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Originally posted by jerico65
reply to post by mike dangerously
Nah, Swamp is doing a great job schooling you all.
Originally posted by impressme
reply to post by bsbray11
Not to mention, all of the eyewitness must have been hallucinating when they heard and saw explosions in all three WTC.
LOL, household cleaners blowing out steel beams hundred of feet in the air. LOL
Originally posted by GenRadek
Steel beams were blown out 100s of ft in the air? really when?
Arent explosives suppose to go off first, before any movement? Not after the building begins its collapse?
I mean its pretty pathetic how you folks can't even understand the rudimentary basics of any building demolition.
First explosives go off, then the building falls. Not, building begins to fall, and then, as its already underway, THEN the explosives go off.
Also, rather than speculating on the beams being "thrown" by magic explosives", how about providing some sort of a coherent explanation, or idea on just how much explosives would have been necessary to throw any sort of column tree the distances and why they are never heard. You do understand how explosives work right? The heavier the material, the bigger the explosives; the more explosives, the louder the explosions.
And why is it that it cannot just be the exterior columns peeling away from the collapse area, and this accounts for the farther distance from the base upon landing? How tall were the WTC again?
And while we are on this topic, why werent any other smaller debris (ie chunks of concrete, smaller bits of solid steel, etc) ejected at distances much much farther from Ground Zero?
Another little fact you people like to ignore. In any CD requiring explosives, care has to be made to not have smaller debris be ejected from the building at high speeds from the charges going off inside. This is so that people and surrounding property wont get injured or damaged by the blast fragments.
So explain how these "super dooper, ultra powerful explosives" which can throw large heavy steel sections hundreds of feet, not eject smaller heavy fragments farther away and kill people or damage buildings a 1/4 mile away or more?
Originally posted by bsbray11
So you stop by to lend some emotional support and cheerleading, but nothing of substance to add for yourself huh?
Originally posted by bsbray11
When the buildings collapsed.
There were multi-ton sections of column blown about 500 feet laterally (not considering the vertical/total "diagonal" distance) onto the Winter Garden between the WFC buildings. Also the WFC buildings themselves were hit with heavy debris.
"Suppose[d]"?
No offense but you ask really stupid questions. Do you know how explosives are detonated? Because if you do, then you'd know you can set them off whenever the hell you need them. There are no rules here, despite what you ignorantly claim.
Right back at you.
I'm surprised you aren't asking where the guys in hardhats were, with a little controller in somebody's hand with a button that said "Detonate!" I mean, EVERY demolition has to have that or it isn't a demolition!
Maybe you missed the fact that the buildings didn't entirely collapse at once, that floors were blown out in regular intervals descending down the building. It's a pretty damned hard thing to miss but I certainly wouldn't put it past you.
Btw, even in conventional demolitions, they explosions ARE staggered. They do not happen all at once.
For (stereotypical) example:
Now that I have demonstrated it is common for explosives to be set off at different times during the demolition, please stop asking this asinine question as if it's impossible or impractical to do it, when it clearly is not. Every single explosive demolition is a unique situation anyway. You can't make broad generalizations and expect them to always hold true. They will not. The actual physical laws are the only things that will never change, and when/where you set off explosives is not bound by physical laws here on the surface of the Earth like you apparently think it is.
First you try to tell us how demolitions can and can't happen (and were wrong), now you are trying to tell us how all explosives work by describing only the most conventional and common types, ie C4 and TNT. Why do you think conventional explosives were used, Gen? Are you an explosives expert, yes or no?
Because their connection to the building was severed. They were not simply leaning over. They were sent laterally considerable distances. Have you had physics, or am I going to have to try to break this down so a child could understand it? If an entire wall fell over all at once then it would make sense that some columns would be 500 feet away. But when they come loose and just sail out 500 feet without anything else touching them the whole way, then in physics, that means the force was imparted before it was sent out, and it was a significant amount of force considering the mass involved.
There were.
