Why, please tell,would someone "bother to look" to divide 10 seconds into x number of feet? Your link uses meters, not feet.
I don't see any problem with the 500-600 foot distance finding of large stuff after a 1300 some foot building falls down....
Why would that take explosives? Why would you not consider sections of that vertical metal snapping like twigs and going flying off? The fact the thing weighs 4 tons is not relevant at all to these calculations.
Neither is this consistent with explosives - they, say having 50,000 feet per second gas expansion, would propel a great many objects quite far (all having the chemical signature of the explosive, by the way). That 50k fps is in excess of the speed to fracture and disintegrate materials, hence it would be small stuff flying around for great distances.
I said feet and the link uses meters....and...? Does this some how negate the force needed to eject them or the math it is based on? This is just another distraction from the points.
First of all steel doesn't snap like a twig, it bends and contorts under pressure. Additionally such massive objects don't just randomly get thrown so far from the core structure. The amount of energy required to propel them that distance from the towers requires explosive forces. The fact that
you are arguing the mass of the object has no bearing on the amount of force needed to propel it a great distance from the building is quite telling of your ignorance of basic physics. Materials were disintegrated, and were propelled for great distances. The building was pulverized, and yes, there were traces of thermate explosives btw.
Well, 500-600 feet is the actual limit of the rubble heap, so it's not like it was 3x beyond the rubble.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say (bolded above). The force any falling object has is related to it's mass and gravitational acceleration. A lightweight object is equally capable of going the same distance as a heavy object if either is deflected sideways. Because the force involved is gravity.....
Now you seem to think that additional force over and above that would be required - I don't see why. At 1800 feet, we could talk about something like that. But why do you think it would be required just at the edge of the rubble heap?
Also, some steels certainly can snap, and quite obviously hundreds of welded together steel box columns did come apart into bunches of pieces, didn't they?
Finally, I don't even see the logic or internal consistency in the conspiracy theory as presented. Let me show you why.
1. Plane hits building at level XYZ.
2. Building burns for an hour.
3. Carefully planted explosives at or about the same level XYZ are detonated.
4. Building collapses FROM FLOORS PLANE STRUCK.
You realize that after the plane hit that building was totally worthless, whether or not it went down? It would have had to be destroyed later as unsafe and dangerous.
So why is #3 a useful or necessary item for the bad guys?
It makes no sense. As for the "traces of thermite found?" This is pretty laughable from several points of view. A lot of thermite compounds exist, typically we might look at iron oxide and aluminum, both finely powdered. Well, you could find those anywhere. That is not evidence of thermite. It's just rust and maybe beer cans.
Next, thermite is not an explosive as we typically use the term. So it's not going to launch 4 ton chunk of metal anywhere. To get around this problem I understand the answer is ratcheted up - "Oh, but it was NANO-THERMITE!!!!"
Those are rare and highly dangerous things to handle. I'm not familiar with their use although similar issues exist with nano powdered metals of all sorts. And that stuff, it's ridiculous to talk about a stealth operation of this scale using it - or for that matter anything else.
It's quite puzzling why exactly anyone who was going to conceive of blowing up a building would come up with thermite and or nano thermite. Seems like it would be the absolute worst idea, frankly. Very hard to get ignition, too.
So I really just don't get it - can't we have a better conspiracy theory than this?
Again you expose your pure ignorance of basic physics. The 4 ton steel beams were EJECTED LATERALLY. In order for a 4 ton object to be ejected laterally AGAINST THE FORCES OF GRAVITY explosive forces would be required. In this scenario the importance of the mass of the object is not under dispute.
As far as your hypothetical scenarios I am not going to dignify that waste of time with a response because nothing constructive can come of it.
The evidence of thermite found was not just a mix of powders, it was a very SPECIFIC type of thermate which contained nano-sized particles which is primarily found in weaponized forms of thermate. This proves it was manufactured, not just a random mixing of dust. Additionally there were telltale iron nanoshperes which are also indicative of thermite also found in the dust which require very high temperatures to be formed beyond the melting point of steel.
"Niels Harrit Phd in chemistry:
What we have found is the modern version of Thermite, which we call Nano-Thermite.
This is produced in a different way. It is not just two powders being mixed.
