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Quote from Juls :
- how much explosive is required to pull down such a building? Professional demolition engineers say 150 tons per tower, tens thousands holes, tens kilometers wires per tower. How did they install this in the towers without anyone noticing?

150 tons per tower? 10,000 hol ... heard of cutter charges? Wires? Ever heard of radio controlled/wireless? Did you know that "Ace El ... e 9 months prior to 9/11?

Quote :- how many people are required to do the task? From the same people, hundreds...why none of them was ever noticed? Why none of them ever broke the secret?

Well secrets are easily kept from the masses, we've gone through that. There wouldn't actually have to be that many people involved. A few workers, over the 9 months Ace Elevators were there, could easily have time to rig the building. A few to control the events of that day, 10-20. Not that many at all.

Quote :- why did they demolish the WTC 1 and 2 from top to bottom, and the WTC 7 from bottom to top?

Eh, isn't it obvious? The planes hit the tops of the towers, they'd hardly do a "normal" demolition on the towers.

Quote :- why did they decide to make the top of the tower fall differently in WTC1 and 2? How did they precisely know how to place the explosives to make the top tilt toward the most damaged part in such a natural way? What an incredible scenario! It required to know long time before precisely how the plane would hit the tower, and place more explosives on that side to make the top floors collapse in that direction. Just for the sake of realism? If they had demolished the towers, don't you think they would have chosen a less risky approach, with both towers being demolished vertically....instead of making one tower tilt to add more "variety"?

I believe whoever was in control that day was obviously watching the events as it unfolded, so it didn't actual have to be known in advance where the planes would hit, just watch where the hit and start from there.

Quote :- what was the goal? Two planes in the WTC+Pentagon was already a strong enough terrorist attack to justify Afghanistan war. Destroying entirely the WTC caused some large unnecessary financial problems and a worldwide economic slowdown. Stupid to harm their economic power if they planned to finance a war.

Well see, if you actually did some research you would know that the towers were due for a huge revamp because they were full of asbestos which hasd to be removed. Using them as part of a terrorist attack was financially cheaper, plus Larry Silverstein was in for a big payout if it was a terrorist attack, since that's what his insurance covered him for. And just if you didn't know, he tried to claim each tower was a seperate terrorist attack and wanted to claim $7mil, I think he ended up getting 3 or 4mil. Not really stupid to, in your eyes, harm their economic power because they have the Fedral Reserve who prints money whenever the US government want some, so money isn't an issue with these lads.

Quote :Conspiracy is absurd. Because of what it implies. I think about the famous "Protocol of Elders of Zion", a propaganda document forged more than one century ago, describing a worldwide conspiracy led by jews to dominate the world. Same problem....it was absurb because of everything it implied...million people involved, total secret, world scale intervention without any witness, harmful for jews...etc.

And this protocol is still broadly used as a valid source of information precisely in countries where guys like Thierry Meyssan are hired to spread their theories. In these countries, things are easier because of illiteracy, strong influence of religion, autoritarism needing an external enemy to focus people rage, scarce access to information. These theories do not look absurd in such environment.

But in western countries, they do. Almost forgot...this protocol announced 100 years ago that jews would cause tragedies killing thousands citizens in order to start wars. Same good old record playing again...

So tell me this, do you know any secrets about the Committee of 300? The Order of the Garter? The Knights of Malta? The Club of Rome? How about the Bilderberg Group? Or the Trilateral Commission, or even the Council of Foreign Relations? Tell me, do you know these groups and what they are up to? They have alot of influential powers and nobody seems to even know they exist. It's easy to keep secrets from the public, no matter how many people we think are involved, there will always be major things being controlled that we do not know who is behind it. Don't be foolish enough to think that your local, even national or international, news is there to tell you everything which is going on in the world. They are there to tell you what the "powers that be"(ie the aforementioned groups) want you to know. Why do you think all businesses are being bought out by the big guns? They're all merging into massive corporations so they'll end up controlling everything. That's their "big idea" anyway... A moto they're very fond of - "Ordo Ab Chao" = "Order out of Chaos"
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Quote from tristancliffe :...stuff...

I seriously cannot believe that you, with all that education and knowledge, look at those collapses and think, "Yeah, that's supposed to go like that", I just can't believe it....
Quote from Stang70Fastback :...more stuff...

Ok...

The fire was never hot enough and was beginning to burnt out, ask any NIST official, or just read their documents about the tests done on the pieces of metal, which they selected for testing themselves.

"Gradually the internal support structure of the building is collapsing, transferring it's load to other trusses." - Would we not see, if this was infact the case, signs of this on the exterior of the building? Would we not see the tower leaning to the side in which this support structure "gradually" failed on? There was nothing gradual in these collapses, the only thing which we can all be certain on was the gradual spreading of fire throughout the damaged floors. Anything else that happened gradually would have been visible from the exterior. Like, trusses failing and the exterior walls buckling out/in, core gradually failing would lead to the tower leaning to the weakest point.

