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posted by BANGINCOLOR
Don't be afraid to question authority or even what your own eyes see. Your whole argument is that, "We all saw it happen that day so it must be true." We are all trained to think when a building collapses, it ALWAYS collapses onto itself because, that's all we see. Buildings DON'T naturally fall onto themselves and on 9/11, two of them did because of relatively small fires both in less than an hour. [Edited by Don W]
Originally posted by donwhite
draw a conclusion that contradicts reality is not valid. Not believable.
For a large over-ventilated jet-fuel pool fire, the heat release rate per unit
area is reported to be approximately 2 MW/m2 [13]. As one limiting scenario, we consider that the plane dumped its whole fuel load over only one floor (smashing all material on that floor, including both combustible and non-combustible matter). Then the fuel would cover this floor to an average depth of nearly 0.8 cm, and the fuel load per unit area would be approximately 6.2 kg/m2. In this case, we consider the fuel to be instantaneously ignited and begin burning with a heat release rate of approximately 2 MW/m2, yielding a total heat release rate in this scenario of several GW. At this burning rate, the jet fuel would be consumed in only a few minutes, assuming an adequate air supply, and even in less time if
the fuel were spread over a greater area. These estimates are consistent with those given in the FEMA/ASCE study [7] and are important because they demonstrate that the jet fuel would be consumed quickly relative to the duration of the tower fires.
We have assumed that the entire quantity of jet fuel from the aircraft was injected into just one floor of the World Trade Center, that the jet fuel burnt with the perfect efficency, that no hot gases left this floor and that no heat escaped this floor by conduction.
We have found that it is impossible the jet fuel, by itself, raised the temperature of this floor beyond 280° C (536° F).
Now this temperature is nowhere near high enough to even begin explaining the World Trade Center Tower collapse.
It is not even close to the first critical temperature of 600° C (1,100° F) where steel loses about half its strength and it is nowhere near the quotes of 1500° C that we constantly read about in our lying media.
"In the mid-1990s British Steel and the Building Research Establishment performed a series of six experiments at Cardington to investigate the behavior of steel frame buildings. These experiments were conducted in a simulated, eight-story building. Secondary steel beams were not protected. Despite the temperature of the steel beams reaching 800-900° C (1,500-1,700° F) in three of the tests (well above the traditionally assumed critical temperature of 600° C (1,100° F), no collapse was observed in any of the six experiments."
Seldom mentioned in the literature about the September 11th attack is the fact that the North Tower experienced a serious fire in 1975, when it was only sparsely occupied. On February 13, 1975, a fire, set by a custodian turned arsonist, started on the 11th floor and spread to limited portions of six other floors, burning for three hours. Several fire suppression systems that were later installed in the towers were not present at the time, including sprinklers, elevator shaft dampers, and electrical system fireproofing.
Originally posted by donwhite
posted by BANGINCOLOR
Don't be afraid to question authority or even what your own eyes see. Your whole argument is that, "We all saw it happen that day so it must be true." We are all trained to think when a building collapses, it ALWAYS collapses onto itself because, that's all we see. Buildings DON'T naturally fall onto themselves and on 9/11, two of them did because of relatively small fires both in less than an hour. [Edited by Don W]
Well, how many tall, fairly new, buildings not intentionally demolished have you seen fall or collapse?
A. _____ .
posted by BANGINCOLOR
"How many tall, new buildings not intentionally demolished have you seen fall or collapse?
A. _____ ."
B. Thank you for making my point for me. [Edited by Don W]
posted by runetang
I think Osama Bin Laden is in the southeastern frontier province of Iran that borders Afghanistan and is remarkably close to part of western Pakistan. That frontier province . . south Baluchistan I think [Sistan va Baluchestan per CIA Factbook] or khorastan? . . is home to SUNNI separatist and is just as rugged as the Pakistani frontier. Iran has been fighting those Sunni for quite some time in that province. [Edited by Don W]
posted by runetang
We could never go into Iran to pluck him unnoticed, and they’d see anything like that as an attack or invasion and they'd start launching missiles full of biological weapons at our troops in Iraq and attack our ships in the Gulf.
