# WTC Collapse:  Need airtight answer please!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-collapse-need-airtight-answer-please/680226>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 31, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-collapse-need-airtight-answer-please/680226 "2014-01-31T19:14:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-collapse-need-airtight-answer-please/680226/241 "2014-02-20T06:02:15Z")

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> [@split\_p\_j](#):
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> There is plenty of evidence that some type of thermite was used. Here is a guy doing experiments in his [backyard](http://youtu.be/5d5iIoCiI8g?t=12m22s) that perfectly match eye witness accounts and video. I already brought up the evidence of thermite found at the WTC and even [the NIST report](http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=861610) can’t explain the squibs, or pressure pulses as they call them.
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> The no planes thing that Loose Change went nuts with is misdirection, used to discredit 911 truth, but that is meaningless. It is not necessary to explain every detail of 911 if you don’t believe the official story.
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> The evidence of the collapse of buildings 1,2 and 7 show that the official story can’t be true, and that in itself warrants a real investigation.

Well to start with your cite thinks the steel in the building melted. It didn’t. The floor joists sagged under the weight of the concrete it was supporting due to the heat. That pulled the vertical supports in until the weight above caused them to fail.

This is what the evidence shows. You seem to be suggesting that ninja’s sneaked into the buildings and planted explosives without anyone knowing it and then relied on people who never flew a commercial airliner to hit the exact spot so as to look like an accident. They then waited for a half hour or more to blow it up to further confuse people into believing a severely damaged building with a runaway fire might collapse.

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-collapse-need-airtight-answer-please/680226/242 "2014-02-20T09:15:53Z")

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> [@split\_p\_j](#):
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> The evidence of the collapse of buildings 1,2 and 7 show that the official story can’t be true, and that in itself warrants a real investigation.

What would constitute a “real investigation” to you? There have been _dozens_ of studies carried out, and time and time again, without fail, your ilk declare the people involved to be “in on it” because it didn’t produce the results you wanted to see.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtc-collapse-need-airtight-answer-please/680226/243 "2014-02-20T09:33:56Z")

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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> [The Onion nails it once again.](http://www.theonion.com/articles/911-truther-vows-not-to-rest-until-everyone-knows,35319/)😃

Brilliant.

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