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Originally posted by ThroatYogurt
Originally posted by IvanZana
1. Don't all the high-level officials agree on what happened on 9/11?
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This page lists several “former” employees of different parts of the government or military. And some current ones as well. What it does not do is present and facts that would show LIHOP or MIHOP.
Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by IvanZana
So terrorists never thought of flying a plane into a large or prominent building before, therefore it would have never happened? The terrorists are far too stupid to be able to organize something like this right?
I guess these terrorists must have missed your memo:
Air France Flight 8969 December 24, 1994
"The GIA, or Armed Islamic Group, is a violent terrorist organization based in Algeria. The first major international incident involving the GIA was the 1994 hijacking of an Air France jet in Marseilles, in which hijackers reportedly attempted to crash the plane, fully loaded with fuel, into the Eiffel Tower."
www.pbs.org...
"Tired from the two day stand off, the hijackers maintained radio silence until late morning when the hijackers demand they receive nearly 27 tons of fuel; considerably more than the 9 needed to make the five hundred mile flight to Paris. Intelligence reports suggested that the hijackers intended to fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or blow it up over the city; a maximum fuel load would make the Airbus into a flying bomb."
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by philjwolf
go ahead and believe what you want.. you and the other 3 people in the world that think it was an inside job..
On 9/11, in the hour or so before either of towers fell, we could all see billowing black or grey smoke coming from the fires in the tower. When you see such a high degree of smoke it is an indication that the fire that is burning is DEPRIVED of oxygen. This is called a 'dirty burn' and temperatures in a dirty burn are even lower than a fire that is in the open air...
Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by Iblis Smiley
NIST already had covered it.
If you had read the report, including FEMA's report, its all there. I've read it, have you?
Originally posted by six
WRONG WRONG WRONG. Dark smoke is a sign of hydrocarbons burning.
Please explain to me how a fire in a building with TWO very large holes in it is oxygen deprived.
Originally posted by GenRadek
Steel expands when exposed to heat, and then contracts when cooled. Do you know what happens to the structural integrity when it goes through this?
Originally posted by six
Actually thick, black, turblent smoke is a sign of a very hot fire.
The fire load in those buildings was incredible.
Everything on those floors was, for the most part, flameable and has a flash point, and the smoke signs indicate that the temps were hot enough for flashover.
You can tell that that was not a "cool" fire.
It was believed that the multiple floor fire, along with the simultaneous buckling of the unprotected steel perimeter columns at several floors, triggered the collapse of the floor slabs above the 17th floor. The reduced damage below the 17th floor might provide a clue.
The fire protection on the existing steelworks below the 17th floor had been completed at the time of fire except for the 9th and 15th floors. When the fire spread below the 17th floor, those protected perimeter columns survived, except for the unprotected columns at the 9th and 15th floors which all buckled in the multiple floor fire (see Figure 2). However, they did not cause any structural collapse. Obviously, the applied loads supported by these buckled columns had been redistributed to the remaining reinforced concrete shear walls. Nevertheless, structural fire analysis should be carried out before such a conclusion can be drawn.
The Windsor Tower was built with reinforced concrete core with waffle slabs supported by internal RC columns and steel beams, with perimeter steel columns which were unprotected above the 17th Floor level at the time of the fire. Almost all the steel did in fact collapse.
The first partial collapse of the steel facade happened about 2 1/2 hours after the fire started. Partial collapses continued for the next several hours.
Originally posted by cashlink
Sorry the building is still standing and “never” fell over.
The WTC 1 & 2 only burn just over an hour!
The Windsor Tower burnt for many hours and it still did not collapse.
The whole building was beyond repair and had to be demolished.
The Damage
The Windsor Tower was completely gutted by the fire on 12 February 2005. A large portion of the floor slabs above the 17th Floor progressively collapsed during the fire when the unprotected steel perimeter columns on the upper levels buckled and collapsed
Originally posted by CameronFox
You silly goose! WTC 1 & 2 were hit by airplanes. (going very fast)
You might want to go and re-read the case study I linked.