Re: 451’s claim that multiple cruise missiles caused the damage to the WTC1 columns, but not American Airlines Flight 11:
Fourth video down:
http://yankee451.com/2013/12/27/911-north-tower-damage-3d/
“The foot-pound force … It is the energy transferred on applying a
force of one
pound-force (lbf) through a
displacement of one
foot. The corresponding
SI unit is the
joule.” -wiki
Presently, the imperial foot-pound is more empirically understood here in the US than the metric joule. At least up to the Space Shuttle program NASA has been using the Imperial (English) units in its hardware design and software.
http://www.newscientist.com/article...-sticking-to-imperial-units.html#.UtKMT7R0l4s
(1) One JASSM missile (in service 2009) weighs 2, 000 lbs at 500 MPH = 17 million (MM) foot- pounds of energy.
- One wing of the 767 weighs 23,000 lbs + 9,000 lbs for the engine+33,000 lbs of fuel in that wing = 65,000 lbs at 470 mph = 480 MM foot-pounds of energy.
- So if the damage to the columns could have been produced by JASSMs hitting the columns at a glancing angle then so could one wing of the 767 hitting the columns head on. One Flight 11 wing had 28 times more kinetic energy than one cruise missile. It would take 28 JASSMs to equal the energy imparted to the columns by one of the 767’s wings. 451 shows four (non exploding) JASSMs hitting the columns where one of the wings hit. There are no calculations for this, just an arbitrary number that would not appear excessive. Then he shows three missiles that explode where the 767’s engines and fuselage penetrated. Under 451’s scenario it would take then, 56 non exploding cruise missiles to hit at an angle, different columns, plus three exploding ones to cause the damage done by the 767 at WTC1.
- The above calculations for one wing do not take into account the additional kinetic energy of the fuselage that was added to the attached wings.
- Flt 11 wingtips dented the outermost damaged columns because they had less mass. Smaller, no fuel.
A more complete calculation of the KE imparted by the entire plane:
Flt 11 weight 283,000 lb at 470 mph = 2.1 billion foot-pounds KE / 17MM per missile = the KE of 124 missiles.
(2) 451 shows the tiny wing of one 2,000 lb JASSM slicing into one of the columns. If this tiny light wing can cause such damage, so can the larger heavier 767 wing.
First video at 4:40 min.
http://yankee451.com/2013/12/27/911-north-tower-damage-3d/
(3) “I am not claiming no one died, only that there could be no victims on non-existent floors struck by non-existent planes.” – yankee451
451 also claims that the footage of Flight 11 hitting WTC1 was not shown live on network TV, but was digitally altered to add the jet plane and hide the cruise missiles, then shown . No evidence for this claim.
451 needs to account for the over 40 videos recording the impact live on network TV and private videos, of Flight 175 hitting WTC2. He can’t show that all these videos were altered to hide his ~ 59 cruise missiles that hit WTC2.
This simple calculation doesn’t account for the all the other overwhelming evidence that the passenger jets were hijacked and hit the Towers, and that there is no evidence whatsoever that cruise missiles hit the Towers.
As Hitchens said – “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence,” so this no-evidence missiles claim can be dismissed out of hand. The handicap of making up things without knowing engineering or physics is evident.
Will this and all the other overwhelming proportion of the evidence that Flights 11 and 175 struck the Towers change 451’s no-evidence opinion that his missiles claim is wrong? No it won’t. Only if in his mind reason trumps that what he wishes to believe isn’t so.
