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Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by GenRadek
Interesting story.
Lets cut through the clutter. The reason Japanese buildings didn't fall is because they didn't have to contend with anything like what happened in Manhattan.
This was an earlier post directed at WMD and hastily ignored by all but the hapless thedman.
Anyone else is welcome to make an attemt at a serious discussion...even you Gen.
FDNY Assistant Chief Joseph Callan: "Approximately 40 minutes after I arrived in the lobby, I made a decision that the building was no longer safe. And that was based on the conditions in the lobby, large pieces of plaster falling, all the 20 foot high glass panels on the exterior of the lobby were breaking. There was obvious movement of the building, and that was the reason on the handy talky I gave the order for all Fire Department units to leave the north tower."
Around 9:15, Drohan heard (Port Authority WTC Construction Manager Frank) DeMartini over the walkie-talkie.
"Any construction inspector at ground level."
Drohan acknowledged that he was on the street.
"Can you escort a couple of structural inspectors to the 78th floor?" DeMartini asked.
DeMartini had seen something in the steel–Drohan was not sure what–that he did not like. The drywall had been knocked off parts of the sky lobby, exposing the elevator shafts, and revealing the core of the building. That had prompted his first radio alert, warning that the elevators might collapse. Now DeMartini wanted inspectors from a structural engineering firm to come up to the 78th-floor sky lobby and take a look.
FDNY Firefighter Hugh Mettham: We reached the sixth or seventh floor and are met by many firefighters coming down the stairs, informing us that the upper floors are collapsing and that there’s a heavy odor of gas and fuel.
Niel Sweeting EMS: I remember when we heard abandon the site, I said, wow, this would be really good to keep with us. So I started pushing this cart, and I got stuck in the doorway with it, when we started hearing this rumble. I can remember -- I specifically remember this like twisting sound of metal. We were probably about half a block away from the complex at this point.
You heard a big boom, it was quiet for about ten seconds. Then you could hear another one. Now I realize it was the floors starting to stack on top of each other as they were falling . It was spaced apart in the beginning, but then it got to just a tremendous roar and a rumble that I will never forget.
DNY Chief Joseph Dunne: Another ten or 15 minutes or so later, one of my guys said to me, "listen, the north tower is making noise, we're not safe here, that building is going to come down too.”
Dennis Smith. Report From Ground Zero. New York: Viking Penguin, 2002
Brian Clark was one of the only four survivors from both towers to escape from above where the planes hit. He describess clambering over the shattered walls to break through a smoke-filled stairwell to get out. "Drywall had been blown off and was lying up against the stair railing." he says, "We had to shovel it aside." Another survivor, window cleaner Jan Demczur, found the drywall so soft that he was able to dig through it with a squeegee to break out of a lift he was trapped in.
Originally posted by FDNY343
Originally posted by ANOK
You should know by now it's not necessarily that the building collapsed but the way it collapsed, even though no it should not have collapsed from several hours of fire.
Please feel free to google "Charleston SC sofa store fire" and start reading. You will find stuff that proves this incorrect.
Gravity is another. Oh, wait, CD'ed buildings fall because of gravity too.
Originally posted by ANOK
Please feel free to google "Charleston SC sofa store fire" and start reading. You will find stuff that proves this incorrect.
Incorrect. If the interior has already began to collapse before the exterior shell, then yes, this is possible.
How might we be able to tell that the interior of a building is collapsing?
Maybe a huge penthouse falling into it from the roof? Then a few seconds (not sure of the exact time without looking) then the global collapse begins. What do you think the inside is doing?
Explain Fitteman Hall. Thanks.
It wasn't fire alone. Another process called gravity was also involved.
Originally posted by GenRadek
Niel Sweeting EMS: I remember when we heard abandon the site, I said, wow, this would be really good to keep with us. So I started pushing this cart, and I got stuck in the doorway with it, when we started hearing this rumble. I can remember -- I specifically remember this like twisting sound of metal. We were probably about half a block away from the complex at this point.
You heard a big boom, it was quiet for about ten seconds. Then you could hear another one. Now I realize it was the floors starting to stack on top of each other as they were falling . It was spaced apart in the beginning, but then it got to just a tremendous roar and a rumble that I will never forget.
I doubt the guy is an expert on recognizing sound during collapses.
The pancake collapse idea is nonsense, as I have tried to explain, floors falling on floors can not completely collapse the whole building with no mass left in the footprint. Even NIST admitted this and dropped that idea completely, deciding to only explain the initiation, ignoring the actual continuous collapse.
If floors were simply dropping and impacting each other then there should have been a stack of floors still in the footprint, they couldn't all be ejected outside the footprint AND have the energy to crush floors of equal mass bellow them. Not enough dropping floors.
Originally posted by GenRadek
Right so when someone else mentions, "It sounded like a bomb," or: "I heard an explosion," we are to automatically assume he/she means demolition charges, thermite bombs, explosives, and that is incontroverisal proof of something sinister, inside job, etc, but when someone says something that is totally against your sacred beliefs, he/she is a heretic, and should be stoned... I mean, shunned, ignored, and mistaken, not an expert. But to you, Dr. Griffin and company are actual experts on skyscraper engineering, demolition, explosives, etc. Give me a break.
