


Hi Mel! How's tricks? (that's a benign greeting here in Aussie...it has nothing to do with other meanings of 'tricks', hehehe).

So tell me Mel, how does a CTer read a 'slip-up' into my use of the perfectly factual phrase 'we westerners' when addressing newton....seeing as how I am an Aussie and newton is a Canadian....and both our 'societies' are commonly classified as 'western' as well as 'consumer'?

RC.
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Blame American education. It's the main reason I'm a liberal. I'm trying to keep people like Mel from becoming the norm.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 03:55 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:06 AM)
QUOTE (adoucette+Mar 11 2006, 01:57 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 10 2006, 09:46 PM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
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I theorize (as a CT'er is wont to do) that THEY chose to precisely in anticipation that YOU, RC, would one day ask this precise question. THEY are that GOOD (in and EVIL sort of way).

Of course if they had hit a NON-reinforced wedge, that would LIKEWISE be evidence of the CONSPIRACY.

From what I can tell, with CT'ers EVERYTHING is evidence of the conspiracy, its just a matter of figuring out how it "FITS"


Of course, that is the same logic that if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem starts looking like a nail.

Arthur


Hi adoucette. Yes, I think YOU 'hit the "nail"' (hehehe) right on the head! Based on that observation of yours, one could define the particular brand of CTers that roam these threads as "people who 'fit' things in first and 'think' things out afterward" (if at all), heh?

PS to "Guest".....thanks for your concern over my comprehension aids needs....and your indeed "deft use" of 'capitals' to that end. Somehow, though, I can't avoid the feeling that your use of same was more in the spirit of 'capital punishment' than 'comprehension facilitation'. Correct? hehehe. Cheers anyway, Guest!

RC.
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Problem is things usually never fit anyway. tongue.gif


How are ya? Hehehe. Yes, there is that. Well spotted, CS! BTW, I like your 'evolved bible' observation elsewhere. I'm sure that will hit some where it hurts the most at the moment, heh?
Guest
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:45 AM)
Hi Guest! Unless a poster is 'beyond the pale'....which yours wasn't (and especially when one's name is mentioned), it is only common courtesy to respond if one has seen the relevant post. OK by you?

RC.
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Amusing........
RealityCheck
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 11 2006, 04:07 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:45 AM)
Hi Guest! Unless a poster is 'beyond the pale'....which yours wasn't (and especially when one's name is mentioned), it is only common courtesy to respond if one has seen the relevant post. OK by you?

RC.
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Amusing........



Glad to have been of service! You know the old saying: "He also serves, who only stands and waits!" (or in this case, amuses). Cheers!
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Commen sense
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 11 2006, 04:07 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:45 AM)
Hi Guest! Unless a poster is 'beyond the pale'....which yours wasn't (and especially when one's name is mentioned), it is only common courtesy to respond if one has seen the relevant post. OK by you?

RC.
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Amusing........

pointless...
adoucette
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 10 2006, 11:45 PM)
QUOTE
by shagster
Anyone know if there is supposed to be 1x3 box columns at the 83 floor? I haven't read everything about the WTC documents and the NIST reports.

One of the diagrams states that floor 83 is the point where some box columns change to wide flange columns.


Here is the diagram that NIST alleges shows the placement of columns and sizes in the towers. Note that in the diagram which shows placement the numbers in the ovals represent the column number, and the numbers below those allegedly show the floor height at which the columns changed from box columns to wide flange columns.

I provide this merely as represented by NIST, but that does not mean that I agree with it. For one thing it does NOT show 1 x 3 core columns anywhere on the diagram, and we know from photographic evidence that they are there.

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/core_untitled3.html

User posted image


Foxx, there you go again.

Foxx takes this diagram from the draft report on the analysis of steel from the WTC.

An analysis that FOCUSED on steel in the impact and collapse zone.

Thus NO 1x3 box columns were involved.

The Diagram Foxx shows is explained like this: (from the Final report)

SOME EXAMPLES are shown in Figure 1-5;

So, NIST specifically STATES that the diagram Foxx uses is not EXHAUSTIVE.

Still he catagorizes it as if NIST is hiding something.

Use a diagram with samples and then claim its a lie because it doesn't have the one you want to see????

You gotta be kidding me.

Foxx, is this the QUALITY of your research after FOUR YEARS????

Arthur


See
http://wtc.nist.gov/oct05NCSTAR1-1index.htm
http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-1A.pdf
reasonwhy
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“We believe that the future may well be one dominated by the power of the message and successfully conveying your message will be critical. Technology has developed to such a degree that the capability to engage with the population is now a real possibility. SCL turns that possibility into a reality,” commented the Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Pattie, Chairman of SCL.

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RealityCheck
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Hi CS, adoucette. Don't be too harsh on such as Mel, Guest, Foxx et al. After all, "there but for the grace of god/fate (take your pick) go WE"!

And anyway, even 'intellectual ENTROPY' must be served; and if THEY didn't provide more than the usual quota of the necessary increase in 'intellectual disorder', then 'intellectual entropy' may come demanding more 'disorder' from US to keep its books balanced, heh?

So in the right light, they could be doing us a favour without knowing it. Cheers!

RC.
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Mel
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 03:48 AM)
Hi Mel! How's tricks? (that's a benign greeting here in Aussie...it has nothing to do with other meanings of 'tricks', hehehe).

So tell me Mel, how does a CTer read a 'slip-up' into my use of the perfectly factual phrase 'we westerners' when addressing newton....seeing as how I am an Aussie and newton is a Canadian....and both our 'societies' are commonly classified as 'western' as well as 'consumer'?

RC.
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Hi RC!!! How's tricks?.

My apologies. I had no idea you were referred to as westerners. I Wiki'ed it, and it turns out virtually everyone who's anyone is referred to as a westerner. Ah well, I never was one for political or geographical labels.

Aren't you all descended from convicts? That might explain your conspiratorial trait, mate (and your over-use of the word mate, mate wink.gif ). hehehe!

Commen sense
QUOTE (reasonwhy+Mar 11 2006, 04:37 AM)
If you were woundering what our disinformation group (Arthur,RC, and Common Sence ) command center looked like:

user posted image

What is an OpCentre?

An Opcentre is a command facility for strategic communications.

In this always-ready environment researchers can identify target audiences using highly advanced statistical models, strategists can orchestrate campaigns using the most effective scientific methods and media producers have access to innovative production techniques.

These units of expertise combine to create one of the most dynamic and influential ‘weapons' in the world.

An Opcentre puts influence, control and power back into the hands of the government and military, giving them greater power to influence the enemy in time of conflict and enhanced access to their citizens during a crisis. For instance, an Opcentre can be designed to override all national radio and TV broadcasts, allowing the government and military to communicate with the public as the need arises.

The Opcentre is a formidable tool for Homeland Security, Conflict Reduction, International Public Diplomacy and un-mediated Government communications.

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Design, build and install a diplomatic communication centre staffed by researchers, writers and spokespersons for an International Organisation.
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In practice, all projects are so unique that it is unlikely that any one would fit into the prescribed categories. Additionally this is a new type of service, which will feel unfamiliar to a number of clients. This is why we will spend as much time as clients want educating and explaining exactly how strategic communication can help a country.

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I see Rove let you take photos of your workplace. I know it's important for you to push your ridiculous CT story to cover for Bush's real crimes.

Can you tell us when Bush is supposed to talk about the CT's? [To be read with a smirk] "Listen to this... Those crazy liberals think I had planes flown into the tower! HEHEHE, No wait, theirs more! They think I blew it up too!!! HAAAHAAAHAAA!!! Those crazy liberals think I blew up the towers, can you believe that? HEHEHE." [end smirk] I'm dying to see that just before the elections. So can you ask your boss Rove when that'll be? laugh.gif
Guest
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 04:29 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 11 2006, 04:07 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:45 AM)
Hi Guest! Unless a poster is 'beyond the pale'....which yours wasn't (and especially when one's name is mentioned), it is only common courtesy to respond if one has seen the relevant post. OK by you?

RC.
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Amusing........

pointless...

Yet more mindless entertainment for me.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (Mel+Mar 11 2006, 04:51 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 03:48 AM)
Hi Mel! How's tricks? (that's a benign greeting here in Aussie...it has nothing to do with other meanings of 'tricks', hehehe).

So tell me Mel, how does a CTer read a 'slip-up' into my use of the perfectly factual phrase 'we westerners' when addressing newton....seeing as how I am an Aussie and newton is a Canadian....and both our 'societies' are commonly classified as 'western' as well as 'consumer'?

RC.
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Hi RC!!! How's tricks?.

My apologies. I had no idea you were referred to as westerners. I Wiki'ed it, and it turns out virtually everyone who's anyone is referred to as a westerner. Ah well, I never was one for political or geographical labels.

Aren't you all descended from convicts? That might explain your conspiratorial trait, mate (and your over-use of the word mate, mate wink.gif ). hehehe!


Hi Mel. Doing fine as long as I don't overdo it, thanks.

That's a good way to be; about the non-labeling attitude, I mean. Unfortunately, the human/animal brain-mind is hard-wired for 'pattern-recognition' for survival, and that includes AUTOMATIC labellings of all sorts at the subconscious level whether we admit/recognize it or not....(but it's good that you are not 'consciously predisposed' to it as well. Good show!).

And as you may gather from one of my recent posts, I was born in Sicily and migrated at 8 yrs old. So no 'convict' stock here, mate; just 'peasant' stock! hehehe.

And I use "mate" a lot more in Physorg verbal intercourse than I ever do 'at home' here Down Under. I think it's because the style of 'correspondence/comments' that prevails in Physorg interaction eventually brings out the 'singular identifiers' out in all/most of us, heh? hehehe....(see?).

Arrivederci!

RC.
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Commen sense
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 04:47 AM)
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Hi CS, adoucette. Don't be too harsh on such as Mel, Guest, Foxx et al. After all, "there but for the grace of god/fate (take your pick) go WE"!

And anyway, even 'intellectual ENTROPY' must be served; and if THEY didn't provide more than the usual quota of the necessary increase in 'intellectual disorder', then 'intellectual entropy' may come demanding more 'disorder' from US to keep its books balanced, heh?

So in the right light, they could be doing us a favour without knowing it. Cheers!

RC.
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HEHEHE!! I think if Mel lived in the "Bush" he would have taken himself out of the gene pool for sure. I could see Mel now trying to pet the sleeping tiger. I bet the empty skull wouldn't make much of a meal for the little kitty though. sad.gif
Commen sense
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 11 2006, 05:03 AM)
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 04:29 AM)
QUOTE (Guest+Mar 11 2006, 04:07 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 02:45 AM)
Hi Guest! Unless a poster is 'beyond the pale'....which yours wasn't (and especially when one's name is mentioned), it is only common courtesy to respond if one has seen the relevant post. OK by you?

RC.
.

Amusing........

pointless...

Yet more mindless entertainment for me.

Sounds appropriate.
RealityCheck
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 05:08 AM)
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 04:47 AM)
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Hi CS, adoucette. Don't be too harsh on such as Mel, Guest, Foxx et al. After all, "there but for the grace of god/fate (take your pick) go WE"!

And anyway, even 'intellectual ENTROPY' must be served; and if THEY didn't provide more than the usual quota of the necessary increase in 'intellectual disorder', then 'intellectual entropy' may come demanding more 'disorder' from US to keep its books balanced, heh?

So in the right light, they could be doing us a favour without knowing it. Cheers!

RC.
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HEHEHE!! I think if Mel lived in the "Bush" he would have taken himself out of the gene pool for sure. I could see Mel now trying to pet the sleeping tiger. I bet the empty skull wouldn't make much of a meal for the little kitty though. sad.gif


The Marsupial 'Tasmanian Tiger' is recently extinct; and all imported Mammalian Tigers here are safely behind 'open-plains zoo' barriers etc. (at least I hope none have got loose while we weren't looking! hehehe).

It's the Shark, Funnel Web/Redback Spiders and Snakes Mel would be well advised not to 'pat' when out and about in the "bush" or "surf" on his lonesome, heh!. Ouch!

RC.
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ScottS
QUOTE (reasonwhy+Mar 11 2006, 04:37 AM)
If you were woundering what  our disinformation group (Arthur,RC, and Common Sence ) command center looked like:

user posted image

What is an OpCentre?

An Opcentre is a command facility for strategic communications.

In this always-ready environment researchers can identify target audiences using highly advanced statistical models, strategists can orchestrate campaigns using the most effective scientific methods and media producers have access to innovative production techniques.

These units of expertise combine to create one of the most dynamic and influential ‘weapons' in the world.

An Opcentre puts influence, control and power back into the hands of the government and military, giving them greater power to influence the enemy in time of conflict and enhanced access to their citizens during a crisis. For instance, an Opcentre can be designed to override all national radio and TV broadcasts, allowing the government and military to communicate with the public as the need arises.

The Opcentre is a formidable tool for Homeland Security, Conflict Reduction, International Public Diplomacy and un-mediated Government communications.

User posted image

Design, build and install a diplomatic communication centre staffed by researchers, writers and spokespersons for an International Organisation.

At the core of SCL's solution is work carried out by the Behavioural Dynamics Institute (BDi), the world's leading authority on persuasion, communications psychology and public diplomacy. BDi is the only academic think-tank in the world with a comprehensive understanding of the psychology behind strategic communications that has been tried and tested and successfully applied on a global scale.

“We believe that the future may well be one dominated by the power of the message and successfully conveying your message will be critical. Technology has developed to such a degree that the capability to engage with the population is now a real possibility. SCL turns that possibility into a reality,” commented the Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Pattie, Chairman of SCL.

ScottS and other shill wannabees  fill out the form below and you might be able to quite your day Job(Toggle subject to employment): biggrin.gif

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Should I be happy that I'm not a shill or upset that I'm a wannabee? laugh.gif

Hey Arthur, RC Common Sence etc., how much do you guys pay? I've got 3 kids.
Foxx
QUOTE
by arthur

The Diagram Foxx shows is explained like this: (from the Final report)
...SOME EXAMPLES are shown in Figure 1-5;
So, NIST specifically STATES that the diagram Foxx uses is not EXHAUSTIVE. Still he catagorizes it as if NIST is hiding something. Use a diagram with samples and then claim its a lie because it doesn't have the one you want to see???? You gotta be kidding me.

Foxx, is this the QUALITY of your research after FOUR YEARS????


Wanna show me where the REAL diagram is located in the report... OR ANY which show the 1 x 3 columns?

What?.... this is not 'exhaustive' enough for you arthur?

They number the columns, and below that number allegedly tell you at what floor each and every column transitioned from box columns to H columns...

User posted image

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/core_untitled3.html

I'll ask again... show me where NIST references the 12" x 36" columns. To pretend that they don't exist seriously downplays the actual strengths of the towers core (especially below the upper mechanical floors)...

After finding out that NIST is prepared to lie in stating that NO STEEL WAS RECOVERED FROM WTC 7... why do you find it so odd that so many of us are questioning NIST's report?

In my experience someone who has nothing to hide speaks the full truth...

unless of course THEY are just idiots like I (who don't know what they are talking about and go about making up lies just for the fun of it ) rolleyes.gif biggrin.gif

(Thought I'd save you a few keystrokes)

Show me where NIST references the 12" x 36" massive steel columns, and I'll shut up about it. Don't tell me they weren't at the impact zones , so they weren't important. Those columns make one hell of a difference to the believability of this pancaking farce the official story promotes.


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I see Rove let you take photos of your workplace. I know it's important for you to push your ridiculous CT story to cover for Bush's real crimes.

Can you tell us when Bush is supposed to talk about the CT's? [To be read with a smirk] "Listen to this... Those crazy liberals think I had planes flown into the tower! HEHEHE, No wait, theirs more! They think I blew it up too!!! HAAAHAAAHAAA!!! Those crazy liberals think I blew up the towers, can you believe that? HEHEHE." [end smirk] I'm dying to see that just before the elections. So can you ask your boss Rove when that'll be? laugh.gif


Hahaha...hehehe! Very ironic, reasonwhy, for you to include me in the personnel roster for that "Opcentre....command facility for strategic communications" (but I think I'd fail the medical with my lung etc problems. Still....droooool....slaver.....dream on, RC!).

Wow, what an imagination you have! BUT...if only you knew what Foxx and adoucette and CS and everyone else knows by now!

Mate, I'd give my left lung (such as it is) for even some of that gear, and the access to the R&D information superhighway that it would provide for my lone, impecunious endeavours in R&D!

PS: Hi CS, when will these CTers get their information right before they make these assertions so easily refuted? Oh dear....as adoucette has it: more "Deja Moooo".

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Hey Arthur, RC Common Sence etc., how much do you guys pay? I've got 3 kids.


If you want more than 2 cents a day, then you're out of luck as far as I'm concerned, ScottS!.....it's all I can do just to keep body and soul together on my current stipend!...let alone my 'old clunker' and internet access! hehehe.

Good luck in your jobhunting though, ScottS!

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FEMA misled the public about the WTC collapse!
author: Eugene Tenenbaum
Had WTC been built correctly, it should have burned out and not collapsed, causing smaller material damage and much fewer victims among almost 1000, who died under the zones of impact in and around the both towers. Because the retribution should be proportional to the injury, so exposing design flaws causing the WTC collapse would have weakened the argument for the retribution war in Iraq. Hiding design flaws blame for part of the injury, and keeping all blame on the attackers, implied more retribution, i.e. a stronger argument for the war. FEMA used very sophisticated technical tricks to avoid truth pointing to design flaws and corruption of the WTC capital project.

WTC 1 versus WTC 2
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene Tenenbaum
To: info@9-11Commission.gov ; Jamie.Gorelick@wilmerhale.com ; director@wwic.si.edu ; rben-veniste@mayerbrownrowe.com ; ffielding@wrf.com ; sladeg@prestongates.com ; jthompson@winston.com ; PZelikow@9-11Commission.gov ; CKojm@9-11Commission.gov ; DMarcus@9-11Commission.gov
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 4:50 AM
Subject: FEMA contradicts laws of physics in the WTC collapse Study!

Dear 9/11 Commissioner,
Below is a very serious argumenttoverify the FEMA Study about the WTC collapse. The Study seems tocontradict laws of physicsat victim relatives? expense maybein supportto the war in Iraq or else youwill be able to find out.
It isjustthebeginning of a broader piece I intend to publish very soon. If you do not verify it now, you will not be able to say latter that you did not know about it, because I intend to include in my publication a note informing that I sent you this fragment today.
Sincerely, Eugene Tenenbaum
FEMA contradicts laws of physics in the WTC collapse Study!
By Eugene Tenenbaum, 3985 Gouverneur Av, #1B, Bronx, NY 10463, Copyright ? 2004 Eugene Tenenbaum
Jul. 17, 2004
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (or ?FEMA?) misleadingly implies in its Study?s key conclusion (or ?the FEMA conclusion? or ?the conclusion?), about the WTC collapse, that the airplane impacts caused a decisive damage, and so purposely skips analyzing a) the faulty structural design, guarantying the towers to fall under any extensive fire, and cool.gif the faulty design review and approval process that should have prevented it.
The conclusion in question is the last and underlined sentence of the following quotation from ?World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations? FEMA 403 ? September 2002 ? Second Printing (or ?FEMA Study? or ?the Study?) available, e.g. at http://www.fema.gov/library/wtcstudy.shtm or else:
FEMA Study, Chapter (or ?Ch.?) 2, pp. 2-31/32: ?There are some important differences between the impact of the aircraft into WTC 2 and the impact into WTC 1. First, United Airlines Flight 175 was flying much faster, with an estimated speed of 590 mph, while American Airlines Flight 11 was flying at approximately 470 mph. The additional speed would have given the aircraft a greater ability to destroy portions of the structure. The zone of aircraft impact was skewed toward the southeast corner of WTC 2, while the zone of impact on WTC 1 was approximately centered on the building?s north face. The orientation of the core in WTC 2 was such that the aircraft debris would only have to travel 35 feet across the floor before it began to impact and damage elements of the core structure. Finally, the zone of impact in WTC 2 was nearly 20 stories lower than that in WTC 1, so columns in this area were carrying substantially larger loads. It is possible, therefore, that structural damage to WTC 2 was more severe than that to WTC 1, partly explaining why WTC 2 collapsed more quickly than WTC 1.?
Apparently, it looks? almost logical, if not for two fundamental problems. First, less important - as the airplane hit WTC 2 not perpendicularly, so only its speed?s component perpendicular to the WTC 2 face caused the damage, because the parallel component slide along the face, therefore the effective, damaging speed was less than 590 mph (it would be nice to have at least fifth grade?s observations, but maybe, because the Study contains only preliminary observations, so it does not rise above the fourth grade?s level)!
Second, essential - as WTC 2 was hit at 80th Floor twice as low from the roof than WTC 1 was at 96th Floor, and there were 30 floors above the WTC 2 zone of impact (or ?zone?), but only 15 floors above the WTC 1 zone, and so internal core (or ?core?) columns at 80th Floor carried load twice of a load at 96th Floor, and exterior columns in the WTC 2 zone carried roughly 20 % more of a building weight load then in the WTC 1 zone, but additionally strength added to exterior columns against wind pressure load 30 floors below the roof was roughly four times that added only 15 floors below the roof, so exterior tubular columns in the WTC 2 zone had roughly two and a quarter more of strength than in the WTC 1 zone, and internal core corner column in front of the WTC 2 airplane nose had four times more of total strength than the mid-side core outer column in front of the WTC 1 airplane nose. There was no wind nor column wind load on the 9/11.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1+2Col.jpg?dc=4675487510671384236

http://groups.msn.com/ ... 15-30Flr.gif?dc=4675487510799686045

Therefore, thestructural damage to WTC 2 was LESS severe than that to WTC1on the contrary to the FEMA conclusion, because the columns in the WTC 2 zone had double-quadruple of a strength of WTC 1?s, but the WTC 2 airplane speed was only 26 % greater, and its kinetic (destructive) energy only 58% greater than the WTC 1 airplane, so much less than the double-quadruple strength and mass advantage. In other words, the advantage of WTC 2 zone column strength over WTC 1?s was much greater than the advantage of the WTC 2 airplane destructive energy over WTC 1?s.
That observation is so simple and obvious that the cited above FEMA staggeringly false conclusion is difficult to explain by a mistake. So, who decided to make it? Any idea why? Could the intended war against Iraq play a role? Would the possibility of a faulty WTC design contributing to or even causing its collapse have deterred the public opinion from supporting the war the Administration had afraid of? You are invited to answer these questions.
To see, how obviously the FEMA conclusion is wrong (if you forget from school), as well as to show it to five-year-old children, just borrow any blocks from them, build a column by stocking a few blocks vertically (one on another) and hit the column in the middle, so it collapses. Next build again the same column, put your hand on the top of it, press the hand down, and try to collapse the column by hitting like before. It is impossible, if you pressed strong enough!
http://groups.msn.com/ ... collapse.gif?dc=4675487510967116596

