The Way that the Twin Towers collapsed Didn't Look Right

[Phil the Kilibuster]

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And that is all that I'm saying.

Caveats: I am NOT an architect. I am NOT a metallurgist. I am NOT a physicist or chemist. I am NOT an engineer. I have NO expertise iin any of the fields that might pertain to a precise explanation of what happened to the WTC buildings twenty years ago today.

But the way those towers fell didn't ilook right. It didn't look, if you'll permit me to use this word, natural. It still doesn't.

I am not trying to start an argument. Nor am I promoting or advancing a theory. I am only saying to you what my wyes have been saying to me for 20 years

I shall say nothing further, either within this post/thread or outside of it.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I agree.

My brother did high profile demolition. He did the Fulton County Stadium. The WTC buildings came down too neatly. Not even breaking in two and falling on other buildings.

[LAS14]

8. Your brother must not have taken down the buildings I watched come down, which...

.. sank straight down in exactly the same way.

[gab13by13]

2. Building 7 was the one that still has me puzzled.

[Earth-shine]

3. Bldg 7 fell the same way the others did. Straight down into its own footprint.

Bldg 7 was not addressed at all in the congressional 9-11 report.

[KewlKat]

7. I have the video of the discussion of Bldg 7 being pulled. Link below discusses it

Here is a link with a snip of the discussion to pull the bldg -

http://www.banderasnews.com/0812/edat-takedown.htm


“After midday on 9/11 we had to evacuate that because they told us Building 7 was coming down. If you had been there, not being able to see very much just flames everywhere and smoke - it is entirely possible - I do believe that they brought Building 7 down because I heard that they were going to bring it down because it was unstable because of the collateral damage,” said Singh.

Former Air Force Special Operations for Search and Rescue expert Kevin McPadden also reported his conviction that a countdown preceded the collapse of the building.

“While we were on the right side, there was firefighters getting ready, they were bussing them back and forth, and a couple of vets that were there - they got the vibe that something was coming down,” said McPadden.

“We started asking questions, everybody started asking questions, and the next thing you know there was a Red Cross representative pacing back and forth in front of the crowd holding his hand over the radio - I couldn’t hear what it was saying but it was like pulsed - whatever the speech was on there it was pulsed - and that means to me most likely it was a countdown.”

“But he took his hand off at the last three seconds and he gave this heartfelt look - like just run for your life - because he didn’t want to bring it on his conscience - he didn’t want to go to his grave with that - and then we had a couple of seconds to put our heads together,” said McPadden.

[dalton99a]

46. Detailed explanation:

[dflprincess]

4. You are not alone

And that's all I'm saying.

[Beakybird]

5. Oy ve!

[LAS14]

6. Have ever watched the intentional destruction of a building by explosive?

The building goes straight down in exactly the same way.

[Me.]

9. INteresting

we've been talking about this in my home lately but haven't said anything to anyone because we thought we'd be taken for kooks.

[BannonsLiver]

22. Probably a good decision.

[Silent3]

36. With good reason, I might add n/t

[CrackityJones75]

10. Agreed. And that is all I will say.

[Klaralven]

11. The collapse is consistent with their design

Each tower was a 200 x 200 foot tube with 244 strong steel columns around the perimeter forming a strong steel tube. In the center was a strong column housing the elevators and utilities. The floors were reinforced concrete tied to the exterior columns and central tubes.

Horizontal ties between the columns were strong enough so that the vertical load on columns destroyed by the impact were transferred to intact adjacent columns. This prevented the section of the building above the impact from toppling over.

The fuel load of the planes ignited multiple floors. As the fires heated the floor structures, they eventually sheared loose from the central column and the exterior tube. The floors pancaked straight down successively shearing off floors below. The air pressure bulged the tube outward, allowing the section of the building above the impact to also fall straight down into the exterior tube.

So the collapse of the towers has been pretty well analysed and explained. The collapse of Building 7 is less well explained.

See also Why the World Trade Center Towers Fell on 9/11

https://www.thoughtco.com/why-world-trade-center-towers-fell-177706

[USALiberal]

15. Thank you for this. Nt

[Hoyt]

25. Thanks.

[johnp3907]

12. This crap again?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

30. Just saying ....

happens every year at this time.

