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9/11 CTs in general

andreasz

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Hello everyone,

I got to this forum after watching the Zeitgeist movie because I was curious about any opinions and of course discussions related to that matter.

First of all, I've gotta say that I am kind of disappointed, which is why i registered my own account. To all of the 'debunkers' here, this seems to be a great hobby. Instead of discussing theories and certain ideas, people are being mocked and all the replies they get on the things they post into this forum are unnecessary comments like 'Do I really need to watch that crap or are the first 5 minutes sufficient?'

Seriously, if you have anything to say, just do so... But I don't see the point of commenting on things you didn't even take a look at.

So. Anyway, when I read the postings on this website, since it was the first hit on google, I wanted to know what JREF is. Funny fact, it's an educational foundation. Mocking people like that without even taking a look at what the present doesn't sound that educated to me.


So, why am I writing this? I have some questions myself and I don't want any wannabee-educated-debunker replying on this without considering anything I post here.

But well, sorry about the long introduction, I'll cut to the chase now.

Here in germany we don't get too many of those conspiracy theories, because we ignore most of the ones coming from the united states... Most of them are not based on anything but crazy ideas, so most of this gets kind of filtered.

But there are still some things that get through, such as the 'Zeitgeist' movie and 'September Clues'.

1.) Nobody ever gave any reply on the question, as to how it is possible, that the beams of the WTC were cut in a certain way you're only going to find it, if a building was demolished on purpose. I saw the pictures in the newspaper and there is absoutely no way this could be happened by accident.
Let's just say the steel structure was weakend by the intense heat of the 'jet fuel'. It was not entirely weakened all across the building. So how is it possible that the building collapses along it's own axis, where the steel structure is most powerful? Try to break a steel bar. You might be able to bend it with a lot of power. Put try to break it pushing along the axis of the steel bar. All the theories and explanations I read on '911myths' and 'debunking911.com' and similar pages don't seem to have any structural engineer working on that (yes, I did read who it was from, but he is obviously not considering all the details), regardless of the formulas and drawings on those sites... There is no possible way for the columns and beams to fail simultaneously. And lets say it was just one giant physical coincidence... But twice? No way. I read a lot about the tube in a tube design and all those little details that we have to pay attention to. But the structure along its axis with all the concrete would have probably caused the building to tumble and fall at a certain point. But not for it to collapse into its own footprint. I know it didn't exactly do that... But a collapsing building, ALSO one with a tube in a tube design, needs to have structural damage all over it, not only in the top floors. And even under the weight of the top floors this would have looked differently. At least their would be more left of the steel core itself.

So much about that.

2.) Please visit www<dot>brasschecktv<dot>com<slash>page<slash>108<dot>html

(sorry about the format. Forum won't allow me to post links otherwise.)

and watch the first video. This guy is a video editor from Norway with more than 20 years of experience in video editing. Now please, be so kind and answer the following questions to me:

How is it possible, that the plane appears black in the shot? And don't come up with ideas like the sun being behind the object. Take a close look and you'll see that it is supposed to be white. For the people who insist that it is the sun being behind the object, you could explain to me why the plane appears black from both sides.

On one of the other 'authentic' videos, you can see the 'plane' crash into the WTC. The wings appear white, although we're standing right underneath it.

Well... There are several other videos and there's an audio analysis... There's even a nice cover-up for an incoming object that is hard to spot... But I cross-checked all these things shown in the analysis with the tapes I have at home, which are several years old.

There's one very interesting aspect about the undamaged nose of the plane and a probable explanation for that. I really want to see you 'debunk' this.


Watch it and PLEASE, be objective this time. I am not the kind of guy who jumps upon any kind of CT ********, but this stuff is pretty obvious and the images are real. So take a close look and give me an opinion.

Regards from germany.

Andreas
 
Welcome to the forum. Not all posters here are pseudo skeptic deniers. We have real skeptics here like Dr Frank Greening aka Apollo20.

I advise that you stay polite and within the rules and that you report the tirade of attacks you are bound to receive.
 
Part of the problem, and the basis of the attitude you've seen here is burnout.

While the issues raised in these videos and movies may be new to you, around here they are simply the same recycled claims and arguments that have been discussed ad nausem here.

When they were new claims, they were discussed and analyzed objectively.

I'm not apologizing for the attitude, in fact I've said a few times to several of the regulars here that maybe it's time to take a break for a bit after they have jumped on a newcomer.
 
