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Originally posted by Griff
In your view, could this have happened if thermite was used to sever horizontal beams (at key locations) for the columns in the core inducing Euler buckling? That would solve the "thermite can't cut horizontally" argument I believe.
Don't forget soundless.
Was it Damocles who coined "hush-a-boom" bombs or was it Howard Roarke?
Originally posted by eyewitness86
What about the row of fire that erupted as the plunge downward started? Recall that line of fire belching out as the section starts to fall? That was not fire that came from the inner fires, it went in a line across the whole Tower just prior to dropping.
Originally posted by Pilgrum
That's still going to be a truckload or two of thermite which would be hard to set off in secret.
Originally posted by cams
If DEWs were used, what does one make of the observed squibs? Does this mean that conventional explosives were also used in conjuntion with DEWs or was it merely pressurised air from collapsing floors as per the official version?
The fine dust particles do raise many questions, but I tend to believe that conventional explosives were definitely involved at some point (eg witnesses hearing, seeing, and feeling explosions, molten metal, the FBI investigating 'bombs in the building', apparent traces of thermite etc).
Whatever method was used, it appears as if the culprits will succeed in covering up the whole affair, just as they have done with the JFK assassination over the decades.
Originally posted by Pilgrum
That's still going to be a truckload or two of thermite which would be hard to set off in secret. Weren't most of those significant horizontal steel beams on the core columns actually under the concrete of the floors (floor truss inner mountings) ?
Originally posted by eyewitness86
What would cause the area UNDER the strike zone to suddenly lose it's resistance? When the one Tower tilts, the tilt was caused by some energetic action: The Tower was stable and unmoving until a sudden force cause the tilt to begin and one side to lose resistance from the bottom. Then, miracle of miracles, on the way to droping over into the street, the tilt STOPS, and the section drops straight down, and at THAT moment we see the effects of the DEW begin.
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