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News Flash: There was no Controlled Demolition of any building on 9/11/2001

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I know what your thinking - shocking, right? :think:

Trust me, no one was more shocked than I to learn that it was actually terrorist d-bags flying Kamikaze Boeing's after 13 years of people bombarding me with the idea that steel buildings can only collapse if someone wires them up ahead of time with things that go boom (or that don't go boom, depending on one's particular brand of reality-distortion). But alas it is true, none of the Twin Towers or 7 World Trade Center (or Fiterman Hall, the Duetsche Bank Building, St Nicholas Church, the Marriott, or 4, 5 & 6 WTC for that matter) were pre-wired with:

*High-Explosives
*Hush-A-Booms
*Squibs
*Mini-Nukes
*[/b]S [/b]uper [/b]H [/b]igh [/b] I[/b]ntensity [/b] T [/b]herm_te
*Energy Beams from space
*Sharknado's
*Or anything else,...

For 13 years we have been listening to Conspiracy Theorists make wild accusations of Controlled Demolition (CD) but they have never presented a plausible case to prima facie standard. They don't even try - because they can't. :boohoo: They just know it was and if you don't agree with them you are a sheeple, government shill, etc, etc, etc,... Only they know the real truth. The rest of us are but mere buffoons.

:allhail

How do they know?

*Why, because it looked like a Controlled Demolition (so it must have been)
and/or
*The building(s) feel at free-fall speed or at least at near free-fall speed (whatever that means)
and/or
*The building(s) fell symmetrically (or near-symmetrically - see above) and in their own footprint
and/or
*The collapses defy the laws of physics
And of course that time-honored classic,...
*Never before has a high-rise steel building collapsed from fire (thus it can never happen because nothing that has never happened before can ever happen).

Part 1: Does it Look Like a CD?

So what about the belief that it looked just like a Controlled Demolition? Well, the 3 WTC building collapses sort of did... except for all the parts that didn't look like a CD, which is just about everything and obvious at anything beyond very casual observation.

Most people will only have experience of what a building looks like as it collapses by watching an actual known Controlled Demolition, either in person or on video. That is their only frame of reference. So when a building falls due to some other cause (which is thankfully exceedingly rare, as it should be) the fact that it falls sort-of similarly (ie: in the direction of gravity - what other way could it fall) it is easy, even natural to say "hey, that looks like a CD". But because it looks like a CD, does not prove it is a CD. To say that after watching a short Youtube video a couple of times the collapses look "just like a CD" isn't evidence, it is an observation and observations are open to interpretation. Unless you are an expert in controlled demolitions who has participated in at least dozens, hopefully hundreds of such events the observation likely isn't very useful.

There is nothing about the Twin Towers falling that looks "exactly" like any Controlled Demolition. They are in fact as good an example of totally uncontrolled destruction of a major building that one might find (ie; 'top down' destruction, debris scattered over several blocks, massive collateral damage, etc, etc,…).

And let's not forget the elephant in the room - the part Conspiracy Theorists have to conceal: what the collapses sound like, which is NOTHING like any explosive CD which has ever been done. EVER. And of course the fact that not a single piece of steel shows the effects of demolitions explosives or incendiaries. Zero. Nor has any other physical evidence for any type of demolition been discovered, by anyone, EVER.

But there is a bigger problem,…

Why CD the Twin Towers or 7? What purpose is served by this? What possible, plausible motive justifies the enormous risk and challenge of demo'ing these buildings? Why would the evil inside-job plotters go through so much effort of wiring a building with devices, using hundreds of people whose highly obtrusive work could be found out or who might later spill the beans over a pint or to get their 15 minutes on Oprah, setting up the building to fall contrary to all other controlled demolitions, when crashing a plane without the towers falling would have just as much a profound effect?

In other words, why demo the buildings at all? What purpose does that serve the plot that makes it worth the enormous trouble and risk? Why is it necessary?

Starting a war? The problem with that explanation is that you don't need the towers to collapse for the plan to work. Crazy foreign people seizing control of civilian aircraft and impaling them in the sides of some buildings right here on American soil would be horrifying enough on its own to warrant whatever action even without the collapse of any buildings. The terrorist attack was about instilling fear, not real estate.

In other words, that any buildings collapsed at all, far from being the central focus is at best incidental and probably the least important aspect of the whole narrative.

So why not simply crash aircraft and let the chips fall where they may?

