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originally posted by: username74
a reply to: mrthumpy
the explosion is set so the top of the sphere created in the rock by the blast, just breaks the floor of the basement (7 storeys)
this is at the end of the blast, ~12 secs in, the shockwave has a range which turned out to be a little too small.
the shockwave pulverises the building and everything in it.
it does not travel thru air.
the hole begins to suck (because its now a vacuum).
there is leakage from the top of the pit but they waited till it cooled down and sealed it.
originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: mrthumpy
Only as standard as sky scrapers were when first built.
If you think it's absurd then you have not read much of mid century planners.
They wanted to nuke the ionosphere and the moon out of curiosity.
You think a 1 KT nuke would make them bat an eye?
Especially when the application can be precise to a few meters.
originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: mrthumpy
The top stayed intact. The destructive shock wave ended 2/3rds the way up.
The pulverized material collapsed since the weight of the top portion was still bearing down on a pulverized base.
That's why everything was broken down to finite particles as seen in ADM detonations in the outer layers of gas storage caverns.
The forces involved are well understood should you try to inform yourself.
The science of nuclear explosions is well understood and documented.
originally posted by: username74
a reply to: mrthumpy
watch it again.
the device was not big enough to take the very top.
watch the second tower to collapse.
the top falls into the dust
almost like a cartoon the pulverised building is solid and then gives way to the weight of the intact top section that was untouched
the-pre-collapse-inward-bowing-of-wtc2.t4760/
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The 80,000 tons of structural steel slowed down the collapses of the Twin Towers to about ⅔ (two-thirds) of free-fall.3 And the core collapsed at about 40% of free-fall speed, coming down last.4 According to Richard Gage: “To bring a building symmetrically down, what we have to do is remove the core columns.” But on 9/11 the stronger core columns came down last, which violates this supposed most fundamental rule of controlled demolition.
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COLLAPSE OF WTC TOWERS 1, 2 & 7 FROM AN EXPLOSIVES AND CONVENTIONAL DEMOLITION INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT
By Brent Blanchard
August 8, 2006
c-2006 www.implosionworld.com
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Failure of Welded Floor Truss Connections from the Exterior Wall during Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers
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The outer walls sure. Care to explain how we had high temperatures underground zero for weeks after?
There was that one section of beams that were cut up for memorials sure. That's all that was left after ALL that steel????
Extremely high temperatures were evident before and during the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and at Ground Zero. Seven minutes before the destruction of the South Tower, a flow of molten metal appeared, accompanied by several smaller flows, as documented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The material’s glowing color showed that its temperature was close to “white hot” at the very beginning of the flow and “yellow-orange” further down. Iron-rich spheres in the WTC dust are additional proof of temperatures above the melting point of iron. Pyroclastic-like, rapidly expanding dust clouds after the destruction of the Towers can also be explained only by the expansion of hot gases.
a-molten-metal-9-11-photo-is-just-burning-paper.t9982/
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