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Where did you get the aircraft at 180mph information?
Then you support the idea that the buildings should have collapsed immediately after impact. They did not.
Beachnut,

I've read the 180 mph thing somewhere too, but if I recall, engineer Leslie Robertson said the towers were designed to handle the biggest jet of its time at some kind of full speed. Obviously the building did withstand that impact. Robertson went on to say they couldn't design the building to withstand all that burning fuel. So an hour or so later they collapsed when the fire became the "last straw." Just going by memory here.
 
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So Bush said hide it and get promoted, or tell about it and get fired. So let it be written, so let it be dumb.
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In the case of 911 truth, some idiots made up lies and you fell for them. Case close, 10 years of failure on 11 Sep 2011; you joined 911 truth just in time for 10 years of complete failure.

What you could do instead of falling for lies for 10 years of failure. Get a PhD in how to understand reality. I got a masters in engineering so I would have lots to think about when flying jets all over the world, or digging ditches, and/or splitting wood all day. Learning is important, falling for lies from 911 truth is failure.

Beachnut,

I've read the 180 mph thing somewhere too, but if I recall, engineer Leslie Robertson said the towers were designed to handle the biggest jet of its time at some kind of full speed. Obviously the building did withstand that impact. Robertson went on to say they couldn't design the building to withstand all that burning fuel. So an hour or so later they collapsed when the fire became the "last straw." Just going by memory here.
Robertson did the 180 mph study/design. The full speed nonsense was in a white paper by the owners of the WTC, they were wrong. The most likely accident I think is a lost airliner landing. Why? Because if you take off and you are lost in the weather and can't see, lost equipment, you would climb into the clear, skip NYC in the clouds and land at Miami in the clear. But lost in the fog low on fuel, you are stuck trying to land in NYC, oops you hit the WTC slow. On take off you would climb immediately if you were lost, not fly around at 700 feet, you would climb.

A study done after 911 confirmed plane impacts below 200 mph would not do much damage to the WTC.

Robertson's designed for 180 mph, low on fuel, lost in the fog. 180 mph is a, Fact. The 600 mph white paper statement, is , marketing nonsense. I think the people doing the white paper knew Robertson designed, or studied for an aircraft impact, and they looked up the 707 he used, and saw Boeing listed 607 mph as the top speed, which in that context is cruising speed at and above 27,000 feet or so.

http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/WTC/LesRobertson.html

http://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bri...ecurity/ReflectionsontheWorldTradeCenter.aspx

http://www.nae.edu/File.aspx?id=7345

I would have to search for the study on 200 mph which backs up Robertson, but from the impact energy on 911 and the damage done, you can see why 7 and 11 times the design impact energy caused major damage which crippled the towers by knocking out the fire systems and injecting to the core 10,000 gallons of jet fuel and "instantly" lighting the fuel on multiple floors.


Where did you get the aircraft at 180mph information?
Then you support the idea that the buildings should have collapsed immediately after impact. They did not.
What have you done for 10 years? You make up lies, or adopt lies from 911 truth and defend them with nothing but faith, and a hate for Bush? Why not try reality based research?

The two towers were the first structures outside of the
military and nuclear industries designed to resist the
impact of a jet airliner, the Boeing 707. It was assumed
that the jetliner would be lost in the fog, seeking to land
at JFK or at Newark. http://www.nae.edu/File.aspx?id=7345
Guess what speed planes are at lost in the fog for landing? 180 mph.
Don't you look up stuff before making delusional claims on 911?

From Robertson's presentation in a real engineering journal.
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Why does 911 truth fail to do research, comprehend events, and make up lies based on ignorance?
Next time pay attention in physics, E=1/2mv2.

No, I do not support the building would fail because the impacts were 7 and 11 times greater in energy than designed for. If the planes were going slower, they would not inject 10,000 gallons of jet fuel into the core of the WTC towers, the fuel would remain mostly outside of the towers. Why did you fail to do the physics? The towers were extremely strong, able to withstand a huricane, very strong.

Have you done a study on the energy of a hurricane, or force against the WTC compared to an impact at high speed? Why would a high speed impact alone make the WTC fall? It was the fire, the office fires started by 10,000 gallons of jet fuel on multiple floors in seconds that destroyed the WTC. Fire alone is enough to destroy buildings, this is why we use fireproofing, water sprinklers, and have firefighters. You know the FDNY, that is what they do is fight fire. When is the last time you know a building fire was started with 10,000 gallons of jet fuel did not fail? Got an example?

Can you calculate how much energy is required to destroy the WTC for an aircraft impact?
Why would the WTC collapse from impact alone? Got the numbers?

