New Video Shows That Demolitions Are Sometimes Top-Down
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/09/top-down-demolition.html
One of the main arguments defenders of the official story have made against the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers is that demolitions never start at the top of the building. In other words, they claim that demolitions always start at the bottom and proceed upwards.
However, a new video shows an example of a top-down demolition of another building:
Moreover, there were numerous reports of huge explosions in the basement and other locations well below the collapse zones in the Twin Towers. For example, a stationary engineer who worked in the basement of one of the towers testified that an entire below-level garage and a 50-ton hydraulic press were demolished long before the tower collapsed.
Therefore, the demolition of the Twin Towers was, arguably, not that dissimilar from the video of many demolitions -- such as Seattle's King Dome -- where explosions and squibs are seen at the bottom of the building before the top comes down.
Because the basements of the Twin Towers were solid (and because the Twin Towers were occupied, not abandoned -- and often times gutted -- as they are prior to conventional demolitions), explosions in the basement and core of the Twin Towers would not necessarily have been visible from the outside of the building. So they would not have been visible on video. In any event, some explosions were visible prior to the collapse of the Twin Towers, as the video record shows.
Prior to the final demolition sequence, the core supports were cut throughout the Twin Towers, and the basements of the Towers were apparently "hollowed out" so that the Towers could drop into the newly-created holes.
Sure, they were top-down demolitions -- like the video above. But the explosions at the base of the towers may have been much greater than those seen before the tops of buildings come down in most conventional demolitions.
Arie gets the credit for finding, and being the first to post about, the new top-down demolition video.
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The towers were actually a series of demolitions
The destruction of the twin towers was actually a series of conventional controlled demolitions starting from the impact point down and from there up also, to mimic a gravity only collapse from the aircraft impact points. From the lengths of the columns it appears that the welds were what was attacked every third floor and the material above that point would help to collapse that under it just like in a conventional controlled demolition.
The reason why the towers couldn't be taken down with just one conventional demolition, even if it was to be done in an honest way, is somewhat obvious. They were too tall and slender and may have toppled as their aspect ratio was 6.5 to 1.
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Top down probably safer
I've also thought that top down would actually be safer (although more expensive) in the case of tall buildings.
Isn't the fact that the steel was forcefully ejected outward a clear sign of explosions from within?
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A computer problem caused the multiple postings. Sorry about that. I would appreciate it if the moderator would remove all these posts of mine except my first one at the top.
Good catch
Good catch....lets get this put out online
Brian
Weld points.
We do have some evidence that the weld points were attacked as one component of the demolition.
See:
http://governmentterror.com/images/5396.jpg
http://governmentterror.com/images/5397.jpg
much more: http://governmentterror.com/#%5B%5BColumn%20Ends%5D%5D
It would be useful if we had a count and measure for the "tinker toy" core columns seen here so we can get an idea of amount and size distribution.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/wtc/images/wtc-photo.jpg (14MB image)
Given the thickness of the core columns, attacking the wield points would be a reasonable idea. The SAP data contains the transition floors (wield points).
I am attempting to make a comprehensive database of all column pictures, please post anything you see missing from the collection I posted above.
Jumbo Jets Can Not Demolish Skyscrapers.
Irrefutable
There is irrefutable proof that this was a controlled demolition.
Irrefutable.
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Skeptics should listen to Richard Gage and the panel of experts numbering in the hundreds - including structural engineers and
professional architects who have serious doubts of the Officia Conspiracy Theory of 19 hijackers who could outsmart NORAD.
What we must now be concerned about is the Demolition of the Republic that this CRIMINAL EXECUTIVE is now conducting with the complicity of the mainstream whoring media. Call them presstitutes trying to put the American people to sleep.
Hence the Patriot ACTs (I,II) Victory Act, PDD 51 etc.
They need to KNOW once ONCE AND FOR ALL that the CONSTITUTION of the United States of America is not going to "Collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate / explosives or planes they throw at it.
They will try.
AND THEY WILL FAIL.
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they will fail...
if the people of the United States act to impeach Dick Cheney and George Bush before they cause the next one to happen and allow the permanent dissolution of the constitution. So far they are not failing they are actually doing very well at rendering obsolete the founding document of the United States.
Always Darkest before Dawn.
There are still many patriots who will have something to say to an imperial Presidency.
Many Many people are finally waking up.
The best way to stop a dictatorship is to FORCE them to start acting like one.
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Just like His Royal Highness King George over 200 years ago, the line is slowly and surely being drawn in the sand across the Republic.
Men like Aaron Russo did not die in vain making films like America Freedom to Fascism.
There are many patriots behind in the scenes. It is just a matter of time.
Never Give Up.
Just because the traitors think they are getting away with it.
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The CONSTITUTION is NOT going to "collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate/explosives or planes they throw at it.
Any unexploded cutter charges?
I was wondering, how come there have been no reports of any unexploded cutter charges? One would assume that in an operation this big, especially if assuming that the charges were radio-controlled, I would think there should have been quite a few unexploded charges within the debris to be found by the clean-up crew. No photos, no reports, nothing?
Any other remnants of cutter charges -- brackets, wires, bolts which held the charges in place, incompletely melted casings, etc.?
As the evidence was
As the evidence was destroyed the only thing left is photographic evidence - FEMA has a many photos from ground zero, most of which are very high resolution. If you want to look , that would be a good place to start as the chain of custody of the photos is documented. Not knowing what to look for is obviously a problem but its something.
http://www.photolibrary.fema.gov/photolibrary/photo_search.do
I just put in the date fields: 09/11/2001 - 09/30/2001 and get 1396 photos
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The 9/11 Truth B-Team
New Explosive-Colorless, Odorless, And Delayed Response
Granted this Los Alamos article is dated 2003, that does not preclude another country from having this technology prior to 9/11.
It may explain why there was no yellow/orange flames spewing out of the towers as they collapsed as viewed in the Mississippi Barge video above.
Could those huge smoke plumes blowing out of the twin towers, actually be this colorless explosive technology at work during the collapse sequence?
This would also put to rest debunking claims that explosives could chemically survive the impact or the fire:
"Many of the tetrazine-derived compounds studied to date share the quality of "insensitivity"; that is, they will detonate only upon reaching a target but not when subjected to high temperature, friction, or accidental impact."
Other effects generated from versatile explosives:
"The secondary explosive then detonates via a delayed fuse to generate both high heat (therme) and high pressure (baros) within the enclosed space. Finely divided fragments of aluminum metal are often included in the solid explosive, because in the high-energy environment of the explosion, aluminum oxidizes in air. Forming aluminum oxide, this reaction both consumes significant oxygen and generates additional heat (it is highly exothermic)."
Read more here...
http://www.lanl.gov/quarterly/q_sum03/explosives.shtml
"I would imagine that if you took the top expert in that type of work and gave him the assignment of bringing these buildings down with explosives, I would bet that he could do it." -1993-John Skilling, Head Structural Engineer WTC Towers
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It's the Missisipi Casino Barge
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