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Originally posted by snoopy
No. It's absolutely not. That's damage resulting form the fire. You are being really dishonest here by trying to pretend that that is the same thing. NONE of the buildings you claim had structural damage have structural damage. This is a deliberate attempt to mislead people.
And even if hypothetically there was a building the same size and design of the WTC that suffered the same structural damage such as being hit by a plane and still didn't collapse? It would NOT prove that it's impossible for the buildings to collapse. Just as there have been steel structures which have collapsed from fire alone. Both those points prove your claim wrong.
Examples (even though it doesn't make any difference in the issue):
The Madrid Hotel. The steel portion of the building collapsed.
The McCormick Center in Chicago
Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster
Your One Meridian Plaza is a good example in that it was on the verge of collapse from fire alone. And there are others.
I don't think there are any pictures taken that show the whole building engulfed because it happened later on. There are photos of the entire side of the building engulfed in smoke, but you know you've already seen them.
Originally posted by snoopy
No. It's absolutely not. That's damage resulting form the fire. You are being really dishonest here by trying to pretend that that is the same thing. NONE of the buildings you claim had structural damage have structural damage. This is a deliberate attempt to mislead people.
And even if hypothetically there was a building the same size and design of the WTC that suffered the same structural damage such as being hit by a plane and still didn't collapse? It would NOT prove that it's impossible for the buildings to collapse. Just as there have been steel structures which have collapsed from fire alone. Both those points prove your claim wrong.
Examples (even though it doesn't make any difference in the issue):
The Madrid Hotel. The steel portion of the building collapsed.
The McCormick Center in Chicago
Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster
Your One Meridian Plaza is a good example in that it was on the verge of collapse from fire alone. And there are others.
I don't think there are any pictures taken that show the whole building engulfed because it happened later on. There are photos of the entire side of the building engulfed in smoke, but you know you've already seen them.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
So what your saying is they used "PULL" when to brought down building 6 but it does mean the same for building 7 ?
The firemen were pulled out by 3:30 the building came down around 5. So your saying that the builidng just happen to wait uintil after the phone call to come down.
I am stating the incident commander decided to PULL the building because he was afraid the building was going to fall and damage more buildings and spread more fire.
Please show me what training you have had in Emergency Incident Mangement. Becasue i have had the training. I was a Federal Police Officer for 12 years.
And do not even say anything about me accusing the firemen of being involved. Thats a tatic people try to use when they do not have enough facts to debate with.
Originally posted by snoopy
That's right, they attached metal cables to it and "pulled" it down to the side. Now I don't recall seeing WTC 7 pulled down to the side with metal cables like WTC 6 was. Does anyone have pictures of WTC 7 being pulled down to thge side with cables?
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
1. So your saying that structural damage caused by fire is different the structual damage caused by debris. You are going to have to explain that because structrual damage is structural damage no mattfer what casued it.
2. Please show the information or photos of the building you listed, are they steel buildings or steel and concrete ?
3. So you agree that the One Meridian Plaza builidng was a steel builidng that didnot collapse from fire and structural damage.
4. Yes their are photos of smoke on the side of building 7 not fires
Originally posted by snoopy
WTC 6 was pulled. Have you not seen it? They attached cables and pulled it down to the side, just as the term in demolition means. Was WTC 7 pulled down to the side with cables?
The phone call did not come at the last minute, they had been doing it since 3pm. This is all well documented. All throughout the day they had been pulling guys out and making collapse zones and predicting the building to collapse. There was no waiting for a phone call.
The incident commander? Who is that? Daniel Nigro was the one Larry was talking to, he is the one who decided to pull it. And do you have any kind of interview with this incident commander explaining why he wanted to demolish the building? What's his name and who does he work for? How did he plant explosives in a building that was damaged and burning? How would he know what would and wouldn't be damaged from the debris and fire?
I don't care how much training you have. I am relying entirly on expert testimony so you aren't challanging me, you are challanging the firefighters and you are pretty much accusing them of being in on this plot. Don't try to pull the authority card on me, it's not going to work. I am upset that you are being dishonest with everyone here.
How can I not say you are accusing the firemen of being involved when thats Exactly what you are doing??
Originally posted by Fowl Play
Looks in a pretty bad state to me, funny how a lot of truth sites show mainly North side pictures, but looking at the south side hole, and fire.. we can see what was going on a bit clearer..
Originally posted by selfless
Laughable.
You defend the official story of what happened to the WTC7 like it was your own son but yet you didn't even see videos of the building coming down? You ask for photo's of cables being used for the WTC7???? Had you seen videos of the WTC7 coming down you would know that there were no pulling cables.... Your question just shows exactly how much you didn't research into this.
Well here look, I will show you a video of the WTC7 collapsing identical to a controlled demolition right into it's own footprints free falling like a telescope closing on it self.
Originally posted by snoopy
[1. You said that those examples had much worse structural damage and much worse fires. Both of those are completely untrue. That's forgetting about your definition of structural damage. You cannot deny that the damage to those buildings in no way was remotely as extensive as the WTC. And as you asked, no it's not the same that the damage from the fires is the same as the damage from the planes or the falling debris. One is weakening damage, another is key supports being destroyed outright and before any fire damage.
2. They are all steel. You can go look them up.
3. I agree that One Meridian Plaza is a perfect example of my point. It suffered enough fire damage alone that it was no longer structurally sound. And the engineers there knew that it was due to collapse just form the fire, even if they managed to put it out.
More importantly, finding another steel building that hasn't collapsed does not prove that no steel structures can collapse. Not only do the other steel structures that have collapsed from fire alone prove you wrong here, but so do all the engineers and scientists who all disagre with you.
