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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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Thermite is a powdered amalgam of iron oxide and other alloys that can be described as the metal equivalent to kindling. This powder works as an ignitor generating extremely high temperatures. Nano-thermite is a more highly advanced version developed by the military for its customizable reaction rates and incredibly small particulate size. It releases energy much quicker than regular thermite and can be ignited by unconventional means such as laser pulses.
Brent Blanchard:" In my opinion we haven't seen any evidence to indicate that. What we go by is evidence. My opinion is always based on what we can prove..."
Despite his self-proclaimed expertise, Blanchard fails to debunk any substantial arguments for controlled demolition of the WTC towers. His arguments amount to a series of fallacies wrapped in appeals to authority and reinforced with pretentious language.
Implying All Demolitions Must Be Engineered the Same Way
Blanchard's primary mislead is to imply that any controlled demolition would have to be engineered in the same fashion that he has witnessed in commercial demolitions. He never explicitly acknowledges this, but he repeatedly reinforces it, exploiting people's tendency to defer to experts.
In fact, it is quite easy to destroy structures when constraints of economy and safety are eliminated: blowing things up is much easier than imploding them. But Blanchard would have you believe, for example, that it is impossible to destroy a building's columns without the labor-intensive procedure of "pre-burning." I doubt that members of combat demolition units bother with such procedures when they blow up buildings.
The key tenet of Blanchard's denial of WTC controlled demolition is thus the unacknowledged assumption that all demolitions have to be engineered in the same way as those designed to implode buildings with minimal collateral damage. His reliance on a stealth assumption is reminiscent of the NIST Report, which hides its failure to explain the total collapses of the Twin Towers behind the idea that "collapse initiation" automatically leads to "global collapse" -- an assumption that runs counter to all experience and defies experimental verification.
Wrapping Himself in "Scientific" Phrases
Blanchard is fond of the word scientific, as he uses the word in phrases seven times: "scientific principles of gravity, explosives, and structural failure," "purely scientific view of each event," "scientifically impossible," "scientifically documented," "scientific evidence that explosives were not used," "only scientifically legitimate way to ascertain if explosives were used," and "the scientific principles of explosive initiation and of structural failure."
In fact, Blanchard's treatment of the issues he addresses is anything but scientific. Blanchard:
Provides no evidence to support most of his assertions.
Repeatedly invokes a privileged body of evidence and ignores the vast body of public evidence.
Excludes possibilities out of hand, cherry-picking a few issues to address.
Relies on flat denials, such as his assertion that there is no evidence of explosives use.
Exploits fallacies such as appeals to authority and appeals to prejudice.
Promotes common misconceptions, such as that demolitions must proceed from the ground up.
Confusing Evidence for Explosives with Evidence for Demolition
originally posted by: UpIsNowDown
a reply to: dojozen
Sorry if I cant keep up with you, but can you please make 1 single post of your theory for the day, from start to finish, I am getting a little lost, so now it was thermite not underground explosions and some guy named Brett painted this on the structure of the twin towers?
originally posted by: dojozen
originally posted by: UpIsNowDown
a reply to: dojozen
Sorry if I cant keep up with you, but can you please make 1 single post of your theory for the day, from start to finish, I am getting a little lost, so now it was thermite not underground explosions and some guy named Brett painted this on the structure of the twin towers?
Sorry, if you want it all summed up in one post, you must have just got in off the bus....
Sounds like you may have a lot of catching up to do and might want to take orientation 101,, 1st.
originally posted by: UpIsNowDown
originally posted by: dojozen
originally posted by: UpIsNowDown
a reply to: dojozen
Sorry if I cant keep up with you, but can you please make 1 single post of your theory for the day, from start to finish, I am getting a little lost, so now it was thermite not underground explosions and some guy named Brett painted this on the structure of the twin towers?
Sorry, if you want it all summed up in one post, you must have just got in off the bus....
Sounds like you may have a lot of catching up to do and might want to take orientation 101,, 1st.
Ok cool thanks for your subtle put downs, i will let you chase your tail for the rest of your life, keep it classy
Any Updates on Mark Basile's Study?
www.internationalskeptics.com...
WTC Dust Study Feb 29, 2012 by Dr. James Millette
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Conclusions
The red/gray chips found in the WTC dust at four sites in New York City are consistent with a carbon steel coated with an epoxy resin that contains primarily iron oxide and kaolin clay pigments.
There is no evidence of individual elemental aluminum particles of any size in the red/gray chips, therefore the red layer of the red/gray chips is not thermite or nano-thermite.
Notes on the Source of the Red/Gray Chips
At the time of this progress report, the identity of the product from which the red/gray chips were generated has not been determined. The composition of the red/gray chips found in this study (epoxy resin with iron oxide and kaolin pigments) does not match the formula for the primer paint used on iron column members in the World Trade Center towers (Table 1).16 Although both the red/gray chips and the primer paint contain iron oxide pigment particles, the primer is an alkyd-based resin with zinc yellow (zinc chromate) and diatomaceous silica along with some other proprietary (Tnemec ) pigments. No diatoms were found during the analysis of the red/gray chips. Some
small EDS peaks of zinc and chromium were detected in some samples but the amount detected was inconsistent with the 20% level of zinc chromate in the primer formula.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) contain some information about product materials. According to the MSDS currently listed on the Tnemec website,17 55 out of the 177 different Tnemec coating products contain one or two of the three major components in the red layer: epoxy resin, iron oxide and/or kaolin (aluminum silicate) pigments. However, none of the 177 different coatings are a match for the red layer coating found in this study.
originally posted by: dojozen
a reply to: neutronflux
one more time....read it and then say that.
911research.wtc7.net...
Like the one who's passport that survived all that and fell from the plane miraculously, was found by the dirty cop who was helping cover it up?
Two Dutch passports lie in a field among luggage, personal belongings and wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on Jul. 22, 2014, in Grabovo, Ukraine. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images.) PHOTO BY ROB STOTHARD/GETTY IMAGES.
foreignpolicy.com...
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1/2 ton thermite vs SUV mythbusters
the-pre-collapse-inward-bowing-of-wtc2.t4760/
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sounds like you are still trying to see the wizard and oz is just a little further...you will be fine, once you get there.
3 buildings fell and if you want to think it was because of anything other than a controlled demolition...be our guest.
3 buildings fell and if you want to think it was because of anything other than a controlled demolition...be our guest.
As far as evidence of explosions and detonations by witnesses who were there and heard and saw it, that you can find on the web, if you just looked...do not have much to offer you, as far as citations...either you have seen before or you have not, and seeing how you seem some fixated on it...would think you would have watched some of the documentaries on it...that all confirmed was explosives...
What would make a building and everyone and thing in it, turn to dust?
Sorry, if you want it all summed up in one post, you must have just got in off the bus....
Like the one who's passport that survived all that and fell from the plane miraculously, was found by the dirty cop who was helping cover it up?