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Another AE911Truth member has come out with what he claims is video evidence of the presence of
“nanothermite” in the demolition process of the World Trade Centers. It is surprising that AE911Truth (an
organization made up primarily of engineers and scientists) would be promoting this video by David
Chandler because it is an embarrassing collection of unsupported conclusions and really bad science. It so
obvious, anyone can pick it apart. Unfortunately, I think that might be it’s purpose.
This “nanothermite” track that the Truth Movement has been on since the publication of the
Harrit/Jones/Roberts paper
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171001214046/http://www.bentham.org/open/tocpj/openaccess2.htm) has
been increasingly dishonest since the very beginning and this is just another example of how
“nanothermite” is blowing up our movement.
Which is, of course, the only thing this “super secret” pyrotechnic COULD blow up…
What they proposed in their paper was that they had found “active thermetic material” that utilized “nano
technology” in the dust from the WTC demolitions. In later discussions, they (Jones and Harrit at least)
have estimated the presence of at least 10 tons of this unexploded material exists in the dust that was
scattered around New York on Sept. 11th, 2001.
There has been a great deal of reasoned evaluation of the paper itself and the results of those evaluations
have not been positive.
For the most part there is a a great deal of proof out there that the “red/grey chips” that Jones et al based
their paper on, are in fact a rust inhibiting primer paint with a Kaolinite base.
“We can also say that because Kaolinite is present and that it is embedded in a Carbon based matrix
with Rhomboidal Fe2O3 that a more likely explanation for the red material is paint.” JREF
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171001214046/http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?
p=4607894&postcount=1694)
Now this twist has forced the Jones/Harrit/Roberts crew to slightly alter their story-line. Now they are
suggesting that this primer paint that was used in the towers was actually the super-secret explosive nano-
thermite and that the big plan was to run around spraying the underside of the floor systems with
“explosive paint”.
This is completely ridiculous, almost as ridiculous as Jim Hoffman’s “1.8 million ceiling tile bombs
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171001214046/https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/serious-
problems-with-jim-hoffmans-a-hypothetical-blasting-scenario-makes-his-recent-essay-far-from-
plausable/)” theory… (almost). There is no way to control an even dispersal of paint on the underside of a
floor system that is crowded with trusses, transverse trusses, cables, beams, and various other piping, AC
ducts, ect… Without an even dispersal of the explosive, there is also no way of having a predictable
outcome when it is ignited. Also, when paint is atomized to spray, fine particles of the dust dries and then
falls in unexpected places. This dust would also be explosive. There is no way that the experts who
designed the destruction of the Twin Towers would spray “explosive paint” on every single floor of the
World Trade Center. It’s ridiculous.
Now if you want a more scientific evaluation of just some of the problems with the Jones/Harrit/Roberts
paper, try this for starters;
Jones investigates only the red and gray chips and not the entire sample. He has a limited sample size.
The chips have a laminar nature which suggests a coating or adhesive but he rules out paint by
comparing the effect of MEK on some unknown paint and comparing it to the effect on the red chips.
This is either incompetence or scientific misconduct and fraud.
He sees that there is an organic fraction but does not analyze it. He uses DSC to measure exotherms
but does it in a stream of air so he cannot tell the difference between a reaction and plain combustion of
components but claims thermitic reaction. His EDAX shows silicon, aluminum, and oxygen in the same
areas of the particle but he ignores this congruency; aluminosilicates are clays and are often fillers in
paints and coatings. He does not extract a larger sample of the red and gray chips with a more
agressive solvent, such as hot DMF or DMF-DMSO which would allow analysis of individual
components.
His conclusion that this is a thermitic material is not justified based on the data. JREF
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171001214046/http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?
postid=4610083#post4610083)
Jones, Harrit, and Roberts have not submitted their paper, with samples, to independent labs for
verification. They have not completed the discovery process by scheduling a presentation of their findings
to a group of qualified scientists and allowing for educated debate and evaluation of their findings in the
public sphere. Their paper was published in a journal that has questionable academic credentials, and was
even cited as offering publication of a non-sense paper written by a computer. Harrit himself has
connections to one of the peer reviewers used by the publishing house, who has subsequently resigned as a
peer reviewer from that house. The editor in chief of the publishing house quit after she was told about the
paper saying that the paper had no merit and shouldn’t have been published by her journal. She also said
that the paper was published without her knowledge and seems to have been published for purely
“political reasons”.
Aside from all of these massive issues with the paper itself, there is also the question of integrity that cannot
be dismissed.
In a recent interview with Russia Today, Harrit calls for an investigation into other explosive residues in the
dust found at the World Trade Center.
We have not found remains or traces of conventional explosives. Actually, we’ve suggested and
recommended to NIST, which is the National Institute of Standards and Technology, that they should
look for remains or traces of explosives, and they have refused to do that every time. They have not
investigated it. Harrit
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171001214046/http://www.russiatoday.com/Politics/2009-07-
09/Did_nano-thermite_take_down_the_WTC.html)
This is also recommended in their paper as well.
The trouble is, as they were writing the paper, I myself suggested they test for trace elements of
conventional explosives in the dust at the World Trade Center. Gregg Roberts of AE911Truth refused to do
so.
“However, our detractors could be counted on to do their best to use a negative result against us for P.R.
purposes. They would say that we have a non-scientific belief, since a negative outcome from an experiment
fails to shake it. Thus, the potential costs of doing what you’re proposing and coming up empty-handed, or
worse, must be considered.” Roberts
The idea that Roberts would refuse to do a test for these materials that are commonly used in the
demolition industry based purely on a “P.R.” standpoint sent chills down my spine. Here is a “scientist” in
a critically important investigation, refusing to do what should have been the very FIRST scientific test run
on this material, for no better reason than the results may reflect negatively on their “movement”?
What an amazing statement… BUT THEN, to actually include the statement in their paper that they
think SOMEONE ELSE should run these very same tests that they REFUSED to run themselves, is an
outrage and should send massive red-flags up around the entire 911 Truth Movement.
Then Jones even goes so far as to instruct Truth advocates as to what they should say
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171001214046/https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/the-good-
prof-jones-now-tells-us-what-to-think/) and think about his new paper, going so far as to suggest any
critique of his work is invalid unless published in a vanity press like his was.
Ever since this paper came out, the level of dishonesty coming from it’s creators has been something
remarkable to behold.
Now we have this terribly flawed video coming out from David Chandler, also associated with Gregg
Roberts’ AE911Truth, which features the “nanothermite” theory as “proven fact”.
Chandler tries to suggest that the video he shows proves that nanothermite was used in the demolition in
two ways; 1. white smoke coming from the debris 2. a piece of the falling debris changing course mid
flight could ONLY be caused by nanothermite still attached to the piece exploded and caused the change
in direction.
White Smoke is present in the demolition of the towers, that much is correct. But Chandler goes on to say
that this PROVES it was nano-thermite because when thermite burns, it produces a white smoke. That
much may be correct as far as the color of the smoke in a thermite reaction is concerned, but for him to
omit the fact that OTHER explosive materials ALSO emit a white smoke upon detonation, is scientifically
disingenuous.
Chandler also suggests that the trails being left by the pieces of debris falling to the ground, prove that the
nanothermite is still buring on them.
Does that mean he thinks that super-secret “nanothermite” was used in the recent demolition of the
building in China?
Nanothermite here too?
(https://web.archive.org/web/20171001214046/https://willyloman.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/china-
demo.jpg)
Nanothermite here too?
Here we have a very similar colored dust trails following the pieces at least part of the way to the ground.
There, of course, is no “nanothermite” burning on these pieces. So his conclusion that the dust trails prove
a burning nanothermite reaction is flawed at best.
The second piece of evidence from this video of his deals with a piece of material falling during the demo
that appears at least to change direction during it’s fall. This, Chandler states, can ONLY be explained by
nanothermite exploding on the surface of that piece of debris and forcing it to change direction.
There are a hundred ways to explain the change in direction of this piece of material. The two most
obvious that I can think of would be that this piece of material is attached to another piece via some of the
1000s of miles of cables that were present in the Towers, and that cable was pulled taught between this
piece of debris and another, and THAT forced it to change direction…
OR… the most obvious… another piece of debris hit this one mid-flight, and thus changed it’s trajectory.
