that's the whole point of his post.spidergoat said:How do we know your lies aren't the distraction?
ever hear of a disinformation agent?
that's the whole point of his post.spidergoat said:How do we know your lies aren't the distraction?
I'm trying to figure this out. During 911 a building of the World Trade Center fell down just like the twin towers, but no planes hit it. Other than a fire on a couple levels nothing seemed to be wrong with it. It went straight down just like the towers. Has anyone heard an explanation about this?
During the collapse of the twin towers, the catastrophic damage to the foundations coupled with the tidal-wave of debris that flushed outward from the bottom during their collapse caused the other tower to fatigue and fall as well.
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Can you please provide a link to any information that indicates an official investigation was done on building 7. Thank you in advance.
As the North Tower collapsed, debris hit 7 WTC "with the force of a volcanic eruption."[16] Much of the bottom 10 stories of the building's south face were destroyed, with damage visible as high as the 18th floor. A massive fire burned into the afternoon on the 11th and 12th floors of 7 World Trade Center, with flames visible on the east side of the building.[17][18] Around 2 o'clock in the afternoon, firefighters noticed a bulge in the southwest corner of 7 World Trade Center, between the 10 and 13th floors, which was a sign that the building was unstable and might collapse.[19] During the afternoon, FDNY Chief Daniel Nigro made the decision to halt rescue operations, surface removal and searches along the surface of the debris near 7 World Trade Center and evacuate the area, out of concerns for the safety of personnel.[20] At 5:20 p.m. EDT on September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center collapsed. It had been evacuated and there were no casualties associated with the collapse of 7 WTC.
In May 2002, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report on the collapse, based on a preliminary investigation conducted jointly with the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, under leadership of Dr. W. Gene Corley, P.E.[5] FEMA made preliminary findings that the collapse was primarily caused by fires on multiple stories (which were started by debris from the other two towers), and not by the actual impact damage from the collapse of 1 WTC and 2 WTC. The report noted that, before this collapse, there had been little, if any, record of the fire-induced collapse of a large fire-protected steel building, such as 7 WTC.
The report did not reach final conclusions about the cause of the collapse, but listed several issues requiring further investigation. FEMA made these findings:
Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires on the 5th to 7th floors. The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyzes are needed to resolve this issue. [Ch. 5, p. 31.]
In response to FEMA's concerns, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made a three-year, US$24-million investigation into the structural failure and collapse of several WTC structures, including 7 World Trade Center. The study drew not only on in-house technical expertise but also the knowledge of several outside private institutions, including the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (SEI/ASCE), the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY).[21]
NIST has released video and still-photo analysis of Building 7 before its collapse that appears to indicate a greater degree of structural damage from falling debris than originally assumed by FEMA. Specifically, the NIST's interim report on 7 WTC displays photographs of the southwest façade of the building that show it to have significant damage. The NIST interim report on 7 WTC details a 10-story gash that existed on the south façade, extending a third of the way across the face of the building and approximately a quarter of the way into the interior, but does not provide any photographs of the damage to the south façade.[2] A unique aspect of the design of 7 WTC was that each outer structural column was responsible for supporting 2,000 square feet (186 square meters) of floor space, suggesting that the simultaneous removal of a number of columns would severely compromise the structure's integrity. Consistent with this theory, news footage shows visible cracking and bowing of the building's east wall immediately before the collapse, which began at the penthouse floors.[2]
NIST anticipates the release of a draft report of 7 WTC by the end of 2007.[22][23] NIST released a progress report in June 2004, outlining its working hypothesis, which was that a local failure in a critical column, caused by damage from either fire or falling debris from the collapses of the two towers, progressed first vertically and then horizontally to result in "a disproportionate collapse of the entire structure".[24][25] In a New York magazine interview in March 2006, Dr S. Shyam Sunder, NIST's lead WTC disaster investigator, said, of 7 World Trade Center, "We are studying the horizontal movement east to west, internal to the structure, on the fifth to seventh floors”; he added "But truthfully, I don’t really know. We’ve had trouble getting a handle on Building No. 7".[26]
Despite FEMA's preliminary finding that fire caused the collapse, conspiracy theorists believe the building seven collapse was the result of a controlled demolition.[27][28] When asked about controlled demolition theories, Dr. Sunder said, "We consulted 80 public-sector experts and 125 private-sector experts. It is a Who’s Who of experts. People look for other solutions. As scientists, we can’t worry about that. Facts are facts."[29] In answer to the question of whether "a controlled[-]demolition hypothesis is being considered to explain the collapse", NIST said that, "[w]hile NIST has found no evidence of a blast or controlled demolition event, it would like to determine the magnitude of hypothetical blast scenarios that could have led to the structural failure of one or more critical elements."[23]
For those interested in what physics and demolition experts have said regarding WTC 7’s collapse, as detailed in our book Debunking 9/11 Myths, Popular Mechanics offers these notes:
1. Initial reports from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) misunderstood the amount of damage the 47-floor WTC7 sustained from the debris of the falling North Tower—because in early photographs, WTC7 was obscured by smoke and debris.