I don't know lads, you 2 are, or atleast claim to be , more educated than me but yet you can't see what I see in the collapses. I don't think I've been led astray, I don't think I'm an easily led person. Nor do I think that there's a conspiracy in everything, like some people have suggested. The only people who I have actually talked to face to face about this and who don't agree with me, is my family, well not all but the majority of them disagree. Everyone else I show this to, friends, friends of friends, all see what I see, even though up until that point they believed terrorists did it all.


@Mazz - That's a cool image I have it a while now, it's 9300x9300 pixels, so it shows the whole WTC complex in great detail. Anyway, just want to clear up the name thing. U4IK ST8 = Euphoric State
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Ok, so show me where you get this information from? Because I'm sure that not only I, but many other people looking into this would like to see it.

If you look at the second tower to fall, there is no way that it gradually failed. The section falling halved in sized in the first few seconds, explain that to me please.

Watch it for yourself - http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt_ ... how.php?i=364&hires=1
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :Ohhhh my god. I PROMISE that I will completely destroy your response after my physics test...

...that is all

That's funny because not one part of the official story, or any investigation btw, can destroy the statements made by the people I linked to, none. So, I'm very interested in hearing your response.

You go on like you know it all when actually, the investigations you base your theory on have been proven to be incomplete, so your arguements can't actually prove anything else, other than what the investigations have already shown. There'll be no new info from your next post, I can guarantee it.

@th84 - I never promised anything...
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :Physics test in less than 3 hours so I'm just gonna comment on this.

The trusses did NOT have to fail simultaneously for the building to collapse as it did. The trusses failed one at a time over the course of the burning process. When enough of them had failed, there were not enough trusses left to keep the outer skeleton from bowing outward/inward, and that's when the whole thing went kerplop. So yeah - wrong about that one.

That is rediculous. I seriously cannot believe you truely believe what you are saying there, honestly...

Show me proof of this outward/inward bowing because all I've seen on this is an attempt to show it through a computer program, which can easily be manipulted to get the results you want. A computer generated animation which FAILED to show ANY core columns in it's animation/test. And it's impossible, yes impossible, that one truss at a time failed when it can clearly be seen that there was simultanious failure of the entire floor space, over multiple floors, so there's another blatant lie. I don't know where you are getting this information from but it is clearly flawed.

Nice, you study physics and you can clearly understand that a 110 storey building can be crushed/pulverised by a ~20% portion of itself? Amazing.... Read what the second structural engineer has to say in my previous post. And he is alot more qualified to speak on this than you OR I, OR your tutor for that matter.
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Ok, I know you all knew I wouldn't totally leave this thread, but anyway. I'm also not going to get dragged into tit for tat shit saying you lads stupid, or you are all idiots.

Moving on....
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All investigations into the collapses were not thorough and precise in their efforts to find exactly what happen all WTC buildings. That's a fact...

There are too many unexplainable incidents on 9/11 for anyone to just take the official word for what happened, if you find a thorough investigation, which explains exactly what happened to each floor, please show me, I'd like to read it.

Next, people here have stated things about physics and saying I have no clue. Fair enough, do you think these people have no clue too?So, I'd also like to say that I based my ideas on the comments from EXPERTS who have done more tests than the "official investigations" have so how any of you can dismiss what I say I find it hard to understand. And SamH, but he's not the only one, kept saying that he doesn't have to prove anything because he's the one with the proof and I've to prove him wrong(something about double negatives or something), but actually I think you do need to prove it because.... if the investigations you are basing your story on are not indept and have not look at every possiblity then how can you, without a doubt, say I'm the one who need to prove anything. NIST haven't even looked for explosive residue and you said there are hundreds, which is obviously a blatant lie.

And next, these trusses, man... I can't understand your logic on this. Lets look at the 2nd tower to go, every single "truss", at every single point over the few floors at the impact zone had to fail within a split second of each other for it to collapse like it did. Also, if you watch it, the crushing piece(the top ~15 floors) reduces itself by HALF within the first few seconds. That is IMPOSSIBLE in a heat enduced, gravitational collapse. (First of all, the fires were not spread out that much on that many floors and second, the fires were not hot enough across that many floors to make them fail simultainiuosly)There's a statement, somebody prove me wrong, please.
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Hmmm... ok. I just popped back quickly to see any responses and well, the responses are clear. I'm not taking this insulting attitude any more, I'll believe what I know is right, not what I think is right.

You believe what you lads want. No need to be insulting.

Anyway, I'm out.
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :Ok, you still don't KNOW how these building were built apparently. You can't base your knowledge of the building design on one or two pictures you see. I fail to believe that Wikipedia, the History Channel, the Discover Channel, etc... all completely got the wrong design blueprints to these buildings. People on that site are simply saying that it LOOKS like the I-Beams were the main support - but they don't KNOW. They're basing their assumptions on a few admittedly poor, blurry pictures.

A case in point would be your supposed "evidence" in that other post of yours that you linked to. THOSE BEAMS ARE THE TRUSSES! You are not supporting your argument there!
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I'll respond to the rest later, have shit to do, but this is what I will say about that.

