Heiwa, From your site:
This is your diagram of WTC1 (notice the antenna on top):
[qimg]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff290/gamolon/WTC1slicea.gif[/qimg]
The diagram does not show telescoping nor does it show the upper part shortening itself in any of the figures.
Are you talking about Leslie Robertson discussing the fact that he didn't think the fuel was considered in the analysis done for aircraft impact on the Twin Towers? If you are there is a clip of him saying it in 911 Mysteries.
Tony Szamboti said:As for the steel temperatures you want to say that the NIST has physical evidence of steel reaching 800 to 1000 degrees C and I say they don't if you exclude the couple of pieces that Jonathan Barnett analyzed for the FEMA report in Appendix C. One of those pieces was also from WTC 7. Which would have been the only piece of steel saved from WTC 7.
Tony Szamboti said:I am saying that out of the 236 pieces that the NIST got from the Towers only a few pieces had experienced temperatures above 250 degrees C and none above 600 degrees C.
If you look carefully on the diagram, you see how the strong elements of lower part A damages weak elements, the green floors in upper part C! Hopefully you agree that this is a realistic result! That is the main purpose of the figure!
However, Bazant, the world famous expert of the subject, suggests that the bottom horizontal element of part C (green floor #97 in WTC 1) is not damaged (sic!) at impact and that this thin, weak element destroys the strong A columns below, then compress the A columns into rubble (part B) that protects part C. Parts B and C then continue to destroy A. All nonsense of course.
You see, a composite structure consists of strong and weak elements + plenty of open space in between. When a part C of this structure collides due to gravity with part A of same structure, the strong elements damage the weak elements. Everything in the real world is damaged like that.
Therefore a one-way crush down of A by C and gravity is not possible. Bazant is thus wrong.
Tony,
Having a little problem finding the actual quote from Skilling saying that they he and his people did fire analysis on the stell structure of the towers?
*crickets*
Either you have it or you don't.
Blah blah blah...BS removed.
As for the steel temperatures you want to say that the NIST has physical evidence of steel reaching 800 to 1000 degrees C and I say they don't if you exclude the couple of pieces that Jonathan Barnett analyzed for the FEMA report in Appendix C. One of those pieces was also from WTC 7. Which would have been the only piece of steel saved from WTC 7.
I am saying that out of the 236 pieces that the NIST got from the Towers only a few pieces had experienced temperatures above 250 degrees C and none above 600 degrees C.
Wait wait wait....I JUST saw this!! Holy sweet fluffy baby jesus, how could I miss that.
Ok, so Leslie Robertson did not account for fuel in an airplane crash?? How could you POSSIBLY do an analysis of an AIRPLANE crashing into a building while its in FLIGHT, if you can't FLY A PLANE WITHOUT GAS?!?!?!?!
Must be a nano-therm*te powered plane.
Because we ALL KNOW that 9/11 mysteries would NEVER take someone's words and twist them around, or quote mine, or take them out of context.
1-2-3 FIGHTS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ETA: Ah, I see the context above. Mr. Szamboti is citing 9/11 Mysteries. Ok. Yes, I'm on topic then. The explanation is as I said above.
Heiwa, From your site:
This is your diagram of WTC1 (notice the antenna on top):
[qimg]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff290/gamolon/WTC1slicea.gif[/qimg]
The diagram does not show telescoping nor does it show the upper part shortening itself in any of the figures.
Tell you what Heiwa. Please draw me a diagram of WTC1 showing how you think the positioning/location of all the elements of part C (you can show just the bottom floor area), compared to the positioning/location of all the elements of part A (you can show just the top floor) as they impacted together? Because the videos I see do not match your simple diagram of WTC1. You use words like telescoping, but show something completely different in your simple WTC1 diagram.
If you read on my paper you find clear evidence that WTC 1 was not one-way crushed down (C crushing A) as suggested by Bazant, Seffen and NIST. That's my contribution to 911! I also add that controlled demolition is a very likely cause of destruction of both C and A. Thus it should be properly investigated.
I think it is being taken out of context. One of the people involved in the design (maybe Robertson himself) said that their operating assumption was a jet low on fuel after a long trip, flying low and lost in the fog or the dark. They figured that would be the most likely impact scenario: A jet whose pilots were trying to find the runway, were configured for landing, and just happened to be off course. No one at all envisioned the scenario that actually happened.
So did they account for "the fuel"? Well, I'd need to know the context of the truther claim, because to the best of my knowledge, when fuel from a jet impacting was considered, it was presumed to be a small amount.
Furthermore, as others have pointed out, computing nowadays has made modeling a completely different ballgame. Hypothetically, someone back in the 60s when the tower was being designed could have been ordered to model a scenario like what actually happened, fuel and all, and still not have gotten it right through no fault of their own because such an event would be difficult to model on paper.
Anyway, if we're talking 9/11 Mysteries here, presume everything outside of the date is either misrepresented, divorced from context, or inaccurate to some degree. You won't be too far off with that presumption.
ETA: Ah, I see the context above. Mr. Szamboti is citing 9/11 Mysteries. Ok. Yes, I'm on topic then. The explanation is as I said above. This has been mentioned several times before.
Good idea! Read first http://heiwaco.tripod.com/funnym.htm to get a feel for the WTC 1 structure. Then we can discuss further.
Heiwa, your analysis is too weak to warrant another investigation, even though your persistence is noted.
Mr. Bjorkman, perhaps you are indeed a well qualified marine engineer, but you are letting your infatuation with conspiracy theories override your better judgment, IMHO. That's a shame.
Maybe stick to your area of expertise?
"WTC1 explode into dust" is a failed moronic statement. Great post in the failed proved wrong OP since 911. Where is your steel turning to dust equations? Where is your evidence the top turns to dust? Do you include people turning to dust?This is a goood video if you want to see the top block of WTC1 explode into dust. Also the behaviour of th core remnants is interesting.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6005900343263850613&hl=en
Stop the madness!
You're trying to inject extravagance into something that just doesn't need it... perhaps if you had a qualified background in discussing this material it'd be more interesting but it gets boring repeating the same (right) explanations to you over and over when you've demonstrated past & present your unwillingness or inability to accept those explanations. These are personal issues that you're responsible for resolving...This is a goood video if you want to see the top block of WTC1 explode into dust. Also the behaviour of th core remnants is interesting.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6005900343263850613&hl=en