The 9/11 conspiracy theories are themselves absolutely ridiculous and preposterous. Conspiracy theorists fight very hard to never get specific. They need to remain vague and mysterious, because as soon as we actually think about what they are saying, it makes no sense.
In fact, the idea of controlled demolition of the World Trade Center Twin Towers would be 100% impossible. It could not ever happen -- not ever.
9/11 conspiracy theorists specialize in nit-picking the reality of 9/11 that we all saw and witnessed.
Of course they have no evidence whatsoever of any conspiracy about the 9/11 attacks by anyone other than Al Qaeda. However, they try to find any loose end or rough edge or apparent inconsistency in the "official" (public, not government) account of 9/11. They never actually prove anything, but simply make accusations that something or other is less than 100% perfect.
But the one thing they never do is apply the same yardstick to their own ideas that they want to use for doubting the official, public account of 9/11.
The first impossibility about controlled demolition on 9/11 is that any explosives planted in the WTC Twin Towers would have been destroyed, prematurely detonated, or disabled by the aircraft impact, jet fuel explosion, and the one hour fire in one tower and 1.5 hour fire in the other tower.
News video shows that the collapse of the first World Trade Center Tower began right where the aircraft struck the building. The gaping wound in the side of the building began to close like a mouth.
So any controlled demolition would necessarily require explosives right at that point. However, that is exactly where the aircraft impact would have destroyed any explosives. The Boeing 757 aircraft weighed 140 tons fully loaded, and was traveling near its top speed of 540 miles per hour. The human mind cannot understand the gigantic amount of energy involved. Kinetic energy is based on the SQUARE of speed. That is, a car going 550 MPH has 100 times the energy of a car going 55 MPH.
Furthermore, a gigantic explosion of jet fuel ripped the interior of the WTC Towers apart. This was essentially a "fuel air bomb" -- the most powerful non-nuclear bomb known. "Fuel air bombs" are so devastating that international organizations are trying to get them banned as immoral. They are that powerful.
Leslie Robertson, the designer of the World Trade Center, points out the bomb that destroyed the Federal Building in the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing was the equivalent of 192 liters of jet fuel exploding. But the explosion of jet fuel inside the WTC Towers was 45,600 liters of jet fuel. So, the jet fuel explosion was 237.5 times the power of the bomb that destroyed the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City.
SEE: Original Engineer who Built WTC explains: (1) bomb that destroyed Oklahoma City Murrah Building equivalent of 192 liters of jet fuel, while airplanes that hit WTC had 45,600 liters. (2) No building can withstand aircraft impact
Therefore, the "fuel air bomb" of jet fuel exploding tore the insides of the buildings apart on a massive scale. The damage we could see on the outside was nothing compared to what happened inside.
As a result, no explosives planted in advance inside the buildings could possibly have survived that explosion. Any controlled demolition devices planted in the building would have been destroyed, disabled, or prematurely detonated.
Then, the fire raged in one tower for 1 hour and raged for 1.5 hours in the other tower. The fire again would have caused any explosives in the building to be destroyed or prematurely detonated out of sequence or at a minimum disabled by the melting of any electronic devices, control wires, detonator cord, etc.
So even if explosives had somehow been planted inside the Twin Towers, they could not have still been functional after the 1 hour fire in one tower and 1.5 hour fire in the other.
Second, the 9/11 conspiracy theorists depend on the idea that the collapse of the twin towers was unusually fast, unusually smooth, and straight down the centerline of the building, so that the building collapsed "within its footprint" - none of which is actually true.
Therefore, they insist that there must be complete destruction of every floor so that every floor offered no resistance to the fallig mass from above. The speed of collapse is determined in their minds by the lack of any resistance of the structure as it collapses.
So to meet the criteria of a controlled demolition as they argue it, there must be complete destruction of every support on every floor, so that each floor offers no resistance. Meanwhile, however, we see on the videos of the collapse that no floor moves until hit by the falling mass from above.
This requires that every floor must be destroyed SEPARATELY AND INDIVIDUALLY. We do not see groups of floors moving below as a mass. We do not see floors moving below the point of progressive collapse. We see the falling mass coming down, and only when it strikes a floor does that floor begin to move.
The support structure of the twin towers was made up of 268 steel support columns around the outside (perimeter) of the building and 47 relatively minor central columns inside the building, consisting mainly of the shells around the elevator shafts and stairwells. The 268 steel support columns around the outside held up the building, while the interior supports kept the buidling from swaying side to side in the wind.
Therefore, controlled demolition would require individual and separate demolition devices at 268 + 47 support columns ON EVERY FLOOR, because, again, we see each floor acting separately and individually as each floor is hit by the falling mass from above.
Again, complute destruction of all supports is mandatory for this scenario because the 9/11 conspiracy theorists depend upon their myth of extremely rapid collapse. Therefore, all the supports must be destroyed under this plan in order to meet their criteria.
Furthermore, the 9/11 nuts are fixated on their fantasy of a smooth collapse that "fell within its footprint." In fact, the collapse was chaotic and extremely messy and covered 16 times the footprint of the towers (16 acres was the debris field for the 1 acre footprint towers).
Therefore, every support would have to be destroyed completely and at precisely the right split-second, or the building would have tilted to one side or the other as it collapsed. Again, the reality is that the collapse was very messy. But the 9/11 nuts insist that the collapse was smooth, neat, and straight down.
As a result, the number of controlled demolition devices required is 268 steel support columns around the outside of the building + 47 interior supports on each floor times at least 70 floors = 22,050 demolition devices.
For both towers, that requires 44,100 controlled demolition devices.
And they would have to detonate with split-second precision. The nuts insist that the collapse was extremely rapid, consisting of only split seconds for each floor. That means that 268 +47 explosives would have to detonate on every floor at precisely the same time -- to avoid the building leaning over to one side or the other as it fell -- and in a split-second ballet of incredible precision. Once again, no floor moves until hit by the falling mass from above.
Such a controlled demolition is not possible. There would be a hundred miles of control wires necessary to control the explosives. There would be thousands of blasting caps found in the WTC rubble, along with miles of detonator cord.
Monday, November 16, 2009
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