Ya, I just thought I had met someone with a differing point of view that wasn't a f!cktard...I was wrong. Disappointing to say the least.
Scientists find active 'super-thermite' in WTC dust
- Thread starter Stretch
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After tremors like it was a earthquake or mine shot? What next? It was the pitter patter of everyone running away?
Not to worry! Let's use the super thermite to vaporize the roach for a healthy and much more potent toke! It's nanolicious! And that's no comspiricy theory. Boosh!:lol:
In your 22 years of working in geo-physics you've seen this type of thing before?
If any of you care to challenge the data instead of being assholes the floor is open.
Cutting me down for challenging you to rational debate doesn't make me feel bad at all and doesn't make you look like the intelligent rational persons you claim to be.
if you have to rely on somebody to tell you what the data says you have no way of proving that is what it says or not.
I'll post some data sets that are very similar in waves forms. Take a look compare and if you can be reasonable I'll tell you where they are from and when how and why they were collected.
When the gullible out number the wise 10:1 the truth is unless.
You can do what you want in country that believes the earth is 6000 years old.
You can even make up some cokamammie story about people from another mysterious culture that live in caves crashed planes into buildings after flying around the US for 90 minutes unchecked.
Then tell these 6000 year old earth and dead guy followers that other dead guy followers are boogeymen that are out to get them before their dead guy comes and plucks them off the planet and saves them all whilst damning all the other people in the 6000 year old world who don't believe in this one paticular dead guy to an eternity in an underground place that is on fire while the saved ones sit getting arthitis on damp clouds.
And I'm nuts because I don't believe all that?
You can do what you want in country that believes the earth is 6000 years old.
You can even make up some cokamammie story about people from another mysterious culture that live in caves crashed planes into buildings after flying around the US for 90 minutes unchecked.
Then tell these 6000 year old earth and dead guy followers that other dead guy followers are boogeymen that are out to get them before their dead guy comes and plucks them off the planet and saves them all whilst damning all the other people in the 6000 year old world who don't believe in this one paticular dead guy to an eternity in an underground place that is on fire while the saved ones sit getting arthitis on damp clouds.
And I'm nuts because I don't believe all that?
Why does that convince you? That appears to be the record from the report issued by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and the authors of that report have categorically denied that it's evidence for explosives, as CDNBear pointed out. That's a fairly long record so the impacts and collapses appear as spikes, which is the essence of the argument in favour of a sudden massive explosion. That time scale's too compressed to get a meaningful reading, if you spread them out, as the second set of plots you posted appear to do, they're not spikes at all, they show a relatively constant amplitude for about 40 seconds. That's not an explosion.
It's also an incomplete set. I said nothing of explosions just a strange dispersement of energy. A collapse of that size would show a lot more uniformity.
Click the link to a collapse without any detonation just fault shear spike and the "slap". It's from a defunct mine in Minnesota where 8 working levels had pillar failure of a 400m x 650m area underground. It's very uniform and consistant like you expect with ea level being nearly the same in mass as it failed one level upon the other.
Click the link to a collapse without any detonation just fault shear spike and the "slap". It's from a defunct mine in Minnesota where 8 working levels had pillar failure of a 400m x 650m area underground. It's very uniform and consistant like you expect with ea level being nearly the same in mass as it failed one level upon the other.
Okay, I suppose I should have asked this first then: if, as you stated, those seismic records are all the proof you needed, what do they prove to you? The OP was about thermite and explosions, in context I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that that's what you were convinced had happened.
Did you read Won-Young Kim and Arthur Lerner-Lam's report?
Below ground level?
Or below the bedrock?
Since the bedrock is only 65 feet below street level (ie: Ground level) at the WTC site.
Since the Seismologists in charge of that station, explained exactly what took place, appropriately, in context to the time line, I think I'll believe them over any of the mangled trash I've seen floating around the internet. Including the tripe post by you.
Arthur Lerner-Lam
But don't take my word for it, ask them directly, yourself...