I think they [Iran] have knowledge that he's there, but they don't act on it because it's in their interest to keep him alive and plotting [against the US]. Yes, I know Shia and Sunni feud but they DO put it aside . . look at Syria and Iran, [for now] strategic allies, one Sunni, one Shia. [Edited by Don W]
I think if he [had been] in that 200 square mile area of frontier in Pakistan [with Afghanistan] we would've killed or captured him. I'm sure we would even violate the rules and sneak into Pakistan to capture or kill him if we really had good [evidence] where he was. Ever since they started saying in the media after the fall of the Taliban that he was there, I knew it was BS. How could the world's most wanted terrorist get past all our top secret CIA crap like unmanned drones and satellite spying and even agents working in the area for us? How could he just stay in a tiny, tiny area and not be caught or killed? Even Zarqawi had to constantly move around before he got bombed, and Iraq has more places to hide. He's somewhere we CANT go without starting a regional conflict . . that has to be it, and Iran is the [most] likely candidate. Either that or he is dead .. or hell, maybe you conspiracy buffs are right and he is in cahoots with Dumbya. I don’t think so. [Edited by Don W]
Originally posted by BANGINCOLOR
Just watched another 9/11 video over at Google Video and came to the conclusion the US government does NOT want to find Osama EVER. Know why?
Because then HE will tell everyone what we knew all along, that it was the US government planned 9/11.
No way does a fire, even one from an airplane impact, gonna drop a building in LESS than one hour, no way. We were all in a state of shock when this sh*t went down so, it was easy to put this bulllsh*t past us but now that I see everything, it's quite easy to understand.
110 story building collapses in less than 10 seconds? That's like total freefall speed, no way that could happen because each floor would slow down the floors coming down. The collapse should have progressively gotten SLOWER not faster!!!
[edit on 5-12-2006 by BANGINCOLOR]
Originally posted by Sight2reality
Originally posted by BANGINCOLOR
Just watched another 9/11 video over at Google Video and came to the conclusion the US government does NOT want to find Osama EVER. Know why?
Because then HE will tell everyone what we knew all along, that it was the US government planned 9/11.
No way does a fire, even one from an airplane impact, gonna drop a building in LESS than one hour, no way. We were all in a state of shock when this sh*t went down so, it was easy to put this bulllsh*t past us but now that I see everything, it's quite easy to understand.
110 story building collapses in less than 10 seconds? That's like total freefall speed, no way that could happen because each floor would slow down the floors coming down. The collapse should have progressively gotten SLOWER not faster!!!
[edit on 5-12-2006 by BANGINCOLOR]
You know, I see and hear this stuff way too much.
Explain to me exactly how you know so much about fire, and building construction? Tell me for instance, why the buildings could not have fallen as fast as they did. Try using math. Or why fireproofing is used on beams and columns during construction processes.
It is as if you refuse to accept the fact that a couple crazy people could impact life as you know it so much. Come to grips with reality. ALL OF YOU. Why intentionally block out reason for fantasy? Are you afraid of the realities in your life???
[edit on 11-12-2006 by Sight2reality]
Yeah,that would mean all those bolts in all those steel columns would all have to fail at the exact same time for them to have "fallen due to fire" as the government states it happened.Imagine that.Millions of bolts that held all that steel shearing off from the weight above AT THE SAME TIME to have the collapse that was on 9/11.I just don't know about that.
Originally posted by BANGINCOLOR
Originally posted by Sight2reality
Originally posted by BANGINCOLOR
Just watched another 9/11 video over at Google Video and came to the conclusion the US government does NOT want to find Osama EVER. Know why?
Because then HE will tell everyone what we knew all along, that it was the US government planned 9/11.
No way does a fire, even one from an airplane impact, gonna drop a building in LESS than one hour, no way. We were all in a state of shock when this sh*t went down so, it was easy to put this bulllsh*t past us but now that I see everything, it's quite easy to understand.
110 story building collapses in less than 10 seconds? That's like total freefall speed, no way that could happen because each floor would slow down the floors coming down. The collapse should have progressively gotten SLOWER not faster!!!
[edit on 5-12-2006 by BANGINCOLOR]
You know, I see and hear this stuff way too much.
Explain to me exactly how you know so much about fire, and building construction? Tell me for instance, why the buildings could not have fallen as fast as they did. Try using math. Or why fireproofing is used on beams and columns during construction processes.
It is as if you refuse to accept the fact that a couple crazy people could impact life as you know it so much. Come to grips with reality. ALL OF YOU. Why intentionally block out reason for fantasy? Are you afraid of the realities in your life???
[edit on 11-12-2006 by Sight2reality]
Sorry if you can't understand BASIC physics.
Those buildings fell at the same speed as an object thrown off the roof of one of the towers. The difference between a freefall and the buildings collapsing is.........the first floors to collapse ran into the other floors of the buildings below which should have caused resistance and SLOWED the fall of the building down, not speed it up.
An object falls from the roof, it takes about 10 seconds to hit the ground. Gravity, acceleration all comes into play. Why didn't the bottom floors of the buildings that WEREN'T hit by any planes and had NO fires raging in them, why didn't they cause any resistance to the above collapsing floors?????
You don't think it's weird that the top floors of a large building collapsed and hit the ground at the exact same speed as an object thrown from atop the same building that had NO resistance????
I don't think anyone needs a college course to figure there is something wrong with this.