Andreas,

First off, welcome to the forum.

1) Have you read the NIST report?
2) Looking at anomolies in the videos to prove there was no planes is a non-starter. Thousands of eyewitnesses saw the second plane hit.
 
1.) Nobody ever gave any reply on the question, as to how it is possible, that the beams of the WTC were cut in a certain way you're only going to find it, if a building was demolished on purpose. I saw the pictures in the newspaper and there is absoutely no way this could be happened by accident.
Let's just say the steel structure was weakend by the intense heat of the 'jet fuel'. It was not entirely weakened all across the building. So how is it possible that the building collapses along it's own axis, where the steel structure is most powerful? Try to break a steel bar. You might be able to bend it with a lot of power. Put try to break it pushing along the axis of the steel bar. All the theories and explanations I read on '911myths' and 'debunking911.com' and similar pages don't seem to have any structural engineer working on that (yes, I did read who it was from, but he is obviously not considering all the details), regardless of the formulas and drawings on those sites... There is no possible way for the columns and beams to fail simultaneously. And lets say it was just one giant physical coincidence... But twice? No way. I read a lot about the tube in a tube design and all those little details that we have to pay attention to. But the structure along its axis with all the concrete would have probably caused the building to tumble and fall at a certain point. But not for it to collapse into its own footprint. I know it didn't exactly do that... But a collapsing building, ALSO one with a tube in a tube design, needs to have structural damage all over it, not only in the top floors. And even under the weight of the top floors this would have looked differently. At least their would be more left of the steel core itself.


Welcome to the forum, Andreas. First of all, I would like to direct you to all of the great 9/11 debunking resources linked to at the top of the conspiracy subforum. Many, if not all, of your questions will find their answers there.

Regarding your above question: You state your disappointment that, " I read on '911myths' and 'debunking911.com' and similar pages don't seem to have any structural engineer working on that (yes, I did read who it was from, but he is obviously not considering all the details), regardless of the formulas and drawings on those sites." You then go on to tell us in detail what you think should have happened.

My question to you is what is your structural engineering training? You choose to disbelieve non-experts on debunking sites, so what special education have you had that makes your opinion more valuable? Obviously, you must be a structural engineer if you propose to tell us so definitively what would really have happened if the towers had collapsed because of the airplane colisions.

Otherwise, you are simply arguing from incredulity. The fact that you don't think the collapse would happen in the way it did doesn't change the fact that: a) it did; b) you have read explanations as to why it did; and c) there's no evidence of any other cause. Just because you do not like the answers doesn't mean your questions still remain.

In any case, glad to have you here. You're about to be extensively schooled in structural engineering by some pretty well-informed people. I hope you are able to put aside your disbelief long enough to honestly evaluate their information.
 
Hello Andreas. Welcome to the forum.

I can tell you with some degree of certainty, due to daylighting course study that I had to do at the university, that the sky itself, and not just the sun in specific, is a huge source of light. Even if you are on the shady side of a building, and the sun cannot reach you directly, the ambient light that comes from a clear blue sky is on the order of 2,000 footcandles (21,600 lux if you prefer) which is still about 20 times that which is normally required for task lighting when you provide it electrically. (Direct sunlight is usually between 8,000 and 10,000 footcandles - 86,000 and 108,000 lux) My courses in photography and subsequent experience in that area allow me to state that objects which have a light source behind them will tend to sillouette a bit against that background, even if they are also being lit from the front.

I hope that helps.
 
Andreas, my advice to you, continue to pursue the evidence that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition. The fact that they were is quite obvious. Only a well financed and well connected organization could have had the means to infiltrate security at the WTC complex and planted the explosives. That shows that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by sophisticated conspiracy with some kind of state support (though not necessarily that of the US government.)

As for your ideas regarding the planes, I hope you drop that nonsense as soon as possible. Overwhelming evidence shows that all four planes ended up where the official story says they did.
 
As for your ideas regarding the planes, I hope you drop that nonsense as soon as possible. Overwhelming evidence shows that all four planes ended up where the official story says they did.

That's it A-Train, baby steps, but you're getting there.
 
Loss Leader: Didn't read the entire report, but most of it.
A few friends and customers of mine are in structural engineering and architecture. Their claims came up right after 9/11 and I just shook my head in disbelief when I first heard what they have to say. But by now I am starting to reconsider. That's where the ideas come from. It's not out of thin air.