The WTC towers were not designed to survive the attack on 911, they were designed for a aircraft accident, a plane lost, low on fuel, landing. That would be the most likely accident.



Note: The top speed, the speed pilots try not to exceed in a 707 type aircraft at 700 feet would be ~350KIAS (350 KCAS)

The numbers for a 707 from Boeing were/are
Vmo (maximum Operating)
390 m.p.h. at sea level (339 kt.)
398 m.p.h. at 5,000 ft. (345 kt.)
406 m.p.h. at 10,000 ft. (352 kt.)
415 m.p.h. at 15,000 ft. (360 kt.)
425 m.p.h. at 20,000 ft. (369 kt.)​
434 m.p.h. at 24,900 ft. (377 kt.)

Exceeding Vmo/Mmo can pose a threat to exceeding design structural integrity and design stability & control criteria of the airplane. At speeds less than Vmo/Mmo the airplane’s flight characteristics have been confirmed by flight testing to meet FAR requirements. At speeds in excess of Vmo/Mmo, however, normal airplane handling characteristics are not assured.

On 911 Flight 175 impacted the WTC at ~590 mph, the terrorist did not care if there was a threat to structural integrity, and the engines can push the plane to speeds past VMO in 20 to 30 seconds from standard speeds. In addition there is a FAA mandated speed limit below 10,000 feet of 250 KIAS. The terrorists were breaking FAA rules on 911. Bad pilots​

Got any questions on this?
 
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Checking in from my truth sabbatical ... I saw my first real world evidence of the so-called truth movement. A billboard on I40 near the AZ / NM border says, quoting in full: ae911truth.com. Yay truth movement. Also apparently Alex Jones is on satellite radio.

That is all.
 
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Why would a high speed impact alone make the WTC fall? It was the fire, the office fires started by 10,000 gallons of jet fuel on multiple floors in seconds that destroyed the WTC.
There are those of us who tend to think the buildings would have collapsed after some time even without fires, but it's a rather esoteric question not all that relevant. The distance between us is miniscule compared to the distance we ALL stand across the great divide of logic, reason, and actual knowledge from the truther nuttiness on the far side.
 
There are those of us who tend to think the buildings would have collapsed after some time even without fires, but it's a rather esoteric question not all that relevant. The distance between us is miniscule compared to the distance we ALL stand across the great divide of logic, reason, and actual knowledge from the truther nuttiness on the far side.

I would think all bets are off for the building to withstand the design spec for high winds after the impact.
 
Ok...and I say this not in an arrogant way...but as a way of discussion. What is so inaccurate or not plausible about what I suggested?...

Alright. Allow me to highlight everything in your first post for which you provide not the slightest bit of proof, and for which there does not exist any such slightest proof; or which are implausible; or plain wrong:

Hi,

This is my first post, and I will certainly try not to break any rules, if I do I apologize in advance, and will change anything that needs to be. I found your question while searching and found it very interesting. I believe I can answer or at least have plausible explanations. I will start with the 2nd of your questions. The most likely scenario for what happened that day, would be something to the affect...that the upper echelon of the Bush administration planned what happened at the pentagon. Having war game scenarios and test hijackings etc...this way it would confuse those who might normally intercept such a hijacking. Hence Norman Mineta's testimony. The Zionist/elites...whatever you want to call them...had something much more sinister in mind...they wanted carte blanche, a blank check to do what they wanted in the middle east ...restrict civil liberties etc... They took advantage of what they knew would be a very confusing time for those who would normally intercept the plane and struck. In regards to how it was "screwed" up...it was really quite the opposite. I believe the 4th plane was headed for building 7...the two towers had to fall to get a clear shot at it. But our fighters were able to scramble and the plane was shot down. I think even those who admittedly support the official story have some doubts as to whether that plane was shot down or not. Obviously Larry Silverstein would be apart of the plot to take the towers down...while using the pentagon in essence as "cover".
You see, there isn't much left that is not marked as wrong, implausible or unproven.
If you want to debate this, I suggest you pick one of my highlights, I'll explain why it's not plausible, and you try to convince us, okay? Taking on ALL the fail in one go would be a sure recipe for a debate losing focus and failing.
So pick what you believe is the strongest, most plausible among the highlighted elements!



Now on to your non-proof of the first question:

The first question you have...I'm not sure if this is a suitable answer, but could not the explosives have been planted below the impact zone?

This is not an answer at all. It's a question. You provide the answer in the form of a claim. The next step would be to support that claim.

Even if they were at the impact zone it would only cause a greater explosion, and perhaps the building to drop earlier..

