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Originally posted by notmindcontrolled
www.prisonplanet.com...
Man this got my heart pumpin again and it is just a 20 min. clip. I would keep the Sears Tower in Chicago in my mind as Larry Silverstein(former owner of the world trade center complex, and recipient of a $3.5 billion insurance payout on a $200 million dollar policy investement), is now a partial owner of the building and it's been said on several occasions that it is a possible target. The firefighters released some of their radio transcrips during the time the buildings were still standing and are now on record for pointing out that the fires in the buildings were under control and almost all put out. The clip also contains some good footage of the building layouts, perticularly wtc 7, and their locations in relation to wtc 1 and 2.
I posted this because it is new information on this subject and should be added to the debate. I know it has already been debated beyond anyones wildest imagination, but can't find it posted yet.
Originally posted by Ritual
Nice video.
I think WTC7 was brought down because when the tower collapsed, a huge amount of debris was forced down into the little underground city they had going. It probably took out that whole CIA underground bunker.
Originally posted by spliff4020
I used to think Alex Jones was on to something untill I read this..
Maybe this is why he isnt on the News...
Heres the link to the whole article, which pretty much crushes any "conspiricies" about 9/11
Let the Ignorance Denial Begin..
Jones getting any clearer for ya?
Damaged by falling debris, the building then endures a fire that rages for hours. Experts say this combination, not a demolition-style implosion, led to the roofline “kink” that signals WTC 7’s progressive collapse.
Investigators believe the fire was fed by tanks of diesel fuel that many tenants used to run emergency generators.
Most tanks throughout the building were fairly small, but a generator on the fifth floor was connected to a large tank in the basement via a pressurized line.
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST shared its initial findings with PM and made its lead researcher available to our team of reporters.
FACT: Jet fuel burns at 800° to 1500°F, not hot enough to melt steel (2750°F). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn't need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength--and that required exposure to much less heat.
NIST also believes that a great deal of the spray-on fireproofing insulation was likely knocked off the steel beams that were in the path of the crashing jets, leaving the metal more vulnerable to the heat
the resulting inferno was intensified by the combustible material inside the buildings, including rugs, curtains, furniture and paper. NIST reports that pockets of fire hit 1832°F.
I think WTC7 was brought down because when the tower collapsed, a huge amount of debris was forced down into the little underground city they had going. It probably took out that whole CIA underground bunker.
Seismographs at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., 21 miles north of the WTC, recorded the events of 9/11. "The strongest jolts were all registered at the beginning of the collapses, well before falling debris struck the earth," reports the Web site WhatReallyHappened.com.
A columnist on Prisonplanet.com, a Web site run by radio talk show host Alex Jones, claims the seismic spikes (boxed area on Graph 1) are "indisputable proof that massive explosions brought down" the towers. The Web site says its findings are supported by two seismologists at the observatory, Won-Young Kim and Arthur Lerner-Lam. Each "sharp spike of short duration," says Prisonplanet.com, was consistent with a "demolition-style implosion."
There is no scientific basis for the conclusion that explosions brought down the towers," Lerner-Lam tells PM. "That representation of our work is categorically incorrect and not in context."
The report issued by Lamont-Doherty includes various graphs showing the seismic readings produced by the planes crashing into the two towers as well as the later collapse of both buildings. WhatReallyHappened.com chooses to display only one graph (Graph 1), which shows the readings over a 30-minute time span.
On that graph, the 8- and 10-second collapses appear--misleadingly--as a pair of sudden spikes. Lamont-Doherty's 40-second plot of the same data (Graph 2) gives a much more detailed picture: The seismic waves--blue for the South Tower, red for the North Tower--start small and then escalate as the buildings rumble to the ground. Translation: no bombs.
CLAIM: Seven hours after the two towers fell, the 47-story WTC 7 collapsed. According to 911review.org: "The video clearly shows that it was not a collapse subsequent to a fire, but rather a controlled demolition: amongst the Internet investigators, the jury is in on this one."
