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Shortly before the building collapsed, several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein, the property developer of One World Financial Center was on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building – since its foundation was already unstable and expected to fall.
So why is there no evidence whatsoever of the second type of explosive?
And why do the collapses of the towers begin at the points where the aircraft struck them?
Originally posted by Doctor Smith
I guess your talking about the explosive type? They didn't check for explosives for one thing. And many demolition explosives are self consuming. Their is nothing left after they explode. Their were plenty of witnesses that say they heard all types of explosives. You can't hear the explosions on most of the taped coverage.
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Because the plane impacts were close to the top of the buildings where the demolition wave started. One of the towers would have fallen over at the weakened area but didn't have a chance as it was blown to bits.
[edit on 16-6-2010 by Doctor Smith]
Originally posted by THE AQUARIAN 1
reply to post by pteridine
No!
I asked you a question, a very simple question and you can't give me a straight answer.
Now I will ask it again, in plain english.
Did Steven Jones find "iron-rich" microspheres in the post-ignition samples that were not present in the pre-ignition samples?
Yes or no.
Truly, not difficult.
Neither of the towers look or sound like that. You yourself have in this thread suggested that the explosions were "quiet", which is an admission in itself that there isn't really any aural evidence.
Originally posted by Doctor Smith
reply to post by TrickoftheShade
No. I'm simply bringing attention to the fact that they would take the buildings down using the latest stealth methods. Normally it wouldn't matter if it was loud or not.
Building 7 was taken down by explosives. It was admitted by FOX. Not even up for debate.
Originally posted by THE AQUARIAN 1
reply to post by pteridine
I have zero use for you. You don't have a straight answer for anything. You're a tapdancer, always have been, always will be.
Why are you changing the subject? And why have you not answered the other part of my post? Is it too difficult? Because if that's the case your theory is probably wrong. And what do you mean "no"? You yourself said that the towers were demolished with "quiet" explosives from the top. Never mind that these don't seem to exist, you now have three types of demolition charge, and you still can't answer why the destruction doesn't, in fact, begin at the summit.
All he has to do is to run the DSC under inert to show a reaction that is definitely not combustion.
Originally posted by Doctor Smith
reply to post by pteridine
All he has to do is to run the DSC under inert to show a reaction that is definitely not combustion.
By your logic even if Jones ran the test inert. How would you know that the chips were not combusted ahead of time!
Jones may have made a mistake and not realized the chips were already combusted! LOL
...The parked cars that been parked there were all on fire and which wasn't on fire was exploding. We didn't know at that point. I know that one of the police officers said that he thought that they were bombs and maybe they rigged them to blow up. Just secondary explosions. We didn't know what to do...
...the south tower, 2 World Trade Center, there was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse...
...I was distracted by a large explosion from the south tower and it seemed like fire was shooting out a couple of hundred feet in each direction, then all of a sudden the top of the tower started coming down in a pancake. I remember my jaw dropping...
...Q. Bill, just one question. The fire that you saw, where was the fire? Like up at the upper levels where it started collapsing?
A. It appeared somewhere below that. Maybe twenty floors below the impact area of the plane. I saw it as fire and when I looked at it on television afterwards, it doesn't appear to show the fire. It shows a rush of smoke coming out below the area of the plane impact. The reason why I think the cameras didn't get that image is because they were a far distance away and maybe I saw the bottom side where the plane was and the smoke was up above it...
...Meanwhile we were standing there with about five companies and we were just waiting for our assignmentand then there was an explosion in the south tower, which according to this map, this exposure jut blew out in flames. A lot of guys left at that point. I kept watching. Floor after floor after floor. One floor under another after another and wen it hit about the fifth floor, I figured it was a bomb, because it looked like a synchronized deliberate kind of thing. I was there in '93.
...At that point a debate began to rage because the perception was that the building looked like it had been taken out with charges. We had really no concept of the damage on the east side of 2 World Trade Center at that point, and at that point many people had felt that possibly explosives had taken out 2 World Trade...
...There were secondary explosiongs, I don't know, aerosol cans or whatever. But we're in the darkness we see basically the glow of a flashlight and still things coming down. The noise, the explosions, whatever it was. I don't know, we just realized we had to ge the heck out of there...
...It was just like a crescendo sound like boom, boom, boom, and it just got louder and faster for like -- what did it las, ten seconds or something like that...
...When the north tower collapsed, I remember seeing the anenna do a little rock back and forth and I could just hear the floors pancaking. I heard if for 30 pancakes, just boom, boom, boom, boom and the dust blew up to us...
...that's when the south tower collapsed, and it sounded like a bunch of explosions. You heard like loud booms, but I guess it was all just stuff coming down...
...The door closed, they went up, and it just seemed a couple seconds and all of a sudden you just heard like it almost actually that day sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like seven or eight...
...I guess about three minutes later you just heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions. At the time I didn't realize what it was. We realized later after talking and finding out that it was the floors collapsing to where the plane had hit...
...Early on, there was concern that 7 World Trade Center might have been both impacted by the collapsing tower and had several fires in it and there was a concern that it might collapse. So we instructed that a collapse area --
Q. A collapse zone?
A. Yeah -- be set up and maintained so that when the expected collapse of 7 happened, we wouldn't have people working in it. There was considerable discussion with Con Ed regarding the substation in that building and the feeders and the oil coolants and so on. And their concern was of the type of fire we might have when it collapsed. They shut down the power, and when it did collapse, the things that they were concerned with would have been....
...I remember him screaming about 7, No. 7, that they wanted everybody away from 7 because 7 was definitely going to collapse, they don't know when, but it's definitely going to come down, just get the hell out of the way, everybody get away from it, make sure you're away from it, that's an order, you know, stuff like that...
Originally posted by Doctor Smith
Can you show me just one example of a global collapse of a steel frame building? Other than demolition? Good luck.
Originally posted by Doctor Smith Can you show me just one example of a global collapse of a steel frame building? Other than demolition? Good luck.
Can you, once again, explain to me why the collapses, if initiated by bombs, started where the planes entered the buildings? And no offence, but your question is just pointless. No other buildings of comparable size and design have undergone similar impacts.