Most high explosives used for such purposes do not explode when exposed to fire, but merely burn, doing less damage than candle wax of same amount.

Also, there wasn't any such explosion when the collapses began, which directly refutes your fantasy.

I'm sure exactly when the building dropped really was not that important. As far as proving it could survive a plane impact. I'm not sure I could do that... I would need lots of time and money to conduct experiments, to anything I could come up..

You could take advantage of the fact that NoahFence has posed his question so vaguely as to allow for easy answers that don't require much research.

I have not found any that someone else did.

This is, after nearly 10 years of truthers peddling fantasies of intentional demolition, pretty devestating. It's not like NoahFence is the first to spot the problem that plane crashes and fires pose to pre-planted demolition devices. It's a question that has first been asked at most 1 hour after the first person suggested CD, which was probably already right on 9/11.

But as stated previously I'm not sure that it is necessary, thermite cutter charges are the most likely thing to have been used, and it would not matter if some went off early.

How can something be "most likely", when there is absolutely zero proof of it's presence and use, and no one after years of peddling this idea has even attempted to descibe how it would have been done?
Do you realise that the reasons the thermite theory was invented out of the blue sky is the fact that some truthers realized in a lucid moments that there were no explosions consistent in timing, loudness and brisance with controlled demolition?
 
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Hi,

...that the upper echelon of the Bush administration planned what happened at the pentagon. Having war game scenarios and test hijackings etc...this way it would confuse those who might normally intercept such a hijacking. Hence Norman Mineta's testimony. The Zionist/elites...whatever you want to call them.... .

You failed to research. Zionist/elites? Did it take you a long time to blame the Jews, or are you a neoNAZI and it comes naturally?
There are no intercepts for hijackings, there are request to follow, it could take an hour, or more. Sorry, you need to read up on reality.

. I believe the 4th plane was headed for building 7...the two towers had to fall to get a clear shot at it. But our fighters were able to scramble and the plane was shot down.... But as stated previously I'm not sure that it is necessary, thermite cutter charges are the most likely thing to have been used, and it would not matter if some went off early.
Oops, you should have asked the terrorist you are attempting to apologize for. The fourth target was DC. WTC 7 is only important to a failed movement called 911 truth how have to ignore reality to sell DVDs and rip off people who can't think for themselves; the real conspiracy is 911 truth.

No one shot down Flight 175, it was operating right into the ground. The FDR shows the terrorist flying 175 into the ground, and we have the moron terrorists discussing ending it on the CVR. Darn, your fantasy ruined by real evidence, hard evidence you ignore. Do you ignore evidence on purpose, or are you ignorant of the existence of reality based evidence. Do you have a clue what RADAR is? Did you know all air traffic in the USA is on RADAR (transponder or not) and this is recorded? Yes, there is a recorded of all flight on 911. There goes your shoot down theory blown up by RADAR, FDR, and CVR.
 
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I never said the word Jew, nor do I consider myself and type of "Nazi" as you put it. My father suffered a massive heart attack, and it was a Jewish doctor who selflessly saved his life. For me to be a "Nazi" anti-Semitic or whatever else you would like to call me would be the utmost of hypocrisy. No I have a great deal of respect for Jewish people, as I do for all people. Could Israel have been involved...sure....that doesn't mean for one second that I think every Jewish person was involved, as some would make it sound. Perhaps the best way to put it..and what I think we can all agree on is that whoever did 9/11 was of no religion at all!
As far as what you said we can start with the fact that Flight 175 was the second one that hit the south tower. Flight 93 was the one I was alleging was shot down.
Evidence would be the scattered debris...any type of "rolling" of the debris would seem impossible. Given the large crater made by the impact (implying an almost vertical drop)...along with many witnesses saying the plane fell at at nearly a vertical trajectory.
Also for the record...I don't consider myself a "truther" at least not in the form you may think. I simply have questions...and if one were to ask me the most likely scenario for that day, given everything I have read and researched I would say it is what I stated.
 
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...Could Israel have been involved...sure....

Could Switzerland, Peru, Laos, Ghana have been involved? Sure...
Except there is zero evidence. All these suggestions are ridiculous.
And there is zero evidence for Israel's involvement, right?
Can you explain why your suggestion of Israel's involvement should not be considered ridiculous? No, you can't.


Perhaps the best way to put it..and what I think we can all agree on is that whoever did 9/11 was of no religion at all!

And why would anybody make such a moronic claim? Do you think all religious people are incapable of committing terror attacks?
What with the common observations that many mass murders and terror attacks these days are committed by people who ardently confess to this or that religion - for example Christian (see Anders Breivig in Oslo), Jewish (see this attack some years ago in Hebron by a Jewish settler) or Muslim (see hundreds, if not thousands, of terror attacks in the name of islam in Israel, Iraq, India, Phillipines, etc.)?