In fact, if you look at the video, you can clearly see another streaming piece of debris right about this one
travel downward and look as if it hit this one just as it changes directions.
So in fact, there are many other possible reasons why that piece of debris changed directions that make a
lot more sense that some small bit of super secret nanothermite that just HAPPENED to wait to ignite
while in mid-flight (one thing Chandler doesn’t explain is HOW this material ignited on the piece of falling
debris. What exactly would be the ignition energy to cause that to happen?)
I hate to say it, but it looks to me like this is a desperation move put out by AE911Truth (Roberts) to try
and offset the serious problems with the nanothermite theory being exposed by many different sources.
At every turn Jones, Harrit, and Roberts have been dishonest about this discovery of theirs. When will they
present their findings before an audience of qualified scientists and debate their proofs in an open forum?
At what point will they submit their findings and their samples to independent labs for confirmation of
their results?
When will they produce a credible video of the “burning red/grey chips” that is really the foundation of
their work? When will they submit a sample of these chips so that others can perform similar tests to
verify their results?
When will they run the tests they were asked to run, and they themselves suggest others perform?
This video evaluation by Chandler does nothing to advance the cause of 9/11 Truth.
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willyloman, on August 23, 2009 at 4:38 pm said:
I didn’t know he had done a show with “Chris”… do you have a link?
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“Chris” again, doesn’t give his name.. he want’s his rights, but he won’t give his name? He goes to a
rally with a gun strapped to him like a piece of a costume, but he won’t give his name?
“Chris” used to be a member of the republican party, and now he is showing up at rallies with an AR-
15 strapped to him… because he is mad about giving away free healthcare? Where was “Chris” and
his gun when they were giving away free trillions to the bankers? Where was “Chris” and his gun
when they were illegally invading other nations based on lies?
It’s one thing to believe in the 2nd amendment, which I believe is our right as well… but it’s another to
show up at a political rally with an AR-15… especially at one where the president is going to be. That’s
just stupid. Or, it’s an attempt to frighten the opposition (terrorism) or… it’s some kind of pre-planned
stunt for either publicity or propaganda…
Oh yeah. On Weds. down here in Tampa, a cop was killed by a guy who was ex-military, ex-cop, and
who also just happened to have in his possession, an AR-15….
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when he started mocking people with that high pitched voice of his in the second video, that was pretty
much it for me…
AJ also seemed to hint that the MSM may “find something in Chris’ background and try to blow it out
of proportion” … I wonder what that is going to be all about.
Anyway, what I said, I still stand by. It was clearly staged. The gun was clearly strapped to his back
and his pants leg. The weapon is the exact same type used by Phoenix Police tactical squad…
Whether “Chris” was a dupe being used in this manner or he is an agent provocateur, is pretty much
irrelevant. He may have the best intentions in the world and still be used. AJ’s interview gets us no
closer to understanding what was behind this staged event.
The fact that he shows up at a rally for healthcare with a gun strapped to his back isn’t going to “save
the 2nd amendment”. I mean, that is just laughable.
If anything, it has simply supplied the MSM with an example of why we should “CHANGE” the
constitution.
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In the 5th video, at the 3:20 or so mark, “Chris” had this to say…
Right. Got it. Not only that, but he says that Ron Paul is the only honest politician… ever. Ever. Now if
that isn’t blind hero worship, I don’t know what is.
I don’t care about his politics. Really I don’t. The guy is young. He thinks he has figured something out.
Good for him.
But if he thinks that we are only free because someone somewhere has a gun, I don’t think he truly
understands the nature of political struggle. And he certainly doesn’t understand the history. Of this
country. Of many Latin American countries. Of Ghandi. MLK. Woman’s Sufferage Movement. Trade
Union movement. Mandella’s struggle against Apartheid in South Africa.
Sure, we have a right to own guns. We need to keep that right and use weapons when we have to. But
we have to be smart about it and know when to use them and when running around at political rallies
with them strapped on our backs is just a thinly veiled threat… either that, or a psyops trick to be used
by the MSM to undermine the very rights he claims as the reason he was there in the first place.
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Take a look at this. This is what a linear shaped charge did when someone used it to remove the
flange from a steel I-Beam.
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I don’t see a lot of blast marks on this either. Pitting on the other parts of the beam I see. Pitting of
steel is also mentioned in the FEMA report and the NIST reports both.
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relament, on August 24, 2009 at 12:50 pm said:
Thanks again willyloman. All of AJ was difficult, and I’m recovering now. Your analysis holds up well.
“Chris” is very suspicious.
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Is this an article that exhibits the problems you’re trying to warn us about?
http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-8858-we-all-fall-down.html?current_page=1
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I would also like to toss in there that the president of the university that still sends Jones checks as
well as honored Cheney with and Honarary Doctorate in 2007, received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom from President Bush in 2004.
Then Bush met with the BYU president, Hinckley, again in 2006… a very cozy relationship
between BYU and the Bush White House.
Finally, on this topic. This is a quote from Hinckley in 2003. Now remember, Hinckley was the
beloved president of BYU… buildings are named after him. I want you to try and understand how
this statement from Hinckley juxtaposes with Steven Jones still getting checks from BYU while
supposedly trying to prove Bush blew up the towers…
“In April 2003, Hinckley gave a speech in which he addressed the ongoing war in Iraq. He said, “…
as citizens we are all under the direction of our respective national leaders. They have access to
greater political and military intelligence than do the people generally,” adding, “Furthermore, we
are a freedom-loving people, committed to the defense of liberty wherever it is in jeopardy.” He also
noted that “It may even be that [the Lord] will hold us responsible if we try to impede or
hedge up the way of those who are involved in a contest with forces of evil and
repression.” Hinckley, 2003
Now I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t sound like someone who would be all about writing
Jones checks while he was looking for evidence to bring Bush and Cheney down…
Just my opinion.
In another part of the article they mention the fact that Jones’ homespun demenor drops pretty
quickly when he is challenged on his research by other Truth activists. This I have seen for myself,
but certainly not like the person quoted in the article.
As far as his religion is concerned, I don’t really think that that was any kind of backhanded slur
against him; it is Utah.
Jones himself seems pleased with the article. The first time I read it, he had posted it on 9/11Bolgger
and was reaping the praise from the echo chamber over there.
All I could think of was it must just be more publicity for his new DVD he has for sale. Nothing says
“reputable science” like “DVD for SALE”.
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So, you are saying there’s something fishy about the “thermite” or super powerful special explosive
residues in the building dust? And, as I’ve read, I tyhink, you suspect this story covers up research that
should be done on more likely explosives in the building dusts?
I thought one had to come up with something more powerful than regular explosives in order to
account for the way the building was pulverized which, according to the critics of the official story,
could not have come down by just the fires and the impacts, but apparently, also without special
preparations being made with explosives.
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Yes. I think this entire “thermite, thermate, super-thermite, nanothermite” track we have been led
down was always just a distraction. From the very beginning.
Not only did FEMA, NIST, RJ LEE, and the 9/11 Commission fail to do that simple test… so did our
glorious leader, Steven Jones. Not only did he not test for it (after suggesting someone else should)
but he and his fellow “researchers” REFUSED to do so.
The “iron rich spheres” that Jones has been theorizing since day one to be “thermite” residue, is in
fact, the missing trusses and floor pans of the Trade Centers. “Iron rich” is just a way of saying that
they were predominately made of Iron… well, the trusses were made of High Strength Low Allow
steel which is mainly “iron” with carbon, sulfur, silicon, and other materials mixed in.
all of these materials were listed in various reports on the “iron rich spheres” by RJ Lee and Jones,
among others.
they have mistakenly or fraudulently been reporting (I made the same mistake up until recently)
that the trusses were A-36 steel and that the columns were the same. The presence of the additional
elements like silicon and especially sulfer have thrown the Truth movement off for years. But the
fact is, the HSLA steel has these elements in it so of course they would show up in Jones’
investigation.
The “iron rich spheres” are the HSLA steel trusses that are missing from the Ground Zero photos,
not proof of “thermite” or “thermate” or “super thermite” or “nanothermite”… that has always
been either a planned distraction or a horrible mistake to be made for years by credible scientists…
The simple tests to detect explosive residues in the dust would tell us what they used to bring them
down, and would, by law, force a new criminal investigation.
