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Originally posted by shrunkensimon
What good would thermate do in the basement?
Originally posted by Pootie
It would most likely melt the core columns at the base, pulling down on the structure via the hat truss?
Originally posted by Pootie
Originally posted by shrunkensimon
What good would thermate do in the basement?
It would most likely melt the core columns at the base, pulling down on the structure via the hat truss?
Originally posted by shrunkensimon
But the towers clearly fell from the impact zone.
Originally posted by SteveR
Originally posted by Pootie
It would most likely melt the core columns at the base, pulling down on the structure via the hat truss?
Trusses do not pull columns down.
Originally posted by Pootie
Originally posted by SteveR
Originally posted by Pootie
It would most likely melt the core columns at the base, pulling down on the structure via the hat truss?
Trusses do not pull columns down.
What I am saying is... IF you take out the core... the hat truss would redistribute the loads to the perimeter by design... IF the perimeter columns could not hold the load it would push/crush/bend/break them in some sort of fashion.
Especially if the core was severed in the basement... then the outer columns would be holding the mass of the entire building PLUS the mass of the core colums via the hat truss.
Originally posted by Insolubrious
Just a wild guess but I would expect they planted explosive charges not just at the base of the building but throughout the entire central core, top to bottom and detonated them in sequence.
Originally posted by mbkennel
So, a hypothesized "micronuke" which has just a few grams of fissile material and yet undergoes a comprehensive nuclear chain reaction and energy release?
Originally posted by mbkennel
Micronukes used at WTC? So where's the radiation poisoning? Where's the fallout?
Originally posted by mbkennel
Micronukes used at WTC? So where's the radiation poisoning? Where's the fallout?
There is no way to avoid a prompt radiation pulse, and the smaller the nuke the more prominent the radiation would have been as a component of the energy release. You'd have activated stuff all throughout lower Manhattan. The isotope pattern could easily be traced back to a neutron pulse at a certain time. There is no evidence at all.
In any case, I personally don't believe these "micronukes" exist, because there are severe physical and technological limits that make them essentially impossible.
You do know the principle of "critical mass"? It was one of the most important computations of the Manhattan project. You need enough fissile material in a small enough place so that when you compress you can get enough chain reaction fission to happen before it pushes itself apart.
When you run the numbers there is "natural" size of nukes which is roughly the parameters which arise from the simplest solutions. That's about 10kt, not coincidentally about the same size of the first weapons that all nuclear weapon states have made.
Declassified August 1958: “Mere fact that the U. S. has developed atomic munitions suitable for use in demolition work.” Declassified January 1967, “The fact that we are interested in and are continuing studies on a weapon for minimizing the emerging flux of neutrons and internal induced activity.” Declassified March 1976, “The fact of weapon laboratory interest in Minimum Residual Radiation (MRR) devices. The fact of successful development of MRR devices.”
- source : www.nogw.com...
1. The fact of weapon laboratory interest in MRR devices. (76-3)
2. The fact of successful development of MRR devices. (76-3)
J.L. Hudson’s in Detroit, Michigan, the tallest building ever razed, was 439 ft. (26 stories)
www.implosionworld.com...
WTC 7 was 570 ft. (47 stories) 1.3 times the height of the J.L. Hudson. en.wikipedia.org...
WTC 1/2 was 1,368 ft. (110 stories) 3.12 times the height of J.L. Hudson.
en.wikipedia.org...
en.wikipedia.org...
So, on 9/11, three buildings were razed with perfect precision. One was 131 ft. taller than the record tower and the other two (minus cell phone antennas) were 929 ft. taller than the record holder.
The Hudson Building “It took us 24 days with 12 people doing nothing but loading explosives…” James Santoro – Controlled Demolition Incorporated"
www.history.com...
Even according to the Loose Change guys, the heightened security and bomb-sniffing dogs had only been lifted for 5 days.
Originally posted by XR500Final
Buses burned up 200 yards away, many cars caught fire. Consider one persons arguement that is being used against their being any explosives at all!
I was trying to let you argue your nuke case, but I advise you remove the cars as evidence if you want to be taken even almost seriously.
In the case of nuclear explosives the situation is more complicated because the different kinds of radiations can have a variety of effects, especially if they are very penetrating, as is the case for high energy neutrons and gamma rays. The most important of these effects are as follows:
**** Heat the volume of a material. Penetrating high energy radiations neutrons, pions,15 or high energy gamma rays)will easily cross a low density intervening medium such as air and deposit their energy deep into any high density material. As a result, a substantial (i.e., centimeter to meter thick) layer of a bomb irradiated material can be brought to a temperature sufficiently high for it to melt, vaporize, or even explode. ****