Are you making excuses for religiously motivated terrorists?
 
So here it is. I have $1,000 to donate to your favorite twoofer and mine - Richard Gage.

All you have to do is PROVE explosives can survive the impact of the aircraft and subsequent fire.
This challenge is nonsense. For several reasons.

First, you use the word "PROVE" (in caps, no less). How could anyone "prove" such a claim? Please provide a process that you would accept as providing proof.

Second, what "explosives" are to be used in the proof? Why?

Third, what "impact" should be used to examine survivability? Direct impact? Two floors down? Ten floors down?

Fourth, what "fire" constitutes the basis for the proof? How hot? How long? What is the basis for your answers?

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In short, the OP provides a challenge that, in any other area, would be immediately rejected by JREF skeptics as meaningless. Why is this thread different?
 
I'm not sure I follow you entirely? He asked for a plausible reason to connect everything that happened that day, and I thought I gave him one? If I didn't answer his question I apologize.

Look up the meaning of the word 'plausible'.
 
Yes I said I could not prove explosive devises could survive a plane impact and fire. But thought I gave justification as to why it may not matter. There are many problems with "proving" such a thing...one would need to know at the least what type of explosives in particular he was referring to. Then simply put you need to run experiments, no matter how great your "proof" is it won't really matter if experiments/testing does not back it up. As far as his second question I'm sorry if I mis-understood...this is what I was giving a plausible explanation to. Of course I can not prove this..I did not think he wanted it to be proven, there is no way to do that, but simply a plausible way to connect the dots. Which I tried to provide.

It would have been a lot easier just to have flown planes into the buildings,but that seems too far fetched for truthers.
 
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In short, the OP provides a challenge that, in any other area, would be immediately rejected by JREF skeptics as meaningless. Why is this thread different?

My earlier reply...
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You could take advantage of the fact that NoahFence has posed his question so vaguely as to allow for easy answers that don't require much research.
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This challenge is nonsense. For several reasons.

First, you use the word "PROVE" (in caps, no less). How could anyone "prove" such a claim? Please provide a process that you would accept as providing proof.

Second, what "explosives" are to be used in the proof? Why?

Third, what "impact" should be used to examine survivability? Direct impact? Two floors down? Ten floors down?

Fourth, what "fire" constitutes the basis for the proof? How hot? How long? What is the basis for your answers?

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In short, the OP provides a challenge that, in any other area, would be immediately rejected by JREF skeptics as meaningless. Why is this thread different?

I think it is an attempt to get a truther to put forward a full theory of the day's events. None forthcoming yet.
 
I think it is an attempt to get a truther to put forward a full theory of the day's events. None forthcoming yet.

Yes, but a pretty lousy attempt it is.
NF puts money at something that neither requires a full theory nor even any connection with the reality of 9/11 or with any actual CT about it. The OP allows any takers to make assumptions as they please and thus meet the challenge easily.

(Of course you can count on truthers not exploiting these weaknesses and instead electing to make the usual fools of themselves - see taker #1 :D)
 
What I am saying....is whatever religion the people that did 9/11 claim to be...they are really of no religion what so ever. No religion I know would ever advocate such an act. As far as evidence to Israel's involvement. First let me be clear...I don't mean the whole country of Israel, not even most of the people there, but a very small percentage of criminals, which operate at the top (same as our country and other countries whether they be Jewish or not). Most Israels like people of all races are good people who want nothing more then peace, and to be happy. Getting back to evidence, I can say the 5 dancing Israels, is a good point to start. I have read an awful lot about this, and have yet to see someone have a decent explanation for this, other then alternative theories for what happened that day. Also I believe what I stated gives a full theory, with connecting all the dots. Is it what happened...I can't say...but I believe it is a plausible explanation.
 
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I will start with the 2nd of your questions. The most likely scenario for what happened that day, would be something to the affect...that the upper echelon of the Bush administration planned what happened at the pentagon. Having war game scenarios and test hijackings etc...this way it would confuse those who might normally intercept such a hijacking.

This is, however, after the fact reasoning compounded with confirmation bias. Wargame scenarios had another effect, which truthers tend to neglect: they ensured that the control centres responsible for responding to the attack were fully staffed by officers who were alert and prepared to deal with unexpected scenarios. The level of confusion is actually known; it was limited to a brief enquiry whether the new information was part of the exercise, and a reply that it was not. From then on, the exercises made the defences more, not less, able to respond. And this would have been easy to predict; the phrase "This is not a drill!" takes about two seconds to say, and is well embedded in popular culture.

