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neforemore : So, one structural element - the weakest one - probably the most damaged - fails. On its own that's not necessarily an issue but the fire isn't being tackled, and whats happening here is a cascade reaction, because the forces on that element are redistributed throughout the structure - only part of that structure has been damaged and the loads spread unevenly until...pop... the next weakest piece goes. Then you are in a rinse and repeat cycle. As the stresses pass down through the building the structural elements are going to respond to the loads on them. Some will blow their mountings, some will break (violently) and suddenly what is designed to be a complex web of interconnecting parts fails.
Structural failure. The whole thing is now several thousand several parts instead of one integrated one. Game over.
No one single part of the building is designed to take the whole weight of the rest of it. It is designed to be part of the load spread. If enough parts of that spread fail, the building drops.
Here's the kicker. There is no momentum for the collapse to move sideways. The only force acting on it is gravity and that is pulling it straight down.
And straight down it will go.
neforemore : No one single part of the building is designed to take the whole weight of the rest of it. It is designed to be part of the load spread. If enough parts of that spread fail, the building drops. (LT : no, parts of it drop, the top parts)
People who say that the bottom should have held/deflected the top collapse are seriously misguided. In order to do that the structural elements in the building would all have to be rated to carry the load of the entire structure.
(LT : nobody said that, it should have MEASURABLY SLOWED down its velocity.! )
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neforemore : Here's the kicker. There is no momentum for the collapse to move sideways. The only force acting on it is gravity and that is pulling it straight down.
And straight down it will go.
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neforemore : Explosions? Ever heard a steel beam snap, or concrete breaking under pressure?
neforemore : Heat? Energy transfer through the structure can manifest itself in a number of ways. Sound, heat and light are all by products of energy transfer and suddenly there is an awful lot of energy on the move.
Sremmos80
We had stations there but in no way did we control it till after the war...
Hence us killing Sadam and the liberating them...
They were looking for WMD's not ordinary missiles for the second time, so it isn't as simple as driving a few missiles into the desert.
So tell me how you just a drive weapon of MASS destruction in the desert and take a picture of it.
And they didn't need to prove anything after 911, that was all they needed. It was put on the back burner after that, but you just ignore that
JuniorDisco
Sremmos80
We had stations there but in no way did we control it till after the war...
Hence us killing Sadam and the liberating them...
Then they could have done it after the war. They were desperate to find something, absolutely desperate. It had formed their whole causus belli. As you say, they controlled most of the country after the war, and most of the country is uninhabited. Do you really think it would have been hard to get 15 guys to drive out into the desert with something that looks like a missile, dig a bunker, and then photograph it?
They were looking for WMD's not ordinary missiles for the second time, so it isn't as simple as driving a few missiles into the desert.
Okay, so some missiles with a few extra bits that look like chemical delivery systems. Why would that be harder? Why not just build some in America and send them over on a secret flight?
So tell me how you just a drive weapon of MASS destruction in the desert and take a picture of it.
You drive it into the desert and take a picture of it. Why is that hard?
And they didn't need to prove anything after 911, that was all they needed. It was put on the back burner after that, but you just ignore that
I don't know how old you are but if you remember that period you'd know that 9/11 gave them some cause, but even with that they spent 18 months painstakingly putting together a reason for war - which included as its central plank Iraq's WMDs.
I'll take you through my conspiracy and then I'll go through yours.
1 CIA buys a WMD of some kind through undercover agents posing as criminals
2 CIA transport WMD to Iraq through black flights (which are proven to have existed)
3 Deserted area sealed off, small bunker built
4 Weapon driven by small team to bunker
5 "Discovery"!
9/11
1 Conspirators buy missile and launcher of some kind
2 Conspirators find safe, secret place for launcher and keep it there
3 Conspirators gain access to WTC and plant hundreds of explosives
4 Conspirators infiltrate jihadi groups and over the course of presumably years encourage them to consider 9/11, train jihadis
5 Conspirators infiltrate army to organise exercises on the same day as false flag
6 Conspirators infiltrate fire service to persuade fire chiefs to lie about Building Seven
7 Conspirators set in motion hijackings and fire missile at Pentagon
8 Conspirators arrange for faked cell phone calls, either via voice morphing or by landing planes and forcing passengers to fake 'calls' - the latter of which obviously creates another huge raft of practical problems
9 Conspirators dispose of Flight 77 and passengers/crew in unspecified manner. Perhaps evading all air traffic control to blow it up over the sea (obviously involving operatives somehow planting a bomb on the plane), or force landing it, killing everyone and disposing of the plane
10 Conspirators dismantle missile launch site in secret
11 Conspirators plant plane debris at Pentagon
12 Conspirators recruit journalists and editors at news outlets to report 'story'. Most toe the line but BBC accidentally report Bldg 7 early. Oops!
13 Conspirators infiltrate NIST and other authorities so that reports ignore or cover up the conspiracy
14 Conspirators ensure that nobody involved in any of these events (at the absolute minimum 100+ people, probably more like 1000+) ever says anything
Of course if one decides that more exotic means were used - replacement planes, r/c, nukes etc - then all of this gets an enormous amount harder.
NewAgeMan
reply to post by JuniorDisco
You didn't refute it though nor post an argument against it (the cell phone calls). Did you notice that?
edit on 28-1-2014 by NewAgeMan because: typo
Sremmos80
Ya 18 months and NOTHING... hence needing one thing just to spark the mass because they had no evidence of WMDS, which are not just missiles with extra bits and pieces...
They needed FACTORIES that were MAKING the weapons... that is what they were looking for. We know they had missiles and bombs.
Replace the "conspirators" with the CIA like you did in your breakdown and it becomes just as easy. Why can they be part of the conspiracy you want but not the one you don't agree with?
JuniorDisco
Sremmos80
Ya 18 months and NOTHING... hence needing one thing just to spark the mass because they had no evidence of WMDS, which are not just missiles with extra bits and pieces...
Yes they are. Certain kinds anyway. What is a nuclear missile if not a missile with some extra parts?
They needed FACTORIES that were MAKING the weapons... that is what they were looking for. We know they had missiles and bombs.
No they didn't. You just made that up. Any kind of WMD presence would have sufficed. Even some parts would have been better than nothing.
Replace the "conspirators" with the CIA like you did in your breakdown and it becomes just as easy. Why can they be part of the conspiracy you want but not the one you don't agree with?
I only altered it because you seem not to know who your conspirators are. Which is of course another flaw in your narrative. But if you think changing Conspirators to CIA makes the second list as easy as the first then you're in denial.edit on 30-1-2014 by JuniorDisco because: (no reason given)
Sremmos80
Yes they were looking for factories.. that was the entire point.. Would need more then just a missile or some parts to push a war on a country.
They needed to scare the masses and just a couple pictures or odd ball parts would not do the trick.
I have no problem putting the cia behind these attacks, with help form the fbi and DHS and other gov agencies.
Where did I say i didn't know who was behind it? You put those words in my mouth when you used your ridiculous conspiracy breakdown.
And the difference between a nuke and a regular missile is that it is a NUKE... and there is more going on then just some extra parts in a NUKE.
You think you can just take a sidewinder and turn it into a nuke?? And you think any factory can just add those extra parts willy nilly? Our gov needs to get you to make there nukes if you figured out a way to just add some parts to a regular missile to make it a nuke.