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I don’t know who Steven Jones or his “researchers” are, but he probably refused to test because
he knew the whole “demolition charges” theory is total BS and was afraid he’d just prove that
fact.
By the way, did you even know that the WTC routinely had bomb sniffing dogs brought in
because of the previous terrorist attack in 1993? Did you know that it most likely take over
10,000 demolition charges to bring down just one of the towers for a controlled demolition, and
that would take several months and several trucks full of bombs going through multiple sets of
security and passed the 100,000 or so people that frequented the WTC everyday without any
one of them noticing? Did you not notice that in the several months leading to the attack (in
which these supposed demolition charges would be planted) that not one bomb sniffing dog
noticed them?
Do you realize how ridiculous this whole argument that 9/11 was some kind of inside job
sounds? Seriously? Have you thought about that aspect? The ridiculousness? Really… have
you?
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It’s floor space was nearly exactly the same as the floor space in one Twin Tower. According
to a CDI report on the demolition, it took just under one ton of explosives and about two
weeks to rig with one of their standard crews.
Extrapolate the numbers (2 to 1) and you come up with realistic numbers for explosives
needed and time for the crews to rig the demolition.
I imagine that they would have needed a bit more det cord on the Twin Towers because they
weren’t trying to keep the dust to a minimum, in fact they wanted to pulverize the floor
systems as much as possible, so they probably used more det cord. Cutter charges would
have been easier and faster to set because the JL Hudson building was multifaceted with
several different levels and areas. The Towers were straight shots down the interior of the
core section of the building. Much faster to rig.
These are facts. These are based on real world understanding of the demolition process and
the history of the demolition business. If you wish to simply throw out unsubstantiated
assessments of materials needed and the time needed to rig such a project, and call that an
argument, you go right ahead. But we deal with the real world here.
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Oh, and the fact that the JL Hudson building was completely deserted except for the
demolition team; while the towers had over 50,000 people there each day that some
magic demolition team would have to work around and hide their progress from every
day. (I’m sure that would have no factor whatsoever on their rigging timeframe…)
And you believe not one person of these 10s of thousands of people noticed anyone
carrying explosives in, or cleaning and maintenance crews doing normal maintenance
noticed anything changed? No one noticed trucks full of explosives and crews carrying
them in, night security guards and cleaning crews not noticing all the new people there?
Not one of them saying something about these going ons after the attack, since you
know, those people survived because they didn’t work at the hours the attacks took place
or managed to escape? Wow.
So how many people were involved in rigging this again? And they went completely
unnoticed before the attack and no one remembered them after it either? Not one of
them had second thoughts, or blew the whistle afterward? None of them blurted out
what they had done drunk at a bar, or confessed it in a church? None of their family
members noticed they got a job they didn’t talk about at the WTC a short while before
the attack and they suddenly came into a veritable fuck ton of mysteriously gained
money? Not one jealous family member or friend said anything? These guys that rigged
it just vanished from the face of the earth afterward? And somehow they had never met
anyone else in their entire life that would notice them disappear? None of this sounds far
fetched at all…
And you say you deal with the real world here? Are you sure on that statement? You say
lines like “I imagine that they would have needed a bit more det cord on the Twin Towers
because they weren’t trying to keep the dust to a minimum, in fact they wanted to
pulverize the floor systems as much as possible, so they probably used more det cord.”
and then you say this complete speculation is a fact. Are you sure you know what facts
are?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center
Which is roughly the same as my own assessment based on my scale drawings of the
buildings which you can easily find.
JL Hudson building was 2.2 million which works out almost perfectly to what I said in
the first place (2 to 1 ratio) and it does make a difference.
The install time of the demolition charges is a variable dependent on the number of
workers they used. So 24 days on one project could be 12 days on a project of similar size
simply based on the fact that they have twice as many workers setting the charges.
As far as the prep time for the building, that doesn’t factor in at all because OBVIOUSLY
they didn’t knock out the walls and remove all the furniture IF THEY WERE TRYING
TO KEEP THE DEMOLITION A SECRET. So that prep time does not factor in AT ALL.
Am I insulting you? Am I calling you names? No. That is what you do. I don’t need to.
When you can reply to my questions about how concrete melted and steel melted from
fires that could only have gotten as hot as burning jet fuel (1500 degs or so) then we can
have a rational discussion about this. Until then, you are just tossing out strawmen
arguments and clutching at straws.
There was a vast amount of heat energy released in an extremely short period of time.
Nothing in the official story of 9/11 can explain that. The sources that I provided you
were from the History Channel and the 9/11 Museum in New York… hardly what you
would call whacked out conspiracy theory sites.
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But the 4,300,000 reference in that very article has a citation near it asking for
clarification. That very same article states this: “Each floor of the towers had 40,000
square feet (3,700 m2) of space for occupancy.[22] Each tower had 3,800,000 square feet
(353,000 m2) of office space. Altogether the entire complex of seven buildings had
11,200,000 square feet (1,040,000 m2) of space.” The same article states: “The complex
was located in the heart of New York City’s downtown financial district and contained
13.4 million square feet (1.24 million m2) of office space.” All of that from the same
article, and not consistent with itself. In comparison however, the Empire State Building,
which is smaller than the individual towers were, is stated to have 2,768,591 sq ft of floor
area…
Moving on, if they were trying to keep the demolition a secret, would it not take longer
for them to do it when there are tons of people watching them? It doesn’t take a genius to
figure out that if you are keeping an operation a secret with thousands of potential
witnesses around you, the prep time to do your task would be significantly increased as
opposed to being able to do that same task in an empty building without having to hide
the fact that you are doing that task…
And if they are not knocking out walls to hide the demolitions, where are they putting
them again? I mean, for a controlled demolition that is NOT hiding the fact that they are
demolishing they have to remove walls and cut into places to place explosives… but with
a secret demolition they don’t have to… for what reason again? Not even to hide them?
Also, the human factor portions of my statements were completely ignored. How many
people were planting the bombs again? More than 24 apparently. How many people
were involved in the planning of just this portion of the plan? In a response by another
poster apparently SECURECOM security dog handlers were apparently involved as
they were of course purposefully ignoring the bomb warnings, meaning they were in on
it. How many dog handlers were there? How many people in the planning stages had to
brief and ensure the loyalty of just the dog handlers then?
Was SECURECOM the mastermind behind the whole conspiracy? If not, then how
many people were involved in the planning stages to delegate portions of the overall
conspiracy to SECURECOM? Every time you add in a group of people you end up
having to bring in more… any chance you can break down the conspirator hierarchy for
me?
What I’m saying is, not one person before or after the attack came forward about it?
None had second thoughts? No one noticed them? What was their personal motivation
that would make them so loyal to this cause? Was it money? None of their family
members noticed they suddenly got a shit ton of it?
This is a lot of individuals (you do know that groups of people are made up of
individuals, all with different motivations and personal beliefs and not just a hive mind,
right?) to be so motivated to killing fellow citizens of the same country they live in. You
can’t have a Governor hire a prostitute or a Senator trying to elicit gay sex in an airport
bathroom without it leaking out , and yet all these people involved, not a single bit of
information? Really? How is that even possible?
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you’re right to question motives. i mean any detective or prosecuting attorney will tell
you it is essential to solving crimes. means, motive and opportunity. if you think
about it; as rich as osama bin laudin was and even tho we know he wasn’t involved,
sadham hussein’s power as a dictator neither of them had the means to orchestrate
9/11 like the president and vice president did. it’s the difference between bill gates and
a lotto winner.
as for motive… bin laudin needed regular dialysis which he’d have done at an
american hospital in dubai. bin laudin wanted u.s. military bases out of saudi arabia
and iraq. i doesn’t really make sense for him carry out 9/11 and in fact he denied it
was him. considering the dastardly deeds he did and claimed he did, he wanted
nothing to do with 9/11. hussien got lynched. i’m sure he saw that coming. not a
great motivator.
larry silverstein invested about 15 million dollars of his own money and borrowed
another 35 million to secure the world trade center lease and negotiate insurance
policies after vornado backed out of the deal. in less than a year that initial
investment paid out in the sum of seven billion dollars. that’s about a 500% return on
investment. bush, from a major oil family, gained control of probably the biggest
untapped puddles of oil in the world as well as control over the country that a
pipeline could be laid to feed oil to the economies of russia, india and china without
having to put it in barrels or on a ship. vice president cheney, former ceo of
halliburton saw that company receive a 2.5 billion contract called free iraqi oil. so
osama and sadham’s motives could only be the glory because they both knew they’d
be pursued to the end. silverstein, pres and veep were looking to gain billions.
according to ex-cia operative susan lindauer, she was informed by fellow agents that
for weeks prior to 9/11 unmarked vans would arrive at wtc in the early morning
hours after the janitorial staff left. supposedly unknown cargo was unloaded from
these vans. the opportunity makes a lot more sense and is a lot easier from within
than from without.
are you really serious about anyone who may have been involved unwittingly would
feel no fear in being a whistle blower? really? first off the guilt would most likely
make them deny that it was possible and secondly the people they’d be going up
against would be the most powerful people in the world. i don’t think it would be too
hard to keep most people unaware of the intended outcome of their actions. that need
to know policy works wonders in the covert world. neither would it be hard keeping
everyone knowingly involved, whether it was dozens or hundreds, quiet. not hard at
all.
