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originally posted by: kwakakev
a reply to: Itisnowagain
Thanks for the 'Ground Zero model'. I have not seen the radioactive data, could be covered up like many other things. It does help explain how the spire evaporated. Had not seen shots of the underground dust plume when the collapse started before. Helps support some underground explosion taking place. The effects on nearby electronics is also makes a compelling case.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: neutronflux
True ignorance is calling something bs when you have not even veiwed it.
It is a NEW theory......the book was only published this year......but you appear to be stuck in 2018 (trying to prove something by quoting a post from 2018).
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
The Elephant's Foot is composed primarily of silicon dioxide, with traces of uranium, titanium, zirconium, magnesium and graphite.[1][2][5][6] The mass is largely homogeneous,[citation needed] though the depolymerized silicate glass contains occasional crystalline grains of zircon. These grains of zircon are not elongated, suggesting a moderate crystallization rate. While uranium dioxide dendrites grew quickly at high temperatures within the lava, the zircon began crystallization during slow cooling of the lava. Despite the distribution of uranium-bearing particles not being uniform, the radioactivity of the mass is evenly distributed.[citation needed] The mass is quite dense and unyielding to a drill mounted on a remote-controlled trolley, but able to be damaged by a rifle using armor piercing rounds.[4][1][2] By June 1998, the outer layers had started turning to dust and the mass had started to crack.[7]
Lethality Edit
At the time of its discovery, about 8 months after formation, radioactivity near the Elephant's Foot was approximately 8,000 roentgens, or 80 grays per hour,[2] delivering a 50/50 lethal dose of radiation (4.5 grays)[8] within five minutes.[2] Since that time the radiation intensity has declined enough that, in 1996, the Elephant's Foot was visited by the Deputy Director of the New Confinement Project, Artur Korneyev,[a] who took photographs using an automatic camera and a flashlight to illuminate the otherwise dark room.[10]
The Elephant's Foot had flowed through at least 2 m (6.6 ft) of pipes and fissures to reach its current location.[4] There were fears that the corium might continue to penetrate deeper into the ground and come into contact with groundwater, contaminating the area's drinking water and leading to illnesses and deaths;[11] however, as of 2016, the mass has not moved significantly since its discovery and is estimated to be only slightly warmer than its environment due to heat from the ongoing nuclear decay.[10]
Helps support some underground explosion taking place
Would you make up your mind. First you push Thermite. Then you push Dustification. Then you push nuclear reactions. Now your back to explosions.
2,400 "new" unseen 9/11 photos found at estate sale, june 2019
www.metabunk.org...
from the bbc:
Archivists who bought a stash of CDs at a house clearance sale found 2,400 photos of Ground Zero in New York taken following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
They appear to have been taken by an as yet unidentified construction worker who helped to clear up the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers and surrounding area.
The CDs were in poor condition but the data was ultimately retrievable.
The archivists have uploaded the photos to Flickr.
www.flickr.com...
originally posted by: Lazarus Short
OK, but it goes very quick for a pdf document, with not-so-much text in a tiny font, like maybe you were expecting.
The thing explains, point by point, what was observed, paired with what the writer though must have been going on below ground, in the towers and in the air above. It covers some very odd phenom, such as dustification, the survival of paper, rapid rusting of iron at and around the site, melted steel, melted granite, and on and on.
Read it, it does not take long...
The stories below provided little resistance to relatively tremendous energy of the falling building, allowing them to fall very quickly
That is the key, what's happening below ground and if you watch footage of the collapses, both do indeed fall from the base first
Last Steel Column From the Ground Zero Rubble Is Cut Down
www.nytimes.com...
Column No. 1,001 B of 2 World Trade Center, the last symbolic piece of the unfathomable recovery effort, was cut down at 8:17 p.m. yesterday by operating engineers, ironworkers, teamsters, laborers and dock builders.
The 58-ton piece of steel from the south tower was laid on a flatbed truck, wrapped in black muslin and an American flag, and tucked in a corner of the pit. It will be taken out tomorrow morning as part of the ceremony marking the end of the recovery effort at ground zero. The world will participate by television
The Last Column is Removed from the WTC
m.youtube.com...
The Last Column: A Symbol of Resilience
m.youtube.com...
Final steel beam removed from Ground Zero
m.youtube.com...
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: Zcustosmorum
But the core for at least one Tower didn’t fail first. It failed/collapsed last.
people would have died violently of radiation poisoning on the day of 9/11
originally posted by: kwakakev
a reply to: neutronflux
people would have died violently of radiation poisoning on the day of 9/11
There is a lot about the specifics i do not know. It does not appear to be the usual uranium / plutonium chain reaction. Some kind of reaction that reached temperatures of 8000 degrees to weaken the internal structure prior to detonation sounds reasonable with some of the evidence presented.