Originally posted by fleabit
why could it NOT be air pressure?
Do you guys even read the thread?
For it to have been air pressure, then air would have to have been pressurized. That goes without saying, okay? Very pressurized, so as to blow
large solid debris over 50 feet laterally out of the side of the building.
But the building was not airtight. In no way, shape, form,
whatever, was it airtight. It was being blown apart, outwards, in all directions simultaneously. Dust was flying out, solid debris was flying out,
and you know air was escaping at the exact same places. That is where the air is "grounding" to, to decompress to atmospheric pressure. To
compress somewhere despite of that would defy thermodynamics.
Where does the air go when the floors pancake? First of all, there is no evidence of "pancaking" in the first place. The mass was going outwards
more than it was down onto lower floors, and this is proven by the fact that the buildings' footprints had relatively tiny piles of debris in them,
not even extending beyond the lobby, and not compacted. The columns at the lowest floors were mostly intact and still standing, including perimeter
walls.
Secondly, you are assuming all the 4"-thick concrete slabs and thin metal trusses are going to be airtight together as they are pulled from their
connections and pushed downwards. If they are not airtight, the air would just escape upwards into the atmosphere as common sense would suggest.
Prove the concrete wouldn't have broken up, and that air wouldn't have escaped through collapsing floors.
Third problem, is that air channeled between intact floors has to happen through the core, where the only shafts were, and there were explosive
expulsions from many stories down, as many as 40 to 50 from the collapse wave. For air to have traveled that far down a shaft, all compressed all the
way up and down, and then move out across a floor without decompressing, is impossible.
Could it have this effect on floors 40 floors down? I don't see why not.
So now I have given you a reason why not.
But I've seen many professionals state that this was exactly what it was.
There is a reason these issues are controversial, and disputed, and there is damn good reason for people to make excuses about what they are seeing.
You are acting on a herd mentality when you appeal to authority. A similar mentality got us from the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine, into a war with
Spain, even though the two were later found to be unrelated.