?Greater load representing greater strength and resistance to damage? can be recognized in every kindergarten, but not in FEMA despite that actual FEMA Study?s Figures 2-27 and 2-16, as well as the similar Damage Area figures below, CLEARLY show that the structural damage to the exterior columns of WTC 2 was (34 %) smaller by area than of WTC 1, illustrating that simple law of physics at work.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1holePh.jpg?dc=4675487511123431135

http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1hole1.gif?dc=4675487518034240309

http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC2hole1.gif?dc=4675487518156626198

The actual damage areas to WTC 1 and WTC 2 exterior columns were 1,607 and 1,044 square feet respectively! Following the pattern, the structural damage to internal columns of WTC 2 should have been also LESS severe than in WTC 1 opposite to the FEMA conclusion.
FEMA - of course - could defend its conclusion claming using the word "possible", but it implies the greater chance of only two possible (much greater or smaller), as meant chance "that structural damage to WTC 2 was more severe". To describe as possible a minuscule chance qualifies as MISREPRESENTATION, e.g. if a chance of a less severe structural damage to WTC 2 was 99.999 %, so the more severe damage to it was still possible (with probability of just 0.001 %), so technically FEMA Study's report was (always) true, but with the reasonable doubts of 99.999 %!
Maybe ?incompetent? authors wrote FEMA Study in a good faith?Their omission from the inner core (or ?core?) in the WTC 2 plan at the zone of aircraft impact of the massive box columns - which greater strength contradicts their conclusion - rather suggestsa self-serving misrepresentation.
The misrepresented outer columns of the core at 84th Floor and below (within the zone of impact in WTC 2, but not in WTC 1?s) were significantly heavier boxes 36x14-16 inches made of ?- 4-inch plates (FEMA Study, p. B-2) than the actually drawn I-shaped inner core?s outer columns in the WTC 1 zone of impact. Figure B-6 of FEMA Study shows an imprint of the I-shaped column on the heavier box column illustrating the huge difference between them.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 85flrCol.jpg?dc=4675487518322263997

The massive boxes can be seen on photographs,
http://groups.msn.com/ ... Constr.jpg?dc=4675487518414701238

and in a WTC tower typical floor plan
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 80flrCore.gif?dc=4675487518524784431

available at http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbc-...rade_Tower.gbd; unlike in the following plans used by FEMA Study (Figure 2-1) indicating the huge structural differences between the inner cores in the zones of aircraft impacts below 84th Floor in WTC 2 and way above 84th Floor in WTC 1.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 80flrCore1.gif?dc=4675487518629650035

Not showing in the FEMA Study (Figure 2-25) the massive columns in the WTC 2 impact zone has been misleading, self-serving and unethical.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 80floor.gif?dc=4675487518724027964

One of Achilles? heel were the ?walls? of tower inner cores that unfortunately were just plain and not reinforced sheetrock (gypsum board) partitions with strength comparable to heavy cardboard, and completely vulnerable to the slightly elevated pressure of even a foot kick, hence also to an impact of the actual jet fuel fireballs, or, e.g. a propane gas blast, like in ?Backdraft? (1991) film. So, it seems to be misrepresenting and self-serving the following (underlined) FEMA Study reasoning from p. 2-15 unsubstantially insinuating that wracking of the week and flimsy partitions (also ceiling panels) at WTC 1 indicate structural damage (i.e. to the columns): ?They [witnesses] described extensive building debris in the eastern portion of the central core, preventing their access to the easternmost exit stairway. This suggests the possibility of immediate partial collapse of framing in the central core. These persons also described the presence of debris from collapsed partition walls from upper floors in stairways located further to the west, suggesting the possibility of some structural damage in the northwestern portion of the core framing as well.
Unfortunately, the destruction of flimsy core partitions deprived the stairwells and (elevator) shafts of their enclosure turning them into chimneys and the towers into stacks helping the fires to spread heating bigger floor areas, of which thermal expansion faster collapsed the towers, but not necessarily increased fire temperature. The issue of partitions is irrelevant for the structural analysis except for widening the fires, heat distribution and subsequent thermal expansion speeding up the collapse (increasing casualties), but not changing the mechanism.
To find out, why the towers collapsed so differently, and so to analyze differences between the both airplanes impacts, it is useful to visualize the both zones of aircraft impact on one plan with the correct massive columns only on the WTC 2 side of impact (one plan?s half) and not on the WTC 1 side (other plan?s half), and showing the difference between them (in reality they were present or not at once on both sides), and disregarding the flimsy partition. One plan can show also both areas of damage to the exterior columns, both airplanes at their angles of impact and at the positions of slowing down, where they were not able to inflict any further damage to the exterior columns stronger than the airplanes? soft bodies, when the surviving exterior columns begun damaging airplanes wing ends. Such plan shows also the trajectories of both airplane landing gears and engine found penetrating through the entire floors, and landing far outside the towers.
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The key question is, if the airplanes caused damage to inner core columns, and, if yes, to what extend.
Let?s first start from an obviously false following statement from p. 2-16 of FEMA Study claiming that debris, which passed through the towers [almost intact!], ?doubtlessly? caused damage to core columns, and that the extend of this damage cannot be known (underlined): It is known that some debris from the aircraft traveled completely through the structure. For example, [?]. Part of the landing gear from this aircraft was found at the corner of West and Rector Streets, some five blocks south of the WTC complex (Figure 2-18). As this debris passed through the building, it doubtless caused some level of damage to the structureacross the floor plate, including, potentially, interior framing, core columns, framing at the east, south, and west walls, and the floors themselves. The exact extent of this damage will likely never be known with certainty.
First ? the phrase ?some level of damage? is MANIPULATIVE and MISLEADING, because it includes a near zero level of damage, so technically FEMA is right in any case, because that phrase means that there was or was not damage, i.e. it is truism meaning some level from near 0 to 100 %!
Second ? the debris, which passed completely through the towers almost intact keeping their initial trajectories, certainlycould not have caused any damage to core columns, because it was virtually impossible to strongly hit a column certainly causing a bounce in a different direction, and then come back to the original trajectory requiring ? improbable - another bounce in the exactly opposite direction, and all that at 200 mph and without even a significant damage
http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1Wheel.jpg?dc=4675487520409325409

http://groups.msn.com/ ... engine.jpg?dc=4675487520523837191

to the passing engine, which was extremely fragile, or landing gear! So, the opposite of the above FEMA claim is true that the debris, which passed through the towers [almost intact and not changing their initial trajectories], certainly did not cause any structural damage to the towers.So, their free fall can be used to determine their speed of passing through the cores after the initial airplane impacts on the exterior walls. And that is a critical conclusion FEMA avoided at all cost.
Third ? damage to core columns, if any, could have been causes by debris, which did not pass through the towers ? unlike in the above FEMA statement.
Fourth ? once the speed of debris passing through the cores is known, it is possible to model the exact extend of damage [to core columns] with a high degree of certainty opposite to the FEMA insinuation underlined justabove. If the speed was low, because of the enormous strength of the exterior walls absorbing a vast majority of the initial impact energy, it is possible to exclude any significant damage at all, andopposite to FEMA Study. The passing debris issue is critical!
It is obvious that the airplanes entering the towers were constantly loosing speed. The floor plan above shows the positions of both airplanes fully filling the damage holes in the exterior walls between the intact exterior columns on both sides of the damage areas shown above and on Figures 2-27 and 2-16 of FEMA Study. At these positions the airplanes lost so much of their initial speeds that their movement was too slow to cause any further damage to the hard steel exterior columns by their soft aluminum bodies, and the intact exterior columns on both sides of the damage areas started to cut out the airplane wing ends exceeding the damage areas perimeters.
Knowing parameters of the exterior columns and whole towers, wings and Boeing airplanes (they were designed and tested in the computer), it is easily and cheaply to simulate the impacts in the computer, and to get these speeds, but FEMA failed to do so. Why? There were successful Flight 800 or shuttle Columbia crash recreation efforts.
Instead, FEMA Study (p. 2-22) provides, e.g. a useless number of gigawatts of energy were released by both fires, or misleadingly speculates about temperature allegedly reaching 1,400 ?C melting point of steel (p. A-12, 17) implying such a possibility. FEMA Study provides references to the very outdated office fire experiments in 1972 (p. A-3), but DOES NOT conduct any computer simulation of the actual WTC fires, like ? though maybe not perfect - the MSC Marc simulation (http://members.fortunecity.com/911/wtc/wtc-microsoft.htm).
The MSC Marc simulation is useful allowing to conclude that ?It is clear that the fires could not/did not get much above 825?C (and were almost certainly cooler)? and also to ask ?what caused the fire sprinkler system to fail within a few minutes of the impact?, though the included there Boeing 747 collision simulation is out of touch with a WTC reality, because the 767s were less than a half weight of a 747, and the WTC tower structure nor the 767s? speed were not reflected.
Coming back to the floor plan above showing the airplane positions inside the towers, at which they were too slow to inflict any structural damage to both - the exterior columns and stronger inner core columns, the question remains, if airplane debris reaching these positions could have damaged the inner core columns within the front of both airplanes shown on the plan above.
There are four (4) inner core columns within the front of both airplanes. Because both airplanes shattered on impact and the front section of the WTC 1 airplane could not survive to reach the inner pair of columns of the inner core, so further considerations are limited only to the outer pair of columns of the inner core of WTC 1. Because of a greater load and strength of columns at the zone of airplane impact in WTC 2 than in WTC 1 (indicated by the smaller area of damage to exterior columns), it is certain that during the impacts the WTC 2 airplane was slowing down more rapidly than the WTC 1 airplane, and its front was damaged more than of WTC 1?s, hence the two (2) furthest inner core box columns within the front of the WTC 2 airplane can be excluded from a damage consideration.
The almost equal distances from the towers of the fallen almost intact airplane parts after completely penetrating the towers prove that the WTC 2 airplane was slowed down on impact more than the WTC 1 airplane. The schematic here (FEMA Study Figure 1-3) shows the areas of landing of the airplane debris after flying over the whole floors and falling down far beyond of the opposite tower sides to the impact sides of the towers.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... trajectory.gif?dc=4675487520854311063

Landing gears of both airplanes completely penetrated both towers. The WTC 2 landing gear (wheel) fell 1212 ft (370 m) from WTC 2, and the WTC 1 one ? 1310 ft (399 m) from WTC 1. The WTC 2 zone of impact was 994 ft (303 m) above the ground, and the WTC 1 zone ? 1178 ft (359 m). There is a simple formula ? on approx. seventh grade level - to calculate speed of projectile at constant downward acceleration (www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/123/lab/M04-Projectile_rev.doc) - in our case ? of 32 ft/s2 (9.8 m/s2) caused by the gravity force, if disregarding air resistance on falling body that shortens distance of falling: velocity=(distance of projectile fall)*{[(constant downward acceleration)/[(height of fall)*2]}^1/2.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... projectile.gif?dc=4675487520935963164

That simple formula (without considering air resistance) allowed calculating the speeds of the landing gears exiting WTC 2 and WTC 1 at 105.3 and 104.3 mph respectively. The actual speeds were higher, but also almost identical, because of similar air resistance. Air resistance (drag) is a product of air density (1.225 kg/m^3), silhouette area A of body (its area as seen from the front), dimensionless constant C called the drag coefficient (that depends on the shape of body), and squared velocity of body divided by doubled mass of body. (Projectile motion with air resistance description can be found, e.g. at http://wps.aw.com/wps/media/objects/877/89...ics/topic01.pdf, and its programming ? at http://www.nyu.edu/classes/rosenberg/AirResistance.html.)
Calculating speeds of the landing gears exiting WTC 2 and WTC 1 with air resistance, two cases were considered. First: gear mass m=150 kg, wheel height of 1.2 m, wheel width of 0.4 m, so area A=0.48 m^2, drag coefficient C=0.5. Second: m=200kg, A=0.6 m^2, C=1.0. In the first case (m=150kg, A=0.48 m^2, C=0.5) the EXIT floor speeds of the landing gears from WTC 2 and WTC 1 were 122.4 and 123 mph respectively, and the preceding ENTRY floor higher speeds - needed to travel through the whole 210 ft (64 m) span of each tower floor after the impact (from initial impactexterior wallto exit window), and leaving at the previously calculatedEXIT speeds - were 130.2 and 130.9 mph respectively. In the second, conservative case (m=200 kg, A=0.6 m^2, C=1.0) the EXITfrom WTC 2 and WTC 1 speeds were 139.8 and 143.2 mph, and the floor ENTRY floor speeds were 156.6 and 160.4 mph, respectively.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... fireball.jpg?dc=4675487521048857175

Recordings and a simulation (http://realex.nist.gov/WTCanimation2.ram) show that after the initial airplane impact the resulting fireball expanded through the tower - like a very strong hurricane (much over 100 mph) - ripping off panels of elevation falling down beneath flames, so also leveling everything inside, but columns, and leaving no obstacles slowing down the landing gears and engine traveling through the towers within that fireball hurricane.
Even, if adding a bounce or two from the floor inside the towers not much changing trajectory, but increasing the landing gears speed from the calculated 160 mph without bounces to around 200 mph with bounces, the plans still lost more than 50 % of their initial speeds on the initial impacts with exterior columns, so more than 75% of their destructive (kinetic) energy (proportional to velocity squared v^2 and mass m, so when velocity drops by 1/2, energy drops by ? to 1/4, because [1/2]^2=1/4), so the airplane destructive power to damage inner core columns decreased at least four (4!) times after the initial impacts, FEMA Study ignores and MISREPRESENTS on p. 2-16 claiming that ?The exact extent of this damage will likely never be known with certainty? manipulatively implying that some damage had to occur and nothing can be done, because its exact extend cannot be known with certainty, and that is necessary to solve the mechanism of the collapse, and anything else is not good enough, and so it is appropriate not even attempt to assess the damage, nor to conduct a structural analysis based on probabilities, nor to consider more than one possibility, nor to consider that no significant damage to the columns could have happened at all at 200 mph most likely, i.e. that it is fine to refrain from further considerations, and it is the only way to proceed, because there is ?no smoking gun?.
The ?no smoking gun? theory excusing from an effort, if problems were difficult, does not apply to positions including a full responsibility for dealing with the problems especially, if someone else could have sat down for a half of year and solve them. The use of the ?no smoking gun? excuse and not even attempting solving problems by those, who are responsible, proves their incompetence or worse. Before using it, look in your job description and think twice before claiming the ?no smoking gun? excuse! A ?smoking gun? is not served on a silver platter. It grows and becomes more visible while you work intelligently to solve a problem, and elements without an apparent meaning or connection start to build a whole picture, and a smoking gun emerges becoming more visible step by step.
The exterior columns slowed down the WTC 2 airplane impacting at 590 mph more than the exterior columns slowed the WTC 1 airplane impacting at 470mph with only 63 % of the kinetic energy of the WTC 2 airplane, to almost identical landing gear exit speeds. Additionally, the debris passing entirely through WTC 2 did not go through the inner core unlike in WTC 1, but near the core, so on the debris path were no columns to bounce from slowing WTC2 debris down unlike in WTC 1. It means that the landing gear passing entirely through WTC 1 did not bounced as well, because, if it had retaining on exit the same speed as the WTC 2 debris without bouncing, the speed of debris in WTC 1 would have been actually greater than in WTC 2 rendering the FEMA conclusion just plain insane. The fact that the exit speeds were almost identical clearly indicates that the WTC 2 exterior columns were much stronger and resistant to damage than the columns of WTC 1, as they supposed to be, because of their greater load. By the same principal, the WTC 2 zone of impact inner core columns were much stronger than of WTC 1. So, after passing the exterior columns with similar speeds in both towers, the airplane debris could not damage the much stronger inner columns of WTC 2 more than those of WTC1 with 100% certainty and contrary to the FEMA conclusion!
The fall of the WTC 2 airplane engine not much farther from the landing gear fall indicates that the landing gear was not slowed down much inside the tower, because the gear behind the engine in the airplane impacted a moment latter at a slightly lower speed of the slowing down by the impact airplane while the slimmer engine was still rotating. This points to the initial impact, as the separation event that did not distort much the trajectories, but certainly trashed the wings slightly rotating them back, separated the engines pushing their trajectories slightly outward, and also had to free the landing gears leaving not much of the airplane front fuselages as a whole, which had to further slow down plowing through the concrete (which doubled its strength after 30 years) of the floor(s) in order to reach the inner core columns to damage them. So, the exit speeds of the debris passing entirely through the towers are certain indicators that the initial impacts slowed down the airplanes by more than a half of their initial speeds. So, it seems like FEMA purposely neglected to conduct computer simulations of the initial impacts to avoid reaching a right conclusion!
Watching bad airplane accidents at landings, it is apparent that they are very fragile and brake on impact with hard surfaces at landing speeds. So, both airplanes hitting the towers at maximum speeds were disintegrating on initial impact. The superimposed airplane profiles not fitting well the exterior structural damage areas clearly indicate shifts of airplane parts hitting the towers latter (farther back in the airplane) from their initial location within the profiles. These shifts could have been only caused by airplane deformation resulting from the disintegration on the initial impacts. E.g. just after the initial moment of impact the airplane wings started to roll up causing the damage above their initial positions, as indicated above by the damage to the exterior columns above the superimposed airplane profiles, etc.
The airplane disintegration on initial impact is supported by the fall of the WTC 2 airplane engine slightly further than of the same airplane?s landing gear, because the engine - more up front than the landing gear - hit the tower, separated from the airplane earlier, and at a slightly higher airplane?s speed (decreasing on impact) than the landing gear impacting a moment latter at a slightly lower speed. Only a small deviation of the WTC 2 part trajectories from that airplane direction before impact also points to the airplanes disintegration on the initial impacts despite that the WTC 1 airplane landing gear probably slightly bounced from a column deviating from the airplane trajectory before exiting the tower.
Disintegration on the initial impact means that resulting separated airplane pieces lacked significant energy to exert damaging pressure on inner core columns protected by their load and strength much greater than exterior columns of the same floor. The flying pieces (except the hard engine shafts, as Peter Bressington of Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers explained showing a simulation at 33 min. of Inventions, Building to Extremes show on PBS) did not have energy to structurally damage the inner core columns contrary to the FEMA conclusion. FEMA chose not to conduct cheap computer impact simulations maybe to avoid pointing toward revealing tower design inadequacies reducing reasons to go to war with Iraq, butat the expense of orphans and widows.
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Hi Zoktoberfest.

I believe Eugene Tenenbaum is a full fledged disinformation agent. Read very carefully what he says, and look into all the 'evidence' he presents. {especially regarding his alleged truss seats}. He almost had me convinced a couple of years ago, until I saw past his game.

Sorry... JMHO
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QUOTE (zoktoberfest+Mar 11 2006, 05:57 AM)
FEMA misled the public about the WTC collapse!
author: Eugene Tenenbaum
Had WTC been built correctly, it should have burned out and not collapsed, causing smaller material damage and much fewer victims among almost 1000, who died under the zones of impact in and around the both towers. Because the retribution should be proportional to the injury, so exposing design flaws causing the WTC collapse would have weakened the argument for the retribution war in Iraq. Hiding design flaws blame for part of the injury, and keeping all blame on the attackers, implied more retribution, i.e. a stronger argument for the war. FEMA used very sophisticated technical tricks to avoid truth pointing to design flaws and corruption of the WTC capital project.

WTC 1 versus WTC 2
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene Tenenbaum
To: info@9-11Commission.gov ; Jamie.Gorelick@wilmerhale.com ; director@wwic.si.edu ; rben-veniste@mayerbrownrowe.com ; ffielding@wrf.com ; sladeg@prestongates.com ; jthompson@winston.com ; PZelikow@9-11Commission.gov ; CKojm@9-11Commission.gov ; DMarcus@9-11Commission.gov
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 4:50 AM
Subject: FEMA contradicts laws of physics in the WTC collapse Study!