The blueprints for the buildings are CLASSIFIED so how these channels, organisations got hold of them I don't know. Blurry? LMAO. At least they aren't computer generated ones which you showed me. And anothe point where you CLEARLY have no clue how the towers were built. The trusses were NOT installed indiviually, the came as part of a floor structure, with 3 trusses attached to what looks like sheet metal. So saying "THOSE BEAMS ARE TRUSSES" is a truely uneducated, silly arguement.

I'll be back later to respond to the rest, I haven't actually read it all.
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Scientific? Not really as the people in question haven't actually taken the test so how can you scientifically judge their ethics?

So, lets say I forget controlled demo and say bin Laden was alowed to go ahead with 9/11. Why isn't he wanted for the attacks? Explain that, if you could. I also very much doubt Bush is actually behind the attacks or had any involvement in the planning of the attacks, I haven't once mentioned that in any of my responses. I think Bush is, like every other government official not only in the US, a puppet of the masters. But once again that is totally off topic and I don't think it's the place to get into that. This is also off topic, so I'll keep it short.
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First off, thanks for taking the time to respond.
Quote from tristancliffe :You've shown some pictures, but why can't they buckle? which bit of the structure makes them stronger than anything ever made (i.e. resistant to failure)? A picture of the structure is not evidence of its failure mode.

Obviously not, but a picture can show what the structre was actually like. The whole official story rests on these trusses weakening, bending, pulling the walls and evetually shearing the "small bolts", which supposidley starts a chain reaction and a dynamic failure causes a total collapse. So, these I beam would be able to withstand considerably higher temps due to their thickness and design, compared to the trusses. I also never mentioned that they could not buckle, it is quite evident from the fire test I linked to that I beams will buckle from office fires, but as also stated in that video, the steel will not catastrophically fail due to office fires. Also, the man in the video is a FEMA official who stats he never, before 9/11, in his 20 years, has seen or heard of a steel framed high rise building collapse because of fire. The towers held their ground after the impacts and I would put my neck on the line and say they would have been able to stand there like that for days, weeks without failing any further if there was no fire involved. I also must mention that the steel in that test is unprotected, we have no evidence that the I beams in the towers were totally unprotected like these were.
Quote :Unable to watch this at work properly, but it looked like a test of a single beam, not a beam in a building that's been hit by a plane? Maybe I'll watch it at home later.

I'd have to watch again but I'm sure there was a few rooms in this office so I doubt there was only one beam being tested. Ok, so some of the steel frame was damaged where the plane struck but how can you explain, after seeing the I beams connecting the core to the outer wall and it being such and intense grid of steel I beams, core columns and exterior columns, believe that it just feel into itself without any resistance at all. It seems physically impossible to me, as I have stated many times. I just can't picture it in my head, I can picture the entire building without any material but steel and it seems unbreakable, specially by itself, a lighter portion of itself for that matter, the top section.
Quote :A building will only fall over if it's encouraged to do so, either because the CoG position within the structure, or the application of a side load. There is no such thing as falling with the path of least resistance without a side load from some source. As the plane didn't knock it over (an obvious side force), what would? Surely downwards is the only force direction (taken as a whole - obviously internal forces are distributed all over the place, but that's beyone your understanding).

Sorry? "There is no such thing as falling with the path of least resistance without a side load from some source." Do you think that steel loosing its strength would be a force to cause it to tip over? The first tower to collapse tipped over, so why didn't it keep going over? Like the image in that link. It seems like a reasonable conclusion to make. Once something, specially that big, begins to move in a certain direction, there's not much that can stop it. Downward force? Huh? Everything, everywhere is constantly under a downward force, gravity and atmospheric pressure, one thing I rember from my science classes. Anyway, the building were designed to withstand this downward force, other wise they wouldn't be standing.
Quote :Again, not watch, but how do they know what an explosion sounds like? How do they know it wasn't the noise of 'normal' structural failure and the release of energy by other means?

Ok, the first is a firefighter, the second is a former Air Force dude, can't remember his title, and the third is a worker from the towers. And anyway, who are you to say they don't know what they are talking about? The air force lad obviously knows because of how he explains it, the firefighter chap seems to know what he's on about to. The worker is actually questionable but how do you explain explosions in the basement of the towers? Because if it was a structure failing he would be alive to tell the tale.
Quote :Could they be from other sources? Failure of trusses (can release a HUGE amount of energy - you wouldn't believe how much energy is stored in apparently dull things), normal gas cylinders... Can you provide any evidence of explosives being used?

I just proved that these trusses couldn't have failed without the I beams failing first, which would need alot higher temperature to make them significantly sag and cause anything to fail. I'm not doubting steel that fails due to pressure has a high amount of energy. But steel which is subject to alot of heat will sag, sag some more, sag more, weaken and either melt on just totally deform from the sagging. Metal under intense heat will not go pop! and released a high amount of pressure.(ie catastrophic failure, as mentioned in the fire test)
Quote :Not watched, again, but at what temperature does steel I section bend with cracking or buckling? Then why hasn't it been disproved? Why is there ANY discussion if it's so obvious? Where is the proof that standard failure (natural failure, if you will) can't and didn't happen?