Won-Young Kim...
wykim@ldeo.columbia.edu
Arthur Lerner-Lam...
lerner@ldeo.columbia.edu
Yes, that's how far I've gone Stretch/Petros.
So ... what's with explosions and thermite? One goes boom and one cuts stuff. Thermite-like components aren't all that hard to find considering the greater percentage is iron or aluminum oxide - corrosion. To be found around the site, it wouldn't have been used far underground. From what I watched time and time and time again, WTC went down ... not up.
The phenomenon is called "rationalised technology". The act of trying to invent or conjure up some form of technology to confirm an hypothesis. In this case, first it was 'Thermite'. When the C/T's finally realised that would require tractor trailer loads of the stuff, they cam eup with 'Nano Thermite' or 'Super Thermite'. Because of its presumed 'nano' size. They hoped it would pack the same punch, using far less amounts. Unfortunately, 'Nano Thermite' is still in its experimental stages and is being developed for high heat, low volitility applications. Such as 'Heat signature flare decoys', you know what they are Lone, and Molecular welding applications, ie: Extremely small welds on extremely small things. So 'Nano Thermite' is out to. Unfortunately for the C/T crowd.
Actually, that's not true. Thermite composition is not remarkable. In an event like the collapse of any building containing copious amounts of air craft parts and office supplies, you would find the bulk of the chemical make up of 'Thermite'.
This is true, and from the top down no less. Unlike every other controlled demolition in recorded history, ground up.
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Small chips in World Trade Center dust identified as undetonated explosive
By: malterwitty
Tags: 911
...and this finding explains how New York's Office of Emergency Management foresaw the collapse of the twin towers and warned Giuliani and other top brass of the impending catastrophe. Isn't it strange how they felt that workers in WTC 2 needed no warnings, in fact, they were encouraged to stay in the building.
OpEdNews » Small chips in World Trade Center dust identified as undetonated explosive
By: malterwitty
Tags: 911
...and this finding explains how New York's Office of Emergency Management foresaw the collapse of the twin towers and warned Giuliani and other top brass of the impending catastrophe. Isn't it strange how they felt that workers in WTC 2 needed no warnings, in fact, they were encouraged to stay in the building.
OpEdNews » Small chips in World Trade Center dust identified as undetonated explosive
Also from that article...
No ****!!!
Really?
As someone that works with metal, let me assure you, you will find no one, and I mean no one that works with steel, wood, and even grain, that would argue with that statement.
Most dust, of various origin is combustive. Especially Aluminum and steel!
Stretch, don't you feel at all silly, being misinformed by a site called OpEdNews?
If you will recall, I've mentioned this before, Op/Ed pieces are not objective, not scientific and offer more of the authors opinion, then of the truth or facts.
In this case, it offers no facts, no truth, just more BS. Tonnington, a student of science and well rounded in the true practices of experimentation. Has already expressed the flaws with the research paper your OP presented in link.
Why can you not dig deeper? Why is it that the 'anti C/t' folk are the ones doing all the real digging?
They did talk, its all here.........
