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What Chief Palmer was doing was giving a report - he was describing
what he saw and resources needed
He was only describing what he saw on the 78th floor
Most of the fire was above them - the plane impacted from the 78th -84th
floors. 78 was at the lowest floor struck. The fires were most intense on
the 81 to 83 floors, which took most of the impact
You seen to be under the impression that every floor has to be on fire for
building to fail
As related by earlier poster all it takes is failure of ONE floor to bring
building down!
South Tower came down when the exterior columns on 82th floor east
face failed
Here is analysis of failure mode
www.scribd.com...
Read it (though I doubt you will)
Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
I have a couple of arsonist friends who will be more than happy to level some old or new buildings for a few bucks. They can save landlords megabucks since those conventional demolition jobs aren't cheap. Maybe that Larry guy is interested. He will have to get the insurance situation straightened out first.
Originally posted by visible_villain
reply to post by Neo-V™
Your OP said :
Botched Building Demolition Reinforces WTC 7 Lie...
I just thought I would point out that this building is a reinforced concrete structure, not a structural steel frame building, so the analogy you are making doesn't not hold.
Don't get me wrong : I am not trying to debunk the controlled demolition theory of the WTC, just only that your OP is comparing apples and oranges.
Pretty good clip though.
Originally posted by pteridine
reply to post by titorite
My argument has always been that there is no evidence of demolition. You and your fellow travellers have consistently failed to provide hard evidence. There are videos that have been clipped, chopped, interpreted, and spun. No evidence. There have been many arguments based on what someone thinks about speed of collapse. No evidence. There have been many incredulous posts that say "common sense" shows demolition. No evidence.
Your responses are predictable and devoid of evidence. You have no basis for your belief other than you feelings.
Originally posted by pteridine
"At this stage of the event there is as much evidence as there possibly could be .
A). Eye witnesses."
Where are the eyewitnesses to explosions? People caim to have heard noise but they don't know what caused it. Did anyone see the CD explosions?
"B). Video evidence."
None noted. Windows being blown outwards durng collapse is not evidence of CD, it is evidence of collapse.
"C). Seismic data."
Misinterpreted. As discussed on another thread 80,000+ pounds of explosive detonating is significant and would have been obvious. The buildings collapsed top down not bottoms up after a huge sub-basement explosion.
"D). Injuries to people."
Not unexpected in a building collapse.
"E). Photographic evidence."
None noted.
What happend to Jones' thermite claims. Have you abandoned him?
1.) Evidence of squibs (CD explosions) visible throughout the buildings as they are falling (regardless of whose video you look at)
2.) The fact that the news reported the ground floor windows blown outward hundreds of feet below the crash site.
3.) Explosions in the basement destroying the parking garages - before and after either plane hit
4.) Traces of thermite and thermate being found on some of the columns that were shipped to so-called "freedom parks;" and
5.) The ground still burning at 1100 degrees Fahrenheit eight weeks after the collapse - only thermite/thermate with its built-in oxygen supply (in its iron oxide compound) can provide that massive amount of heat so many weeks later, buried deep underground - not jet fuel underground in an oxygen-less environment.
6.) steel beams weighing hundreds of tons thrown laterally 400 feet and imbedding themselves in neighboring buildings
7.) Larry Silverstein admitting to having building 7 "pulled" (controlled demolitions terminology for demolishing a building) on a PBS documentary...
Wow - another internet genius at play.....
It is air being forced out of structure ahead of the debris wave coming down. The pressure wave was strong enough to flip over fully loaded
fire trucks.
Blast was caused by Jet fuel falling down elevator shafts and igniting,
Parking Garages destroyed - False, parking garages were intact until building collapse. Must be thinking of 1993 bombing which blew giant hole
in basement garage
Thermite when ignited burns quickly usually under a minute it can not burn for 3 months. What was burning was contents (furnishing, paper, etc)
in debris pile. Oxygen to fuel fires came in through voids in pile. Coal
mine fires can burn underground for years - witness Centralia PA which
has been burning since 1962!
