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Top 10 reasons why the NIST report is absurd:

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Top 10 reasons why the NIST report is absurd:

In 2005, NIST released the results of a 20 million dollar investigation that attempted to explain why the World Trade Center towers completely collapsed.1

Many blindly point to this report (without reading a word of it) as rock solid proof that the official story is true. I am writing this list In order to help remedy this situation. All of my claims are documented—I am not making this up. Some of these claims may sound too outrageous to be true, but they are. I have provided the footnotes to prove it.

This is for anyone who still takes the NIST report seriously.


I present my top 10 reasons why the 10,000 page NIST report is absurd:

#10. Their theory is that “widely-dislodged fireproofing” was the primary reason the towers collapsed.2

#9. This theory ignores the fact that no steel framed building had ever completely collapsed due to fire in history.3

#8. They disproved their own “widely-dislodged fireproofing” theory with a shotgun experiment.4

#7. They ignore massive eyewitness testimony.5

#6. Their theory ignores a foundational law of physics.6

#5. Their steel tests contradicted their own theory and showed that the towers should not have collapsed.7

#4. They “proved” their theory with computer models that they refuse to release.8

#3. Their computer simulations used exaggerated data.9

#2. Their 10,000 page, 43 volume report explains (only in a footnote!), that their theory is a pre-collapse theorythey do not attempt to explain the “structural behaviour of the tower” after the collapse began!10


NIST’s most absurd blunder of all?

#1. Their 10,000 page, 43 volume report can’t find the space to discuss molten and evaporated steel; outrageously claiming that it was “irrelevant to the investigation”!11

This statement is stunning evidence that there needs to be a criminal investigation, as well as a new investigation.

Most of this information is in an essay I wrote about the NIST report. For a more complete examination of the NIST report, read:

9/11, NIST, and “Bush Science”: A New Standard for Absurdity
http://www.911blogger.com/node/4324

1 www.nist.gov/

2 This is NIST’s theory in their own words: “The two aircraft hit the towers at high speed and did considerable damage to principal structural components: core columns, floors, and perimeter columns. However, the towers withstood the impacts and would have remained standing were it not for the dislodged insulation (fireproofing) and the subsequent multifloor fires.”

Taken from: NIST: Final Report of the National Construction Safety Team on the Collapses of the World Trade Center Towers” page 4.

Therefore, the NIST theory is a “fireproofing theory”. If the fireproofing was not removed the buildings would not have collapsed according to NIST.

Plane damage was therefore insignificant:

Thomas Eagar, an MIT professor of materials engineering who supports the official theory, says that the impact of the airplanes would not have been significant, because “the number of columns lost on the initial impact was not large and the loads were shifted to remaining columns in this highly redundant structure” (Eagar and Musso, 2001, pp. 8-11).

Professor Astaneh-Asl of University of California:said “‘The [plane] impact did nothing to this building,’ he said with admiration.” CNN News, Oct 5, 2001.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/10/05/inv.attacks.steel/index.html

See also: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=718236659434732032 Kevin Ryan, 9-11 Revealing the Truth: Reclaiming our future conference. June 4, 2006.

3 No steel framed buildings had ever collapsed due to fire in history according to the New York Times:

Glanz, James, and Lipton, Eric (2002). “Towers Withstood Impact, but Fell to Fire, Report Says,” Fri March 29, 2002, New York Times.

4 Kevin Ryan shows it actually disproved their theory:
It took being sprayed with shotgun pellets to remove the insulation… there is no evidence that a crashing Boeing 757 could have been… [like] thousands of shotgun blasts [to cover] the 6,000 square meters of surface area of structural steel.”

In other words, the shotgun blasts only removed the fireproofing where they were struck with the shotgun blast. Their own photos clearly show that the shotgun blasts removed little fireproofing, disproving their theory.

taken from: http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/kevin_ryan/newstandard.html#dislodge...

See also: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=718236659434732032

Kevin Ryan, 9-11 Revealing the Truth: Reclaiming our future conference. June 4, 2006. at 36:06, and the NIST study that has photos of the shotgun blast tests.