9/11 Firefighters: Bombs and
Explosions in the WTC
The independent commission probing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington decided not to hear from the worker group that lost more lives than anyone else to the terrorists: The Fire Fighters. [Workday Minnesota] [Firefighter Louie] Cacchioli was called to testify privately [before the 9/11 Commission], but walked out on several members of the committee before they finished, feeling like he was being interrogated and cross-examined rather than simply allowed to tell the truth about what occurred in the north tower on 9/11. "My story was never mentioned in the final report [PDF download] and I felt like I was being put on trial in a court room," said Cacchioli. "I finally walked out. They were trying to twist my words and make the story fit only what they wanted to hear. All I wanted to do was tell the truth and when they wouldn't let me do that, I walked out. ... It was a disgrace to everyone, the victims and the family members who lost loved ones. I don't agree with the 9/11 Commission. The whole experience was terrible." [Arctic Beacon]
Edmund McNally phoned his wife Liz twice following the [WTC 2] aircraft impact. Mr McNally said in his second phone call "Liz, this was a terrorist attack. I can hear explosions below me." [NY Times] Tom Elliott, WTC 2 survivor: They saw only two firemen going up. They told them there had been an explosion near the 60th floor. [csmonitor]
Explosions in the WTC
The independent commission probing the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington decided not to hear from the worker group that lost more lives than anyone else to the terrorists: The Fire Fighters. [Workday Minnesota] [Firefighter Louie] Cacchioli was called to testify privately [before the 9/11 Commission], but walked out on several members of the committee before they finished, feeling like he was being interrogated and cross-examined rather than simply allowed to tell the truth about what occurred in the north tower on 9/11. "My story was never mentioned in the final report [PDF download] and I felt like I was being put on trial in a court room," said Cacchioli. "I finally walked out. They were trying to twist my words and make the story fit only what they wanted to hear. All I wanted to do was tell the truth and when they wouldn't let me do that, I walked out. ... It was a disgrace to everyone, the victims and the family members who lost loved ones. I don't agree with the 9/11 Commission. The whole experience was terrible." [Arctic Beacon]
Edmund McNally phoned his wife Liz twice following the [WTC 2] aircraft impact. Mr McNally said in his second phone call "Liz, this was a terrorist attack. I can hear explosions below me." [NY Times] Tom Elliott, WTC 2 survivor: They saw only two firemen going up. They told them there had been an explosion near the 60th floor. [csmonitor]
Kim White, WTC 1 survivor: "We got down as far as the 74th floor ... Then there was another explosion, so we left again by the stairwell." [People] Explosions occurred below the aircraft impact levels in both towers prior to the collapses. The following gives a reason for the explosions:
"There's a bomb in the building - start clearing out"..."We got a secondary device in the building" WMV video download (698kB)
9/11 NBC News broadcast
[</B>wma download] "Shortly after 9 o'clock ... [Albert Turi the Chief of Safety for the New York Fire Department] received word of the possibility of a secondary device, that is another bomb going off. He tried to get his men out as quickly as he could, but he said there was another explosion which took place, and then an hour after the first hit - the first crash that took place - he said there was another explosion that took place in one of the towers here, so obviously according to his theory he thinks that there were actually devices that were planted in the building.
Two WTC impacts. Three explosions reported.
"Luckily, we weren't caught between floors and were able to pry open the doors. People were going crazy, yelling and screaming. And all the time, I am crawling low and making my way in the dark with a flashlight to the staircase and thinking Tommy is right behind me. "I somehow got into the stairwell and there were more people there. When I began to try and direct down, another huge explosion like the first one hits. This one hits about two minutes later, although it's hard to tell, but I'm thinking, 'Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993!' [Arctic Beacon]
"...then somebody said that they saw an airliner go into one of those towers. Then, an hour later than that we had that big explosion from much, much lower down and I don't know what caused that." WMV video download (268kB)
Smoke from floor 74?
WMV video download
WMV video download
9/11 NBC News broadcast
[</B>wma download] "Shortly after 9 o'clock ... [Albert Turi the Chief of Safety for the New York Fire Department] received word of the possibility of a secondary device, that is another bomb going off. He tried to get his men out as quickly as he could, but he said there was another explosion which took place, and then an hour after the first hit - the first crash that took place - he said there was another explosion that took place in one of the towers here, so obviously according to his theory he thinks that there were actually devices that were planted in the building.
Two WTC impacts. Three explosions reported.
One of the secondary devices he thinks that took place after the initial impact he thinks may have been on the plane that crashed into one of the towers. The second device - he thinks, he speculates - was probably planted in the building. ... But the bottom line is that he, Albert Turi, said that he probably lost a great many men in those secondary explosions, and he said that there were literally hundreds, if not thousands, of people in those towers when the explosions took place."
