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Originally posted by HowardRoark
Ahhh, the paranoid minds at work. . .
Which is more likely:
1) Jones is a nutcase and just plain wrong,
or
2) Everyone else at BYU is a craven coward so afraid of loosing their cushy jobs that hey cave in at the slightest bit of pressure to cover up what would be (if true, which it is not) the most significant political scandal of history?
Hmmm...
Originally posted by HowardRoark
Ahhh, the paranoid minds at work. . .
Which is more likely:
1) Jones is a nutcase and just plain wrong,
or
2) Everyone else at BYU is a craven coward so afraid of loosing their cushy jobs that hey cave in at the slightest bit of pressure to cover up what would be (if true, which it is not) the most significant political scandal of history?
Hmmm...
AgentSmith wrote:
As the arrow points out you can see the same effect from the area also on fire. You will also notice that smoke is already coming from the 'squib' areas and what else would you expect it to do when the top of the building collapses in like that?
www.controlled-demolition.com...
Notice the bright flashes and the delay between them, the smoke rising out and the bigger delay followed then by the collapse.
Originally posted by HowardRoark
I sent an e-mail inquiry to Dr. Wood Miller, the chairperson of the civil and environmental engineering department of BYU (Structural engineering falls under the Civil engineering curriculum)
Originally posted by AgentSmith
WCIP - What you havn't considered is that the sagging floors inside the structure would have more than likely started to collapse before any physical changes were seen from the outside
- apart from the increase in smoke being caused by the 'syringe effect' in the building.
Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
Of course I haven't considered it, for the simple fact there's no evidence, data, or even physical possibility to support this, at all.
Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
Are you suggesting that floors were collapsing en masse throughout the inside the caps before the collapse of the building initiated?
Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
I realize that you're brainstorming in an attempt to find an alternative explanation for the sudden increase in smoke and pressure inside the cap, but you are out on your own with this particular one.
Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
NIST and FEMA would not support this hypothesis either, I can guarantee, because it directly contradicts and undermines their own hypothesis on the collapse mode. You'll have to do a lot of work to try to prove that one.
Buildings, like all structures, are designed to support certain loads without deforming excessively. The loads are the weights of people and objects, the weight of rain and snow and the pressure of wind--called live loads--and the dead load of the building itself. With buildings of a few floors, strength generally accompanies sufficent rigidity, and the design is mainly that of a roof that will keep the weather out while spanning large open spaces. With tall buildings of many floors, the roof is a minor matter, and the support of the weight of the building itself is the main consideration. Like long bridges, tall buildings are subject to catastrophic collapse.
The World Trade Center towers used neither a steel skeleton nor reinforced concrete. They were designed as square tubes made of heavy, hollow welded sections, braced against buckling by the building floors. Massive foundations descended to bedrock, since the towers had to be safe against winds and other lateral forces tending to overturn them. All this was taken into consideration in the design and construction, which seems to have been first-rate. An attempt to damage the buildings by a bomb at the base had negligible effect. The strong base and foundation would repel any such assault with ease, as it indeed did. The impact of aircraft on the upper stories had only a local effect, and did not impair the integrity of the buildings, which remained solid. The fires caused weakening of the steel, and some of the floors suddenly received a load for which they were not designed.
What happened next was unexpected and catastrophic. The slumped floors pushed the steel modules outwards, separating them from the floor beams. The next floor then collapsed on the one below, pushing out the steel walls, and this continued, in the same way that a house of cards collapses. The debris of concrete facing and steel modules fell in shower while the main structure collapsed at almost the same rate. In 15 seconds or so, 110 stories were reduced to a pile 9 stories high, mainly of steel wall modules and whatever was around them. The south tower collapsed 47 minutes after impact, the north tower 1 hour 44 minutes after impact. The elapsed times show that the impacts were not the proximate cause of collapse; the strong building easily withstood them. When even one corner of a floor was weakened and fell, the collapse would soon propagate around the circumference, and the building would be lost.
Structural engineer describes collapse of the World Trade Center towers
Vulnerabilities in the design of New York's World Trade Center (WTC) are likely to have contributed to the collapse of its two main towers and adjacent buildings, according to Ronald O. Hamburger, a structural engineer currently investigating the Sept. 11 disaster.
"These buildings were incredibly strong, especially with respect to resisting dead loads and wind loads, but they also had a number of vulnerabilities," Hamburger told a packed auditorium on Nov. 29 when he delivered the second John A. Blume Distinguished Lecture -- an annual event sponsored by Stanford's Blume Earthquake Engineering Center.
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As chief structural engineer and senior vice president of ABS Consulting Inc. in Oakland, Calif., Hamburger is a member of an engineering team commissioned by the Structural Engineers Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to assess the performance of the WTC and surrounding buildings in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
He pointed out that four buildings were immediately destroyed in the WTC assault, and three others suffered irreparable damage and are in the process of being razed. Another half-dozen buildings were harmed structurally but can be repaired, and more than 50 others were damaged by the enormous debris cloud and the burning material that followed the collapse of the twin towers.