Dear 9/11 Commissioner,
Below is a very serious argumenttoverify the FEMA Study about the WTC collapse. The Study seems tocontradict laws of physicsat victim relatives? expense maybein supportto the war in Iraq or else youwill be able to find out.
It isjustthebeginning of a broader piece I intend to publish very soon. If you do not verify it now, you will not be able to say latter that you did not know about it, because I intend to include in my publication a note informing that I sent you this fragment today.
Sincerely, Eugene Tenenbaum
FEMA contradicts laws of physics in the WTC collapse Study!
By Eugene Tenenbaum, 3985 Gouverneur Av, #1B, Bronx, NY 10463, Copyright ? 2004 Eugene Tenenbaum
Jul. 17, 2004
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (or ?FEMA?) misleadingly implies in its Study?s key conclusion (or ?the FEMA conclusion? or ?the conclusion?), about the WTC collapse, that the airplane impacts caused a decisive damage, and so purposely skips analyzing a) the faulty structural design, guarantying the towers to fall under any extensive fire, and cool.gif the faulty design review and approval process that should have prevented it.
The conclusion in question is the last and underlined sentence of the following quotation from ?World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations? FEMA 403 ? September 2002 ? Second Printing (or ?FEMA Study? or ?the Study?) available, e.g. at http://www.fema.gov/library/wtcstudy.shtm or else:
FEMA Study, Chapter (or ?Ch.?) 2, pp. 2-31/32: ?There are some important differences between the impact of the aircraft into WTC 2 and the impact into WTC 1. First, United Airlines Flight 175 was flying much faster, with an estimated speed of 590 mph, while American Airlines Flight 11 was flying at approximately 470 mph. The additional speed would have given the aircraft a greater ability to destroy portions of the structure. The zone of aircraft impact was skewed toward the southeast corner of WTC 2, while the zone of impact on WTC 1 was approximately centered on the building?s north face. The orientation of the core in WTC 2 was such that the aircraft debris would only have to travel 35 feet across the floor before it began to impact and damage elements of the core structure. Finally, the zone of impact in WTC 2 was nearly 20 stories lower than that in WTC 1, so columns in this area were carrying substantially larger loads. It is possible, therefore, that structural damage to WTC 2 was more severe than that to WTC 1, partly explaining why WTC 2 collapsed more quickly than WTC 1.?
Apparently, it looks? almost logical, if not for two fundamental problems. First, less important - as the airplane hit WTC 2 not perpendicularly, so only its speed?s component perpendicular to the WTC 2 face caused the damage, because the parallel component slide along the face, therefore the effective, damaging speed was less than 590 mph (it would be nice to have at least fifth grade?s observations, but maybe, because the Study contains only preliminary observations, so it does not rise above the fourth grade?s level)!
Second, essential - as WTC 2 was hit at 80th Floor twice as low from the roof than WTC 1 was at 96th Floor, and there were 30 floors above the WTC 2 zone of impact (or ?zone?), but only 15 floors above the WTC 1 zone, and so internal core (or ?core?) columns at 80th Floor carried load twice of a load at 96th Floor, and exterior columns in the WTC 2 zone carried roughly 20 % more of a building weight load then in the WTC 1 zone, but additionally strength added to exterior columns against wind pressure load 30 floors below the roof was roughly four times that added only 15 floors below the roof, so exterior tubular columns in the WTC 2 zone had roughly two and a quarter more of strength than in the WTC 1 zone, and internal core corner column in front of the WTC 2 airplane nose had four times more of total strength than the mid-side core outer column in front of the WTC 1 airplane nose. There was no wind nor column wind load on the 9/11.
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Therefore, thestructural damage to WTC 2 was LESS severe than that to WTC1on the contrary to the FEMA conclusion, because the columns in the WTC 2 zone had double-quadruple of a strength of WTC 1?s, but the WTC 2 airplane speed was only 26 % greater, and its kinetic (destructive) energy only 58% greater than the WTC 1 airplane, so much less than the double-quadruple strength and mass advantage. In other words, the advantage of WTC 2 zone column strength over WTC 1?s was much greater than the advantage of the WTC 2 airplane destructive energy over WTC 1?s.
That observation is so simple and obvious that the cited above FEMA staggeringly false conclusion is difficult to explain by a mistake. So, who decided to make it? Any idea why? Could the intended war against Iraq play a role? Would the possibility of a faulty WTC design contributing to or even causing its collapse have deterred the public opinion from supporting the war the Administration had afraid of? You are invited to answer these questions.
To see, how obviously the FEMA conclusion is wrong (if you forget from school), as well as to show it to five-year-old children, just borrow any blocks from them, build a column by stocking a few blocks vertically (one on another) and hit the column in the middle, so it collapses. Next build again the same column, put your hand on the top of it, press the hand down, and try to collapse the column by hitting like before. It is impossible, if you pressed strong enough!
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?Greater load representing greater strength and resistance to damage? can be recognized in every kindergarten, but not in FEMA despite that actual FEMA Study?s Figures 2-27 and 2-16, as well as the similar Damage Area figures below, CLEARLY show that the structural damage to the exterior columns of WTC 2 was (34 %) smaller by area than of WTC 1, illustrating that simple law of physics at work.
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The actual damage areas to WTC 1 and WTC 2 exterior columns were 1,607 and 1,044 square feet respectively! Following the pattern, the structural damage to internal columns of WTC 2 should have been also LESS severe than in WTC 1 opposite to the FEMA conclusion.
FEMA - of course - could defend its conclusion claming using the word "possible", but it implies the greater chance of only two possible (much greater or smaller), as meant chance "that structural damage to WTC 2 was more severe". To describe as possible a minuscule chance qualifies as MISREPRESENTATION, e.g. if a chance of a less severe structural damage to WTC 2 was 99.999 %, so the more severe damage to it was still possible (with probability of just 0.001 %), so technically FEMA Study's report was (always) true, but with the reasonable doubts of 99.999 %!
Maybe ?incompetent? authors wrote FEMA Study in a good faith?Their omission from the inner core (or ?core?) in the WTC 2 plan at the zone of aircraft impact of the massive box columns - which greater strength contradicts their conclusion - rather suggestsa self-serving misrepresentation.
The misrepresented outer columns of the core at 84th Floor and below (within the zone of impact in WTC 2, but not in WTC 1?s) were significantly heavier boxes 36x14-16 inches made of ?- 4-inch plates (FEMA Study, p. B-2) than the actually drawn I-shaped inner core?s outer columns in the WTC 1 zone of impact. Figure B-6 of FEMA Study shows an imprint of the I-shaped column on the heavier box column illustrating the huge difference between them.
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The massive boxes can be seen on photographs,
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and in a WTC tower typical floor plan
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available at http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbc-...rade_Tower.gbd; unlike in the following plans used by FEMA Study (Figure 2-1) indicating the huge structural differences between the inner cores in the zones of aircraft impacts below 84th Floor in WTC 2 and way above 84th Floor in WTC 1.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 80flrCore1.gif?dc=4675487518629650035

Not showing in the FEMA Study (Figure 2-25) the massive columns in the WTC 2 impact zone has been misleading, self-serving and unethical.
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One of Achilles? heel were the ?walls? of tower inner cores that unfortunately were just plain and not reinforced sheetrock (gypsum board) partitions with strength comparable to heavy cardboard, and completely vulnerable to the slightly elevated pressure of even a foot kick, hence also to an impact of the actual jet fuel fireballs, or, e.g. a propane gas blast, like in ?Backdraft? (1991) film. So, it seems to be misrepresenting and self-serving the following (underlined) FEMA Study reasoning from p. 2-15 unsubstantially insinuating that wracking of the week and flimsy partitions (also ceiling panels) at WTC 1 indicate structural damage (i.e. to the columns): ?They [witnesses] described extensive building debris in the eastern portion of the central core, preventing their access to the easternmost exit stairway. This suggests the possibility of immediate partial collapse of framing in the central core. These persons also described the presence of debris from collapsed partition walls from upper floors in stairways located further to the west, suggesting the possibility of some structural damage in the northwestern portion of the core framing as well.
Unfortunately, the destruction of flimsy core partitions deprived the stairwells and (elevator) shafts of their enclosure turning them into chimneys and the towers into stacks helping the fires to spread heating bigger floor areas, of which thermal expansion faster collapsed the towers, but not necessarily increased fire temperature. The issue of partitions is irrelevant for the structural analysis except for widening the fires, heat distribution and subsequent thermal expansion speeding up the collapse (increasing casualties), but not changing the mechanism.
To find out, why the towers collapsed so differently, and so to analyze differences between the both airplanes impacts, it is useful to visualize the both zones of aircraft impact on one plan with the correct massive columns only on the WTC 2 side of impact (one plan?s half) and not on the WTC 1 side (other plan?s half), and showing the difference between them (in reality they were present or not at once on both sides), and disregarding the flimsy partition. One plan can show also both areas of damage to the exterior columns, both airplanes at their angles of impact and at the positions of slowing down, where they were not able to inflict any further damage to the exterior columns stronger than the airplanes? soft bodies, when the surviving exterior columns begun damaging airplanes wing ends. Such plan shows also the trajectories of both airplane landing gears and engine found penetrating through the entire floors, and landing far outside the towers.
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The key question is, if the airplanes caused damage to inner core columns, and, if yes, to what extend.
Let?s first start from an obviously false following statement from p. 2-16 of FEMA Study claiming that debris, which passed through the towers [almost intact!], ?doubtlessly? caused damage to core columns, and that the extend of this damage cannot be known (underlined): It is known that some debris from the aircraft traveled completely through the structure. For example, [?]. Part of the landing gear from this aircraft was found at the corner of West and Rector Streets, some five blocks south of the WTC complex (Figure 2-18). As this debris passed through the building, it doubtless caused some level of damage to the structureacross the floor plate, including, potentially, interior framing, core columns, framing at the east, south, and west walls, and the floors themselves. The exact extent of this damage will likely never be known with certainty.
First ? the phrase ?some level of damage? is MANIPULATIVE and MISLEADING, because it includes a near zero level of damage, so technically FEMA is right in any case, because that phrase means that there was or was not damage, i.e. it is truism meaning some level from near 0 to 100 %!
Second ? the debris, which passed completely through the towers almost intact keeping their initial trajectories, certainlycould not have caused any damage to core columns, because it was virtually impossible to strongly hit a column certainly causing a bounce in a different direction, and then come back to the original trajectory requiring ? improbable - another bounce in the exactly opposite direction, and all that at 200 mph and without even a significant damage
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http://groups.msn.com/ ... engine.jpg?dc=4675487520523837191

to the passing engine, which was extremely fragile, or landing gear! So, the opposite of the above FEMA claim is true that the debris, which passed through the towers [almost intact and not changing their initial trajectories], certainly did not cause any structural damage to the towers.So, their free fall can be used to determine their speed of passing through the cores after the initial airplane impacts on the exterior walls. And that is a critical conclusion FEMA avoided at all cost.
Third ? damage to core columns, if any, could have been causes by debris, which did not pass through the towers ? unlike in the above FEMA statement.
Fourth ? once the speed of debris passing through the cores is known, it is possible to model the exact extend of damage [to core columns] with a high degree of certainty opposite to the FEMA insinuation underlined justabove. If the speed was low, because of the enormous strength of the exterior walls absorbing a vast majority of the initial impact energy, it is possible to exclude any significant damage at all, andopposite to FEMA Study. The passing debris issue is critical!
It is obvious that the airplanes entering the towers were constantly loosing speed. The floor plan above shows the positions of both airplanes fully filling the damage holes in the exterior walls between the intact exterior columns on both sides of the damage areas shown above and on Figures 2-27 and 2-16 of FEMA Study. At these positions the airplanes lost so much of their initial speeds that their movement was too slow to cause any further damage to the hard steel exterior columns by their soft aluminum bodies, and the intact exterior columns on both sides of the damage areas started to cut out the airplane wing ends exceeding the damage areas perimeters.
Knowing parameters of the exterior columns and whole towers, wings and Boeing airplanes (they were designed and tested in the computer), it is easily and cheaply to simulate the impacts in the computer, and to get these speeds, but FEMA failed to do so. Why? There were successful Flight 800 or shuttle Columbia crash recreation efforts.
Instead, FEMA Study (p. 2-22) provides, e.g. a useless number of gigawatts of energy were released by both fires, or misleadingly speculates about temperature allegedly reaching 1,400 ?C melting point of steel (p. A-12, 17) implying such a possibility. FEMA Study provides references to the very outdated office fire experiments in 1972 (p. A-3), but DOES NOT conduct any computer simulation of the actual WTC fires, like ? though maybe not perfect - the MSC Marc simulation (http://members.fortunecity.com/911/wtc/wtc-microsoft.htm).
The MSC Marc simulation is useful allowing to conclude that ?It is clear that the fires could not/did not get much above 825?C (and were almost certainly cooler)? and also to ask ?what caused the fire sprinkler system to fail within a few minutes of the impact?, though the included there Boeing 747 collision simulation is out of touch with a WTC reality, because the 767s were less than a half weight of a 747, and the WTC tower structure nor the 767s? speed were not reflected.
Coming back to the floor plan above showing the airplane positions inside the towers, at which they were too slow to inflict any structural damage to both - the exterior columns and stronger inner core columns, the question remains, if airplane debris reaching these positions could have damaged the inner core columns within the front of both airplanes shown on the plan above.
There are four (4) inner core columns within the front of both airplanes. Because both airplanes shattered on impact and the front section of the WTC 1 airplane could not survive to reach the inner pair of columns of the inner core, so further considerations are limited only to the outer pair of columns of the inner core of WTC 1. Because of a greater load and strength of columns at the zone of airplane impact in WTC 2 than in WTC 1 (indicated by the smaller area of damage to exterior columns), it is certain that during the impacts the WTC 2 airplane was slowing down more rapidly than the WTC 1 airplane, and its front was damaged more than of WTC 1?s, hence the two (2) furthest inner core box columns within the front of the WTC 2 airplane can be excluded from a damage consideration.
The almost equal distances from the towers of the fallen almost intact airplane parts after completely penetrating the towers prove that the WTC 2 airplane was slowed down on impact more than the WTC 1 airplane. The schematic here (FEMA Study Figure 1-3) shows the areas of landing of the airplane debris after flying over the whole floors and falling down far beyond of the opposite tower sides to the impact sides of the towers.
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Landing gears of both airplanes completely penetrated both towers. The WTC 2 landing gear (wheel) fell 1212 ft (370 m) from WTC 2, and the WTC 1 one ? 1310 ft (399 m) from WTC 1. The WTC 2 zone of impact was 994 ft (303 m) above the ground, and the WTC 1 zone ? 1178 ft (359 m). There is a simple formula ? on approx. seventh grade level - to calculate speed of projectile at constant downward acceleration (www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/123/lab/M04-Projectile_rev.doc) - in our case ? of 32 ft/s2 (9.8 m/s2) caused by the gravity force, if disregarding air resistance on falling body that shortens distance of falling: velocity=(distance of projectile fall)*{[(constant downward acceleration)/[(height of fall)*2]}^1/2.
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That simple formula (without considering air resistance) allowed calculating the speeds of the landing gears exiting WTC 2 and WTC 1 at 105.3 and 104.3 mph respectively. The actual speeds were higher, but also almost identical, because of similar air resistance. Air resistance (drag) is a product of air density (1.225 kg/m^3), silhouette area A of body (its area as seen from the front), dimensionless constant C called the drag coefficient (that depends on the shape of body), and squared velocity of body divided by doubled mass of body. (Projectile motion with air resistance description can be found, e.g. at http://wps.aw.com/wps/media/objects/877/89...ics/topic01.pdf, and its programming ? at http://www.nyu.edu/classes/rosenberg/AirResistance.html.)
Calculating speeds of the landing gears exiting WTC 2 and WTC 1 with air resistance, two cases were considered. First: gear mass m=150 kg, wheel height of 1.2 m, wheel width of 0.4 m, so area A=0.48 m^2, drag coefficient C=0.5. Second: m=200kg, A=0.6 m^2, C=1.0. In the first case (m=150kg, A=0.48 m^2, C=0.5) the EXIT floor speeds of the landing gears from WTC 2 and WTC 1 were 122.4 and 123 mph respectively, and the preceding ENTRY floor higher speeds - needed to travel through the whole 210 ft (64 m) span of each tower floor after the impact (from initial impactexterior wallto exit window), and leaving at the previously calculatedEXIT speeds - were 130.2 and 130.9 mph respectively. In the second, conservative case (m=200 kg, A=0.6 m^2, C=1.0) the EXITfrom WTC 2 and WTC 1 speeds were 139.8 and 143.2 mph, and the floor ENTRY floor speeds were 156.6 and 160.4 mph, respectively.
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Recordings and a simulation (http://realex.nist.gov/WTCanimation2.ram) show that after the initial airplane impact the resulting fireball expanded through the tower - like a very strong hurricane (much over 100 mph) - ripping off panels of elevation falling down beneath flames, so also leveling everything inside, but columns, and leaving no obstacles slowing down the landing gears and engine traveling through the towers within that fireball hurricane.
Even, if adding a bounce or two from the floor inside the towers not much changing trajectory, but increasing the landing gears speed from the calculated 160 mph without bounces to around 200 mph with bounces, the plans still lost more than 50 % of their initial speeds on the initial impacts with exterior columns, so more than 75% of their destructive (kinetic) energy (proportional to velocity squared v^2 and mass m, so when velocity drops by 1/2, energy drops by ? to 1/4, because [1/2]^2=1/4), so the airplane destructive power to damage inner core columns decreased at least four (4!) times after the initial impacts, FEMA Study ignores and MISREPRESENTS on p. 2-16 claiming that ?The exact extent of this damage will likely never be known with certainty? manipulatively implying that some damage had to occur and nothing can be done, because its exact extend cannot be known with certainty, and that is necessary to solve the mechanism of the collapse, and anything else is not good enough, and so it is appropriate not even attempt to assess the damage, nor to conduct a structural analysis based on probabilities, nor to consider more than one possibility, nor to consider that no significant damage to the columns could have happened at all at 200 mph most likely, i.e. that it is fine to refrain from further considerations, and it is the only way to proceed, because there is ?no smoking gun?.
The ?no smoking gun? theory excusing from an effort, if problems were difficult, does not apply to positions including a full responsibility for dealing with the problems especially, if someone else could have sat down for a half of year and solve them. The use of the ?no smoking gun? excuse and not even attempting solving problems by those, who are responsible, proves their incompetence or worse. Before using it, look in your job description and think twice before claiming the ?no smoking gun? excuse! A ?smoking gun? is not served on a silver platter. It grows and becomes more visible while you work intelligently to solve a problem, and elements without an apparent meaning or connection start to build a whole picture, and a smoking gun emerges becoming more visible step by step.
The exterior columns slowed down the WTC 2 airplane impacting at 590 mph more than the exterior columns slowed the WTC 1 airplane impacting at 470mph with only 63 % of the kinetic energy of the WTC 2 airplane, to almost identical landing gear exit speeds. Additionally, the debris passing entirely through WTC 2 did not go through the inner core unlike in WTC 1, but near the core, so on the debris path were no columns to bounce from slowing WTC2 debris down unlike in WTC 1. It means that the landing gear passing entirely through WTC 1 did not bounced as well, because, if it had retaining on exit the same speed as the WTC 2 debris without bouncing, the speed of debris in WTC 1 would have been actually greater than in WTC 2 rendering the FEMA conclusion just plain insane. The fact that the exit speeds were almost identical clearly indicates that the WTC 2 exterior columns were much stronger and resistant to damage than the columns of WTC 1, as they supposed to be, because of their greater load. By the same principal, the WTC 2 zone of impact inner core columns were much stronger than of WTC 1. So, after passing the exterior columns with similar speeds in both towers, the airplane debris could not damage the much stronger inner columns of WTC 2 more than those of WTC1 with 100% certainty and contrary to the FEMA conclusion!
The fall of the WTC 2 airplane engine not much farther from the landing gear fall indicates that the landing gear was not slowed down much inside the tower, because the gear behind the engine in the airplane impacted a moment latter at a slightly lower speed of the slowing down by the impact airplane while the slimmer engine was still rotating. This points to the initial impact, as the separation event that did not distort much the trajectories, but certainly trashed the wings slightly rotating them back, separated the engines pushing their trajectories slightly outward, and also had to free the landing gears leaving not much of the airplane front fuselages as a whole, which had to further slow down plowing through the concrete (which doubled its strength after 30 years) of the floor(s) in order to reach the inner core columns to damage them. So, the exit speeds of the debris passing entirely through the towers are certain indicators that the initial impacts slowed down the airplanes by more than a half of their initial speeds. So, it seems like FEMA purposely neglected to conduct computer simulations of the initial impacts to avoid reaching a right conclusion!
Watching bad airplane accidents at landings, it is apparent that they are very fragile and brake on impact with hard surfaces at landing speeds. So, both airplanes hitting the towers at maximum speeds were disintegrating on initial impact. The superimposed airplane profiles not fitting well the exterior structural damage areas clearly indicate shifts of airplane parts hitting the towers latter (farther back in the airplane) from their initial location within the profiles. These shifts could have been only caused by airplane deformation resulting from the disintegration on the initial impacts. E.g. just after the initial moment of impact the airplane wings started to roll up causing the damage above their initial positions, as indicated above by the damage to the exterior columns above the superimposed airplane profiles, etc.
The airplane disintegration on initial impact is supported by the fall of the WTC 2 airplane engine slightly further than of the same airplane?s landing gear, because the engine - more up front than the landing gear - hit the tower, separated from the airplane earlier, and at a slightly higher airplane?s speed (decreasing on impact) than the landing gear impacting a moment latter at a slightly lower speed. Only a small deviation of the WTC 2 part trajectories from that airplane direction before impact also points to the airplanes disintegration on the initial impacts despite that the WTC 1 airplane landing gear probably slightly bounced from a column deviating from the airplane trajectory before exiting the tower.
Disintegration on the initial impact means that resulting separated airplane pieces lacked significant energy to exert damaging pressure on inner core columns protected by their load and strength much greater than exterior columns of the same floor. The flying pieces (except the hard engine shafts, as Peter Bressington of Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers explained showing a simulation at 33 min. of Inventions, Building to Extremes show on PBS) did not have energy to structurally damage the inner core columns contrary to the FEMA conclusion. FEMA chose not to conduct cheap computer impact simulations maybe to avoid pointing toward revealing tower design inadequacies reducing reasons to go to war with Iraq, butat the expense of orphans and widows.
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Hi Zoktober. Tell me, does it strike you and the author as at all relevant that 100's of plane passengers died?...and the fact that they would have died irrespective of what damage/loss of life occurred in relation to the towers?

