Originally posted by _BoneZ_
Originally posted by jthomas
No "explosive squibs" have the characteristics of that seen at the WTC Towers.
Again, you should have said "in your opinion".
It's fact.
As I've said numerous times, there are videos of controlled demolitions with "squibs" that are identical to the WTC's.
How many squibs per demolition in your videos?
How many squibs in the videos of WTC 1 and 2?
I have those videos, they will be shown in my documentary. Please do some real research before making claims that will come back to bite you in
the ass when my documentary is presented.
No need to wait. If you have such videos, present them here. No one can do research on non-existent videos, wouldn't you agree?
Present your videos here.
Originally posted by jthomas
The subject of "explosive demolition" of the WTC towers is dead.
Again, you continue to say "in your opinion". Not only is explosive demolition not dead, it remains one of the cruxes of the truth movement
and even more so after the presentation of my documentary.
Indeed. That is just one reason why the 9/11 Truth Movement has failed to get a new investigation.
Originally posted by jthomas
Please give us the source for your claims.
That would be a NIST report. I've posted the link numerous times and directly to you. If you want the link, you can go find it. I'm
tired of posting it and you ignoring it.
OK, then if you refuse to support your claims once again, we'll do some simple back-of-the-envelope calculations so you can explain what happened to
the evidence.
Here is a lovely silhouette of the towers Note the sunlight through WTC 1 illustrating how much of the structure was air. In fact 88% of the volume of
each tower was plain, simple
air:
How much air? Well we know that each floor had volume of 10,996 cubic meters (m3) of air space, or 388,320 cubic feet (ft3).
Looking at tables for the
weight of air at various temperatures,
www.engineeringtoolbox.com... ,
we find that air at 70 degrees F. weighs 7.492 x 10-2 (.07492) lbs per cubic foot.
So, with this data we calculate that each floor had .07492 x 388,320 = 29,093 lbs per air per floor.
Using the number of
undamaged floors below the impact points of each tower (the points at which the collapses began), we have approximately 79
floors for WTC 2 and 92 for WTC 1. This gives us the total weight of the air in the undamaged portions of each tower:
x 79 floors = 2,298,342 lbs of air in WTC 2
x 92 floors = 2,676,556 lbs of air in WTC 1
= 1,149 tons of air in WTC 2.
= 1,338 tons of air in WTC 1.
Each of the towers were enclosed rectangular tubes with sealed windows and controlled environments. The air pressure on the outside of the towers was
the same as on the inside of the towers otherwise doors would be pushed out or in if there were more than minimal pressure differentials between the
outside and inside. So, when the towers collapsed
where did all this air go and how?
Do we want to implicitly assume, as _BoneZ_ and Truthers do, that all this massive volume and tonnage of air is meaningless? Of course not. We know
that there were minimal outlets for the air to escape to the outside. We know that the air would be forced out wherever there were openings, broken or
damaged windows, for instance.
We know that massive volume and tonnage of air had only 14+ seconds to escape the towers in the collapses.
Where did it go? How?
We do know from the very videos of the collapses and damage reports that dust and air were
sucked in behind the collapsing towers to replace
the air displaced by disappearing towers (and air):
(How many squibs do you see, _BoneZ_?)
In fact, the force of this "downblast" of air and dust, similar to "collapse clouds" of volcanic ash, reached speeds of 120 mph. We know that the
surge of dust and air spread out for blocks around each tower when they collapsed.
"The man-made collapse columns of 2001 crashed to Earth at 120 miles per hour, then surged out radially at approximately the same speed. This is
also the approximate velocity at which the Herculaneum Basilica and the buildings clustered around the Roman boathouses were struck by the Vesuvian
surge cloud of A.D. 79. Square inch by square inch the forces exerted were the same. At 120 miles per hour, air, made more massive by dust, is
equivalent to (or greater than) a gust of sea-level air at 160 miles per hour. This is equivalent to being struck point-blank by an F3 or greater
tornado, or by a category 5 hurricane."
- Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections, Charles R. Pellegrino, P.418
So, _BoneZ_, you won't be needing to work on your "documentary" anymore.
The 9/11 Truther myth that the air in the towers was meaningless only points to their lack of knowledge about the subject matter and unwillingness to
deal with "inconvenient" evidence. So much for their
"search for the truth."
