CONSPIRACY CRANKS. CREATING CRAZED '9/11 TRUTH'.

ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati conspiracy for world domination. That day, Popular Mechanics, the magazine I edit, hit newsstands with a story debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories. Within hours, the online community of 9/11 conspiracy buffs - which calls itself the "9/11 Truth Movement" - was aflame with wild fantasies about me, my staff and the article we had published. Conspiracy Web sites labeled Popular Mechanics a "CIA front organization" and compared us to Nazis and war criminals.

For a 104-year-old magazine about science, technology, home improvement and car maintenance, this was pretty extreme stuff. What had we done to provoke such outrage?

I was watching live video of the South Tower when it began its collapse, and I admit to being fooled by what I saw -- for no more than one second...

I happen to know a bit about such things, and, even I admit that when I first saw that smoke, flame and dust puff out right at the level of collapse on the South Tower, my initial thought was, "demo charges!"

That thought lasted no more than one second -- because the first puff was quickly followed by a second puff, and, than by a whole series of them. So, my assessment immediately changed to, "pancake collapse pistoning!"

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When the supports fail, and one floor collapses ("pancakes" in structural failure jargon) on top of another, the falling floor acts as a piston and compresses the air between those two floors, which then is forced out to the outside as an annulus (donut) of rapidly ejected air. The same effect was repeated as each succeeding floor pancaked down atop the still-standing portion of the structure -- until the accumulated weight and impacts of the falling floors above the point of failure initiated progressive collapse of the remaining floors...

The steel beams were weakened by the intense heat until those on one floor failed -- and then gravity did the rest.

There were no explosives planted in the WTC towers. With the tons of jet fuel aboard those planes, no additional explosives were required.

I mean, it was like a cruise missile with wings.

Umm... most cruise missiles do have wings. Although the Harpoon's are really just fins, the Thomahawk, probably the iconic cruise missile, has pop-out wings, as do several others.

Harpoon

Thomahawk.

It occurred to me this afternoon after posting one more rebuttal to some 9/11-Truth dingbat that there probably was something similar going on back during WW-II, so I did a Google search for some variants of Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor, propaganda, etc, and this Chat #20 was in the long list of results.

Funny thing this, I was just "banned" from slate for ridiculing a 911 conspiracy nut. I was a little overzealous, it happens.
I guess asking whether he wanted me to refer to him as "crazy" or a "liar" crossed the line.

It's a little like being deported from Cuba I think.

I made up my mind this morning that if anyone says this sort of trash in front of me I will hurt them. People that think this hateful tripe waste air.

Here is the link to the Chicke Wire Experiment

They probably proved the jet-plane crash brought the towers down but were to dumb to know it.

If they had checked the tensile strength before and after they would have seen that heating the wire took the temper away and made it more malleable.

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