Firefighter Schroeder recollects in great detail how he was one of the first firefighters to rush to the complex. “We first assembled on West Street, where we saw someone burnt beyond recognition. We were like ‘What is going on here?’ and then went straight into the Marriot building” From there, Firefighter Schroeder made his way to the lobby of the North Tower. “It looked like a bomb went off, and we started making our way up the stairs to rescue as many people as we could.”
As they were making there way up the floors, Firefighter Schroeder heard a huge explosion. “The elevators just blew right out. We couldn’t believe it. The plane hits 80 floors up but the elevators explode at least five minutes later? It was unreal.”
Firefighter Schroeder made it all the way up to the 23rd floor before barely hearing on the failing radios that another plane was coming in. That plane would hit the South Tower though for some reason “We were tossed like a rag doll by another explosion in our building. People were making there way down the stairwells burnt like you couldn’t believe. We were all shocked because it seemed as if there was fire everywhere, on so many floors. It just didn’t make sense”. [Prison Planet]
Lou Cacchioli, Firefighter in WTC 1: At that point, Cacchioli found one of the only functioning elevators, one only going as high as the 24th floor ... "Tommy Hetzel was with me and everybody else also gets out of the elevator when it stops on the 24th floor," said Cacchioli, "There was a huge amount of smoke. Tommy and I had to go back down the elevator for tools and no sooner did the elevators close behind us, we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb. It was such a loud noise, it knocked off the lights and stalled the elevator.As they were making there way up the floors, Firefighter Schroeder heard a huge explosion. “The elevators just blew right out. We couldn’t believe it. The plane hits 80 floors up but the elevators explode at least five minutes later? It was unreal.”
Firefighter Schroeder made it all the way up to the 23rd floor before barely hearing on the failing radios that another plane was coming in. That plane would hit the South Tower though for some reason “We were tossed like a rag doll by another explosion in our building. People were making there way down the stairwells burnt like you couldn’t believe. We were all shocked because it seemed as if there was fire everywhere, on so many floors. It just didn’t make sense”. [Prison Planet]
"Luckily, we weren't caught between floors and were able to pry open the doors. People were going crazy, yelling and screaming. And all the time, I am crawling low and making my way in the dark with a flashlight to the staircase and thinking Tommy is right behind me. "I somehow got into the stairwell and there were more people there. When I began to try and direct down, another huge explosion like the first one hits. This one hits about two minutes later, although it's hard to tell, but I'm thinking, 'Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993!' [Arctic Beacon]
"I guess about three minutes later you just heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions." [Craig Carlsen -- Firefighter (F.D.N.Y.)] The audio track of the following video catches the explosions:
A point to note about the above video is the sounds of the explosions consist of low frequencies only. The absence of high frequencies indicates the sounds were not transmitted through the air to the camera's microphone but through the ground - they reached the microphone via the tripod.
This in turn indicates that the explosions occurred below ground level (note where the smoke originates in the video).
'Just before the collapses, a series of deep, below ground explosions, then numerous explosions in the buildings upper floors ...We felt the same deep explosions before the second collapse." [Prison Planet]
Smoke at the base of WTC 2
WMV video download (306kB)
More 9/11 News Videos Reporting
World Trade Center Explosions
"At that point, a debate began to rage because. . . many people had felt that possibly explosives had taken out 2 World Trade, and officers were gathering companies together and the officers were debating whether or not to go immediately back in or to see what was going to happen with 1 World Trade at that point. The debate ended pretty quickly because 1 World Trade came down." [Christopher Fenyo - Firefighter] "I said, ‘Chief, they're evacuating the other building; right?’ He said, ‘No.’ . . . I said, ‘Why not? They blew up the other one.’ I thought they blew it up with a bomb. I said, ‘If they blew up the one, you know they're gonna blow up the other one.’ He said, ‘No, they're not.’ I said, ‘Well, you gotta tell them to evacuate it, because it's gonna fall down and you gotta get the guys out.’ He said, ‘I'm just the Battalion Chief. I can't order that.’ . . . I said, ‘You got a ****ing radio and you got a ****ing mouth. Use the ****ing things. Empty this ****ing building.’ Again he said, ‘I'm just a Battalion Chief. I can't do that.’ . . . Eventually this other chief came back and said, ‘They are evacuating this tower.’ . . . And sometime after that . . . I watched the north tower fall." [William Reynolds - Firefighter]
"I spoke with some police officials ... and they told me they have reason to believe that one of the explosions at the World Trade Center ... may have been caused by a van that was parked in the building that may have had some type of explosive device in it." WMV video download (807kB)
"But at a quarter to 11:00 there was another collapse or explosion following the 10:30 collapse of the second tower. And a firefighter who rushed by us estimated that 50 stories went down. The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon." [CNN]
Was WTC 7 supposed to collapse at 10:45 a.m.?
