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Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by jonnywhite
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Start by explaining how the scientific method isn't applicable to government organizations and then you might get somewhere.
And, you know, even if WTC 1&2 and 7 were brought down through a kind of controlled demolition, that doesn't mean OBL or terrorists of his kind were not involved. It's just a smoke screen.
I wish I could grab the truthers and shake the nonsense out of them but I know I can't.edit on 12-9-2011 by TupacShakur because: to edit my post
Yes the building was on fire, but as described in the OP, every comparable steel-framed skyscraper fire throughout history has not even caused a partial collapse. But 9/11 was special, and a single core column magically failed and magically pulled the entire building down symmetrically at free-fall speed, and just happened to match up with 10 characteristics of a controlled demolition.
You have to admit that WTC 7 was hit by debris from WTC 1 when it collapsed, and it was on fire for those entire 7 hours. Those are givens. It is not like WTC 7 was just standing perfectly intact when it came down. Firefighters had even cleared a collapse radius around it, which ended up leading to survivors under some of the rubble dying, because they knew that WTC 7 was going to come down.
Chewbacca defense, I love it. OP successfully debunked
Tupac, I'm sure that what he was "trying" to use was the "Chewbacca defense"!
Yeah there's really not too much debating going on, I'm a little suprised that some of the usual 9/11 thread suspects aren't in here.
Whenever you have nothing to argue with -- make sure you bundle your opponents thoughts with your own references to nonsense.
Originally posted by VitriolAndAngst
Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by jonnywhite
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Start by explaining how the scientific method isn't applicable to government organizations and then you might get somewhere.
And, you know, even if WTC 1&2 and 7 were brought down through a kind of controlled demolition, that doesn't mean OBL or terrorists of his kind were not involved. It's just a smoke screen.
I wish I could grab the truthers and shake the nonsense out of them but I know I can't.edit on 12-9-2011 by TupacShakur because: to edit my post
How did OBL steal the money in Iraq when he MOST CERTAINLY was never welcome in Iraq and he'd better not even think about setting foot in Iran. I'm just wondering. been watching this thread all day and it get's loopier and loopier by the minute.
Here's the thing; HOW can Osama Bin Laden get 19 guys with boxcutters to not only fly planes with just a few lessons and hit their targets -- but ALSO rig the demolition charges, force the Bush government to NOT investigate the crime, remove their names from the flight manifests, get the military to "stand down", force Dick Cheney to get NORAD to run drills all day, make Silverstein double his insurance premiums, and of course, make George Bush and his fascist PNAC NeoCons push to invade Iraq and Afghanistan AND plant the evidence that He did it in such a way as to make it so preposterous.
Osama probably ALSO stole that $7 Billion in cash that the Bush operatives lost in Iraq.
-- the ONLY conclusion I could make is; Allah is a greater God than our God and he's obviously on the side of the terrorists.
Because THAT is some damn Miracle Terrorist fairy dust right there if you think that Osama set the buildings up to fall ahead of the planes -- AND he told the Mossad he was going to do it so they'd be on hand to videotape, AND he was sure that nobody would listen to that guy at the FBI who sent in 72 notices; "Osama determined to attack."
Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
reply to post by TupacShakur
I see you're still posting 911 threads with false info.
Why not ask this: of all the buildings built like the Twin Towers, in the whole world, how many of them were hit by jets? What percentage of those hit by jets then collapsed? The answer is that there were only ever two buildings built like the twin towers. Both were hit by jets and 100% of then collapsed.
Why not then ask the 99.99% of Engineers that DID NOT SIGN the petition why they didn't. Are they not capable, of using the scientific method?
This thread is just more dishonesty from the Truther camp.
Originally posted by Varemia
Originally posted by wecanthandlethetruth
Hmmm so as long as OBL or terrorists were involved, it would be oOK somehow if a planned demolition was involved?
So what then, the demolition was set up just in case the planes being flown into them didn't bring them down?
Which would defer to the post that Flight 93 may have been intended for WTC 7.
Why do those who believe the planes brought down the planes ever provide any validating evidence as to why WTC 7 fell later that day with no plane having struck it?
You have to admit that WTC 7 was hit by debris from WTC 1 when it collapsed, and it was on fire for those entire 7 hours. Those are givens. It is not like WTC 7 was just standing perfectly intact when it came down. Firefighters had even cleared a collapse radius around it, which ended up leading to survivors under some of the rubble dying, because they knew that WTC 7 was going to come down.
Originally posted by Varemia
Originally posted by wecanthandlethetruth
Hmmm so as long as OBL or terrorists were involved, it would be oOK somehow if a planned demolition was involved?
