# The \*REALLY\* crazy conspiracy theory: WTC buildings downed by controlled demolition **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 29, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991 "2007-05-29T22:27:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**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 22, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/281 "2007-06-22T02:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=LOUIS CYPHERE] OK. Let’ s try an analogy: If I punch you VERY HARD in the stomach, will you, a. Bend over double, groaning in agony. or b. Crumble to the floor in a tidy heap. I know which one my money’s on! Anyone betting with me? 🙂 [/QUOTE] That might be an anology if my body was 95% air and supported by a set of interior columns, external columns, and truss systems. As it stands, I am made of meat. Thus invalidating this ‘analogy’. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/282 "2007-06-22T02:49:13Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Miskatonic] That might be an anology if my body was 95% air and supported by a set of interior columns, external columns, and truss systems. As it stands, I am made of meat. Thus invalidating this ‘analogy’. [/QUOTE] Alternatively, if skyscrapers were designed to bend in the middle, like the human torso, his analogy might work. But I don’t recall them installing a giant hinge on the WTC, so I don’t think it works too well. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/283 "2007-06-22T03:39:23Z")
[QUOTE=LOUIS CYPHERE] I bet 10 people could have done this, and 9 of them are dead now. So who’s blabbing? [/QUOTE] Are they superhuman, or just efficient beyond all dreams of man? ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/284 "2007-06-22T05:25:13Z")
Oops, looks like Mr. CYPHERE has been banned. Wonder what happened? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/285 "2007-06-22T05:35:32Z")
Probably took a very hard punch in his buffer floors. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/286 "2007-06-22T09:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] Probably took a very hard punch in his buffer floors. [/QUOTE] I recommend he take [Bufferin](http://www.novartis.com/consumerhealth/OTC/Bufferin.shtml) for that. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/287 "2007-06-22T13:25:38Z")
[QUOTE=CurtC] Oops, looks like Mr. CYPHERE has been banned. Wonder what happened? [/QUOTE] He knew too much. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/288 "2007-06-22T14:27:20Z")
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture] He knew too much. [/QUOTE] Obviously, this statement is not even remotely true. ---
**Author:** ![melvin\_coznowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@melvin\_coznowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melvin_coznowski)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/289 "2007-06-22T14:48:04Z")
[QUOTE=Patty O’Furniture] Answer is C: Your midsection would burst into flames and black smoke would come billowing out of all your pores. Your internal organs would leap from your body via the nearest available orifice, regardless of how high off the ground. After 20 or 30 minutes, your head would come crashing down through your body. Each section of your body would be pulverized by the weight of the crumbling sections on top. You would indeed end up as a pile of smouldering body parts on the floor. Then George Bush would send Dick Cheney over to break LOUIS CYPHERE’s neighbor’s kneecaps and set his house on fire. [/QUOTE] Sorry, but I’ve got nothing to add, except to say this post made me laugh. Thanks for making my day. ---
**Author:** ![melvin\_coznowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@melvin\_coznowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melvin_coznowski)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/290 "2007-06-22T14:50:09Z")
I can’t seem to edit my response…to clarify, I just think the post is well written. I didn’t mean any sort of disrespect to victims of 9/11. I thought of the possibility it could be taken that way after rereading my post. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/291 "2007-06-22T15:30:39Z")
[QUOTE=melvin coznowski] I can’t seem to edit my response… [/QUOTE] _Heh, heh, heh._ First we lure you in, then we get your $14.95 USD, THEN we let you edit for five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/292 "2007-06-22T16:08:22Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] THEN we let you edit for five minutes. [/QUOTE] But only once, in 1960… ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/293 "2007-06-22T17:02:36Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark] But only once, in 1960… [/QUOTE] And only because he was deleting testimony that would have linked Oswald to Ruby … ---
**Author:** ![melvin\_coznowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@melvin\_coznowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melvin_coznowski)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/294 "2007-06-22T17:06:53Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] _Heh, heh, heh._ First we lure you in, then we get your $14.95 USD, THEN we let you edit for five minutes. [/QUOTE] Bastards! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/295 "2007-06-22T18:04:46Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] Obviously, this statement is not even remotely true. [/QUOTE] OK how about this: He “knew” too much. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/296 "2007-06-22T21:11:18Z")
[QUOTE=Wakinyan] That’s why, if you listen to or read a debate between holocaust deniers and people who knows what they are talking about, you notice the same phenomena as you see here: How the denier (or CT guy) without much sentimentality just drops his original argument when debunked, and moves on to the next presumed weak spot, and the next, and the next, until the other side is weared down. OTOH, if the other side holds ground, the denier/CT guy silently moves to another forum. (Of course, I’m not saying these CT guys are nazis, deniers, or in any other way [except method of argument] resembles them top of the line nutjobs, nor that they in any way share those kind of believes, etc.) [/QUOTE] Not to rain on your parade any, but I left the discussion because I was strongly persuaded by the evidence presented against the CT, and felt no inclination to defend it anymore…and also had nothing to add on the opposite side of the argument, either. My ‘weak concession’ post is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8625177&postcount=37); it took me a few more hours of reading and stewing on the matter for the last of my stubbornness to dissolve, and since then I’ve been of the opinion that the collapse of the towers was caused solely and entirely by the airplane collisions. (Which were not missles, biplanes, or UFOs, either. :rolleyes: ) Consider my ignorance fought. I did not ‘move on to the next weak spot’, or find another forum to post on. Sorry to disappoint you. (Also, sorry for my lack of sentimentality. I’ll try to argue from emotion next time. :rolleyes: ) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/297 "2007-06-22T21:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=begbert2] I did not ‘move on to the next weak spot’, or find another forum to post on. Sorry to disappoint you. [/QUOTE] I don’t believe he was referring to you. You didn’t exhibit the behavior he was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/298 "2007-06-22T22:15:06Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark] I don’t believe he was referring to you. You didn’t exhibit the behavior he was talking about. [/QUOTE] Hm, perhaps not. But I was the “conspiracy theorist” who started this thread, and I abandoned it shortly after having been ‘debunked’; so I was standing at least somewhat in front of the bullseye he was shooting at. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/299 "2007-06-22T22:19:21Z")
😃 [QUOTE=begbert2] Hm, perhaps not. But I was the “conspiracy theorist” who started this thread, and I abandoned it shortly after having been ‘debunked’; so I was standing at least somewhat in front of the bullseye he was shooting at. [/QUOTE] But it would have taken one of those notorious magic bullets that zig-zag to actually hit you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991/300 "2007-06-22T22:22:03Z")
[QUOTE=begbert2] Hm, perhaps not. But I was the “conspiracy theorist” who started this thread, and I abandoned it shortly after having been ‘debunked’; so I was standing at least somewhat in front of the bullseye he was shooting at. [/QUOTE] Pfft. Everyone knows it wasn’t **Wakinyan** who was shooting at you, but an unidentified shooter on the grassy knoll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-really-crazy-conspiracy-theory-wtc-buildings-downed-by-controlled-demolition/405991.md?page=16)