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Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
Why do people assume that conventional explosives were used that one could set off with a match?...
What is suspicious is a couple of media outlets (BBC & CNN) saying that Building 7 was ready to collapse or had collapsed, well before it did collapse. Other than the alleged bombs which were going off, exactly which damage signs pointed toward this building collapsing? If you think there is nothing suspicious about some isolated fires in a 47 story skyscraper leading to such a rapid and symmetrical collapse, then you are one very trusting individual.
Originally posted by ANOK
reply to post by SphinxMontreal
I think IF conventional explosives were used then the ones on the floors the planes impacted would have been destroyed, so the next set of explosives would be bellow the impact point, so logically the sequence would start there right?
But if you watch the vids closely the top section started collapsing down on itself before the bottom did...
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So I don't think we'll ever figure out what was used, I don't think it matters, the visual evidence still shows the OS is wrong.
Originally posted by Cassius666
If it indeed collapsed due to fire, why would the so much effort be needed, to convince people of the supposedly obvious?
Originally posted by Cassius666
If it indeed collapsed due to fire, why would the so much effort be needed, to convince people of the supposedly obvious?
Originally posted by pteridineThere is no evdence of thermitic reaction.
To prove thermite, Jones first has to run the reaction in the absence of oxygen. When he does this he will either see a reaction or not.
WTC 1 & 2, had extensive works carried out on them just a short time prior to 9/11. Office workers were told that the building would be closed, for these works, which caused quite some consternation as the traders and business people were losing money hand over fist.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by spikey
WTC 1 & 2, had extensive works carried out on them just a short time prior to 9/11. Office workers were told that the building would be closed, for these works, which caused quite some consternation as the traders and business people were losing money hand over fist.
So just when was the WTC closed? Don't you think in closing 2 110 story buildings someone might notice?
The "classified explosives" is appeal to ignorance; you cannot use something that MAY exist as evidence. Forget detonation, as explosives would likely just burn up. Beams were thrown clear through of the buildings during the impact. Why did none of those beams have any explosives on them? How did the remaining ones still function properly? Even if the bad guys had some sort of super-advanced computer program that could predict exactly which beams would be caught on fire, they couldn't know exactly what speed the plane would approach at, or the angle, or the attitude, or several other factors which could send some incriminating evidence flying into Manhattan.
Originally posted by SphinxMontreal
The initial explosion, impact or whatever it was may not have been hot enough to set off the demolition explosives. Maybe classified explosives or weapons were used which do not go off unless they reach a certain temperature. After the impact, maybe some sort of timing device or explosive was set off which gradually increased the temperature of the area.
There was a temperature increase. It's called a "fire".
An increase in temperature of the area may also explain why people started jumping out of the towers well after the initial explosion/impact.
So once debunkers show conventional explosives couldn't have accomplished the task, you lot leap to some sort of unconventional explosives whose existence isn't even provable.
It may also explain the video of steel or metal oozing out of the corner from one of the Towers. With so many unknown factors at play, it is not logical to make assumptions, since there was nothing conventional about how those Towers were obliterated.
"Plus there are no demolition "squibs" prior to the collapse."
Again, why are you looking at an unconventional event (complete destruction of two huge skyscrapers) from such a narrow minded viewpoint? The key to bringing those Towers down was turning the core support columns to dust, which was obviously done. Do you really think conventional demo explosives which would display squibs can accomplish something like this?
1. Now who's making assumptions? It was most likely simple incompetence and confusion, says Hanlon's Razor.
"As for building seven, it exhibits a unique set of circumstances, yes. That's proof of it being unusual, but not logically proof of its demolition. Just because something doesn't happen often doesn't definitively make it suspicious."
What is suspicious is a couple of media outlets (BBC & CNN) saying that Building 7 was ready to collapse or had collapsed, well before it did collapse. Other than the alleged bombs which were going off, exactly which damage signs pointed toward this building collapsing? If you think there is nothing suspicious about some isolated fires in a 47 story skyscraper leading to such a rapid and symmetrical collapse, then you are one very trusting individual.
Effort by who? What convincing efforts were undertaken?
Originally posted by Cassius666
If it indeed collapsed due to fire, why would the so much effort be needed, to convince people of the supposedly obvious?
Originally posted by thecritta
Doesnt matter anyhow because the video proves wtc 7 was deliberatly imploded cant see
how it doesnt prove an implosion.
www.youtube.com...
edit on 2-5-2011 by thecritta because: (no reason given)