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originally posted by: cardinalfan0596
a reply to: lambros56
And again, you base that on what? Preconceived notions about an event we had never witnessed before.
When I arrived home and watched the video my wife had recorded, I was amazed that the Towers stood as long as they did.
originally posted by: cardinalfan0596
a reply to: Flatcoat
Wrong. Watch some of the news reports from that day. The possibility of the buildings collapsing, was discussed. And, NYPD aerial units were reporting they thought the buildings were going to collapse as well.
and I am
confused
.
ignoring reality of that day
In other words, your flawed understanding of the events of that day and the motivations of Muslim terrorists, is what leads you to your mistaken views.
originally posted by: Tedgoat
with some of them who apparently died in the hijacked planes actually being found alive later on. I think it was 7 out of the 19 hijackers that were actually still alive.
For more details, see our analyses of the most common "still alive" stories: Mohamed Atta still alive? Mohand al-Shehri still alive? Salem al-Hazmi still alive? Ahmed al-Nami still alive? Khalid al-Mihdhar still alive? Abdulaziz al-Omari still alive? Saeed al-Ghamdi still alive? Wail al-Shehri still alive? Waleed al-Shehri still alive? And then ask yourself how such a flimsy theory could be accepted by such a large group of people. Google "confirmation bias" for one possible explanation, but in the meantime the reality is the "still alive" stories have very little support, certainly not enough to be reported as definitive fact. In our view a "mistaken identity" explanation makes far more sense for most of these cases, once you look at all evidence involved.
originally posted by: hellobruce
originally posted by: lambros56
Okay....I'll give you TWO seconds......
It still wouldn't happen. It's too fast.
Again, what is your source for your claim, and how long do you think it should have taken, and why?
originally posted by: Tedgoat
a reply to: hellobruce
Oh Dear! Why do you continue to repeat the Official Narrative?
originally posted by: lambros56
The towers came down in less than fifteen seconds.
NIST estimated the elapsed times for the first exterior panels to strike the ground after the collapse initiated in each of the towers to be approximately 11 seconds for WTC 1 and approximately 9 seconds for WTC 2. These elapsed times were based on: (1) precise timing of the initiation of collapse from video evidence, and (2) ground motion (seismic) signals recorded at Palisades, N.Y., that also were precisely time-calibrated for wave transmission times from lower Manhattan (see NIST NCSTAR 1-5A). As documented in Section 6.14.4 of NIST NCSTAR 1, these collapse times show that: “The structure below the level of collapse initiation offered minimal resistance to the falling building mass at and above the impact zone. The potential energy released by the downward movement of the large building mass far exceeded the capacity of the intact structure below to absorb that energy through energy of deformation. Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the falling building mass, the building section above came down essentially in free fall, as seen in videos. As the stories below sequentially failed, the falling mass increased, further increasing the demand on the floors below, which were unable to arrest the moving mass.” In other words, the momentum (which equals mass times velocity) of the 12 to 28 stories (WTC 1 and WTC 2, respectively) falling on the supporting structure below (which was designed to support only the static weight of the floors above and not any dynamic effects due to the downward momentum) so greatly exceeded the strength capacity of the structure below that it (the structure below) was unable to stop or even to slow the falling mass. The downward momentum felt by each successive lower floor was even larger due to the increasing mass. From video evidence, significant portions of the cores of both buildings (roughly 60 stories of WTC 1 and 40 stories of WTC 2) are known to have stood 15 to 25 seconds after collapse initiation before they, too, began to collapse. Neither the duration of the seismic records nor video evidence (due to obstruction of view caused by debris clouds) are reliable indicators of the total time it took for each building to collapse completely.
originally posted by: Tedgoat
Yes. The Towers collapsed at Freefall speed. Same as dropping a Billiard ball through air from the same height.
Does that not defy the Laws of Physics? Of course it does!
So it would have been impossible for them to collapse when there was resistance.
originally posted by: cardinalfan0596
a reply to: lambros56
You have no accurate way to judge that. The dust cloud obscured the bottom 700 feet of the Towers when they collapsed. You have absolutely NO idea how it was progressing inside the cloud.