BYU Professor thinks bombs, not planes, toppled WTC

Deseret News ^ | November 10, 2005 | E. Jarvik

[Iconoclast2]

The hyperlinked paper by the Professor is worth the read.

[Fzob]

He is just reiterating the same crap the loony left does. Nothing new, same crap different mouth.

[mosquewatch.com]

Must put on my tin hat for this one!

[Paleo Conservative]

BYU? They were probably powered by cold fusion.

[wardaddy]

tinfoil por favor?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I guess we need to ask the lefty loonies what really happened to TWA Flight - 800 on Clinton's watch ?

[Paradox]

"It is quite plausible that explosives were pre-planted in all three buildings and set off after the two plane crashes — which were actually a diversion tactic," he writes. "Muslims are (probably) not to blame for bringing down the WTC buildings after all," Jones writes.

Why, aren't Muslims capable of calculating the neccessary explosives, and planting them in advance? Why the racism against Muslims? What a creep! :)

[GSWarrior]

Wow...he should write a book...oops, he is writing a book.

[js1138]

He better have tenure. This is as incompetent as it gets for someone in his position.

[Cicero]

Not Muslims? What were those 19 Arabs doing in the planes that crashed?

The collapse of the buildings can be explained 1) by the huge amount of jet fuel that was burning there from much larger planes than were ever expected or allowed for; 2) the environmentalist decision to stop cladding the steel with asbestos beyond the lower floors; 3) the domino effect of the top floors collapsing onto the floors lower down.

[lady lawyer]

It wasn't BYU that was promoting cold fusion, it was the University of Utah. This WTC business is bad enough. Please don't blame my alma mater for cold fusion, too.

[MikeA]

That was the University of Utah that came up with the cold fusion thing. Anyway, this is a totally silly hypothesis. Why even use the planes if bombs were enough to take them down? And it would be incredibly difficult to time the bombs to go off just as the planes hit.

[Paradox]

BTW, this is what happens when you send a (biased) physicist to do an Engineers work...

[pipecorp]

don't forget perpetual motion machines located stategically throughout the corridors to create a sympathetic vibration in the steel in conjunction with the lunar pull to counteract the tidal displacement.

[dfwgator]

[Doc Savage]

Absolute rubbish. I guess it wasn't Muslims who flew the planes into the towers according to this guy. I suspect if you asked him on the QT he'd tell you the Jews did it. There is an excellent review of the collapses by prominent architects who explain that to save money and weight the steel beams were not treated with fire retardant. They show an example of an untreated girder vs. a treated girder and subsequent failure.

What a moron this guy must be. Anything to get their names in the paper and sell a future book.

[billhilly]

Someone had better find this nut fast and get him back in the institution before he hurts himself.

[Doomonyou]

I'm gonna have to thing about that one...

[dead]

"Why would terrorists undertake straight-down collapses of WTC-7 and the Towers when 'toppling over' falls would require much less work and would do much more damage in downtown Manhattan?" Jones asks.

What an idiot. They didn’t “undertake straight-down collapses of the buildings.”

They undertook flying giant metal planes loaded with innocents and jet fuel into the buildings.

Fire and gravity decided the manner of collapse after that.

[andyk]

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