I find the old "well thousands of people thought it looked like a demolition" argument to be near the bottom of the stupidity scale.
I agree, not knowing anything about Controlled demolition, that to my untrained eye, and untrained (in CD) mind, IT LOOKED LIKE those videos you would see on TV of demolitions...at first glance.
But when you get into it,
1. Started at the top
2. No series of loud explosions and timed flashes JUST PRIOR to the collapse.
3. No evidence of explosives found.
Anyone who makes the argument, IMO, is an idiot to begin with.
TAM
Readers please be aware that many of these posters are lying in their teeth. Look at what this guy TAM has just written and compare it to the truth. If he chooses to challenge me on this I will drown him in firefighter and other statements detailing explosions and all the things that show controlled demolition. Want to go for it TAM ?
Jason Charles -- E.M.T. (E.M.S.) I grabbed her and the Lieutenant picked her up by the legs and we start walking over slowly to the curb, and then I heard an explosion from up, from up above, and I froze and I was like, oh, s___, I'm dead because I thought the debris was going to hit me in the head and that was it.
Then everybody stops and looks at the building and they they take off. The Lieutenant dropped her legs and ran. The triage center, everybody who was sitting there hurt and, oh, you know, help me, they got up and and everybody together got up and ran. I looked at them like why are they running? I look over my shoulder and I says, oh, s___, and then I turned around and looked up and that's when I saw the tower coming down. ''
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWM64aSYxuM&NR=1 great quality authentic
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Frank Cruthers -- Chief (F.D.N.Y.) [Citywide Tour Commander] And while I was still in that immediate area, the south tower, 2 World Trade Center, there was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse. ''
'' Stephen Gregory -- Assistant Commissioner (F.D.N.Y.) We both for whatever reason -- again, I don't know how valid this is with everything that was going on at that particular point in time, but for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought -- at that time I didn't know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.
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[It was at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw.
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He said did you see anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did you see flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them too.
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I know about the explosion on the upper floors. This was like at eye level. I didn't have to go like this. Because I was looking this way. I'm not going to say it was on the first floor or the second floor, but somewhere in that area I saw to me what appeared to be flashes. ''