Don't you think that whether or not the towers collapsed, the loss of life and the 'terror threat' symbolism involved in those plane attacks would have been sufficient, and seized upon, as an excuse by the Bush administration to justify what they wanted to do?

It seems to me that this essay is 'fiddling while Rome burns' kind of thing....since it practically seems to discount the lives of the plane passengers in order to make its somewhat questionable and disingenuous 'point' about TOWER damage by the planes, at the expense of those lives lost from the planes themselves.

While I agree, and have ALREADY long ago pointed out that the architect/city planners/developers/builders etc had a lot to answer for, it seems a little 'mercenary' and somewhat 'callous' to make it sound as if ONLY the damage/loss in the TOWERS was important to the govt/others. Just had to ask, mate. Cheers!

RC.
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Commen sense
QUOTE (zoktoberfest+Mar 11 2006, 05:57 AM)
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/09/296788.shtml

FEMA misled the public about the WTC collapse!
author: Eugene Tenenbaum
Had WTC been built correctly, it should have burned out and not collapsed, causing smaller material damage and much fewer victims among almost 1000, who died under the zones of impact in and around the both towers. Because the retribution should be proportional to the injury, so exposing design flaws causing the WTC collapse would have weakened the argument for the retribution war in Iraq. Hiding design flaws blame for part of the injury, and keeping all blame on the attackers, implied more retribution, i.e. a stronger argument for the war. FEMA used very sophisticated technical tricks to avoid truth pointing to design flaws and corruption of the WTC capital project.

WTC 1 versus WTC 2
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----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene Tenenbaum
To: info@9-11Commission.gov ; Jamie.Gorelick@wilmerhale.com ; director@wwic.si.edu ; rben-veniste@mayerbrownrowe.com ; ffielding@wrf.com ; sladeg@prestongates.com ; jthompson@winston.com ; PZelikow@9-11Commission.gov ; CKojm@9-11Commission.gov ; DMarcus@9-11Commission.gov
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 4:50 AM
Subject: FEMA contradicts laws of physics in the WTC collapse Study!

Dear 9/11 Commissioner,
Below is a very serious argumenttoverify the FEMA Study about the WTC collapse. The Study seems tocontradict laws of physicsat victim relatives? expense maybein supportto the war in Iraq or else youwill be able to find out.
It isjustthebeginning of a broader piece I intend to publish very soon. If you do not verify it now, you will not be able to say latter that you did not know about it, because I intend to include in my publication a note informing that I sent you this fragment today.
Sincerely, Eugene Tenenbaum
FEMA contradicts laws of physics in the WTC collapse Study!
By Eugene Tenenbaum, 3985 Gouverneur Av, #1B, Bronx, NY 10463, Copyright ? 2004 Eugene Tenenbaum
Jul. 17, 2004
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (or ?FEMA?) misleadingly implies in its Study?s key conclusion (or ?the FEMA conclusion? or ?the conclusion?), about the WTC collapse, that the airplane impacts caused a decisive damage, and so purposely skips analyzing a) the faulty structural design, guarantying the towers to fall under any extensive fire, and cool.gif the faulty design review and approval process that should have prevented it.
The conclusion in question is the last and underlined sentence of the following quotation from ?World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations? FEMA 403 ? September 2002 ? Second Printing (or ?FEMA Study? or ?the Study?) available, e.g. at http://www.fema.gov/library/wtcstudy.shtm or else:
FEMA Study, Chapter (or ?Ch.?) 2, pp. 2-31/32: ?There are some important differences between the impact of the aircraft into WTC 2 and the impact into WTC 1. First, United Airlines Flight 175 was flying much faster, with an estimated speed of 590 mph, while American Airlines Flight 11 was flying at approximately 470 mph. The additional speed would have given the aircraft a greater ability to destroy portions of the structure. The zone of aircraft impact was skewed toward the southeast corner of WTC 2, while the zone of impact on WTC 1 was approximately centered on the building?s north face. The orientation of the core in WTC 2 was such that the aircraft debris would only have to travel 35 feet across the floor before it began to impact and damage elements of the core structure. Finally, the zone of impact in WTC 2 was nearly 20 stories lower than that in WTC 1, so columns in this area were carrying substantially larger loads. It is possible, therefore, that structural damage to WTC 2 was more severe than that to WTC 1, partly explaining why WTC 2 collapsed more quickly than WTC 1.?
Apparently, it looks? almost logical, if not for two fundamental problems. First, less important - as the airplane hit WTC 2 not perpendicularly, so only its speed?s component perpendicular to the WTC 2 face caused the damage, because the parallel component slide along the face, therefore the effective, damaging speed was less than 590 mph (it would be nice to have at least fifth grade?s observations, but maybe, because the Study contains only preliminary observations, so it does not rise above the fourth grade?s level)!
Second, essential - as WTC 2 was hit at 80th Floor twice as low from the roof than WTC 1 was at 96th Floor, and there were 30 floors above the WTC 2 zone of impact (or ?zone?), but only 15 floors above the WTC 1 zone, and so internal core (or ?core?) columns at 80th Floor carried load twice of a load at 96th Floor, and exterior columns in the WTC 2 zone carried roughly 20 % more of a building weight load then in the WTC 1 zone, but additionally strength added to exterior columns against wind pressure load 30 floors below the roof was roughly four times that added only 15 floors below the roof, so exterior tubular columns in the WTC 2 zone had roughly two and a quarter more of strength than in the WTC 1 zone, and internal core corner column in front of the WTC 2 airplane nose had four times more of total strength than the mid-side core outer column in front of the WTC 1 airplane nose. There was no wind nor column wind load on the 9/11.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1+2Col.jpg?dc=4675487510671384236

http://groups.msn.com/ ... 15-30Flr.gif?dc=4675487510799686045

Therefore, thestructural damage to WTC 2 was LESS severe than that to WTC1on the contrary to the FEMA conclusion, because the columns in the WTC 2 zone had double-quadruple of a strength of WTC 1?s, but the WTC 2 airplane speed was only 26 % greater, and its kinetic (destructive) energy only 58% greater than the WTC 1 airplane, so much less than the double-quadruple strength and mass advantage. In other words, the advantage of WTC 2 zone column strength over WTC 1?s was much greater than the advantage of the WTC 2 airplane destructive energy over WTC 1?s.
That observation is so simple and obvious that the cited above FEMA staggeringly false conclusion is difficult to explain by a mistake. So, who decided to make it? Any idea why? Could the intended war against Iraq play a role? Would the possibility of a faulty WTC design contributing to or even causing its collapse have deterred the public opinion from supporting the war the Administration had afraid of? You are invited to answer these questions.
To see, how obviously the FEMA conclusion is wrong (if you forget from school), as well as to show it to five-year-old children, just borrow any blocks from them, build a column by stocking a few blocks vertically (one on another) and hit the column in the middle, so it collapses. Next build again the same column, put your hand on the top of it, press the hand down, and try to collapse the column by hitting like before. It is impossible, if you pressed strong enough!
http://groups.msn.com/ ... collapse.gif?dc=4675487510967116596

?Greater load representing greater strength and resistance to damage? can be recognized in every kindergarten, but not in FEMA despite that actual FEMA Study?s Figures 2-27 and 2-16, as well as the similar Damage Area figures below, CLEARLY show that the structural damage to the exterior columns of WTC 2 was (34 %) smaller by area than of WTC 1, illustrating that simple law of physics at work.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1holePh.jpg?dc=4675487511123431135

http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1hole1.gif?dc=4675487518034240309

http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC2hole1.gif?dc=4675487518156626198

The actual damage areas to WTC 1 and WTC 2 exterior columns were 1,607 and 1,044 square feet respectively! Following the pattern, the structural damage to internal columns of WTC 2 should have been also LESS severe than in WTC 1 opposite to the FEMA conclusion.
FEMA - of course - could defend its conclusion claming using the word "possible", but it implies the greater chance of only two possible (much greater or smaller), as meant chance "that structural damage to WTC 2 was more severe". To describe as possible a minuscule chance qualifies as MISREPRESENTATION, e.g. if a chance of a less severe structural damage to WTC 2 was 99.999 %, so the more severe damage to it was still possible (with probability of just 0.001 %), so technically FEMA Study's report was (always) true, but with the reasonable doubts of 99.999 %!
Maybe ?incompetent? authors wrote FEMA Study in a good faith?Their omission from the inner core (or ?core?) in the WTC 2 plan at the zone of aircraft impact of the massive box columns - which greater strength contradicts their conclusion - rather suggestsa self-serving misrepresentation.
The misrepresented outer columns of the core at 84th Floor and below (within the zone of impact in WTC 2, but not in WTC 1?s) were significantly heavier boxes 36x14-16 inches made of ?- 4-inch plates (FEMA Study, p. B-2) than the actually drawn I-shaped inner core?s outer columns in the WTC 1 zone of impact. Figure B-6 of FEMA Study shows an imprint of the I-shaped column on the heavier box column illustrating the huge difference between them.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 85flrCol.jpg?dc=4675487518322263997

The massive boxes can be seen on photographs,
http://groups.msn.com/ ... Constr.jpg?dc=4675487518414701238

and in a WTC tower typical floor plan
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 80flrCore.gif?dc=4675487518524784431

available at http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbc-...rade_Tower.gbd; unlike in the following plans used by FEMA Study (Figure 2-1) indicating the huge structural differences between the inner cores in the zones of aircraft impacts below 84th Floor in WTC 2 and way above 84th Floor in WTC 1.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 80flrCore1.gif?dc=4675487518629650035

Not showing in the FEMA Study (Figure 2-25) the massive columns in the WTC 2 impact zone has been misleading, self-serving and unethical.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... 80floor.gif?dc=4675487518724027964

One of Achilles? heel were the ?walls? of tower inner cores that unfortunately were just plain and not reinforced sheetrock (gypsum board) partitions with strength comparable to heavy cardboard, and completely vulnerable to the slightly elevated pressure of even a foot kick, hence also to an impact of the actual jet fuel fireballs, or, e.g. a propane gas blast, like in ?Backdraft? (1991) film. So, it seems to be misrepresenting and self-serving the following (underlined) FEMA Study reasoning from p. 2-15 unsubstantially insinuating that wracking of the week and flimsy partitions (also ceiling panels) at WTC 1 indicate structural damage (i.e. to the columns): ?They [witnesses] described extensive building debris in the eastern portion of the central core, preventing their access to the easternmost exit stairway. This suggests the possibility of immediate partial collapse of framing in the central core. These persons also described the presence of debris from collapsed partition walls from upper floors in stairways located further to the west, suggesting the possibility of some structural damage in the northwestern portion of the core framing as well.
Unfortunately, the destruction of flimsy core partitions deprived the stairwells and (elevator) shafts of their enclosure turning them into chimneys and the towers into stacks helping the fires to spread heating bigger floor areas, of which thermal expansion faster collapsed the towers, but not necessarily increased fire temperature. The issue of partitions is irrelevant for the structural analysis except for widening the fires, heat distribution and subsequent thermal expansion speeding up the collapse (increasing casualties), but not changing the mechanism.
To find out, why the towers collapsed so differently, and so to analyze differences between the both airplanes impacts, it is useful to visualize the both zones of aircraft impact on one plan with the correct massive columns only on the WTC 2 side of impact (one plan?s half) and not on the WTC 1 side (other plan?s half), and showing the difference between them (in reality they were present or not at once on both sides), and disregarding the flimsy partition. One plan can show also both areas of damage to the exterior columns, both airplanes at their angles of impact and at the positions of slowing down, where they were not able to inflict any further damage to the exterior columns stronger than the airplanes? soft bodies, when the surviving exterior columns begun damaging airplanes wing ends. Such plan shows also the trajectories of both airplane landing gears and engine found penetrating through the entire floors, and landing far outside the towers.
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The key question is, if the airplanes caused damage to inner core columns, and, if yes, to what extend.
Let?s first start from an obviously false following statement from p. 2-16 of FEMA Study claiming that debris, which passed through the towers [almost intact!], ?doubtlessly? caused damage to core columns, and that the extend of this damage cannot be known (underlined): It is known that some debris from the aircraft traveled completely through the structure. For example, [?]. Part of the landing gear from this aircraft was found at the corner of West and Rector Streets, some five blocks south of the WTC complex (Figure 2-18). As this debris passed through the building, it doubtless caused some level of damage to the structureacross the floor plate, including, potentially, interior framing, core columns, framing at the east, south, and west walls, and the floors themselves. The exact extent of this damage will likely never be known with certainty.
First ? the phrase ?some level of damage? is MANIPULATIVE and MISLEADING, because it includes a near zero level of damage, so technically FEMA is right in any case, because that phrase means that there was or was not damage, i.e. it is truism meaning some level from near 0 to 100 %!
Second ? the debris, which passed completely through the towers almost intact keeping their initial trajectories, certainlycould not have caused any damage to core columns, because it was virtually impossible to strongly hit a column certainly causing a bounce in a different direction, and then come back to the original trajectory requiring ? improbable - another bounce in the exactly opposite direction, and all that at 200 mph and without even a significant damage
http://groups.msn.com/ ... WTC1Wheel.jpg?dc=4675487520409325409

http://groups.msn.com/ ... engine.jpg?dc=4675487520523837191

to the passing engine, which was extremely fragile, or landing gear! So, the opposite of the above FEMA claim is true that the debris, which passed through the towers [almost intact and not changing their initial trajectories], certainly did not cause any structural damage to the towers.So, their free fall can be used to determine their speed of passing through the cores after the initial airplane impacts on the exterior walls. And that is a critical conclusion FEMA avoided at all cost.
Third ? damage to core columns, if any, could have been causes by debris, which did not pass through the towers ? unlike in the above FEMA statement.
Fourth ? once the speed of debris passing through the cores is known, it is possible to model the exact extend of damage [to core columns] with a high degree of certainty opposite to the FEMA insinuation underlined justabove. If the speed was low, because of the enormous strength of the exterior walls absorbing a vast majority of the initial impact energy, it is possible to exclude any significant damage at all, andopposite to FEMA Study. The passing debris issue is critical!
It is obvious that the airplanes entering the towers were constantly loosing speed. The floor plan above shows the positions of both airplanes fully filling the damage holes in the exterior walls between the intact exterior columns on both sides of the damage areas shown above and on Figures 2-27 and 2-16 of FEMA Study. At these positions the airplanes lost so much of their initial speeds that their movement was too slow to cause any further damage to the hard steel exterior columns by their soft aluminum bodies, and the intact exterior columns on both sides of the damage areas started to cut out the airplane wing ends exceeding the damage areas perimeters.
Knowing parameters of the exterior columns and whole towers, wings and Boeing airplanes (they were designed and tested in the computer), it is easily and cheaply to simulate the impacts in the computer, and to get these speeds, but FEMA failed to do so. Why? There were successful Flight 800 or shuttle Columbia crash recreation efforts.
Instead, FEMA Study (p. 2-22) provides, e.g. a useless number of gigawatts of energy were released by both fires, or misleadingly speculates about temperature allegedly reaching 1,400 ?C melting point of steel (p. A-12, 17) implying such a possibility. FEMA Study provides references to the very outdated office fire experiments in 1972 (p. A-3), but DOES NOT conduct any computer simulation of the actual WTC fires, like ? though maybe not perfect - the MSC Marc simulation (http://members.fortunecity.com/911/wtc/wtc-microsoft.htm).
The MSC Marc simulation is useful allowing to conclude that ?It is clear that the fires could not/did not get much above 825?C (and were almost certainly cooler)? and also to ask ?what caused the fire sprinkler system to fail within a few minutes of the impact?, though the included there Boeing 747 collision simulation is out of touch with a WTC reality, because the 767s were less than a half weight of a 747, and the WTC tower structure nor the 767s? speed were not reflected.
Coming back to the floor plan above showing the airplane positions inside the towers, at which they were too slow to inflict any structural damage to both - the exterior columns and stronger inner core columns, the question remains, if airplane debris reaching these positions could have damaged the inner core columns within the front of both airplanes shown on the plan above.
There are four (4) inner core columns within the front of both airplanes. Because both airplanes shattered on impact and the front section of the WTC 1 airplane could not survive to reach the inner pair of columns of the inner core, so further considerations are limited only to the outer pair of columns of the inner core of WTC 1. Because of a greater load and strength of columns at the zone of airplane impact in WTC 2 than in WTC 1 (indicated by the smaller area of damage to exterior columns), it is certain that during the impacts the WTC 2 airplane was slowing down more rapidly than the WTC 1 airplane, and its front was damaged more than of WTC 1?s, hence the two (2) furthest inner core box columns within the front of the WTC 2 airplane can be excluded from a damage consideration.
The almost equal distances from the towers of the fallen almost intact airplane parts after completely penetrating the towers prove that the WTC 2 airplane was slowed down on impact more than the WTC 1 airplane. The schematic here (FEMA Study Figure 1-3) shows the areas of landing of the airplane debris after flying over the whole floors and falling down far beyond of the opposite tower sides to the impact sides of the towers.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... trajectory.gif?dc=4675487520854311063

Landing gears of both airplanes completely penetrated both towers. The WTC 2 landing gear (wheel) fell 1212 ft (370 m) from WTC 2, and the WTC 1 one ? 1310 ft (399 m) from WTC 1. The WTC 2 zone of impact was 994 ft (303 m) above the ground, and the WTC 1 zone ? 1178 ft (359 m). There is a simple formula ? on approx. seventh grade level - to calculate speed of projectile at constant downward acceleration (www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/123/lab/M04-Projectile_rev.doc) - in our case ? of 32 ft/s2 (9.8 m/s2) caused by the gravity force, if disregarding air resistance on falling body that shortens distance of falling: velocity=(distance of projectile fall)*{[(constant downward acceleration)/[(height of fall)*2]}^1/2.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... projectile.gif?dc=4675487520935963164

That simple formula (without considering air resistance) allowed calculating the speeds of the landing gears exiting WTC 2 and WTC 1 at 105.3 and 104.3 mph respectively. The actual speeds were higher, but also almost identical, because of similar air resistance. Air resistance (drag) is a product of air density (1.225 kg/m^3), silhouette area A of body (its area as seen from the front), dimensionless constant C called the drag coefficient (that depends on the shape of body), and squared velocity of body divided by doubled mass of body. (Projectile motion with air resistance description can be found, e.g. at http://wps.aw.com/wps/media/objects/877/89...ics/topic01.pdf, and its programming ? at http://www.nyu.edu/classes/rosenberg/AirResistance.html.)
Calculating speeds of the landing gears exiting WTC 2 and WTC 1 with air resistance, two cases were considered. First: gear mass m=150 kg, wheel height of 1.2 m, wheel width of 0.4 m, so area A=0.48 m^2, drag coefficient C=0.5. Second: m=200kg, A=0.6 m^2, C=1.0. In the first case (m=150kg, A=0.48 m^2, C=0.5) the EXIT floor speeds of the landing gears from WTC 2 and WTC 1 were 122.4 and 123 mph respectively, and the preceding ENTRY floor higher speeds - needed to travel through the whole 210 ft (64 m) span of each tower floor after the impact (from initial impactexterior wallto exit window), and leaving at the previously calculatedEXIT speeds - were 130.2 and 130.9 mph respectively. In the second, conservative case (m=200 kg, A=0.6 m^2, C=1.0) the EXITfrom WTC 2 and WTC 1 speeds were 139.8 and 143.2 mph, and the floor ENTRY floor speeds were 156.6 and 160.4 mph, respectively.
http://groups.msn.com/ ... fireball.jpg?dc=4675487521048857175