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explain how 24″ x 6″ thick structural steel beams melted and bent without fracturing,
without cracking, without breaking. It melts at 2750 deg F… jet fuel burns at only 1500 deg
F and office fires burn at 600+ deg F. In fact, in the paint tests run by NIST, they found
evidence of fires affecting steel only at temperatures of 625+ deg F and no more. Surely not
enough to melt steel. Yet the steel was still melted (read the RJ Lee report)
explain the molten concrete which melted around guns and steel. It melts at a temperature of
around 3200 deg F. How is that possible if the hottest it could have gotten, according to the
official story, is the temperature of jet fuel (1500 deg)?
These are facts. I don’t deal in conjecture and speculation like you do. These are facts. How
did that massive beam reach a temperature hot enough to cause that perfect bend in Less
Than 12 seconds (time of the collapse)?
PETN, the standard high explosive in det cord, burns at a temperature of greater than 8,000
deg F. That could be one answer. But “jet fuel” clearly isn’t.
I mean, the critical temperature of structural steel (where it is at only 60% or less than its
normal yield strength) made in America is approximately 1000-1300 deg F; the
temperature required for it to weaken to this point only gets lower the longer the material
is being heated too. Even 600 deg F continuously burning could cause it to weaken
significantly. Hey, isn’t 1300 deg F less than 1500 deg F?
Or how about the fact that you don’t know how melting works to begin with. Rocks, and
composites (such as concrete) are made up of several substances, all of which have
different melting points. All it would take is for a portion of the overall structure to reach
a phase transition and cause a partial melt, which would cause the overall structure of the
concrete to begin flowing. Most concrete will reach this point between 900 and 1100 deg
F… that’s still below 1500 deg F, right?
None of this is even taking into account the fact that if the heat is sealed and creating a
“mircoclimate”, causing pressure to continue to rise, this will in turn cause the
temperature to continue to rise and exceed normal expectations.
It’s almost like most of your argument is based on the fact that huge aspects of science
and physics are largely ignored and your basing your conspiracy BS on how you
THINK things should work in the real world, and not on how they actually do work.
Once again, you throw out tons of speculation and call them facts, but at the same time
you’re asking how so and so could be possible while not understanding or even being
aware of all the many, many factors involved, and yet through your lack of
understanding you somehow do a huge leap over to it only being explainable through
explosives and wild bullshit theories. It’s really quite amazing.
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I mean, did you even read anything that I wrote? Did you even notice that it was a direct
response to a question presented to me, and that I answered it? How is that babbling
nonsense?
Here’s why: because it doesn’t fit with your theory, and your theory is more important to
you than facts or reality. You’ve gobbled up some conspiracy nonsense and now are so
invested in it that anything anyone says to the contrary, even if it gives a valid alternate
explanation, is just silly nonsense that takes up space to you.
Do you think “Willy” and “Scott’s” articles are somehow some kind of absolute,
infallible truth or something? Have you never questioned the validity of its content?
Honestly, I doubt you have the reading comprehension skills for it to matter anyway.
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steven andresen, on August 25, 2009 at 6:27 pm said:
will,
I assumed that whoever was investigating the residues of the Towers with the idea that they might have
been brought down by explosives would have, as a matter of course, looked for all the common
explosive residues in addition to more exotic ones.
You are telling me that Prof. Jones and members of whatever team he has on this not only didn’t look
for likely culprits, but refuses to do so.
In addition to this, you are telling me that the official 9-11 commission did not, and I assume refuses to,
check for common explosive residues also.
If this is true then they are bunglers, and more than that.
I have thought one of the crimes of the Bush administration was to treat the 9-11 murders as an act of
war instead of as a crime, and refused to treat the murders as a crime to be investigated as a crime
according to the procedures followed by detectives, and so on. It was a crime for this very reason, that
evidence can be made to disappear and be ignored.
It was the subsequent cleaning up of the crime scene that argues to me hit cover-up.
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I also found all the foot dragging he does odd to … The very first thing a detective does at a shooting is
test everyone present for gun shot residue … Here we have a suspected explosion and … no tests for
explosive residue!?? … A few common chemicals and a swab and we would all have our answer in a
second would’t we? … Now eight years later and he asks Nist to do it?? … Knowing full well they
won’t … That is fishy … Good call my friend ….
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So we are being led to believe that the government wanted the Twin towers and building 7 to
completely be demolished and then used a brand new untested technique!
Come on nano thermite proponates, you spout a lot of science but not much common sense.
The US governmemt thought lets use the Twin Towers as a guinea bigs to test out how well Nano
Thermite actually performs on buildings……yeah right!!!
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willyloman, on September 19, 2009 at 3:21 pm said:
Good point, KL. I said something very similar to Prof. Jones about a year and a half ago on my 9/11
Blogger post, “An open letter to Steven Jones on the Subject of Det Cord”… you can Google it with
911Blogger and it should come up. No controlled demolition expert would attempt something like
this with experimental or even just secret military grade explosives. It would not happen.
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No cables, drilling or tons of explosives necessary. Both patents give answers to a lot of questions,
regarding the use of Nano-Thermite on 9/11.
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It should still therefore be present in NYC… and since it is a military explosive… and there have been
no wars in recent decades that included attacks on New York… well if any nanothermite is found in
NYC… then that’s proof enough it was used there!… if the samples get stronger along the debris cloud
route… you can then only assume that the buildings were demolished deliberately!
So… has anyone done this? found out WHERE, in what quantities any traces of nanothermite was
found?
The funny thing is…as I said… you could prove or disprove this hypothesisi for about 300 bucks with
samples from NYC!
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“Steel does not react in this manner without some incredible force driving it.” -Yeah, I guess having
hundreds of tons of building pressing down on top of it just isn’t much force.
You have several of these kinds of statements of “this doesn’t work this way” or “that doesn’t work
that way.” You ever think maybe you’re wrong? Maybe you have no idea what your talking
about? That you have some idea in your head of how things should work, but that reality just
doesn’t work that way and doesn’t bend to your preconceived notions? Maybe reality is just seems
too unrealistic for you.
This whole conspiracy BS really falls down to people believing they are smarter than they are,
possibly even being fairly intelligent, and then buying into some that’s stupid for stupid reasons but
believing they are too smart to fall for some line of BS. Then after getting emotionally invested in
that belief, try to start defending a stupid position with smart arguments.
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This is a classic case of projection. Just replace “conspiracy BS” with “official story BS” and it
works. People are emotionally invested in the “official story” . Most 9/11 activists initially
believed the official story but facts and rationality overtook emotion at some point. Its the
“debunkers” who spend hours daily trolling for online fights with 9/11 activists who seem the
most emotionally invested.
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It really boils down to people wanting so bad to be in a world where they can be the unsung
heroes of it while not actually having to do any kind of work to be one. The motive is to
make themselves important; all the people that believe the official story (you know, reality)
are mindless sheep, or bloodthirsty monsters in on some grand conspiracy; while they are
the ones who see the light, and elevate themselves to a level the real world will never elevate
them to.
I mean, if everyone else is an ignorant sheep or a bloodthirsty conspirator, all they have to do
to feel superior is roll out of bed. Kudos on that life plan, friend!