I'm not sure, you'll have to ask a pro, or the chap in the video becasue that what he says. One of them says something like, I can't believe this bent without ANY buckling what so ever and the other one says something like, it would take 1000's of degrees to bend a beam this big like this without cracking or buckling. I haven't actually looked it up but I'm sure it's not hard information to find.
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Quote from Juls :This Pearl Harbor theory works the same way 9/11 conspiracy does, and serves the same purpose. In both case USA face an attack, and conspirationists manage some way to switch the roles, ignore the attacker motivations, and focus on the victim to demonstrate how guilty it was.

In both cases, US gvt supposedly planned or let an attack against US citizen happen in order to play the victim and later launch a devastating attack against people who did not diserve it.
This way Japan and Al Quaeda crimes are half forgiven or simply denied, and USA plain guilty in spite of thousands victims. How convenient!

Same for the Lusitania...search for it. There is a very deep conspiracy theory stating UK and USA did everything possible to have the Lusitania shot by German U-boats in order to enter the war. Ireland too of course, you naughty.

For me the simple fact that every time USA is attacked the same conspiracy theory appears to switch roles, shared and believed among the same persons with the same political goals is very meaningful

I can't believe that someone, once again, skips past my important posts, to reply to something which is way off topic, I understand it was brought in and I myself commented but it should be more important for you to respond to the evidence which disproves your theory.

Ok, at first I was going to ignore your comment and ask for you to comment on the evidence I presented but I decided to give my views on some of the things you've said here.

I don't know where you're getting your info from, or you're just expressing your own opinion but Japan and Al Qaeda cannot be compared. And in no way am I suggesting forgiveness in any way for the Japanese. Al Qaeda is a different story, I'm also not forgiving them but, if they were not involved in the attacks how can they be forgiven for something they haven't commited? Also, look up what Al Qaeda actually means and look up some interviews of writers who claim Al Qaeda doesn't even exist. There's a former British soldier who was in Afghanistan, who wrote a book called "Al Qaeda" I believe, who claims it doesn't even exist.

Anyway, less of the off topic subjects and back to 9/11. Have you looked at the evidence? Please do, if you haven't already, take the time to look at it because it disproves claims made by you and also others here.
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I never claimed anything other than they knew the Pearl Harbour attack was coming. But they never mentioned that to the people, or the soldiers who were attacked. So, it was an attempt, on their part, the government, to mislead the public to start another war. That's where the comparison is for me. And of course the Tonkin thing is related. Also like Pearl Harbour, it was an attempt to get the US into a war. Another false flag terrorist attack. So it too is related to 9/11. Obviuosly not in your eyes because you think the US government wouldn't kill their own citizens, I can assure you they care not for the average jo, or should I say "useless eater".
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Ok, I have read the responses but as I guessed, not one person has commented on the evidence I have shown so I'll go through it again...

1) Evidence of I beams used for the floors which actually held up the floor sections and trusses. http://www.ae911truth.org/docs/wtcconst.php Have a look through these images, particularly the 2nd and 3rd image. This evidence proves that the trusses could not have failed in the fashion we are told. It also shows that the exterior walls were not as seperate from the core as we believed at first. Also, look at the attatchments in my previous post. http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=925595#post925595 This therefore disproves the theory that the trusses caused the initial floors to fail which then, supposidley, crushed the rest of the building. It would also be a much more intense grid of metal beams, so to say it crumbled like it did is ludicrous.

2) Evidence that proves steel frame buildings, even with unprotected steel beams, will not fail catastrophically. Therefore disproveing any theory which says office fires cause the steel frame buildings, towers and WTC7, to collapse. http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt_ ... show.php?i=28&hires=1

3) Evidence that proves buildings that collapse follow the path of least resistance, not crush themselves to pieces. http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt_ ... show.php?i=29&hires=1

4) Evidence, in the form of eye witnesses, of explosions.They are just some eyewitness reports, I'm sure you can find more.

5) Evidence, audio on video, of explosions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58h0LjdMry0 (This is from one of Obsolums previous posts) I'm also sure there are more videos with the sounds of explosions.

6) Evidence of high temperatures, to high for any of the fires present in the towers, high enough to bend huge I beams and core columns without cracking or buckling. http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt_ ... how.php?i=119&hires=1 Some more evidence of massive temps, enough to fuse concrete and metal(iron+some alluminium). http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt_ ... how.php?i=123&hires=1

Now, with that evidence, I think there is a good enough case to say that the towers, and WTC7, did not fall on their own. Enough to disprove the official theory anyway.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYLbfkxjYYc

Look at that collapse and tell me you don't see explosive evidence. Also notice debrit falling from the tower a few seconds before it goes. There's no debrit falling at the beginning of the video. As it collapses you see large ejections of dust, alot of power behind them.
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Quote from ATC Quicksilver :Yes...