[USALiberal]

13. Ffs! Really? Nt

[femmocrat]

14. There are still unanswered questions.

It has become almost “sacrilegious” to question the official narrative. Even today, 20 years later, we are being cautious in our remarks.
And that is all I will say, too.

[USALiberal]

20. No there are not!!!!! Nt

[Silent3]

41. It's not a question of sacrilege...

...it's a question of intelligence, and of the type of gullibility which arises from an over-active attempt to avoid being gullible.

No matter how much contempt you feel for the "official narrative", as if that phrase itself means "something that shouldn't be believed", in this case the "official narrative" makes way, way, way more sense than any of the crazy alternative which have been offered.

[treestar]

16. That means nothing

Sounds like wishful thinking. I don't need proof, I just feel this way. That's not science.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Lol.

[USALiberal]

21. +1000!

[BannonsLiver]

18. Oh god.

[zuul]

19. . . .

[BeckyDem]

23. You need to do this today?

You wanted a seamless explanation of chaos that looked "natural"??

JFC.

[scarytomcat]

24. I will never believe the story

[USALiberal]

35. Lol

[FoxNewsSucks]

39. By all means, take Cheney's word for it.

It's the one thing in his life he didn't lie about.

[sarisataka]

26. All I will say is people will believe

What they want to believe. If they are set on an idea, no amount of witness reports, expert testimony or evidence will change their mind even if there is zero evidence supporting their theory.

[Treefrog]

45. This.

Exactly.

[ItsjustMe]

27. Pretty much every building on this planet

That has collapsed for whatever reason, looks similar to the twin towers.

Building Collapsed

[BannonsLiver]

28. This sums it up for me.

“I am NOT an architect. I am NOT a metallurgist. I am NOT a physicist or chemist. I am NOT a…”

I stopped reading at that point.

[USALiberal]

37. +1000!

[snowybirdie]

29. DU seems

to be bringing out lots of different folks today!

[BannonsLiver]

42. Yeah

Today I’ve read a variety of different things. Most are appropriate. Some, that seem to imply that we “had it coming” and “so what, other countries get attacked too” are from people who are trying a little too hard to be the cool kid.

[Bobstandard]

31. Nothing will convince you, but here's an explanation

https://theconversation.com/9-11-conspiracy-theories-debunked-20-years-later-engineering-experts-explain-how-the-twin-towers-collapsed-167353

I’m just glad your research into the subject led you to get vaccinated. You are, right?

[Iggo]

32. Twenty years of this shit.

[Jilly_in_VA]

43. Yeah, really

No. Just NO.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

33. Love too start a thread with a hot-garbage take and insist on not participating!!!!!!

[Silent3]

34. Do you really believe you can or even should have a built-in sense of what's "natural"...

...for something like skyscrapers collapsing?

Don't give your sense of what's "natural" (as if there's any natural about skyscrapers in the first place) any more credit than it deserves. Which in this case is practically zilch.

[FoxNewsSucks]

38. Agreed.

If for no other reason than this consideration:

We have found out that we were right about every single thing BushCheneyCo lied about and did wrong for 8 years.

Everything. All lies.

But we're supposed to believe that, despite what we can see for ourselves, they told the Gospel Truth about this one thing, 9/11? Really??? That's the only thing that wasn't a lie????

For that and other reasons, I'm not buying it. Also, if it were all true, questioning it would not be immediately clamped down on.

[Silent3]

48. To have people roll their eyes and react like "this crazy shit again!" isn't being "clamped down on"

It's a totally honest reaction to crazy shit people are tired of hearing from idiots whose reflexive distrust of some explanations leads them to instead accept (or at least give undue credence to) other explanations that are far more unlikely than what they've chosen to doubt.

[beaglelover]

40. Trash thread.

[Treefrog]

44. Of course it wasn't natural.

Two planeloads of human souls were flown into them.

Nothing natural about it.

[ismnotwasm]

47. No, because that was a fucked up thing to see.

Of course it didn’t “look right”

[brooklynite]

49. 75 posts.

Of course.

[SCantiGOP]

50. And the Earth sure looks flat

That’s all I’ll say.

[Spazito]

51. *LOCKING*

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