9/11 Debate

[kruddler]

That really should be the end of the debate.  Actually, it’s not a debate because you can’t debate a conspiracy theory lacking any credible scientific evidence  :

Hole 1....columns would need to be blasted to replicate what happened. Wrong.
"found no evidence whose explanation required invocation of a blast event." Moreover, the smallest charge capable of initiating column failure "would have resulted in a sound level of 130 dB [decibels] to 140 dB at a distance of at least half a mile." Witnesses did not report hearing such a loud noise, nor is one audible on recordings of the collapse.

Thermite requires no such blast and would do that easily. There is already evidence of thermite being found in nearby apartments who had their windows blown out.

There was also evidence of extremely high heat melting/cutting through steel that could not be caused by the temperatures of office furniture. Jury is very much out on if the fire can burn hot enough to cause the collapse described, even if going for 7 hours.

Today's report confirms that a fire was, indeed, the cause. "This is the first time that we are aware of, that a building taller than about 15 stories has collapsed primarily due to fires,"

3rd time ever if you include 2 hit by planes in WTC1 and WTC2.

No skyscrapers have fallen due to planes hitting them before 9/11 also. They are actually designed with this in mind.

Hole 2...collapse speed

Floor 13 collapsed, beginning a cascade of floor failures to Floor 5. Column 79, no longer supported by a girder, buckled, triggering a rapid succession of structural failures that moved from east to west. All 23 central columns, followed by the exterior columns, failed in what's known as a "progressive collapse"--that is, local damage that spreads from one structural element to another, eventually resulting in the collapse of the entire structure.

The collapse descibed is certainly possible and plausible. However, the speed in which it fell disproves this theory.

Floor collapsing on floor collapsing on floor is resistance upon resistance upon resistance.

However, speed it fell was free fall....that is, no resistance.

Physics backs all of this up.