5 Eyewitness testimony: http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/eyewitnesses.html

6 As Seen from in NIST’s FAQ: http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm

“How could the WTC towers collapse in only 11 seconds (WTC 1) and 9 seconds (WTC 2)—speeds that approximate that of a ball dropped from similar height in a vacuum (with no air resistance)?”

NIST responds:

…the momentum… of the 12 to 28 stories (WTC 1 and WTC 2, respectively) falling on the supporting structure below (which was designed to support only the static weight of the floors above and not any dynamic effects due to the downward momentum) so greatly exceeded the strength capacity of the structure below that it was unable to stop or even to slow the falling mass. [Note: this claim contradicts a basic law of physics] The downward momentum felt by each successive lower floor was even larger due to the increasing mass.”

Jim Hoffman explains why this is impossible:

“NIST's assertion that the Tower's intact structure was "unable to stop or even to slow the falling mass" is absurd. It:

• Requires us to believe that the massive steel frames of the towers provided no more resistance to falling rubble than air.

• Ignores the fact that the majority of rubble fell outside the towers' footprints, and hence could not contribute to crushing.

• Is unsupported by any calculation or logical argument.


Physicist Steven Jones, who has written over 40 peer reviewed scientific papers, agrees [see page 28]:

“Where is the delay that must be expected due to conservation of momentum – one of the foundational Laws of Physics? That is, as upper-falling floors strike lower floors – and intact steel support columns – the fall must be significantly impeded [i.e. slowed down] by the impacted mass.”

7 Here are NIST’s own test results:

• Paint tests indicated low steel temps (480 F) "despite pre-collapse exposure to fire"

• Microstructure tests showed no steel reached critical (half-strength) values (600 C)

• Lab tests showed: Minimal floor sagging.

• NIST found that there was no floor collapse.

• "The results established that this type of assembly was capable of sustaining a large gravity load, without collapsing for a substantial period of time relative to the duration of the fires in any given location on September 11th."

See here: http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/kevin_ryan/newstandard.html#steelanalysis

and here: http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/kevin_ryan/newstandard.html#labtests

8 “World Trade Center disaster investigators [at NIST] are refusing to show computer visualizations of the collapse of the Twin Towers despite calls from leading structural and fire engineers, NCE has learned. Visualisations of collapse mechanisms are routinely used to validate the type of finite element analysis model used by the [NIST] investigators.”
Parker, Dave. "WTC investigators resist call for collapse visualisation," New Civil Engineer, October 6, 2005.

9 What data did NIST use for these computer models? We don’t know exactly, but they did reveal:

The Investigation Team then defined three cases for each building by combining the middle, less severe, and more severe values of the influential variables. Upon a preliminary examination of the middle cases, it became clear that the towers would likely remain standing. The less severe cases were discarded after the aircraft impact results were compared to observed events. The middle cases… were discarded after the structural response analysis of major subsystems were compared to observed events.”
NIST, 2005, p. 142; emphasis added.


This does not prove their predetermined conclusion so they change their data until they get the desired result—building collapse:

The more severe case… was used for the global analysis of each tower... To the extent that the simulations deviated from the photographic evidence or eyewitness reports [e.g., complete collapse occurred], the investigators adjusted the input, but only within the range of physical reality. Thus, for instance… the pulling forces on the perimeter columns by the sagging floors were adjusted...”

NIST, 2005, p. 142; emphasis added.

NIST’s theory couldn’t be proved with the original data, so they changed the data, which was different from the eyewitness reports. Does this “evidence prove anything besides the fact computer simulations are fun to fool around with?

NIST also revealed:

“The software used [by NIST] has been pushed to new limits, and there have been a lot of simplifications, extrapolations and judgment calls.”

Parker, Dave. "WTC investigators resist call for collapse visualisation," New Civil Engineer, October 6, 2005.

10 NIST: “The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower. For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the "probable collapse sequence," although [the investigation] does not actually include the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached.” NIST, 2005, p. 80, fn. 12; emphasis added.

