(1) Why did all three buildings collapse symmetrically as in a controlled demolition?
(2) Why did all three buildings collapse at free fall rates of speed ?
(3) WTC7 wasn’t hit by a plane. Why would normal office furnishings and material cause such a massive structural collapse?
(4) Why wasn’t the steel from the structures analyzed for explosives and why was it shipped to China for scrap rather than keeping for it for analysis of a crime beyond the government issued explanation?
(5) What were the explosions that many people heard?
(6) How could there be molten steel under ruins three months after the collapse?
(7) How did the fire get so “bad” in a relatively modern structure that would surely pass code?
(8) Why has no other skyscraper collapsed the way these three buildings did?
I’ve often wondered what the government would have done had the buildings not collapsed. Imagine if the two towers were just looming over NYC dangerously unstable yet refused to fall. You would have to evacuate all of Manhattan indefinitely.
I struggle to think how you would even dismantle them? Certainly not safely anyway.
This Cecil Adams column mentions some methods that could be used to deconstruct a skyscraper, although I don’t think the usual methods would be possible if the buildings were not intact.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, saw the movie, read the novelization of the movie, got the action figures, got a complete set of the collector cards, ate the cereal, played the card game, played the video game, got the bobblehead, tried the beer, read the blog, watched the vlog, saw the music video and gave at the office.
(1) They didn’t.
(2) Gravity.
(3) WTC7 got hit by a very large chunk of WTC1.
(4) If the steel was immediately sent to China, what was all that metal at the Fresh Kills landfill for nearly a decade?
(5) The survivors from Stairwell B in WTC1 reported only hearing the tower collapsing above them, no mention of any explosions.
(6) There is no reliable source for molten anything, certainly not steel. Images supposedly showing molten anything have either been misinterpreted or outright doctored.
(7) Being property of the Port Authority, all seven buildings were exempt from codes.
(8) No other buildings utilizing the exact same construction as the original World Trade Center complex have been struck by airliners.
Well, no.
Even if they didn’t fall, you’d only have to evacuate the Lower Manhattan area - the WTC buildings aren’t going to crush the Empire State Building if they fell…
Supposedly because that’s where their “let’s demolish the WTC” HQ was. Never mind the fact that it would have been simpler to toss all the “evidence” into one of these truck-sized industrial shredders.
We have a building here in Baltimore called The World Trade Center. It’s the world’s tallest pentagonal building. In front of it there is a very large chunk of steel from that other Wolrd Trade Center. It’s a memorial, but maybe you could come here and test the steel for government agents. I haven’t looked into it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if other cities also had big chunks, I’d also be surprised if none of the scrap ended up at Sparrows Point, which is close to Canton, but far from China.