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Look at all your comments here. Emotionally invested much? Why do you feel the need
to “take on” 9/11 activists so hard? Does the corporate media really need your help? No,
but you obviously get something out of this. Emotionally invested. I guess you’re the
“hero” taking out those dastardly anti-American,Jihadist-helping 9/11 activists right little
guy? Just doing your civic duty?
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Anyway, the thing I get out of this is a debate. Simple as that. I don’t live in a world
where every argument that is made someone has to elevate their position to believing it is
the work of a hero for it to be a worthwhile thing to pursue. I want to understand how
people came to these conclusions they came to. I want to understand how they side step
all the holes in their theories while simultaneously ignoring the fact that they are doing
so. I want to understand how people can believe in something so hard while purposefully
overlooking the giant holes in the sheer practicality of what they want to believe
happened, the giant leaps of logic they have to make to reach these conclusions and so
adamantly defend them. But when all is said and done, it’s just a debate to me.
I don’t think anyone here is “anti-American Jihadist helping”, or is even dastardly at all.
Mostly just lacking logic and rationality. I mean, you keep bringing up the corporate
media and them “pushing the official story.” Is the entire media in on the plot too? How
many people are in on it? Do you realize how irrational that is? It’s basically creating a
world where it’s not some group that is in on this plot, but where pretty much
EVERYONE is, except for the 9/11 activists. That’s what I want explained, to understand
how it can be believed, and that’s really only going to happen if the people that believe it
tell me.
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When it turns out that sites like this one are correct about 9/11 (we are) do you think that every
other news site should shut down their websites because they are then “completely obsolete”?
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1,411 verified Architectural and Engineering Professionals at Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth.
http://www.ae911truth.org/
and Fire Fighters who worked at the Trade Towers that day of Firefighters for 911 Truth.
http://firefightersfor911truth.org/
and also of course over 300 Verified Pilots and Aviation Professionals at Pilots for 911 Truth.
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/index.html
If you prefer video than reading, than this provides a clear and concise breakdown of actual evidence
surrounding the events of September 11.
Finally, David Ray Griffin, as he uses only evidence to disproves the startling little evidence supplied by
the “Official Story”. And also use documented and scientific fact to prove the correct events of that day.
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060405112622982
The evidence supplied by all these Professionals is overwhelming. I find it hard to grasp that some
people will still try to argue in favour of an Administration that killed over 3,000 of its own people. Do
you not feel that if you were killed on that day all you would want is for people to actually do some
solid research. The answers are easy to find.
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Since all of the information on what the debris contained is there, if there was any explosive residue
there, you’d be able to just see if it was from that analysis. (There is not any.)
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And no, neither NIST, or FEMA, or the 9/11 Commission has ever tested for traces of high
explosive residue on any 9/11 related evidence or dust from Ground Zero.
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Misdirecting activities involves the goal of actually taking over the leadership. Taking over the
leadership is the highest priority. Beware of new comers who volunteer to lead.
Misdirecting activities is a fairly simple thing in organizations that put their agenda up for a vote.
Infiltrators simply present alternative agendas until they have the organization bogged down with
foolishness.
The shill;s are all over the web 🙂 you have been warned
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Plus they have nasty “secret societies” to suppress whatever they consider “bad for their business.”
Keep your affinity groups small; at 12 or less.
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Thermite myth debunked repeatedly...thruther ignore science and facts, on April 28, 2011 at
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Merely destroying the steel support members of the buildings, as some claim could be accomplished
with “thermite,” would not cause such top down detonations. So while the steel supports were certainly
destroyed in some manner, this in itself cannot explain how the buildings exploded top-down. We were
all made witness to an impossible event. People who claim that crashing aircraft can make buildings
explode top-down are either fanatical or disingenuous.
The instant removal of nearly all evidence, the refusal to seriously investigate, the many strange
anomalous red herring events, etc., all point to outrageous criminality far more sinister than the initial
plane crashes. Remember too, for example, that the planes were equipped with advanced radio-control
devices that authorities with proper codes could have utilized to completely remove control of the
aircraft from the hands of the pilots, and so on.
It is presumably naive to imagine that any serious investigation will ever be undertaken. It would be far
more productive to simply reassure the public that what they witnessed was indeed impossible unless
ultra-sophisticated agents and special operations teams were involved. No, Virginia, it was not 19 minor
league hijackers with box cutters who did it. Such reassurance would go far toward restoring the
people’s confidence in their own competence and social potential.
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You are a nutcase. Go back to raising sheep. Stop this insane disinfo, please.
We all saw what really happened. So just go back to raising your sheep, or whatever.
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I like how a rational viewpoint that has valid questions and explanations that are contrary to you
conspiracy theory is just “insane disinfo” to you. Is that how every viewpoint that you don’t agree
with is?
Are you sure you’re not the sheep? I mean, you are following this conspiracy BS as if it’s some kind
of infallible gospel, never questioning its content.
Why do you not want someone questioning the validity of this conspiracy anyways? Are you afraid
you’re wrong? Why wouldn’t you want a discussion? If you’re theory was right, wouldn’t
answering the questions that are asked only strengthen your argument and move your agenda
forward that much more?
Do you not want more answers? Why don’t you want to debate this topic? You’re here, this topic
interests you, why do you not want to discuss it? I mean, that’s the whole point of having a
discussion thread, to discuss it. If all anyone did was come here and “yes man” each other, this
discussion section would just be a big circle jerk and nothing more.
I wonder what’s going to be like 20 years from now when you look back at this time in your life
and think to yourself “Wow, how did I believe in this crap? I must have been nuts.”
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All physical evidence around the WTC was swiftly cleared away. The few facilities that
still have dust samples only report having tested for thermite-type incendiaries, and
refuse to acknowledge having tested for nitrate or perchlorate based explosive materials.
Many skeptics are seeking reports of such testing, but as of yet, none have been released.
If anyone has links to such reports, they surely should post them. Traces of thermite-type
chemicals have been detected, but such incendiaries could not have caused the buildings
to explode top-down as they did.
For example, there are no reports of tests for the explosive PETN, which can only be
detonated by powerful blasting squibs, not by ordinary heat or shock. PETN could easily
have been extruded into vertical electrical, communications, and ventilation shafts, etc.
There would be few or no blast points, since the entire buildings themselves would have
been the “blast points.”
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On a different note, suppose it was a better world and the terrorist attack did not happen
or was prevented. Would these supposed bombs that were placed before hand just be
sitting there to this day waiting to be discovered? Seems like it would be a pretty massive
risk to depend on a successful terror attack for. Are there bombs sitting in some building
that Flight 93 was intended for?
What is the benefit for the conspirators again? The Patriot Act? War in Afghanistan and
Iraq? Wouldn’t the terror attack pretty much provide an excuse for those anyway, even
if the towers didn’t fall?
Eh, maybe I shouldn’t get side tracked, I’m mostly curious about the bomb fragment
thing.
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The primary goal of this operation was to perpetrate a psy-op to befuddle the public by
creating a very traumatic, yet physically implausible scenario so as to induce a
permanent state learned helplessness. This would help explain why people no longer
protest the outrageous transgressions of their government and the massive destruction of
their way of life. Merely flying planes into buildings would not have provided the
necessary shock and awe: The buildings had to explode.
The fate of Flight 93 is a murky issue — willylowman proposes that it was intended to hit
building #7, but was shot down. Apparently you have not bothered to read this entire
thread. And you seem to overlook many of the various possibilities. Think deeper.
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The fragments issue is very simple. For 9 months following Sept. 11th, there was an operation taking
place at Fresh Kills landfill where the debris was hauled off too.
Four tents were set up with a conveyer belt running through each one. They took the loose debris, the
dust and other material, and they ran it on the belt while 5 or 6 agents literally sifted through it all
picking out small pieces of stuff for 12 hours a day. That went on for 9 months. My guess is they were
looking for the exact same kind of things you might be talking about. What they found… who
knows….
Also, during the clean up on site, there were agents on rooftops of surrounding buildings watching the
workers. When they found stuff and picked up stuff, the agents would radio other agents on the
ground and they would go over and see what they found and take it.
And for the record, Flight 93 was on a heading going straight for lower Manhattan when it was shot
down. Building 7 was the intended target and they decided to demo Building 7 anyway at 5:20 pm on
Sept 11th.
