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originally posted by: GenRadek
You should know that explosive demolition charges are very very loud . And in every freaking demolition video I have ever seen and heard, you hear the very noisy detonations well before any movement of the building. It wold have been picked up on every camera and audio recording device within two miles. And yet, we have people standing under it and next to it, and the only sound we ever hear is a growing rumbling sound of the collapses. No sharp bang bang bangs. At all! Period!
Did you forget the structure was collapsing internally for a few seconds prior to the collapse we see?
"the phenomenon that we saw on 9/11 that brought this particular building down was really thermal expansion, which occurs at lower temperatures."
Angel Rivera, describing in his own words the second impact of the plane and then later, the collapse of the first tower.
"The building was still shaking and
we're still hearing explosions going on everywhere, so we decided let's get out of here. We ran all the way down to the fourth floor where we ran out of stairs. There were no more stairs.
As for LT. Patrick he describes how the Tower started to fall down. Im sure it did sound like an explosion if you were standing right under it.
LIEUTENANT PATRICK SCARINGELLO EMS
WTC2
"I heard the explosion from up above. I looked up, I saw smoke and flame and then I saw the top tower tilt, start to twist and lean".
gee Mr.Einstein......then that MUST mean falling tower debris took out the FIRST three flights of stairs below to trap them on the fourth floor....how does that occur and NOT kill them in the process???...since they were directly above.....
oh....so an impact that caused minimal damage to a tower did that to a SEPARATE building????
so, got any EVIDENCE supporting that or are ya just talking out yer........
where they can HEAR the sound of collapse BEFORE they see it occur!!!!.....totally amazing huh.
they HEAR the EXPLOSION/sound, that gets their ATTENTION to LOOK UP, to SEE the tower START TO COLLAPSE!!!!!...
...before it makes the noise that gets their attention.
two to three second pass from the TIME they hear the noise/EXPLOSION, to the time they look up to see it start to move...
Debris bashed into that building from the top and side.
NCSTAR1A p.39/130
"the damage from the debris from WTC 1 had little effect on initiating the collapse of WTC 7."
You mean it was impossible that debris impacting from the side or damaging the structure wouldnt cause damage below them?
Ok, I can play this game too. Listen closely to this video and watch:
originally posted by: GenRadek
Did you hear any explosions prior to collapse? Cause I sure didnt.
Angel Rivera was in WTC3! THREE. T-H-R-E-E ! WTC 3!! Three is not the same as Seven.
Not look up and go, HOLY $#1! its coming down!!!
LIEUTENANT PATRICK SCARINGELLO EMS
WTC2
"I heard the explosion from up above. I looked up, I saw smoke and flame and then I saw the top tower tilt, start to twist and lean".
RONALD COYNE EMT WTC2
"At that point I just heard a THUNDEROUS SOUND AND LOOKED up AND SAW THE BUILDING START TO TOPPLE START TO SWAY, AND IT WAS SWAYING OUR WAY..".
FIREFIGHTER RICHARD BOERI WTC2
"We had our backs to the tower and under that pedestrian bridge walking south, myself, Eddie Kennedy and the officer, when you heard the crackling. You looked up and you saw the one floor explode on itself and the top start to slide."
FIREFIGHTER WILLIAM REYNOLDS
WTC2-
"I was distracted by a large explosion from the south tower and it seemed like fire was shooting out a couple of hundred feet in each direction, then all of a sudden the top of the tower started coming down"
People closest to the Tower would see and hear the explosions first,
What kind of crappy explosives were these that no one can pick up on the video cams standing right under them??
"NIST did not test for the residue from explosives or accelerants" wtc. nist. gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006. htm
[NCSTAR1A 4.3.4] Basing the decision of "No explosives or accelerants were used" on videos that were recorded at the time of collapse and the use of specialized computer modeling...NIST concluded that a blast event did not occur
people hearing explosions does not equal people hearing explosives being detonated.
What many of you guys fail to understand, or refuse to as the case may be, is that during any fire, explosions will be heard in a large enough fire. Hell I counted three explosions while watching a garage burn a few years back.
The point is that there were NO detonation sounds like demo charges heard
NCSTR1A 4.2 p.48 "Based on visual and audio evidence and the use of specialized computer modeling...NIST concluded that a blast event did not occur"
[NCSTAR1A 4.3.4] Basing the decision of "No explosives or accelerants were used" on videos that were recorded at the time of collapse.
Anything heard prior to collapse was most likely the tower beginning to collapse as floors crashing down onto each other
Plus interesting how they all describe the first collapse as an explosion. I'm pretty sure the sound of a building collapsing would sound like that.
