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Merged Fireballs and Backdraft in WTC1 Basement and Lobby

go to the testimony of arturo griffith and explain what caused the thick white smoke he saw before the fireball. ask yourself what caused those explosions he was refering to? ask yourself what caused the structural damage to the elevator door?

I'm not an expert, but if I were to guess, I would say that the big explosion at the top of the elevator shaft did several things:

1. Pushed fire, smoke, fuel, and super-heated air into the shaft
2. Used up all the oxygen in the shaft
3. Found the path of least resistance to relieve the pressure in the shaft, which would most likely be an elevator door
4. Once it found this path, it also found a new oxygen supply, starting a new fire.

As I said, I'm not an expert. But it seems much more likely than a conspiracy to plant explosives in the basement for no apparent benefit.

go to felipe davids testimony. ask yourself what burned him and what caused the explosion he heard below

Fire burned him. Explosions don't so much burn people as they blow pieces off.

go to philip morelli's testimony. ask yourself what caused the explosion that threw him to the c¡ground and caused the walls to shaking and breaking up?

A PLANE RAN INTO THE BUILDING. Perhaps you saw it on television?

if your read their testimony you will have you proof of damage done to the basement before the fireball arrived.

peace

Surprisingly, not all eyewitness testimony is 100% accurate.

What was the purpose of the explosives in the basement, since the collapse didn't begin there?
 
go to the testimony of arturo griffith and explain what caused the thick white smoke he saw before the fireball. ask yourself what caused those explosions he was refering to? ask yourself what caused the structural damage to the elevator door?

go to felipe davids testimony. ask yourself what burned him and what caused the explosion he heard below

go to philip morelli's testimony. ask yourself what caused the explosion that threw him to the c¡ground and caused the walls to shaking and breaking up?

if your read their testimony you will have you proof of damage done to the basement before the fireball arrived.

peace


No no, we want YOUR explanation. YOU tell us what caused it.
 
hey aggle

i appreciate your post. but you are wrong go to my post#237 it debunks both the fireball and jet fuel hypothesis and ALL your explanations below. a bold statement i know so go prove me wrong - tackle post #237

i just want to address one explanation.

you say that Morelli was thrown to the ground from the impact of a plane 90+ floors above!!

if your going to address post 237 with logic you will face a lot of difficulties.

you know that people on the 91st floor didnt even feel the imapct 2 floors above? and your saying that Morelli 90+ floors below the imapct was thrown to the ground.

to make matters worse you use CAP LOCKS to express your absurdity

perhaps you watch too much television my friend?


where is the rebuttal to post 237 from anyone in this room

DGM? missing in action
Johnny Karate? missing in action
Gumboot? a.w.o.l
lashl? missing in action
jonnyclueness?
aggle-rithem?

LETS HAVE IT DEBUNKERS I PROVED YOUR HYPOTHESIS IMPOSSIBLE ARE YOU GOING TO LIE DOWN AND IGNORE IT?

IS THERE NO-ONE IN THIS ROOM THAT CAN CHALLENGE POST 237?

peace
 
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Still waiting for thewholesoul's explanation....

And of course ignoring that the claims from post 237 are simply incorrect.
 
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go to the testimony of arturo griffith and explain what caused the thick white smoke he saw before the fireball. ask yourself what caused those explosions he was refering to? ask yourself what caused the structural damage to the elevator door?

go to felipe davids testimony. ask yourself what burned him and what caused the explosion he heard below

go to philip morelli's testimony. ask yourself what caused the explosion that threw him to the c¡ground and caused the walls to shaking and breaking up?

if your read their testimony you will have you proof of damage done to the basement before the fireball arrived.

peace

Why is it so difficult for you to provide an actual sourced quote?

I'm not about to slog through witness testimonies to find comments that support your claims.

So once again, please provide evidence that there was damage, explosions, etc. in the basement levels caused by the "magic fireball" prior to the arrival of the actual fireball.
 
No no, we want YOUR explanation. YOU tell us what caused it.

dear jonny

i dont give a damn if the explosion in the basement was caused my penguins dressed up in monkey suits.

i PROVED THAT THE OFFICIAL HYPOTHESIS IS IMPOSSIBLE

go do something useful, go and debunk post 237

unless that is your just another toothless debunker gone a.w.o.l
 
Why is it so difficult for you to provide an actual sourced quote?