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/cheney/

...and I think the US government used the event as an excuse to wage war on certain countries for no real reason, and they are capable of exploiting terrible accidents or attacks for their own personal gain, but they can't deliberately target their own country or deliberately demolish several buildings in the middle of New York without being caught.

Ha funny insident, anyway...

I don't think he is a stupid person and I think he would be more in control than Bush, but this is only speculation so don't quote me on that.

I think they have attacked their own and gotten away with it. It would be impossible, on any other day, for any aircraft, whether it had transponders on or off, to get into Washington airspace undetected and be free to line up with the Pentagon from a fair distance away(see the final maneuver from th ... recorder data on youtube), without getting shot down or some how intercepted. Impossible.
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :I'll be honest, I have no idea about WTC 7 really. I never really looked into it (so I don't know how it was built, where it was hit, IF it was hit, etc... so anything having to do with that building, you've got me.

Fair enough, lets move on...
Quote :I should probably clarify that what I meant was that 25% of the exterior columns AT THE AREA OF IMPACT were compromised. So in other words the upper 20 floors only had 75% of the support they would normally have gotten from the outer skeleton.

Ah, I get you now. Even still, the weight would have just transfered to the other columns, it would have stayed standing only for some certain events that we can't agree on.
Quote :You are correct sir. However, even after some of the initial fire burned out, MUCH of the building at that level remained engulfed in flames.

Much of the building at that level? I can't see, nor have I seen, any footage to support that, sorry.
Quote :Actually, it's a very good comparison. A building also has to be very small and light for a variety of reasons: Cost (one large bolt is not much more expensive than one small bolt, but a million large bolts ARE a lot more expensive) is just one reason. And yes, skyscrapers ALSO have to be light, just like an airplane, so weight has a lot to do with it. Besides, why use a big bolt when a small bolt will more than adequately satisfy the design requirements.

Because it's possible that a 707 might fly into it, with a possible 20,000+ gallons of fuel on board, which might weaken those small bolts. I agree that skyscrapers would have to be a lot lighter at the top than at the bottom, even more reason the top section shouldn't have crushed the whole building.
Quote :And what does it matter WHY they used small bolts?! The point is they DID, and that's why it collapsed. Don't try and tell me that this whole conspiracy started 40 years ago in the design phase of the building...

Now there's a good stretch of the imagination...
Quote :Again, with regards to WTC 7, I don't know much about it, so I won't make any judgements.

Ok, so learn. Go have a flick through that powerpoint, or bookmark it, because it's factual. No bs in there.
Quote :Anyway, back to the trusses. First off, the reason I know so much about the WTC is because, a) my dad knows someone who was one of the cheif architects of the project, so he knows quite a bit about them, and b) i've watched quite a few history channel videos which detail the construction of the buildings.

Anyway, I realize Wikipedia is a terrible source, but the photo illustrates the design pretty well:

Trusses 1

Trusses 2

Wow.... I have to say those are some spectacular reference images. Truss one is a computer generated image and I don't deny the existance or contruction of the towers without the use of these trusses. Truss 2 is a very nice selective image because a) I can't see underneath the floor and b) becuase I can't see very much of the rest of the structure.
Quote :The fact is that there were many I-beams involved in the construction, but the trusses provided the main support. I could just as easily claim that the concrete was what supported the floors and then point you to a picture where they are pouring the concrete floors and say "SEE! CONCRETE! THAT'S THE SUPPORT!"

That's a rediculous arguement, sorry, but it is. These trusses come in large, pre-fabricated, sections. Which are then lowered onto these I beams. Even in the second image you link to, you can see where the I beam would be bolted in, right under where the truss is resting. The trusses DID NOT provide the main support for the build. Now I know why you were so cocky at the beginning, you know someone who knows someone who was chief architect, nice. Well ask him for the plans of the towers and see what he says, I'll tell you what he'll say. They're classified. Now that's rediculous if you ask me, why classify that info when it's important for people to see it?
Quote :And even so, let's pretend that the trusses are supported by I-beams alone, and that the trusses ONLY SERVED to hold the outer skeleton in place. When the trusses failed, the outer skeleton would have failed ANYWAY, and then the I-Beams would have failed and the structure would have collapsed regardless. The trusses failing are not the POINT of failure, the outer walls buckling are what started the collapse.

Another rediculous claim. It would be impossible for the trusses to fail before the I beams because the trusses are supported by those I beams. Each section of floor+trusses had around 3 to 4 trusses already attached, I watched the construction video just can't remember how many trusses, and these floor sections would sit in top of the I beams, with 1 I beam between each truss. That's the way I see it anyway. And lets say the fire was hot enough to heat/warp the beams, they still wouldn't catastrophically fail as shown in that fire test video in the powerpoint I linked to.


@ ATC - I 100% agree, that the current government are totally incompetent. Well not everyone. Do you think Dick Cheney is an incompetent person? I think not. Now John McCain is a different kettle of fish and if he gets in the US are doomed. Well either way they're doomed according to Bush. He says "At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning new attacks on our country. Their goal is to bring destruction to our shores that will make September the 11th pale by comparison." Feb 13th 2008 So it's not looking good for American citizens. He sound pretty sure of himself. He's not the only one claiming this either.