The report is irrelevant if it can’t explain the “structural behavior of the tower” after the collapse began. Essentially, the only focus of the report is to prove that the collapse started, not what happened after it started.

11 I can’t believe they actually stated this on the record! NIST truly sets a new standard for absurdity.

NIST: “The condition of the steel in the wreckage of the WTC towers (i.e., whether it was in a molten state or not) was irrelevant to the investigation of the collapse since it does not provide any conclusive information on the condition of the steel when the WTC towers were standing.” Read it here! http://911research.wtc7.net/reviews/nist/WTC_FAQ_reply.html#13

NIST is trying to say that the molten steel was created after the building collapse. How do they know that? If so, why isn’t it mentioned in a 10, 000 page report to show this? This statement defies belief.

 

Excellent summary of the 10,000 page stack of kindling!

Talk about JUNK SCIENCE. And what is most alarming is that some of the same pseudo-liberals who claim to be outraged at the Bush admin's cherry picking of the work of junk scientists on issues like global warming don't seem to have a problem with this report.

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You believe

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Bert, Bert

Swishing in a skirt
Can't find his own thought
And he's more likely bought

Arggh!!! I KNOW, Anonymous, I KNOW!!! Stop rubbing it in!

I know that the jet fuel melted the steel even though it couldn't have. I KNOW that building 7 just collapsed because, well I KNOW there were no explosives involved. I KNOW that the people who reported multiple explosions in the towers all said so just to protect bin Laden and the other terrorists. I KNOW that evil muslims hijacked four planes and slammed them into their targets even if they don't appear in any security videos at the airports. I KNOW that finding a passport in the street is proof positive that the person pictured in it was on the plane that crashed nearby. I KNOW that our government did everything possible to prevent the planes from hitting their targets. I KNOW flight 77 vaporized once it hit the Pentagon. I KNOW that Mark Bingham is a bona fide hero. I KNOW the dancing Israelis were... JUST DANCING! I KNOW they weren't REALLY Mossad agents, even though it was reported in Israeli newspapers and TV shows. I KNOW that there really are bloodthirsty Muslims out to get me, and that because they're also out to destroy Israel, that I should naturally consider Israel my bestest buddy ever and not complain when they defend themselves by shooting little Palestinian kids with rocks. I KNOW those little rocks could put one of the IDF heroes' eyes out. I KNOW that because of our shared values that Israel loves and protects its bestest friend Amewica.

Thank you Anonymous for helping me to acknowledge that I have been LIVING A LIE!! I'm going to go immediately to sign up for Project David to help other Americans learn about the shared values and lack of ethnic cleansing going on in Israel, and how 9/11 truthseekers are just anti-semitic holocaust deniers who detest jews and want to defend muslim terrorists because they can't stand living with FREEDOM.

THANK YOU!! Keep fighting the good fight, Anon, you'll soon have us all singing the praises of America's Mayor AND our our own George "Winston Churchill" Bush!!

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Anonymous... PLEASE tell me, though--

God DID make the unicorns, right? I mean--the UNICORNS are real, right??? Please tell me they are!

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Irrational thinking

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Grow up

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Plenty of evidence!

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911_firefighters.html

Here are PLENTY of eye witnesses that talk about it!

One of the video clips you can CLEARLY hear an explosion happening!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

I deny it.

You can't deny it. It's in the record.

Where is it? And when you say something wasn't found, shouldn't you also say that it wasn't actually sought either?

And what is "explosive residue"? Is that, as it sounds, residue that explodes? Do you mean residue from explosives? I think maybe you do. Did the New York Times not report on the mysterious sulfidization of steel from the towers?

So who's blocking threatening info, Anon?

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Ernie

Ernie has done us the courtesy of posting a good explanation of his own behavior in this post.

For trolls, denial is

"(a) defense mechanism where certain information is not accessed by the conscious mind. Denial is related to repression, a similar defense mechanism, but denial is more pronounced or intense. Denial involves some impairment of reality. Pathological denial is irrational denial in the face of conclusive evidence."

and

"The above series of studies may give rise to the speculation that self-deception does not differ from simple pathological denial. However, Paulhus and Reid (1991) demonstrated that although denial was one component of self-deception, self-deception contained a very strong ego-enhancement component. Presenting evidence that enhancement was more negatively correlated with depression than was denial, these authors concluded that self-deception has an active role in enhancing happiness. Thus, self-deceivers not only block threatening information, but actively search for information to enhance the self."

