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Originally posted by ka119
WHY WERENT THEY HEARD?!
Oh wait.. they were.
Jesus christ, do some research.
Originally posted by Drezden
If you dropped a quarter from the top of the WTC as it began to collapse.. the quarter and building would hit the ground within seconds of each other (single digit seconds). That defies the laws of physics. Even if the pancaking explanation were true.. it would not account for out absurdly fast the tower fell without being slowed by the tons and tons of steel framing below. The tower fell straight down which is the path of most resistance, yet it fell at nearly free fall speed.
Originally posted by Joey Canoli
Originally posted by psikeyhackr
I am aware of femr and Major Tom but do not pretend I read most of the stuff they write.
psik
Have you read their documentation about ROOSD?
Cuz that reality pretty much destroys your Python probram's assumptions such as crushing and accelerating core and ext columns.
As does the visual evidence of the spires.
Only a maroon would include them...
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by JordanTwoDelta
I understand that. But before you said it was not visible due to clouds of dust. Which means if WE can't see it... you can't see it either - that is my point. Your argument could work both ways.
But you can hear the rest of the debris still collapsing and hit the ground.
edit on 27-9-2011 by ElectricUniverse because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by psikeyhackr
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The precise number of seconds is an unimportant issue. How did most of it come down in less than 18 and all of it in less than 30 when it had to be strong enough to support all of that mass for 28 years? But then we have EXPERTS that don't want exact data on the distributions of steel and concrete.
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Originally posted by TheMatrixusesYou
There's no need to prove towers 1 and 2 if #7 is stinking. 7 came down with controlled demolition.
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
All I know is they went from top to bottom to within a mere few seconds of absolute free fall from the same height in nothing but air. Absent explosives, this violates the three laws of motion.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by psikeyhackr
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The precise number of seconds is an unimportant issue. How did most of it come down in less than 18 and all of it in less than 30 when it had to be strong enough to support all of that mass for 28 years? But then we have EXPERTS that don't want exact data on the distributions of steel and concrete.
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Wow, so the time it took for the towers to collapse doesn't really matter but it still proves your point?...
BTW, the towers were standing for 28+- years BECAUSE IT WASN'T HIT BEFORE THAT TIME BY A PASSENGER PLANE AND WAS THEN ON FIRE... (btw, not yelling, but pointing out something which should be obvious...)
Originally posted by Dezero
Give up the ghost already. What are you doing here bro? What the hell are you doing here? How many bloody times do people need to go over the same old crap again and again.
Originally posted by JordanTwoDelta
What if it was an echo? What if it was a lie? What if it was the smoke monster? What if it was reverb from an alternate universe where the towers did collapse in more than 10 seconds? What if it was a mission of monkeys making all that racket behind the smoke?
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Do you not understand that buildings of 110 or so floors have several janitor closets which have chemicals that would cause small explosions?...
Not to mention the backup generators would need gas/fuel which would have been in large containers?...
What do you think would happen to all of these? just dissapear silently?...
As they were making there way up the floors, Firefighter Schroeder heard a huge explosion. “The elevators just blew right out. We couldn’t believe it. The plane hits 80 floors up but the elevators explode at least five minutes later?"
"I guess about three minutes later you just heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions." [Craig Carlsen -- Firefighter (F.D.N.Y.)]
'Just before the collapses, a series of deep, below ground explosions, then numerous explosions in the buildings upper floors ...We felt the same deep explosions before the second collapse."
Originally posted by NewAgeMan
Are we to believe that the top portion CRUSHED the remaining structure, in about 3 or 4 seconds, since that is the only alloted time within which all the breakage and crushing could have occured.
Originally posted by JordanTwoDelta
Lol...EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read that. But I was yelling it.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Originally posted by JordanTwoDelta
What if it was an echo? What if it was a lie? What if it was the smoke monster? What if it was reverb from an alternate universe where the towers did collapse in more than 10 seconds? What if it was a mission of monkeys making all that racket behind the smoke?
Good one, that one should be added to the "aliens hit the tower with some laser type weapon" or "silent mini-nukes" were use type of claims.
BTW, if there were echoes don't you think the echoes of the explosions from when the planes hit would have been heard as well?
Originally posted by ka119
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'Just before the collapses, a series of deep, below ground explosions, then numerous explosions in the buildings upper floors ...We felt the same deep explosions before the second collapse."
Oh right, janitors closet chemicals. I forgot.
Try again.
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
Recently it seems to me that 9/11 Conspiracists have retreated to a point where they discuss only the "physics" of the collapse of the WTC towers. They brush aside the discussion of a grander conspiracy because the mechanics of the tower collapse are inherently suspisous. Any other argument is trumped by the fact that the towers cannot - simply cannot - have collapsed in the manner that they did.
So I would like to hear, in brief precis, why the collapse is impossible. Describe to me why, in simple terms, it cannot have happened without explosives.
Originally posted by sailiraq
If you measure the amount of time it took each brick to fall and the subtract and divide by a thousand (or a million, or the number of eggs the brick had to pass through) you'd have your answer.