I'm going to pick on that one, because it comes up so often and is so easily handled - by my stopwatch, double checked with frame calculations at the time, the buildings took more than 11 seconds to drop (on the high side - well over 10 on the low side) That is almost 40% more time than free fall. Furthermore, the drop speed did not increase much after about the halfway point.
It's a bit difficult to measure, because most of the time is used up in the initial few feet before it gets rolling, so the exact moment of beginning collapse is critical - and obscured by smoke. Also, the exact moment of ground contact is completely hidden by billowing debris and other buildings. If you try to go by the seismic records, keep in mind that the big impact was from the floor level just above the plane strike - you can't use that to compare with the very top of the builidng fall time, many floors above. The sections above the strike fell as a unit in both buildings. (Demolition experts rigging the whole thing would had to have known the exact floors the planes would strike).
Lol, I would tend to think it's just your personality.
Just a hunch.
You come across as kind of ignorant.
You have probly heard this before I'm sure....just guessing.
I would put you on ignore too if you weren't so cute and entertaining.
I can not speak on all of the little intricacies of the falling of the twin towers and how and why they fell like they did.
The issues that do concern me however are...
-Building 7 collapsing the way it did...
-The owner of these 3 towers (Silverstein)taking out a huge insurance policy just a few months before the attack ,putting in an extra clause for terrorist attacks and making a 7,000,000,000 (yes 7 billion) on his measily 15 million dollar investment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9BofDUXv0
And Bush just decided to "give him a hand", did he? Thought he'd stop by and ram planes loaded with civilians into the Towers, eh? To which end? Ah - the invasion of Iraq, no? And yet the reason trumpeted in the media was the WMDs...which there weren't any of. What a logical conspiracy plan...not. Silverstein only got the $7 billion by suing people and making a nuisance of himself in court, I might add.
I started off the first link noting the classic Larry Silverstein misquote - "pull" meaning "pull the firefighters out", unless you also then accept his complete quote:
"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were going to be able to contain the fire, and I said "you know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it", and they made that decision - to pull - and we watched the building collapse"
Well, well. I seem to have come across something else the conspiracy industry has missed in their rush to sell DVDs. But first, note his rationale for why the firefighters had to be pulled out, which completely agrees with the failure of water pressure and the FEMA statement.
Now - note the bolded text. So, taking Mr. Silverstein's words at complete face value - as you do in your unjudicious view - the fire department made the decision to "pull" the towers? They decided that? So now the fire department is in on it too?
I will say this: the presentation of the film is frighteningly biased. "Unidentified smoke"...which emerged in a giant plume visible in every video of the building. The film says that "no firefighters were in the building", and then says they were pulled out and then attempts to use this complete and obvious falsehood to say that the FEMA report contradicts. And so and so on. Even in the end your expert decides to go with his impression ("the same day? are you sure? the 11th?") rather than accept that it wasn't demolition. (They certainly had to go far for that interview, didn't they? ) The calm, placid way that the film delivers falsehood after falsehood is a real credit to blind credulity of "Troofers".
There are way more points that I personly find to be...nothing short of...well, I just can't wrap my head around it.
Yes. I can tell.
No. You all lose. Please explain how a job that would require virtually tearing apart two of the worlds largest publicly occupied buildings was done in order to do a controlled demo. And no one noticed until after 9-11?Is that it, that's your response?
Good for you geoffy, lol.
I win.
Just a note. One of the links Ganymede provided had a woman "scientist" saying, with no equations or justification, that the floors above didn't have nearly the kinetic energy required to cause those below to start collapsing. Gimme a fucking break.
I think he needs some more convincing sources...
Sheesh.
Oh. Ok.Hey Super, I didn't actually mean the "I win" part to all of those who disagree, only towards geoffy cause he seems like he kind of likes that "my dad can beat up your dad" type of communication...lol
Hi pot.Pot, meet Kettle.
Is that it, that's your response?
Good for you geoffy, you spin so well you should be a reporter, lol.
It really comes across as though your talking to hear yourself speak, cause no one else wants to listen...lol
You come across as much too biased yourself and are too interested in trying to appear witty or superior with your subtle slanders which makes myself very uninterested in carrying out any further forms of direct communication with you.
It's not your opinions, it's your personality that is unattractive and distasteful.
Don't be offended, this is what we call constructive criticism.
Maybe you don't know your being an ass.
So for shitz n giggles in this instance I will speak to you directly since you seem to want the attention...
what about the insurance claim taken out just before 9/11 with specific clauses added to include acts of terrorsim specificaly?
What about the lying of Bush and other high up officials of saying they had no idea that airliners could be used as weapons when those very exact drills including the pentagon were indeed practiced repeatedly?
What about the stand down of NORAD(first time in history) and the twin tower drills THE MORNING of 9/11?
If this doesn't even make you blink...then what's really even the point of speaking with you?
Hey Super, I didn't actually mean the "I win" part to all of those who disagree, only towards geoffy cause he seems like he kind of likes that "my dad can beat up your dad" type of communication...lol
Nah, Geoff is just demoralized because he can't provide any evidence of any other building collapsing to fire.
When I approach a convuluted challenge like this. I tend to fall back on Occam's Razor.
We can believe 2 series of theories.
The first one being
1) The First time in the Planets History that a steel building collapsed to fire.
2) That the president was more concearned about the safe children in the classroom then the thousands of innocent americans that were being burned alive as he stood an waited.
3)The Worlds greatest radar system to ever go online, lost track of the Hijacked Planes.
4) The US military was unable to intercept the second plane, even though it was up in the air for an hour after the first plane attacked.
5) The Airforce was unable to intercept the plane that hit the pentagon, even though Andrews airforce base is located less then 10 mintues away.
6) You must also believe that Pentagon doesn't have a clear video of the alleged plane that hit it. Only a grainy amatuer UFO style video that shows a foggy blur at best. No satelite videos, not security cams, NADA.
Or we can believe this.
1)This was a inside job.
The simpilist explination is theory number 2 no doubt.
No geoff, right from the start, your just not worth the time...sorry bro.
Your just too much of an ass.