So the floors just disappeared, ANOK? They just vanished into thin air?
Where are the floors going to go? According to physics, DOWN. According to gravity. DOWN.
You claim to be such an expert at understanding Newton's laws...
...and yet here you cannot fathom a simple concept that when one floor land on top of another floor, its going to go down, according to gravity. It is not going to go sideways, on an angle, straight up, or warp into the 10th dimension. It is simply going to drop down. Each floor will fall onto the one below it. As to whether it was the starter of the entire collapse, that is up for debate. However, the FACT remains, once the collapse started, there is only one place it going: DOWN.
Also, as the floors collapsed down, they left the exterior columns and interior columns free-standing for a short time.
Then we see them get forced out by the collapsing debris above, landing farther away like a banana peel, peeling away.
The top section went BEHIND the lower section. You can see it happening in the video below, and pay very close attention to the left side of the screen, to the Tower at 0:10-0:19
Watch how you can see the top fall into the tower as it comes down
Guess what else? When workers started to work on the debris, what did they find? *GASP!!!!* Pancaked floors!!! Oh no, say it aint so!!!! How did they get there? According to ANOK, they were suppose to just disappear!
Look!!!
Originally posted by ANOK
Why should I do your work for you? If you have something post it and explain it.
Originally posted by ANOK
Was it a 47 story building that landed mostly in its own footprint from fire alone? No it was a single story building who's roof collapsed. That is nothing like a 47 story building collapsing in its own footprint (the tallest building ever to do this btw, because its extremely difficult to accomplish).
Originally posted by ANOK
You just prove with this you have no clue about high rise steel framed buildings, and the physicist involved.
Originally posted by ANOK
If gravity was all that was need then explain why demolition companies have to do so much work to get a building to fall in its footprint? Resistance trumps your gravity, sorry.
Originally posted by ANOK
No I won't. Stop telling me to google stuff and explain why you think its similar. If you want me to do work, you better give something back mate.
Originally posted by ANOK
No it isn't possible. Please explain how the interior of the WTC 7 collapsed, and please don't say fire because It would take more than that. To both collapse the center columns in the correct timing, ahead of the outer walls to allow them to wait and fall inwards on the collapsed center takes more than fire mate. Unless that fire was controlled lol.
Originally posted by ANOK
I'm not arguing the center of the building didn't collapse, we all know it did, I just recognize that as part of a controlled implosion demolition, as I have explained and you seem to either ignore or simply can not, or don't want, to understand. You have no explanation of the center collapse, except fire, which isn't enough.
Originally posted by ANOK
You explain it, I have no idea what you're talking about but show me and I'll show you what you're misunderstanding, just like all the silly physics analogies you fail at so bad.
Originally posted by ANOK
Yes, and so was resistance, and Newtons laws of motion, but you keep ignoring them. You keep ignoring the facts that point towards the most obvious and making things up to fit a fantasy.
I have explained the physics that wouldn't allow the WTC 7 to collapse in its own footprint from a natural collapse, you have yet to explain using physics how it can. No one can, that is why it wasn't explained by the government.
Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by GenRadek
Niel Sweeting EMS: I remember when we heard abandon the site, I said, wow, this would be really good to keep with us. So I started pushing this cart, and I got stuck in the doorway with it, when we started hearing this rumble. I can remember -- I specifically remember this like twisting sound of metal. We were probably about half a block away from the complex at this point.
You heard a big boom, it was quiet for about ten seconds. Then you could hear another one. Now I realize it was the floors starting to stack on top of each other as they were falling . It was spaced apart in the beginning, but then it got to just a tremendous roar and a rumble that I will never forget.
How does that contradict controlled demolition?
Anyone who heard that noise, and then heard the official explanation, would add that info to their memory and conclude after the fact that is was falling floors. I doubt the guy is an expert on recognizing sound during collapses.
Just because they thought afterword that the noise they heard was simply floors impacting floors, doesn't mean the collapse wasn't helped with explosives of some kind.
The pancake collapse idea is nonsense, as I have tried to explain, floors falling on floors can not completely collapse the whole building with no mass left in the footprint. Even NIST admitted this and dropped that idea completely, deciding to only explain the initiation, ignoring the actual continuous collapse.
If floors were simply dropping and impacting each other then there should have been a stack of floors still in the footprint, they couldn't all be ejected outside the footprint AND have the energy to crush floors of equal mass bellow them. Not enough dropping floors.
edit on 3/28/2011 by ANOK because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ANOK
edit on 3/28/2011 by ANOK because: (no reason given)
A convenient excuse to go into the middle east
Originally posted by Yankee451
reply to post by SlightlyAbovePar
For folks really interested in what happened, for starters there's an depth discussion here:
letsrollforums.com...
Video archives here:
www.911conspiracy.tv...
And there's Leslie Raphael's work here:
frankresearch.info...
Originally posted by ANOK
Good questions, are you finally getting the point, or do you really think you were debunking something?