Recordings and a simulation (http://realex.nist.gov/WTCanimation2.ram) show that after the initial airplane impact the resulting fireball expanded through the tower - like a very strong hurricane (much over 100 mph) - ripping off panels of elevation falling down beneath flames, so also leveling everything inside, but columns, and leaving no obstacles slowing down the landing gears and engine traveling through the towers within that fireball hurricane.
Even, if adding a bounce or two from the floor inside the towers not much changing trajectory, but increasing the landing gears speed from the calculated 160 mph without bounces to around 200 mph with bounces, the plans still lost more than 50 % of their initial speeds on the initial impacts with exterior columns, so more than 75% of their destructive (kinetic) energy (proportional to velocity squared v^2 and mass m, so when velocity drops by 1/2, energy drops by ? to 1/4, because [1/2]^2=1/4), so the airplane destructive power to damage inner core columns decreased at least four (4!) times after the initial impacts, FEMA Study ignores and MISREPRESENTS on p. 2-16 claiming that ?The exact extent of this damage will likely never be known with certainty? manipulatively implying that some damage had to occur and nothing can be done, because its exact extend cannot be known with certainty, and that is necessary to solve the mechanism of the collapse, and anything else is not good enough, and so it is appropriate not even attempt to assess the damage, nor to conduct a structural analysis based on probabilities, nor to consider more than one possibility, nor to consider that no significant damage to the columns could have happened at all at 200 mph most likely, i.e. that it is fine to refrain from further considerations, and it is the only way to proceed, because there is ?no smoking gun?.
The ?no smoking gun? theory excusing from an effort, if problems were difficult, does not apply to positions including a full responsibility for dealing with the problems especially, if someone else could have sat down for a half of year and solve them. The use of the ?no smoking gun? excuse and not even attempting solving problems by those, who are responsible, proves their incompetence or worse. Before using it, look in your job description and think twice before claiming the ?no smoking gun? excuse! A ?smoking gun? is not served on a silver platter. It grows and becomes more visible while you work intelligently to solve a problem, and elements without an apparent meaning or connection start to build a whole picture, and a smoking gun emerges becoming more visible step by step.
The exterior columns slowed down the WTC 2 airplane impacting at 590 mph more than the exterior columns slowed the WTC 1 airplane impacting at 470mph with only 63 % of the kinetic energy of the WTC 2 airplane, to almost identical landing gear exit speeds. Additionally, the debris passing entirely through WTC 2 did not go through the inner core unlike in WTC 1, but near the core, so on the debris path were no columns to bounce from slowing WTC2 debris down unlike in WTC 1. It means that the landing gear passing entirely through WTC 1 did not bounced as well, because, if it had retaining on exit the same speed as the WTC 2 debris without bouncing, the speed of debris in WTC 1 would have been actually greater than in WTC 2 rendering the FEMA conclusion just plain insane. The fact that the exit speeds were almost identical clearly indicates that the WTC 2 exterior columns were much stronger and resistant to damage than the columns of WTC 1, as they supposed to be, because of their greater load. By the same principal, the WTC 2 zone of impact inner core columns were much stronger than of WTC 1. So, after passing the exterior columns with similar speeds in both towers, the airplane debris could not damage the much stronger inner columns of WTC 2 more than those of WTC1 with 100% certainty and contrary to the FEMA conclusion!
The fall of the WTC 2 airplane engine not much farther from the landing gear fall indicates that the landing gear was not slowed down much inside the tower, because the gear behind the engine in the airplane impacted a moment latter at a slightly lower speed of the slowing down by the impact airplane while the slimmer engine was still rotating. This points to the initial impact, as the separation event that did not distort much the trajectories, but certainly trashed the wings slightly rotating them back, separated the engines pushing their trajectories slightly outward, and also had to free the landing gears leaving not much of the airplane front fuselages as a whole, which had to further slow down plowing through the concrete (which doubled its strength after 30 years) of the floor(s) in order to reach the inner core columns to damage them. So, the exit speeds of the debris passing entirely through the towers are certain indicators that the initial impacts slowed down the airplanes by more than a half of their initial speeds. So, it seems like FEMA purposely neglected to conduct computer simulations of the initial impacts to avoid reaching a right conclusion!
Watching bad airplane accidents at landings, it is apparent that they are very fragile and brake on impact with hard surfaces at landing speeds. So, both airplanes hitting the towers at maximum speeds were disintegrating on initial impact. The superimposed airplane profiles not fitting well the exterior structural damage areas clearly indicate shifts of airplane parts hitting the towers latter (farther back in the airplane) from their initial location within the profiles. These shifts could have been only caused by airplane deformation resulting from the disintegration on the initial impacts. E.g. just after the initial moment of impact the airplane wings started to roll up causing the damage above their initial positions, as indicated above by the damage to the exterior columns above the superimposed airplane profiles, etc.
The airplane disintegration on initial impact is supported by the fall of the WTC 2 airplane engine slightly further than of the same airplane?s landing gear, because the engine - more up front than the landing gear - hit the tower, separated from the airplane earlier, and at a slightly higher airplane?s speed (decreasing on impact) than the landing gear impacting a moment latter at a slightly lower speed. Only a small deviation of the WTC 2 part trajectories from that airplane direction before impact also points to the airplanes disintegration on the initial impacts despite that the WTC 1 airplane landing gear probably slightly bounced from a column deviating from the airplane trajectory before exiting the tower.
Disintegration on the initial impact means that resulting separated airplane pieces lacked significant energy to exert damaging pressure on inner core columns protected by their load and strength much greater than exterior columns of the same floor. The flying pieces (except the hard engine shafts, as Peter Bressington of Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers explained showing a simulation at 33 min. of Inventions, Building to Extremes show on PBS) did not have energy to structurally damage the inner core columns contrary to the FEMA conclusion. FEMA chose not to conduct cheap computer impact simulations maybe to avoid pointing toward revealing tower design inadequacies reducing reasons to go to war with Iraq, butat the expense of orphans and widows.
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I've always said one spam deserves another...

The real story...

The now infamous quote:

"Battalion Seven Chief: "Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones."

Ladder 15: "What stair are you in, Orio?"

Battalion Seven Aide: "Seven Alpha to lobby command post."

Ladder Fifteen: "Fifteen to Battalion Seven."

Battalion Seven Chief: "... Ladder 15."

Ladder 15: "Chief, what stair you in?"

Battalion Seven Chief: "South stairway Adam, South Tower
."

Now look at this...

USA Today graphic

South tower is WTC 2. Proof on page 4 below

http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/Media_Public_Brie...40505_final.pdf

As you can see the South Staircase (Adam) on the South Tower was not damaged as much because of large, heavily constructed elevator equipment which protected it. Also, the 78th floor damage was caused by one of the wing tips. So it’s not unreasonable to expect two small fires. What was above those floors is the question not answered by the fireman’s quote. If there were two small fires on the 78th floor where just a wing tip entered, what must the 81st floor be like where the nose of the aircraft hit?

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Pull means “PULL” teams out…

Here is the interview which I'm sure you know about...

"I remember getting a call from the Fire Department commander, telling me they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, you know, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is just pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

-Fact which is undisputed by either side, he was talking to the fire commander

-Fact which is undisputed by either side, both are not in the demolition business

"Silverstein's spokesperson, Mr. McQuillan, later clarified:

"In the afternoon of September 11, Mr. Silverstein spoke to the Fire Department Commander on site at Seven World Trade Center. The Commander told Mr. Silverstein that there were several firefighters in the building working to contain the fires. Mr. Silverstein expressed his view that the most important thing was to protect the safety of those firefighters, including, if necessary, to have them withdraw from the building."

He could be lying right? But here is the corroborating evidence...

"They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it, coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up. Looking over the smaller buildings. I just remember it was tremendous, tremendous fires going on. Finally they pulled us out. They said all right, get out of that building because that 7, they were really worried about. They pulled us out of there and then they regrouped everybody on Vesey Street, between the water and West Street. They put everybody back in there. Finally it did come down. From there - this is much later on in the day, because every day we were so worried about that building we didn't really want to get people close. They were trying to limit the amount of people that were in there. Finally it did come down." - Richard Banaciski

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...ski_Richard.txt

Here is more evidence they pulled the teams out waiting for a normal collapse from fire...

"The most important operational decision to be made that afternoon was the collapse (Of the WTC towers) had damaged 7 World Trade Center, which is about a 50 story building, at Vesey between West Broadway and Washington Street. It had very heavy fire on many floors and I ordered the evacuation of an area sufficient around to protect our members, so we had to give up some rescue operations that were going on at the time and back the people away far enough so that if 7 World Trade did collapse, we [wouldn't] lose any more people. We continued to operate on what we could from that distance and approximately an hour and a half after that order was [given], at 5:30 in the afternoon, World Trade Center collapsed completely" - Daniel Nigro, Chief of Department

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...igro_Daniel.txt

"Early on, there was concern that 7 World Trade Center might have been both impacted by the collapsing tower and had several fires in it and there was a concern that it might collapse. So we instructed that a collapse area -- (Q. A collapse zone?) -- Yeah -- be set up and maintained so that when the expected collapse of 7 happened, we wouldn't have people working in it. There was considerable discussion with Con Ed regarding the substation in that building and the feeders and the oil coolants and so on. And their concern was of the type of fire we might have when it collapsed." - Chief Cruthers

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...IC/Cruthers.txt

"Then we found out, I guess around 3:00 [o'clock], that they thought 7 was going to collapse. So, of course, [we've] got guys all in this pile over here and the main concern was get everybody out, and I guess it took us over an hour and a half, two hours to get everybody out of there. (Q. Initially when you were there, you had said you heard a few Maydays?) Oh, yes. We had Maydays like crazy.... The heat must have been tremendous. There was so much [expletive] fire there. This whole pile was burning like crazy. Just the heat and the smoke from all the other buildings on fire, you [couldn't] see anything. So it took us a while and we ended up backing everybody out, and [that's] when 7 collapsed.... Basically, we fell back for 7 to collapse, and then we waited a while and it got a lot more organized, I would guess." - Lieutenant William Ryan

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyreg...yan_William.txt

What we have for sure...

Silverstein is not a demolition expert and was talking to a fire fighter and not a demolition expert. Why would he use the word "Pull" to describe the demolition to a fire fighter?

Silverstein denies "Pull" means "Controlled demolition". He said it means "Pull" the teams out of the building.

Silverstein did not make the decision to "Pull". (Whatever that means) "they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse"

Another fire fighter used "Pull" to describe the decision made to get him out of the building.

Maybe none of these things by themselves mean anything but together it means there is no case. The person who said "Pull" and started this cascade later clarified. Fireman use the word "Pull" to describe getting out of a building and the person who made the order was not Silverstein according to the same first interview.

It means "PULL" the teams out!

9/11 conspiracy sites are being dishonest. You have to ask yourself why?


http://msnbc.com/m/mp/dwvideo.asp?v=n_banf...sevenwtc_010911

They are interviewing this woman with Building 7 in the background because they knew well in advance the building was going to collapse. The reporter says “This is it” as if they are waiting for the collapse. Then the other reporter says “What we’ve been fearing all afternoon has finally happened.” Why did they fear a controlled demolition? If it was a secret demolition for money why did the media know about it ahead of time?

More from another blogger…

RealityCheck

“(1) In your own quote we have a Fire Dept. COMMANDER saying: "....they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire......". How and why is everyone ignoring the fact that the COMMANDER, obviously based on his relevant/authoritative experience/knowledge, judges that the WTC7 fire is OUT OF CONTROL!

I ask any reasonable person to tell me WHAT POSSIBLE OPINION from ANY 'civilian' could have been persuasive enough to CHANGE THE COMMANDER'S MIND enough to continue with a 'lost cause'? [....the persistence with which 'lost cause' could only INEVITABLY have resulted in greater loss of life than if they "pulled back" NOW and leave it to burn out while concentrate on preventing its spread further afield, heh? ].

So, whatever Silverstein might have WANTED, in light of what the COMMANDER said, it is OBVIOUS to any reasonable person that Silverstein could have had little OTHER choice than to recognize and acquiesce/concur with the FIRE COMMANDER'S professional judgement. Wouldn't you agree?

(2) As to the term "pull":

Given that the fire department is organised/regimented along semi-milaristic lines (evidence terms such as Battalion and Commander), would it seem unreasonable to find that OTHER traditional 'military' terms are used?......like withdraw or move out or PULL (back) etc. .......in such a structure/culture as in a FIRE DEPT. COMMAND STRUCTURE manoeuvring/ordering about MANY 'troops' (firemen)? I for one would find it extraordinary if such an organisation did NOT use such traditional and well understood/useful (and to the point) terms to ISSUE ORDERS WHICH COULD NOT BE MISUNDERSTOOD EVEN IN THE HEAT OF 'BATTLE' (remember the term "Battalion" which is part of their organisational/operational structure?).

That's it. Just thought I'd comment on what seemed to be obvious points that no-one seems to get. Ciao and good luck, hereward!

RC.




WTC Building 7 appears to have suffered significant damage at some point after the WTC Towers had collapsed, according to firefighters at the scene. Firefighter Butch Brandies tells other firefighters that nobody is to go into Building 7 because of creaking and noises coming out of there. [Firehouse Magazine, 8/02]

According to Deputy Chief Peter Hayden, "there is a bulge in the southwest corner of the building between floors 10 and 13."[Firehouse Magazine, 4/02]

Battalion Chief John Norman later recalls, "At the edge of the south face you could see that it is very heavily damaged." [Firehouse Magazine, 5/02]

Deputy Chief Nick Visconti also later recalls recounts, "A big chunk of the lower floors had been taken out on the Vesey Street side." Captain Chris Boyle recalls, "On the south side of 7 there had to be a hole 20 stories tall in the building, with fire on several floors."[Firehouse Magazine, 8/02]

That alone should end this debate. The fire dept didn't have orders for on high. So that leaves the fire dept lying to cover up a demolition for Bush or the firefighters made a good call.

So are they lying?

9/11 conspiracy sites are being selective with the text they post. This alone should tell you they’re lying. I know a president who is also as selective when talking about evidence for WMD.


Towers did not all at free fall speeds…

In every photo and every video you can see columns far outpacing the collapse of the building. Not only are the columns falling faster than the building but they are also falling faster than the debris cloud which is ALSO falling faster than the building This proves the buildings fell well below free fall speed. That is unless the beams had a rocket pointed to the ground.

And yet the 9/11 sites say

"On 9/11, by coincidence, three such buildings collapsed in ten to fifteen seconds, almost freefall speed. In other words, if you dropped a brick from the top of the World Trade Center it would have taken about that time to hit the ground."

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11_wtc_videos.html

This is dishonest.



They say a few people in the desert couldn't have carried out the 9/11 attacks. Never mind how raciest it is to suggest 20 or so arabs aren't smart enough to fly planes and keep a secret... The fact is the leader of this plot is the perfect one to carry it out. America thought him smart enough to hold back Russia. But what makes him especially perfect for the attacks is his education and family back ground. His father was the biggest Saudi Arabian construction contractor and Osama himself earned a degree in civil engineering from King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah in 1979. Why WOULDN'T he be the perfect person to pull this off...

Who would Rove, and co like you to believe is involved in the largest mass murder and cover-up conspiracy in the world? If you ask these conspiracy nuts it’s all these people because none want an investigation…

Lets see...

-Bush, who failed at everything he ever did. He has one of the worse approval ratings of any president rivaling only Nixon during Watergate. Yet all the people below are helping him in one way or another...

-The NYC Fire fighters who know more about building collapses than most if not all of you. It's their LIFE to know. Literally! Yet they don't call for an investigation into the MASS MURDER of over 300 of their brothers... Why? (The twisting of these peoples statements for donations and DVD sales sickens me.) We have uncovered the myth about a gag rule imposed on all fire fighters. Only 9/11 conspiracy sites say this. ONE person who sued Bush for not taking action before the event is ordered by the court not to speak to the media about the case. This is not imposing a gag rule on the whole fire department as some of these sites claim. They are lying to cover up this mass murder for either Bush or the building owner. Why? They don't even know...

CTers bring up an article in Fire House mag which says the fire department wanted to stop the steel from being sold in order to test the fire proofing and other non-bomb/controlled demolition related investigations. They twist the articles context to make it seem like the fire fighters questioned the idea that fire brought down the towers.

http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Dis...TICLE_ID=131225

http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Dis...TICLE_ID=130026

-The courts for imposing a gag rule [SEE above]

-The NYC Police department who lost over 20 lives. They didn't ask for an investigation. Motive? None...

-The NYC port Authority who lost personel. Motive?

-All the people in the pentagon who have not called for an investigation. Many who are liberal and centrist. They did or said nothing while people supposedly truck in airplane parts to cover the crime. Why? again, no answer...

-The more than 1,600 widows and widowers of 9/11 who rather have investigations of the decisions which lead to the terrorist getting away with this. They don't want to waste time investigating the mass murder of their loved ones. Even the Jersey Girls. Why? They say it's the money... [note: whenever killing someone pay off the relative. They wont say anything.]

-The media (This one I almost believe) who doesn't follow up on the biggest mass murder and conspiracy in American history. It seems no one wants a Nobel prize for journalism. Not only the American media but foreign press like like the BBC and Al Jeezera. Why? No answer here either...

-The photographers from around the world who took pictures of the towers which clearly show bowing of the perimeter columns. These photos support the NIST hypothesis that the sagging trusses lead to the collapse. Some photos also show the core intact shortly after collapse which also not only support the NIST hypothesis but discredits the "Controlled demolition" account.

-Popular Mechanics who debunked these sites are also helping Bush commit the biggest mass murder in history.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html

-PBS Nova since they created a documentary explaining in detail how and why the buildings fell. None of it said bomb.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/

-Everyone in the NIST who covers up the largest mass murder in US history. This independent org doesn't have a moral person in hundreds of employees because not one has come out exposing this so called "Conspiracy". In fact the hundreds of scientist who signed onto the report are willing to not only lie for Bush but cover up the largest mass murder in American history.

-Pataki because he sold steel to from the WTC for the construction of the USS New York. If the argument is the government sold the steel in order to cover up the crime then Pataki is one of the criminals.

-The NY city scrap yards because they also sold steel to china before all of it was tested. Bush would have needed to call them up and tell them to sell it before they could have investigated every beam. A task which would have taken years and years not to mention millions more. Ironically the republican Mayor Bloomberg could not be involved since he asked the scrap yards not to sell the steel on behalf of the fire fighters.

-EVERY STRUCTUAL ENGINEER IN THE WORLD who doesn't write a paper for a mainstream peer reviewed journal saying the towers were brought down and could not have fallen due to fire. If laymen can prove things just by looking at videos and reading interviews out of context then all those structural engineers MUST be working for Bush right? Even the ones in other countries. Why? No answer...

-The liberals who don't believe the towers were brought down. They're helping a neo-con cover-up the largest mass murder in this nation’s history. Why" No clue...

-The CIA who is in controlling the left wing media.

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-anyone who thinks the conspiracy is a diversion to take liberal activist focus off of real crimes.

Even conspiracies with a few people are doomed, Look at Enron and Watergate. The more people you involved the more likely the conspiracy will fall apart. The amount of people needed for this conspiracy could fill one of the towers. It's absurd to think this many people could keep a mass murder for Bush secret for this long. Absurd...



The absurdity of suggesting someone would need to fly airplanes into two buildings AND blow them up is in itself stupid. Could you imagine the meeting?...


Government: We want to cause a tragedy so great the American people will blindly follow us into war... What do you think gentlemen...

Accomplice #1: Well, the Towers are a perfect choice.. It's been bombed before. We can just blame Osama again. We've been priming the American people by having him blow up our warships and our buildings in other countries.

Government: Yeah, good idea! How will we do that?

Accomplice #1: We can hire Osama to get some of his friends to fly planes into it!

Accomplice #2: Wait... I have a better idea, We can BOMB the buildings!

Accomplice #1: Well, that means placing enough bombs into the 110 story building. That's going to take a lot of man power and risk us being uncovered...

Accomplice #2: Yeah but that way your sure to knock it down. Besides, Maybe the hijackers wont make it to the target. Maybe they'll be uncovered!

Accomplice #1 But you don't need to knock it down, all you need is the horrific sight of the planes hitting the buildings. People will get the message. It's an attack on American soil. We'll also have people like the blind sheik to cover for us. We'll even put a guy on a train with evidence.

Your plan isn't perfect either you know. Do I have to remind you of Operation Towel Pop? We already tried to embarrass Clinton by knocking it down and failed.

Accomplice #2: Yeah, our bay of pigs, but I say the only way they can get the message is if we knock it down.

Accomplice #1 Do not

Accomplice #2 Do too

Accomplice #1 Do not

Accomplice #2 Do too

Accomplice #1 Do not

Accomplice #2 Do too

Government: Gentlemen, gentlemen... Please... What the hell, we'll just do both! blink.gif How do we do that? I mean how do you keep explosions from showing up on TV? We're going to have to investigate this at some point. How do we cover up the seen?

Accomplice #2: But why not just knock it dow...

Government: I've made my decision. continue...

Accomplice #2: OK.. We install charges on every floor so that after the planes hit, we blow each floor under the crash floor one by one, very fast to simulate pancaking. We'll let the building burn a while just for effect. This will also give time for the trusses to sag making it LOOK like a fire caused the building to fall.

Accomplice #1: Nice touch...

Accomplice #2: Why, thank you. smile.gif ...We'll set a charge off in the middle of the building AFTER the top is on it's way down so everyone thinks the puffs of debris coming from the windows are from the tremendous hypodermic needle like pressure blowing debris from the weakest point in the building.

Government: What about the sound of explosions? Isn't that a dead giveaway?

Accomplice #2: No problem, We'll just let them think it's normal electrical explosions like transformers blowing up or the initial concrete and Steel and floors hitting the floors below.

Accomplice #1: Yeah, it could also be the steel columns snapping like twigs from the tremendous weight of the floors above... Don't worry, we have disinformation specialists in Key internet forums.

Government: WOW, You guys think of everything.. What about Building 7? Can we take that out at the same time?

Accomplice #1: We wont be able to fly plans into it, that's for sure...

Accomplice #2: Leave it to me. If we set off the explosions just right we can have one of the towers hit Building 7 missing the two next to it. After that we can set fires on the bottom floors and let it burn for a while, you know, to make it look possible for a normal collapse. I'll call my agent in the fire department to get everyone out before we blow it. I'll figure a way to make the floors look buckled for effect as well.