There was concrete dust all over that part of Manhattan. All I can tell you is go look at photos of Ground Zero and surrounding streets. Maybe you should actually check before you post crap like this.
Again you are talking about conventional, commercial/legal demolitions. Those rules do not apply to illegal military operations.
I have a question for you: how many more questions do you have based on incorrect assumptions? I guess you're going to keep them coming.
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Originally posted by GenRadek
I mean its pretty pathetic how you folks can't even understand the rudimentary basics of any building demolition. First explosives go off, then the building falls.
graphics8.nytimes.com...
Chief Turi arrived at the WTC just prior to and witnessed the second airplane impact. He entered the North Tower lobby shortly after the second impact, where a temporary command post was located.
Q: Let me stop you there for a second, chief. When you were in the lobby of 1 World Trade, can you describe the interior and the condition of the lobby?
Chief Turi: Yes. I was surprised that all the glass was mostly out. I wasn't sure how it got out. I didn't think we took it out. I just assumed that it was the vibration of the aircraft hitting it. And I did notice some pieces of marble that looked like it was dislodged from the core area. ... [Editor's note: At this point, Chief Turi was in the lobby of the North Tower, approximately 1,100 feet below the airplane's impact point at floors 93 to 98.]
And as my eyes traveled up the building, and I was looking at the south tower, somewhere about halfway up, my initial reaction was there was a secondary explosion, and the entire floor area, a ring right around the building blew out. I later realized that the building had started to collapse already and this was the air being compressed and that is the floor that let go. And as my eyes traveled further up the building, I realized that this building was collapsing ..."
Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by SphinxMontreal
Oh really? and what, pray tell, laws of physics were violated?
Originally posted by GenRadek
So there is no way it could have gotten there from just falling away from the building as they collapsed?
Oh I know very well how they are detonated. and I also know that for a building to collapse from explosives, the explosives are supposed to explode FIRST. Don't you know that?
So they didnt need explosives to get the building moving down? Oh ok, well, umm, then how did the Tower start to collapse silently?
and where oh where were the standard loud cracks and reports of the sounds of demo charges going off? You know, PRIOR to collapse or any movement? Oh unless this is where those magic nano-thermites come into play right?
The external columns just peeled away after the interior floors collapsed first. THAT is what I see. I dont see any "explosive charges" going off at all. Say, just how many explosives were packed into those towers? Hundreds and hundreds of tons?
No I am not a certified "expert", heh, but I do know enough about explosives through research and a little something called common sense that doesnt require a PhD in.
Conventional explosives? Ah so mean there ARE some sort of superdooper secret explosives that A) Leave no trace, B) Cause the building to collapse without a sound prior to collapse; C) Dont throw chunks of debris for miles away, but can still magically launch debris weighing hundreds of tons hundreds of feet. Very special those magic explosives.
Ok I see where you are going with that. Yes the connection was broken, but not by "explosives" as you claim.
Also are they really being ejected laterally?
I'm afraid you missed what I was talking about. I am talking about the debris that gets forcefully ejected out of the tower on detonation. heh before you go running your mouth posting crap, do a little research into what exactly I am talking about. People have been injured and even KILLED by debris that is launched from improperly prepared "implosions".
And now you are saying that the "explosives" at WTC that were powerful enough to laterally launch tons of steel, didnt launch smaller pieces farther? Like steel pieces or large chunks of concrete or even a bloody exterior panel more than 500ft? Something isnt adding up here.
Originally posted by mike dangerously
reply to post by impressme
Don't you know that AE for 911 truth are frauds,impressme!! you want to upset the sensitive nature of the OS supporters? they can't be bothered to read qualified expert opinions on what really happened besides,they have the Kean/Hamilton commission the Building Performance reports and FEMA and NIST all reputable and responsible government officials.
But,but,Fleece swampy gave his word that Chief Turi was a flat out liar at worst or was just confused by the heat of the moment and thought he was in the first floor of the TWC at best.