I'm not about to slog through witness testimonies to find comments that support your claims.

So once again, please provide evidence that there was damage, explosions, etc. in the basement levels caused by the "magic fireball" prior to the arrival of the actual fireball.

to quote star trek - "are you out of your fulcan mind"

listen are not embarressed yet asking the same worn out question over and over and over and over and over again? i have answered you every time.

for the very last time read the testimony of arturo griffith, felipe david, and philip morelli

if, or should i say when, you ask the same question again i do apologise in advance because i will not be responding.

peace
 
when you respond my friend
- just quote me the sentence from NIST where it states that the express
elevator had doorways below B-1.
- show a video of a fireball travelling through path of most resistence
- quote me some testimony of a fireball coming from express shaft below B-1

Here it is thewholesoul, the doorway into the pit of the elevator shaft that contained the elevator cars #6 and #7 down on B4.

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(Note to new readers. B4 = Sub-Level #3, while B1 is labeled Service Level in the blueprints)

The red arrows and the numbers have been put in by me to indicate the shaft that contained the hoistway for car #50 and the shaft that contained the hoistways for car #6 and #7. Yes they shared the shaft.

A complete blueprint is hosted on the conspiracy theory site 9-11 Resarch here:
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/plans/table.html
Chose the one labeled: "SubLevels3_4_5CorePlan"

That door has been there every time I have looked at that blueprint since I became aware of them nearly a year ago. I note that you have posted a link to a crop from the same blueprint in your post #243:
from this information and floorplans of shaft continuity seen here: http://911stories.googlepages.com/wtcelevatorshafts and here http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/8195/wtcbasement011sublevelswg5.jpg we can conclude that the shft of 6 and 7 did not pass beyond B-4.

Phillip Morelli says he was walking by the main freight car when he was thrown to the floor. Note that he would be close to both the shaft of the #50 car and the shaft of cars #6 and #7. As I have tried to indicate to you earlier, there must have been a lot of heavy stuff coming down from the impact zone. That stuff would not exactly be noiseless when it hit the bottom the elevator shafts, or the car with Arturo Griffith og Marlene Cruz for that matter.

Things like:
  • Steel beams
  • Aircraft parts
  • Broken gypsum plates
  • Bodies
  • Concrete from the floors in the impact zone
  • Elevator counterweights
  • Etc.............

The counterweights would normally have a weight equal to the elevator car plus 40-50% of the elevator capacity. In other words we are talking about several thousand pounds here for each elevator. This a description of the damage caused by one of the counterweights falling into the pit of the Empire State Building elevator shafts after a B-25 bomber crashed into the building on July 28th 1945:
The counterweight (balancing weight) was at about the 50th floor when the cables were cut. Over 10,000 lbs of iron started down. The two safety cables, also cut, struck the pit buffer block, went through 12" of concrete, shearing thirty 1" rivets; two 15" channels imbedded in concrete. (The column was only five feet away from the buffer block, the buffer piston and the weight oil buffer.) A steel rod -- 4" and about nine feet long -- went right through the concrete, broke a water main pipe, flooded the sub-basement, went through an 8" solid brick wall and landed in a storeroom in the sub-basement.
Source: http://www.elevator-world.com/magazine/archive01/9603-002.htm

It is quiet likely that the impact of for instance the counterweights could have destroyed the enclosure walls of the express elevator shaft opposite the freight elevator shaft down on B-4.

The fact is that the impact of objects from the aircraft crash zone is a very, very plausible and reasonable explanation of what the witnesses down in the basement levels experienced before the arrival of the jet fuel fireball. It was the jet fuel deflagration that caused all the damage down on B4, apart from any damage caused by falling objects inside the elevator shafts. This is well supported by all the available information.

So when people described the impact of bodies as explosions, what do you think that the impact of counterweights, concrete, steel beams and so on would sound like thewholesoul:
Also, while I was there in the lobby, the guy
who was looking up when the bodies were jumping, the
bodies would jump and you'd hear a huge explosion and
you'd see just blood spatter on the windows.
Source: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/9110420.PDF

All the things falling down the elevator shafts would hit the basement levels within 10 seconds after the aircraft crashed into the building. There is no need for any "magic fireball" or bombs to explain what happened before the jet fuel fireball arrived.