Of course the real reason CT's believe there was CD at the WTC is because they believe the government (or the Jews, or the NWO or whomever) is evil and responsible for all evil things that happen in the world. If they accept the WTC towers could have collapsed because of aircraft impacts they have to accept that the whole thing could have been done by 19 terrorist d-bags doing what terrorist d-bags do. CD is the only way to ensure the ____________ can be blamed, therefore to satisfy their ideology they have to believe there was CD, no matter what the evidence actually tells us.

The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed due to the combined effects of structural damage from high speed impact of a large aircraft, intense fires raging across multiple floors simultaneously, compromising of the buildings safety systems, time and gravity. 7 World Trade Center collapsed due to all of the above less the aircraft impacts - so it took longer.

The fundamentals of the collapses of both World Trade Center Twin Towers and of 7 World Trade Center are easily explainable by aircraft impacts and fire plus time and gravity to anyone who wants to learn (who drops the ideological baggage) AND can grasp high school level physics.

(to be continued,...)
 
Holograms and weather-machine sharknado!
 
A sort of anti CT thread in CT. I like it.
 
Part 1: Does it Look Like a CD - continued,...

I suppose we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves. We really should start by getting a baseline of what a known CD, by various methods, actually looks like if we are to determine if the collapse of any building on 9/11/2001 looks like a CD.

To start here are a few video compiliations, the first from Implosion World, the trade magazine for the CD industry cataloging CD's from 2003 primarily using high explosives. Pay attention to the details. Notice how you get the deafening sound for each charge as it is fired in sequence, usually with a visible blast and high-velocity ejecta. Only after that does the building move - and rarely symmetrically or at "free-fall".



And another from CDI which unfortunately substitutes a techno music track for live audio but has useful imagery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TARNVwF7Yg

This next bit is a compilation using the Verinage technique popular in Europe where rather than using explosives, the structure is weakened in the middle, then hydraulic rams are used to push the structural members out of alignment, allowing the top portion of the structure to demolish the structure below using gravity alone.



This variation demonstrates pulling the building down with cables.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prwvj-npt5s

This technique really illustrates a key point which seems to be lost on many CT's. Whether a collapse is initiated by the use of an explosive device, or by structural failure of some other kind (fire, corrosion, fatigue, overloading, etc,...) once the structural member fails it is gravity that does all the work. That initiating mechanism merely sets the structure in motion. The structure does not know what that initiating mechanism was so why is there any expectation that a building will fall differently if explosives are used than if there was some other method of failure? Gravity only works in one direction.

OK, so we have seen what a bunch of known CD's look like on a wide variety of different structures of different design and construction and using a variety of techniques. Now let us take a look at what the collapses of the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center looked like and see if we can draw comparisons, show what is similar and what is not. In the interest of brevity lets concentrate on the South Tower first by watching this compilation of many video's of the collapse event.



Yes, superficially the South Tower - particularly if viewed in a long shot - kinda looks like some of the CD's we saw. BUT, if you were paying close attention, especially to the zoom in shots the differences between the explosive CD's shown in the first video at the top of this post and the collapse of the South Tower should be glaringly obvious.

Where is the boom, boom, boom, the flashes, the high velocity ejecta before the building starts to move?

What we see instead are columns buckling and giving way and the tower leaning as it start to drop. No noise, no drama to announce its collapse. Observers on the ground were clearly taken by surprise. None of that is anything like a CD.

This is why one can't just look at a video (on CT websites it often will have the audio removed). One has to look at whole picture.
* Emergency responder reports of building instability in North Tower lobby
* Police helicopter reports of the building leaning before collapse
* No boom, boom, boom, flashes, pressure waves or high-velocity ejecta prior to collapse
Etc, etc, etc,...

So the challenges then for CT's are at least twofold:
First is to demonstrate why (hypothetically) if Column X fails due to overloading causing collapse the collapse event should look substantially different than if Column X failed due to the use of an explosive device.
Secondly is to explain the fundamental differences between CD and other types of structural failure, chiefly the complete absence of any of the typical evidence of explosive use and why those evidences are missing in the case of 9/11.

I would argue the collapse of a building whether by CD or some other mode of failure will appear largely the same - column fails, structure drops. In the case of explosive CD however what happens just before the collapse is you hear the bang, see the flash, feel the pressure wave, and see the high-velocity ejecta associated with the device before the structure starts to move. And it has to be explosive CD since I don't think anyone is going to argue hydraulic rams were employed :doh

But there was no CD. The video evidence doesn't support it. The witness evidence doesn't support it. The physical evidence doesn't support it. Planes, each impacting with the force of a 2,000 lb bomb and 170 incendiary bombs were more than adequate for the task. No other form of MHI (Malicious Human Intervention) required.

