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Originally posted by Zaphod58
Well let's see, looking at the ENTIRE 9/11 event....
You have 30 hours to wire two buildings with explosives, three if you count WTC 7. (Remember, there is a claim that the WTC was powered down for 30 hours) That's going to require several hundred people per building to place explosives and wire them up. And all of those people are gonna know what they were placing them for.
You have the people that supposedly flew the planes by remote control, the people that modified them to fly that way, the people that threatened/bribed/intimidated the witnesses into lying about what they saw. If it was a missile/A-3 the people that prepped them, and launched them.....You're starting to get into a lot of people here.
Originally posted by Lyte Trizzle
do you know anything about high tech covert military explosives?
didn't think so.
none of us do hence the word covert.
there may have been some more traditional explosives planted closer to the event but some special more controlled high tech thermite like reactions but more efficient could have been slowly planted throughout the core late at night.
unlimited resources, technology, and access.
all things that the 19 rag tag muslim flight school flunkies did NOT have.
Originally posted by 12m8keall2c
Not to hijack the thread, but I obviously gave you much more credit than due.
Troll plain and simple.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
ANY type of explosive, thermite or otherwise, has a detonator. Detonators are not stable. You CAN NOT set off an explosive without a detonator. Plain and simple. A detonator can be set up by a simple cell phone call within 10 feet of it.
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Originally posted by Zaphod58
So what exactly ARE your requirements for it to be an inside job? I mean if everyone else controlled demo is a sign of an inside job, and you don't, what DOES make it an inside job then?
Originally posted by Lyte Trizzle
thermite is a reaction.
it just needs the necessary elements.
i believe the final element is steam.
Thermite is extremely difficult to ignite because a very high temperature is required and the two powders are separate. It may ignite more easily if the two powders were melted together to achieve an alloy, similar to the one which can be bought as rods in welding stores.
When the military uses thermite as an incendiary device it is held in a magnesium casing which is ignited, causing its contents to be ignited.
As a laboratory experiment, it is often ignited with magnesium ribbon or a common party sparkler. Another method which I have seen suggested is to place some potassium chlorate on the thermite and then add a small amount of sulfuric acid. This method should not, however, be used as what happens is chloric acid is formed which explodes spontaneously, which may or may not ignite the rest of the chlorate mix.
Originally posted by 12m8keall2c
Review the contents, accusations, and assumptions contained within the quoted material.
You blast a reply with your own admitted assumptions, while providing nothing more than your own, again, admitted assumptions and baseless conjectures.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
ANY type of explosive, thermite or otherwise, has a detonator. Detonators are not stable. You CAN NOT set off an explosive without a detonator. Plain and simple. A detonator can be set up by a simple cell phone call within 10 feet of it.
Originally posted by Thomas Crowne
Yup, Lyte, that is how you detonate that particular grenade. We also call it a gyeser grenade because you can only use it in Yellow Stone Park. Unless, that is, you are British and have your tea pot handy.
Originally posted by bsbray11
When you can show that the armed forces of the most powerful and technologically advanced institution in the world plays with the same crap that the rest of us do, this might be more relevant.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
You still have to have some way to ignite it, to a fairly high temperature to start it burning.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
And as soon as you can show how you can detonate an explosive by snapping their fingers then your answer might be relevant. You need an explosion to set off an explosives. It's that simple. Even the most high tech bombs the military uses have fuses and detonators in them.