World Trade Center Explosions
"At that point, a debate began to rage because. . . many people had felt that possibly explosives had taken out 2 World Trade, and officers were gathering companies together and the officers were debating whether or not to go immediately back in or to see what was going to happen with 1 World Trade at that point. The debate ended pretty quickly because 1 World Trade came down." [Christopher Fenyo - Firefighter] "I said, ‘Chief, they're evacuating the other building; right?’ He said, ‘No.’ . . . I said, ‘Why not? They blew up the other one.’ I thought they blew it up with a bomb. I said, ‘If they blew up the one, you know they're gonna blow up the other one.’ He said, ‘No, they're not.’ I said, ‘Well, you gotta tell them to evacuate it, because it's gonna fall down and you gotta get the guys out.’ He said, ‘I'm just the Battalion Chief. I can't order that.’ . . . I said, ‘You got a ****ing radio and you got a ****ing mouth. Use the ****ing things. Empty this ****ing building.’ Again he said, ‘I'm just a Battalion Chief. I can't do that.’ . . . Eventually this other chief came back and said, ‘They are evacuating this tower.’ . . . And sometime after that . . . I watched the north tower fall." [William Reynolds - Firefighter]
"But at a quarter to 11:00 there was another collapse or explosion following the 10:30 collapse of the second tower. And a firefighter who rushed by us estimated that 50 stories went down. The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon." [CNN]
Was WTC 7 supposed to collapse at 10:45 a.m.?
[Lieutenant Fireman and former Auxiliary Police Officer, Paul Isaac Jr.] explained to me that, “many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they’re afraid for their jobs to admit it because the ‘higher-ups’ forbid discussion of this fact.” Paul further elaborated that former CIA director Robert Woolsey, as the Fire Department’s Anti-terrorism Consultant, is sending a gag order down the ranks. “There were definitely bombs in those buildings,” he told me. [Prison Planet]
"Tower two has had major explosion and what appears to be a complete collapse" ... "...those involved in the secondary explosion at tower 1, 'kay, I've got five patients..." ... "We have got numerous people covered in dust from the secondary explosion..." ... "We've got another explosion at the tower..."
And here...........
Evidence of
Demolition Charges In WTC 2
Before proceeding with this page let me explain a little something about explosives and how people perceive them.
I work in special effects. In films, great use is made of low velocity explosives such as untamped black powder and ANFO because they are low velocity explosives. With a great whoosh and roar they belch forth with fire and smoke in a manner that has caused folks to drop their popcorn in matinees ever since sound came in.
Movies have conditioned people to expect a certain look and sound to explosions, all based on very low velocity explosives. In a stunning ironic twist, moviegoers seem to perceive the slower explosions as more powerful.
Demolition experts will tell you that high brissive or high velocity explosives [full details] are actually more powerful, as they build up a powerful shock wave.
However, except for actually collapsing a structure, such explosives are unsuitable for film. The blast is over so quickly it can be missed while the film is moving between one frame and the next. There is very little visible smoke and flash, and the "crack" of a C-4 cutter charge is downright disappointing to hear.
Thus, the average person's awareness of what an explosion is supposed to look and sound like is based on the movies and low velocity explosives only. In not knowing what high velocity explosives sound like or feel like (as the shock wave moves through the earth), many people might not understand what they heard or felt on 9/11/2001. With the above in mind lets take a look at the collapse of World Trade Center 2...