As with so many other cases we find, the problem is not with what happened, but with unrealistic expectations of what should have happened from people who lack the necessary understanding of the event and/or suffer from a form of ideological blindness which clouds their objectivity.
 
Space vampires are controlled by no one not even the laws of nature!
 
Space vampires are controlled by no one not even the laws of nature!

Do NOT underestimate the reach of the consortium of Rigel-ish bankers.

Even the space vampires are under their thrall.
 
B-b-but...

Well....

Okay, but how can we blame this on an evil government conspiracy? As long as you can still do that, we're good and we're in agreement. Bob, I'm sure, would agree.
 
Part 2: Free-Fall, or Near Free-Fall (whatever the heck that is supposed to mean)

A common CT claim, originally applied to the Twin Towers collapses but now reserved more or less exclusively for 7 World Trade Center is that the building(s) collapsed at Free-Fall Speed (should be "acceleration", not "speed" but many CT's don't get the distinction) which can only happen if all support is removed simultaneously in a controlled demolition.
:bomb:
The reason no one with a functioning brain makes the free-fall claim for the Twin Towers anymore is that it requires nothing more than the ability to tell time and the gift of sight to debunk it. That means for CT's it took about 10 years to get wise and drop it. Still gets thrown around a lot in regards to 7 World Trade Center though.

(Editors note: Just because the Twin Towers did not achieve free-fall acceleration does not mean they were not a CD - in CT land you can have your cake AND eat it too).

So the question is; Why does this claim get used for 7 World Trade Center, is the claim true, and if true, why should we care (why is it relevant)?

OK, that's 3 questions, not one. Sorry :spank:

1. Why is this claim used re: Building 7?

This should be obvious - because we know from CT logic that free-fall can only happen in a CD. Duh.

2. Is the claim of free-fall true?

This has to do with a retired high-school science teacher and CT nut named David Chandler. Mr. Chandler, believing that free-fall = CD began looking for evidence of free-fall at 7 World Trade Center. He found it by measuring a single point on the NW corner of the roof of the buildings curtain wall. Over a period of 2.25 seconds this single point averaged free-fall or gravitational acceleration. Mr. Chandler submitted his findings to the NIST who then willingly incorporated them into the final Building 7 Performance Report, which was treated as a great victory by the forces promoting 9/11 woo.

Why did the NIST do that?

Because Chandler's calculations were fundamentally correct. The single measured data point on the corner of the roof of the exterior curtain wall did average G for 2.25 seconds.

3. So what? Why do we care?

So does this prove there was CD or other MHI (Malicious Human Intervention) at 7 World Trade Center?

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Why not?

Well for one thing, how fast something falls tells you nothing about WHY it fell.

Also, Chandler's measurement by no means represents the building. It is only valid for that single point on the exterior curtain wall he measured, the curtain wall being last part of the building to fall. I suspect Chandler chose that point specifically and not some other point because it was the one that would yield the answer he wanted. Remember, he just needed an example of G and stopped when he found one. Most of the collapse event occurred before Chandler took his measurement. Most of the collapse event is hidden behind the exterior curtain wall, which was the last part of the building to go. Or in other words, the main structure of the building had already collapsed when Chandler's single point began to move. This is why CT's so often fail to grasp the insignificance of Chandler's single point measurement.

And finally, we know from more detailed measurements than Chandler's taken by others that it wasn't 2.25 seconds of sustained free-fall as often alluded to by CT's but an average. During that 2.25 seconds the data point started at less than G, accelerated through and then a bit faster than G then decelerated again. That is in fact the only way you could get an average of G. It has to spend some time above and some time below G to average G.

This begs the question how do you get over G accelerations in a CD?

bueller.jpg

CT's deal with this thorny problem in the usual, expected manner - denial and evasion.
 
Do NOT underestimate the reach of the consortium of Rigel-ish bankers.

Even the space vampires are under their thrall.

I have never heard of them, but then they probably want it that way.
 
... That is in fact the only way you could get an average of G. It has to spend some time above and some time below G to average G.
Good point. I should have thought of it myself.
...This begs the question how do you get over G accelerations in a CD?
Specific to CD? Or in any collapse?

I'll wait for the next chapter.
 
Good point. I should have thought of it myself.
Specific to CD? Or in any collapse?

I'll wait for the next chapter.

Specific to CD. It is possible as you and I both know just as it is possible without CD. Just wondering if the Peanut gallery can figure it out. My suspicion is they will avoid the issue altogether. Open for discussion though if anyone is willing.
 
