I was taking a break from writing this morning and googling the Web for articles on centers-of-lift and centers-of-gravity in airplanes when I came across a thought-provoking piece that has nothing at all to do with airplane design. It argues that the WTC collapsed on 9/11 not due to airplane strikes, but to controlled (and planned) demolition timed to occur shortly after the strikes.
Now, I'm not one to buy into conspiracy theories. But the further I read into this article, the more intrigued I became, because as an ex-engineer who used to do quite a bit of structural analysis, I was dumbfounded when I saw the towers fall on 9/11. It just didn't seem possible that an airliner could bring down a structure that size, much less that two airliners could bring down two towers. Even more amazing to me at the time was that the structures collapsed so neatly into themselves, exhibiting a near-perfect pancaking effect.
I didn't know until today that there's an “inside job“ theory postulating that someone, somehow allowed a demolition team to plant explosives in the buildings. It's incredibly far-fetched, but it does satisfy the engineer in me that says there's more to the WTC collapse than meets the eye. It's just loony enough that one wonders if there's a grain of truth in there somewhere.
Jeff, There is a documentary that PBS has aired titled "Why the Towers Fell".... It concluded that due to the consturction techniques used that it happened. Or course if the buildings were lined with explosives why even bother with the airplanes? Also, there were no secondary explosions in any of the coverage of that morning. BOb
> Or course if the buildings were lined with explosives why even bother with the airplanes? Because that way it wouldn't look like you blew them up with explosives? :)
Jeff, There are lots of resources out there which show information regarding the WTC inner tube structure and how this led to the collapse. Plus this theory of internal demolition ignores the fact that to take down two of the worlds largest building would require an obscene amount of explosive which could hardly be concealed and the detonation charge would have been evident at some point after the plane hit.
Jeff, these views have been know in Europe for quite some time now. I have seen very convinsing pictures of the Pentagon, showing that it's quite impossible for a plane to have done that kind of damage. And if they are lying about one thing, I believe the other statements made by the government must be untrue as well. A boeing does not make a tiny round hole, a rocket does!
I always beliieved that a lot of people are involved in this terroristic act. If not for the connections, I don't think the attack will be successful. I don't see anything wrong when people think of an inside job. In fact, all evidence points that someone powerful in America was directly involved.
I don't need to think like an American lawyer and expect to see some hardcore evidence to know what is going on in this country. People who praise money so much that they have alot of it get their hands very dirty. This type of lifestyle breeds immorality and lies. That is something which destroys life. It does not matter where their intentions lie, only the working class and the poor deserve the benefit of the doubt. All the rich and the famous are floating in a cloud and need not drive America because they are under the influence. Those who have faith in these kinds of people are just followers of a cult. We were not put here to save the world but to preserve our own God given morality and spiritual value. To save the world from evil is purely arrogant because the world is destined to become what it has become. The planet itself is the same as it has always been, it's just the corrupted minds that have abused the world and it's creatures for reckless self gain. Finally, stop worshiping idols on tv and stage. Turn away from the sensations of America. It's this type of immoral sarcasm that is in epidemic proportion even for small children. Only this could be happening because something very important is going to happen to earth sooner than later. The sign is here. The rest is near.
The Patriot Act, The Department of Homeland Security, The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq... 9/11 set all off this into motion. The "New Pearl Harbor" dreamed of by the PNAC/Neocons did not happen by coincidence. If you don't believe rogue elements of our goverment would stage synthetic terrorist attacks against their own citizens in order to gain political and financial advantage. think again. Operation Northwoods (from the National Security Archives) In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights  a set of proposals on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff codenamed OPERATION NORTHWOODS.  This document, titled “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba” was provided by the JCS to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component of Northwoods.  Written in response to a request from the Chief of the Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba.  These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake “Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington,” including “sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees (real or simulated),” faking a Cuban airforce attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage.  Bamford himself writes that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.” http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/ Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX. He served as chief economist for the US Department of Labor during 2001–2, George W. Bush's first term.\ Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse? http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds12.html Professor Steven E. Jones PhD. Department of Physics and Astronomy Brigham Young University Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html The owner of the WTC Complex, Larry Silverstein Larry Silverstein, backed by a number of investors, signed a 99-year lease for the World Trade Center complex just seven weeks before the World Trade Center was destroyed in 2001. Silverstein already owned 7 World Trade Center which was also destroyed in the attack. Silverstein was awarded an insurance payment of more than three and a half billion dollars to settle his seven-week-old insurance policy. In addition, the Silverstein group sued the insurers liable for the World Trade Center for another three and a half billion dollars, claiming that by an obscure clause in their contract, the two planes constituted two separate terrorist attacks. Most of the insurers prevailed in a trial (Silverstein was never granted an additional $2.3 billion in extra insurance money as a result) while others are still in litigation.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Silverstein Larry Silverstein, owner of the WTC says WTC-7 was "pulled":http://thewebfairy.com/911/pullit/PULLIT.swf Video of WTC-7 collapsing symmetrically in it's own footprint: This building was not hit by a plane:http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html
Well, i don't claim to be a professor of physics but fortunately it doesn't require one to see what brought down the Towers and WTC # 7. Common sense is all it takes. See, they fell at freefall rate, meaning the uppermost floors were passing through the rest of the building at the same rate as if they were falling through air, meaning as effortlessly as falling through air. Meaning something (explosives) had to have reduced the remainder of the building to such a state of offering no more resistance than air. Otherwise they would have taken a LOT longer to finish collapsing than what we saw. And they collapsed at a uniform rate, not slowing down, which ALSO defies physics (unless you take explosives into account) because as the upper floors crashed into each successive floor beneath it they would have shed more and more energy each time, and slowed down instead of what we saw. So it only takes common sense to see that they had to have been controlled demolitions as common sense tells us that things don't pass through other solid objects as effortlessly as passing through air and that colliding with something makes it slow down. Wake up america, our government is lying to us big time. I know the truth is not as comfortable as believing it was done by "19 hijackers with boxcutters taking orders from a man in a cave" but the facts don't bear this out and in the long run we are better off knowing the truth than pretending to believe a pack of lies simply because it is more comfortable.