John A MITCHELL
Herblay FRANCE

bonjour ,

Thanks for the audio. Nist says somewhere about 1/3 that
"they did not find evidence of a blast or controlled demolition"

As this is a reply to "critical frequently asked questions" I would like to know if Nist has every given details exactly on what test they did for example tests for thermite, thermate etc.

If NIST really wants to reply to us perhaps they can go into detail about the tests they performed that excluded use of explosives, etc.

Does anyone have any lead up to their tests ?

Yours

John

Forceful and fact full.

Great job.

Thanks.

We REALLY need a transcript of this! Do you think NIST will make one available? Has anyone seen one - I have not. Would anyone be willing to make a transcript of choice quotes? Perhaps I will later today. Peace

Links seem to be working now. Richard Gage did an excellent job and deserves the thanks of the "truth movement" for being there

Richard was amazing- The truth movement is in good hands, it has some amazing and passionate people involved. A dire contrast to the people working at NIST.

... a concise, articulate, powerful statement.

The only thing I would have left out is reference to the alleged mistimed explosions near the top corner of the building. As some have pointed out, they are very unclear in the video and may be something else than squibs. (They don't protrude from the building the way squibs in the towers or normal CD's do.)

I didn't have time to listen to the whole meeting. Still no timetable for releasing the report?

http://11syyskuu.blogspot.com/2006/02/destruction-of-wtc-7.html

The only unusual thing about World Trade Center Building 7 is that diesel fuel was stored in the building to fuel Rudy Giuliani's emergency command bunker.

However, NIST admitted yesterday that the destruction of building 7 had nothing to do with the diesel fuel.

NIST's "working collapse hypothesis" is that:

• An initial local failure occurred at the lower floors (below floor 13) of the building due to fire and/or debris-induced structural damage of a critical column (the initiating event) which supported a large-span floor bay with an area of about 2,000 square feet;

• Vertical progression of the initial local failure occurred up to the east penthouse, and as the large floor bays became unable to redistribute the loads, it brought down the interior structure below the east penthouse; and

• Triggered by damage due to the vertical failure, horizontal progression of the failure across the lower floors (in the region of floors 5 and 7 that were much thicker and more heavily reinforced than the rest of the floors) resulted in a disproportionate collapse of the entire structure.

NIST explains that "The working hypothesis for the initiating event sequence that characterizes the initial local failure is based on fire-induced failures initiating in the tenant floors:

• Floor beams, slabs, and connections heat more quickly and to higher temperatures than the columns.

• Elevated temperatures in the floor elements lead to thermal expansion, sagging, and weakening that result in failure of floor connections and/or buckling of floor beams.

• Sufficient floor component failures (connections and/or beams) result in at least one long unsupported column at the lower floors, which leads to the initiation of global collapse.

Sounds reasonable, right?

Well, how come office fires in other modern steel skyscrapers which burned much longer and hotter than WTC 7 didn't experience the same conditions of differential heating and local failures or -- if they did -- why didn't they collapse also? See this and this.

I am absolutely willing and quite able to do a transcript, but I can NEVER get the link to do anything. Is anyone else having issues? I click on it and it thinks about it, brings me to another page, says "Done" and nothing is there.

Massively frustrating.

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