Part 2: Free-Fall, or Near Free-Fall (whatever the heck that is supposed to mean), continued...

What is near free-fall supposed to mean anyway? How fast exactly is near free-fall? What does near free-fall prove? Why do we care?

It reminds me a bit of a few years back when CT's loved to make the claim that no steel building has ever collapsed due to fire. When it was pointed out to them how untrue this is they reluctantly had to add the irrelevant qualifier high-rise building, as if fire knows or cares how tall a building is.

Probably has something to do with the fact 7 World Trade Center took very much longer to collapse than free-fall.
 
What is near free-fall supposed to mean anyway? How fast exactly is near free-fall? What does near free-fall prove? Why do we care?

Horseshoes, Hand grenades and Nukes, you don't have to be spot on, just get near and that's good enough.
Apparently you can add Freefall to that list
 
Part 3: The building(s) Fell Symmetrically (or near-symmetrically) and in their Own Footprint

Another CT chestnut subjected to the dual-question challenge:

1. Is it true?
2. If true, so what? Why do we care?

CT's claim symmetrical collapse is an indication of CD as to achieve it all columns would have to be blown simultaneously for this effect to be achieved, which could only happen with prepared demolitions. Usually when a CT pulls this one out of the box they are referred to 7 World Trade Center as one could hardly call either of the Twin Towers collapses symmetrical.

SouthTowerCollapse.jpg

Near symmetrical perhaps,... :inandout:

But that's OK because even if the collapse wasn't symmetrical that is still proof it was a CD. After all, ff you paid attention to the CD compilation video presented earlier you may have noticed there wasn't much in the way of symmetrical collapses going on. But I digress,...

But 7 World Trade Center was a progressive collapse which took place in 3 distinct stages, so how can anyone conclude the collapse was symmetrical? :confused:

The answer lies in the nature of the structure and in how it collapsed. Most of the really interesting stuff was hidden. When people think of the collapse of 7 WTC they tend to have the image of the first clip on the video below, used on many CT web sites where the early stages of the collapses are edited out and only the final stage, the collapse of the exterior curtain wall is shown. This leads to a false belief that the curtain wall is the building when in fact by the time it fell it was a hollow shell. The building had already collapsed behind it.



Even the later clips on that video either edit out the first and sometimes the second stage or are shot from angles where they are not obvious or visible. What else is one to do when presented with evidence they are not aware has been doctored?

To get a better idea of what I am on about, here is an image of the roof of 7 World Trade Center with the East Mechanical Penthouse (EPH), loaded with heavy Air Conditioning and Ventilation equipment and other heavy machinery.

wtc7-east-penthouse.jpg

This next image was captured just before the initial collapse event and shows the EPH intact.

http://www.911myths.com/assets/images/WTC7_Penthouses.gif

Now we see the signs of collapse externally with the kink in the EPH roof, consistent with the failure of Column 79.

wtc7-penthouse-kink.jpg

Here the whole EPH has dropped into the building. It is no longer visible above the roofline and the sky can be seen through the upper story windows.

WTC_7_Collapse.mp4.jpg

Now the EPH has collapsed, the center facade and WPH on the roof are collapsing, and there is a line of widow breakage along column lines. The "kink" in the center of the building has become obvious. What is less obvious but can be seen in the video's above is the building twisting and leaning over as it collapses

WTC7_Penthouse.jpg

So that is three distinct stages of collapse:
* EPH and its supporting structure
* Progression through the load transfer region westward culminating in the collapse into the building of the WPH
* Curtain wall - the part we can easily see in non-edited videos - collapses, probably pulled down by the already collapsing building interior

Nothing symmetrical or even near symmetrical about it. :doh

Ah, but did the buildings land in their own footprint? That is supposed to be important to because we are told that can only happen in a CD.

The Twin Towers each had a footprint of 1 (one) acre, so that is two acres for the both of them combined. They created a zone of destruction 16 acres in size that destroyed 7 other buildings, seriously damaged about 25 more, damaged another hundred or so and rendered an entire neighborhood uninhabitable for months.

So what about Building 7?

Part if it fell onto the Verizon Building to the west causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Part of it fell to the north east causing fatal damage to Fiterman Hall and blocking surrounding streets in a debris pile several stories high.

If this is supposed to offer proof of CD, I think we are going to need more evidence.
 
The Final Chapter - Never Before in History,...

This has to be one of the most oft-repeated yet bizarrely illogical arguments CT's make. It is usually presented something like this:

Never before has a (high-rise) steel building collapsed from fire alone.

