Max Photon tells the story of WTC2
Apollo or Max;
I really would like to know how fire proofing of the dampers would come in to play. All the load bearing members being protected would seem to be the critical parts. Surely your not saying that the dampers could have arrested the collapse.
What-o DGM?
Here is what I see:
WTC2 Floor 81 had a UPS room.
The "UPS batteries" had iron instead of lead, and salt-water instead of acid. The "UPS batteries" were in fact rust generators.
When Flight 175 hit the tower, the front landing gear penetrated the rust generators, throwing up a screen of iron oxide and water into the oncoming shattered aluminum.
(The absorption of the jet's energy by the rust generators might account for the "catcher's mitt" effect Apollo20 commented on earlier.)
Naturally-occurring, small thermite sparks ignited a thermite reaction in the presence of water, creating a phreato-thermatic explosion (which in turn helped to drive a fuel-air explosion.)
This engineered phreato-thermatic explosion provided added energy to knock off SFRM from many different types of steel members and components.
Incidentally, the phreato-thermatic explosion also helped to create a spectacular visual input signal, that would be fed into the media, to excite resonance in such harmonics as blind hatred, racism, irrational jingoism, flag-wrapping, belligerence, and so forth. These necessary illusions were required to manufacture consent to illegally invade other sovereign nations, and install a police state here in the SubprimeHomeLand.
The phreato-thermatic explosion also created some pools of molten iron on the impact floors, which pooled at low spots, heated the trusses through the concrete, which caused the floors to sag even more, encouraging more pooling, thereby creating a dynamic floor-loading mechanism.
The rust generators created a "debris shadow" - the Cold Spot.
It was planned that debris on either side of the Cold Spot would collect at under column splices - which were engineered to become hot spots.
Thermite had been planted at perimeter connections: column splices, spandrel splices, floor truss seats, and gusset seats.
The thermite was simply poured into box columns and spandrel-splice gaps.
For the floor truss seats and gusset seats, the thermite was wrapped in paper and black plastic.
The thermite was linked and ignited by thermite-dusted shock-tube, and the shock-tube was remotely ignited by laser from WTC7.
Note that the thermite-dusted shock-tube was able to light the planted thermite directly, and that the planted thermite was able to ignite out-lines of (other) shock-tube. In other words, the planted thermite could serve as a one-to-many relay.
The thermite was designed not to cut, melt, or slice the steel, but to heat-weaken it, by heating the steel to about 600C (though some components were heated to 1100C).
If steel was heated well before collapse initiation, it cooled, and became more brittle.
If the steel was still hot at collapse initiation, the steel would have been ductile.
By controlling the variables of time and temperature, a natural-looking spectrum of failure modes was engineered.
Depending on
where the thermite was planted - that is, depending on the splice or connection - different phenomena were observed on the exterior as the thermite burned.
Thermite at floor truss seats produced flames and smoke at the base of windows.
Thermite at gusset seats produced flames, and bright flashes at the "tops of windows". (NIST should have said at the "bottom of spandrels.")
Thermite at gusset seats caused the visco-elastic dampers to burn, which created black smoke to mask the white aluminum-oxide ash.
Thermite in most box columns was used in small quantities. But it was enough to blow the bolt-access-hole covers off, creating NIST's unexplained "pressure pulses"
Thermite was packed into WTC2/81/301, and was the source of the 10-minute metal fire about which NIST dribbled in its bib.
Burning thermite spewed out of this column (and others) onto debris piles, creating NIST's "fires burning on piles of debris" or similar.
By controlling where and when columns spewed out burning thermite onto piles of debris, demolition planners were able to create the illusion of intense fires migrating across the faces, hots spots and cold spots (which created differential heating, and buckling) and other phenomena.
The iron from column 301 accounts for much of the metal flows.
Thermite in spandrel splice gaps accounts from the white glows on top of spandrels, and at least one of the WTC2 metal flows.
The ignition of all of the above in timed sequences accounts for the "steam pipe organ" effects, the smoke puffs, the pressure pulses, the metal fire, the metal flows, the falling debris, the intense smoke release, the fires that violate normal fire behavior, the intense white glows, the white "smoke", the hanging objects changing location, and on and on.
The way to think of the dampers is that they were one of several exploitable susceptibilities:
- Flammable visco-elastic dampers
- A325 column splice bolts
- Thin spandrel splice plates
- Top chords at truss seats
Never ever forget - the pre-engineered narrative called for:
Loss of SFRM allowed trusses to be heated from below, which caused them to sag, which pulled perimeter columns inward, which caused the columns to bow, which caused them to fail, which initiated the collapse of WTC2.
NIST is leaving out that thermite was used to heat-weaken steel connections.
So the weakening of the visco-elastic dampers was just one step in causing the floors to sag in a manner consistent with the narrative.
Plausible deniability required it.
Remember, it is not the collapse, but
collapse initiation that is of interest.
The visco-elastic dampers had a role in the engineering of the collapse initiation.
Max
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