I think the fact that these guys compulsively repost the above text in various threads is really a cry for help.

Anon, you keep repeating

Anon, you keep repeating that you "demonstrated conclusively" the no explosisive residue was found in the WTC dust, yet you contiually refuse to provide any link or any data whatsoever to support your conclusion.

Do you honestly expect anyone to take you seriously this way??

IDIOT!

You are a total bonehead RT. You forgot one other major point that we all know for a fact here in the real world...there are no video cameras on the Pentagon. None, zippo, nada...get it? There is no reason to secure this building, so we must be content with the Citgo tape because it is all the FBI has. Get the story straight there mister man!

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Devils Advocate

:)

We Are All Idiots

We all just have to learn to accept that our local convenience store has better security cameras than the Pentagon.

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ~ Aleister Crowley

Laurel and Hardy, that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot. ~ John Lennon

Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you angry! ~ Aldous Huxley

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters? ~ Kahlil Gibran

Pentagon

I was being sarcastic, of course the Pentagon is loaded with surveillance cameras. They have the videos, and they are crisp and clear. They just can't share them.

I Knew That

I was too.

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I meet the sincere man with sincerity and the insincere also with sincerity. ~ Lao Tse

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. ~ Cato

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ~ Douglas Adams

So sad...

that I have to even wonder if people get it. :)

Really read the report!

The 10 points that are mentioned are just the tip of the iceberg of the NIST report. A closer examination of section 1-6 (A-D) reveals even more deceptive practices on NIST's part. For example,

In 1-6A NIST determine fire proofing loss using both their shotgun test and a computer model. Kevin Ryan has pointed out the energy required was simply not available, but giving NIST the benefit of the doubt, their modelling shows most of the loss would have been near the impact zones of the planes, and not for instance on the South face of WTC1. In 1-6B, NIST performs floor model tests on the floor assemblies and derive ASTM E-119 time temperature curves as well as fire endurance ratings. In 1-6C NIST attempt to concoct full floor computer models of the towers, but instead of using their actual results from 1-6B to establish baseline performance, NIST simplies the floors down and have them sagging at over 40 inches. NIST never validates it's full floor models against any physical tests, which are neccesary to validate the correctness and accuracy of any FEA approximation. Also in 1-6C, NIST can only get 2 out of 9 test cases to show significant inward pull forces on the exterior columns, and only using the most severe and unrealistic input. They require that all fireproofing be stripped off of the columns and floor assemblies over a 3 story area, temperatures that are higher than their previous modelling showed (see 1-5), and for longer durations than any of the fires were in any part of the tower. In 1-6D, NIST tries to put it all together into a global collapse model but they can't quite make it. First, they need their 2/9 test case to be true so they assume away all the fireproofing, completely contradicting their results in 1-6A (they even say that they were "mistaken", but don't bother to explain why or how!) Then they plug in the results from 1-6C floor model tests and guess what? No collapse and no bowing of external columns (they say this in the report). So they throw out 1-6C altogether and substitute direct pull in forces on the columns that are not derived from any experiement or logical process, but trial and error. After continued fudging, they finally get some bowing and clap their hands and say "Global collapse ensued."

I really recommend that everyone read the NIST report, on both sides, to see what it really does say and if NIST actually proved any of its Summary of Conclusions. A very careful reading of the report reveals that it does not indeed support the assertion of global collapse.

Get over it.

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Really?

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/911_firefighters.html

Here are PLENTY of eye witnesses that talk about it!

One of the video clips you can CLEARLY hear an explosion happening!

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Anonymous do you actually make any points?

Or do you just repeat over and over that others have refuted everything? That seems to be what all of you shills do. But see, you're only helping to convince those who are, like you, determined to believe what they want.

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I easily refuted you.

