Reply #54: CT websites I read? I've watched two videos... [View All]

"Loose Change" and the David Ray Griffin talk at Madison.

I won't write you back if you use "CT" again. It is my personal opinion that charging someone with being conspiracy theorist is a way of dismissing them out of hand. If you find me painfully naive about engineering, physics, and building design then you needn't reply.

> Some easy questions: How fast did the WTC fall? How fast would you
> expect them to fall from a pancake? Surely there are some hard
> numbers on those CT websites you read.
According to "Loose Change" the WTC (both towers) fell in 10 seconds. Haven't got a clue about the 'pancake theory' -

> MIT engineers calculated that the dynamic loading on the support
> columns from the collapsing building was over 60 times their
> designed static weight loading.
That is useful = Thanks.

> what horizontal force do you propose was present that would make the
> building fall sideways?
The plane that hit the South tower hit at the southeast corner - that corner should've collapsed first, causing floors above it to tilt sideways as a result of the support beams being knocked out at that corner. Conjecture, yes. Out of the realm of reality, no. I have seen houses burning that collapsed in similar ways - if the burn started on one corner, that corner caved in first. Different deal with 110-story skyscrapers? Perhaps. I'm not trying to resist gravity.