posted on Oct, 8 2010 @ 05:23 PM
reply to post by jacktherer
I would be interested in knowing if NIST gave an estimation for the collapse times of the WTC towers or how much of the collapse they admit was
freefall. I know that they say the initiation collapse of the towers occurred at 'essentially freefall', but how many floors was that? NIST do say
that the seismic data and video footage of the collapses aren't reliable indicators when it comes to accurately measuring the collapse-times of the
buildings, and as far as my limited capacities are able to judge, NIST don't give any time. People are welcome to correct me if I'm wrong. I know the
Commission Report (which isn't a scientific body) says WTC2 collapsed in around 10 seconds, which is more or less freefall. If I had to throw out an
estimation based on the available video footage from the day I would put the collapse times at about 10-15 seconds and 20 seconds including the core,
which was seen standing moments after. Even if the collapse took 16 second I would think that would be too long, since the building, to my knowledge
had a 10x load bearing redundancy, and should have provided thousands of times more resistance than air.
Freefall aside though, I *still* don't think that the upper-section of the building should have collapsed straight down symmetrically (because as
everyone knows, objects invariably fall to the least path of resistance), especially when you see videos and photographs of the top-section toppling
sideways before apparently falling through the tower below, which to me seems an impossibility, because once an object is set in motion it must remain
in motion unless acted on (in the opposite direction) by an external force, as Newtonian laws require. For the top-section of the building to collapse
through the lower half we must assume that it straightened up and regained stable equilibrium after pivoting around its centre of mass. How is that
possible? How does an object go from experiencing unstable equilibrium (displacement from its centre of mass) to stable equilibrium without any
external forces acting upon it? Of course, it's a rhetorical question, because it's mathematically impossible no less.
What's telling, I think, is that the upper-floors of WTC2 are conspicuously absent from the rubble pile afterwards. If the 15 floors (which accounted
for only about 10% of the towers overall mass and which represented a massive loss of kinetic energy) completely crushed the tower below shouldn't the
15 floors have remained? As far as my layman's eye is able to infer, there are just too my anomalies to think that the collapses were exclusively
gravity-driven. It's telling that NIST's computer models don't even document 90% of the collapse for the towers and instead stop at the collapse
initiation. NIST parade around their computer models as if they're scientifically legitimate, but they're just purely subjective, as opposed to the
more qualitative measure of empirical evidence, which NIST still have failed to provide to support their theory of progressive collapse. The more and
more I ruminate the more I lean towards the idea of a controlled demolition.
WTC7 was such an obvious controlled demolition it boggles my mind as to why some people still think it collapsed from fire. It's just, beyond me.
Well, that's my rant over for the day.
edit on 8-10-2010 by Nathan-D because: Typo.