We've read it; and we know what it is.
Have you ever heard the term: "flashover"? Or: "backdraft"?
I'll add some to this. Nothing I have read in the NIST report sounds a false note to me. Although I am only mildly familiar with types of building collapse, we did look at the various types of collapse typical of earthquakes and explosions and had the principles explained to us fairly well in our Urban Search & Rescue Task Force training.
Also, through my association with fire departments over the years, I've picked up some information about structural fires and what makes them burn and what makes them dangerous. It's possible that the thousands of gallons of jet fuel ignited by the collision of the airliner with the building wouldn't have created enough heat long enough to melt the structural members of the floors above the crash site sufficiently to cause the structure to fail. However, there were other tons of flammables in the buildings' thirty or forty floors above the crash sites, and those flammables not only had the heat of the initials fires to ignite them, they had the enormous draft of wind coming through multiple openings to provide plenty of oxygen for the fires. If you look at videos of the Twin Towers, you can see smoke coming, not only from the crash sites, but from the floors above the sites for quite a ways. All those floors were burning. It appears the collapse started when the crash site floors were no longer able to support the weight of the floors above them, since, in the videos, the upper floors appeared intact for the first couple seconds of the collapse. Since there was no fire resistant coating on any of the structural members, any part which sustained high enough heat long enough could have started the collapse. As with all "pancake" collapses, once a structural member gives way, enough overstress is created on the other structural members to cause many or all of them to fail at once, bringing the structure straight down.
We've read it; and we know what it is.
Right.
A chief from the FDNY, who spent his entire career learning how buildings go together so we can understand what happens when they come apart, wrote an article that is complete BS.
On the other hand, a kook in his mom's basement makes a flashy Youtube video, complete with ominous music and you take it as gospel.
I have no problem giving a Fireman his due credit as being a somewhat credible voice if you will acknowledge that a group of 1600 architects and engineers who actually spend their life building and designing buildings to also be credible voices?
This is a two way street is it not?
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3. How do you account for the 100's of witness that says they seen, felt, heard explosions on multiple occasions in different areas of the building a different times.
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Some before the first plane hit.
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Well, I'd want to know that these supposed 1600 architects and engineers actually studied the situation unlike the various airline pilots and others who've used their real world experience to come to conclusions that might be valid if they'd studied the construction of the building, but don't hold up if they haven't. I look at their "statement" as about equivalent to the "settled science" of Global Warming, which was no such thing, in which proponents claimed that only crackpots disagreed with them. Suddenly climate scientists and other scientists were coming out of the woodwork saying "Hold on a minute, there. I never said any such thing." That's the way I feel about the claims of your referenced video. Someone will have to prove the validity of their agreement before I'll consider the validity of their disagreement with what seems self-evident to me.
Anyone feel like reviving the thread where we discussed all this two years ago and everyone presented their documentation? I recall several good videos or articles explaining why Tower seven collapsed. At least part of the reason, IIRC was that falling debris from Towers 1 & 2 caused structural damage and fires in parts of the building. But I'll be honest, I really don't feel like doing the research again.
I think that would be fantastic.... I'd love to read some alternative viewpoints. I wasn't here for that.
Thats a lot of reading
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