No, it doesn't. The free fall claim for WTC 7 is that a free fall rate is measured for 2.5 seconds of its initial descent.
No, the claim is that
part of the facade of the building was moving at free fall
acceleration for roughly 2.5 secs, as the second stage of three. In the first and third stages, the claim is that it was falling
slower than freefall.
The rest of the time it fell at near free fall. Or, in other words, too fast for it to be a natural collapse.
Is this the considered judgement of any authority outside of the Truth movement?
'Free fall' or 'near' free fall really doesn't matter.
Indeed it doesn't. Because free fall speed would not necessarily be an indicator of controlled demo, if it were present, which it is not. The common Truther claim is free fall speed = CD. If you point out that if you include the E. Penthouse, the building took much longer to collapse than FFS, they immediately come up with some rationalization as to why the EP doesn't "count" as part of the building, or ignore it entirely.
Steel-framed highrises do not "collapse" that way without having their structural resistance removed.
Except that free fall doesn't just require removal of structural resistance. It requires removal of
all resistance. If you have two objects on the same path falling down, and the one above is moving faster than the one below, it will lose speed when it hits the one below. Unless the structural members, floors, objects, etc. were vaporized, or pushed downwards precisely at the moment of contact with some sort of rocket explosives, it's impossible for them to offer no resistance. If doing it without explosives is impossible, and doing it with is impossible, it's just flat out impossible.
That is why demolition companies exist. Fire doesn't do it, not globally. Never has.
The official claim is that the collapse was progressive, not global, as evidenced, off the top of my head, by the fact that the East Penthouse collapsed
before the bulk of the building.
You've already admitted that the EP went down
first, which means the rest of the building went down
after, which means that the collapse
progressed from one area to another.
What's interesting about your obsession with the east penthouse is you never question why it should crumple like that, and then why the entire building descends as a whole as if into quicksand two seconds later.
I think I know why you prefer to make one-liners instead of points. Because you always spew the same Truther half-truths, straw men, and outright falsehoods.
Still no timestamps.