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There is no way of knowing what they found sifting through the tons of dust and debris like
they did for 9 months. What we do know is that there is a great deal of existing evidence that
shows that this was a “combustion event” as it was put in the RJ Lee report (a scientific analysis
of the dust, not some “truther” study). The evidence that is there says something other than the
official story had to take place.
What I have done is looked seriously at the hard evidence that is there and looked at the
undeniable circumstantial evidence, and come to a conclusion based on those. That conclusion is
that what happened at the WTC was a controlled demolition. Watch the Building 7 videos and
tell me that doesn’t look like a controlled demolition.
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I’d hate it, that is, unless I owned the courts. Oh, yeah, and the cops, and the soldiers, and the
government, and the mainstream media, and the school curriculum, and the–well, shit,
might as well say it and save space: Unless I owned the whole fucking System–past to
present.
But, because I do own all that, I can make it you who’s looked at, and stepped away from.
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High explosives have a definate shelf life. They were not built into the building during construction… it
doesn’t work that way. They had plenty of time to rig it and CDI helped control the clean-up for about
9 months after the event. More than likely they were the ones who made sure certain things were never
found.
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The point is that we can’t really know how the Towers were rigged. They had the opportunity and they
kept the records for who went in and out of the building. During the cleanup they were in control of it
and kept the records of what was found. So these aspects of the unofficial investigation are at a
designed stand still
What we do know is that many aspects of the official story defy the laws of physics and that there were
literally tons of hard evidence found and reported on that prove beyond any reasonable doubt that
temperatures existed during the destruction of the towers that are impossible without high explosives.
Period. That, my friends, is solid, hard scientific evidence that the official story is incorrect. Combine
that with the scores of circumstantial evidence, and you have the beginings of a very solid criminal
case, were the official investigation to ever take place. That’s what I try to focus on.
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/27/nanothermite-if-it-doesnt-fit-you-must-acquit/
http://tmarkhightower.wordpress.com/
Thank you.
Mark
T Mark Hightower
San Jose, CA
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Ally, on November 2, 2013 at 6:06 am said:
Regardless of who says what or who is trying to prove who wrong . America has millions of peoples
blood on they’re hands .
9/11 was an inside job it is glaringly blatant ,evidence destroyed ,plains hi jacked and flown into highly
watched air space very easily .what my problem is why is the world letting them away with it the
world sat back and watched as America raided Iraq ,Afghanistan and now I believe are trying to gain
control of the rest of the Middle East .If the truth movement do find any evidence it will just be pushed
aside by people trying there hardest to “debunk” there theory’s .your government killed your own
people for money simple as that and they have gotten away with it and seriously don’t see in my life
time any one or government being brought to court for this . BRING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT
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I blame it on poor education, no concept of reality in an engineering sense, and blatherings from
grocery checkout boys, fast food servers, retail store clerks and any number of other self-admitted
geniuses with no relevant education, and the need to run a blog to show other people just how smart
they are. Not.
Nanotechnology. In its infancy in 2001. No real production of nanothermite in any quantity at the
time. Scratch that one.
Steel. Some genius thinks the building was made of high-strength steel. What, in 1971? No production
quantity available. Each tower had 100,000 tons of regular old structural steel, and that means the
buildings probably weighed ten times as much when you include millions of paper files, concrete, glass
and furnishings
Steel doesn’t bend when heated. Right. Blacksmiths don’t exist, I suppose. Fire cladding was added to
the steel just for show, I suppose. It’s a heat insulator, applied to lengthen the time it takes for heat to
get at the steel. Why? Because steel weakens materially when heated.
Blacksmiths have furnaces to burn regular fuel with a forced draught to raise the temperature enough
to heat metal to the point where it can be worked. WTC tower? A natural chimney to raise the burning
temperature of thousands of tons of paper. For goodness sake ceiling temperatures in a regular house
fire get to 2000 degrees when flashover occurs. Watch the Discovery Channel and learn something.
WTC 2 which fell first did not fall straight down. Wikipedia will tell you that. Chunks fell on WTC 7
and other buildings. The rush of compressed air is what caused the plumes of dust to spread outwards.
Know what the sound of a hand clap is? Hint – it ain’t the sound of flesh on flesh. Hit your left arm
with your right hand. Not much of a clap now, is it? It’s compressed air escaping that causes the hand
clap sound. Now let a few hundred thousand tons fall on itself floor by floor and you get wind and a
thunder clap. You don’t get dust 2 miles away without wind, in this case self-generated by the collapse.
For my sins, I’ve been a mechanical engineer for 45 years, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned in that
time, it’s that Joe Average citizen hasn’t got a clue about anything beyond using a hammer and a
circular saw for home renovations. Beyond that, I hear theories that make no sense to an engineer.
People don’t even know how to make a structurally safe patio. And then, using this vast amount of
non-knowledge, they try and tell me how things work. Car mechanics don’t know how car engines
really work – they think they do, but it’s all about bolting things together to them, not the real theory.
Like the difference between a nurse and a doctor.
And that’s what I think is happening here. People, with no damn idea whatsoever about how things
really work, can’t wrap their uneducated minds around reality, cannot understand the explanations
because “it makes no sense to me”, and don’t have the intellectual capacity to realize just how dumb
and under-educated they are. Doesn’t fit the self-image, hence the dumbass conspiracy theories put
forward by a bunch of oinkers
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“little sissies”? “Watch the Discovery Channel and learn something.”? “WTC tower? A natural
chimney to raise the burning temperature”?
Yeah, you’re right on that one… I don’t watch show on the Discovery Channel and then consider
myself educated on the matter. I read the NIST report in this case which stated quite clearly that
they didn’t have any evidence that any beam was exposed to temperatures in excess of 650 deg f.
That’s science and evidence garnered from actual investigation of the evidence at hand… not a TV
show positing the “natural chimney theory” so I guess you might find that kind of tedious reading
a bit more difficult than watching a show on a channel that admits they air various
“documentaries” that are completely made-up fiction, like their Megalodon show.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2013/08/05/shark-week-jumps-the-shark-an-open-
letter-to-discovery-communications/#.UpCbzSeUOQE
Learn something watching the Discovery Channel? are you an idiot as well? sounds like it.
No mechanical engineer is going to say the Towers were a “natural chimney”. That’s just stupid
and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the process of designing a sky-scraper.
Buildings are designed to keep fire contained, one floor to the next. A lot of hard work and
engineering go into the process. The floors under the strike zones were undamaged by the crashes
so the fail-safes for keeping fire from spreading were still in place as was explained by the fire
fighters, the ones who survived afterward as well as the ones who died radioing in what they found
as they moved up the building to rescue people and put out fires.
In reality, after reading their reports and the hundreds of pages of the first responder’s testimony
about what they found when they got there, it’s safe to say the fires were burning themselves out
(hence all the black, oxygen starved smoke we ALL SAW)…
NIST made clear that exact same conclusion because they are actually engineers and they took the
time to do a little research into the matter.
idiot
“Some genius thinks the building was made of high-strength steel. What, in 1971? No
production quantity available. Each tower had 100,000 tons of regular old structural steel,”
Well, that’s all well and good just to fucking say, but if you were to actually take the time to do just
a little investigation into the matter, you would find out, you’re wrong again. Imagine that? A
“mechanical engineer” doesn’t know the history of steel manufacturing.
“The composition of the trusses was not simply carbon and iron as has been suggested by many
others. That would be the main composition of A-36 structural steel. But as NIST points out, in
the fabrication process of the trusses, the company that made them substituted a higher grade
steel, a HSLA steel, for the parts of the trusses that were to be comprised of A-36 structural steel.
They also used ASTM A-242 steel in the trusses. This could explain the reports of silicone, sulfur,
and various other metals found in the “iron rich spheres”.”
https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/sneak-peak-revised-demolition-theory-hypothesis/
You can go to that webpage (mine) and look over the exact competition of the two types of high
grade structural steel used in the trusses as complied by the NCSTAR investigation (NIST)
But of course, these facts may have been left off of the show put together by the channel known for
producing fake documentaries.
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/what-do-you-think-about-discovery-channels-fake-
documentaries.2414/
I’m not taking the time to fill in these blanks for you. If you think of yourself as a doctor compared
to everyone else just being “nurses” and you think that way because you watch Discovery Channel,
there’s not much anyone can do for you. You’re an idiot. Not a single person posting here has left
that kind of ridiculously stupid statement. Not only is it insulting to our intelligence just having to
respond to you, but you clearly don’t understand the hard work and education it takes to be a
nurse these days. Your dismissive attitude toward them speaks volumes. I hope you enjoy your next
trip to the hospital.
