Miragememories said:
"I don't need to read it."
Sword_OF_Truth said:
"Of course not. You never need to read anything that contradicts what you've been told.
Someone has done some really nice work on you."
I have read through it all before and have retained copies of
every first responder statement I could find.
If anything has gotten to me, it is the truth.
Miragememories said:
"What I said was;"Firefighters did not see fires on every floor."
You cannot see what is not there, even if you think, or assume you do.
Sword_OF_Truth said:
"I trust the firefighters themselves who were there that day more than you."
And the firefighters were consulted by the NIST during their investigation.
As I pointed out to you, and you chose to ignore.
Extract from the NIST Final Report on the Collapse of WTC7;
pg.xv
" NIST complemented in-house expertise with private sector technical experts; accumulated copious documents, photographs, and videos of the disaster; conducted first-person interviews of building occupants and emergency responders; analyzed the evacuation and emergency response operations in and around WTC 7; performed computer simulations of the behavior of WTC 7 on September 11, 2001; and combined the knowledge gained into a probable collapse sequence."
The NIST had every reason to want to buy into the exaggerated claims made in those firefighter quotes as it would have greatly bolstered the NIST's WTC7 global collapse initiation theory.
BUT, they could not for the simple reason that they could not corroborate those claims.
Sword_OF_Truth said:
"I said this before and I'll say it again. For someone who believes that the NIST report on WTC7 can't possibly be true, you seem pretty adamant that the NIST can't possibly be wrong."
You are muddling your facts.
I have never even remotely suggested that any of the NIST reports were totally untrue.
The NIST collected volumes of honest data. How they handled that data is where I take issue.
What I claim is that the NIST makes too many unsubstantiated assumptions, place too much weight on pioneered computer models, are too willing to accept glaring discrepancies between modeled results and documented observations, and that they state their theory-based conclusions as if they were proven fact.
Sword_OF_Truth said:
"WTC7 was leaning.
"You see the way it's leaning like this? It's definately coming down. There's no way to stop it! The structural integrity isn't there."
That's gotta suck for you to hear stuff like that from the firefighters who lost 343 of their own that day.
Now the only way out of this for you is to ignore this and pretend it was never posted or claim the firefighters were in on it and helped kill their own brothers, fathers, and sons."
Miragememories said:
"One firefighter's uncorroborated opinion given as partial explanation for the WTC7 stand down.
You can add it to your list of firefighter quotes regarding the "fully engulfed by fire" WTC7, which the NIST could not find any corroboration."
Sword_OF_Truth said:
"You say "uncorroborated" while at the same time, you quoted a firefighter as having put a transit on the building. Do you understand what that means?"
Yes. It was used to monitor how level the building was at that location. [bulge in the damaged area of the southwest corner of WTC7] In other words, to determine if WTC7 was beginning to lean.
Does placing a smoke detector in my house automatically establish proof that it is on fire?
The NIST did report the use of a transit, but no where in their report prior to global collapse, did the NIST find any evidence that WTC7 was leaning.
Miragememories said:
"You can add it to your list of firefighter quotes regarding the "fully engulfed by fire" WTC7, which the NIST could not find any corroboration."
Sword_OF_Truth said:
"Except for all the photos and video of smoke pouring from every floor."
You have a real problem accepting the truth.
The NIST relied heavily on visual confirmation for their final report and they insist that 10 floors at the most were ever on fire.
They examined all the photos and video of smoke supposedly pouring from every floor.
Try discounting the wind direction and the enormous amount of smoke from WTC6 which was joining that on the south face of WTC7.
Of those 10 floors, after 1 p.m., the NIST found
"the only fires of significant duration and intensity were on Floors 7 through 9 and 11 through 13."
You really have no case for your argument.
MM