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That's the essential conundrum, innit? The majority of conspiracy theories I have encountered require faking an event well enough to fool professionals, but poorly enough so the average man can detect the fake.
To give them credit, the conspirologists sometimes argue that the professionals are the _least_ capable of seeing a fake as their professional expectations blind them to the obvious. I do not find this a credible argument -- at the very least, part of what makes a professional is the ability to make dispassionate observations (to at the very least understand the role of observer bias). Perhaps more at the heart of the conundrum is that reality is not constrained by expectations. This is why that which screams "fake" to the untrained observer is often that which convinces the trained observer. Following this further leads into that strange place where the only version of the WTC collapses or the Apollo landing that would be acceptable to the "average, untrained" observer -- or, rather, the typical hoax claiment -- is one that is physically preposterous and easily unveiled as such by anyone with a minimal education. The only remaining path for the conspiracy believer is to assume that science and engineering are nothing but "opinion"; rote learning, assumptions based on dusty textbooks and promulgated by professional associations but never, ever compared to reality. And that the skill and observation and, yeah, intellect of space scientists and astronauts and civil engineers and architects is essentially no more than that which the conspiracy believer uses to run checkout at Walgreens. Only then can they find supportable their idea that since the towers did not collapse in the way their gut instinct tells them they should have, all the people who's job it is to know exactly how those towers should have behaved are confused, misled, or glibly lying.
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Well the thing I find the funniest is that the South Tower Collapse is like no Controlled Demo I have ever seen. The outer walls basically peeled like a banana spraying debris out over the nearby areas. Falling into it's own footprint, my foot. I often wonder if the CT's actually read what they write. They contradict themselves left and right, and say the most dumb things, even after it's pointed out to them multiple times they still seem incapable of getting basic facts correct. It's like they deliberately go out of their way to get things wrong.
Take the "engine fan" from the pentagon. The only engine it was specifically stated as not coming from was the very engine for that craft that the "missile" group claims it was from, the Global Hawk. And that's from their own sources. I think we really do need an emoticon of banging someone else's head on a wall, this one doesn't quite cut it. ![]()
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The FEMA report on the WTC 7 collapse says: "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 analyses are needed to resolve this issue." In a nut shell, FEMA has no idea why WTC 7 collapsed. Allow me to reiterate on what I said about the collapses before... "Look at it this way, if it was that easy to fell skyscrapers into their own footprint, don't you think that building demolition experts would be doing it that way too? Just blow a hole in the side of it, set it on fire, the whole structure falls straight to the ground. Or in the case of WTC 7, just set it on fire. It's not gonna' happen." |
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Think about it this way. You can build a coffee table with the use of a flat top and 4 round legs. If you accidently break a leg, the table will still stand, though you'd have to be careful with it. If however you build a coffee table with just two solid rectangular legs, one at each end, and then break one, you're got no chance of making it stand up. Both suffered the similar damage, but you get a different result because of the construction. The four legged table has redundancy, the two legged one doesn't. The same thing hppens in buildings. Whereas most have 150% plus, the WTC buildings had about 110% which ws quickly overcome by the progressive damage. Finally. Demo Compnies are hired to do a job for certain reasons. First they need to determine how to bring down a building without damage to the surroundings and safely for the people in the area. Secondly they need to determine the best way to do that and the way that is most effiecent. The WTC collapses were neither. They were ineffecient ways of collapsing a building and did severe damage to the surrounding areas (Building 4 and 6 had to be dismantled because they were irrepairable.) In the end using the same logic as your argument we might as well say, that since a Tornado can level a house, why bother dismantling one to get rid of it, just wait for a tornado to hit it.
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I’ve been thinking about the idea that toppling buildings should collapse to the ground intact, spraying their debris around the impact point. This appears to be the instinctive view of people who are suspicious of the fate of WTC 1 and 2.
