wow. i have no idea what any of that means/meant, but its very interesting nonetheless.
so what exactly kept it from continuing on its sideways topple?
) 1. Sudden Onset: steel when heated does not suddenly buckle or break, it melts and sags. The buildings were perfectly motionless up to the moment they began their collapse.
2. Straight Down: they didn't topple towards the damage, they took the path of most resistance, symetrically down.
3. Almost Free-Fall Speed: Buildings brought down by controlled demolition collapse at almost free-fall speed because when the upper floors come down, they encounter no resistance.
4. Total Collapse: acording to the pancake theory, the horizontal steel supports broke free from the vertical columns. But if that is what had happened, the 47 core columns would have still been standing.
5.. Dust Clouds: Yet another common feature of controlled demolitions is the production of pyroclasic style dust clouds.
6. Pulverization of Concrete: The only energy available should have been the gravitational energy. This is no where near the amount of energy needed to turn all the concrete into tiny particles of dust.
7. Horizontal Ejections: But gravitational energy is, of course, vertical, so it cannot even begin to explain these horizontal ejections.
8. Sounds Produced by Explosions: there is abundant testimony to the existence of such sounds before and during the collapses of the towers.
9. Molten Steel: Shown in various video tesimony, and reported by several reliable witnesses
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Momentum Transfer in WTC1
How the Towers were Demolished
Originally posted by adjay
Any chance of a link to the BBC blog you speak of?
). A lot of the dust you saw was drywall and spray-on fireproofing. Some was concrete, but the majority was your standard drywall (sheetrock) and spray-on fireproofing.
7. Horizontal Ejections: But gravitational energy is, of course, vertical, so it cannot even begin to explain these horizontal ejections.
Unless you count the force of snapping steel. Most of the ejections were steel supports and glass.
8. Demolition Rings: Common feature of collapses induced by explosions are demolition rings, in which series of small explosions run symetrically and rapidly around a building.
.... That's physics? Please show me where this manifested itself.
9. Sounds Produced by Explosions: there is abundant testimony to the existence of such sounds before and during the collapses of the towers.
Have you ever heard what it sounds like when five or more one and three-quarter inch bolts snap under the weight of several hundred tons?
I assure you - it will sound like a bomb, and it wills care the bejesus out of you.
10. Molten Steel: Shown in various video tesimony, and reported by several reliable witnesses.
Somehow... saying "from reliable witnesses" seems to discredit the whole thing, from the beginning.