Twisting, evaporating, free fall, arguments
It's amazing - following this thread.
The argument starts with the apparently vital premise that the towers fell at a free fall rate. By my estimate and watching the video: Free fall should take just under 10 seconds - the towers took somewhere between 15 and 20 (guesstimating since the top of the building becomes obscured by the dust cloud before reaching bottom and the initial half second or so of movement (about 1 meter) downward might be hard to see on the zoomed out image). Of course the collapse actually happened many tens of meters from the top, which might actually shorten the time required in a free fall state.
There was also the alleged total pulverization of the buildings. This didn't happen either. It took months to haul the debris away. Some was in fact pulverized. A bunch wasn't - several stories of debris lay at the foundation obviously not pulverized, well crunched, but not pulverized.
When those arguments are obliterated, which ostensibly were core of the conspiracy theory, other arguments take their place - such as the respiratory issues encountered. Seeing all the dust in the air following the collapse I'd be surprised if the cleanup workers didn't have problems!
They cry that no other building before or since has collapsed due to fire. No other buildings before or since had nearly 100,000 pounds of jet fuel poured down their support structure and then lit on fire. The steel weakened until the weight above exceeded the remaining strength - the steel didn't need to melt - and the expected temperatures are sufficient for weakening.
Then it's that the roof didn't fall the right way. How do you know what the right way is? The puncture to the windows only marginally influence which direction the structure will collapse, and for the most part, it came straight down, perhaps the top slightly off center (and I don't care where the puncture was relative to the falling debris - it isn't relevant to the actual collapse).
They ask, "how about that plasma cloud?" What? Where did that come from. Regardless: proof no plasma cloud, blazing hotter than the surface of the sun, existed? Said cloud would shine equally as bright or brighter than our star. No alien death ray, or even New World Order death ray, need apply.
OK, then perhaps it was a controlled demolition. No, the demolitions experts can stay home. I've seen a few controlled demolitions - they don't fall exactly the way the towers did and saying they do doesn't make it so. A couple of jet aircraft full of fuel can, and did, do the job.
Of course, at this point, the argument turns to a discussion of the construction of the building and why such a building wouldn't fall just from the impact of a jet. Never mind their descriptions of the building don't match the evidence left after the collapse, nor the demonstrated actual construction of the buildings. Rather than cite documents demonstrably true, they post circular links to other sites claiming the buildings were built some other way, never actually arriving at real proof (or that we're even discussing the same building!) - it's incestuous and recursive.
Plus the evidence the CT believer presents as a concrete core seems to me to present the steel exoskeleton (what the windows were mounted to) with the detail (for evidence of 3 inch re-bar on 4 foot centers) being well below the resolution level available in the image.
However, once a CT zealot becomes convinced by the initial, invalid, arguments, there's no turning back. As every argument is ground finer than the dust coating the lungs of the rescue workers, the CT adherent must find other "proof" - but the proof continues to become crazier and crazier. The opportunity to admit defeat becomes more and more remote. More interestingly, they quickly claim their initial point was pointless and their current point is the one to consider - never mind that the initial point was required to get to the current one.
Once convinced the Government did it, no government reports prove otherwise. It's a death-spiral. Once in this feedback loop, no way out exists.
I find truly amazing how often the CT advocate claims to have developed these theories on their own before finding the other sites that agree with them. So many experts wasting their talents in other fields!
{CT MODE}
I've been soldering and assembling solid state circuits for decades - that qualifies me as an expert super-computer designer - and when one fails I can explain in exquisite detail what went wrong...
{/CT MODE}
Yeah, right.
{CT MODE}
Oh, and I can tell from a grainy photo taken from 2 miles away at wide angle, which model of mini-frame computer was rack mounted next to it. I've worked on many types of electronic devices and can tell from even the tiniest pixel exactly which is which...
{/CT MODE}
Yeah, right.
On the other hand, the term Troll seems appropriate for many CT posts I've seen.
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