I write this comment to those who might tune in for a laugh because they know damn well I won’t
let ridiculous propaganda like your comment sit on my site unanswered. I love exposing you
influence peddlers in my forum. Can smell you cubicle jockeys a mile away.
For those of you who are interested, read what real engineers think about the formation of
hundreds of thousands of tons of metal microspheres in the Ground Zero dust… read the RJ Lee
report “WTC Dust: Composition and Morphology” … here’s a preview:
In addition to the spherical iron and aluminosilicate particles, a variety of heavy metal particles
including lead, cadmium, vanadium, yttrium, arsenic, bismuth, and barium particles were
produced by the pulverizing, melting and/or combustion of the host materials such as solder,
computer screens, and paint during the WTC Event.
… The differences within the WTC Dust and typical background dusts include the fineness and
evidence of heat…
… The amount of energy introduced during the generation of the WTC Dust and the ensuing
conflagration caused various components to vaporize. RJ Lee
and if anybody wishes to hear from 2099 professional working architects and engineers who have
taken the time to research the official story of the collapse of the buildings and come to disagree
with it, you can check out Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth here;
http://www.ae911truth.org/signatures/ae.html
That’s a bunch of real engineers who ask real questions and do real research and read real reports…
they don’t just watch the Discovery Channel and think they’re doctors.
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Secondly, it’s called “CONTROLLED demolition”. You can order the demolition sequence for
whatever purpose you like. It doesn’t have to start from the bottom up.
“On a controlled demolition, a supervisor would walk around the site, marking with yellow spray
paint where the steel girders are to be cut, particularly to suitable lengths to enable them to be easily
loaded on dump trucks or tractor trailers. ”
Like the consistently thirty-foot girders that were loaded onto dump trucks in the days following
9/11? I think the people who demoed the Towers had it figured out.
No they did not. The infrastructure as a whole supplies the building’s capacity to resist gravity, as
all buildings do.
“The moment the planes penetrated those walls, particularly in situations where the planes entered
& parts exited the building, the exploding jet fuel & instant fire from burning debris within the
affected floor areas would have progressively weakened both the internal & external strength of the
buildings”
The jet fuel from the second plane mostly burned off outside. The fires in both Towers were oxygen
starved within ten minutes. There is no recorded steel CORE temperature approaching anywhere
near the point where the steel would be weakened enough to fail. Even then, steel is conductive and
would draw away the heat energy of the fires.
To quote willyloman from an excellent post, “4 Ton Girders Blowing in the Wind?”:
“The conductive nature of the steel and the design disperses the heat energy, so that the frame never
gets to a CORE temperature of 600+ degs. That’s why buildings don’t simply collapse when they
catch on fire.”
Even if a steel member or a portion of the frame COULD fail (keeping in mind how building design
would isolate fires), that doesn’t necessarily mean it would impact the rest of the structure enough to
cause collapse. The Towers, according to Engineering News Record, could withstand a 2000%
increase in live load before failure occurred.
“Particularly when the asbestos protective covering on the steel work would have been blown off or
severely neutralised, precipitating a collapse, particularly considering the phenomenal combined
weight of the structures.”
The “fireproofing” explanation as a reason for collapse is very weak. No strong evidence that the
absence of fireproofing would harm performance. The calculations NIST performed to see how
impacts would affect fireproofing are also questionable. Kevin Ryan has an excellent piece on this in
his blog, “Dig Within”. You can search for the article there, just type in “NIST fireproof”.
“Typical conspiracy theorists with vivid imaginations & zero supporting evidence.”
When you check the facts, the ones who parrot the official story are the ones with vivid
imagination, like yourself (squawk!). You’d have to, to think that 19 men with boxcutters could foil
the most heavily defended airspace four times in two hours. Especially when one pilot had such
atrociously horrendous piloting skills, that his OWN FLIGHT INSTRUCTORS CALLED HIM A
DRAIN ON RESOURCES. Yet, this is the same man who performed the miraculous moves in a
twin-engine commercial airliner to strike the Pentagon….right. That’s all on record, by the way.
Unlike your pithy “arguments”.
Actually, you didn’t even cite the official story correctly, in several places. You are a failed parrot.
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The hard inescapable evidence was revealed by the RJ Lee report when they concluded it was a
“combustion event” that instantly melted so much metal, plastic and other debris when the
buildings were brought down. The trusses were flash melted like they were in a blast furnace
and the droplets of molten metal cooled into microspheres while suspended in the air, under
extreme pressure. There is absolutely no other way to explain that other than high explosive
combustion, just as there is no other explanation as to why those buildings came down at near
free-fall acceleration (Building 7 did come down at freefall acceleration) through the path of
greatest resistance. That’s just a physical impossibility like saying the moon is made of green
cheese or the earth is flat.
It’s amazing that people who promote the logic-free official version of events do so by saying
our research and findings are based in fantasy. No. Their absolute confidence in the rightness of
the government stories, in spite of how often we have been lied to, is the tin-foil hat nuttery and
not the other way around.
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BTW, you think 911 was bad, then think about 600 kilograms of missing weapons grade
Uranium 235, enriched to 90%. There are 35 countries at least with nuclear weapons & l can
assure you a Little Boy type weapon is very achievable. Plutonium would make it that much
more easier for terrorists. Their ultimate aim is to nuke the US financial areas in New York.
Homeland Security & Customs needs as many cheap geigger counters as they can acquire, plus
a means to identify lead in containers or places it should not be. The worst decision America ever
made was to illegally invade Iraq & precipitate the formation & unlimited funding of Al Qaeda,
plus the encouragement of groups like ISIS, with costs that must be accumulating close to 9
Trillion dollars. Was the exercise really worth it, just to steal some oil? The ME was far more
predictable & stable with Saddam Hussein alive.
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“Was the exercise really worth it, just to steal some oil?”
Oil was not the primary consideration when it came to the Iraq regime change. Read
“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” which called for a “New Pearl Harbor type event” exactly
one year prior to 9/11 and written by all the same neocons who were all over the Bush
administration when 9/11 took place. What you see there is a floor plan for a new
dominance of the US in the new century (that’s why they are called Project for a New
American Century). It calls for endless wars of aggression in order to promote the United
States as the sole remaining superpower throughout the Middle East and elsewhere. There’s
a lot of money to be made from 9/11 for the MIC, oil, banking interests, venture capitalists
overseas and of course, the privately owned central bank system which Iraq is now part of
thanks to the invasion of the country.
And, more to the point… what difference does the cost mean to these guys? The socialize the
costs (government and taxpayers paid for it) while they privatize the profits… so how does
the cost even factor into it? It doesn’t.
“The ME was far more predictable & stable with Saddam Hussein alive.”
And once again you display your lack of understanding when it comes to disaster
capitalism. Stability is what they want with countries already on board with their neoliberal,
IMF/WB economic system. That’s why they put dictators in charge.
However, when a country like Iraq or Libya are not playing ball, what they have to do is
“shock and awe” them and from the rubble, remake the nation in their own image, so
instability is perfect for that kind of graft.
thanks.
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Well, I’ve got news for you. They are stupid enough to hire dumbasses like you.
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Lilaleo (@Lilaleo), on October 27, 2015 at 9:00 am said:
In the context of the video I posted above, I’d be very curious to know
where Lenny’s IP is originating from.
Australia. Whether or not that goes along with your video link, is up to
you to determine.
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The only way ‘controlled demolition’ would be even remotely possible, would be if the
demolition guys had advance warning of the plane crashes. Didn’t happen & there was no
conspiracy between demolition guys & terrorists, apart from the fact the planting of explosives
& cabling would have entailed a significant amount of preparation, resulting in people asking
questions. This would have to be the most infantile & dumbest crap I’ve ever read. No wonder
you voted for Bush twice.
