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But there is an unanswered question. How did the 19 Arab hijackers get on board those planes? The list of the 19 men was conveniently found in a parked car. Not one of those 19 men was a passenger. Not even one had a ticket. Not even one had a boarding pass. Nor were any of the 19 men members of the flight crews.
All airlines have employees who will lose their jobs if they let men without tickets and boarding passes on to an airplane. To imagine that 19 men achieved this feat on 9-11 without one airline employee being fired is unbelievable.
The Pentagon's own videotapes do not show a Boeing 757 hitting the building, as even Bill O'Reilly admitted when one was shown on "The O'Reilly Factor". At 155 feet, the plane was more than twice as long as the 77-foot Pentagon is high and should have been present and easily visible; it was not, which means that the video evidence also contradicts the official account. The tail of what appears to be a far smaller plane, however, is visible just above the guard mechanism. In this graphic, Jack White has sized the image of a Boeing 757 to that of the tail, which vividly displays the inconsistency of supposing that it might be the tail of a Boeing 757. If a plane of its dimensions were present, it should have been visible, but is not. Yet it is consistent with a smaller--and slower--plane having hit the building.
The aerodynamics of flight, including "ground effect", would have made the official trajectory-flying at high speed barely above ground level-physically impossible, because a Boeing 757 flying over 500 mph could not have come closer than about 60 feet to the ground, which means that the official account is not even aerodynamically possible. Russ Wittenburg in the DVD "Zero", an experienced pilot who flew the planes alleged to have been used on 9/11, states that the Boeing 757 can't go 500 mph hour at sea level because the air is too dense. Robin Hordon, an air traffic controller, in the same film, explains that the Boeing 757 cannot do the maneuvers attributed to it. The official story thus appears to entail violations of laws of physics, of engineering, and of aerodynamics, insofar as the damage to the building, the absence of debris, the clear, smooth, unblemished lawn and now its alleged performance are incompatible with a Boeing 757.
Moreover, if a Boeing 757 could have traveled at 500 mph at ground level, it would have caused enormous damage to the grass and the ground, including producing substantial furrows from the low hanging engines, yet photos taken immediately after the alleged impact show the grass surface as smooth and unblemished as a putting green, where I expect Tiger Woods to show up and practice his game.
There are some huge problems with the official story of how the towers collapsed. First of all, in the Bazant/Zhou explanation:
I have no doubt at all, that the world trade center buildings collapsed and fell down after two fully fueled planes hit at over 500mph wiping out enormous sections of the buildings.
So for this theory to play out in reality, at least 24 of the 47 core columns would have to reach 800°C and buckle. But there's a huge problem with this theory, it didn't happen:
The conflagration, caused by the aircraft fuel spilled into the structure, causes the steel of the columns to be exposed to sustained temperatures apparently [color=limegreen]exceeding 800°C…[color=limegreen]Once more than half of the columns in the critical floor.. suffer buckling (stage 3), the weight of the upper part of the structure above this floor can no longer be supported, and so the upper part starts falling down onto the lower part below…
So the Bazant/Zhou theory of collapse is false. Let's see if an experiment NIST did can back up the official story:
NIST determined that there was no evidence that any of the samples had reached temperatures above 600 ºC.
NIST did a full scale test and the experiment showed that fire damage cannot even cause a single floor to collapse. So they can't even get one floor to collapse after two hours, and didn't even address the behavior of the building during collapse but expect us to believe that the entire tower collapsed once "initiation was reached" because it was "inevitable".
NIST contracted with Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. to conduct tests to obtain information on the fire endurance of trusses like those in the WTC towers… [color=limegreen]All four test specimens sustained the maximum design load for approximately 2 hours without collapsing......Nonetheless, the [empirical test] results established that this type of assembly was capable of sustaining a large gravity load, without collapsing, for a substantial period of time relative to the duration of the fires in any given location on September 11.
I've said this hundreds of times and I'll say it again: Your personal opinion does not trump all of the evidence that points to a controlled demolition.
This is a pile of crap. Does anyone understand how much explosives would be need to accomplish this. Does anyone have an idea of how wide these buildings were? U would need to put explosives on several floors on the collums, which means you would be walking through peoples offices to put them there. It would be such a massive undertaking that whoever did it would need to come in, in Uhaul type trucks. Then you would need to transport them by cart, past Port Authority Police and on to the various floors.
Right, so which is easier:
Sometimes the easiest explanation is the correct one
The core is also destroyed symmetrically and within milliseconds of each other allowing the building to fall symmetrically rather than tipping over. Explosives were used to remove the material that would otherwise stop the collapse to ensure free-fall.
The collapse of WTC 7 had a small debris field as the facade was pulled downward,
suggesting an internal failure and implosion…
Originally posted by surfnow2
I have no doubt at all, that the world trade center buildings collapsed and fell down after two fully fueled planes hit at over 500mph wiping out enormous sections of the buildings. There is this speculation that someone planted explosives in the buildings, where they were detonated. This is a pile of crap. Does anyone understand how much explosives would be need to accomplish this. Does anyone have an idea of how wide these buildings were? U would need to put explosives on several floors on the collums, which means you would be walking through peoples offices to put them there. It would be such a massive undertaking that whoever did it would need to come in, in Uhaul type trucks. Then you would need to transport them by cart, past Port Authority Police and on to the various floors.
Sometimes the easiest explanation is the correct one
So once again back to the original point, no the physical evidence does not point to 19 Arab terrorists. It contradicts itself.
Originally posted by samkent
reply to post by ANOK
So once again back to the original point, no the physical evidence does not point to 19 Arab terrorists. It contradicts itself.
It does when you understand physics.
Originally posted by samkent
It does when you understand physics.
Exactly how does understanding physics explain how jet engines can get inside of the building without entering the building? Let's change the situation to help you understand an extremely simple concept which you somehow are unable to grasp with your understanding of physics:
It does when you understand physics.
Originally posted by ANOK
So did you OSers give up trying to figure out how to clear up the contradictions I pointed out?
Just to refresh your memories...
Plane at pentagon smashed through a reinforced concrete wall, with no holes for the engines
yet they somehow got inside (all three parts), and the plane burned up into nothing.
So once again back to the original point, no the physical evidence does not point to 19 Arab terrorists. It contradicts itself.
Originally posted by bing0
trickoftheshade.....you don't question the government at all
And again, you post an article written by an appearant idiot who is unable to find the actual flight manifests....which list 18 of the 19 hijackers, with the sole exception of Hani Hanjour. There are ticket agents that checked them in for their flights and gate agents who allowed them to board the aircraft. The evidence shows this....and you post that lame article...
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by bing0
And again, you post an article written by an appearant idiot who is unable to find the actual flight manifests....which list 18 of the 19 hijackers, with the sole exception of Hani Hanjour. There are ticket agents that checked them in for their flights and gate agents who allowed them to board the aircraft. The evidence shows this....and you post that lame article...