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Originally posted by ANOK
Originally posted by Varemia
No one ever knows exactly how a building will collapse. There was no precedence for any of the circumstances on 9/11. Have you forgotten that?
Actually yes we do know how a building will collapse when not rigged with explosives, it will not collapse completely and mostly land in it's own footprint. We KNOW it takes a lot of work to get a building to collapse that way.
You seem to be unable to grasp that fact.
There is plenty of precedence for steel framed building fires, and plenty of known physical facts that contradict what you claim.
There is no precedence for a steel framed building collapsing into it's own footprint from fire, thus no one could have made that claim before it happened. No one on Gods Earth could have made the claim that the building was going to collapse into it's own footprint, no professional would do that. They either meant the building was at risk of localised collapses, or someone who new the building was going to be completely collapsed leaked that info to reduce the risk of more deaths.
No one could have predicted a complete collapse, period. So obviously they didn't mean what you want to think they did.
Originally posted by Varemia
So all the people expecting it to collapse were just pretending they were expecting a collapse? The collapse perimeter was imaginary?
You're making a point that makes no sense, ANOK. You're saying that they couldn't have predicted that the building would collapse completely and into its footprint (it didn't land completely in its footprint anyway), and that's not even relevant! When you expect a building to collapse, it doesn't matter if it collapses in, out, left, or right. The point is that it will collapse, and that the fact that they don't know exactly how is why they set up such a large perimeter!
So all the people expecting it to collapse were just pretending they were expecting a collapse? The collapse perimeter was imaginary?
You ask me how anyone could predict the collapse the way it happened, but no one predicted it would happen that way. I don't see the point you are arguing.
Originally posted by Juanxlink
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Originally posted by maxella1
reply to post by Varemia
So all the people expecting it to collapse were just pretending they were expecting a collapse? The collapse perimeter was imaginary?
Are you seriously having trouble understanding this?
Look a building in Brooklyn partially collapsed and the surrounding buildings were evacuated... Does that mean they expected the building to totally destroy itself all the way to the ground in a matter of seconds? Why else would they establish a collapse perimeter and evacuate the surrounding buildings...?
Just so you remember, no building ever sustained damage and fire like WTC 7 did. Read this one more time for comprehension. Damage and fire. Not just fire. Damage. Good, now that I've helped you see what factor might contribute to an unexpected result, we can maybe move on?
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Nothing is ever likely until it happens.
Originally posted by maxella1
We also know that if one side of a skyscraper is completely intact it cannot collapse at the same speed as the side which is damaged.
Originally posted by maxella1
I don't follow the OS but im still here... Why do you think I'm not banned yet?
Originally posted by Varemia
Originally posted by maxella1
We also know that if one side of a skyscraper is completely intact it cannot collapse at the same speed as the side which is damaged.
There are no videos of the South side of the WTC 7 during the collapse. Where are you getting this info from?
Originally posted by Varemia
reply to post by maxella1
There are very distinct differences between the demolitions and WTC 7. Can you not see them? The simulation was meant to simulate the initialization of collapse minus the external facade of the structure. That's why you see the extreme deformation, but the main collapse mechanism is the same.
Originally posted by Classified Info
Originally posted by maxella1
I don't follow the OS but im still here... Why do you think I'm not banned yet?
Because you are one heckofa guy.
Seriously, I really mean that.
Originally posted by maxella1
reply to post by GoodOlDave
Possibly. The last discussion on that topic I can recall was entirely over what eyewitnesses were saying about WTC 7. It ignored what eyewitnesses were saying about the towers (I.E. NYPD helicopter pilots reporting the columns at the WTC impact areas were glowing red from the fires and looked like they were going to collapse). Was that you?
www.abovetopsecret.com...
If you want to talk about NYPD helicopter pilots you should first actually read what they were saying..
NYPD aviation did not foresee the collapse of the South Tower, though at 9:55 a.m., four minutes before the collapse, a helicopter pilot radioed that a large piece of the South Tower looked like it was about to fall. Immediately after the collapse of the South Tower, a helicopter pilot radioed that news. This transmission was followed by others, beginning at 10:08 a.m., warning that the North Tower might collapse, beginning at 10:08, 18 minutes before the building fell. These calls reinforced the urgency of the NYPD’s evacuation of the area.
For some reason there's no mention of any glowing red column at the impact area.
Minutes after the south tower collapsed at the World Trade Center, police helicopters hovered near the remaining tower to check its condition. "About 15 floors down from the top, it looks like it's glowing red," the pilot of one helicopter, Aviation 14, radioed at 10:07 a.m. "It's inevitable."
Seconds later, another pilot reported: "I don't think this has too much longer to go. I would evacuate all people within the area of that second building."
Exactly... You say that the are not talking about explosives even though they use words like bombs and secondary explosions. And I'm saying that when firefighters say that buildings had fires and damage they are not talking about a complete collapse possibility.