The material is actually built from the atom scale up.
We call the bottom-up procedure which is what you do in Nano technology."
http://thewe.cc/weplanet/news/americas/911-Destruction/911-controlled-demolition-twin-towers-nano-thermite.htmlAs far as your claim of thermite not being explosive, again you demonstrate your ignorance of physics and chemistry. Thermite can be quite explosive, only you do not imagine it to be because you are only aware of the powdered form being burned in the open. Once placed in a container or form, the force most certainly is of high explosive velocities. Once more, just because thermate was used does not some how automatically exclude the possibility of other high explosives being involved. By the way, if nanothermite is as you claim so "highly dangerous" to handle, why is it so hard to ignite? (P.S. If you have any basic knowledge of chemistry it is really not that hard to ignite.)
http://www.911truth.org/the-explosive-nature-of-nanothermite/Physics dictates that explosive force would be required to blow 4 ton girders over 500 feet from their original position. You can play word games with your footprints all day, I never made any such claims.
Well, if the fall was ten seconds, it would need to be moving sideways at 50 feet per second, or about 35 mph. That doesn't seem to prove the need for explosives. Say something fell, then 100 feet down hit a section of the building that hadn't collapsed and spun off it at a slant. Acceleration due to gravity is 32 feet per second, so less than 2 seconds and you've got the velocity, then just need to translate it into sideways motion.
Anyway, which is it? Bad guys with bombs that throw girders 500 feet, of the building "falling into it's own footprint"?
I can't keep track of all the mutually contradictory conspiracy data factoids....
For people catching up, the situation appears to be this.
One conspiracy theorist on the thread (BADecker) argues that the fact that the towers collapsed into their own footprint implies explosives were used.
A different conspiracy theorist on the thread (TECSHARE) argues that the fact that the towers
didn't collapse into their own footprint implies explosives were used.
Brilliant.
But wait, there's more. No "controlled demolition" tosses 4 ton chunks of metal 500 feet.
So WTF? I would like a clear and simple explanation of one or both or the best of these theories, because I truly don't get it. And no rambling off into Evil World Overlords halfway through the explanation -we might be in agreement about the Evil World Overlords, but that doesn't have anything to do with HOW a building falls down or whether a plane hit it.
If 4-ton chunks of metal were tossed 500 feet in the collapse of the Twin Towers, then controlled demolition absolutely does toss 4-ton chunks of metal 500 feet.
Sez who? You? Controlled demolition means just that - the force of the explosive charges is applied to a job, not to randomly blowing things up and tossing shrapnel around. This is crazy talk. There are hundreds of controlled demo videos, go show one where something is tossed 500 feet.
To illustrate the problem, ask what kind of explosion would toss a Humvee 500 feet. That's not characteristic of a "controlled demolition." Neither is it something a 500 lb shell would do. In fact, no explosive would do this, because it would disintegrate the metal into small pieces rather than move it as a large object. This is because the metal disintegrates when the shock wave exceeds the speed of sound in steel. High explosives pressure wave exceed that requisite velocity by a factor of ten.
If the debris field mound extended 500 feet, which it did, who says the chunk didn't just slide down the mound and come to a stop at marker 500.
There is so much ignorance of basic science and physics I hardly know where to begin.
Just because a demolition is "controlled" does not magically mean there is no danger of projectiles. You know how they normally manage projectiles in commercial controlled demolitions? They make sure no one is near by, and they often cover the floors where the main columns are being destroyed in netting to contain the ejections. In addition to that the designers maximize the safety of the surrounding area by carefully placing the explosives to reduce ejections. In a situation where complete devastation is the goal, why would you expect the safety procedures that come along with controlled demolition? It is a well known fact that there is a danger of projectiles in all controlled demolitions.
Learn the difference between shaped charges and non directed explosives please. Explosives most certainly do not just completely disintegrate metal, and it can in fact move large objects. In a large metal object, the part which had the most direct contact with the explosion will be disintegrated while the vast majority of the heavy metal will become a projectile. As far as your "slide down the mound" theory, there were many 4 ton girders ejected in multiple directions, some of witch lodged into other buildings. So much for your random sliding theory. Stop referencing looney toons for your information on explosives please, it is getting embarrassing having to explain these things to an adult.