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You can clearly hear the explosion and see a flash just before the tower
starts to fall.
You can see a flash easily on full screen as indicated by Remy. It seems to be at the point of collapse, simultaneous with the noise.
There is only one flash Weed...just the one, as Remy has said. Use full screen and "collapse" the scroll bar...you can still see it anyway, and no, it is not a bit of paper as you might want to expect.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by remymartin
Yes, I know it was obscured by the smoke, and the billowing of the dust from the collapse. BUT, most of the South Tower is also blocked from view by WTC 7. Still, there are no "flashes", nor any sort of "explosions", just the deep sort of rumbling sounds one would expect in the collapse sequence.
As to the "CD' comment....Um, from your OP:
You can clearly hear the explosion and see a flash just before the tower
starts to fall.
Pardon me for thinking that, in that sentence, you implied a "CD". Did you or did you not imply such?
"Drip, drip, drip..." That sorta cemented the idea and intent of your posting, no?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by smurfy
Well, with this statement, it disproves the OP, if the intent was to suggest "cause and effect":
You can see a flash easily on full screen as indicated by Remy. It seems to be at the point of collapse, simultaneous with the noise.
The "flash" is "simultaneous with the noise"? Cannot you see why this is showing the OP incorrect?
(I fear that too many movies, showing sounds synced with the action on the screen, have resulted in a generation of people accustomed to expect it, and forgetful of the physics and vastly different velocities of sound, versus light). Hollywood depictions, for entertainment purposes, in the majority of cases get the physics wrong....and this colors people's perceptions when they see the REAL events.
Originally posted by Three_moons
reply to post by remymartin
Yes, you can barely catch a glimpse of a flash or two. As far as what the flash is and when it occurs in relation to the building falling is highly speculative at best. You have a building obscuring the bottom of it and smoke obscuring the top of it. There's very little you can actually see. It's very difficult from this view to state what happened at what time. Throw the sound issues that weedwhacker discussed into the equation (we don't even know the location and therefore the distance from WTC this was recorded from) and I really don't see much of anything in this video honestly. Yes, I also hear an explosion but to state or imply that it's something other than the building falling, which is mostly obscured from view, is impossible for the reasons already mentioned.
Stating that "You can clearly hear the explosion and see a flash just before the tower starts to fall" is as speculative as the narrator saying that a third plane hit since you can't even see when the tower starts to fall.
So far, I haven’t seen any independently published confirming evidence (like an obituary notice, for instance) that former New York Housing Authority emergency coordinator Barry Jennings is dead, but