Originally posted by hooper
Originally posted by OmegaPoint
reply to post by hooper
The entire building could have been engulfed in flames, from bottom, to top, and it still should not have collapsed. Steel framed buildings,
especially one's as structurally sound as WTC7 don't just collapse from fire.
In fact, WTC7 was constructed with massive reinforcements, such that multiple floors could be rebuilt without effecting the structure.
It was probably the most structurally solid high rise commercial office building in the world.
I'd like someone to explain how all supports across the entire breadth of the building could simultaneously uh vanish..? It makes ZERO sense.
Damn that Zelikow myth is STRONG eh? More powerful than reason.
So again, what is a "normal office fire"? And if, in your opinion, an entire building could be engaged in a raging inferno and never fail, then why
the constant reference to "normal office fires"? Or is it possible that most peope understand the simple concept that if you have a builing with
ground to penthouse fire then there is just a slight chance that those fires may, just may, threaten the integrity of the building structure.
Even if there was sufficient fires over a long enough timeframe to cause a loss of structural integrity in a variety of areas, say if the whole
building WAS engulfed in flame, even then, that would not explain the almost straight down, sudden, free fall descent of the building directly into
it's own footprint.
The structural supports at a lower level of the building MUST have been CUT with explosives - there is no other way that is even physically possible.
So you could pump up the amount of fire by ever greater magnitudes than the scattered fires which were observed (and how they started, now that's
also a mystery in my books), and still not explain the destruction of the building.
Also, please look into the late Barry Jennings tesimony, who was a security guy who worked in that building. There were explosions going on in that
building even BEFORE the North Tower "collapsed", and a whole section of floor was blown out, and there were bodies. And to this day, no one knows
Barry's actual cause of death. It's a mystery. A 9/11 truth group even tried to hire a private investigator to look into it, and shortly thereafter
he gave them back the retainer and indicated that he wanted nothing to do with it.
The myth is strong.. but it will fall.