Steel beams - on one hand say WTC collapsed in "own footprint" as
proof of demolition, now saying since beams flung 400 feet from tower
this is proof, Somewhat inconsistant and illogical, Beams (actually exterior
wall panels) were tossed outwardby force of collapse - WTC was over 1300 ft and those at top would fly for distance before hitting ground
Silverstein - The pull comments comes year later when being interviewed for PBS show. It was during a call from FDNY chief who told
him WTC 7 was being abandoned, Silverstien did not order it and could not
as it was FDNY chief in charge not Silverstein. Also "pull" is term used by
firefighters to evacuate - as in "pull those men out!"
Hope set you straight, but rather doubt it.....
Originally posted by Seventh
A). There`s 19000 pages of evidence from FR`s, not many that do not contain explosions.
B). The video evidence of buildings collapsing at that speed is more evidence than is needed, let alone all the flashes and squibs.
C). Not misinterpreted at all, why are the initial explosions 14 and 17 seconds before the Jets impacted?.
D). People with skin blown off whom were around the basement areas.
E). There`s loads of photographic evidence proving many cases, check some of the steel pictures.
I was never a follower of Jones and never will be, he started the disinfo crap about beams/thermite/45 degree angles, which anyone will tell whom have done research about steel cutting charges etc, couldn`t be further from the truth.
You may want to check how many elevator shafts actually went from impact zone storeys to lobby, when you find the answer it will also explain why this didn`t happen.
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I have - thats why I posted the comment. Maybe you should do some
research - who knows might learn something....
There were 99 passenger elevators in each tower, arranged in three vertical zones to move occupants in stages to skylobbies on the 44th and 78th floors. These were arranged as express (generally larger cars that moved at higher speeds) and local elevators in an innovative system first introduced in WTC 1 and WTC 2. There were 8 express elevators from the concourse to the 44th floor and 10 express elevators from the concourse to the 78th floor as well as 24 local elevators per zone, which served groups of floors in those zones. There were seven freight elevators, only one of which served all floors. All elevators had been upgraded to incorporate firefighter emergency operation per American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) A17.1 and Local Law 5 (1973).wtc.nist.gov... (PDF pg. 50)
There were two express elevators (#6 and #7) to Windows on the World (and related conference rooms and banquet facilities) in WTC 1 and two to the observation deck in WTC 2. There were five local elevators in each building: three that brought people from the subterranean levels to the lobby, one that ran between floors 106 and 110, and one that ran between floors 43 and 44, serving the cafeteria from the skylobby. All elevators had been upgraded to incorporate firefighter emergency operation requirements.
There were 2 passenger elevators and 1 freight elevator which ran
continous through entire building (at least to 106th floor) which allowed
jet fuel to fall all way to basement level
Here is picture of elevator shaftways
So did you research the names of burn victims I provided - or would
that threaten your conspiracy fantasies....
I will do it for you....
Manning
Lauren Manning was a senior vice president and partner at Cantor Fitzgerald, an investment bank which had several floors of offices in the World Trade Center, and which lost 685 employees when the buildings were destroyed. Manning had just entered the North Tower when it was hit by the aircraft. A wave of burning jet fuel exploded from one of the elevator shafts, enveloping Manning and setting her aflame. She ran to the street where she was extinguished by a bystander and loaded onto one of the first ambulances on the scene.
Her injuries were nearly fatal, with 82.5% of her body surface burned
Mututanont
She passed through the turnstiles into 1 World Trade Center when she heard an explosion and then saw smoke seeping from the elevator doors. As she ran from the building, she fell. "I tried to stand up, and I was screaming for help," she said. She would later learn that she had severed a tendon.
Felipe David
Felipe David had been in front of a nearby freight elevator on sub-level 1 about 400 feet from the office when fire burst out of the elevator shaft, causing his injuries...