Here is a couple of another witness accounts from B4:
B4 Level, Hursley Lever: "I was in the B-4 level. ... I heard a bomb. So, I says, 'Probably a transformer again blew up.' So I step back, finish what I had to finish, and I started towards the door again. And there came a big blast with a big ball of fire. And that's when I got hit. It hit me right back down on the ground and I realized my ankle was shattered."

B4 level
In the 2002 taped statement, (Jose) Sanchez recalls, at the same time Rodriguez and the others heard the explosion, being in a small sub-level 4 workshop with another man who he only knew by the name of Chino when, out of nowhere, the blast sounded as the two men were cutting a piece of metal.

“It sounded like a bomb and the lights went on and off,” said Sanchez in the tape recording. “We started to walk to the exit and a huge ball of fire went through the freight elevator. The hot air from the ball of fire dropped Chino to the floor and my hair got burned,” said Sanchez in the tape recording. “The room then got full of smoke and I remember saying out loud ‘I believe it was a bomb that blew up inside the building.
For source of both accounts see:
http://911stories.googlepages.com/insidethenorthtower:witnessaccounts,lobb

Note the sequence of events here. First something that sounded like an explosion but no fire or destruction. Then a pause where they did something else. And finely the arrival of the fireball. This is quiet consistent with the scenario I described above. These guys were most likely working away from the elevator shafts, while Phillip Morelli walking by the freight elevator would have experienced this a bit differently.
 
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finally we got a bite

ok which claims are wrong and why.


No no no, first you have to offer an explanation. What's the matter? You can['t do it? Did you go AWOL too? You can't simply dismiss others speculation without making your own, that's not research, that's being a troll. So please tell us what happened and stop copping out.

THEN I might tell you why you are wrong in your assumptions. Also, please tell us which elevators exactly are being referred to and which towers that each one is in.
 
Ah damn. Norseman did it. I was hoping to milk it, but it's just as well. I would still like to see the troll provide a better explanation. He knows he can't do it and doing so would make him look like the fool he thinks he isn't being seen as.
 
for the very last time read the testimony of arturo griffith, felipe david, and philip morelli

Why should I do the work for you? You made the claim, you support it with sourced quotes. Telling me to "read the testimonies" is a cop out. I want to see the actual quotes from these witnesses that support your claims.

if, or should i say when, you ask the same question again i do apologise in advance because i will not be responding.

Your concession is noted. If you couldn't support your argument with evidence, you should have just said so to begin with and saved us both a lot of time.
 
great post norseman

Ah damn. Norseman did it. I was hoping to milk it, but it's just as well. I would still like to see the troll provide a better explanation. He knows he can't do it and doing so would make him look like the fool he thinks he isn't being seen as.

jonny you were going to do jack .... you can climb off norsemans back now.

full credit to norseman, it was a great post.

but its by no means bullet proof.

peace
 
jonny you were going to do jack .... you can climb off norsemans back now.

full credit to norseman, it was a great post.

but its by no means bullet proof.

peace

Who are you kidding? It's your turn kid. It's now time for you to do what you request of everyone else. Please provide us with a plausible explanation. What's the problem kid? You can't do it can you? You don't mind trolling, but when it comes to doing the same thing, you are AWOL. Pathetic.

Your assumptions that you make which are the basis for you making these childish claims of impossibility are of course much MUCH less bullet proof. Plus you failed to answer the questions which are important to your assumptions.

So are you going to be an adult, or are you going to continue trolling?
 
B1 is the lowest doorway.

I don't think that's correct. As I said above, it is reasonable to conclude that there were no elevator exit doors on floors that elevators did not serve, although there were most likely man doors for access to the shafts even on floors that the elevators did not serve. But the floor plans indicate that 6, 7 and 50 did have doors below B1.

perhaps it had man doors to access the bottom of hoist way? perhaps not. your point is reasonable but i think you will need to provide more evidence.

My information on this comes from discussions with experts in elevator design, repair, and maintenance, as well as from a FDNY battalion commander with specific knowledge of the WTC towers, so it is anecdotal in nature and not "evidence" that I can disclose here, I'm afraid. Therefore, I do not expect you - or anyone - to take my word for it or accept it as "evidence", naturally, but I do suggest that you also consult experts on elevator design, repair and maintenance in order to educate yourself about the subject matter, which will help inform your conclusions.

i thoroughly debunked the magic fireball theory and the jet fuel theory.

