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Squib \Squib\, n. [OE. squippen, swippen, to move swiftky, Icel.
svipa to swoop, flash, dart, whip; akin to AS. swipian to
whip, and E. swift, a. See Swift, a.]
1. A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with
powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air
while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
2. (Mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a
brief, witty essay.
Originally posted by Torlough
All right the comlete "controled demolition" nonsense is one thing, but the improper use of the word squib has got to stop!!!
Originally posted by 11 11
YES! That video shows explosives on the only part of the entire building with no windows. That dark grey band around the WTC is there to give support to the building. There is 2 on each building, and that right there is proof of explosives.
That can NOT be air, because last I have seen, air can not bust out of steel like that.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Being the all-knowing expert on the subject, did you have an actual comment on what we're seeing there?
Negative. Those "dark bands" are the mechanical (AC unit) floors. Instead of there being windows they were some sort of ventilation panels, that I still haven't seen any high resolutio images of to better understand what those window replacements were
"The structural system, deriving from the I.B.M. Building in Seattle, is impressively simple. The 208-foot wide facade is, in effect, a prefabricated steel lattice, with columns on 39-inch centers acting as wind bracing to resist all overturning forces; the central core takes only the gravity loads of the building. A very light, economical structure results by keeping the wind bracing in the most efficient place, the outside surface of the building, thus not transferring the forces through the floor membrane to the core, as in most curtain-wall structures. Office spaces will have no interior columns. In the upper floors there is as much as 40,000 square feet of office space per floor. The floor construction is of prefabricated trussed steel, only 33 inches in depth, that spans the full 60 feet to the core, and also acts as a diaphragm to stiffen the outside wall against lateral buckling forces from wind-load pressures.
Originally posted by Torlough
Thanks somone get it, I was jsut rying to illistrate to the CD people that the more you use the term "squibb" the less credibility you have, squibs are very small explosive charges. I was making sure charge was proper and found out I was wrong, shaped Charge would be better.
Originally posted by Torlough
And of corse knowing, and being at the WTC I just don't see how installing all those shapped charges in secret would be possible. IMHO
Originally posted by 11 11
b.t.w. I already know there was explosives in WTC, I have proof.
Originally posted by 11 11
Wrong, a "squib" is the plume of smoke made by an explosive charge, like a shaped charge. Try again.
Originally posted by himselfe
In reference to the grey bands:
World Trade Centre floor plan (SVG)
Notice anything special? Think elevator shafts, think end points, think tunnel pressure, think cork.
Originally posted by 11 11
b.t.w. I already know there was explosives in WTC, I have proof.
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Originally posted by 11 11
Yes that "band" is the "mechanical floor". They use these for AC units, electrical, water, all of it. They are service floors that do not have windows. They do however have vents...
Still, I read in many places that those grey bands were designed in a way to give strength to the WTC's, and those spots are critical. The only reason they made them mecanical floors was because they wouldn't make good office space.
Originally posted by 11 11
b.t.w. I already know there was explosives in WTC, I have proof.
Originally posted by IgnoranceIsntBlisss
I've already addressed this in a related thread, at the bottom of that post:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Part of my argument was, assuming the air ducts from the mechanical floors disperse downwards from the mechanical floors, why were the 'jet plumes of dust' that far below the mechanical floor that wasn't yet consumed by the blast wave??