Government: Amassing... I also want to take out the pentagon. Any suggestions?

Accomplice #1: What we'll do is hijack a plane just for effect then fire a missile at the pentagon. A bunker buster.

Government: But what about the people on the plane?

Accomplice #1: We'll land the plane in area 51 then shoot them all.

Government: Why not use the plane instead of the missile? That way you take care of all the evidence at the same time... People on the highway can also see the planes hit. If you use a missile there's going to be a lot of witnesses who saw a missile and not a plan.

Accomplice #1: err... ah, Don't worry about these small details. I have an under cover op in the DC police department who will take the names down and shot them all.

Government: How are you going to get all the people involved in this? Bush isn't exactly loved you know..

Don't worry, psych-ops will take care of the brainwashing of the American people. As for the media, we control the left and the right!

Government: GREAT! Nice work all! Lets make the target date Sept 11 2001.



As Randi Rhodes would say "Yeah, I believe that, I'm there!"



There were a lot of first for the WTC. In all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever been hit with a plane traveling 500 miles an hour and had it's fire proofing removed from it's trusses. In all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever had 1/4th to 1/3rd of it's steel beams which hold lateral load sheared off by a 757. In all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever been a building which had 1/4 to 1/3rd of it's vertical load bearing beams in it's core removed by an airliner. For Building 7, in all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever been left for 6-7 hours with it's bottom floors on fire. Not the Madrid or Windsor tower fires had almost 40 stories of load on it's supports after being hit by another building which left a 18 story gash. Both lost I-beams from the heat. Windsors central core was steel reinforced concrete. In all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever been without some fire fighters fighting the fires. In all the history of high-rise fires, not one has ever lost a portion of load bearing support from the impact of another building while fires raging and lowering the load specs of all the bottom floor supports.

I could go on with the "Firsts" but you get the drift. The statement that the WTC buildings were the first high-rise buildings to collapse from fire is deceptive because it purposely doesn't take those factors into account.

I’m going to use the same logic (No other high rise fire caused a collapse so it couldn’t have happened on 911) to prove the towers came down from fire…

Example:

This picture proves it was a normal collapse because it's IMPOSSIBLE for a bomb to make a piece of steel glow red for 6 weeks.

NEVER in the HISTORY of controlled demolition has a piece of steel glowed hot red 6 weeks after it exploded.

Not even a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION keeps steel glowing red for 6 weeks.

PROOF!

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Not even smoke!




The administration said Saddam didn't have WMD until a day or two after the attack. If 9/11 was planned why didn't they prime the American people by spreading one more lie saying he had them? Doesn't make sense.

I'm going to say this so even a two year old can understand.

A 13 story building falling onto a thin slab of concrete held in place by a few trusses with two bolts on either end has all the stopping power of a piece of paper held in place by two pieces of tape when hit with a falling brick.

And what happens to that piece of paper? It gets collected by the brick and only adds weight for the next impact with the piece of paper below it. Now you have a brick with the added weight of two pieces of paper, so on and so forth. It BUILDS speed to almost free fall, [note I said :Almost. No real evidence exist that it fell at free fall or faster. An Internet video is not evidence.] not slow down. Because every time it collects a floor it adds weight for the next impact. The heavier the weight above, the easier it smashes the floor below.

What they want us to believe is that Bush changed the laws of physics by creating a bomb he put on the bottom floor which makes 110 story buildings fall faster than free fall. That or he teleported bombs to each floor with his star trek transporter.

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They're saying these clowns planned the largest murder in US history???

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This is the kind of what sickens me. These people take fireman’s quotes out of context to sucker people like Guest:

[QUOTE]Assistant Fire Commissioner: "I thought . . . before . . . No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. . . . I . . . saw a flash flash flash . . . [at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they . . . blow up a building. . . ?”[/QUOTE]

But if you read on...

"I don't know if that means anything. I mean, I equate it to the building cowing down and pushing things down, it could have been electrical explosions, it could have been whatever."

Hes a FIREMAN saying it could have been "electrical explosions".

Ever SEE a transformer explode???

http://www.stupidcollege.com/items/Electri...ormer-Explosion

"When we got to about 50 feet from the South Tower, we heard the most eerie sound that you would ever hear. A high-pitched noise and a popping noise made everyone stop. We all looked up. At the point, it all let go...
...There was an explosion and the whole top leaned toward us and started coming down. I stood there for a second in total awe, and then said, "What the F###?" I honestly thought it was Hollywood."

Do TRANSFORMERS make A high-pitched noise before blowing up...

http://www.stupidcollege.com/items/Electri...ormer-Explosion

All these buildings had transformers and transformer vaults.

Well I guess that takes care of what the fireman saw and heard.. Or does it... No I'm sure I'll hear some new twist.

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If the upper floor sag it pulls both the outer beams and inner beams toward the floor. Now the beams that are left from the impact are pulled in more than the beams above or below it. Being made of STRIPS of beams and not one solid steel wall, the beams need only to move far enough out of the way to let the beams above slide around the beams below it. The beams above and intact have the full weight of all the "Stories" above which are connected to it. Everything above rips apart everything below. In other words the beams above are no longer square with the beams below.

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http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/Media_Public_Brie...40505_final.pdf

Start at page 36. You can SEE photographic evidence the building was pulled in. Not just one floor but ac
Commen sense
Start at page 36. You can SEE photographic evidence the building was pulled in. Not just one floor but across many.

It sure as hell isn't being pushed out.

Note I use unbiased web sites. wink.gif That or www.construction.com is also in on the conspiracy...

Note how the sagging floors pull the outer column in. There is enough visual evidence the trusses were pulling the outer columns in. Now if you think a bomb blew up the building you have to explain how a bomb pulled in the wall well before building 2 fell...

Note there are also many factors the NIST considered. You keep pulling one factor out at a time and say it couldn't have happened that way. Well maybe it couldn't have if only that ONE factor was in play.

Starting with the moment the plane hit survivors said the doors wouldn't open because the building was so out of alignment. The impacts alone BENT THE 110 STORY BUILDINGS. That building was MADE to sway. I grew up in NY and have been to that building many times. When the wind was strong you could FEEL the building sway. I can't imagine an impact that would cause the building to sway enough to knock it out of center. A humanly unimaginable energy. That alone should weaken the building. Once you start to pile on the fire, unique construction, sagging trusses, shifted load distribution, hell, their computer model even took the wind shifting into account...

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It is impressive that the World Trade Center towers held up as long as they did after being attacked at full speed by Boeing 767 jets, because they were only designed to withstand a crash from the largest plane at the time: the smaller, slower Boeing 707. And according to Robertson, the 707's fuel load was not even considered at the time. Engineers hope that answering the question of exactly why these towers collapsed will help engineers make even safer skyscrapers in the future. ASCE will file its final report soon, and NIST has been asked to conduct a much broader investigation into the buildings' collapse.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/minu-trans.html





Pod People

"Right now, government shills are working hard to trick web sites into running the claim that [Edit: insert conspiracy here].
This is an old intelligence trick called "Poisoning the well", the intentional promotion of lies to blend with an embarrassing truth to discredit it. The government shills are trying to conceal real news stories such as [Edit: 9/11 was a convenient excuse to invade Iraq as the Downing Street Memo shows, Spying on Americans, the Iraq War, Torturegate, Katrina response, and so on] So, we get hoax stories poured onto the net by government propagandists, to be used by the media to attack the credibility of anyone who dares [edit: believe] the official story [edit: and divert attention from the real crimes].

At some point in the near future, photographs, or video will be "discovered" clearly showing the impact [edit: and collapse], and the mainstream media will have a field day ridiculing those "kooky [edit: liberal] Internet web sites" and their "silly conspiracy theories", all based on a silly theory the government is itself planting on the web."


http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ppfinal.html

Learn from your own people.



Picture this, Cut a box in the middle of some large pancakes to represent the floors, then put a box made of vertical sticks tied together yet far enough apart to simulate the separation of the core columns. Tie it together with string. Remember that the core has the elevator shafts and other things which go straight down to the mechanical level. At the bottom of the pancakes put small flags made of tissue paper. At each pancake level put more said flags in the core. Now drop the pancakes.

The falling pancakes are are going to push all the air/flags that were under the pancake every which way it can. Out to the edge (What you see pushing the heavy columns out. Note the columns fall further away the lower it gets to ground level. This would be expected as the collapse picks up speed and energy as it adds weight. Or are they using heavier and heavier explosives on the way down? Why would they do that?) and YES, in to the core/sticks. It's going to push it in EVERY direction. If you also simulate the falling debris in the core and solids like elevators, elevator machinery and core landings and stairways its not unreasonable to expect a plunger effect forcing as much air and debris with as much speed and pressure as it can down the core. As I said, the place you see this "Nub" is where the mechanical levels are. The debris of a high-rise office is squashing everything on the remaining levels. Elevators might be falling at free fall speed. The difference is the core can relieve more pressure than the perimeter columns which have glass and perimeter columns. So it takes the path of least resistance.

It's also possible (As one fireman said) it was electrical explosions like transformers blowing up. You would expect to see transformers on mechanical levels. The point is the nub is inconclusive. The public has very little information on what was exactly in the mechanical levels and it's perimeter walls.

Look at this...

http://www.terrorize.dk/misc/demolition/

At the middle of the page is a flash slow motion video of one of those "Nubs". If you look at it frame by frame you'll see first the building is falling already. Then you'll see a wisp of air coming from the area where the "nub" is. As the building falls the wisp slowly becomes a large plume. This is NOT an explosion. An explosion doesn't start out slow then progress.


For those who may think no one has written a peer reviewed paper on the collapse of the towers here it is...

http://www-math.mit.edu/~bazant/WTC/

Walter P. Murphy Professor of
Civil Engineering and Materials Science
Northwestern University


The towers of the World Trade Center were designed to withstand as a whole the horizontal impact of a large commercial aircraft. So why did a total collapse occur? The reason is the dynamic consequence of the prolonged heating of the steel columns to very high temperature. The heating caused creep buckling of the columns of the framed tube along the perimeter of the structure, which transmits the vertical load to the ground. The likely scenario of failure may be explained as follows...

http://www-math.mit.edu/~bazant/WTC/WTC-asce.pdf

The version linked above, to appear in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE), was revised and extended (with Yong Zhou on September 22 and additional appendices on September 28) since the original text of September 13, which was immediately posted at various civil engineering web sites, e.g. University of Illinios. It also has been or soon will be published in a number of other journals, including Archives of Applied Mechanics, Studi i Ricerche, and SIAM News:

Z. P. Bazant and Y. Zhou, "Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse?", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics News, vol. 34, No. 8 (October, 2001).

That means it's not just a document, book, web site or calculation on a forum. It's had to pass critical review by other engineering Professors.

I know there are CT sites which attack this paper but not one person has yet to disprove it's hypothesis professionally. There are still people attacking the theory of evolution. Anyone can attack, not many can produce a paper to back it up. Just as there is no "Theory of intelligent design" except in christian web sites there are no alternatives to this paper other than in CT sites and books.



Cognitive dissonance is a condition first proposed by the psychologist Leon Festinger in 1956, relating to his hypothesis of cognitive consistency.

Cognitive dissonance is a state of opposition between cognitions. For the purpose of cognitive dissonance theory, cognitions are defined as being an any element of knowlege attitude, emotion, belief or value, as well as a goal, plan, or an interest. In brief, the theory of cognitive dissonance holds that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the human mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to minimize the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions.

The main criticism of the cognitive consistency hypothesis is that it is impossible to verify or falsify by experiment. Even so, experiments have attempted to quantify this hypothetical drive. Opponents of this hypothesis cite the apparent ability of many human beings to reconcile mutually exclusive or contradictory beliefs with no apparent stress, though the original theory would suggest that such beliefs were not psychologically important.

In economics this term is also called buyer's remorse. This post-purchase behavior is more likely to happen when the purchase is a more expensive one. The consumer may experience some regrets or questioning as to whether the purchase was a good one. This is the fifth step in the decision making process. Marketers can help eliminate this by properly selling the product and doing a follow-up to help reinforce the buyer's "good" decision.

Origins and the experiment
In Festinger and Carlsmith's classic 1959 experiment, students were made to perform tedious and meaningless tasks, consisting of turning pegs quarter-turns, then removing them from a board, then putting them back in, and so forth. Subjects rated these tasks very negatively. After a long period of doing this, students were told the experiment was over and they could leave.

However, the experimenter then asked the subject for a small favor. They were told that a needed research assistant was not able to make it to the experiment, and the subject was asked to fill in and try to persuade another subject (who was actually a confederate) that the dull, boring tasks the subject had just completed were actually interesting and engaging. Some subjects were paid $20 for the favor, another group was paid $1, and a control group was not requested to perform the favor.

When asked to rate the peg-turning tasks, those in the $1 group showed a much greater propensity to embellish in favor of the experiment when asked to lie about the tasks. Experimenters theorized that when paid only $1, students were forced to internalize the attitude they were induced to express, because they had no other justification. Those in the $20 condition, it is argued, had an obvious external justification for their behavior, which the experimenters claim explains their lesser willingness to lie favoring the tasks in the experiment.

The researchers further speculated that with only $1, subjects faced insufficient justification and therefore "cognitive dissonance", so when they were asked to lie about the tasks, they sought to relieve this hypothetical stress by literally changing their attitude in a process akin to autobrainwashing in order really to believe that they found the tasks enjoyable.

Put simply, the experimenters concluded that human beings, when asked to lie without being given sufficient justification, will convince themselves that the lie they are asked to tell is the truth. Only when sufficient justification is given, researchers speculated, are human beings able to resist having their mind instantly reprogrammed by any request that they lie.

Festinger further tested his theory on observations of counterintuitive belief persistence of most members of a UFO doomsday cult and their increased proselytization after the leader's prophecy failed.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance


Below is the list of people who peer reviewed the only paper which passed the scrutiny of peer review regarding the WTC tragedy...

The paper... http://www-math.mit.edu/~bazant/WTC/WTC-asce.pdf

http://www.pubs.asce.org/journals/edem.html

Editor:
Ross B. Corotis, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., NAE, University of Colorado, Boulder
corotis@colorado.edu
http://ceae.colorado.edu/new/faculty/peopl...ple.cgi?corotis

Editorial Board:
Younane Abousleiman, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
http://mpge.ou.edu/faculty_staff/faculty.html

Ching S. Chang, Ph.D., P.E., University of Massachusetts
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/cee/faculty/chang.html

Joel P. Conte, Ph.D., P.E., University of California, San Diego
http://kudu.ucsd.edu/

Henri Gavin, Duke University
http://www.cee.duke.edu/faculty/gavin/index.php

Bojan B. Guzina, University of Minnesota
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/guzina/

Christian Hellmich, Dr.Tech., Vienna University of Technology
http://whitepages.tuwien.ac.at/oid/998877.html

Lambros Katafygiotis, Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
http://lambros.ce.ust.hk/

Nik Katopodes, Ph.D., University of Michigan
http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/cee/prospective/

Nicos Makris, University of Patras
http://www.civil.upatras.gr/Melidep_gr/depi_en.asp?profid=5

Robert J. Martinuzzi, P.E., University of Calgary
http://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/2005/...ademicAlpha.htm

Arif Masud, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago
http://www.uic.edu/depts/bioe/faculty/core_faculty_list.htm

Arvid Naess, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology
http://www.bygg.ntnu.no/~arvidn/front.htm

Khaled W. Shahwan, Daimler Chrysler Corporation
http://www.pubs.asce.org/WWWdisplay.cgi?9800592

George Voyiadjis, Ph.D., EIT, Louisiana State University
http://www.cee.lsu.edu/facultyStaff/Voyiad...iadjis_Gbio.htm

Yunping Xi, Ph.D., University of Colorado
http://ceae.colorado.edu/new/faculty/people/people.cgi?xi

Engineering Mechanics Division Executive Committee

Alexander D. Cheng, Ph.D., M.ASCE, Chair
http://home.olemiss.edu/~acheng/

James L. Beck, Ph.D., M.ASCE
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jimbeck/

Roger G. Ghanem, Ph.D., M.ASCE
http://ame-www.usc.edu/personnel/ghanem/index.shtml

Wilfred D. Iwan, M.ASCE
http://www.eas.caltech.edu/fac_i-m.html#i

Chiang C. Mei, M.ASCE
http://cee.mit.edu/index.pl?id=2354&isa=Category&op=show

Verna L. Jameson, ASCE Staff Contact

Journal of Engineering Mechanics http://scitation.aip.org/emo/


I figured out I misplaced a zero, but the sum of the kinetic energy is still pretty impressive. The energy dissipated during the fall is about 250 or 300 GJ, and the leftover energy at impact is about 600 GJ, not 6 TJ. So it’s about a quarter kiloton of TNT for the North tower and about a fifth of a kiloton for the South tower; that’s still a hell of a lot of energy, more than sufficient to liquify a pretty healthy chunk of steel, and it doesn’t change the fact that there’s a lot more energy in the office contents; having screwed up once, I ain’t gonna flap my pie hole and give numbers until I’m done calculatin that, tho.
Bingo, you should be aware that anytime you do mechanical work, the energy you do it with doesn’t just “go away” or “get used up.” Energy that does work gets dissipated, and when that happens, it turns to heat. This is a well known fact of physics, specifically thermodynamics, that was proven early (or maybe it was late? no, I’m pretty sure it was EARLY) in the nineteenth century by the gentleman for whom the SI unit of energy is named, James Prescott Joule. Go look him up on Wikipedia, or elsewhere if you’re a newb and believe what you read in the newspapers about Wikipedia. He did this experiment where he stirred water in buckets and showed it got hotter.
This, by the way, is a place where Jim Hoffman makes a serious mistake; in his paper on the dust cloud, he fails to note that he has to ADD THE HEAT BACK IN when he’s totalling things up at the end. This is a violation of conservation of energy, the First Law of Thermodynamics (and a foundational law of physics).
Truth,
What distance do you drop the load from? The floor of initial collapse: 79 for the South tower, 97 for the North. It’s a variable in the program, you can change it for yourself and run it yourself, it’s a perl. I should prolly have published it here long before now; this site deserves a lot more of me than physorg does, for sure. Interestingly, going from a 39-story to a 13-story falling section doesn’t make a great deal of difference in the energy, and makes even less difference in the energy that’s left over when the building hits the ground.
A falling building is not like a bomb or a laser beam. You’re right, but it makes heat all the same- just like all work makes heat. Feel the bottom of the bicycle pump after you’ve pumped the tire up. Where does that heat come from? Same place as this does.
_While it’s true that a 6.2 TJ bomb would have blown the *** out of several blocks, _ My bad, should be a 600GJ bomb- and it’s not several blocks, it’s about ten blocks in any direction. I had a link to a site with a damage calculator you could test on various cities, it was from the anti-nuclear-weapon-scientists-coalition-I-always-forget-the-name-of. Lemme see if I can hunt it up for you.
the WTC collapse obviously did not. While that’s true, you need to know that conservation of energy says that energy NEVER disappears. It ALWAYS winds up SOMEWHERE, and if this is energy capable of knocking buildings over for many blocks in all directions, and it didn’t knock them over, then where did it go and what did it do? Answer: it went into the rubble pile, and it melted and burned stuff in there.
There was energy spent “pancaking” or “snapping supports” if you believe those theorys (I do not). Whether it was explosives or whether it was sheer mass and momentum that snapped them (and I have excellent reason to believe it was nothing but mass- you’ll see shortly), it STILL made heat, and that head STILL went into the debris pile at the bottom. Heat is energy and energy NEVER just “goes away.”
All the collapse theories say that the weight of the top of the building is what caused the collapse… well that is HALF true. The other half that you are overlooking is that THE GROUND was pushing UP WITH EQUAL FORCE. So, this force you are estimating was largely transmitted into the ground during the collapse, not the rubble afterwards. No, although you are pedantically correct insofar as the fact that the STATIC FORCE of the building pushes down and the ground pushes up, when the DYNAMIC FORCE of the collapse occurs, it is local to whatever is moving; this is because you are not technically correct, it’s the MOTION that causes the DYNAMIC force, and that force is (and must be, to collapse the building) many times the static forces of the building just standing there.
Kinetic energy is not perfectly conserved as heat… in fact, it is mostly released as seismic waves and sound waves. This is actually untrue, and there is an article on seismic waves that says so, I believe on 9/11 Research; you might have misinterpreted this article. You need to prove this claim if you’re going to make it; it’s hopeless, because it’s not how it works when you hit a piece of steel, concrete, or wood for that matter with a hammer, but go ahead and try. You’ll need a credible source, someone who actually has a degree IN PHYSICS, or a college textbook (this is a little advanced for highschool physics, unless it’s advanced considerably since back in the day), or something like that.
Don’t argue with Snark on biology, and don’t argue with Da Schneib on physics- he’s got a degree in bio and is currently teaching it, and I’ve been playing with physics for prolly longer than you been alive. I’m not insultin you, just sayin. I’d recommend against arguing with josh or me on computer science as well, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
My question is: How did you account for other forms of energy release besides heat? Please provide specifics. Seismic waves, sound waves, the energy absorbed by the collapsing structure, debris shot upwards. The total energy of all of those put together is miniscule; the seismic waves are the greatest portion, and are well under 0.01% of the total (that’s 1/10,000 in plain ratios, or 1/100 of a percent). Have a look at that paper I referred to; it’s a pretty easy search.
Now, for the program:

