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Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
Uh, exactly? Because of the fires, right? That's the only thing I can even think for you to blame since we already know it wasn't the debris damage.
No, it's becuase WTC 7 was standing perfectly fine for 30 plus years, and collapsed only after wreckage from WTC 1 fell on it and smacked it up.
What the heck do you mean, "how would they know what to look for"?!? They picked up what was lying around after the collapse and then tried to identify what they were seeing.
Originally posted by ohhwataloser
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
C)A ccording to NIST, the fires caused column 79 to overheat and expand, and becuase the steel was vertical and couldn't expand up or down, it expanded sideways, pushing the horizontal girder between columns 79 and 44 and causing floor 13 to collapse. The NIST report go into all of that so I'm not going to waste my time repeating it here to satisfy this weird little game playing of yours.
so thats what caused wtc 7 to come down? hmmm.... now my first question is why wouldn't the steel expand inward, instead of outward against the girders which would obviously have more resistance but we can ignore that
also how much did the steel expand?
lets assume worst case, I couldn't find any info on how thick the steel was for wtc 7, but wtc 1 and 2 used 5 inch thick steal for their columns at the base, which would be way over kill for wtc 7 at floor 13, but lets just use 5 inches.
how much did the steel get heated? I have no idea but, lets assume the steel is normally at zero degrees why not? and it got heated to 2500 degrees which would melt it, but lets just use some numbers
0.00000645in*in*deg F - forumla for steel expansion
0.00000645in*5*2500F = 0.080625 n. which obviously it would of been alot less.
so .08in was enough to cause a grider to fail?
or are we going to assume that the entire column expanded in the direction of column 44 and in no other direction? biggest column I could find is again from wtc1 and 2 so would be way oversized for wtc 7, is 52inx22in. so ill assume the same thing as above and that all 52 inches expanded in the direction of column 44.
0.00000645in*52*2500F = 0.8385 so even at an impossible amount of expansion, you think less than an inch caused a grider to fail? and mind you the amont of expansion would obviously be alot less.
Originally posted by ohhwataloser
come on dave, you respond to everyone else, why not me?
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
Go read the NIST report. For all the heckling you give others about it, it's obvious YOU don't even know what their report says.
I asked how they would identify something unconventional. I guess that went right over your head. That's okay, "Dave." Just concentrate on figuring out what the NIST report says and we'll move on from there.
Originally posted by freedomintruth
Reply to post by GoodOlDave
Just have to put my two cents in on this one... Ignoring technicalities about whether a fire could or could not bring down a 13 story steel building...what ever happened to enron, where did all that money go? Why did the BBC report the building had collapsed before it actually did? Why did the admin. Say they had never conceived of such a thing happening when the same day they were running war game scenarios amazingly similar to what actually happened? Why were no fighter planes called when they realized the planes were off course, possibly hikacked_ as would be the case any other day? If there are some logical answers to these questions- I haven't heard them. Please educate me...I'm just simple person
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
While you're at it, be sure to remind all the New Yorkers that the planes they saw hitting the towers were all holograms and the WTC was really brought down by nukes in the basement.
Originally posted by theregonnakillme
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
While you're at it, be sure to remind all the New Yorkers that the planes they saw hitting the towers were all holograms and the WTC was really brought down by nukes in the basement.
WHAT? When Shilling, it is advisable to ensure you have the correct information. If it is the intention of your CO to discredit the info with false info then try a different site! The base of the building did not collapse. It was a top down demolition with the floors and support columns disintegrating.
IF mini nukes were indeed used, they were probably to start the collapse and ensure it continued, TOP DOWN!
Slagging off truthers about conspiracies that NONE of us our using on an intelligent site such as ATS, is about as smart as voting for Obama was in 2008.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Becuase I don't work for NIST, so you'll need to ask them, not me. I have no idea what the formula of thermal expansion of structural steel is, whether column 49 bent inward or outward, or how many toilet seats were up vs how many were down. My position is that if you have to resort to bickering over such a micro level of esoteric detail like this, this isn't discussing the evidence. It's grasping at straws out of of desperation from trying to keep your conspiracy stories alive.
Originally posted by ohhwataloser
I told you what the formula of thermal expansion is (by the way its not my opinion or from some conspiracy website... its a fact) and its not micro level, the math tells you, how they said building 7 fell is completly wrong. How is it grasping straws? They said thats the reason the whole building came down... I mean come on. They came up with a bullcrap explaination for how the building fell is and you believe it, just because they are "experts."
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
No, I accept it because out of all the available explanations...
a) fires burned out of control due to the power grid being destroyed from the WTC 1 collapse, and thermal expansion caused a chain reaction of not fully understood structural failure
1. lee harvey oswald, solo, shot and killed the president, due to the available explaination of the several hundred page warren report. no cospiracy here folks, keep moving on
2. the public does not believe the OS, and thirteen years later the Congress reopens the case and concludes that at a minimum four shots and maximum seven shotss were fired. thus revealing what the public suspected for years, decade. yup there is a conspiracy here, keep moving on, we will not prosecute anyone or dig any deeper.
3. while there have been countless plausible and some implausible alternative explainations about who, what, when, where, why and how 911 events happened, your continual bringing the most outrageous improabable explainations of the events of 911 as a tactic to ridicule those individuals proposing alternate explainations based on comon sense and scientific enquiry is juvenile and spohomoric. You cannot lump all non believers of the OS ino the same marginalized and blackballed group, and to continue to do so speaks more of you from your heart than the words you write, G.O.D.
b) sinister gov't ninjas snuck into three occupied buildings and planted secret super demolitions that noone in the buildings noticed and which didn't leave even a microbe of evidence of sabotage on the wreckage, and who had the help of armies of secret disinformation agents in FEMA, NIST, NYPA, NYFD, NYPD, NORAD, FBI, CIA, and even the Red Cross to cover it up.
c) the towers were destroyed by secret energy weapons from outer space
d) the towers were destroyed by secret mini nukes planted in the basement
...option a is the only one that doesn't make me laugh out loud and make me think you're simply pulling my leg for flame bait. If you have an alternative explanation that doesn't involve super duper weapons, armies of secret agents, and everyone in a one mile radius of the WTC being as thoroughly as stupid as a bag of hammers, I'm all ears.
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
Go read the NIST report. For all the heckling you give others about it, it's obvious YOU don't even know what their report says.
Right. I've been posting all this information about what the NIST reports says directly from the NIST report including section numbers and page numbers, and you're claiming I haven't read it.
Here's some of the evidence NIST and FEMA were looking at. It's the critical sections of steel they saved from ground zero
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
a) fires burned out of control due to the power grid being destroyed from the WTC 1 collapse, and thermal expansion caused a chain reaction of not fully understood structural failure
Originally posted by VirginiaRisesYetAgain
You keep insinuating that WTC7 fell because debris from WTC1 hit it, when NIST only says the fires caused it to fail.
What's so critical about them? They were the least suspicious looking, so they shipped all the rest out to be recycled already? Now they're just too afraid to actually test these last remaining samples because they're probably contaminated with some sort of explosives residue or other evidence too?
And you didn't answer about working for the federal government yourself. So did you or didn't you say that, "Dave"?
Dude, don't even go there. The more you try to drag the topic off on these side tangents, the more you're only showing your desperation in keeping these conspiracy stories of yours alive.
Originally posted by slugger9787
No Dave you really are not all ears, for an explaination that does not involve SD weapons, armies of agents, or humans in a mile raidus being dums as a sack of hammers, so do not even shame yourself by claiming to be listening.