Towers 1 and 7 were approximately 300 ft. apart, and pictures like the ones here and here offer a clear visual of how small that distance is for structures that large. After further studies, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) told Popular Mechanics that debris from the 110-floor North Tower hit WTC7 with the force of a volcanic eruption. Nearly a quarter of the building was carved away over the bottom 10 stories on its south face, and significant damage was visible up to the 18th floor (see p. 24 of this report, and the screengrab below of an image of WTC7's damaged south face).
The unusual design of WTC7 is also crucial to the discussion, in that key columns supported extreme loads—as much as 2000 sq. ft. of floor area for each floor—as the building straddled an electrical substation. “What our preliminary analysis has shown is that if you take out just one column on one of the lower floors,” NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder told Popular Mechanics, “it could cause a vertical progression of collapse so that the entire section comes down.” The tower wasn’t hit by a plane, but it was severely wounded by the collapse of the North Tower. Which is when the fires started.
2. The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center weren’t knocked down by planes—they both stood for more than a half-hour after the impacts. But the crashes destroyed support columns and ignited infernos that ultimately weakened—not melted—the steel structures until the towers could no longer support their own weights (NIST offers a primer here). Ms. O’Donnell fundamentally misstates the case with her use of the word “melted”: Evidence currently points to WTC7 also collapsing because fires weakened its ravaged steel structure.
Tower 7 housed the city’s emergency command center, so there were a number of fuel tanks located throughout the building—including two 6000-gal. tanks in the basement that fed some generators in the building by pressurized lines. “Our working hypothesis is that this pressurized line was supplying fuel [to the fire] for a long period of time,” according to Sunder. Steel melts at about 2,750 degrees Fahrenheit—but it loses strength at temperatures as low as 400 F. When temperatures break 1000 degrees F, steel loses nearly 50 percent of its strength. It is unknown what temperatures were reached inside WTC7, but fires in the building raged for seven hours before the collapse.
3. Demolition experts tell Popular Mechanics that wiring a building the size of WTC7 for clandestine demolition would present insurmountable logistical challenges. That issue aside, there’s a clear-cut engineering explanation for why the building fell the way it did. Trusses on the fifth and seventh floors of the building were designed to transfer loads from one set of columns to another; with the south face heavily damaged, the other columns were likely overtaxed. In engineering terms, the “progressive collapse” began on the eastern side, when weakened columns failed from the damage and fire. The entire building fell in on itself as the slumping east side dragged down the west side in a diagonal pattern. Still, damage to the Verizon Building (see p. 21 of this report), directly west of WTC7, and to Fiterman Hall (see here) directly north, show that it was hardly an orderly collapse.
NIST is currently preparing its final report on the collapse of WTC7, which is expected to be released this spring. In order to address concerns of conspiracy theorists, the organization added “Hypothetical Blast Analysis” to its research, according to a December 2006 progress report. The report also points out that “NIST has found no evidence of a blast or controlled demolition.”
I know I quote a lot of people that I claim to know (which I will admit, does nothing to prove or disprove what I say), but I'll recount what I was told by an ex of mine, Jay, who is a chopper pilot with the NYPD and who was on the ground that day. He laughs hysterically at the notion of a conspiracy... I trust him because he was there and he would know. He was also sanding about a block away from WTC 7 on Church street when the engineers were first brought in to investigate why Number 7 was buldging from the middle. Again, you have only my words on this fact, but a cover up of this magnitude would have meant buying off my blabby mouthed ex lover who can't keep his trap shut to save his life. Just as importantly-- HUNDREDS of people would have needed to be bought off to cover this up. It didn't happen.
Can you please provide a link to any information that indicates an official investigation was done on building 7. Thank you in advance.
Question, Ganymede-- is there anything in your world that doesn't happen as a result of government conspiracy?
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Please show me the flashes of explosives going off that accompany a controlled demolition, otherwise STFU.
You have nothing to back up your arguments with but human testimony, which is ultimately doomed to being wrong/controversial/incorrect, and many other people have testified the opposite of what the people you quoted have said. At this point, you either need to show me some explosions, or get the hell out of here.
Please show me the flashes of explosives going off that accompany a controlled demolition, otherwise STFU. You have nothing to back up your arguments with but human testimony, which is ultimately doomed to being wrong/controversial/incorrect, and many other people have testified the opposite of what the people you quoted have said. At this point, you either need to show me some explosions, or get the hell out of here.
building 7 did not fall like buildings 1 and 2, not even close.I'm trying to figure this out. During 911 a building of the World Trade Center fell down just like the twin towers, but no planes hit it.
pieces of one of the planes hit the building, plus pieces from 1 and 2.Other than a fire on a couple levels nothing seemed to be wrong with it.
how else was it supposed to fall? follow an ess curve?It went straight down just like the towers
yes. all buildings fall straight down. it has something to do with gravity.Has anyone heard an explanation about this?
I think it's getting more and more convoluted. One could always propose another layer of disinformation...
It would be simple to check ground zero for radiation. But NIST already analyzed the cause of the tower's collapse, and they are ordinary scientists, my father worked there for 20 years, and I visited there often as a child, he probably knows the scientists that worked on this project, too.
That explains why you are trying so hard to cover up any truth that comes up about 911. Either you or your father or both of you, took part in the 911 planing and execution. Or may be Bush has paid you to cover up his 911 mess.