EDIT: Also, you say how could they keep a secret so long, well the Vietnam war was started from an event which actually never took place, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, but only rescently this has been declassified. Many, many people died in that war for nothing. I'm not sure why they wanted to do this because I haven't researched but it seems governments have the capability, no matter how incompetent, to withold information from the masses about certain subjects.
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Quote from Boris Lozac :Yea, you would wonder why is that... He is the main suspect for 9/11 after all, and reason for invading Afghanistan, so why they wouldn't write that on the FBI site is beyond me, is that only a poor site maintainance or something else...

It is possible but I think there's a chap who actually rang them, I recall hearing someone talking about that, and they told him he(bin Laden) wasn't a suspect.

Quote :But at the same time, i can't deny that there are terrorists, various US embassies across the world haven't bombed themselves probably, there ARE some people with fighting power in Iraq and Afghanistan, otherwise there wouldn't be so many casualties every day for 7 years, so..
The interesting point from Zeitgeist, is, that, the US never meant to win these wars, only to prolong them.. so i don't know, what do you people think about these wars, is world a safer place now?

That is most definately true and I think this is one of the main reasons terrorist were used as the scapegoats, because there are real terrorists. Bin Ladens are friends of the Bush family so I think they made a deal somewhere along the lines. But that is massive speculation on my part and I'll admit that now. But the two families have crossed paths numerous times in the past.

"Is the world safer?" Not at all, the people are terrified and they are being manipulated by the media every day. I think before the towers even collapsed they had it pinned on bin Laden and when they did collapse the just kept playing it over and over and over again, all the while repotig that bin Laden did it. So people are easily led. Although it's obvious they don't think so.
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Exactly, it's unmistakable. Even the fact that the FBI haven't got 9/11 as one of the crimes he's wanted for, should be a red herring. He's on their Top Ten Most Wanted list ffs.
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Quote from wsinda :I took the trouble to read it. It's basically the same stuff that you were posting here: references and repeats of "evidence" from the conspiracists. No original research.

Ok, there's evidence to show that the trusses were not the only thing holding up the floor, which in turn disproves the official story that says the trusses pulled the walls in and the small bolts failed which made the floor collapse, which brought the whole building with it. There's evidence that steel frame building do not collapse from fire. Both delt with in my previous post. There's evidence, in the form of eyewitness reports, of explosions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIrVyM3FGY There's video evidence of explosions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58h0LjdMry0 (Thanks to Obsolum for that.)


My responses in bold...
Quote :And it's a load of rubbish. A couple of points (first pick):
  • The author also tries to prove government conspiracies behind the JFK asassination and the McVeigh bombing. This only weakens his case: it shows he is biased towards believing in conspiracies. (He probably thinks it makes his case stronger, because it shows governments are crooks.)
  • I don't want to get into it but he was talking about eyewitnesses to JFK's body, nurses who examined him, so there was no speculation about the wounds, anyway lets not go down that road.
  • First he states that the temperature was too low to weaken the metal structure, next he claims there was liquid metal. Self-contradictory.
  • Yes, it's impossible for a fire with jet fuel, even though the jet fuel would have burned out before it even effected the steel, to melt steel because it doesn't burn hot enough and there was molten metal found there, so it was correct to say that. I don't see the problem.
  • He asks "How is it that the 19 supposed hijackers [...] were identified almost immediately, when the other side of the official story is we were taken by complete surprise?" He doesn't see the obvious answer.
  • Yes, how? They said nobody knew anything but that day they had bil Laden as the leader? Then soon after they had all their names? Tell us the obvious answer?
  • He mentions that "policemen and firemen clearing people away saying the building [WTC7] was going to come down." Could that be because it had been burning heavily for while, so it was bound to collapse?
  • Have a look at my previous post, the last link I gave, go to page 47 and have a flick through. You might like it.
In short, the usual bending of the facts towards the desired conclusion.

I can't understand how you see bending of facts in there, I just can't. Anyway, have a look at some unbent evidence there and see what you think.
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :The steel didn't have to melt the metal to collapse the structure. I forget what the exact temps are, but at a temperature NOWHERE near its melting point, steel looses a fair portion of it's structural integrity (at a molecular level, obviously.) Even the TINIEST big of sag in the support trusses was all that was needed to shear the bolts holding the whole thing together.

Ok, I'll come back to that at the end...
Quote :Because they were build in en ENTIRELY different fashion than the WTC towers. The twin towers had an exoskeleton and a core. These buildings were just a network of pillars and beams. It's much harder to destroy something built that way. (e.g. it's easier to crush an empty cardboard box than it is to crush one of those wine-bottle boxes with the criss-crossing cardboard... thingies.)

