I am no expert in conspiracy theories, neither am I an engineer or a demolitions expert. It seems to me, though, that the folks claiming that the buildings were brought down by "controlled demolition" are missing something.
Aren't demolition charges rather noisy when they detonate?
There was a program on TV a couple of months ago about companies that do that kind of thing, and there were videos of several of their projects. Each time a building went down, there was a sequence of detonations that could be heard and seen. The videos were usually made from a safe distance, but the detonations were quite clearly audible - damned loud would be a good description.
I've seen several documentations about the WTC attacks, and there are at least a few videos made by people fleeing the collapse. One that I quite clearly remember was made by a guy who left the camera on and recording as he ran down the street to get away from the collapse. You can quite clearly hear him and other people running, as well as the impact of chunks from the building and the general rumble of the collapse besides. What you do not hear are detonations, neither in sequence nor individually. There's just the a view of the building, then a lot of screams along the lines of "Holy, Sh**. Run." Then the view changes as the guy runs off. He dropped the hand holding the camera, then pointed the camera behind him. You get a kind of "butt's eyeview" of the collapse as the guy is running away. Lots of noise and screams and rumbling, but no detonations at all.
Does anyone know if this has been discussed or pointed out to the "freefallers?" If not, does anyone know where to find videos (with sound) that could be used to make this argument?
I've seen the argument for demolition discussed here, and expounded on at great length here and here. This argument wouldn't be much use against the guy at BYU as he goes on at great length about thermite rather than explosives.
Aren't demolition charges rather noisy when they detonate?
There was a program on TV a couple of months ago about companies that do that kind of thing, and there were videos of several of their projects. Each time a building went down, there was a sequence of detonations that could be heard and seen. The videos were usually made from a safe distance, but the detonations were quite clearly audible - damned loud would be a good description.
I've seen several documentations about the WTC attacks, and there are at least a few videos made by people fleeing the collapse. One that I quite clearly remember was made by a guy who left the camera on and recording as he ran down the street to get away from the collapse. You can quite clearly hear him and other people running, as well as the impact of chunks from the building and the general rumble of the collapse besides. What you do not hear are detonations, neither in sequence nor individually. There's just the a view of the building, then a lot of screams along the lines of "Holy, Sh**. Run." Then the view changes as the guy runs off. He dropped the hand holding the camera, then pointed the camera behind him. You get a kind of "butt's eyeview" of the collapse as the guy is running away. Lots of noise and screams and rumbling, but no detonations at all.
Does anyone know if this has been discussed or pointed out to the "freefallers?" If not, does anyone know where to find videos (with sound) that could be used to make this argument?
I've seen the argument for demolition discussed here, and expounded on at great length here and here. This argument wouldn't be much use against the guy at BYU as he goes on at great length about thermite rather than explosives.