No, you did no such thing.

the 15 seconds is a guestimate:

And is, therefore, more useless as "evidence" as my anecdotal evidence above.

the problem for you to explain is how jet fuel could travel down 90+floors to b1 quicker than car 50. i think its impossible. and i think when you think about it you will think the same as me

I do not accept your premise that the jet fuel had to "travel down 90+ floors to B1 quicker than car 50" because your premise is not sufficiently grounded on evidence. Therefore, it should go without saying that I do not accept your assertion that this is something I have to "explain" and it should go without saying that I do not "think the same as [you]" about the matter.

The reality is that the preponderance of the evidence supports the conclusion that there were fires and fireballs travelling through the cores of the towers by way of elevator shafts, utility shafts, mechanical shafts, etc. and that these caused damage, destruction and horrible deaths. I do not understand why you choose to ignore reality in favour of a fanciful and, frankly, delusional view of the events, but you are, of course, free to do so. Just don't try selling that fanciful, unfounded view as reality.


well since you talked with all these experts perhaps you can easily explain why i am wrong. specifically address my post 207 but i have others in this thread on shaft to shaft transfer of jet fuel.


As I have said previously, it seems that you do not understand the difference between hoistways and shafts, and you continue to labour under the misconception that each hoistway operated within a separate shaft. This is not accurate.


with respect however your above rant is not an argumnet.

I do not think it's accurate to characterize my post as a "rant". A fair reading of it will show it to be quite calm, polite, and rational.

your basically saying go talk to some experts and your falsly assuming of course, that they will agree with you!

I suggested that you should talk to some experts because you have repeatedly made assertions that are unsupported and untenable, because you have repeatedly demonstrated that you are unaware of even basic information about the subject matter (i.e. you seem not to comprehend even the basic but very important difference between a "hoistway" and a "shaft"), and because doing so would help you to understand how elevator systems are designed and how they work in tall buildings.

And, no, I am not "falsly[sic] assuming of course, that they will agree with
" As any good researcher would do, I consulted with relevant and qualified experts on the subject matter before offering my views on it. I am suggesting that you would benefit from doing the same.


look i can read floor plans and the shafts did not vertically go from basemnt to ceiling. this means that jet fuel had to pass horizontally at some point. go read my post #207 and if your interested in serious debate then address the points i made as opposed to "go talk to the experts" approach.

If you can read the floor plans, you must acknowledge that there were elevator shafts that went from the sub-basements to the impact zones, (more in the south tower than the north). And you still seem to be a bit confused about the difference between shafts and hoistways. Also, as previously noted, there were also mechanical and utility shafts that ran from the sub-basements to the impact zones.

It is disingenuous to ignore the totality of the components that contributed to the distribution of jet fuel throughout the buildings, and to ignore reality.

now ask yourself, what if people below this area with no shaft were incinerated from a fireball. how would you explain that to their family members? the official story hinges on fireballs travelling down shafts!!!!!! do you see the problem i have with acceoting the official story?

Are you suggesting that there were people killed by fire in locations where fire did not and could not exist? I'm not sure I'm following this particular hypothetical question/argument of yours but it looks like a red herring or non sequitur at first blush. Can you please clarify what it is that you are suggesting here?

so with all your knowledge on the subject why dont YOU go read my post#237 and try and debunk it. i BET a shiney penny you cant.

As I said above, I do not accept the faulty premise upon which your prior post is based. Unless and until you can support your theory with facts and evidence rather than unfounded supposition and speculation, there is nothing to debunk.

listen this a forum for rational discourse not silly baseless conjecture.

Damn, where's my irony meter when I need it?

until then your wasting my time and yours with these non productive opinions

Oh, here it is. :id:
 
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DGM? missing in action
Johnny Karate? missing in action
Gumboot? a.w.o.l
lashl? missing in action
jonnyclueness?
aggle-rithem?


Don't flatter yourself, thewholesoul. Perhaps unlike yourself, most of us work for a living in addition to having rather full, busy and active lives outside of this sub-forum. We get around to you when we get around to you, if and when time permits and if and when we feel like it. Threads have a long shelf life here, so it is quite silly to claim that someone is "missing in action" or "awol" just because they haven't posted as quickly as you might have liked. Sheesh, how juvenile.
 
