| mardigras |
06-18-2005 07:52 AM |
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Originally Posted by shima
Exactly. But is it not just a regular fire that all buildings must withstand?
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The amount of things set on fire at once in this situation would hardly be a regular fire that anyone would have imagined in their wildest design plans.
I'm not saying it is impossible for there to have been a planned implosion, but I am saying that many are looking at the fire aspect from things they may be more familiar with (ie their home or smaller office). The WTC had a massive amount of "kindling" in the form of paper, furniture, curtains, carpets, etc. to spread the fire... then plenty of accelerants including plastics, flammables, etc. The WTC was being built as asbestos was being banned in NYC. The guy who's company was supposed to apply the asbestos spray to the infrastructure (Herbert Levine) said of what was ultimately used that if there were a massive fire the building could fall from that point. He was blasted at the time as being bitter about losing the contract.
Herbert Levine was obviously knowlegable of the foundational construction of the towers. Contractors are notorious for increasing their profits by using lower grade materials. They can often do it while staying just within city building codes while producing structures that are not able to withstand what the codes intended. While people argue that the fires on 9/11 (which smoldered for weeks) would not have been hot enough to melt steel beams, steel beams are not the issue... what connects them is.
One of the things that "planned implosion" theorists bring up is the similarity in the way the towers collapsed to the ?controlled progressive collapse? of the Biltomore Hotel. To bring down that 28 story building required 991 precisely placed charges. Now take buildings the size of the towers which were 4 times that height. Even if it didn't take 4 times the amount of charges, how are nearly 1000 charges going to be brought in and installed in each building without a single person observing? That's if it could be done with 1000, logic suggests it would have to have been much more.
Now maybe if you add the invisi-ray machine to the conspiracy theory where terrorists or government thugs installing explosives in the WTC would be invisible to all human eyes and cameras it's a bit more plausable :upsidedow |
