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ergo123
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In another topic of mine, DaveW posted this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3428547197082474953
Please view the clip and tell me if you
A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).
I would like to hear from all of you, so please don't be shy about responding.
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Edited by - ergo123 on 10/27/2006 23:15:53
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 10/27/2006 : 22:59:54 [Permalink]
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I don't think anyone has any idea what you mean by a "gravity only" collapse, ergo.
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 10/27/2006 : 23:05:05 [Permalink]
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Looks to me as though the building in the video was demolished using carefully set high explosive charges, set at the bottom (largely obscured in the video), and in a vertical line up the right side.
At a couple of spots along this line, there are very sharp, fast blasts visible, such as not seen in the slower (and more fiery) "explosions" caused by the aircraft collision and fuel burning on the Twin Towers, but about what one would expect from high explosives.
There are small but bright, simultaneous, split-second flashes from those explosives. Also (aside from the bottom, where most of the explosives were clearly, and logically set), I don't see much dust or smoke coming out of windows, until the structure actually collapses. Finally, the building collapses from the bottom first, unlike the WTC.
Your point was?
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Master Yoda
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Posted - 10/27/2006 : 23:50:04 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by ergo123
In another topic of mine, DaveW posted this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3428547197082474953
Please view the clip and tell me if you
A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).
I would like to hear from all of you, so please don't be shy about responding.
Both.
You're not stupid and you know what Dave was saying. CD involves setting charges so that beams and support structures are taken out of the way and then gravity does the rest. Nothing more complicated than that. Why do you insist on playing this game?
So, let's ask you a question. Why does that CD fall to one side and not straight down in it's own footprint? |
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Dave W.
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ergo123
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 00:01:20 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Master Yoda
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Originally posted by ergo123
In another topic of mine, DaveW posted this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3428547197082474953
Please view the clip and tell me if you
A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).
I would like to hear from all of you, so please don't be shy about responding.
Both.
You're not stupid and you know what Dave was saying. CD involves setting charges so that beams and support structures are taken out of the way and then gravity does the rest. Nothing more complicated than that. Why do you insist on playing this game?
So, let's ask you a question. Why does that CD fall to one side and not straight down in it's own footprint?
I'm not playing a game. If dave is too pig-headed to admit he's wrong, that's his problem.
As to your question, I don't know for sure--but my guess is that was where they wanted the rubble. |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 01:02:25 [Permalink]
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If dave is too pig-headed to admit he's wrong, that's his problem.
Hey, watch your mouth, noob! That's Dave's head, Dave's our pig, and he's our problem!
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/28/2006 : 02:53:32 [Permalink]
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Oh ye gods, another one!
Look carefully at the building. You can see that it's been gutted right down to tne bone.
*shrug* Any competent demolition crew can put the rubble anywhere they want, within reason, simply by varying the firing sequence of the charges. What's the big deal?
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tomk80
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 03:58:03 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by ergo123
In another topic of mine, DaveW posted this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3428547197082474953
Please view the clip and tell me if you
A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).
I would like to hear from all of you, so please don't be shy about responding.
As others have said, both. First the explosives blew up scructural support, after that gravity took over. Just as with the WTC, only there structural damage was caused by Jumbojets. |
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furshur
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 06:40:33 [Permalink]
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quote:
A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).
As everyone has said this is an example of a controled demolition.
The building collapsed due to gravity because the structural integrity of the building was compromised by explosives.
In the case of the WTC the collapse was due to gravity because the structural integrity of the building was compromissed by the damage from the airplane and the subsquent fires.
If you have some evidence that it was somethng besides the planes hitting the WTC, I would be interested in seeing it. |
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ergo123
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 07:01:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by tomk80
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Originally posted by ergo123
In another topic of mine, DaveW posted this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3428547197082474953
Please view the clip and tell me if you
A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).
I would like to hear from all of you, so please don't be shy about responding.
As others have said, both. First the explosives blew up scructural support, after that gravity took over. Just as with the WTC, only there structural damage was caused by Jumbojets.
Interesting. No wonder it is so difficult to communicate with many of you: you have no logic skills. Option B is a totally exclusive option. Option A excludes Option B. Yet you want "only B" plus A--which excludes B...  |
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furshur
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 08:53:24 [Permalink]
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quote:
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A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).I would like to hear from all of you, so please don't be shy about responding.
As others have said, both. First the explosives blew up scructural support, after that gravity took over. Just as with the WTC, only there structural damage was caused by Jumbojets.
Interesting. No wonder it is so difficult to communicate with many of you: you have no logic skills. Option B is a totally exclusive option. Option A excludes Option B. Yet you want "only B" plus A--which excludes B
Could you define option B a bit more? A gravity collapse with no help pretty much excludes everything except an improperly designed building.
A collapse due to a jet crashes into a building means it is not case B.
An earth quake causing a collapse means it is not case B.
Corrosion of the support beams causing a collapse means it is not case B.
How about an example of how a building could collapse due to NOTHING except the affects of gravity.
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Kil
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 09:32:03 [Permalink]
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ergo123:
If dave is too pig-headed to admit he's wrong, that's his problem.
Projecting again?
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ergo123
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 09:44:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by furshur
How about an example of how a building could collapse due to NOTHING except the affects of gravity.
That's my point--dave said the video was an example of a gravity-only collapse. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/28/2006 : 10:12:52 [Permalink]
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I gotta question: Why so many new threads when the topic of discussion hasn't changed an iota? Hell, I've lost track.
Seems to me that all of this could have been done in the first thread, whatever/whenever that might have been. When that one gets closed due to length, then a new one could go.
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tomk80
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Posted - 10/28/2006 : 10:53:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by ergo123
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Originally posted by tomk80
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Originally posted by ergo123
In another topic of mine, DaveW posted this link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3428547197082474953
Please view the clip and tell me if you
A) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to controlled demolition, or,
B) Believe it to be an example of a building collapse due to gravity alone (i.e., nothing helped the collapse).
I would like to hear from all of you, so please don't be shy about responding.
As others have said, both. First the explosives blew up scructural support, after that gravity took over. Just as with the WTC, only there structural damage was caused by Jumbojets.
Interesting. No wonder it is so difficult to communicate with many of you: you have no logic skills. Option B is a totally exclusive option. Option A excludes Option B. Yet you want "only B" plus A--which excludes B...
Just because we understand physics doesn't mean we do not understand logic. There is no downward force applied by the explosives, gravity does all the work here.
When the structure is structurally sound, the support counters the forces of gravity. There is a balance between gravity and structural support that is keeping the building from falling. When you remove the structural support, there is only one way but down. But in whole the explosion sequence you see there is no specific downward force applied. The only thing the explosions do is in fact doing is removing the upward force of the structure. The falling motion is purely caused by gravity, there are no other downward forces acting on the structure. |
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