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hey aggle

i appreciate your post. but you are wrong go to my post#237 it debunks both the fireball and jet fuel hypothesis and ALL your explanations below. a bold statement i know so go prove me wrong - tackle post #237

Okay, see below.

i just want to address one explanation.

you say that Morelli was thrown to the ground from the impact of a plane 90+ floors above!!

if your going to address post 237 with logic you will face a lot of difficulties.

you know that people on the 91st floor didnt even feel the imapct 2 floors above? and your saying that Morelli 90+ floors below the imapct was thrown to the ground.

The impact had secondary effects. It appears, from the evidence, that a blast wave traveled all the way down the elevator shaft, following the path of least resistance. Once it found an oxygen supply, the jet fuel ignited.

There is evidence that this happened; there is no evidence of an explosive device.

to make matters worse you use CAP LOCKS to express your absurdity

(shrug) It's faster than the bold or italics tags. Does it confuse you?

perhaps you watch too much television my friend?

Undoubtedly. But I don't see what that has to do with anything.

where is the rebuttal to post 237 from anyone in this room

DGM? missing in action
Johnny Karate? missing in action
Gumboot? a.w.o.l
lashl? missing in action
jonnyclueness?
aggle-rithem?

LETS HAVE IT DEBUNKERS I PROVED YOUR HYPOTHESIS IMPOSSIBLE ARE YOU GOING TO LIE DOWN AND IGNORE IT?

IS THERE NO-ONE IN THIS ROOM THAT CAN CHALLENGE POST 237?

peace

Below I will debunk Gumboot using testimony and a little common sense.

....snip.....

so gumboot, i will waiting for your response. and please avoid ducking or avoiding the main problems i.e. the arguments that prove your JREF unofficial explanation - IMPOSSIBLE

peace

Prior to 9/11, we have no precedent for a large, fully-fueled airliner crashing into a building. It is not at all surprising that there were counter-intuitive events in the wake of the crash.

Now: Please present your evidence that explosives were used. All the metal in the WTC was examined by experts; no-one noticed any evidence of explosives.
 
The WTC 1 Third Floor Burned Out Elevator

Throughout this thread the thewholesoule has posted three accounts that he believes are evidence of fireballs in elevator shafts that did not lead all the way up to the aircraft impact zone of WTC 1. Therefore jet fuel could not have entered these shafts, something he believes can be used to support his belief about bombs in the basement of WTC 1. But the three accounts does not support thewholesoul's point of view at all. I will cover the three accounts in separate posts for readability.

The first one is:
Lobby & 3rd floor: Firefighter Peter Blaich
As we got to the third floor of the B stairway, we forced open an elevator door which was burnt on all three sides. The only thing that was remaining was the hoistway door. And inside the elevator were about I didn’t recognize them initially, but a guy from 1 Truck said oh my God, those are people. They were pretty incinerated. And I remember the overpowering smell of kerosene. That’s when Lieutenant Foti said oh, that’s the jet fuel. I remember it smelled like if you’re camping and you drop a kerosene lamp.
For source see: http://911stories.googlepages.com/insidethenorthtower:witnessaccounts,lobb

An inspection of the third floor core plan tells us that this elevator very likely must have been freight elevator #49. That is the first elevator the firefighters would encounter when they came out of the B stairway. There is no surprise at all that the #49 elevator would have been burned by the jet fuel in that position, since elevators #49 and #50 ran inside the same shaft from B1 to Floor 74. There was no separating wall between them. What we see in the drawing is just a beam.

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For readability I have labeled the relevant elevators and stairway with red letters.
The complete blue print is hosted on the conspiracy theory site 9-11 Reasearch: http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/plans/table.html
It is labeled "3rdFloorCorePlan". (Readers who are not familiar with the blueprints will find a list of the abbreviations used in the blueprints in the file labeled "FinishScheduelZone1_2_3". While the file labeled "FinishScheduleZone5_7" contains a list of the material keys and symbols used in the drawings. Relevant elevator plans are labeled "Shuttle_FreightElevatorsRiser_PlotPlan" and "FreightElevator48_49_50_ElevationsSecondary_MachineRoomPlans".)

In other words the third floor burned out elevator inside WTC 1 does not support thewholesoule's point of view at all. It just supports the well established fact from day one that jet fuel went down the elevator shafts from the impact zone with tragic consequences, nothing odd at all.
 

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