So what then, the demolition was set up just in case the planes being flown into them didn't bring them down?
Which would defer to the post that Flight 93 may have been intended for WTC 7.
Why do those who believe the planes brought down the planes ever provide any validating evidence as to why WTC 7 fell later that day with no plane having struck it?
You have to admit that WTC 7 was hit by debris from WTC 1 when it collapsed, and it was on fire for those entire 7 hours. Those are givens. It is not like WTC 7 was just standing perfectly intact when it came down. Firefighters had even cleared a collapse radius around it, which ended up leading to survivors under some of the rubble dying, because they knew that WTC 7 was going to come down.
Summarizing: We have assumed that the entire 3,500 gallons of jet fuel was confined to just one floor of the World Trade Center, that the jet fuel burnt with perfect efficency, that no hot gases left this floor, that no heat escaped this floor by conduction and that the steel and concrete had an unlimited amount of time to absorb all the heat. Then it is impossible that the jet fuel, by itself, raised the temperature of this floor more than 257° C (495° F). Now this temperature is nowhere near high enough to even begin explaining the World Trade Center Tower collapse. It is not even close to the first critical temperature of 600° C (1,100° F) where steel loses about half its strength and it is nowhere near the quotes of 1500° C that we constantly read about in our lying media.
Originally posted by ModerateSkeptic
To be honest, I haven't watched the documentary yet, I will watch it tomorrow when I have more time.
However, from the discussion here (and the endless discussions and documentaries), I have two problems with both stories:
Why I think the official story sucks:
911research.wtc7.net...
Summarizing: We have assumed that the entire 3,500 gallons of jet fuel was confined to just one floor of the World Trade Center, that the jet fuel burnt with perfect efficency, that no hot gases left this floor, that no heat escaped this floor by conduction and that the steel and concrete had an unlimited amount of time to absorb all the heat. Then it is impossible that the jet fuel, by itself, raised the temperature of this floor more than 257° C (495° F). Now this temperature is nowhere near high enough to even begin explaining the World Trade Center Tower collapse. It is not even close to the first critical temperature of 600° C (1,100° F) where steel loses about half its strength and it is nowhere near the quotes of 1500° C that we constantly read about in our lying media.
Ok, I'm not a scientist, but that makes sense to me.
The problem with all the conspiracy documentaries on the other hand:
You have about 100 tonnes of crap smashing into a relatively narrow building (400,000 square meters) at maybe 250 knots or more horizontally, that's a hell of a force which all documentaries (that talk about buildings that survived fires) ignore, not to ignore the force of the EXPLOSION that took place when the fuel EXPLODED as a result of IMPACT.
Anyway, I will watch the documentary, maybe it sheds light on this.
Here's an article on found on Yahoo Spain with some amazing closeup pictures of the flames engulfing the building.
www.firehouse.com...
Earlier in the day, several top floors collapsed onto lower ones. Firefighter official Fernando Munilla said the entire building _ which at about 106 meters (350 feet) high is among the 10 tallest in Madrid _ could collapse. ''If the partial collapses keep happening, it would be lying to say it's impossible that the whole building couldn't fall down,'' he said.
On September 11, 2001, 7 WTC was damaged by debris when the nearby North Tower of the WTC collapsed. The debris also ignited fires, which continued to burn throughout the afternoon on lower floors of the building. The building's internal fire suppression system lacked water pressure to fight the fires, and the building collapsed completely at 5:21:10 pm.[1] The collapse began when a critical column on the 13th floor buckled and triggered structural failure throughout, which was first visible from the exterior with the crumbling of the east mechanical penthouse at 5:20:33 pm
Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
reply to post by TupacShakur
I have seen all the evidence, including a lot of the made-up evidence you like to post, and none of it is conclusive.
None of it.
Originally posted by ModerateSkeptic
Here's an article on found on Yahoo Spain with some amazing closeup pictures of the flames engulfing the building.
www.firehouse.com...
Well...
Earlier in the day, several top floors collapsed onto lower ones. Firefighter official Fernando Munilla said the entire building _ which at about 106 meters (350 feet) high is among the 10 tallest in Madrid _ could collapse. ''If the partial collapses keep happening, it would be lying to say it's impossible that the whole building couldn't fall down,'' he said.
Again, unless it's an identical building to the WTC, you can't judge. As there were partial collapses, and the building was in danger of collapsing.
It was a different building, different structure, design.. etc.
Originally posted by Edgecrusher26
Oh btw, its all very conclusive - you just have to forget the made up parts of the official story, and accept the truth for a change.