Collapse of WTC 1, 2 and 7
Plague Puppy has a nice piece going over the collapses of the WTC 1 and 2 towers.
Basically, there are strong indications that the collapse was triggered by explosives. Look at the video of the south tower after the top part starts breaking off. The whole piece just blows apart into a cloud of dust. As I've said previously, I don't see how the pancake collapse model can explain that.
As I see it, the center core of the WTC was extremely strong, and even if the floors started collapsing, I think that they would break off from the inner core before the inner core completely gives in. The videos show a complete and violent disintegration of the towers that shows NO clear indication of floors collapsing on each other. What is actually seen is the tower disintegrating into dust. I could see this happening at the bottom if there was a floor-to-floor collapse. But at the top? How could there be enough energy to disintegrate the structure into fine dust at the top of the building?
I also have to think that the engineers of the WTC twin towers purposely engineered the building very strongly. At the time they were built, they were the largest skyscrapers in the world. You have to think they would have double or even triple engineered the buildings so they would withstand almost anything. Surely they didn't want to take any chances on the design or on the construction-- they built those towers to last.
For all these reasons, I am as convinced as ever that the WTC twin towers were blown up by a mechanism independent of the plane crashes.
As far as WTC7, Eric Hufschmid in his book "Painful Questions" reminds us that WTC7 was unusual in that there were several large fuel storage tanks on in the building AND that the building was built over a power generator and power substation. I had read this a long time back, and forgot about it. It's not clear how this fits into the collapse of WTC7, but it may be part of the story.
However, the WTC7 collpase is so amazingly even and smooth, it's hard to see how it occurred in the ABSENCE of controlled demolition.
Basically, there are strong indications that the collapse was triggered by explosives. Look at the video of the south tower after the top part starts breaking off. The whole piece just blows apart into a cloud of dust. As I've said previously, I don't see how the pancake collapse model can explain that.
As I see it, the center core of the WTC was extremely strong, and even if the floors started collapsing, I think that they would break off from the inner core before the inner core completely gives in. The videos show a complete and violent disintegration of the towers that shows NO clear indication of floors collapsing on each other. What is actually seen is the tower disintegrating into dust. I could see this happening at the bottom if there was a floor-to-floor collapse. But at the top? How could there be enough energy to disintegrate the structure into fine dust at the top of the building?
I also have to think that the engineers of the WTC twin towers purposely engineered the building very strongly. At the time they were built, they were the largest skyscrapers in the world. You have to think they would have double or even triple engineered the buildings so they would withstand almost anything. Surely they didn't want to take any chances on the design or on the construction-- they built those towers to last.
For all these reasons, I am as convinced as ever that the WTC twin towers were blown up by a mechanism independent of the plane crashes.
As far as WTC7, Eric Hufschmid in his book "Painful Questions" reminds us that WTC7 was unusual in that there were several large fuel storage tanks on in the building AND that the building was built over a power generator and power substation. I had read this a long time back, and forgot about it. It's not clear how this fits into the collapse of WTC7, but it may be part of the story.
However, the WTC7 collpase is so amazingly even and smooth, it's hard to see how it occurred in the ABSENCE of controlled demolition.
posted by spooked at 6:57 PM
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