reply to post by CUBD1
"Try 20. Try 30. At the most. Maybe even ten."
Indeed. Not sure whether that means 10 Spidermen or 20 MacGyvers; I don't even know what the conversion ratio would be.
The problem with a worldview informed by television and fantasy novels is that eventually the "theories" run headlong into the practical limitations
of time, physics and real life. It's absurd on its face to insist that 30 individuals - even with extremely specialized training and unlimited
funding - could do the actual physical work necessary to pull off such an error-free controlled demolition. And it still leaves the question of doing
an inherently destructive job over the course of months without drawing attention and without disturbing as much as a single interior wall.
Let's also consider the hundreds of miles of electrical, datacomm and alarm cabling that would have to remain undisturbed until the very last minute.
Plumbing and HVAC would also have to be undisturbed until the last minute even as the secret squirrel teams weakened major structural components.
And speaking of major structural components, no controlled demolition in history has been undertaken with the goal of leaving a building occupied and
safe until the very last minute; the two goals are at odds with each other. But in this case, the claim requires that in a triumph of engineering, the
planners found the perfect point at which both buildings could be weakened for an absolutely flawless collapse... while keeping them safe for business
every day beforehand. Using the traditional model would make the towers unstable in a stiff enough wind, especially since the bulk of the work would
be done during hurricane season. The alternative would be to require even more explosive power in the floor-by-floor charges because the typical
demolition models could not be used, making the prep work more lengthy and making the explosives harder to conceal.
Bear in mind that the buildings' electrical, datacomm, plumbing and HVAC systems would have had to have been working flawlessly from before the
conspiracy began its work until September 11. Things break, components fail, and systems require maintenance.
You can't plan for these things.
An army of maintenance staff worked for the buildings' management - but none ever had a single cause to work in the very maintenance areas the
demolition crews were preparing?
One poster in another forum admitted that it was simply more fun to believe the conspiracies than accept the reality, and that's fine. But too many
people insist on believing in something that simply cannot have happened. It's not because George Bush was a great President, not because governments
are benevolent at their core, not because the Saudis are great people, and not because radical Islam doesn't hope for the destruction of western
civilization: it's because what you claiming here cannot have happened due to the actual physical limitations of the real world.