I was actually refering to WTC7 there, saying buildings closer survived and never collapsed, but #7 collapsed.
Quote :I didn't say 25% of the WHOLE TOWER, I said 25% of the OUTER SKELETON - which it did. Take a look. The plane gouged out a significant portion of the wall on one side of the building, and quite a bit of the opposite side. Give or take, it's pretty close to that much of the outer wall that's been compromised.

I didn't think you were refering to the whole bulding, that would be stupid. There's no way it done 25% of damage to the exterior of the building, I'd give it somewhere between 5 and 10%, if even that.
Quote :Don't know the guy's NAME if that's what you want, but in the end, it was decided by someone - or some people - not to apply the protective coating, which was included by the original architects.



As I stated above, steel looses a lot of it's strength way before the melting point. That's all it needed.

But fires were not burning throughout the entire floor space, a short while after the planes imapcted there are pictures of a woman standing in the hole the plane just made in the side of the building. Not sure which one, I think it was the first one hit. But there was no raging fire where she was, so it obviously spread, then obviously that steel began to cool and condcut heat from where the fires were. It wouldn't be burning in the same area for long enough to weaken the steel.
Quote :Actually, yes - small bolts are all that are needed. Take a look at an airplane being put together. When they attach the wings on some aircraft - they are held on by nothing more than two bolts the width of two of your fingers put together - with maybe a third for redundancy. If they designed everything to be MUCH stronger than it needed to be, the building would weight 10x as much. These small bolts can support MUCH more than the weight of the floors in a horizontal direction, and also a decent amount of vertical flex. However, you have to remember that when the whole building sways in the wind, the entire thing moves one way or the other. When the trusses were melting and sagging, they were pulling the structure together, presenting more than just "swaying forces" that the architects and engineers planned for. You say "I'm sure that the engineers..." but that statement is an assumption on your part. I actually KNOW how the towers were built, so what I'm saying is a fact.

First of all a plane is built to be light, so of course they'd use as small a part as possible. So a plane is a bad comparison. A building is built to be tough/rigid/strong so why small bolts?

Second, you know how the towers were built, do you? Nice, so how did you miss those I beams used for the floor? They are quite obvious in a number of images I have rescently seen, so I'm not sure how you "know" how they were built. So who has the facts here? Have a look at some of the images here - http://www.ae911truth.org/docs/wtcconst.php And look at the attachments on this post - http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=925595#post925595
Quote :Uhmmm - actually the trusses were what supported most of the floor. Take a look at the schematics. The "FINAL LOARD BEARING POINTS" would technically be the outer shell or the central core - as these are what the trusses transferred their load to. So theoretically the structure SHOULD be able to support every floor without these trusses. However, what happens when the trusses collapse is the outer wall of the building looses ALL its integrity. I'll use the previous example. Stand on a coke can. It can easily support your weight, but when you just tap the side, it collapses, because it has no horizontal structural integrity. The trusses were responsible for holding the outer skeleton upright and keeping it from flexing in and out. When the trusses failed, the outer wall was allowed to peel away, and when that happened the FINAL LOAD BEARING POINT no longer existed and the structure collapsed.

I've kind of covered the trusses but what happenes to the truss directly below which isn't heated up? It just can't hold twice the weight it already is? Anyway, as the trusses didn't actually hold the floors up (I know technically the outer walls are the final load bearing part of the structure we are talking about the floor so that's why I didn't mention that) the I beams you've seen in those photos are and in this next link you'll see steel frame buildings DO NOT catastrophically fail due to fire. I've only gone through a part of this powerpoint but already there's some good information in it - http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt_ ... show.php?i=58&hires=1 Some pages to note: 28, 29, 47 is the start of WTC7 and 57 has an interesting video. So now, you asked for some evidence, have a look for yourself.

There's more here - http://www.ae911truth.org/twintowers.php
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Quote from Boris Lozac :It 'vaporized' :shhh: but only after it punched through reinforced concrete and through couple of more walls and ended up on the other side of the building punching another perfectly rounded hole, then it vaporized, offcourse..

Aha I see. Now it's all much clearer.
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :I've shown plenty of my own sources in the first 3/4 of this thread - I just don't feel like digging through everything again....

Ok, I had a look, just at the first page and already I get an idea of your thoughts...

First post from you -
Quote :Here's my theory:

A plane hit each of the towers. They burned as a result, eventually melted, and collapsed. The planes hit them because terrorists wanted them to. Building 7 collapsed because two 100+ story buildings collapsed right next to it.

Second -
Quote :No, this that is the theory of someone who understands that when an airplane is hijacked, it can be flown anywhere. Someone who understands that when a 757 flies into a building, it can destroy 25% of the outer skeletal support structure and ignite a massively hot fire. Someone who understands that for cost-reasons, the steel was not correctly fireproofed and started to warp under the heat, and that the small bolts holding the trusses in place were not designed to withstand any significant amount of lateral sheer force. And that when subjected to these forces, the bolts failed and the trusses collapsed. And that when enough trusses collapsed, the outer skeleton folded much like a thin aluminum coke can does when you stand on it and tap the side lightly.

Someone who understands that some things in the world today can be explained by plain old physics, however boring that might be.

