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Reload this Page How Many Buildings Were Destroyed by the 9/11 Attacks?
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The entire WTC complex was destroyed on September 11, 2001, and many of the surrounding buildings were also either damaged or destroyed as the towers fell. 5 WTC suffered a large fire and a partial collapse of its steel structure.
Other buildings destroyed include St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Marriott World Trade Center (Marriott Hotel 3 WTC), South Plaza (4 WTC), and U.S. Customs (6 WTC). The World Financial Center buildings, 90 West Street, and 130 Cedar Street suffered fires. The Deutsche Bank Building, Verizon, and World Financial Center 3 suffered impact damage from the towers' collapse, as did 90 West Street. One Liberty Plaza survived structurally intact but sustained surface damage including shattered windows. 30 West Broadway was damaged by the collapse of 7 WTC. The Deutsche Bank Building, known through images of it being covered in a large black 'shroud' after September 11 to cover the building's damage, is currently being deconstructed[50] because of water, mold, and other severe damage caused by the neighboring towers' collapse.
5)The fact that GWB did not go into a secure area after being told they were being attacked and stayed in the school is for me the biggest evidence it was all part of a government sponsored attack.
Only 3 steel skyscrapers have ever collapsed due to structural fires... all 3 were in NYC on 9/11/01.
a reply to: kix
5)The fact that GWB did not go into a secure area after being told they were being attacked and stayed in the school is for me the biggest evidence it was all part of a government sponsored attack.
5)The fact that GWB did not go into a secure area after being told they were being attacked and stayed in the school is for me the biggest evidence it was all part of a government sponsored attack.
originally posted by: myss427
a reply to: firerescue
At least they have very large fires and rubble piles at the base when they collapsed! Not just a few floors.
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Is Much of the World Trade Center Missing?
Some conspiracy theorists claim that large amounts of the buildings were unaccounted for by the size of the rubble pile. Since only 12% of the building volume was solid, the towers should collapse into a pile 12% of the original height of the building, or just about 50 meters high. Since 18 meters of that pile would be filling the basement, the above-ground portion would be 32 meters high.
The actual rubble pile reached the fifth story of adjacent buildings, so well outside the footprint of the tower the pile was five stories, or about 15 meters high. The pile would have been roughly conical, and would have included a lot of void space, increasing its height and offsetting the larger diameter of the pile. Overall the rubble pile is what you'd expect.
So it simply isn't true that the rubble pile is only a small percentage of what would be expected. Some conspiracy sites allege that the rubble pile is only 5% of what would be expected. Others use a figure of 33% as the height of a rubble pile relative to the original building and then argue that the pile should have been 140 or so meters high. But when Controlled Demolition Inc. (www.controlled-demolition.com...) dropped a 23-story, 439-foot (134 m) building in Detroit in 1997, they ended up with a pile averaging 35 feet high (11 m) and a maximum of 60 feet (18 m) high. The rubble pile was an average of 8% of the height of the original building and a maximum of 14%. Scaling that up to the World Trade Center, we get heights of 33 to 58 meters. In other words, the rubble pile at the World Trade Center is totally in line with other large building collapses. 33% may work for a small building a few stories high, but a large building will compress the debris pile a lot more and also fill void spaces more effectively with pulverized debris.
911encyclopedia.com...
The last debris was processed on July 26, 2002, day 321 of the project. At the close of the Staten Island Landfill mission:
• 1,462,000 tons of debris had been received and processed
• 35,000 tons of steel had been removed (165,000 tons were removed directly at Ground Zero)
• 806,000 tons of debris had been screened, an average of 75 tons per hour
• 14,968 workers had been through the PPE process
• 43,600 people (39,795 NYPD, 6,212 non-NYPD) had been through the Site Specific Indoctrination
• Over 1.7 million man hours had been worked
• Over 55,000 discrete pieces of evidence had been recovered
What was the time line for people realizing hijackers were uncharacteristically crashing jet in purpose and notifying the NORAD?
There was foreknowledge of the attack and how they were going to do it.
originally posted by: kyleplatinum
a reply to: neutronflux
What was the time line for people realizing hijackers were uncharacteristically crashing jet in purpose and notifying the NORAD?
They had all the time they needed. There was foreknowledge of the attack and how they were going to do it.
Like I said before... Proof we let it happen was the fact the attack was carried out.
Drills.
originally posted by: myss427
a reply to: neutronflux
Yes was that for all 7 buildings though, the aerial photos on the day shows no where near that amount of rubble at the base of building 1 and 2, please check Judy Woods images on the link I sent you before.
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Failure of Welded Floor Truss Connections from the Exterior Wall during Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers
Failure of connections, as a result of overloading, occurred within the heat-affected zone of the base metal
originally posted by: Salander
a reply to: samkent
16 years later, if a person still believes the myth of the Official Conspiracy Theory, that person is not thinking clearly at all. Such a person is daily making an act of faith.
originally posted by: samkent
a reply to: Salander
16 years later, if a person still believes the myth of the Official Conspiracy Theory,
Still waiting for that proof of a conspiracy.
All I have seen is hand waving.