"...and then all of a sudden it started like... it sounded like gunfire... you know, bang, bang, bang, and then all of a sudden three big explosions." WMV video download (231kB)
"It [WTC 2] started exploding," said Ross Milanytch, 57, who works at nearby Chase Manhattan Bank. "It was about the 70th floor. And each second another floor exploded out for about eight floors, before the cloud obscured it all." [ASNE] "I saw small explosions on each floor." [Wing TV] "It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit, because we originally had thought there was like an internal detonation explosives because it went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down." [Ed Cachia - Firefighter [Engine 53]]
"Floor by floor it started popping out."
"It was if they had detonators and they planned to take down a building." WMV video download (411kB)
One eyewitness whose office is near the World Trade Center told AFP that he was standing among a crowd of people on Church Street, about two-and-a-half blocks from the South tower, when he saw "a number of brief light sources being emitted from inside the building between floors 10 and 15." He saw about six of these brief flashes, accompanied by "a crackling sound" before the tower collapsed. Each tower had six central support columns. [American Free Press]
"We were there I don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes and then I just remember there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions." [Rich Banaciski - Firefighter (F.D.N.Y.)]
"When I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, ..I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down."
Q. "Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?"
A. "No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me… He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too." [Stephen Gregory - Assistant Commissioner (F.D.N.Y.)] "Somewhere around the middle of the World Trade Center, there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building." [Karin Deshore - Captain (E.M.S.)]
"It was a frigging noise. At first I thought it was -- do you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear "Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop" That's exactly what -- because I thought it was that. When I heard that frigging noise, that's when I saw the building coming down." [Daniel Rivera - Paramedic (E.M.S.)] As we are looking up at the building, what I saw was, it looked like the building was blowing out on all four sides. We actually heard the pops. Didn't realize it was the falling -- you know, you heard the pops of the building. You thought it was just blowing out. [Joseph Meola - Firefighter (F.D.N.Y.)]
The demolition of the Landmark Tower in Fort Worth, Texas - 3/18/2006
Different technique, same result? Note the flashes and dust. WMV video download (507kB)
Demolition Charges In WTC 2
Before proceeding with this page let me explain a little something about explosives and how people perceive them.
I work in special effects. In films, great use is made of low velocity explosives such as untamped black powder and ANFO because they are low velocity explosives. With a great whoosh and roar they belch forth with fire and smoke in a manner that has caused folks to drop their popcorn in matinees ever since sound came in.
Movies have conditioned people to expect a certain look and sound to explosions, all based on very low velocity explosives. In a stunning ironic twist, moviegoers seem to perceive the slower explosions as more powerful.
Demolition experts will tell you that high brissive or high velocity explosives [full details] are actually more powerful, as they build up a powerful shock wave.
However, except for actually collapsing a structure, such explosives are unsuitable for film. The blast is over so quickly it can be missed while the film is moving between one frame and the next. There is very little visible smoke and flash, and the "crack" of a C-4 cutter charge is downright disappointing to hear.
Thus, the average person's awareness of what an explosion is supposed to look and sound like is based on the movies and low velocity explosives only. In not knowing what high velocity explosives sound like or feel like (as the shock wave moves through the earth), many people might not understand what they heard or felt on 9/11/2001. With the above in mind lets take a look at the collapse of World Trade Center 2...
"It [WTC 2] started exploding," said Ross Milanytch, 57, who works at nearby Chase Manhattan Bank. "It was about the 70th floor. And each second another floor exploded out for about eight floors, before the cloud obscured it all." [ASNE] "I saw small explosions on each floor." [Wing TV] "It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit, because we originally had thought there was like an internal detonation explosives because it went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down." [Ed Cachia - Firefighter [Engine 53]]
"It was if they had detonators and they planned to take down a building." WMV video download (411kB)
One eyewitness whose office is near the World Trade Center told AFP that he was standing among a crowd of people on Church Street, about two-and-a-half blocks from the South tower, when he saw "a number of brief light sources being emitted from inside the building between floors 10 and 15." He saw about six of these brief flashes, accompanied by "a crackling sound" before the tower collapsed. Each tower had six central support columns. [American Free Press]
"We were there I don't know, maybe 10, 15 minutes and then I just remember there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions." [Rich Banaciski - Firefighter (F.D.N.Y.)]
