Since our hypothetical insider won't need to:
- order and stock the raw materials
- manufacture the explosives, radios, and timers
- distribute the explosives via the postal service
the job is considerably easier.
Uh, how many demolition companies manufacture their own explosives or get them delievered in the mail anyway?
The job consists of removing fire protection from columns, simple mechanical mounting of devices and radio ignition devices. Oh, then the hard part...press the button.
And how do they access those portions of the building? How long does it take to remove the fire protection? How long to install the explosives on just the right columns in just the right places? How long to ensure all the wiring and detonators are done correctly? Any estimates? Or are you again assuming this is something that can be knocked off in ten minutes because it doesn't sound complicated?
(I'd also ask how these planted explosives were shielded from damage after the jets impacted the buildings, how these explosives were shielded from the resulting heat and fires, how the jets managed to crash into each WTC tower at just the right location as to match were these explosives were planted. But I'll leave those questions out for now.)
Since the job doesn't have to be pretty, no timing and computer controlled seqencing is required.
Why do you assume this? It looks like the old "it doesn't look complicated to do therefore it must not be complicated to do" bug raising its head again.
Go to a demolition equipment site. Check out the gear. This is not rocket science.
One might conclude from this statement that knocking a building down with explosives is a relatively easy task that anybody can do without much trouble. Is that what you are saying?
I'm not saying this is what happened. I'm not saying I could do it. I'm saying two demolition techs could do it and that one wouldn't need a conspiracy of 500 people to do it.
But only if it as uncomplicated and easy to do as you think it is. Again, I point out that you are assuming it would be as easy to do as you make it out to be. Reality tends not to to work that way and things are often more involved or complicated than it might seem on the surface.
For your edification, I do have a bit of experience in related areas:
- I have designed and built digital timing devices
- I worked on electro-mechanical assembly of military radios and the US Naval multicoupler (impedence matching cabinet for radio gear)
- I have worked with mechanical installation
- I have worked daily, for 20 years, with software systems (including integration platforms, banking, supply chain management, logistics, search engines, telecommunications, etc.) that are 10 times as complicated as this problem
- I see and assess complexity in nearly every software or telecom project I am involved with
Interesting, but none of that has anything to do with working with explosives, nor their handling and installation for the purposes of destroying buildings. If I wanted to ask about working with software systems, then it seems you'd be the guy to ask.
Again, one wouldn't have to design and build the components. Just install them and press the button.
Except you are assuming, without providing any evidence, that such installation would be simple and easy to do.
You are saying it is difficult and that I couldn't possibly understand the complexity.
No, I am saying you are underestimating the complexity of the steps involved.
Simple question to illustrate the point: that twenty or thirty page full-colour flyer you get in your mailbox from Sears or whichever, how many days in advance do you think that flyer was first created? A week? Two weeks? A month? What steps do you think are needed to create a publication like that which 99% of people probably throw out as soon as they get it?
