A second request: does anyone have easy access to more pictures of the tilting of Building 7? Still working on Bill on this one. The one we just put out a couple pages back is pretty compelling, the best picture I could find.
When I was skeptical but undecided about controlled demolition, some of the arguments that carried weight for me as a total layman included:
1) OMG no tall steel framed building has ever collapsed before due to fire, and now three in one day? Yeah there's a first time for everything, but three firsts in one day??
2) Those buildings sure came down fast and straight. Gage says they should have tipped over because fires create random, irregular damage so the collapse should not be so symmetrical.
3) How could the South Tower have tilted 22 degrees then righted itself? Shouldn't angular momentum have taken over and tipped it all the way?
And then of course there are all those questions I asked NIST, which are Gage's toughest.
The point here is that I don't consider myself insane for having considered these questions. As it turns out I now understand that there are solid scientific answers to all these questions. But I see in Clayton and others some of the same concerns I once had. Maybe that's why I'm so patient, because I was so P.O.'ed at Bush for starting the Iraq War on false pretenses of WMDs I could believe almost anything about them.
But outrage at injustice and disgust at the political handling of the 9/11 Commission doesn't change the science, and I'm thoroughly convinced the science ain't there to support CD.