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Originally posted by Alfie1
The attacks on the towers were not particularly early. 8.46 am and 9.03. Is that not within the normal working day in New York ? If the attacks had been at mid-day perhaps you would be suggesting that they were so timed that a lot of people were out to lunch.
I don't think the attack on the Pentagon was intended to kill as many as possible but because of its significance as Defense HQ.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
There you go again, same thing again. MAYBE... he knew something and didn't care, understanding how much he'd make off the insurance. 10-20 million down, for 2 billion in return on destruction, not bad profit for signing onto a lease agreement..! But alas, now I'm doing the idiotic what if this and and that routine, and why didn't this happen or that happen instead..
Originally posted by Alfie1
reply to post by boondock-saint
Apart from the fact that Ariel Sharon was Israeli Prime Minister on 9/11/01 and the current PM Netenyahu is in Washington now I am calling you out and saying the rest of your post is your imagination.
Please give us some evidence for any of it.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by Alfie1
reply to post by boondock-saint
Apart from the fact that Ariel Sharon was Israeli Prime Minister on 9/11/01 and the current PM Netenyahu is in Washington now I am calling you out and saying the rest of your post is your imagination.
Please give us some evidence for any of it.
lol, go do ur homework and come back
in 6 months and we'll debate. But right
now, it's past your bedtime in Tel-Aviv
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by Alfie1
He flew the Boeing exceptionally well (allegedly) for a guy who could bare fly a cessna..
Originally posted by pccat
reply to post by bsbray11
with all due respect, I have been gone for awhile..
Sometimes, though, a building is surrounded by structures that must be preserved. In this case, the blasters proceed with a true implosion, demolishing the building so that it collapses straight down into its own footprint (the total area at the base of the building). This feat requires such skill that only a handful of demolition companies in the world will attempt it.
Blasters approach each project a little differently, but the basic idea is to think of the building as a collection of separate towers. The blasters set the explosives so that each "tower" falls toward the center of the building, in roughly the same way that they would set the explosives to topple a single structure to the side. When the explosives are detonated in the right order, the toppling towers crash against each other, and all of the rubble collects at the center of the building. Another option is to detonate the columns at the center of the building before the other columns so that the building's sides fall inward.
Originally posted by pccat
with all due respect, I have been gone for awhile..
anyways, it seemed kinda funny that the three engineers I mentioned are using the well worn talking points of the truther movement.. the buildings did NOT fall at exactly free fall speed, they did NOT fall into thier own footprints.. and there WAS a raging fire (according to the firemen on the scene) that was out of control in WTC7..
either these guys are not fully researched on the subject or they are not A students in thier field..
the building came basically straight down.. it is reasonable to assume that some outer walls would wind up on top.. and also reasonable to assume that some of the structure would fall outside of the original footprint.. there are many pics out there that show just how wide the dispersal of debris was.. as long as you have been here, you know this..
Originally posted by pccat
reply to post by ANOK
hello ANOK, I did not post much, only when I thought there was a point to be made that people were forgetting.. I had a few lively discussions with ultima1, (if you remember Roger)..
...but aside that, the picture can of course be interpreted several ways.. controlled implosion detonation being only one of them.. this is no proof either way.. the building came basically straight down.. it is reasonable to assume that some outer walls would wind up on top..
...and also reasonable to assume that some of the structure would fall outside of the original footprint..
...there are many pics out there that show just how wide the dispersal of debris was.. as long as you have been here, you know this..
Since you've been away, even NIST admitted that WTC7 accelerated at the rate of free-fall in a vacuum. I'll be happy to show you the links if you need them. In other words, even the government has admitted that WTC7 accelerated at free-fall. Looks like you're going to have to scramble backwards to a new defensive position on that one, downplaying what this means.
The Twin Towers were blown outwards in all directions, and ~90% of their masses did not land in their respective footprints, this is true. But WTC7 did land in its footprint, in both terms of where the most mass went as well as in terms of the center of gravity. Some debris spilled out onto all 4 neighboring streets but that is hardly a reason to claim the building didn't fall straight down, which it obviously did. That building was 47 stories and barely even made it across a single street on any side after it was completely destroyed. You can butcher semantics however you want but the reality will stare you in the face in any photograph, such as what ANOK posted above.