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Originally posted by whiterabbit
Originally posted by Connected
Do you not know how cleanly a shaped charge can cut steel? Why are you imagining some stupid cartoon render of a blown up cannon?
Let me show you what a shaped charge made from a WINE BOTTLE can do to a steel plate.
Those shaped charge pictures don't look ANYTHING like the ends of the columns that you're continually passing around the forum as proof of thermite or explosives.
The outside edges are broken and serrated from the shape charges, and there's no discoloration like with the cutting torch.
With the cutting torch pictures, you can clearly see the discoloration, the slag and melted places, and even the blowing grooves in some of the pictures.
Those pictures you posted are clearly cutting torch pictures. It's so utterly obvious, that I still can't believe we're arguing about it.
Edit to add:
Also, upon looking, that's like what? 1/4" plate steel? MAYBE 1/2".
I think the damage to one of the support columns wouldn't be quite so neat.
[edit on 19-3-2007 by whiterabbit]
Originally posted by PHARAOH1133
...it has pictures with firemen standing below cut I-Beams...
Originally posted by timeless test
Originally posted by PHARAOH1133
...it has pictures with firemen standing below cut I-Beams...
A link to this picture was posted on the first page of this thread and it is, of course, a well known photo and often used to support deliberate cutting of the beams as part of the attack.
The problem is, as I said on page 1, that the photograph was taken after clean up crews, (for want of a better phrase), moved in and so it proves nothing in itself.
You will notice that the firefighter on the left is not completely visible in the picture and this is because it has been cropped to hide the civilian workers standing on a large pile of debris behind the firefighters. The continued use of this cropped version is grossly misleading although understandable as the original is very hard to find. It's out there somewhere but I'm damned if I can find it at the moment, sorry.
Originally posted by PHARAOH1133
The other half of of the beams? Did they just go around trimming all the beams that were sticking out, remove the parts which were cut then just turned around and took pictures of the beams that they trimmed? I think not these were taken before any pre-clean up, they were busy putting fires out and didn't just want to rush right in with torches to cause possibly more fires, things are done in steps. First you put out fires, then you try and analyze what needs to be done next like: what equipment needs to be brought in to do the clean up, it would of taken days to get this all orgainized, in the mean time they were just trying to put the fires out which lasted over 6 weeks.
Originally posted by PHARAOH1133
There was plenty of room to access the building, no beams needed to be cut to get in, look at how big the hole is, plus they would of turned off the electricy from a larger controll pannel away from the building, not a circuit breaker box inside the building, plus when the building came down it would of cut the lines to the power.
Originally posted by PHARAOH1133
it has pictures with firemen standing below cut I-Beams and outlines certain aspects which are being discussed about the cuts made in the I-beams and the molten metal left on them.
Please give me your takes on this.
Originally posted by whiterabbit
We know that people were cutting beams around the Verizon building as early as September 12th.
Originally posted by whiterabbit
We know that the pictures Connected posted were taken during later debris removal around the Verizon building (with heavy machinery around).
Originally posted by Connected
The aritcal you posted said they were cutting beams on Vesey Street between WTC 6 and Verizon building, that is on the wrong side. No where does it state they were even near WTC 7. THEY WERE CLEARING DEBRIS FROM THE STREETS TO GAIN ACCESS, NOT TO CLEAN UP!
You STILL do not have proof they even touched the WTC 7 debris on 9/12.
Originally posted by whiterabbit
They were cutting beams between the Verizon Building and another building. Any sane person would call that "around the Verizon building."
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Originally posted by whiterabbit
Also, they began working to restore telecommuncations as early as September 12, and probably needed to remove some of that debris. So there's your explanation for why they probably cut those beams. They were sitting next to a gaping hole in the wall in a room full of telecommuncations equipment.
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Originally posted by whiterabbit
They were clearing debris when the pictures were taken.
Originally posted by whiterabbit
There's also a ladder ON TOP of the debris by the cut columns.
Originally posted by whiterabbit
There's absolutely NO REASON to think the other side of that column is any different than the front (other than the fantasy you've concocted in your head about it), and there are several reasons to think it's the same.
Originally posted by Connected
Once again, you stating OPINION, we dont need OPINION. We need FACT.
Originally posted by whiterabbit
And Connected, where's that conversation with the photographer? I'd really like to see where he said he took those pictures because the beams looked suspicious. And don't forget his email, because I'll need to verify that he actually said that.
I'd also like to ask him why he didn't take a picture of Narnia or the explosive damage on the other side of the column.
Originally posted by Connected
It was 4 years ago that this conversation was had, and I'm still looking for a chached version of it. The conversation itself has been removed from its original spot, (because of old age).
Also, why cant you fkin get it in your head that a LSC cut will look simular to a torch cut? I don't understand...
Seriously look at this picture...
and you give Bush BJ's every morning.