Originally posted by Muaddib
Silly me, and i wonder why so many firefighters have died in the line of duty when they believed that a building's redundant structure was not completly compromised when they didn't see a lot of damage to the outside of a building and died when the structure collapsed as they were inside the building trying to save people....
I think he suggested that buildings can and do collapse partially, before collapsing completly and if they do collapse completly, when there is extensive fire damage.
And we also realize that you must try to save your "alternative explanation" at all cost...since you are set on "it was an inside job" No matter how many times you are proven wrong you always come back with another reason for "the controlled demolition theory."
How would you know whether NIST and FEMA would support a theory or not?
Originally posted by wecomeinpeace
NIST and FEMA would not support this hypothesis either, I can guarantee, because it directly contradicts and undermines their own hypothesis on the collapse mode. You'll have to do a lot of work to try to prove that one.
Originally posted by bsbray11
The problem is, they tend to overlook some major flaws in their theory. They don't notice the loss of angular momentum,
Originally posted by bsbray11
or put much thought into what those little blasts along the buildings were,
Originally posted by bsbray11
or how the potential energy in the caps could have possibly crushed the rest of their buildings, being much smaller and lighter than the lower floors, without so much as retarding
Originally posted by bsbray11
Neither do structural engineers take the political side of it into account,
Originally posted by bsbray11
or Silverstein's comments,
Originally posted by bsbray11
or Bush's comments, or Rumsfeld's,
Originally posted by bsbray11
or the implications of Operation Northwoods, or the wargames, or the large corporations and international bankers. That's where the structural engineers fail.
Operation Northwoods or Northwoods was the code name for various false flag actions, including domestic terror attacks (such as involving the use of "hijacked" planes as missiles) on U.S. soil, proposed in 1962 by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders to generate U.S. public support for military action against Cuba. The proposal was presented in a document entitled "Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba," a draft memorandum pdf) written by the Department of Defense (DoD) and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) representative to the Caribbean Survey Group. The draft memo was presented by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13 with one paragraph approved, as a preliminary submission for planning purposes. However, McNamara rejected the proposal. In addition, the existence of Operation Northwoods was often dismissed by the general U.S. public as an unfounded "conspiracy theory" until the draft memorandum was declassified in recent years through a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive.
Originally posted by bsbray11
But, of course, when you take absolutely none of that into consideration, and on top of that think of your government as all good and honest, what the engineers say would seem to make perfect sense to you, I'm sure.
Originally posted by Muaddib
First look at the date of this "proposed operation"...1962....is the same administration in power now?... no....
Originally posted by Muaddib
Originally posted by bsbray11
The problem is, they tend to overlook some major flaws in their theory. They don't notice the loss of angular momentum,
Structural "engineers" will take into account everything, except political motivations
I have only seen one squib
...which was presented with pictures by some of the proponents of the "controlled demolition theory." In controlled demolitions there is not just one squib, and in such an explosion that would be needed for the effects on the wtc, everyone, and I mean everyone in New York would have heard the explosions. Yet we only get some reports, of some people hearing what they think were explosions. i wonder why only a few heard them...
Where did most of the mass of falling debris fall? Did it fall on these smaller buildings or on the rest of the floors of the wtc? There was damage to other buildings and some of those buildings collapsed , or had to be destroyed later on, due to the damage but none of those building recieved the "full effect from the collapsing towers" mostly the lower floors were the ones "crushed" by the rest of the floors falling on top of them.
Which we have covered several times, including members in these forums who say that it is a slang used by firefighters to get their people out.
Really? president Bush says that "explosives were used to bring down the wtc"?
I don't ever recall him saying such thing, but if he did, or if Rumsfeld did, then present the proof please.
Let's see what Operations Northwood was all about.....even if it is out of topic..
Operation Northwoods or Northwoods was the code name for various false flag actions, including domestic terror attacks (such as involving the use of "hijacked" planes as missiles) on U.S. soil, proposed in 1962 by senior U.S. Department of Defense leaders to generate U.S. public support for military action against Cuba. The proposal was presented in a document entitled "Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba," a draft memorandum pdf) written by the Department of Defense (DoD) and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) representative to the Caribbean Survey Group. The draft memo was presented by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13 with one paragraph approved, as a preliminary submission for planning purposes. However, McNamara rejected the proposal. In addition, the existence of Operation Northwoods was often dismissed by the general U.S. public as an unfounded "conspiracy theory" until the draft memorandum was declassified in recent years through a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive.
Excerpted from.
en.wikipedia.org...
First look at the date of this "proposed operation"...1962....is the same administration in power now?... no....
Second, do notice that the then Secretary of Defense Mcnamara rejected the proposal....
Third, do also notice that the draft memorandum was declassified by the National Security Archive, which is part of the government....
All of the above has been taken into consideration several times. i still don't see any "real evidence" that tells me it was an inside job, or that the towers were not brought down by radical Muslims flying 747s
...into the buildings which weakened the structures, but which survived the initial impact by the aircrafts, but then the fires weakened even more the redundant structure of the buildings which precipitated the collapse.
Originally posted by ANOK
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And I can see it's working quit well, thanx for supporting your master!
Originally posted by Muaddib
Everything else that i do I do on my own free will....but then again who am I to know right?