oh yeah, all of that dust just charging through...oh wait you're right...the twin towers were all over the place downtown and not in one spot...so that other building had to catch on fire. must have been the power of god.
If you think that the towers pulverized
completely into dust as they fell, you're deluded.
Here's a nifty map of the site before
And here's some aerial photos after the fact.
See how heavily damaged 6 WTC is? 7 WTC was only something like 300 feet from the towers. The towers were nearly 1500 ft tall and contrary to popular belief did not fall exactly straight down. Based on the picture above is it that hard to believe that 7 WTC suffered some structural damage in the collapse of the towers?
That coupled with the somewhat unusual load transfer scheme utilized in 7 WTC lead to a situation where the fires (fueled by both gas lines and the fuel tanks from backup generators in the building) weakend the remaining structure enough to cause a collapse.
People talk on and on about "why didn't 5 and 6 WTC collapse despite the damage." The answer is their different structural design. 5 and 6 WTC were simply more damage tolerant designs than 7 WTC.
Long story short is that all these conspiracy theories come from people who have absolutely no clue WTF they're talking about. They have a pre-conceived notion of "how things are supposed to work" based on "common sense" which applies not one iota to the realities of physics and engineering. There are many phenomena in both areas that run completely counter to what intuition and "common sense" say they should...
These things I'm bringing up are blindingly obvious if you've ever done structural analysis
find me the video then, i don't recall watching any steel beams hitting the other building.
You know that massive cloud of dust you keep talking about, just think about what that does to what you can see.....
Anyone care to explain Building 7? Or why there are/were traces of explosives (Termite) in the dust at Ground Zero?
Thermite is not an explosive, not even close. Its a mixture of powdered aluminum and iron oxide used primarily for welding applications. The reaction involves the heat from the burning aluminum releasing the oxygen from the iron oxide, which then feeds the flame, increasing the temps to the point necessary to weld thick steel, while at the same time releasing molten iron to serve as the fill material of the weld
If someone found "traces" of thermite, that means they found aluminum and steel. Where oh where could those come from when an airplane thats 98% aluminum crashes into a building thats 75% steel"? :willy_nilly:
For 7 WTC see above.
What about those who heard explosions coming from the bottom of the towers before the planes hit and why were those eye-witness accounts left out of the Commission report?
People are stupid in general and eye-witness accounts are notoriously unreliable. There are people convinced they heard explosions when the levys broke in NO too but its a bunch of BS. It basically amounts to people convincing themselves they heard/saw things they didn't as our mind is more than willing to play tricks on us.
How about newscasters saying it takes 45minutes to get a fighter jet in the air? Really??? Really????
Thats exactly right. They're not like cars where you walk out, turn the key and go. It takes effort and money to keep fighters on alert status where they can take off on extremely short notice. We pretty much stopped keeping fighters on alert status at the end of the cold war up until 9/11. I guarantee now fighters could be put in the air in 5-10 minutes.
I know one thing. One never believes what the government says lock, stock & barrel. That would be foolish. That they were quick to label any questioner 'UnPatriotic' says much. That's a page from Goebbels.
I don't either, but all the official reports, simulations, etc etc, jive with how structures and materials behave as I've learned them in my education and training as an engineer...