In regards to how it was "screwed" up...it was really quite the opposite. I believe the 4th plane was headed for building 7...the two towers had to fall to get a clear shot at it. But our fighters were able to scramble and the plane was shot down.

There's no sense to that. How many high-profile targets are there in the Eastern US, easily accessible without demolishing any other buildings? The Sears Tower, the White House, the Capitol, sports stadiums, the Empire State Building... I could go on, and I'm not even American. A plan that requires two targets already to have been destroyed in order to attack a target that nobody's ever heard of is a very stupid plan. As with many conspiracy theories, this is a story that only makes even superficial sense if you tell it backwards. Told forwards, the idea that there was a detailed plan to destroy WTC7, in order to suspend civil liberties, makes no sense at all.

I think even those who admittedly support the official story have some doubts as to whether that plane was shot down or not.

You think wrong.

Obviously Larry Silverstein would be apart of the plot to take the towers down...while using the pentagon in essence as "cover".

One thing that worries me about this forum is the regularity with which actionable libels are made against Larry Silverstein. I hope his lawyers don't read this sort of thing.

The first question you have...I'm not sure if this is a suitable answer, but could not the explosives have been planted below the impact zone? Even if they were at the impact zone it would only cause a greater explosion, and perhaps the building to drop earlier..I'm sure exactly when the building dropped really was not that important.

Are you trying to propose a theory that's internally consistent but has nothing to do with reality, or one that actually tallies with observations of how the 9/11 events proceeded? If the former, then yes, it might have been possible, had the impact zones been known with sufficient accuracy, to site explosives below them in order to demolish the buildings. It would, again, have been a remarkably stupid plan, because it would be very obvious that the collapse had initiated at an undamaged part fo the structure, making it painfully obvious that something other than the impact damage and the fires was the cause; but technically, yes, it may have been feasible. But if you're trying to propose an explanation in which explosives initiated the collapses we actually saw, then yours doesn't work; the collapses began in the impact and fire-damaged areas, where we know explosives could not have survived.

But as stated previously I'm not sure that it is necessary, thermite cutter charges are the most likely thing to have been used, and it would not matter if some went off early.

There is no such thing as a "thermite cutter charge"; it's a fantasy dreamed up by Steven Jones to try and save the demolition hypothesis in the face of the irrefutable counter-evidence provided by the absence of sufficiently loud explosive sounds at the right time to correlate with collapse initiation. But supposing that these mythical beasties existed, could I suggest you explain in a more appropriate thread exactly what evidence leads you to believe it likely that they were responsible for the collapses?

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What I am saying....is whatever religion the people that did 9/11 claim to be...they are really of no religion what so ever. No religion I know would ever advocate such an act.

You should check out the Religion&Philosophy sub-forum here at the JREF to educate yourself a little on what religions have actually advocated.

As far as evidence to Israel's involvement. First let me be clear...[snipped irrelevant blabla]... Getting back to evidence, I can say the 5 dancing Israels, is a good point to start. I have read an awful lot about this, and have yet to see someone have a decent explanation for this, other then alternative theories for what happened that day.

I believe a smart use of the search function on this sub-forum might unearth lots of explanation, and lots of debunking the explanations you believe so far. The "dancing Israelis" are nothing at all.

Also I believe what I stated gives a full theory, with connecting all the dots. Is it what happened...I can't say...but I believe it is a plausible explanation.

No, not even close to being "full". For example: As the OP is mainly about explosives (or incendiaries) in the fire zones, one would expect that you "full theory" would at the very least explain the rigging of the towers, and give hints about
- who did it
- how many persons were involved
- when did they do it
- how long did it take
- how did they avoid being detected
- why is there absolutely no evidence of either explosives or incendiaries going off
- which materials did they use anyway? (You later said thermite)
- where did they put the charges
- how did they fire them
- how did they co-ordinate the placement of charges with the plane crashes and the fires? It sure looks like the collapses started where the planes crashed and fires raged. How did they do that?

But ... none of all that.
You call that a "full" theory??
 
Imagine this scenario, flight 93 is flown into building 7, the Media..reports..however you want to put it...is saying that 3rd plane was headed to New York to also hit the Towers..to cause more damage...when it got there it saw that the towers fell and just crashed into the next tallest building...because of time gas etc.... Seems believable to me. I agree with a previous post his challenge is impossible to answer. I will say that certainly the technology exists to have a plane hit where ever they would want it. They could place charges in places that would not be affected by this. From what I've read and seen Thermite charges can be used to cut steel.
 
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