# 9/11 was an inside job **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 18, 2012, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490 "2012-06-18T05:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/21 "2012-06-18T07:08:54Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > In reality samples were obtained soon and no evidence of high temperature incendiaries was found, IIUC truthers then go for exotic things like nano-termite forgetting the cost and difficulty on making plenty of the stuff and that the deployment of that material would still be impossible to miss by many. Well, sure, those nano-termites are vicious little bastids but don’t they prefer wood to steel? ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/22 "2012-06-18T07:18:15Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Only threads like this can bring people like \*\*Oakminster \*\*and **Der Trihs** together on the same side. I love them for that reason alone. > > Doesn’t it give you all a warm fuzzy feeling? Kind of like when Reagan mused about how if Earth was invaded by aliens, how quickly our differences with the soviets would melt away. Wait! The Iron Curtain came down. Our differences with the soviets have been evaporating over the last 25 years. You know what that means! The alien invasion is underway! They are among us! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/23 "2012-06-18T07:33:35Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Well, sure, those nano-termites are vicious little bastids but don’t they prefer wood to steel? 😃 But yeah, the correct spelling is thermite (yes, auto correct dictionary, that is a word), and for truthers is just like grasping at nano straws: [http://www.debunking911.com/thermite.htm](http://www.debunking911.com/thermite.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/24 "2012-06-18T09:48:37Z")
A drive-by and a join date of Jun 2012… The Straight Dope’s war on ignorance is clearly a guerilla war. Just as an area like ground zero has apparently been pacified, a civilian dons a foil hat, does a drive-by attack then disappears back into the crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/25 "2012-06-18T10:05:52Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > Why would anyone wear a tinfoil hat when they could take a regular hat and line the inside with tinfoil? They’d get the same protection, but be much more stylish and the Illuminati wouldn’t be able to tell that they’re onto them. Some people just don’t make sense. Wearing a tinfoil lined hat is uncomfortable. You’d have to put another cloth or felt inner lining into the hat, which makes it rather bulky and quite hot in the summer. Sort of like wearing those X Ray aprons, only on your head. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/26 "2012-06-18T11:00:38Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > She blinded me with SCIENCE! > > 5 points to the first old fogey that gets this without googling Geez, I’d a thunk _some_one wudda got this by now, but here goes: Thomas Dolby, from his album _The Golden Age of Wireless_. “She’s tidied up and I can’t find anything!!!” ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/27 "2012-06-18T11:33:08Z")
I thought 9/11 was caused by Roland putting Black Thirteen in a locker under the World Trade Center. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/28 "2012-06-18T11:57:24Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Well, sure, those nano-termites are vicious little bastids but don’t they prefer wood to steel? Sure, but they’re so _tiny_ that only Truthers can see um. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/29 "2012-06-18T12:17:00Z")
So… nano-termites are actually Roswell Rods? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/30 "2012-06-18T12:31:08Z")
Isn’t Roswell Rods a porn star? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/31 "2012-06-18T12:33:42Z")
Third Monday of the month already? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/32 "2012-06-18T12:36:40Z")
So has Architects & Engineers managed to purge their proud ranks of such great engineers as Heywood Jablowme and Richard Cranium? Didn’t they have nothing but clowns and software engineers once those folks were gone? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/33 "2012-06-18T13:37:05Z")
Here are drive by links to some debunking sites. They have REAL experts in them. [Debunking 911 CTs and Exploding Myths](http://www.debunking911.com/). [Popular Mechanics Special Report](http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/1227842). I haven’t looked through these, but since you like YouTube, [here](http://www.youtube.com/user/debunking911) are several debunking videos from YouTube. [Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Gc_Wyotzw) is an excerpt (on YouTube again so you should love it) from History Channels excellent debunking special. I suggest you watch the whole 2 hour special (9/11: Fact or Fiction). [Some](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=653850&highlight=9%2F11) [threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=425200&highlight=9%2F11) [from](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=518232&highlight=9%2F11) [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=584675&highlight=9%2F11) [board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=422969&highlight=9%2F11) discussing this in the past. Most of these are recent (I did a search on threads with 9/11 in the title that were less than 2 years old…there are LOTS more threads on this board on this subject if you bother looking for them). As you can see, the subject has been discussed here quite extensively…and you aren’t the first poster to wander in with a link to a YouTube video that we all MUST see! 