Comments by "irresistablejewel" (@irresistablejewel) on "We've Been Lied To All Along" video.
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@Thrashaero I'm not a civil engineer: but buildings have a life-span and in a crowded landscape their eventual demolition must be considered; of course you can have both a building and one that can be more easily removed. The "Twin Towers" are an entirely different building design; their mass is supported on a central column and if that shears there is nothing holding the building up. While Building 7 suffered what is called a "progressive collapse"; this happened in three stages and the likely cause is ten floors of the building being on fire for several hours (I accept the official verdict).
The central columns in each of the towers fractured and sheared in roughly the same place, near the bottom; the second failing before the first; likely due to where the plane hit and slight differences in construction; when it comes to blame, I suggest we can start with people flying passenger planes into buildings.
While before discussing the obvious damage caused; perhaps you might reflect on what would make you want to fly a plane into a building? (Any building).
I consider what happened to be a military operation. It may have only been the four pilots that knew it was a "suicide mission"; there may have been a single architect, but from my experience as an "aircraft agent" (aka baggage handler); flying a "heavy" is no simple task; they knew how to switch off the transponders (squawkers); how to navigate to their intended target and the "smartest guy in America" on 9/11 was the chap who grounded all commercial air traffic (otherwise they couldn't be detected).
This was premeditated; well-coordinated and likely required logistical support (and funding); maybe two dozen people?
They used American technology against America; the strength of a support column against the building; in a succesful attack against America's military/ industrial complex.
That's how I see it. New Yorker's might have just viewed the Twin Towers as the boxes the Empire State and Chrysler buildings came in; but it was used as a weapon.
As for what was destroyed: World Trade Centre (Both towers 1 &2); WTC 3 (Marriott Hotel); WTC 4 (South Plaza; including my fav tie shop Century 21); WTC 6 (U.S Customs); WTC 7 (office building); St. Nicholas (Greek Orthodox Church). The World Financial Center buildings, 90 West Street, and 130 Cedar Street also suffered fires. Then we have to consider the damage from air pollution from things like asbestos (another "wonder material"; now banned).
Molten metal coming from the South Tower; isn't that surprising; I don't think you fully appreciate the forces at work here; it's a sign of structural failure and when WTC 1 & 2 eventually fall; it's not from the top down; it's all at once. As I said; the energy released has to go somewhere; it can tie steel girders in knots; there's half a dozen buildings destroyed; at least three on fire. It's actually you that's focused on one building and ignoring others; WTC 2 fell down when there was nothing holding it up and it overcame inertia; WTC 7 collapsed in stages as it lost structural integrity.
Steel reinforced concrete is a wonder material; but not when the steel expands and fractures the concrete; because it then loses load-bearing capacity.
A study from a Professor of Structural Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, concluded that: fire on just three floors was enough to cause structural collapse; of WTC 7, regardless of the debris damage from the Twin Towers; citing lack of water and the fire on ten floors; as the sole cause. While one problem with steel components losing load bearing properties is that other components have to take up the load and may fail. The first thing to go was the lateral bracing; then components failed between floors 12-14 and then the building collapsed. This is all well documented and seems plausible enough to me. There are certainly other buildings that have caught fire and not collapsed; the Empire State building was even struck by a twin-engined plane, but WTC 7 had a different design and nobody to put out the fire.
As for Bush; Cheney and Blair; I have no doubt they are a nasty bunch; their $3 Trillion war in Iraq/Afghanistan killed over 50,000 kids; over a million died; plus an "opium epidemic" and other side-effects. Have you decided yet what would make you want to fly a plane into a building? It's not 50 virgins or eternal life (that's just the corporate media excuse); the answer is sheer unadulterated hatred; vengeance or retribution (is it not?). While Blair and his kind profited from their illegal wars; the Twin Towers were instrumental in things like "oil for food" and had been targeted before. It's like nobody has heard of the Ottoman Empire and how dangerous it might be to war with a billion Muslims. Somebody calculated applying sufficient force to a central column would destroy a building; it has Al Queda written all over it; fully fueled passenger planes at 982 km/ hour x 500 meters; their calculations were proven correct. I don't believe there is a building designed to withstand that.
I do wish Jimmy would lay off conspiracy theories; that have been debunked. America currently investing in war with Russia is beyond stupidity.
The American globalists destroying buildings in lower Manhattan; what a ridiculous claim (they may be crazy, but they're not that crazy).
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