It is then insinuated (rarely stated outright) this must mean there was a controlled demolition since as we all well know, something that has never happened before can never happen. The insinuation usually being followed up with a reversed burden-of-proof; you prove me wrong.

The "fire alone" part is important in the case of the Twin Towers as CT's rarely acknowledge the combination of factors at work there; impact + fire. They can do one, or they can do the other. But they can't do both at the same time. In the case of at least one our resident CT's he can't do it without also adding the irrelevant and inaccurate qualifier office furniture fires, demonstrating and additional level of intentional dishonesty at work.

We can be thankful that large passenger jets impacting tall office towers at high speed causing uncontrolled fires is an exceedingly rare event. Equally we can be thankful that it is exceedingly rare for burning 110-story office towers to fall onto adjacent oddly constructed 47-story office towers, taking out the water supply for the fire suppression systems in the process. As they say, there is a first time for everything.

And that is it in a order Fagales containment vessel. The entire case for CD is built on ideology, wishful thinking, incurable denialism, poor knowledge of structural engineering, physics and history

The collapses of the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center did not look like, nor did they sound like a controlled demolition. Nor could they even be described as controlled, causing massive collateral damage to the surrounding area and taking 7 other buildings with them.

There was no free-fall acceleration in the case of the Twin Towers collapse. There was a brief period near the end of the collapse of 7 World Trade Center were accelerations of greater than G were measured, but they have no bearing on what caused the collapse.

None of the buildings fell symmetrically, or in their own footprints or even near symmetrically and nearly in their own footprints - whatever the heck that is supposed to mean.

And finally,... Just because an event has never happened before does not mean it can never happen. Open any history book. It will be chock full of things that never happened before from the Wright Brothers first flight, to the Apollo 11 landing to the first test of Oppenheimer's little toy - to a billion other things. How is this proof of anything?

In the meantime, where is the physical evidence? Where are the bits of detcord that always litter every CD site? Where is the blast-damaged steel? Why wasn't lower Manhattan showered in lethal fragments from the blasts? Why were windows for blocks in every direction left intact by the shock wave? How would the rigging have taken place with no one getting caught? How did the devices survive the fires?

:popcorn2:
 
4 minutes that ends your premise.

How?

Are you trying to prove that CD is a risky business and it would have been foolish to try it - better off to just crash airliners? Great, I agree. :clap:
 
How?

Are you trying to prove that CD is a risky business and it would have been foolish to try it - better off to just crash airliners? Great, I agree. :clap:

Priceless!

A great thread Mark and kudos to you for taking the time to put it all together.
 
How?

Are you trying to prove that CD is a risky business and it would have been foolish to try it - better off to just crash airliners? Great, I agree. :clap:

How, because the premise that you use to claim that initiation of collapse meant the buildings were doomed.

As you've seen in the video, if you even bothered, was that just because a structure begins to collapse does not mean that the collapse will continue.
 
How, because the premise that you use to claim that initiation of collapse meant the buildings were doomed.

As you've seen in the video, if you even bothered, was that just because a structure begins to collapse does not mean that the collapse will continue.

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How, because the premise that you use to claim that initiation of collapse meant the buildings were doomed.
Which is a true premise in the case of WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7. And those three are specific examples of the generic class of collapses.

As you've seen in the video, if you even bothered, was that just because a structure begins to collapse does not mean that the collapse will continue.
Which is a true generic statement which did not apply to the specific examples of WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7.

And the post yet another example of your standard "debate trick" - false generalisation - your trademark tho' one other poster is competing for the title "King of False Generalisations". And the trimmings on this occasion are the strawman structure plus the touch of lie by innuendo. The reality of the FG trick has been exposed and it has been explained to you several times so you are now using it with deliberately untruthful intent.

If you ever get serious - let us all know.
 
Priceless!

A great thread Mark and kudos to you for taking the time to put it all together.
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Agreed.

It is a pity that there are no genuine truthers still active who could and would benefit from the effort.
 
If you ever get serious - let us all know.

Pulling out the you're not serious card. Translation, if you don't agree with the "we" gang of fakers, you're not serious. And since you're not serious, they have a pretext to ignore your claims as they see fit. Been there, done that.
 
Pulling out the you're not serious card. Translation, if you don't agree with the "we" gang of fakers, you're not serious. And since you're not serious, they have a pretext to ignore your claims as they see fit. Been there, done that.

Just ....wow...:funny
 
Just ....wow...:funny

Bob does not, can not get it on a fundamental level. There would be no use bothering to ask him to be serious. He has no idea what it means.
 
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