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Thermite was found in debris far from the cutting areas of the steel beam clean up. several different samples were taken.
7--Silverman said PULL-IT Not PULL-THEM.
I would like you to tell a bunch of surviving firemen that you think they are a group of IT
In a downtown bar.
So disinfo dude .
www.debunking911.com...
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Thermite was found in debris far from the cutting areas of the steel beam clean up. several different samples were taken.
7--Silverman said PULL-IT Not PULL-THEM.
I would like you to tell a bunch of surviving firemen that you think they are a group of IT
In a downtown bar.
So disinfo dude .
Do you even know what thermite is?
It's not an explosive. Has a very low energy yield. Jones misidentified red oxide primer on steel beams as thermite. A thin coating would do nothing that would contribute to a controlled demolition.
Confronted with this by non-agenda driven chemists, demolition experts, structural engineers, etc - Jones suggested it might have been there for ignition purposes. Constantly moving his goalposts, now he's saying the must have been some other type of explosive.
Hare-brained websites and Youtube notwithstanding, no evidence or bonafide testimony of a controlled demolition - which would be impossible not to notice. Tens of thousands of experts in dozens of countries have looked. Explosions for sure -as expected in a massive fire of this nature. A passenger plane loaded with jet fuel careening into a building at 500 mph is about as big a bomb as you could hope to build.
Absolutely no question "Pull it" is common jargon for "Pull the operation" - ie. the hoses, trucks, firemen, etc. Ask any urban fire chief throughout the country.
And let's get real - could anyone possibly think someone complicit in mass murder and would just casually admit it during an interview?
I suggest a look her at the actual facts and science behind the circulating Truther fairy tales.
www.debunking911.com...
M
Thermite is a compound used by Mossad agents and others to destroy things.
It is hard to tell maybe they were larger coatings than you imagine.
Remember the steel evidence was quickly and unusually spirited away.
Are you again trying disinfo here?
I know you know that NO PLANE OR MISSILE OR DRONE hit building # 7 at the world trade tower complex. Although a huge drone with all kinds of S@#$ in it could have. Am I wrong?
Just what is the agenda of people searching for the real story.
Pray tell
What was Silverstine doing giving the NYFD any orders! duh!
What do the firefighters say about that.
Get real
Rumy MISSILE INTERVIEW and more.
Get real your ownself.
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Thermite is a compound used by Mossad agents and others to destroy things.
It is hard to tell maybe they were larger coatings than you imagine.
Remember the steel evidence was quickly and unusually spirited away.
Are you again trying disinfo here?
I know you know that NO PLANE OR MISSILE OR DRONE hit building # 7 at the world trade tower complex. Although a huge drone with all kinds of S@#$ in it could have. Am I wrong?
Just what is the agenda of people searching for the real story.
Pray tell
What was Silverstine doing giving the NYFD any orders! duh!
What do the firefighters say about that.
Get real
Rumy MISSILE INTERVIEW and more.
Get real your ownself. =
It should be evident to anyone who thinks about it Silverstein (note spelling) tells the firemen to "Pull it" because he's concerned they'll stay trying to fight the fire in a building that's on the verge of collapsing as attested to by hundreds of photographs and witnesses. It was already leaning and creaking 2 hours before.
WTC 7 collapse due to loss of structural integrity has been analyzed and attested to by professional structural engineers worldwide. Check out
STRUCTURE magazine November 2007 - online in pdf format.
Thermite is not a compound used by MOSSAD agents. This is just lunacy. Ask any chemist in the world about how thermite is formed and what it's practical applications are. It is very dramatic and intense, like a sparkler, but has little energy or explosive potential. Any actual scientific sites will explain what it does.
Again this is all so much Truther disinformation. Not a scintilla of scientific knowledge just ignorant speculative malarkey.
There is a back story of American government and agency complicity with international intelligences agencies in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, etc.
But controlled demolition speculations filled have become the videogame play toy for those unwilling or incapable of investigating what happened.
Mike