Footage of demolished buildings is the sort of thing that occasionally crops up on the evening news, probably because it looks impressive. Now I know I’ve seen footage of tall brick industrial chimneys being demolished, and the process seems to go something like this: an explosive charge is set off at the base of the chimney; the chimney tilts; when the chimney is tilted somewhere between 30 and 60 degrees, it begins to fragment; and at the end, the fragmented chimney smacks into the ground. In other words, what strikes the ground still has roughly the shape of the chimney, but most of the brickwork is broken up, with groups of bricks, or individual bricks, all following slightly different paths to the ground. I suspect that 9/11 conspiracy theorists are expecting that WTC 1 and 2 should have done much the same thing as I described above. What they see instead is (in the first collapse) the top part of the building start to topple, then have the whole thing plummet vertically. They’re suspicious that the toppling doesn’t continue. I think I can see where the disconnect occurs, and to explain it I’m going to call on that most famous sinking ship, the Titanic. When the wreck of the Titanic was discovered, I know I was surprised to hear that it had split into two parts. But the key to the reason was contained in the descriptions of the sinking which circulated before the wreck was found: at one point in the sinking, the rising stern dropped back towards the horizontal, and people at the time seem to have attributed this to the way the ship was flooded. What instead had happened was that the ship split in two. The stern was lifted high out of the water. More than ten thousand tons of steel and ship fittings were standing up at a severe angle out of the water. The Titanic’s structure was designed to be supported by water, and lifting it out of the water subjected it to strains it wasn’t intended to bear. As a result, the ship sheared near the fulcrum – the point where support was removed – the point where the ship entered water. And the shear was strong enough to completely rip the ship into two main parts. The same effect could be achieved if the ship (possibly any ship) was moved half way into a dry dock, and the dry dock was lifted out of the water. Half the ship would be supported by the dock, and would happily sit where it was. The other half of the ship, hanging out over the end of the dry dock, would sag as soon as the dry dock was lifted. The same thing with large buildings. Conspiracy theorists seem to want the building to collapse to the ground intact or near intact, like the chimney. Instead, almost as soon as the structure was subjected to strain beyond its design envelope, it shattered. As a result, the constituent pieces fell with a ballistic trajectory set up by the previous motion of the whole. A lot fell onto the structure below, and was caught up in the general collapse. But the material which had started to fall outside the building’s footprint is what landed away from the footprint. |
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It all just seems so simply a matter of the buildings not doing what somebody thinks they should do, thus looking at the entire event with suspicion even if their expectations are flatly wrong.
In that respect the 911 and moon hoax conspiracies have much in common, IMO. Last edited by twinstead; 22-December-2005 at 11:04 AM.. |
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Exactly.
With HB's you have them going "I expect to see stars in the photos, and they aren't there. Regardless of what the experts and laws of physics say, I expect stars and since they ren't there it was all faked." With 9/11 CT's you get "I expect a building to react to fire and plane crashes in a certain way and it didn't. It doesn't matter what the Experts and laws of physics say, I expected it to do it my way and since it didn't it must have been faked."
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FEMA has all but rejected that hypothesis...
No, FEMA declined to state a conclusion citing insufficient evidence and investigation. That hasn't stopped other people from carrying out additional investigation. You're adept at pointing out the people who declined to comment, but you're ignoring the people who are on record. Further, I said nothing about diesel fuel or anything else. My point is simply that we have a plausible failure progression, and that the aerosol puffs seen during the failure progression are an expected and explicable effect of such a progression. There is no need to resort to unsubstantiated, counter-indicated, and unparsimonious theories to account for it. Look at it this way, if it was that easy to fell skyscrapers into their own footprint, don't you think that building demolition experts would be doing it that way too? Just blow a hole in the side of it, set it on fire, the whole structure falls straight to the ground. Or in the case of WTC 7, just set it on fire. None of the buildings discussed "fell into their own footprint". |
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Actually, they did fall "into their own footprint" since they fell straight down and didn't topple over.
The fact that the collapse of the towers damaged surrounding structures is a given considering that WTC 1 & 2 were 110 stories tall. Surely no one is suggesting that a professional demolition crew could have brought the twin towers down into a neat and tidy pile of rubble? |
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Now if you -do- mean that they didn't topple over, explain why they should have? All the buildings I have seen that have toppled over only did so with demolision crews organising them to do so. Buildings that have fallen by themselves all go straight down due to gravity.
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The link below is a video showing WTC 7 collapse from a different angle. It also shows the bottom begins to collapse while the floors above remain intact. http://www.pixparty.com/turbonium/in...&videoid=10876 |
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What it says is... ""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 analyses are needed to resolve this issue." What it says is that the "hypothesis' for the collapse of WTC no. 7 has a "low probability." Sounds to me like there was an investigation. |
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The old FEMA report says "Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue." That is that same as saying that they have had "insufficient investigation" to resolve them.
Again the question has to be, why do you rely on the older FEMA report and yet totally ignore more recent ones such as NIST's 2005 release that have had the Further research, investigation, and analyses FEMA was suggesting?
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But let's just imagine that the collapse started on the 4th or 5th floor, as the FEMA report theorises. What would happen then? The way I see it, the penthouse collapses because its support has been undermined. (This is the way castle towers were brought down in medieval sieges - by removing the support.) As a result, you'll see the first signs of failure around the 4th or 5th floor, and the signs will move up the building as each floor has the material supporting it removed from beneath. So the penthouse collapse isn't the cause of these dust puffs. Instead the penthouse collapse and the dust puffs have the same cause - failure progressing its way up the building. |
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In this case, many, many, mnay buildings collapased straight down. There are far more then this too, from Brooklyn, Korea, Japan, Israel, Germany, Lebanon and more. Now, show why you believe that the WTC should have toppled over rather then falling directly down.
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