"When I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, ..I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down."
Q. "Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?"
A. "No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw. And I didn't broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don't know if I'm crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me… He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too." [Stephen Gregory - Assistant Commissioner (F.D.N.Y.)] "Somewhere around the middle of the World Trade Center, there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building." [Karin Deshore - Captain (E.M.S.)]
"It was a frigging noise. At first I thought it was -- do you ever see professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear "Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop" That's exactly what -- because I thought it was that. When I heard that frigging noise, that's when I saw the building coming down." [Daniel Rivera - Paramedic (E.M.S.)] As we are looking up at the building, what I saw was, it looked like the building was blowing out on all four sides. We actually heard the pops. Didn't realize it was the falling -- you know, you heard the pops of the building. You thought it was just blowing out. [Joseph Meola - Firefighter (F.D.N.Y.)]
“When we got to about 50 ft from the South Tower, we heard the most eerie sound that you would ever hear. A high-pitched noise and a popping noise made everyone stop. We all looked up. At the point, it all let go. The way I see it, it had to be the rivets. The building let go, there was an explosion and the whole top leaned toward us and started coming down. “I stood there for a second in total awe, and then said, ‘What the F_____?’ I honestly thought it was Hollywood. [Jeff Birnbaum - EMT]
The sight of the jumpers was horrible and the turning around and seeing that first tower come down was unbelievable. The sound it made. As I said I thought the terrorists planted explosives somewhere in the building. That's how loud it was, crackling explosive, a wall. That's about it. Any questions? [James Drury - Assistant Commissioner (F.D.N.Y.)]
Different technique, same result? Note the flashes and dust. WMV video download (507kB)
Peter Tully, president of [Tully Construction], was, notably, the only person willing to speak openly with AFP about his work at the WTC site. ... “Think of the thousands of file cabinets, computers, and telephones in those towers—I never saw one—every thing was pulverized,” Tully said. “Everything that was above grade—above the 6th and 7th floor—disintegrated . . . it was like an explosion.” Tully Construction specializes in concrete. AFP asked Tully if he had ever seen concrete pulverized as it was at the WTC. “No—never,” he said. [AFP]
See also: The 9/11 WTC Collapses: An Audio-Video Analysis
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video.google.com — On 9/12/2001, Peter Jennings interviews Marlene Cruz, a carpenter injured in one of the pre-collapse explosions in the WTC sub-basement level B long before the planes hit the towers. The first casualty of 9/11 admitted at Bellevue Hospital, Cruz is a living witness who proves that pre-planted explosives were used to weaken the foundations.
Out of context, out of touch and for the most part, out of their collective minds.
All of those accounts have been explained, or properly put in context, and removed all doubt...
To anyone that would actually put any effort into any sort of reasoned research...
Which excludes all the C/T folks here.
All of those accounts have been explained, or properly put in context, and removed all doubt...
To anyone that would actually put any effort into any sort of reasoned research...
Which excludes all the C/T folks here.
Let's examine one such misleading load of shyte from your post shall we...
Please, if you would, show me where in that video, she claims that she was injured by an explosion, that took place before the planes hit?
From excerpts from multiple survivor testimony, the elevator doors blew out on most levels, as the explosions of the planes traveled down them.
On Monday, shall I post some pictures of elevator doors? I've built them, I build them, they aren't balst doors. A man thrusting his body hard enough at one can buckle and cave one in. Including the ones in the WTC. Of which were made and maintained by the company I've built elevator parts for. So I'm well aware of the style and material used.
