Posted on 08/30/2006 12:57:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The government is taking the unusual step of responding to conspiracy theories about the destruction of the World Trade Center.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersberg, Md.), which investigated the causes of the collapse of the twin towers, said Wednesday (Aug. 30) that it has posted a "fact sheet" addressing alternatve theories about the fires and collapse. Several academics have put forth a "controlled demolition" and missile attack hypotheses for the destruction of the towers.
NIST concluded after a three-year building and fire safety investigation that the towers collapsed after being hit by separate, fuel-laden aircraft flown by terrorists. The impacts severed and damaged support columns, dislodging fireproofing insulation and dispersing jet fuel over multiple floors of each tower.
The resulting fire, which reached temperatures as high as 1,000 degrees C, weakened floors and columns, causing upper floors to collapse after sagging and pulling inward on perimeter columns. "This led to the inward bowing of the perimeter columns and failure of the south face of WTC 1 and the east face of WTC 2, initiating the collapse of each of the towers," NIST concluded.
NIST's probe rejected claims that upper floors "pancaked" on top of lower floors, causing the collapses. Other investigations pointed to huge amounts of office supplies, especially paper, as a source of fuel that significantly raised the temperature of tower fires beyond those that jet fuel would normally burn outside of an aircraft engine combustion chamber.
"Both photographic and video evidence—as well as accounts from the New York Police Department aviation unit during a half-hour period prior to collapse—support this sequence for each tower." NIST concluded.
Far more controversial are theories about explosions inside the towers. Conspiracy theorists postulate that puffs of smoke seen at the time of each collapse are evidence of a controlled demolition. Critics of the official probe also cited seismic data they claim showed evidence of explosions just before each tower collapsed. Other theories alleged missiles were fired at the doomed towers.
While both NIST and the 9/11 Commission have dismissed these theories, U.S. officials have been compelled to address allegations widely disseminated on the Internet.
"NIST respects the opinions of others who do not agree with the findings in its report on the [World Trade Center] collapses," the agency said in a statement. "However, the WTC Investigation Team stands solidly behind the collapse mechanisms for each tower and the sequences of events (from aircraft impact to collapse) as described in the report."
I suspect you're not really at a loss. You must have come up with some theory. After all, it's part of the conspiracy, don't you see? Why not share? We all need to know.
Well then, you sick fanatical freak, why did the cunning and all powerful conspirators leave the story itself, WHICH INCLUDED A MONTAGE OF THOSE SAME PHOTOS, up on the website at least until March 11, 2005? HINT: The photos and the story probably just scrolled of the site, in a perfectly normal pattern.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/Contingency_Planning.html
That is what they WANT you to think. Karl Rove has taken control of the sun, and some day soon....well just hide and wait
Good catch.
I still don't get the squib thing, I guess, and I do not recall "squibs" racing down the towers but massive floor-by-floor expulsions of smoke and paper and dust. But it seems perfectly obviously to me that if one building is pancaking from the top down, and another building is pancaking from the bottom up, that THAT is the reason you think the squibs, if they exist and if what they appear to be doing matters at all, may look like they're racing DOWN in the top-to-bottom collapse and UP in the bottom-to-top collapse. Doesn't it to you?
Anyway, I don't know what pictures you've seen of #7, but I don't know how you could look at any pictures of #7's southern face (short side of the trapezoid, remember) from the afternoon of 9/11 and not conclude that it was burning like a mofo.
If you are serious, I will find and post what few photos I have.
If you're not serious, and instead are the typical 9/11 doubter that gets sexually aroused by obsessively asking the same questions over and over on different forums, please don't waste my time. I am a married woman now and I don't want to play that.
LOL.
It's kind of like making a grand dramatic exit and getting your purse caught on the doorknob on the way out.
The photo page (apparently, if it's not some particularity of the Internet Archive) scrolled of the servers a bit before the story itself. Last "Way Back" capture 12 October 2004, versus 11 March 2005 for the story page.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mdw.army.mil/news/news_photos/Contingency_Planning_Photos.html
Now, lessee, the pictures themselves... I'll just try the first image...
O.K. I get the following message.
Path Index Error.
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Is this normal? Maybe the Way Back Machine doesn't index pages (like a photo) with no text? Anyway, as noted, the montage of ALL the images remained with the article through the last Way Back snapshot.
There is a reason why you have never seen buildings collapse after being hit by jetliners, and that is because it is something that has never ever happened before.
Or not answer.
Or not answer.
Why are you asking questions five years later? Why is it that you haven't found the answers to your questions in all this time? The purpose of questions is to guide inquiry, not annoy others. Your questions only seem to indicate that you are ignorant. If you want to prove anything you will need a lot more than just questions.
"gimme a break!" No. Cynicism is not the American spirit.
Kinda. Except of course agents of N.O.G. (the Neocon Occupational Government) carry hand-tooled black leather attaches to match their Armani suits and dark sunglasses.
He also keeps referring people to some Justin Raimondo article that was posted here after 9/11. For some reason (cough!) he won't link it.
Do you at least admit that #5 and #6 were not "shielding" #7, and that there's really no mystery as to why a tall thin building might sustain different and more fatal damage than a short, wide, and long building right in front of it?
Your answer will tell me a lot.
LOL! You're part of the conspiracy hellinahandcart!
Here's a good debunking link to save you some time:
http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2006/06/wtc-7.html
Great link. The discussion at the bottom is the archetype (and loooooong, LOL).
I bookmarked it, because it had some pix I didn't have.
insidejob, you moron! FASTER that freefall speed??? Do you just make this stuff up on the spot? NO STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS AGREE WITH YOU! NONE! THINK about that for a second. Let it sink in.
"(1) Bush Admin. had been warned, and had supressed FBI investigations" They were warned of their OWN plot?
As for Bush's reaction at the school, if he carried out 9/11 don't you think he would have jumped up and taken charge of the situation? Instead he sat there - like many people that day - in shock. Seriously, dude, do you think ANY of your bullshit would stand up in a court of law?
At 10:10 AM, telescopemerc said... LOL. How was this accomplished? Did the the BushCo. Cabal, Inc. use their supa-dupa, uber-sekrit gravity enhancement generators underneath the buildings?
Haven't you figured it out? Gravity is a conspiracy to keep us down.
Okay.
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