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Originally posted by HowardRoark
The NIST reports actually contain copies of and refer to the actual design criteria documents,
Originally posted by bsbray11
But where are the scans of the actual construction drawings? That's what else we would need.
Originally posted by SKMDC1
This is just me spit-balling, but is it possible that both sides of the WTC argument are inherently correct?
Could it be that the plane crashes did cause enough damage that there would be SOME kind of collapse and that collapse would not be a nice pristine pancake action, but a tree falling in the forest, taking out many other trees so to speak. And to avoid the WTC falling over sideways and wiping out entire blocks with fire and debris they had a "self destruct" built in that allowed the powers-that-be the option to take them down before they fell down. This would mean that a) there was no conspiracy for a staged attack on America, and b) there was indeed a cover up on the details of how the towers collapsed.
That seems to fit the evidence, but like I say, I'm just thinking out loud here.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
From one page that I read, the WTC was 60/40 concrete to steel ratio, but with the WTC it was estimated to be 40/60 concrete to steel. So from what they're saying there WAS concrete, but it was MUCH less than in previous and most high rise buildings.
Originally posted by HowardRoark
Originally posted by AgentSmith
Can you see the ribbing in this electrical conduit?
The "shinyness" is a non issue since everything was covered with dust, caked on by subsequent rains,
how ie,
What is an issue is your producing SOME image from the demo showing the steel core columns at some elevation above ground.
There were supposed to be 47 of those things and they were 1300 feet long. Where are they?
Why are they not showing in this and many other images that show the core area?
[edit on 21-6-2006 by Christophera]