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Originally posted by DisInfo
The only thing of value in Afghanistan is poppy seeds.
Originally posted by IvanZana
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
It's really this simple: if the "evidence" was as obvious as so-called truth seekers like to portray, this wouldn't be a discussion for niche message boards.
Originally posted by SlightlyAbovePar
As before, are there inconsistencies, things not witnessed or seen before, things outside of everyday norms? Absolutely! In any horrible event like 9-11 there are going to be voids, inconsistencies, things that “don’t add up”, mistakes, incorrect analysis, etc. There is no doubt of this.
The problem for me, and remains, is the ay the so-called truth movement completely dismisses the massive, overwhelming and nearly complete evidence that does exist and instead focuses on inconsistencies and then portrays those inconsistencies as the average or the norm. It’s patently dishonest to do so. To engage in that, in my opinion, is to engage in propaganda.
Some examples of the “serious” research that you (might) consider ‘evidence’:
Claims of free-fall speed collapses that still circulate even though if the claimants had done a simple wrist-watch timing of You Tube videos this would prove to be false.
Allegation: Other conspiracy theorists have claimed that the fact that the towers collapsed at near a "free fall" rate indicates that explosives were needed to cause this rapid a rate of collapse.
Facts: This allegation ignores the fact that the enormous weight of the top portions of the towers completely overwhelmed the carrying capacity of the floors beneath them, which is what caused the towers to collapse at very close to a "free fall" rate. NIST's Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers states:
The structure below the level of collapse initiation offered minimal resistance to the falling building mass .... The potential energy released by the downward movement of the large building mass far exceeded the capacity of the intact structure below to absorb that ....
Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the falling building mass, the building section above came down essentially in free fall .... As the stories below sequentially failed, the falling mass increased, further increasing the demand on the floors below, which were unable to arrest the moving mass.
The falling mass of the building compressed the air ahead of it, much like the action of a piston, forcing material, such as smoke and debris, out the windows ....
Stop trying to pass off conjecture and speculation as fact. Be willing to admit your theory is just that, a theory. Admit the weaknesses in your arguments.
There might be a real conspiracy (was flight 93 shot down? I think so, but that’s pure speculation) in 9-11 but, thanks to the pathetic nonsense that the so-called truth movement engages in, we will never know.
P.S. I don’t know that the building came apart at the seams. I don't know of any information that makes that assertion.
thereby causing the structural failure of some of the surrounding buildings.
Can you find one example of this in the past?