LIEUTENANT PATRICK SCARINGELLO EMS
WTC2
"I heard the explosion from up above. I looked up, I saw smoke and flame and then I saw the top tower tilt, start to twist and lean".
FIREFIGHTER RICHARD BOERI WTC2
"We had our backs to the tower and under that pedestrian bridge walking south, myself, Eddie Kennedy and the officer, when you heard the crackling. You looked up and you saw the one floor explode on itself and the top start to slide"
FIREFIGHTER WILLIAM REYNOLDS
WTC2-
"I was distracted by a large explosion from the south tower and it seemed like fire was shooting out a couple of hundred feet in each direction, then all of a sudden the top of the tower started coming down"
plus not really being picked up by any video or audio.
Noooo you used his quotes about hearing explosions before any collapses, and yet when one reads his account he never mentions any other explosions other than the plane impact and then collapses of the Towers.
(pg4)
"when we hit the 19th floor,
something horrendous happened. It was like a
bomb went off. We thought we were dead.
The whole building shook. The brick
coming out of -- the door to the hallway into the
hotel blew off like somebody had thrown it all
over the place. It shook all over the place. We
were thrown on the floor. We looked inside the lobby after
everything calmed down, and everything was
collapsed."
(pg5)
2]..."The building was still shaking and
we're still hearing explosions going on everywhere, so we decided let's get out of here. We ran all the way down to the fourth floor where we ran out of stairs. There were no more stairs. We met on that floor, and we were all safe. We were all like-we could have been over here. What happened, we looked out of the window of the hotel, the wall, practically, because the window was all blown up. There was no way out. The only way out was the roof rope."
(pg7)
"and then the most horrendous thing happened. That's
when hell came down. It was like a huge,
enormous explosion. I still can hear it.
Everything shook. Everything went black. The
wind rushed, very slowly [sound], all the dust,
all the-and everything went dark.
We were rolling all over the floor,
banging against the walls. I thought I was alone. I thought I was buried alive."
originally posted by: hgfbob
THAT is the reason they will NEVER forget.
then tell me the sound it makes when there is NO collapsing building till they look up more than 2 seconds later to SEE it "START TO COLLAPSE"?
a lot more to do with the hundreds of guys who died.
corroborate your ideasand build your case.
Shyam Sunder at the NIST webcast Technical Briefing
"the phenomenon that we saw on 9/11 that brought this particular building down was really thermal expansion, which occurs at lower temperatures."
The Delft school of Architecture partially collapsed from fire several years ago. Witnesses reported hearing loud explosions.
I saw, you know, there was definitely fire in the building, you know, but ... um, I didn't hear any, and you know maybe this is movie crap, i didn't hear any creaking or i didn't hear any indication that it was going to come down, and all of a sudden the radios exploded and everybody started screaming, "Get away. Get away. Get away from it." and I was like a dear in the headlights. And I look up.
It was that moment, you know, "Get away", and I looked up... and... it was nothing I would ever imagine seeing in my life. And all the things started peeling in on itself and... I mean, there was an umbrella of crap seven feet over my head that I just stared at. Somebody grabbed my shoulder and I started running and the [explitive]'s hitting the ground behind me and the whole time your hearing "thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom." So. I think I know an explosion when I hear it."
you use people's description of the collapse (as an explosion) and presto chango, it is PROOF of explosives and bombs
So Wtc1 and 2 were not burning much at all? Really? Cause thse photos seems to speak otherwise:
talk to firefighters that can tell you all about fire sciences.
"the phenomenon that we saw on 9/11 that brought this particular building down was really thermal expansion, which occurs at lower temperatures."
You mean the wind on the mic videos? Even the "Truther" websites have debunked him:
This is why the forum is dying. The same garbage over and over
NOT ONE shred of new evidence
"NIST is withholding 68,246 files. These records are currently exempt from disclosure. All input and results files of the ANSYS 16 story and the LS-DYNA 47-story global collapse model that were used to simulate sequential structural failures leading to collapse."
what else is a building collapsing suppose to sound like? A feather falling on a pillow?
NCSTAR 1A 3.6] "This free fall drop continues for approximately 8 stories, the distance traveled between t=1.75s and t=4.0s...constant, downward acceleration during this time interval. This acceleration was *9.8m/s^2*, equivalent to the acceleration of gravity."
NICSTAR 1A 4.3.4] Global Collapse..."The entire building above the buckled column region moved downward in a single unit, as observed, completing the global collapse"
NCSTAR1A p.39/130
"the damage from the debris from WTC 1 had little effect on initiating the collapse of WTC 7."
"the phenomenon that we saw on 9/11 that brought this particular building down was really thermal expansion, which occurs at lower temperatures."