**BEGIN PROGRAM**

#!/usr/bin/perl
$m = 4285500; # mass of one floor (kg)
$mt = 0; # mass of falling section
$fc = 39; # floor count of falling section (39 floors for 2 WTC)
$v1 = 0; # beginning velocity for the current step
$v2 = 0; # velocity at impact
$v3 = 0; # ending velocity for prior step
$p = 0; # current momentum
$ke1 = 0; # kinetic energy at impact
$ke2 = 0; # kinetic energy after impact
$de = 0; # total energy dissipated so far
$a = 9.80665; # acceleration of gravity (constant)
$t = 0; # cumulative time taken
$t1 = 0; # time taken for this step
$d = 3.8; # distance between floors (418m/110 stories)
$mt = $fc*$m; # initialize mass of falling section
$rfc = 110 – $fc;# initialize remaining floor count of uncollapsed floors
while($rfc > 0) {
$v1 = $v3; # starting velocity is ending for last step
$v2 = (($v1*2)+((2$a)*$d))**0.5; # impact velocity for this step by formula
print(“Impact velocity for story ”, $rfc, ” was ”, $v2, “n”);
$p = $mt*$v2; # momentum at impact
print(“Impulse delivered for story ”, $rfc, ” was ”, $p, “n”);
$ke1 = ($mt*($v2**2))/2; # kinetic energy at impact
print(“Impact kinetic energy for story ”, $rfc, ” was ”, $ke1, “n”);
$fc++; # increment falling floor count
$mt = $fc*$m; # update mass of falling section
$v3 = $p/$mt; # new velocity
print(“Velocity after impact for story ”, $rfc, ” was ”, $v3, “n”);
$ke2 = ($mt*($v3**2))/2; # kinetic energy after impact
print(“Remaining kinetic energy for story ”, $rfc, ” was ”, $ke2, “n”);
$de += $ke1 – $ke2; # add dissipated kinetic energy to total
print(“The kinetic energy dissipated for story ”, $rfc, ” was ”, $ke1 – $ke2, ”
n”);
$t1 = $d/(($v2 + $v1)/2); # time for this step by formula
print(“The time spent collapsing story ”, $rfc, ” was ”, $t1, “n”);
$t += $t1; # add step time to running total
$rfc—; # decrement remaining floor count
}
print(“The total time was ”, $t, “n”);
print(“The total energy dissipated during the collapse was ”, $de, “n”);
print(“The remaining kinetic energy at the end of the collapse was ”, $ke2, “n”
);
**END PROGRAM**

It’s a perl, you can download perl for just about anything from www.perl.org or somewhere they point. If you’re going to get involved in CS, somewhere you’re going to encounter perl, and now’s as good a time to learn it as any. I highly recommend the O’Reilly Press perl book which happens to be by the inventors of the language. Just so you can muddle your way through and derive the equations from the code above, * is multiplication, ** is raising to a power (and don’t forget that a fractional power is a root; so **0.5 is the square-root operation). The rest of the symbols are obvious, and the parentheses work the same way as they do in standard math notation. You should be aware that the single = in most languages simply ASSIGNS the value of what’s on the right to the thing on the left; usually, you’re required to put a single variable on the left of an =. The double == TESTS whether one value is equal to another, returning 1 or TRUE if it is, and 0 or FALSE if it is not.

http://cortez.gnn.tv/blogs/11271/9_11_WTC_...etal_Pics_Video

At any rate, I claimed to have proof of controlled demolition, and I certainly did not. In retrospect, I should not have posted the article without checking it with a structural engineer. - Jerry Russell

Who would ever mistake me for "James Bond"?
By Jerry Russell

On March 31, 2002 (just in time for April Fool's Day) I posted an article to the Usenet entitled "Proof of controlled demolition at the WTC". In fact I indulged in some rather egregious cross-posting, in order to attract attention to my theory. I was sincerely convinced at the time that my arguments were correct, but as it turned out, the April Fool's joke was on me.

The central argument in my essay was that the process of collapse should have involved enough friction that the fall of the building should at least have been braked significantly compared to the acceleration of an object in free fall. The argument seemed perfectly reasonable if not obvious to me, and I managed to trick some pretty smart people with it. But the truth is that it is possible for a building to collapse in a process which concentrates high leverage at certain joints in the structure. The result is a nearly frictionless collapse. This was very counter-intuitive to me, but people who work with structures seem quite aware of it. This technical article by Bazant & Zhou explains this in some detail, and although I believe their presentation is oversimplified, the basic message seems to be correct.

My article also pointed out that it is historically unprecedented for airplane strikes and/or fires to destroy large steel-frame structures. My opinion is that this should be good reason to be suspicious about the official story (and I'm still suspicious at least to some extent), but many readers pointed out that there is always a first time for everything. They note that in many ways, the events of 9-11 were indeed historically unprecedented, so it was hardly fair of me to use precedent as if it were substantial evidence.

At any rate, I claimed to have proof of controlled demolition, and I certainly did not. In retrospect, I should not have posted the article without checking it with a structural engineer.

But after all, it was only a Usenet post. I bravely waded through all the flames and insults in the many responses, and found that there was a residual level of useful feedback in the discussion. As soon as I understood my mistake, I posted a retraction.

However, some people apparently liked my April Fool's article, exactly as it first appeared. It has developed a life of its own. It has been posted to Mark Elsis' Attack On America site. It appeared on Rense.com one day, but they were gracious enough to take it down at my request. It's gone out in private mailing lists, and been re-posted to the Usenet by others. I get a more or less continuous stream of e-mail about it. Every time I hear from someone, I explain and apologize for my mistakes in the article.

Now the article has appeared again, but I am no longer given credit (or blame) as the author of the piece. In its latest incarnation in the Delphi Associates Newsletter (vol. 4, issue #81), it was written by a mole from inside the MI6 British intelligence service, writing under the alias of "James Bond". Under its new authorship, the article has been posted again to the Usenet.

A reader of my web page alerted me to the situation, and he was also kind enough to send me a scan of the newsletter article, which appears here: page 1, page 2, page 3.

But the article as it is published in the Delphi Newsletter is not exactly in its original form. There are a few additions -- for example, a mystical reference to Nostradamus, and an approving discussion of the French "Hunt the Boeing" web page. I suppose I did a good enough job of discrediting myself and my ideas, but "James Bond" has been able to add to the general level of hilarity by bringing in these other questionable threads.

I've written to Sean David Morton of Delphi Associates to ask him how this could have happened and how he mistook my article for something by "James Bond". So far, I haven't heard from him...

Posted 5/21/2002

Update 6/9/2002: Mr. Morton did contact me, and we agreed that he would publish a follow-up letter from me, explaining the technical errors in the "James Bond" article.

http://www.911-strike.com/demolition.htm


If you ask me today: "Some have argued that some leaders in the U.S. government knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001, and that they consciously failed to take action. Do you agree or disagree with this argument?" I would say yes.

http://www.zogby.com/search/ReadNews.dbm?ID=855

Where does it say the administration blew up the WTC? Where does it say "The administration knew the time, place and date of the attack and did nothing"? Where does it say the administration had a conspiracy to destroy the WTC?

In the same poll only 28% of the people knew the number of the third building that fell!

Then theirs the question of SO WHAT. What if 50% of the people thought Bush did. it. Not long ago a poll was done asking if Saddam had WMD. Remember that poll? What was it, 40% or something like that thought he had it. Using your logic if the number is high then we should act.

Here's the kicker... If you "follow the money" you find the poll was paid for by 911truth.org. Using your logic this poll is propaganda for the 9/11 conspiracy sites.

It doesn't surprise me a bit that the poll was worded in such a way as to get people like me, who don't see a conspiracy to blow up the WTC to vote in agreement.



Core still standing

http://www.911eyewitness.com/truth/downloads/spirefinish.wmv


Thomas Packard acting FBI director: Summer before 9/11 Ashcroft told him he didn’t want to hear anything more about terrorist threats.

Larry Johnson former counter terrorism CIA: Rumsfeld set up special office to link Iraq and Al Qaeda Cherry picking Intel: Evidence is sent back saying “That’s garbage, that’s misleading, that misrepresents” then they would take the same brief to the vice president or one even worse.

Robert Baer: Cheney pushed CIA, Cheney said “Everybody knows Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, tell us what you know, What’s your best stuff?..”

Downing Street Memo says Bush wanted to remove Saddam though military action. “Evidence fixed around the policy”

Rice, Rove, Karen Hughes, Cheney have weekly closed door meetings on how to convince the american people.

John McLaughlin CIA deputy director: “We did not clear that particular [Niger] speech”… Tenets “Slam dunk” does not mean what the media thinks it means.

Michael Scheuer: Intel did not matter. We were going to war / Tenet researched 10 years worth of documents and found no connection to Al Qaeda. Tenet tells Bush / Administration yet administration continues to suggest connection.

Who is ‘Joe T’ and why was he the point man for analyzing nuclear weapon intel.

Gregory Thielmann State Dept intelligence: More and more people said intel on tubes were no good for a nuclear weapon. Official leak saying “Mushroom Cloud” misrepresents the intelligence community disagreement. Administration continues “No doubt” he has WMD. Tenet defends erroneous evidence while others in the CIA voice doubts. State department issues strong and lengthy decent. Niger uranium purchase “Highly Dubious”

Rand Baers National Security Council Resigns white house post and works against Bush “This is not peculiar of this white house. Pick a policy, go to the
Intelligence agencies, get your talking points”

CIA intel notes critical gaps in the evidence because of questionable reliability of many sources,

For the first time before a modern war Bush did not ask for National Intelligence Estimate. Congress demands it. NIE said Saddam not a threat.

White house Iraq group gives only evidence which supports policy while down playing decent.

Last minute dispute over Niger speech.

Tenet and Powell argue about intel.

Carl Ford Asst Sec of State, Intelligence: “This is all we got? And were making these firm judgments?

Powell not told about Curveball. Curveball was never debriefed by the CIA.

Col. Laurence Wilkerson: Evidence brought to the UN “It was anything but an intelligence document. It was a Chinese menu where you can pick and choose what you want”

A day before Powell’s UN speech a CIA skeptic had warned Curve Ball is a lair. A superior sends an E-mail reply saying “This wars going to happen regardless, the powers that be probably aren’t interested whither Curve ball knows what hes talking about.”

Powell’s speech riddled with misleading allegations. Not right out lies but worded in such a way as to mislead.

Scott Ritter ex UNSCUM weapon inspector: The evidence for war is not there. He goes on just about every TV station trying to stop the war.

Richard Clarke: Bush wanted to connect Iraq and 9/11.

Gen Clark: People in the pentagon told him Bush was going to war no matter what.

New memo: A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the invasion - reveals that Mr Bush made it clear the US intended to invade whether or not there was a second UN resolution and even if UN inspectors found no evidence of a banned Iraqi weapons programme.
"The diplomatic strategy had to be arranged around the military planning", the president told Mr Blair. The prime minister is said to have raised no objection. He is quoted as saying he was "solidly with the president and ready to do whatever it took to disarm Saddam".
The disclosures come in a new edition of Lawless World, by Phillipe Sands, a QC and professor of international law at University College, London. Professor Sands last year exposed the doubts shared by Foreign Office lawyers about the legality of the invasion in disclosures which eventually forced the prime minister to publish the full legal advice given to him by the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith.
The memo seen by Prof Sands reveals:
• Mr Bush told Mr Blair that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours". Mr Bush added: "If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]".
___________________________


Why don't you focus on this?


Probable Collapse Sequence for WTC 1

1. Aircraft Impact Damage:
•Aircraft impact severed a number of exterior columns on the North wall from floors 93 to 98, and the wall section above the impact zone moved downward.

•After breaching the building’s perimeter, the aircraft continued to penetrate into the building, severing floor framing and core columns at the North side of the core. Core columns were also damaged toward the center of the core and, to a limited extent on the South side of the core. Fireproofing was damaged from the impact area to the South perimeter wall, primarily through the center of WTC 1 and at least over a third to a half of the core width.

•Aircraft impact severed a single exterior panel at the center of the South wall between floors 94 and 96.

•The impact damage to the exterior walls and to the core resulted in redistribution of severed column loads, mostly to the columns adjacent to the impact zones. The hat truss resisted the downward movement of the North wall, and rotated about the East-West axis.

•As a result of the aircraft impact damage, the North and South walls each carried about 7 percent less gravity loads after impact, and the East and West walls each carried about 7 percent more loads. The core carried about 1 percent more gravity loads after impact.



2. Effects of Subsequent Fires and Impact Damaged Fireproofing:

A. Thermal Weakening of the Core:

•The undamaged core columns developed high plastic and creep strains over the duration the building stood, since both temperatures and stresses were high in the core area. The plastic and creep strains exceeded thermal expansion in the core columns.

•The shortening of the core columns (due to plasticity and creep) was resisted by the hat truss which unloaded the core over time and redistributed loads to perimeter walls.

•As a result of the thermal weakening (and subsequent to impact and prior to inward bowing of the South wall), the North and South walls each carried about10 percent more gravity loads, and the East and West walls each carried about 25 percent more loads. The core carried about 20 percent less gravity loads after thermal weakening.

B. Thermal Weakening of the Floors:

•Floors 95 to 99 weakened with increasing temperatures over time on the long-span floors and sagged. The floors sagged first and then contracted due to cooling on the North side; fires reached the South side later, the floors sagged, and the seat connections weakened.

•Floor sagging induced inward pull forces on the South wall columns.

•About 20 percent of the connections to the South perimeter wall on floors 97 and 98 failed due to thermal weakening of the vertical supports.

C. Thermal Weakening of the South Wall:

•South wall columns bowed inward as they were subjected to high temperatures and inward pull forces in addition to axial loads.
•Inward bowing of the South wall columns increased with time.




3. Collapse Initiation
•The inward bowing of the South wall induced column instability, which progressed rapidly horizontally across the entire South face.

•The South wall unloaded and tried to redistribute the loads via the hat truss to the thermally weakened core and via the spandrels to the adjacent East and West walls.

•The entire section of the building above the impact zone began tilting as a rigid block (all four faces; not only the bowed and buckled South face) to the South (at least about 8º) as column instability progressed rapidly from the South wall along the adjacent East and West walls.

•The change in potential energy due to downward movement of building mass above the buckled columns exceeded the strain energy that could be absorbed by the structure. Global collapse then ensued.

Probable Collapse Sequence for WTC 2

1.Aircraft Impact Damage:

•Aircraft impact severed a number of exterior columns on the South wall from floors 78 to 84, and the wall section above the impact zone moved downward.

•After breaching the building’s perimeter, the aircraft continuedto penetrate into the building, severing floor framing and core columns at the Southeast corner of the core. Fireproofing was damaged from the impact area through the East half of the core up to the North and East perimeter walls. The floor truss seat connections over about 1/4to 1/2 of the East side of the core were severed on floors 80 and 81 and over about 1/3 of the East perimeter wall on floor 83.

•Aircraft impact severed a few columns near the East corner of the North wall between floors 80 and 82.

•The impact damage to the exterior walls resulted in redistribution of severed column loads, mostly to the columns adjacent to the impact zones. The impact damage to the core columns resulted in redistribution of severed column loads mostly to other intact core columns and the East exterior wall. The hat truss resisted the downward movementof the South wall, and rotated about the East-West axis.

•As a result of the aircraft impact damage, the core carried 6 percent less gravity loads after impact and the North face carried 10 percent less loads. The East face carried 24 percent more gravity load, while the West face and the South face carried 3 percent and 2 percent more gravity load, respectively.

•After impact, the core was leaning toward the East and South perimeter walls. The perimeter walls acted to restrain the core structure.



2.Effects of Subsequent Fires and Impact Damaged Fireproofing:

A. Thermal Weakening of the Core:

•Several of the undamaged core columns near the damaged and severed core columns developed high plastic and creep strains over the duration the building stood, since both temperatures and stresses were high in the core area. The plastic and creep strains exceeded thermal expansion in the core columns.

•The core continued to tilt toward the East and South due to the combination of column shortening (due to plasticity, creep, and buckling) and the failure of column splices at the hat truss in the Southeast corner.

•As a result of thermal weakening (and subsequent to impact), the East wall carried about 5 percent more gravity loads and the core carried about 2 percent less loads. The other three walls carried between 0 and 3 percent less loads.

B. Thermal Weakening of the Floors:

•Floors 79 to 83 weakened with increasing temperatures over time on the long-span floors on the East side and sagged.

•Floor sagging induced inward pull forces on the East wall columns.

•About an additional 1/3 of the connections to the East perimeter wall on floor 83 failed due to thermal weakening of the vertical supports.

C. Thermal Weakening of the East Wall:

•East wall columns bowed inward as they were subjected to high temperatures and inward pull forces in addition to axial loads.

•Inward bowing of the East wall columns increased with time.

3. Collapse Initiation

•The inward bowing of the East wall induced column instability, which progressed rapidly horizontally across the entire East face.

•The East wall unloaded and tried to redistribute the loads via the hat truss to the weakened core and via the spandrels to the adjacent North and South walls.

•The entire section of the building above the impact zone began tilting as a rigid block (all four faces; not only the bowed and buckled East face) to the East (about 7ºto 8º) and South (about 3ºto 4º) as column instability progressed rapidly from the East wall along the adjacent North and South walls. The building section above impact continued to rotate to the East as it began to fall downward, and rotated to at least 20 to 25 degrees.

•The change in potential energy due to downward movement of building mass above the buckled columns exceeded the strain energy that could be absorbed by the structure. Global collapse then ensued.
adoucette
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 11 2006, 01:25 AM)
They number the columns, and below that number allegedly tell you at what floor each and every column transitioned from box columns to H columns...

User posted image

http://oceanmirage.homestead.com/core_untitled3.html

I'll ask again... show me where NIST references the 12" x 36" columns. To pretend that they don't exist seriously downplays the actual strengths of the towers core (especially below the upper mechanical floors)...

After finding out that NIST is prepared to lie in stating that NO STEEL WAS RECOVERED FROM WTC 7... why do you find it so odd that so many of us are questioning NIST's report?

In my experience someone who has nothing to hide speaks the full truth...


Foxx,
Still at it?

http://wtc.nist.gov/NISTNCSTAR1-1.pdf

Page 11

The columns in the lower floors were primarily very large box columns, as large as 12" X 52", comprised of welded plates up to 7" thick. In the upper floors the columns shifted to rolled wide flange shapes.


NOW does that sound like NIST is down playing the actual strengths of the towers?

Foxx wants a reference to a 12 X 36 box column that he saw a picture of somewhere but if he read the NIST report he would find that the columns are almost 2 FEET BIGGER.

Welded Plates up to 7" thick. Boy, NIST is really trying to make the towers appear WIMPY.

As far as speaking the full truth, I only wish you would take your own advice.

As in: NIST has said no steel was CONFIRMED as coming from WTC 7.


Arthur
Foxx
Got news for you Schneibster... most of us just scroll past your posts anyway, looking for something intelligent. Even if you did have something intelligent hidden in one of your games, we wouldn't know about it, We'd miss it scrolling on to the next post (that wasn't yours). Why are so filled with hate? Oh, never mind... I won't be bothering to read your reply anyway.



metamars
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 10 2006, 08:46 PM)
Good logic, only hampered by the lack of definitive design configuration.

Gordon wrote
Alternatively and in the absence of that downward movement then the core would have protruded upwards by two and a half stories and interfered with or raised the hat truss and associated roof objects by that amount.

Yes, and the same would be true for WTC 1, although there was less load.

Gordon wrote
Logic would dictate that you are correct since initiation failure must affect the load bearing elements.  The core was the main load bearing element and it is this area where any factors likely to initiate collapse had to be effective, rather than be limited only to effects upon the perimeter columns.

What I learned and remembered from that 1990 documentary, the perimeter walls took 50% of the gravity load, the interior box columns took 30% and the concrete core took 20%.  The core was mostly there to keep the building from twisting.  Steel structures of this size have inherent problems of flex, the engineer, Yamasaki, chose a steel reinforced concrete core in a rectangular tube configuration to deal with this and add a minimum of weight and a maximum of torsion resistance.

The documentary did say that after time is was anticipated that the settling of the steel structure might put up to 50% on the core, but that the core could handle that.

Meaning that after 35 years, the core was taking 1/2 the gravity load so shagsters point and your are well made.  “What happened to the buckled wall and the core behind in the crumple zone of tower 2?”  The steel core columns if the existed have to buckle or be cut.  If they buckle inward the diagonal bracing that was supposed to be there would resist making perpendicular local buckling that would push out adjacent floors on the north side (see image above).  As the descent advanced, the dimension outward would increase and the north face would deform as the upper north wall is inside the lower and no longer held by it in the photo.  The north east corner of the core was undamaged as was the concrete shear wall on the north end, the narrow end of the core.

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The documentary actually went into the mysterious aspects of the core during construction.  One was when forced evacuation of the floors took place unannounced, unplanned with serious economic impacts on concrete contractors.  There was never any reason for this given other than “inspection”.  Which didn’t figure then, or now, because building inspectors inspected everything already 
The economic impact were so serious, the video stated, that the main contractor shut down the concrete work for a period of days and threatened a lawsuit.  This, it was explained, triggered a re negotiation of the contract based on the port authorities now known agenda of secrecy, adding more mystery to the core in the documentary.  The contractor was reimbursed and given enough of a schedule to be able to coordinate many crews movements across the towers through the hallways to accommodate the mysterious inspections.

