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Originally posted by eyesdown
So yes thats my question, Why did the fires not detonate or destroy the explosives?
Originally posted by plube
Because there really at this point is no other explaination....IS it what i believe....not to sure...but it does seem a logical explaination....the problem here is NIST and FEMEA and BAzant have tried...and failed with their explainations as the physics does not support observation.
Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
How the tilt was arrested?
That's a stupid ass "theory"... It wasn't "arrested". The potential for it to collase down was stronger than the potential for it to magically slide off. Once the steel was damaged enough to to a variety of elements the tilting LED to the collapse.
Unless you know of some horizontal force none of know about the tilting was simply the inital stage of the vertical collapse.
I think the official account says that if they hadn't been hit by jets they'd still be standing. So thats 100%.
Originally posted by bjarneorn
Originally posted by captainnotsoobvious
How the tilt was arrested?
That's a stupid ass "theory"... It wasn't "arrested". The potential for it to collase down was stronger than the potential for it to magically slide off. Once the steel was damaged enough to to a variety of elements the tilting LED to the collapse.
Unless you know of some horizontal force none of know about the tilting was simply the inital stage of the vertical collapse.
The only "stupid ass theory" here is yours 19 arab hijackers, armed with boxcutters overpowered trained personell, hijacked 4 aeroplanes, flew sick sack across the country, blew up the towers without so much as a one single fighter stopping them, then died in a fire that destroyed even the blackbox, but the hijackers passport mysteriously was found intact a few blocks away from the impact that left the entire world trade center towers as dust particles. Directed by a UBL, who used a mobile phone and a laptop, to direct them across the world. Then constantly appeared on TV for 10 years, becoming younger and younger as he did so, and finally died old an crumbled, not resembling anything least of all himself" ... now that is a stupid ass conspiracy theory, if I ever heard one ... I suppose you went to school, and learn the basic newtonian physics, which tells you that any object set in motion, will stay in motion unless reacted upon.
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Originally posted by coughymachine
reply to post by captainnotsoobvious
I think the official account says that if they hadn't been hit by jets they'd still be standing. So thats 100%.
No, the official account argues that the towers withstood the impact and would have remained standing. NIST's collapse theory is predicated entirely upon the assumption that enough fireproofing was dislodged during the impacts to allow the fires to weaken the steel sufficiently to initiate a collapse.
It wasn't entirely an assumption. NIST performed tests to see how resistant the fireproofing would be to an impact, and the official account says specifically that it was the combined impact damage with the fire that caused the collapse. Had there been no impact, but fire, the towers would have remained standing.
Originally posted by coughymachine
reply to post by Varemia
It wasn't entirely an assumption. NIST performed tests to see how resistant the fireproofing would be to an impact, and the official account says specifically that it was the combined impact damage with the fire that caused the collapse. Had there been no impact, but fire, the towers would have remained standing.
Yes, it was an assumption. No one knows exactly how much fireproofing was dislodged during the impacts. NIST's own assumptions were those "deemed most likely from the computer simulations and analysis carried out under the Investigation."
Exactly. They don't try to hide that there was no way for them to determine the exact amount of damage. They could only approximate as close as possible and leave room for correction. It's called science.
Originally posted by coughymachine
reply to post by Varemia
Exactly. They don't try to hide that there was no way for them to determine the exact amount of damage. They could only approximate as close as possible and leave room for correction. It's called science.
So, just to be clear... you agree with me that it's an assumption? Albeit, one based on the scientific method.
Originally posted by Varemia
I may not be the most well educated in these matters, but it seems like you are ignoring a lot of factors here.
Originally posted by VaremiaBy the nature of science, I welcome people to challenge it and change it. That's what makes science better than most other philosophies of knowledge (such as religion).
Originally posted by bjarneorn
No, I'm not ... you're just the same kind of religious fanatic, the muslims are ... just biased towards a different cause.
Our air defences were non operational ... is UBL to blame for that? or you? If he took advantage of it, how did he know about it?
The horizontal beams couldn't handle it .. The building isn't supported by the horizontal beams, it is supported by the vertical beams, that stand straight up into the air. Your physics fails here ... the floors can collapse, but you'd end up with a skeleton building ... this failure, is a failure in the building ... how is that UBL's fault. Did somebody tell him? I sure didn't know, did you? is it the terrorists act, that does he has this information available or is it a failure in US to make a threat assessment? And even if the horizontal beams, holding the vertical beams together, collapsed, the vertical beams should have fallen apart and not straight down. Physics don't add up ... and sure as hell, not three times in a row.
Doesn't matter how you try to viggle this one out ... the US is at the point, where they have caused over a million people to perish ... because they did the same thing the nazis did ...is UBL also to blame, because the US acted like the nazis did?
Which is more likely, the twin towers fell because they were hit by planes and kerosine melted steel, to the point where the assymmetrical failure of the structure, caused it to symmetrically collapse in on itself ... leaving no skeleton of it's vertical support beams, because of the failure of the horizontal floor support columns ...
Originally posted by Cecilofs
Originally posted by VaremiaBy the nature of science, I welcome people to challenge it and change it. That's what makes science better than most other philosophies of knowledge (such as religion).
Except that all the evidence was destroyed. So now all we have is this holy gospel called the NIST Report which no-one can scientifically challenge because there is no evidence to test. A real investigation (what the 9/11 Commission should have been) would have taken samples to keep. A Government who actually wanted its people to know the truth would have released information to the public (e.g. Footage of plane hitting the Pentagon).
Also, lots of people who believe the OS speak about the NIST report as though it is infallable. Anyone who questions its validity is denounced as a crack-pot conspiracy theory.
Also, lots of people who believe the OS speak about the NIST report as though it is infallable. Anyone who questions its validity is denounced as a crack-pot conspiracy theory.
I have a few problems with the NIST report. First off, they didn't test for explosive residues. Then there are the computer models that to my understanding they haven't released to the public. Then there are the fire tests that didn't cause any catastrophic failures, so I would like to see some tests that actually produce the results that the report asserts. Then probably the biggest issue I have is section 6.14.4 of the Twin Towers report, because the explanation of the actual collapse itself is basically explained by "The top section was massive and it crushed the builidng".
No, go right ahead and question the report. But few, if any, ever questions the report. They're too busy feigning shock about "anamolies" that don't exist. Or reverting to standard conspiracy non-arguments like the government lies, ergo everything from the government is false.
I posted a similar report in another thread and after 6 pages there was only one actual question pertaining to what is in the report.