4. Where do you think the smoke comes from? And this is you just trying to avoid the testimony from all the firefighters PROVING there was extensive fires and damage. Or are you saying the firefighters are lying?
Originally posted by snoopy
[1. You said that those examples had much worse structural damage and much worse fires. Both of those are completely untrue. That's forgetting about your definition of structural damage. You cannot deny that the damage to those buildings in no way was remotely as extensive as the WTC. And as you asked, no it's not the same that the damage from the fires is the same as the damage from the planes or the falling debris. One is weakening damage, another is key supports being destroyed outright and before any fire damage.
2. They are all steel. You can go look them up.
3. I agree that One Meridian Plaza is a perfect example of my point. It suffered enough fire damage alone that it was no longer structurally sound. And the engineers there knew that it was due to collapse just form the fire, even if they managed to put it out.
More importantly, finding another steel building that hasn't collapsed does not prove that no steel structures can collapse. Not only do the other steel structures that have collapsed from fire alone prove you wrong here, but so do all the engineers and scientists who all disagre with you.
4. Where do you think the smoke comes from? And this is you just trying to avoid the testimony from all the firefighters PROVING there was extensive fires and damage. Or are you saying the firefighters are lying?
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
1. Yes i have seen the video of builidng 6 being PULLED. So in this case PULL means to bring a building down. So again your saying that PULL menas 1 thing for building 6 but something else for builidng 7.
2. Please show me a time on when the phone call was made. And if your saying that the fire commander left his people in the buidling to go make the call ?
3. Well whoever was the fire commander at the time the call was made. Thge police department do not have a commander so it was the fire department commader that became the incident commander.
4. Well i happen to have the education and experience in Emergency Incident. So i would say that gives me a little more knowledge about what goes on in an emergeny incident.
5. I stated the incident commander decided to pull the building. Which is what was stated in the conversation to Silverstein.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
1. As stated the building i posted had longer lasting fires and suffered structural damage and did not collapse. Just like building 5 and 6 at the WTC they had worse structurla damage and fires but di dnot collapse.
2. Please show me the infomration on the buildings you posted and if they collapsed from the fire or were brought down afterwards like building 6.
3. Yes, the One Meridian Plaza builidng did not collaspe from fires or structural damage. Which has been my point.
4. IT WAS SMOKE NOT FIRE. SHOW ME THIS BIG INFERNO OR COMPLETELY INVOLVED FIRE AT BUILDING 7 YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT.
Originally posted by snoopy
What official story am I defending? Can you provide a link?
Originally posted by snoopy
And thank you for verifying that there were no cables pulling down the WTC 7. That was my point. Hence it was not "pulled". And as for your insult about my research, do you realize you just put your foot in your mouth?
Originally posted by snoopy
Once again in regards to your analysis of the video you present/ What is your expertise in demolition? Are you a demolition expert? Because all the demolition experts who have seen the footage and the ones who were 100s of feet away watching it collapse say they can see no signs of a controlled demolition. So you must have some kind of expertise that the demolition experts lack. Please share those credentials with us. Otherwise we might think you are just someone on the internet who doesn't know any better and thinks because two things look similar to his untrained eyes that they are the same.
Originally posted by snoopy
I have to question your expertise because the think most certainly did not telescope, and it most certainly didn't all into its own footprint. You also don't show the WTC 7 from the beginning of the collapse, you show it half way through.
Originally posted by snoopy
We have never once heard the term 'pull it' being used to refer to the explosive demolition of a building, and neither has any blast team we've spoken with. - Brent Blanchard, Implosion World.
Originally posted by snoopy
We have never once heard the term 'pull it' being used to refer to the explosive demolition of a building, and neither has any blast team we've spoken with. The term is used in conventional demolition circles, to describe the specific activity of attaching long cables to a preweakened building and maneuvering heavy equipment (excavators, bulldozers etc) to 'pull' the frame of the structure over onto its side for further dismantlement. This author and our research team were on site when workers pulled over the six story remains of WTC6 in late fall 2001, however we can say with certainty that a similar operation would have been logistically impossible at Ground Zero on 9/11, physically impossible for a building the size of WTC7, and the structure did not collapse in that manner anyway.
- Brent Blanchard, Implosion World.
Originally posted by selfless
You got to be kidding... everyone knows it lol.....
I know it was not brought down with cables, it was brought down with controlled demolitions. Just look at the videos for freaks sake... it's a freaking controlled demolition right in front of your eyes... but you can't even acknowledge it.
I did not insult your research, I stated a fact that you are spouting lies about the WTC7 because you spoke in facts about it and yet you didn't even know that no cables was used to bring it down, this showed how much you didn't research into the matter so i pointed it out.
And to be honest, you calling other people idiots is much more insulting then me pointing out that you didn't do much research into the WTC7.
And how exactly did I put my foot in my mouth? You put your own foot in your mouth by saying that I put my foot in my mouth because I didn't.
Man you have to be in a serious state of denial or blind to not see that a building falling onto it's own footprints like the WTC7 did is 100% consistent with a controlled demolition.....
Let me guess, your experts testimonies are all coming from the government eh.
Do you want me to gather a bunch of independent experts opinions on the matter?
Did not telescope? Didn't you see the video? The sides of the buildings stayed perfectly vertical.... that's a telescoping effect.
I am not an expert on controlled demolition but I'm not freaking blind either... Gees I can't even believe that I have to type these words... I can't even comprehend the idea that a person can still think that the building collapsed from a fire.... this is like a twilight zone, I say it again....
Originally posted by selfless
The pull it comment is not even an issue wetter he meant the building or whatever....
Just look at the darn building being demolished....... there's your damn proof....
You even see the explosion smoke flow coming from the bottom of the building right before it's demolished just like a controlled demolition....
First the bombs goes boom and then the building falls into it's own footprints....