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Originally posted by Slap Nuts
Originally posted by Vushta
Griff..But HOW was it rigged?
So you don't believe the controlled demo/bombs theory?
So much for the squibs. But how does severing a verticl column cause a building to collapse in such a manner. How does thermite cut horizontally? If a gap of say 1/2"or 1" was produced by being cut away by thermite how does this cause such a collapse?
I like how you try to derail this with "HOW was it rigged." Let's answer the the rest of the questions first as "HOW it was rigged is addresed in many other threads. Simply put... ACCESS.
1. He does believe in controlled demo... just using incendaries instead of explosives. READ vushta. Can you differentitiate between the two?
2. Severing the CORE VERTICAL COLUMS would remove minimally 50% of the support and cause total, vertical collapse pulling down the building from the inside.
3. Thermite cuts in whatever direction the shell/charge is "shapped" to cut in. Do some research.
4. Cutting a support column in half, at an angle (suppose 45 degrees)... even a 1mm wide cut, could/will cause it to "slide off" and remove 100% of it's ability to support ANYTHING.
Your questions are lame and I do not know why I even answer you.
[edit on 10-7-2006 by Slap Nuts]
Originally posted by Griff
Here's a simple calculation regarding the "squibs".
I used P1V1/T1=P2V2/T2 This is the Combined Gas Law
Assuming temperature stays the same...we could use temperature defferentials if need be....maybe another calculation when I'm done here. This leads us to.
P1V1=P2V2
I have started with a total volume of 1830730 m^3. This assumes all air in the building including core. One story has 16643 m^3. So the volume decreases by 16643 m^3 every floor that "pancakes" on the remaining floor. Also assumed in this calculation is that NO air is lost while the volume of the building decreases (pancakes).
Here is an excell spread sheet calculating the pressure of each floor after the floor above has "pancaked".
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Notice that after 110 stories, the pressure is at 2 atmospheres. I used atmospheres because it doesn't matter. I could have converted to pascals if i wanted but since all designations stay constant, it doesn't matter.
So, at 50 stories we have 1.02 atmospheres of pressure. Is that enough to stream across a whole floor and break a window and cause "stuff" to fly out 100 + feet horizontally? I doubt it. Remember that this calculation takes into account that ALL the air would be compressed. Something to think about.
Originally posted by billybob
griff, i would agree that thermite alone COULD have done it, but i KNOW that explosives were used. in my 'faster than freefall' thread, i proved it.
Originally posted by Slap Nuts
If you think the CEO cannot get whatever he wants in a company... QUIETLY, you are dead nuts wrong. Of course he would get off the board before the actual incident.
Originally posted by LeftBehind
Originally posted by Slap Nuts
If you think the CEO cannot get whatever he wants in a company... QUIETLY, you are dead nuts wrong. Of course he would get off the board before the actual incident.
Well, I say this from actual experience. The CEO does not have operational control of the kind required to rig a building with explosives. I have almost no contact at all with the CEO of my company, other than announcement emails from time to time.
Originally posted by LeftBehind
Ok billybob, but from my personal experience with CEO's that is not the case. Maybe the CEO at your company is constantly micromanaging and doesn't trust his VP's or regional managers, or do you not have any experience with a CEO?
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Not that it really matters, since Marvin Bush was not the CEO, he was on the board of directors and therefore had practically no operational control.
You can't be completely certain of the the actual dynamics of management in that company, or who was really in charge of what, at what level, during which period of time.
Originally posted by bsbray11
I don't have to. Put that into context with the rest of the post, Vushta. The whole point is that management wouldn't have had to have been straightforward. There would be levels, and it would be a more complex affair than simply everyone knows or else it didn't happen.
Things can be slipped in, and no one would know.
Originally posted by bsbray11
That Bush held such a high position in the company at all is a good indication.
You can't be completely certain of the the actual dynamics of management in that company, or who was really in charge of what, at what level, during which period of time. You wouldn't necessarily have to be at the top, and it wouldn't necessarily be Bush himself clearing the trojan horse of an engineer team. Bush may have just held huge financial sway for the company and was only in on it in that he was the failsafe. This isn't really a thing you can debunk; too many variables you can't be sure about on too many levels.
Originally posted by bsbray11
I don't have to.
[edit on 11-7-2006 by bsbray11]
Originally posted by Vushta
Originally posted by bsbray11
I don't have to.
But thats exactly what you're doing.
and what, exactly, are you doing?
you are waving your hands frantically, trying to disuade anyone from believing that planting bombs was possible.
it was not only possible, but it was a piece of cake,
a team of fifty guards would be more than sufficient to let ANYTHING happen in the towers.
marvin bush doesn't HAVE to be in on it. it is just OBVIOUS that the bushes are a high crime and misdemeanor family, and his presence implicates him, because of the other evidence(which only those not afflicted with 'the blind spot'). they were nazis. secret police. war presidents. oil barons. bankrupters of savings and loans companies. inside traders. the 'conflict of interest' meter is WAY off the scale.
if only the guards had decided they would wire the buildings, they could have done it. that means, it's not impossible.
Originally posted by snoopy
All they need is a bad fire to set off the explosives and teh whole thing comes down.
And of course all the workers who built the buildings must have all been on it too.
Not to mention the evidence would have been discovered in the investigation.
Originally posted by Griff
Here's a simple calculation regarding the "squibs".
I used P1V1/T1=P2V2/T2 This is the Combined Gas Law
Assuming temperature stays the same...we could use temperature defferentials if need be....maybe another calculation when I'm done here. This leads us to.
P1V1=P2V2
I have started with a total volume of 1830730 m^3. This assumes all air in the building including core. One story has 16643 m^3. So the volume decreases by 16643 m^3 every floor that "pancakes" on the remaining floor. Also assumed in this calculation is that NO air is lost while the volume of the building decreases (pancakes).
Here is an excell spread sheet calculating the pressure of each floor after the floor above has "pancaked".