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Do you have a source or is your claim "both buildings dis withstand the impact of both airplanes" 100% un expert opinion?
Originally posted by Six Sigma
Originally posted by _BoneZ_
There are many explosives available that will not explode from just being exposed to fire, or even water for that matter. Some of them take specific detonators to make them detonate.
I was asking about the detonators. They would have to have some sort of radio frequency device? How do you protect the equipment from a speeding 757, the damage, the explosions, etc.? Keep in mind where the collapses initiated.
How do you protect people from an impacting plane? There were people on the impacted floors who survived, out of which some were able to escape to tell their story. If the plane didnt take out all squishy humans on the impacted floor, its safe to assume more than enough devices survived the impact.
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by Cassius666
How do you protect people from an impacting plane? There were people on the impacted floors who survived, out of which some were able to escape to tell their story. If the plane didnt take out all squishy humans on the impacted floor, its safe to assume more than enough devices survived the impact.
How would you know what charges would survive the impact? Idea behind controlled demolition is to set off a
carefully sequenced explosions to cut the structural columns. A plane smashing through the building would
have destroyed the pattern of charges
Then again the fire afterwards would have destroyed the charges or at very least the wiring and det cord linking
them together.
In a controlled demolition the charges are connected by strings of det cord with delay elements incorporated to
give the correct sequence. Charges except for the first one are not triggerdd by radio, too unreliable in a
building as large as WTC . Also forgetting that roof of North tower housed powerful radio/TV transmitters
for many of NYC stations. How do you prevent stray radio signals from premature detonation of the charges
Sorry doesnr work....
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by thegameisup
Using a wireless system to bring down a building in a city that is basically an RF hell? Do you have any idea of how horribly bad that would be? First off, with a straight wireless system, there is always almost guaranteed situation where charges do not get the signal to detonate, then there is the chance that charges could be set off accidentally by random RF. Then, there is the fact that Manhatten is full of RF energy...and the Towers themselves were a focal point because of both the emergency systems radio repeaters and the cellphone repeaters. Yeah, wireless would be GOOD idea......... I suppose you could encrypt the signals, but then that adds to the hardware necessary to detonate the charges.....of which you would find remnants of in the debris during the sorting process. Not to mention, there would still be the issue of charges not getting the signal.
Since no wiring, no receivers, and no unexploded charges were ever found, once again, ther is absolutely NO evidence of a demolition process......and no, looking at the video and saying that looks like a CD is not evidence.
There are many ways this can be accomplished without it being set off accidentally...
Really? Name three. Name three methods of initiating explosives that are completely immune to premature or accidental detonation.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by thegameisup
Name ONE witness who saw a bomb. Not somebody who heard an explosion and said bomb, but someone who saw an honest to goodness demolition charge. Just one.
BTW the EOD guys would like to know how you are going to set off the demolition process without using witing or RF signals........
...Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping.
Originally posted by SimontheMagus
~George W. Bush, September 15, 2006
Originally posted by GenRadek
reply to post by SimontheMagus
Can you point out there the part where he mentions explosives and WTC in the same line please? Thank you!
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by SimontheMagus
*sigh* Khaled Sheikh Mohammed was nowhere near NYC that day. Like I said, name ONE person who actually saw a bomb there that day. Besides, haven't quite a few people here claimed that nothing KSM said was reliable because he was tortured????
Originally posted by SimontheMagus
You must be kidding. No wait I've seen enough to know you're not kidding.
Why don't you tell us what else he might have been talking about.
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