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Originally posted by ANOK
I don't understand, that thread tells me nothing about any damage to building 7. I'm not gonna read 4 pages to look for it.
Point me to something that shows WTC 7 was damaged to the point it would callapse when buildings closeer to WTC1&2 were unharmed.
Originally posted by spliff4020
The closet thing to a conspiricy I think there was, was this: If one of the 200 or so FBI agents that were assigned to investigate white stains on blue dresseswere actually in the office taking phone calls from flight schools in Florida, there probably wouldnt be 3000 dead Americans in the bottom of Manhatten. Thats it. Thats the only problem I have. We fell asleep at the wheel.
Originally posted by notmindcontrolled
Originally posted by spliff4020
The closet thing to a conspiricy I think there was, was this: If one of the 200 or so FBI agents that were assigned to investigate white stains on blue dresseswere actually in the office taking phone calls from flight schools in Florida, there probably wouldnt be 3000 dead Americans in the bottom of Manhatten. Thats it. Thats the only problem I have. We fell asleep at the wheel.
Refering to Gary Condit?
More so a conspiracy is that Bush told the F.B.I. to back off the Bin Ladens before 911. It's been said too many times and referenced even more. Just search, google etc....
I think what is really hurting this conspiracy is that any time a shred of evidence comes out concerning 911, it is imediatly denied by people like yourself. There is more evidence of a conpiracy then there is evidence of "we fell asleep at the wheel", as you put it.
Again splif you are avoiding my question...
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 ANOK
Dude NIST is a government agency. It's the government that is involved here. Obviously they're gonna side with themselves...
Again show me EVEDENCE that building 7 was damaged to the point of collapse when other buildings CLOSER to WTC 1&2 did not catch fire or collapse.
You can't...
Don't you think it's odd that the buildings that collapsed were owned by Silverstein and the ones that didn't were not?
Originally posted by cryptorsa1001
They decided to take it out due to the safety off the rescue workers.
Originally posted by cryptorsa1001
Here is a piece of info from an eyewitness. A friend of mine was a firefighter during 9-11 he left Ohio after the towers fell and reached NY City in the morning to help out He was one of the guys on top of the piles looking for survivors. He told me about trying to pull a guy out from the ruble that was dead and he said that when he tried to pull him out by his arm his arm just came off. He said he had to use a concrete saw to cut off limbs of people in order to get them out from under piles of steel girders etc.. He also showed me pictures that he took. I do not want to see them ever again. He said that they had some sort of horn that would blow occasionaly becasue they thought that wtc7 was going to fall down. When the horn blew they all ran for cover. They decided to take it out due to the safety off the rescue workers.
Originally posted by cryptorsa1001
Setting up demolitions can take weeks when you have to worry about other buildings etc.. when you blow the building. When you do not have to worry about that you can blow it in a much quicker time frame especially in an emergency.
If they did an "emergency pull" it would not have collapsed the way it did.
Originally posted by cryptorsa1001
Are you an expert? How do you know? From Alex Jones?