I remember video of these migrations of workers through the hallways of the tower core with PA security standing in the hallway crossing while the crew ran across the core in single file.  There was a stack of white 5 gallon buckets in the hall by the corner.

Phil Jayhan of Let’s Roll 9-11 remembers hearing about these evacuations and said so numerous time in his posts at the bb.

In thinking about my issue regarding the 47, 1,300 foot columns and the fact that if they existed, they had to be cut.  Wherein the entire visual event MUST change from a relatively contained, continuous series of detonations producing low frequency booms, to one where there are a high speed series of very sharp, large “crack” spaced at distances over the 1,300 foot length of the supposed steel core columns in order for leaning, buckling core columns to NOT be seen in pictures of the towers demise.  The below image should show those steel core columns if the existed.  No one has ever given a decent explanation of why those columns are never seen.

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The necessity of cutting 47, 1,300 foot tempered steel columns is also applicable to the concrete core, because the 47 hand fabricated, tempered steel columns actually existed ringing the core, as far as I know from the 1990 documentary.  Meaning I also need to show how that was done consistent with what I describe as the structure.

I’ve studied high explosives some and have experience with low density high explosives in construction blasting.  My studies also included a perusal of demolition techniques associated with civilian work as well as military actions. 
A shape charge is the only way to efficiently cut steel with high explosives, and they make a very sharp explosion.  Then I thought about the floors and how they might be used to form an enhanced shape charge around the interior box columns because of the restraint of the concrete above a layer of C4 plastic explosive and the steel floor pan below it.

Keep in mind that the concrete over the explosive and the steel under it constrain and direct the explosive force into a narrow jet of gas capable of cutting 2 inches or so of tempered steel.  This happens on 3 sides with lower columns and on 4 with upper columns as the tapered core wall gradually moved inward while the tower went up and the columns had to remain plumb so access to 4 sides was possible.

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The core was poured in 40 foot tiers.  It was noted that there were inspection holes on each rebar randomly placed on the inside walls of the cast concrete core over each of the rebar so that conditions of corrosion could be monitored.

In 2002 on a bb called 9-11pi.com (now gone) someone stated that it was know that for a few weeks following the leasing of the towers that people trying to access lower floors had trouble getting elevators to their floors.  They had to go above their floor then come down.  This was explained as happening because of maintenance to the elevators required by the elevator company.  Has anyone else heard this?

My point being that we have estimated 5 floors compressing on the east face of tower 2 that is close to 40 feet, one tier of concrete pour.  If that one tier was detonated first on that side with 1/2 of the north and south faces horizontally, to initiate the beginning of the fall, 200 milliseconds after the floors detonated cutting the interior box columns, then the box columns and the  beams connecting to the outer walls could into lower floors without having any deformations on the outside of the building, just as we see in the top image.

This photograph bugs the heck out of me. The reason is that it doesn't seem at all consistent with other photos and videos of collapse.

One reason why it was somewhat difficult to make out an accurate collapse time is because the expanding cloud of ejecta/dust obscured the exterior of the building as the collapse progressed. If the exterior of the buildings were obscured, how much more so the core, which is in the interior?

So, for this photo not to be a fake, implies that the dust settled down quickly enough so that the photo could be snapped.


Unless somebody can show me a VIDEO wherein this "core" emerges, from within a settling dust cloud, for at least a fraction of a second, and [b] then the collapse continues, such that the total time for collapse was 14 seconds or so, I will assume that this photo is a FAKE.* [/B]



* Either that, or a building behind the collapsed tower that was previously not visible. Obviously, this possibility should be extremely easy to check.

Christophera
QUOTE (RealityCheck+Mar 11 2006, 12:18 AM)
Hi guys! Just speculating as to 'logic' for Pentagon 'conspiracy' to hit a recently RENOVATED/RE-INFORCED section.

Why would the alleged conspirators want to take out a section that had just cost a lot of dough?....when an as yet UNreinforced and UNrenovated section would have done just as well.....and have cost less in the long run? And why would not there have been some 'excuse' to NOT have so many pentagon personnel in that section at the time of impact....when an excuse like "some fumes/dust from renovation/painting" could have ensured few people would have been caught in the hit?

Just thinking out loud re 'logic' in some of these comments from CTers. Cheers!

RC.
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I have some logical speculation on the pentagon, no more. I can find no material proof, but what I perceive is logical within circumstance if one can accept conspiracy. I don’t plan to defend this, just pass it on. Normally I do not discuss the pentagon, too many inconsistent witness accounts muddying the water.


Summary:
Flight 77 is “bumble planed” out and a C130 with missile control center replaces it then launches a supersonic cruise missile, (can we believe India developed this and we didn’t have it first?)

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www.brahmos.com

The missile has no explosive in the warhead. The strike is a ballistics test in all ways. A penetrating bunkerbuster airframe is under blue tarp and the renovation is a ballistic hard facing undergoing development. Two birds with one stone.

The building had a fuel depot under it in that area. Drums of jet fuel were added, behind the wall with high explosives and a vibration detector. The missile strikes within 10 feet of the detector at mach 1.5 and the fuel explodes, following the missile through the building to exit through the infamous hole. The shock wave carries through the bond beam header over the entry point breaking windows and knocking pieces from the wall. The prepared tape from the parking lot camera is removed.

A 6x6 with a few men and a nylon tow strap pull down some light posts and the prepared, positioned witness are debriefed as a team removes tapes from the marriot and citgo monitor vtr’s. The area is searched for missile parts then plane debris is scattered.

It was all done because of a clause in an executive order of some past president that requires a strike on a military command center for the president to conduct war without the permission of congress and security/surveillance measures we know as the patriot act and homeland security.

There is no list of EMERGENCY POWERS STATUTES: and some are secret anyway. FEMA was created by nixon as an executive order or an EMERGENCY POWERS STATUTE and Cheny was appointed chief for a time after gw got in office..

Here is the FEMA core for the towers.

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Here is the core of WTC 2 standing half demolished.

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Perhaps now it is understood why I don't discuss the pentagon.
metamars
Drats! The end of my post should have come out like this:


Unless somebody can show me a VIDEO wherein this "core" emerges, from within a settling dust cloud, for at least a fraction of a second, and then the collapse continues, such that the total time for collapse was 14 seconds or so, I will assume that this photo is a FAKE.*



* Either that, or a building behind the collapsed tower that was previously not visible. Obviously, this possibility should be extremely easy to check.
shagster
QUOTE (gordon+Mar 10 2006, 03:56 PM)


You are correct to identify the column to column connections as being an area of interest, and it is very notable that you have chosen figures of 10 - 15%.  Compare this figure to the figures cited in the German report posted a few days ago by someone purpotedly supporting the govt story.  Those figures showed that a 5% strain would arrest collapse. There would be insufficient energy available to the collapse to fulfill the strain energy requirement.  Also compare the work of Bazant & Zhou who show that buckle points would not even begin to form with less than 3% and without these buckle points the connections would not have failed. 
We cannot use static load conditions to analyse collapse, we use the conditions pertaining at the time.
Take a few moments to look at your posts and mine and pick out the unique words and phrases. -----  Eggshell, chaos,unzippered, pretzel, wiggle 

Gordon.

I mentioned 10 to 15 degrees of the angle of tilt of the upper part of the south tower with respect to the lower part, not a percentage of plastic strain of the metal. The 5% figure you mention that someone discussed is a plastic strain of the actual metal. That's a measure of how much the bulk metal changes shape. Those two figures are two different things.

Plastic strain in the metal dissipates some of the energy and can help keep the building from collapsing if the strain is distributed relatively evenly throughout the cross-section of the building and if it happens in a way that doesn't adversely compromise the geometry of the structure (no severe buckling, no severe tilt, etc). In contrast, a higher degree of tilt of the top part of the building is going to aid collapse, as it compromises the integrity of the structure.

What I was arguing is that the building in general didn't undergo much plastic strain once the collapse started. Weak links such as column splices and floor connections failed before the metal had a chance to strain plastically and absorb energy. If you look at the collapse you can see many short pieces of straight metal flying about. The gravitational energy got converted mainly to kinetic energy, a reason why the collapse looked chaotic. Ideally, one would like the metal to plastically deform as a collapse begins to dissipate some of the energy and hopefully arrest the collapse.

However, it's difficult to dissipate energy as plastic strain in the metal columns once the integrity of the building is lost. The region of the collapse front no longer has the normal geometry and is unable to convert overloads into plastic strain.

The exact mechanisms of how the building went from a condition of bowed-in east side to a disconnection of the top part of the building relative to the bottom is still being debated. It's not as easy problem to model. The FEAs are based on a number of assumptions and simplifications.
Christophera
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 08:48 AM)
Drats! The end of my post should have come out like this:


Unless somebody can show me a VIDEO wherein this "core" emerges, from within a settling dust cloud, for at least a fraction of a second, and then the collapse continues, such that the total time for collapse was 14 seconds or so, I will assume that this photo is a FAKE.*



* Either that, or a building behind the collapsed tower that was previously not visible. Obviously, this possibility should be extremely easy to check.


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That is the best we can do.
shagster
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 08:48 AM)




* Either that, or a building behind the collapsed tower that was previously not visible. Obviously, this possibility should be extremely easy to check.

I looked at that. It's not the Hilton or Liberty Plaza. They don't match up when looking from the same persective. That cloud/wall feature does line up with the south section of the south tower.
shagster
Superimposed. Cloud/wall and night skyline.

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Superimposed. Hilton in the background.

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metamars
QUOTE (Christophera+Mar 11 2006, 08:54 AM)
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 08:48 AM)
Drats! The end of my post should have come out like this:


Unless somebody can show me a VIDEO wherein this "core" emerges, from within a settling dust cloud, for at least a fraction of a second, and then the collapse continues, such that the total time for collapse was 14 seconds or so, I will assume that this photo is a FAKE.*



* Either that, or a building behind the collapsed tower that was previously not visible. Obviously, this possibility should be extremely easy to check.


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That is the best we can do.

Who is "we"?

If you are implying that this is the best that anybody can do, why would that not bother you deeply? The world's attention was focussed on these two building, in a city of millions, and with cheap video cams being ubiquitous.

We've got a photo which doesn't appear to match any video I've ever seen.

I would hope that not just I, but also nobody else, take this photo seriously unless it can be corroborated with video.


Similar arguments apply to the concretcore.com photo of collapses with fireballs coming out of the collapse zone.
Rove's shill
Didn't collapse:



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Didn't collapse:




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Didn't collapse:





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Didn't collapse:





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Didn't collapse:





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Didn't collapse:




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Didn't collapse:




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Didn't collapse:




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So these fires:




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Resulted in this?



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Now explain to me again how these buildings were designed to fall down like teepees.





shagster
About a third of the Murrah building did collapse. The truck bomb itself only took out a column. That column failure caused a load transfer truss to fail which in turn cause another one or more columns to fail. Gravity then took out about a third of the building. It's not exactly the same as what happened with WTC7 but it's an example of how a collapse can become disproportionate to the event that started it.
shagster
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 09:04 AM)

Who is "we"?

If you are implying that this is the best that anybody can do, why would that not bother you deeply? The world's attention was focussed on these two building, in a city of millions, and with cheap video cams being ubiquitous.

We've got a photo which doesn't appear to match any video I've ever seen.

I would hope that not just I, but also nobody else, take this photo seriously unless it can be corroborated with video.


Similar arguments apply to the concretcore.com photo of collapses with fireballs coming out of the collapse zone.

I haven't been able to see that structure in the videos either. I would like to see a video taken from the west side but haven't been able to find any.

Foxx
QUOTE (metamars+Mar 11 2006, 08:48 AM)
Drats! The end of my post should have come out like this:


Unless somebody can show me a VIDEO wherein this "core" emerges, from within a settling dust cloud, for at least a fraction of a second, and then the collapse continues, such that the total time for collapse was 14 seconds or so, I will assume that this photo is a FAKE.*



* Either that, or a building behind the collapsed tower that was previously not visible. Obviously, this possibility should be extremely easy to check.

I have to agree with you on that score metamars. If the photo were true we should have seen such a situation from other perspectives.

I sent that photo of what appears to be solidified previously molten or fused material off to both Hoffman and Jones. I received replies from both today who found it quite 'intriguing' although neither were willing to make a guess.

I contacted the regional offices of the army corps of engineers to get a contact person of the CENAN PAO website where the photo was found. I didn't mention the photo in that correspondence, just asked for contact name of the CENAN PAO division.

Very interesting exchange of email there. The regional public affairs officer had no hesitation in providing me that address... got an answer in less than an hour. So I emailed the contact at CENAN PAO and asked if he could tell me anything about this photo, like where it was located at WTC, which building etc.

It wasn't long before I got a response from that army officer either. Just a couple of sentences... very strange!... He claimed it wasn't their website so he had NO INFORMATION. end of story ... good bye.

Gee you americans make lousy liars biggrin.gif

Not very bright either... I guess that's why they call military intelligence an oxymoron.

I checked the website out at the Internet Archives - and there it was - ever since 1998. The earlier versions clearly show that the website is run by the US army corps of engineers NY div.

Course I guess that probably shows I'm not very bright either... I should have asked about one of the other photos first, to corner him into admitting that the photo was in their possession.

I wonder why he outright lied, when I asked about that photo?


shagster
Someone was discussing Bush approval record before. A link which keeps a good summary of it:

http://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/files/po...11_image001.gif

shagster
I did see that cloud/wall photo of the south tower on someone's website as part of a sequence of many pics taken by the same person. It looks like it was taken from the Liberty park. There's a structure in the foreground at the shore that looks a lamp structure of some sort. There's probably a building closeby where someone was taking the pics from. I've seen other pics pre-911 that were taken from that same perspective. Maybe a business or govt office or a lighthouse building there or something.
Foxx
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 09:45 AM)
I did see that cloud/wall photo of the south tower on someone's website as part of a sequence of many pics taken by the same person. It looks like it was taken from the Liberty park. There's a structure in the foreground at the shore that looks a lamp structure of some sort. There's probably a building closeby where someone was taking the pics from. I've seen other pics pre-911 that were taken from that same perspective. Maybe a business or govt office or a lighthouse building there or something.
shagster
Thanks, Foxx.

Sequence:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040604164811/....no-ip.com/WTC/

Those overlapping pics I posted were taken by the person in the link above and are from the same vantage point.
shagster
That page also has a couple good shots of the spire of the north tower. Perhaps that wall seen in the south tower collapse is also a spire. The spire/wall in the north tower collapse also appeared opaque, or at least part of it did.

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shagster
Two more north tower spire/wall pics.

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shagster
Here's what I get when I average the pics before and after the north tower collapse:



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shagster
Here's a night pic that I averaged with the pic of the spire, same vantage point. The spire extends up to the mechanical floors at 75 and 76. Incredible. The night pic is a good reference because the mechanical floors look like dark bands.

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shagster

Side by side:

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adoucette
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 05:01 AM)
Superimposed. Cloud/wall and night skyline.

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Superimposed. Hilton in the background.

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Superimposed, it would appear that it is not JUST the core, but the East and South Perimeter walls as well.

The validity of this assertion would be that the mystery building has a very strange top. Unlike any ACTUAL building, it comes to a slightly rounded Apex.

But when superimposed one can see that the apex is equal to the corner of the WTC 2 building, and then it makes sense, IF what you are seeing is Perimeter.

Arthur
shagster
It does appear to be far south on the south tower (and the pics are lined up quite well). Perhaps it's the southwest perimeter. You would tend to expect the corner region to have a little more strength and remain the highest point while other sections collapsed, forming an apex. That thing peaks around floor levels 50 to 60. Then again, it didn't stand too long.
adoucette
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 11 2006, 05:26 AM)
I have to agree with you on that score metamars. If the photo were true we should have seen such a situation from other perspectives.

...

I contacted the regional offices of the army corps of engineers to get a contact person of the CENAN PAO website where the photo was found. I didn't mention the photo in that correspondence, just asked for contact name of the CENAN PAO division.

Very interesting exchange of email there. The regional public affairs officer had no hesitation in providing me that address... got an answer in less than an hour. So I emailed the contact at CENAN PAO and asked if he could tell me anything about this photo, like where it was located at WTC, which building etc.

It wasn't long before I got a response from that army officer either. Just a couple of sentences... very strange!... He claimed it wasn't their website so he had NO INFORMATION. end of story ... good bye.

Gee you americans make lousy liars biggrin.gif

Not very bright either... I guess that's why they call military intelligence an oxymoron.

I checked the website out at the Internet Archives - and there it was - ever since 1998. The earlier versions clearly show that the website is run by the US army corps of engineers NY div.

Course I guess that probably shows I'm not very bright either... I should have asked about one of the other photos first, to corner him into admitting that the photo was in their possession.

I wonder why he outright lied, when I asked about that photo?

If the photo WERE true????

If someone was going to FAKE a photo, why fake one like that?????

Its not like its great PROOF of anything since none of us can be quite sure WHAT it is.

Your PARANOIA knows no bounds.

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Why do you think there HAD to be videos?

It was a work day. Do you take your video camera to work?

The event was over an hour old by then, how many people up that morning and who had video cameras had exhausted either tape and/or batteries by then?

Again, just more paranoia.

As for the CENAN - PAO thingy.

You are WAY too Internet Savey to be thinking this was the OFFICIAL CENAN web site.

It it was I believe it would end with .GOV

Look at the site, notice the "postcards" link, the link to "col o dowds mission", the Politics, the "as seen on CNN" stuff.

Clearly NOT an official site. (way to UN-political correct)

So, you go the Official route and they say its not theirs.

So, you call them liars.

Typical.

I SUSPECT the site owner is MARK WINGATE or someone who obviously works for the CENAN and most probably in the PAO office.

Foxx, you'll actually like this, go to the site.

http://army.firststrike.net/index.htm

and click on Damage Assessment

Takes you on a PPT slide show of the damage to the (in your mind) infamous WFC 1.

Below is a direct link to it.

http://army.firststrike.net/briefings/WTC_..._Assessment.ppt

Arthur
Commen sense
QUOTE (Foxx+Mar 11 2006, 06:56 AM)
Got news for you Schneibster... most of us just scroll past your posts anyway, looking for something intelligent. Even if you did have something intelligent hidden in one of your games, we wouldn't know about it, We'd miss it scrolling on to the next post (that wasn't yours). Why are so filled with hate? Oh, never mind... I won't be bothering to read your reply anyway.

1) I'm not Schneibster and will continue to point out your stupidity by calling me him.

2) My post was in responce to zoktoberfest's spam which no one on my side reads either.

3) I don't give a rats a$$ what you think

4) you have proven to disregard intelligent replys anyway so you aren't inlightening me in any way..

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Commen sense
QUOTE (shagster+Mar 11 2006, 01:07 PM)
It does appear to be far south on the south tower (and the pics are lined up quite well).  Perhaps it's the southwest perimeter.  You would tend to expect the corner region to have a little more strength and remain the highest point while other sections collapsed, forming an apex.  That thing peaks around floor levels 50 to 60.  Then again, it didn't stand too long.

But as I've said, there is no corner perimeter column which could stand some ten stories by it's lonesome. All the columns were connected in threes except the corner which I believe was connected at an angle in twos.

So this 10 story column could not be a perimeter column.

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Note the very thin caddy cornered columns during construction with the H lying on it's side pattern.

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And when you put the above together with this..

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http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/8870/sp...200x16009as.jpg

It's a done deal..

Also shagster, if you want to try my google earth test you'll see why thats most likely a building belind the debris cloud as Aduo suggest. I'm still not 100% sure about that one photo (That could be the core or another building) but their is no doubt about that being the core which stood longer than the building.

Of course CTers don't want this to be the case because it's strong evidence of pancaking.

shagster
Common,

I didn't say the spire on the north tower was a corner section of the perimeter. That spire feature is part of the core.

The wall/cloud on the south tower I'm not sure about. It could be a corner section of of the perimeter (which would have a little more rigidity than a flat wall with no corner), part of the core, or something else. I don't have any other photos or video of that feature but will look for some.

shagster
These are the buildings in the background as seen from the same vantage point. They don't match up with that wall/cloud feature.

That feature disappeared fairly quick. It's gone in the next pic in the sequence yet the dust clouds on the ground didn't change much. That tells me it probably wasn't a dust cloud but something that collapsed fairly quick.

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Commen sense
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http://www.geocities.com/debunking911/
shagster
This is the first time I have seen that image.

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adoucette
QUOTE (Commen sense+Mar 11 2006, 10:36 AM)
But as I've said, there is no corner perimeter column which could stand some ten stories by it's lonesome. All the columns were connected in threes except the corner which I believe was connected at an angle in twos.

So this 10 story column could not be a perimeter column.

user posted image

User posted image

Note the very thin caddy cornered columns during construction with the H lying on it's side pattern.

user posted image

And when you put the above together with this..

...

It's a done deal..


I'm not sure of the corner construction detail.

But if you look at the picture (described as H's on their side)

You will notice that the Perimeter column trees that meet at the corner have FOUR columns.

You will also notice that the relative sizes of the vertical to horizontal pieces of the Perimeter corner don't match the picture of the collapse.

Also the CROSS piece in the "H" is put in afterward (its in every other floor) but you can see that the top "H" does not yet have its "cross" piece.

In any case, I don't believe what we are seeing in that picture is the Perimeter Corner as I find it extremly unlikely that ALL of the Perimeter Trees that would have been attached could be stripped from that "H" corner column and not distort it or tear it apart.

Arthur
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