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You refuted nothing

"• NIST found no corroborating evidence for alternative hypotheses
suggesting that the WTC towers were brought down by controlled demolition using explosives planted prior to September 11, 2001. NIST also did not find any evidence that missiles were fired at or hit the towers. Instead, photographs and videos from several angles clearly showed that the collapse initiated at the fire and impact floors and that the collapse progressed from the initiating floors downward, until the dust clouds obscured the view."

NIST in thier OWN document state that they DID NOT investigate the use of CD! They NEVER tested for residue from explosives because they did not investigate the possibility of it!

NIST does not explain how the Antena on WTC1 fell first, when it was ATTACHED to the cores???? The cores could not have collapsed until the OUTER parts started to fall! Yet the Antena, which was supported by the cores, and connected to them, fell moments before the collapse. What caused the Antena to sink before the sides started to collapse?????? The core could not, would not, collapse in that fashion without an EXTERNAL force (and no the plane is not an external force in this case).

Please Mr. Wizard..... Enlighten us with your magic! Tell us all here how that Antena, supported by the Core, started sinking before the impact part collapsed!

PHYSICS says it's IMPOSSIBLE!!!! Statistically well over 100 TRILLION to ONE!

Enlightment for RB

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The devil is in the details

Never said anything about inside job, I am just pointing out that NIST failed to make the case for their probable collapse sequence. I fail to see the point in blithely accepting NIST's conclusions without first verifying the data to support it. If you didn't notice, most reports, essays, papers, etc. in academicia, economics, science, or business have something called a "body", that usually provides analysis and evidence to support the "conclusions". I guess you would advocate that we do away with that and merely state conclusions, since they must always be "true". Oh I forgot, that's the bias of the political method and has no place in the investigation of the murder of 3000 people.

You are in a minority

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Not so fast

LOL, you do have have an overactive imagination. I assume nothing when it comes to "structural engineers" supporting the NIST report. I have heard that Leslie Robertson supports the report, but I have also heard that Charles Pegelow does not. At this point I have yet to hear definitive support or skepticism from the engineering community but I can tell you that ARUP in the UK has taken issue with the report (they do not model expansion due to heating) as well as the New Civil Engineer. The primary problem is that NIST is unwilling to debate its report, even with engineers who support the fire theory but have taken issue with NIST's particular theory. Need I remind you that the track record of the explanations for the collapses has not exactly been stellar:

1. (FALSE) Tower Meltdown (Bazant and Zhou, various "experts" in the days after) - 800C+ temperatures in core - No WTC7 explanation

2. (FALSE) Pancake theory (ASCE, FEMA BPAT, MIT) - Never a full collapse theory (the use of the phrase "possibly free standing columns" failing) and now disproven by physical tests and NIST, very improbable WTC7 explanation (by FEMA's own account)

3. (FALSE) Weidlinger report - Low temperature column failure with fire proofing loss - Similiar to NIST but contradicted by NIST's temperature estimates and collapse theory (role of floors) - No WTC7 explanation

4. (Yet to be determined) NIST report - Latest report on collapses, currently excludes WTC7

We've had a myriad of "explanations" that have are all mutually exclusive and promulgated by largely the same set of people. Now, as I recall many 9/11 truth researchers criticized these reports and at the the time proponents of each of these theories claimed large scale agreement among engineers and, similiar to your tact, that these researchers were merely talking out of their ass. Unfortunately for the "engineers" (and yourself), the truthers are batting 1.000 to their 0.000 so far. Does this mean that NIST is thus wrong? No, but it means that the blanket acceptance of the latest theory promulagated by "experts" should be taken as just that, a theory. Appealing to authority here is really laughable considering the appaling track record of these theories and anyone who chooses to merely restate NIST's conclusions without verifying their data and analysis is engaging in the worst form of doublethink and intellectual dishonesty.

way to spank the anonymous shill, Rich!

so true what you say--at every turn "all the structural engineers in the world" have agreed with whatever official story happens not yet to have been debunked.
The way these shills are screwing up I wouldn't be surprised if we have a breakthrough before X-Mas!

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Lots of hearing , no data

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