Your friend knows that unshaped charges, which that truck bomb was, explode with equal force in all directions.
That’s simple physics.
The Murrah building was reinforced concrete construction full of intertwined reinforcing steel.
The front facade would have come down, but that building fell apart almost all the way to the back column bay.
Why didn’t that happen across the street? There was no resistance to the blast force as it crossed the street, unlike the Murrah building which would have resisted the blast.
The truck might have taken down the first bay of the building, but not all the way to the back.
A wooden building, a dryvit faced building with steel studding yes, but not one of reinforced concrete.
Not the size and location of those columns.
Simple physics.
Otherwise, Controlled Demolition Inc. could implode buildings by parking a truck outside a building and bring it down.
Doesn’t happen that way.
Another one!
Do you have a degree in Physics? (I do.) I do not think of myself as an idiot. I do not believe that we have anything close to the full story about what happened in Oklahoma City. But unlike you, and others here, I have had a chance to pose questions about the event to an expert with no motive to try to fool me (He's very much on the FR side!) and I thought he had answers for all my questions. Some of those questions were specifically about Partin's analysis which I think I presented to him. This wasn't a four minute talk we had, and I believe we subsequently followed up with email back and forth.
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“Simple physics.”
So simple that all the demo experts on the scene either lied or weren’t as smart as you.
The whole building didn't come down. Only the front part, next to where the truck with the bomb was.
You people spouting off on this truck bomb doing little damage are good for several laughs. Ya’ll need to study up on your physics as it relates to blast compression and decay rates of low speed detonations.
Tim McVeigh set of the bomb. The truck bomb brought down the Murrah building.
What the government covered up was the fact that Iraquis were involved. Jayna Davis deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work in uncovering the Iraqi link/involvement to the bombings.
By the way, Bush didn’t want to get involved because his daddy is the one who started the repatriation of former Iraqi military into the US.