The myth is that they busted a myth.
The pictures that were shown, were at ground level but I didnt see any verification that part of the metal was not cut with plasma or whatever method in a purposeful manner in an effort to clear the debris.
Look around that pillar. There isn't even a place to stand. Further, the guys in the photo were fireman, they are looking for bodies not clearing debris. Also, did you see any guys with MIGs or Plasma cutters in any picture? No, they used cranes and cutters. Finely, even if any of that were true, they would have no reason to cut at those angles. They would slice straight through. The building is already down, they have no reason to 'walk the building over' with an angled cut.
http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics/World_Trade_Center
Wow... I actually have the reverse opinion about this site. The PopMech site was far more informed than this! Just look at these non-answer!
Controlled demolitions always are initiated at the bottom of a building, to take advantage of maximum gravity forces.
Uh... If you are going to disguise a controlled demolition as being caused by a plane crash, you don't blow out the first 5 floors, 80 floors lower than where it hit... you start it at the crash area.
If the World Trade Center collapsed due to controlled demolition, as the theory goes, the explosive charges would have had to survive the crash of airplanes into the buildings. (at ~500 miles per hour)
This would not be hard. Even if the explosive on the floor hit were somehow damaged, the floor above and below would be all that's needed. I wager some charges were damaged, and most were not.
In fact, this explains a lot in my mind. There are cell phone conversation, that are used to disprove controlled demolition, in which people said the floor had fallen out. I think that supports the theory.
What would cause a whole floor to fail uniformly at the start before the supposed inferno of heat weekend the steel? Perhaps the plane set off the demolition charges on that level, causing it to fall?
Also, doesn't this make the pancake theory less likely? One floor fell onto the one below, yet the lower one didn't fail too. It held up both for an hour.
When a controlled demolition occurs, you hear the very loud and very distinct sound of the charges going off. These will repeatedly go off, in a quick, regular pattern, for 10+ seconds prior to the structure collapsing. While some people heard what "sounded like an explosion" at the World Trade Center, this is not what they heard or described. Nor is any such sound of demolition charges going off heard in any videos of the collapse.
There is no response to this because... it's just wrong... I heard it. It was very clear. The description of the witness very much describes exactly that. So I don't know what they are talking about.
The detonations in a controlled demolition go off in a very regular pattern, not at all like the random squibs seen on 9/11
They were not totally random. On the floors below where the plane it, the squibs are in a complete pattern around the building. Remember the question above about the plane damaging some of the charges? The random squibs at, and above the plane crash are exactly what I would expect.
Further, when you see any squibs above the where the plane crash, doesn't that sorta eliminate the possibility of it being air forced out by the floor giving way? If the floor falls... air should rush IN that floor.
Fires in the World Trade Center burned at temperatures as high as 1,100°, which is more than sufficient to cause structural failure and collapse.
Um, physics says that's not possible. So either everything we've been taught about physics is wrong... or... something other than wood/paper/jet fuel, were burning. In which case, what was it, and how did it get there.
Implying that windows were not broken by fires and resulting heat on 9/11, thereby indicating temperature of fire, is illogical. The windows were already broken (by the aircraft impact)! There was nothing more for the fires and heat to break, by the time the fires engulfed the many floors of the WTC buildings.
* Also, why 700°C is required to break windows?
Physics again. Glass and plexiglass expand at specific rates in relation to heat. As the glass expands, the size of the window frame does not. Again, the frame is steel. Who wins, glass or steel? Steel wins, glass breaks. Since the size of the window is known, and the expansion rate of the glass is known, as well as the relative strength of the glass is known... you can determine at roughly what temperature the glass will break.
Yes there were windows that had not broken. There are dozens of videos where glass windows on the same floor that the plane hit, are in perfect undamaged condition.
Granted I have not done these calculations myself. Which is why I have not brought up this point prior to now. Nevertheless, the counter brought up here is completely bogus. If the glass does break at 700ºC, then based on the claim the heat wiped out the entire floor at the same time, then every window around the entire building on all 3 floors hit should have busted out long before the collapse.
A video taken of the collapse shows at 11 seconds that the collapse of the South Tower is still under way. The cameraman began running at that point, but the sound of the building collapsing continues for many more seconds.
That video.. unbelievable. There are DOZENS of videos out there, many from static points of view, and from far better angles, that CLEARLY show the buildings being completely demolished in 11 seconds.
For them to dishonestly choose this particular video in order to make this specific point, is near laughable. This is a clear cut case of coming up with a conclusion, and finding something, anything to try and fit the conclusions they already determined to be true.
But even more ironic, watch the video... stop it just as the camera turns toward the tower... In that frame, bottom right hand corner... what do you see? You also see it on the still frame on
the main video page.
Do you see it? White smoke rising from the BASE of the tower PRIOR to the tower coming down. Where does the white smoke come from? Remember from the first response? "Controlled demolitions always are initiated at the bottom of a building" Huh...
FYI, white smoke doesn't come from dirty burns like paper and wood products. That smoke was black. So what causes white smoke? Demolition charges do. So does Thermite.
This site answers nothing. Even less than the sub-par job PopMech did.
Now buildings that experience incredible forces, not such as those that are hurricane strength across an entire building, but a force not experienced in known nature happens to a small but important part of the building. Those buildings often buckle under the stress as seen and described at the time.
Those with controlled demo come down much more uniformly.
As per the sounds people heard that sounded like individual explosions as the buildings collapsed can be attributed to the rush of air out of the structure as it fell on top of itself.
There is video comparing a controlled demo versus anything heard on 9-11 and the noise difference, tempo, and nature of the sound is different.
For now, I'm going to move on pasted the plane impact force of nature type argument. Not because I don't believe in my view, but rather because it's clear we are both subjective. Your view, my view. Until you have a video of a similar plane going into a similar building, and having it fall down without any "loose ends", then we are just going in circles.
Now everything else you mention... I would expect. See, unlike a real legit building demolition, the twin towers were a bit different. The method would be different since they had to make it look like the plane did it.
Also, unlike a building that would be gutted completely, the towers had dry wall, hung ceilings, and thick glass in every window. Plus unlike most buildings, the twin towers had a core, a protected, isolated, reinforced middle section that contained the primary supports for the entire building. This is where most of the demolition charges would have to be.
All of this would result in a muffled sound. It wouldn't be the same tone, or the same pattern, or the same tempo. The fact there was a tempo, was a tone, and was any pattern, is the problem.
But more than that, again what is telling is what questions were ignored! They claim that the fire reached 1100ºC... Wonder woman is standing on the floor the plane hit... she is not melting... does that woman in the picture look like she experiencing 2000ºF to you?
The Slurry walls in the basement... they were moved. By what? What damaged the walls in the basement!