😛 After you’ve read through and watched the above links (I’m certain you will, since you want to get to the Truther, and all), and assuming you want to come back and discuss any of this (:dubious:), present the aspects of 9/11 that you think most convincingly demonstrate that it was an inside job and I’m pretty sure you’ll have plenty of 'dopers to discuss this with you. My money is on this being a drive by, and you slinking off after your first post there, but maybe you’ll stick around until at least the second page of beating. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/34 "2012-06-18T13:38:24Z")
> [@Repent](#): > > Here is a link to 2 1/2 hours of expert testimony from Architechs and engineers for 9/11 truth, demanding a second independant investigation into 9/11: > [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > So has Architects & Engineers managed to purge their proud ranks of such great engineers as Heywood Jablowme and Richard Cranium? Didn’t they have nothing but clowns and software engineers once those folks were gone? They had [musicians](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architechs) as well, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/35 "2012-06-18T13:53:59Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > No one is going to watch 2 and a half hours of video in support of yet another conspiracy theory about the Twin Towers being blown up by invisible ninjas from FEMA with alien explosives liberated from Area 51 in support of the New World Order. Number of views so far: 288,000. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/36 "2012-06-18T14:03:58Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > So, to begin with, who is one of the experts mentioned in the video? There is a well renown biologist: Lynn Margulis… > > Wait, you can not see a problem here already? Are you saying that a Biologist is like an Architect or an Engineer? [Troy McClure] Just ask this _scientician_! [/TM] ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/37 "2012-06-18T14:09:02Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Number of views so far: 288,000. Number of people who idly clicked the link but didn’t bother to watch it when they realized it was two and a half hours long: 287,962 (estimated) ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/38 "2012-06-18T14:10:19Z")
I don’t think anybody knows this, but the missiles that brought down the towers were launched from the grassy knoll. Hitler bought that plot in the 50’s and has got quite a lot of use out of it. Yes, Hitler is alive and well in South America, still causing trouble of course. He funds candidates that oppose infrastructure improvements here in the US, which will eventually lead to the trains not running on time. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/39 "2012-06-18T14:11:01Z")
> [@Repent](#): > > Here is a link to 2 1/2 hours of expert testimony from Architechs and engineers for 9/11 truth, demanding a second independant investigation into 9/11: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-jzCfa4eQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-jzCfa4eQ) > > Crime of the century, and they got away with it. Now two pointless wars and the patriot act later, they are still at large and no one is looking for them. I’m not worried. With solid Americans like you ever watchful, I feel confident no evildoer shall ever go unpunished for long. Or maybe the OP is Canadian. Maybe he’s the same Canadian who buttonholed me in a Bangkok bar one night and commenced to regale me with a tale of 9/11 being the gummint tearing down the towers for the scrap-metal value. The video might be a clue, but I can’t watch it anytime soon, as I must wash my hair. EDIT: Oh, Good Lord! :eek: I just clicked on his User Profile, and he _is_ Canadian! I think we’ve met before, yes I do. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490/40 "2012-06-18T14:23:55Z")
> [@Repent](#): > > Here is a link to 2 1/2 hours of expert testimony from Architechs and engineers for 9/11 truth, demanding a second independant investigation into 9/11: Please make your own arguments if you’re going to start a discussion here. I think just about every conceivable September 11th conspiracy theory “controversy” has been discussed at great length on this board, including the idea that experts have ruled out the plane crash and fire as the cause collapse of the buildings. So if you’re not going to add anything or take the time to explain your views, I’ll just close this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-was-an-inside-job/625490.md?page=3)