John Coviello wrote:
H.V: Do buildings that suffer structural failure collapse so
quickly and cleanly? If not, then the events of 9/11 require
alternative explanations..
Yes...if the buildings had been designed to be demolished.
Yes, but of course it does not *have to be* part of the design,
necessarily, but it would be interesting to hear if it was indeed
part of it. That may end up being a red herring - and there are
too many of those floating around - such that it becomes a big
distraction away from the ONE salient fact mentioned by Harry and
many others. Steve Jones, a t least in this endeavor, is a giant
leap more diligent (and brave) then people are giving him credit
for.
In the end this was almost a "free fall" - such as happens in
controlled demolition and that cannot be presumed to be the result
of pure coincidence, since no other building of this type has EVER
gone down from fire, or in a similar fashion. But two other
points - one scientific validate that suspicion.
One key question is had an actual "demolition permit" "from the
City of New York already been granted a few years earlier (to the
previous owner). That's one of many claims on the 'conspiracy
sites' which need to be looked into. I have even seen it on one of
the sites, but it did not look official. It might indicate that
someone had legitimately actually proceed to rig it earlier, and
then a new owner came along who just would not remove that prior
work.
In which case that new owner should be pushed off the tallest
remaining WTC building by the relatives of the deceased.
PLUS take a stop watch and run back one of the numerous videos of
the collapse at normal speed. This is very enlightening.
There is no bending or buckling - as should happen when steel
softens - plus get out your stop watch.
According to the normal computation of gravity free-fall, the time
it takes for any object (such as the top floor of WTC) to fall a
given distance is given by the Kinematic Equations and Free
Fall... available from such sites as:
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/1DKin/U1L6c.html
Such an object will experience a downward acceleration of 9.8
m/s/s (which is often approximated to 10 m/s/s). Like any moving
object, the motion of an object in free fall can be described by
these equations. The height of WTC building was 420 meters, and
plugging this all in and we get ~9 seconds.
The News reports are in agreement with what you can time
yourself - that once the collapse started, it went down in 10
seconds flat !! IOW this is ALMOST unimpeded free fall !
Think about that for a minute. This top floors of the structure
went down almost as fast as if there was nothing underneath -
because in effect - there was nothing.
It is as if the top floor fell straight down through thin air with
only minor impediment, which arguably just could not happen in
that short time frame without something else going-on. In the case
of WTC 7 the time is almost identical to free fall - as if the
solid structure below which had not been harmed in any significant
way (like a jet crash) except for fire of a temperature which all
agree will not only soften steel after many hours - the fire was
just not that hot.
Almost every demolition expert not on government payroll says that
what we would expect - timewise - and the neatness of the end
product debris - is identical to there being a controlled
demolition - perhaps a 10% longer time span than free fall - and
straight down with no leaning. You will have unavoidable lateral
movement unless you keep it to free fall range. This is what
controlled demolition is designed to prevent - lateral movement.
All anyone is saying is bring in the independent prosecutor and
let him have at it. If Monica is worth the distration of one -
aren't the families of 3000 deceased, entitled to the same
consideration?
Jones