[well, actually, there is tons of evidence showing they had not only foreknowledge of
the attacks coming from all sorts of intelligence agencies around the world. And yes,
the demolition project would take months to design and prepare. Three demolition
teams were on site when the building came down. One, CDI had legitimate loading
licenses to do a demo in New York City starting 2 months prior to the demo and to this
day have not explained what project they were working on. That same company is
featured in the NIST report as the sole reason NIST did not look for evidence of high
explosives being used that day. CDI says it didn’t “sound like” a demolition, and that
was enough for NIST]
Someone is goIng to pre-plan a controlled demolition from the top down, with no idea of the
weights involved or the progression of collapse? LMFAO No explosions or external sign of
demolition? Really love reading the rantings of lunatics.
[Who said they didn’t do the engineering on the project? You? That’s it. Of course they
designed the demo and did a pretty good job from what I saw. Especially Building 7.
Look up those videos if you like]
And now the demo guys were all part of the conspiracy? LOL
[never heard of the Manhattan project? How about LIBOR? Wake up fella.]
Sonny, if you had the faintest idea what you were prattling on about, you would know normal
buildings derive their strength from a combination of concrete & steel, starting with lift wells,
basements, concrete pillars & working upwards. This building was designed to predominantly
be built off site & constructed on site, one floor at a time, with the majority of strength coming
from the walls to save concrete, money & time, which is why steel girders & framing were
sprayed with asbestos to protect them from fire.
[OK. You just described a steel framed hirise. Is that supposed to give you some
credibility? You should take a look at my resume.]
Sonny, you obviously have no idea of technical knowledge of the buildings, the incident or the
collapse.. You are a delusional simpleton, which explains why you persist with unsupported &
totally unsubstantiated fantasy conspiracy theories. Time to seek professional help & l have
neither the time or inclination to want to continue amusing you or catering to your delusional
fantasies. Say hi to your shrink.
[aside from the fact that it appears you have no working knowledge of physics or hirise
design, there are over 1,500 engineering and architectural professionals who have
signed the AEfor9/11Truth petition to reopen the investigation due to the fact that the
evidence does not support the official conclusion. I happen to be one of them, by the
way. Name calling only weakens your credibility… unless of course you happen to be a
12-year-old kid.And just for the record, IMO, people who reject the laws of physics we
have amassed over the past 2,000 years as well as what their own eyes tell them when
they look at the collapse of those buildings (especially Building 7) in order to maintain
their belief in a corrupt system they know lies about everything else under the sun,
which you yourself have pointed out, THOSE PEOPLE are the ones in need of some
form of counseling… not people who tell the truth regardless of the pain it causes
them. As for your time… we will see if you leave it at this. My guess is no]
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You have the intelligence of a lobotomized chimp. I sincerely hope you’re only writing this
drivel in your free time, because I would be embarrassed to pay for it. This is my last reply to
you, not for yourself, but for the benefit of the people reading this exchange.
“The only way ‘controlled demolition’ would be even remotely possible, would be if the
demolition guys had advance warning of the plane crashes.”
“Someone is goIng to pre-plan a controlled demolition from the top down, with no idea of
the weights involved or the progression of collapse?”
The people who design demolitions are control freaks by nature. No engineer worth his salt
plans a demolition without a strong idea of how collapse would progress. In fact, Scott
Creighton/willyloman (the person who runs this blog) has written extensively about how the
collapse was engineered compared to conventional controlled demo.
Read “Oral Histories of New York Fire Department”. Thousands of pages of personal
testimony to explosions in the Towers, by people who’ve had more experience in those sorts
of situations longer than you’ve been alive.
“External sign…”
Willyloman’s “Smoke and Dust” article clearly shows det cord firing at the start of South
Tower collapse, emitting a tell-tale orange flash which is NOT jet-fuel ignited fire.
>And now the demo guys were all part of the conspiracy? LOL
Of course. Otherwise how would controlled demolition be argued? Are you kinda…stupid?
“Sonny, if you had the faintest idea what you were prattling on about, you would know
normal buildings derive their strength from a combination of concrete & steel, starting with
lift wells, basements, concrete pillars & working upwards. This building was designed to
predominantly be built off site & constructed on site, one floor at a time, with the majority of
strength coming from the walls to save concrete, money & time, which is why steel girders &
framing were sprayed with asbestos to protect them from fire.”
The “walls”…what walls? Do you mean the perimeter COLUMNS? How about the support
columns, floor trusses, the truss connectors, the core columns, the floors themselves?
The “strength came from the walls”? No, the load distribution to the perimeter columns was
around fifty percent, interior columns thirty percent, other structural elements twenty
percent. 50% is not “most”.
Secondly, the plane impact and fires did not harm the exterior column’s load-bearing
capacity enough to overwhelm adjacent structural elements with transferred loads (and force
trusses to fail and collapse…just no). Exterior columns could handle 2000% increase in live
loads before failure occurred.
“The strength came from the walls”? Then why did a lead engineer for the World Trade
Center, in a 1993 interview, state that a study was commissioned…where upon a 707 could
impact the exterior columns at ~200 MPH (some reports ~600 MPH), spilling gallons of
combustible jet fuel into the building (which was their largest concern), without initiating
collapse? Clearly he was concerned about how the ensuing fires would affect the interior
columns, because the damage to exterior columns was negligible.
“The strength came from the walls?” Why did a lead structural engineer for the Trade
Center summon a dozen other structural engineers to the South Tower on 9/11, after it was
hit, to assess the affect of the impact? None of them expected it to collapse in an hour,
because that’s absurd.
Engineering News Record 1964: “[You] could cut away all the first story columns on one
side of the building, and partway from the corners of the perpendicular sides, and the
building could still withstand design live loads and a 100 mph wind from any direction.”
“The moment the planes penetrated those walls, particularly in situations where the planes
entered & parts exited the building…”
Any serious engineer knows the Towers withstood the plane impacts. You seriously think the
majority of the structural strength came from “the walls”…Jesus Christ dude.
“Sonny, you obviously have no idea of technical knowledge of the buildings, the incident or
the collapse.. You are a delusional simpleton, which explains why you persist with
unsupported & totally unsubstantiated fantasy conspiracy theories. Time to seek professional
help & l have neither the time or inclination to want to continue amusing you or catering to
your delusional fantasies. Say hi to your shrink.”
You believe 19 men with boxcutters directed by a man in dialysis from a cave in
Afghanistan, outwitted the most dominant military force on Earth four times in two hours,
to knock down three buildings with two planes.
L. O. L.
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Why do you think a predictable outcome is required to bring down the building by demolition?
And if the building had been demolished, how much explosive on how many floors do you think they
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The whole point of controlled demolition is “control”. For example, they didn’t want to drop the top
half of the buildings across the street from the Trade Center complex because it would destroy other
local businesses. They wanted to wipe out the Trade Center and leave everything else as
undamaged as possible. And they did that for the most part. In the case of general controlled
demolition, this is also true specifically because the controlled demolition company can and will be
sued for damaging surrounding buildings and structures that they aren’t paid to demo. And at the
end of the day, when you look at how the buildings came down predominantly inside the
parameters of the Trade Center complex grounds, they did a pretty good job, with the exception of
using too much det cord on the floor systems which created that huge plume of pulverized concrete,
glass and microspheres of melted metal. Aside from that, they pretty much achieved what they
wanted to.
“And if the building had been demolished, how much explosive on how many floors do you
think they would need?”
Oh I have no idea. I am not an explosive expert and have never claimed to be one. That said, I think
it’s not as much as one might expect. You need cutter charges (linear shaped charges) for the
structural columns and support beams on the interior as well as some placed on the exterior column
structure as well and then det cord woven inside the floor systems on each floor. And of course you
need “kicker” charges to move the columns out of the way as the building comes down. Each of
them, not that large in terms of explosive charges, but when orchestrated in sequence, they can
have pretty remarkable results. The towers dropped in about 14 seconds each and Building 7 in
about 8. Absolutely no resistance from supporting floors beneath the parts of the building that were
coming down. Pretty remarkable for 110 story structures with a core comprised of at least 40 floors
of steel columns that were 5 feet wide and made of 5″ thick steel plates. In terms of how much it
would take per floor, you would have to check with a demo expert for an answer to that question. I
don’t even mess with firecrackers on the 4th of July.
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The only thing they refused to test for was residual traces of high explosives in the dust. To date, no
one, not the 9/11 Commission Report, not FEMA, not even Steven Jones and his “nanothermite”
study have tested for that. They even mention in the paper that someone SHOULD but they
refused when I contacted them years ago and asked them to.
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