Many conspiracy theorists point to FEMA's preliminary report, which said there was relatively light damage to WTC 7 prior to its collapse. With the benefit of more time and resources, NIST researchers now support the working hypothesis that WTC 7 was far more compromised by falling debris than the FEMA report indicated. "The most important thing we found was that there was, in fact, physical damage to the south face of building 7," NIST's Sunder tells PM. "On about a third of the face to the center and to the bottom--approximately 10 stories--about 25 percent of the depth of the building was scooped out." NIST also discovered previously undocumented damage to WTC 7's upper stories and its southwest corner.
NIST investigators believe a combination of intense fire and severe structural damage contributed to the collapse, though assigning the exact proportion requires more research. But NIST's analysis suggests the fall of WTC 7 was an example of "progressive collapse," a process in which the failure of parts of a structure ultimately creates strains that cause the entire building to come down. Videos of the fall of WTC 7 show cracks, or "kinks," in the building's facade just before the two penthouses disappeared into the structure, one after the other. The entire building fell in on itself, with the slumping east side of the structure pulling down the west side in a diagonal collapse.
According to NIST, there was one primary reason for the building's failure: In an unusual design, the columns near the visible kinks were carrying exceptionally large loads, roughly 2000 sq. ft. of floor area for each floor. "What our preliminary analysis has shown is that if you take out just one column on one of the lower floors," Sunder notes, "it could cause a vertical progression of collapse so that the entire section comes down."
There are two other possible contributing factors still under investigation: First, trusses on the fifth and seventh floors were designed to transfer loads from one set of columns to another. With columns on the south face apparently damaged, high stresses would likely have been communicated to columns on the building's other faces, thereby exceeding their load-bearing capacities.
Second, a fifth-floor fire burned for up to 7 hours. "There was no firefighting in WTC 7," Sunder says. Investigators believe the fire was fed by tanks of diesel fuel that many tenants used to run emergency generators. Most tanks throughout the building were fairly small, but a generator on the fifth floor was connected to a large tank in the basement via a pressurized line. Says Sunder: "Our current working hypothesis is that this pressurized line was supplying fuel [to the fire] for a long period of time."
WTC 7 might have withstood the physical damage it received, or the fire that burned for hours, but those combined factors--along with the building's unusual construction--were enough to set off the chain-reaction collapse.
Originally posted by aelphaeis_mangarae
I think WTC7 was brought down because when the tower collapsed, a huge amount of debris was forced down into the little underground city they had going. It probably took out that whole CIA underground bunker.
Damn your in denial dude, i mean Larry Silverstein says he pulled building 7, the idea that, that building fell because of fire is absolutely ridiculous, i mean come on, the whole thing fell in on it self at the rate of free fall.
9-11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
Originally posted by spliff4020
I used to think Alex Jones was on to something untill I read this..
Maybe this is why he isnt on the News...
Heres the link to the whole article, which pretty much crushes any "conspiricies" about 9/11
Let the Ignorance Denial Begin..
Jones getting any clearer for ya?
Originally posted by spliff4020
I used to think Alex Jones was on to something untill I read this..
Maybe this is why he isnt on the News...
Heres the link to the whole article, which pretty much crushes any "conspiricies" about 9/11
Let the Ignorance Denial Begin..
Jones getting any clearer for ya?
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Originally posted by spliff4020
O, you guys made me do this..specially "OpenSecret2012", Soooo here we go..Now pay attention people!
Seismographs at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., 21 miles north of the WTC, recorded the events of 9/11. "The strongest jolts were all registered at the beginning of the collapses, well before falling debris struck the earth," reports the Web site WhatReallyHappened.com.
Originally posted by spliff4020
WTC 7 might have withstood the physical damage it received, or the fire that burned for hours, but those combined factors--along with the building's unusual construction--were enough to set off the chain-reaction collapse.