A Brigham Young University physics professor has analyzed the mysterious collapse of the World Trade Center buildings and concluded that the most likely explantion is controlled demolition.
In his paper, professor Stephen E. Jones writes:
A New York Times article entitled “Engineers are baffled over the collapse of 7 WTC; Steel members have been partly evaporated,� provides relevant data.
Experts said no building like it [WTC7], a modern, steel-reinforced high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire. (Glanz, 2001; emphasis added.)
That’s correct – no such steel-beam building had ever before (or since) completely collapsed due to fires! However, such complete, symmetrical collapses have indeed occurred many times before — all of them due to pre-positioned explosives in a procedure called “implosionâ€? or controlled demolition. What a surprise, then, for such an occurrence in downtown Manhattan— three skyscrapers completely collapsed on the same day, September 11, 2001.
Engineers have been trying to figure out exactly what happened and whether they should be worried about other buildings like it around the country… Most of the other buildings in the [area] stood despite suffering damage of all kinds, including fire… ‘Fire and the structural damage …would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been partly evaporated’, Dr. [Jonathan] Barnett said. (Glanz, 2001; emphasis added.)
The observed “partly evaporated� steel members is particularly upsetting to the official theory, since fires involving paper, office materials, even diesel fuel, cannot generate temperatures anywhere near the 5,000+ oF needed to “evaporate� steel. However, thermite, RDX and other commonly-used explosives can readily slice through steel (thus cutting the support columns simultaneously in an explosive demolition) and reach the required temperatures. (It is possible that some other chemical reactions were involved which might proceed at lesser temperatures.) This mystery needs to be explored – but is not mentioned in the “official� 9-11 Commission or NIST reports.
Evaporated steel. Hmm.
Fortunately, the U.S. Government never lies. Now go back to your shopping.
He didn’t have to. He simply gutted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineering funding request to shore up the levees.
I think the Bush administration allotted more money to the USACE than the Clinton admin. Not all, but alot of the money that did go to the levee system was pocketed by the local politicians in NO.
I suppose George Bush planted explosives to blow the levees in New Orleans also.
Come on folks, get real. Armor piercing projectiles typically operate solely on the principle of ‘kenetic’ energy, which is used to generate incredibly hot temperatures fully capable of melting armor plate. Certainly, the amount of ‘potential’ energy residing in a structure as massive as the towers would easily generate sufficient kenetically induced temperatures to cause vaporization of a portion of the structural steel.
A bullet fired from a rifle has a velocity of around 1000 to 1500 meters per second. Armor-piercing rounds have velocities over twice that.
The towers fell in roughly ten seconds, which means (assuming they were in near free-fall) their velocity never cracked 100 meters per second. That’s an order of magnitude difference, at the low end.
Sorry, buddy. Your explanation doesn’t even come close.