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Judge dismisses 9/11 case against Saudi Arabia
A federal judge has dismissed claims against Saudi Arabia by families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks who accused the kingdom of providing material support to Al-Qaeda.
U.S. District Judge George Daniels said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia has sovereign immunity from damage claims by families of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks and from insurers that covered losses suffered by building owners and businesses. He also dismissed as a defendant the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the grounds that the charity is an instrument of Saudi Arabia and thus covered as well by sovereign immunity.
The judge wrote that evidence would have to show that Saudi Arabia or its officials took actions to support the terrorist plot.
america.aljazeera.com...
fire alone cannot explain the buildings’ collapse in seconds, the severing of massive fireproof steel
Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed: A Fire Chief ’s Assessment
Bearing walls and Open floor design
When the jet liners crashed into the towers based upon knowledge of the tower construction and high-rise firefighting experience the following happened: First the plane broke through the tubular steel-bearing wall. This started the building failure. Next the exploding, disintegrating, 185-ton jet plane slid across an open office floor area and severed many of the steel interior columns in the center core area. Plane parts also crashed through the plasterboard-enclosed stairways, cutting off the exits from the upper floors.
The jet collapsed the ceilings and scraped most of the spray-on fire retarding asbestos from the steel trusses. The steel truss floor supports probably started to fail quickly from the flames and the center steel supporting columns severed by plane parts heated by the flames began to buckle, sag, warp and fail. Then the top part of the tower crashed down on the lower portion of the structure. This pancake collapse triggered the entire cascading collapse of the 110-story structure.
vincentdunn.com...
originally posted by: madenusa
fire alone cannot explain the buildings’ collapse in seconds, the severing of massive fireproof steel
columns, the ejecting of steel assemblies, the melted-down metal in and around the explosion,
and conversion of fire-proof buildings into fuming remains and dust.....
In short, Nothing is allowed in except the impact of the planes and the fires.
No simulations of the full collapses are ever made.
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: madenusa
fire alone cannot explain the buildings’ collapse in seconds, the severing of massive fireproof steel
Let's take a look here.
Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed: A Fire Chief ’s Assessment
Bearing walls and Open floor design
When the jet liners crashed into the towers based upon knowledge of the tower construction and high-rise firefighting experience the following happened: First the plane broke through the tubular steel-bearing wall. This started the building failure. Next the exploding, disintegrating, 185-ton jet plane slid across an open office floor area and severed many of the steel interior columns in the center core area. Plane parts also crashed through the plasterboard-enclosed stairways, cutting off the exits from the upper floors.
The jet collapsed the ceilings and scraped most of the spray-on fire retarding asbestos from the steel trusses. The steel truss floor supports probably started to fail quickly from the flames and the center steel supporting columns severed by plane parts heated by the flames began to buckle, sag, warp and fail. Then the top part of the tower crashed down on the lower portion of the structure. This pancake collapse triggered the entire cascading collapse of the 110-story structure.
vincentdunn.com...
originally posted by: Xtrozero
It's takes just one or two floors to collapse to start the house of cards to fall, as we saw with the second tower that collapsed before the first tower that was hit, it had more floors above and so went quicker, but once they went there was no stopping them and no need for secondary explosions, gravity was enough.
originally posted by: wildb
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: madenusa
fire alone cannot explain the buildings’ collapse in seconds, the severing of massive fireproof steel
Let's take a look here.
Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed: A Fire Chief ’s Assessment
Bearing walls and Open floor design
When the jet liners crashed into the towers based upon knowledge of the tower construction and high-rise firefighting experience the following happened: First the plane broke through the tubular steel-bearing wall. This started the building failure. Next the exploding, disintegrating, 185-ton jet plane slid across an open office floor area and severed many of the steel interior columns in the center core area. Plane parts also crashed through the plasterboard-enclosed stairways, cutting off the exits from the upper floors.
The jet collapsed the ceilings and scraped most of the spray-on fire retarding asbestos from the steel trusses. The steel truss floor supports probably started to fail quickly from the flames and the center steel supporting columns severed by plane parts heated by the flames began to buckle, sag, warp and fail. Then the top part of the tower crashed down on the lower portion of the structure. This pancake collapse triggered the entire cascading collapse of the 110-story structure.
vincentdunn.com...
Just another opinion, out of the many you have...
Frequencies of waves
originally posted by: madenusa
originally posted by: wildb
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: madenusa
fire alone cannot explain the buildings’ collapse in seconds, the severing of massive fireproof steel
Let's take a look here.
Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed: A Fire Chief ’s Assessment
Bearing walls and Open floor design
When the jet liners crashed into the towers based upon knowledge of the tower construction and high-rise firefighting experience the following happened: First the plane broke through the tubular steel-bearing wall. This started the building failure. Next the exploding, disintegrating, 185-ton jet plane slid across an open office floor area and severed many of the steel interior columns in the center core area. Plane parts also crashed through the plasterboard-enclosed stairways, cutting off the exits from the upper floors.
The jet collapsed the ceilings and scraped most of the spray-on fire retarding asbestos from the steel trusses. The steel truss floor supports probably started to fail quickly from the flames and the center steel supporting columns severed by plane parts heated by the flames began to buckle, sag, warp and fail. Then the top part of the tower crashed down on the lower portion of the structure. This pancake collapse triggered the entire cascading collapse of the 110-story structure.
vincentdunn.com...
Just another opinion, out of the many you have...
Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from NewYork on September 11, 2001?www.journalof911studies.com...
points to an impulsive source of energy, not
originally posted by: madenusa
Frequencies of waves
originally posted by: madenusa
originally posted by: wildb
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: madenusa
fire alone cannot explain the buildings’ collapse in seconds, the severing of massive fireproof steel
Let's take a look here.
Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed: A Fire Chief ’s Assessment
Bearing walls and Open floor design
When the jet liners crashed into the towers based upon knowledge of the tower construction and high-rise firefighting experience the following happened: First the plane broke through the tubular steel-bearing wall. This started the building failure. Next the exploding, disintegrating, 185-ton jet plane slid across an open office floor area and severed many of the steel interior columns in the center core area. Plane parts also crashed through the plasterboard-enclosed stairways, cutting off the exits from the upper floors.
The jet collapsed the ceilings and scraped most of the spray-on fire retarding asbestos from the steel trusses. The steel truss floor supports probably started to fail quickly from the flames and the center steel supporting columns severed by plane parts heated by the flames began to buckle, sag, warp and fail. Then the top part of the tower crashed down on the lower portion of the structure. This pancake collapse triggered the entire cascading collapse of the 110-story structure.
vincentdunn.com...
Just another opinion, out of the many you have...
Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from NewYork on September 11, 2001?www.journalof911studies.com...
generated by explosions are on the order of 1 Hertz (1 Hz, or one cycle per second)
We demonstrate that only strong explosives could be the
originally posted by: madenusa
points to an impulsive source of energy, not
originally posted by: madenusa
Frequencies of waves
originally posted by: madenusa
originally posted by: wildb
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: madenusa
fire alone cannot explain the buildings’ collapse in seconds, the severing of massive fireproof steel
Let's take a look here.
Why the World Trade Center Buildings Collapsed: A Fire Chief ’s Assessment
Bearing walls and Open floor design
When the jet liners crashed into the towers based upon knowledge of the tower construction and high-rise firefighting experience the following happened: First the plane broke through the tubular steel-bearing wall. This started the building failure. Next the exploding, disintegrating, 185-ton jet plane slid across an open office floor area and severed many of the steel interior columns in the center core area. Plane parts also crashed through the plasterboard-enclosed stairways, cutting off the exits from the upper floors.
The jet collapsed the ceilings and scraped most of the spray-on fire retarding asbestos from the steel trusses. The steel truss floor supports probably started to fail quickly from the flames and the center steel supporting columns severed by plane parts heated by the flames began to buckle, sag, warp and fail. Then the top part of the tower crashed down on the lower portion of the structure. This pancake collapse triggered the entire cascading collapse of the 110-story structure.
vincentdunn.com...
Just another opinion, out of the many you have...
Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from NewYork on September 11, 2001?www.journalof911studies.com...
generated by explosions are on the order of 1 Hertz (1 Hz, or one cycle per second)
percussion on the ground due to the fall of debris.
9/11 Seismic Recordings
Brent Blanchard devotes section 4 of his paper to the issue of seismic recordings on 9/11. Blanchard is Senior Editor of ImplosionWorld, a website which posts details of explosive demolitions, and also Director of Field Operations at Protec Documentation Services, Inc. Protec works in the field of vibration monitoring and structure inspection, a key service to both the construction and demolition industries.
The field seismographs used by Protec and others provide the key scientific evidence for disturbances that may have caused damage, and there were a number of such seismographs operated by Protec on 9/11 in the vicinity of Ground Zero, for monitoring construction sites. Blanchard tells us that data from these machines, and seismographs operated elsewhere, all confirm single vibration events recording the collapse. None of them record the tell-tale 'spikes' that would indicate explosive detonations prior to collapse. In his words:
This evidence makes a compelling argument against explosive demolition. The laws of physics dictate that any detonation powerful enough to defeat steel columns would have transferred excess energy through those same columns into the ground, and would certainly have been detected by at least one of the monitors that were sensitive enough to record the structural collapses.
However, a detailed analysis of all available data reveals no presence of any unusual or abnormal vibration events.
originally posted by: skyeagle409
a reply to: madenusa
Apparently, the people whose seismic machines were used, have debunked claims their seismic monitors detected demolition explosions.
9/11 Seismic Recordings
Brent Blanchard devotes section 4 of his paper to the issue of seismic recordings on 9/11. Blanchard is Senior Editor of ImplosionWorld, a website which posts details of explosive demolitions, and also Director of Field Operations at Protec Documentation Services, Inc. Protec works in the field of vibration monitoring and structure inspection, a key service to both the construction and demolition industries.
The field seismographs used by Protec and others provide the key scientific evidence for disturbances that may have caused damage, and there were a number of such seismographs operated by Protec on 9/11 in the vicinity of Ground Zero, for monitoring construction sites. Blanchard tells us that data from these machines, and seismographs operated elsewhere, all confirm single vibration events recording the collapse. None of them record the tell-tale 'spikes' that would indicate explosive detonations prior to collapse. In his words:
This evidence makes a compelling argument against explosive demolition. The laws of physics dictate that any detonation powerful enough to defeat steel columns would have transferred excess energy through those same columns into the ground, and would certainly have been detected by at least one of the monitors that were sensitive enough to record the structural collapses.
However, a detailed analysis of all available data reveals no presence of any unusual or abnormal vibration events.
originally posted by: wildb
Wrong, gravity was not enough, and I proved the OS false by applying the 2ed law..