Now... first of all, not jet fuel in the world can melt steel, it's just not possible. An object being heated by fire cannot get hotter than the fire itself. Jet fuel can't burn at hot enough temps to melt steel.

Second, there were plenty of other buildings, some closer than WTC7, which didn't collapse? Some even had the towers fall directly onto them, WTC5 & 6. They suffered massive damage but didn't just fall down. Building 6 had to be demolished to bring it down.

Third, "when a 757 flies into a building, it can destroy 25% of the outer skeletal support structure" now that is a brave statement. 25% is a big part of the towers mate, I don't think it destroyed anywhere near that amount.

Fourth, " for cost-reasons, the steel was not correctly fireproofed and started to warp under the heat, and that the small bolts holding the trusses in place were not designed to withstand any significant amount of lateral sheer force" who decided to cut costs? Anyway, the fires could not have burned hot enough to weaken enough of the steel that there would be a catistrophic failing of almost all columns across the impacted floors. Small bolts, ha nice. Do you think people who designed a building to take a hit from a plane would use small bolts and flimsy trusses for the floors that people would be working on? And you say these small bolts were not designed for lateral forces? These towers would sway in the wind, the tops I'm sure would have alot of lateral force put upon them, how come they never failed in windy condition? Or when the planes first struck?

And finally, these trusses. The whole story balances on these. If I showed you images that proved these trusses were not the final load bearing parts of each floor, what would your reaction be? Because I can tell you now that there was more than just trusses holding up these floors.



@Dan - Nice, I like it!
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :I've shown plenty of my own sources in the first 3/4 of this thread - I just don't feel like digging through everything again. Why can't a 4-inch-thick concrete floor be crushed by 80 inches worth of concrete above it? That's like asking how a car can be crushed when 20 cars are dropped on it.

But, if you have a pile(tower) of 100 cars on top of each other, you take the top 30 up about the height of 2 cars, drop them, will they crush every single car? Please don't tell me you think every car will be crushed?
Quote :Remember that the outer shell of a jet engine is designed to contain the massive explosion of energy that occurs in the even of a blade-out failure (when one of the compressor blades comes loose.) Those blades carry an INCREDIBLE amount of energy. I'm not saying that could prove why the engine punched through the Pentagon (since in this case, the design is to contain forces pushing out from inside the engine, not pushing from the front of the engine to the back) but it's definitely some extremely strong stuff.

So where's this engine? Or any engine from the plane that hit the Pentagon. It would be nice to see it.
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :I'd like to know the structural engineers you talked to who stated that the top 20 floors falling would not have the energy to crush the rest of the building if the building stood perfectly fine before.

Because they should be fired...

...no - scratch that - they should be ARRESTED for impersonating someone who has spend YEARS taking classes/passing tests/spending money getting certified to do one of the more difficult jobs in the world.

Your sources are plainly and simply wrong. Period. There is no, "They have valid opinions" argument here. Their supposed "facts" can be completely proven wrong with a few simple equations.

If someone told me that 3+2 = 6 and I came on here telling you that, you'd say, NO 3+2 = 5! That's math - that's how it is! There's no possible WAY it can be 6! It's the same situation here. What you have heard from supposed "experts" is plainly WRONG. There is no other way to state it other than that.

I think you should go work for NIST then because they are finding it difficult to explain the collapse of the towers, "global collapse" starts and that's all they say. No official report has explained how each floor was crushed to pieces, not 1. Nobody can explain how WTC 7 collapsed. That sounds like a thorough investigation to me.

About your sum there. There are things which happen in a gravity driven pancake collapse, which is what the official story is. Pieces don't get thrown 100's meters from gravity driven collapses, 4inch thick concrete floors do not get pulverised in a pancake collapse. But on 9/11 both of these things happened, twice. Actually 3 times including WTC7.

And I can't believe you say my sources are plainly wrong without showing anything to back it up.
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Quote from Stang70Fastback :Damn. I wish I'd caught this thread when it started up again so I could be as involved as I was last time...

...anyway, I've skimmed the first few pages, and all I can say at this point is that U4IK ST8 is an idiot.

U4IK ST8 - I can't reread everything here, but with regards to ANYTHING having to do with the structures themselves (the collapse of the buildings and why it happened, etc...) ask me anything you want about things that don't make sense to you and I'll give you a logical explanation that supports the fact that this was a terrorist attack, and not a well-planned demolition project, as you seem to believe. Everything I've seen from my skimming so far leads me to believe that you have no fundamental understanding of any type of physics whatsoever. Ask away - I'll explain anything you want.

Hmmm, nice personal attack on me there but I'll put that aside for a minute.

None of the things I say here are my own personal thought up ideas. Everything I say here is what I have heard engineers, structural engineers, firemen, professors, policemen and eye witnesses say. All alot more qualified than I am on there certain fields. Don't come here and start bashing me personally 'cos well, it wont do you any good. And because of your tone I will NEVER ask you anything. So, stick around if you like but I wont be looking to you for advice, thanks.
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