This is actually why I didn't post a wave of questions. Just those two.

Burnout is a good explanation. I thought of that already. I can imagine that there is much worse in the world than those theories. I can also imagine that people are sick of some 'new guy' (in that case me), posting some stuff that appears to be the same old same old...

But this video analysis is pretty new and the guy really makes some good points. And regarding the eye-witnesses who actually saw the planes... After all I have read on this matter, all I have seen and everybody I have talked to, I am (by now) convinced, that there were never ever any planes on that day.

You should really watch what this guy has to say about the videos. This has ALL been on TV. Please explain to me WHY the CNN banner just HAPPENS to appear right over the nose of the plane.

Funfact: The fox video material must have been sent to CNN in a certain fashion... Why would it be different in zooming position? Why would CNNs banner cover that? And why has CNN deleted this video from the archive?

Seriously... I am not that easily excited myself. I have come across a lot of crap looking for information, so I can understand you guys being tired of the discussion. But this is really something nobody can deny. This has been on 'live' TV. Those images are not manipulated in any way, I have those on tape myself.
 
Minadin: Of course, I understand that... But compare the video images, that are considered authentic. It just doesn't fit. Watch the videos please.

It's not that you guys are talking to a guy who isn't skeptic at all. I am not even religious ;)

But seriously... Take a look at the first video and the comments... I am really amazed by this analysis because this is the first research on this matter I found which is neither completely crazy and unlogical nor fake. As I said before, I find ALL the things he mentions in my own tapes. I am missing two clips, but I can verify the rest. It has been shown on TV exactly like this.
 
Seriously, thousands of people saw the planes live. There is no way faking that. Seriously.
 
Loss Leader: Didn't read the entire report, but most of it.
A few friends and customers of mine are in structural engineering and architecture. Their claims came up right after 9/11 and I just shook my head in disbelief when I first heard what they have to say. But by now I am starting to reconsider. That's where the ideas come from. It's not out of thin air.

This is actually why I didn't post a wave of questions. Just those two.

Burnout is a good explanation. I thought of that already. I can imagine that there is much worse in the world than those theories. I can also imagine that people are sick of some 'new guy' (in that case me), posting some stuff that appears to be the same old same old...

But this video analysis is pretty new and the guy really makes some good points. And regarding the eye-witnesses who actually saw the planes... After all I have read on this matter, all I have seen and everybody I have talked to, I am (by now) convinced, that there were never ever any planes on that day.

You should really watch what this guy has to say about the videos. This has ALL been on TV. Please explain to me WHY the CNN banner just HAPPENS to appear right over the nose of the plane.

Funfact: The fox video material must have been sent to CNN in a certain fashion... Why would it be different in zooming position? Why would CNNs banner cover that? And why has CNN deleted this video from the archive?

Seriously... I am not that easily excited myself. I have come across a lot of crap looking for information, so I can understand you guys being tired of the discussion. But this is really something nobody can deny. This has been on 'live' TV. Those images are not manipulated in any way, I have those on tape myself.

forget the video and look at the actual eye witness from the pentagon and the second tower hit

over a hundred in the pentagon case and much more in the second tower hit

then try and say there were no planes
 
Are you trying to say there were no planes?

Which is more likely, thousands of people are lying about seeing the planes and every media network in the world is also lying or some armatures have misanalysed some 6 year old compressed video?
 
And regarding the eye-witnesses who actually saw the planes... After all I have read on this matter, all I have seen and everybody I have talked to, I am (by now) convinced, that there were never ever any planes on that day.

You are wrong. I am one of those witnesses who saw with my own eyes the second plane hit the south tower. In the almost six years since then I have NEVER heard a fellow eyewitness say that what they saw was not an airplane.
 
ref: It is probably likely that they saw a plane but I am convinced that there is nobody in New York who actually saw a plane crash into the World Trade Center.

Call it ridiculous... But considering the fact that there are hundreds of people with cellphones, video cameras and all that equipment in New York, why are there so few authentic(ated) videos? And why did most of them appear after years?

There are several videos from many different angles of people jumping off the WTC, of the towers collapsing... Tons of that... But almost nothing (compared to the amount of other videos) of a plane crashing into there.

Pixel bleed, framerate-conversion problems... There is so much 'wrong' in the newsmedia coverage... The most powerful ones are just tiny little details...

TV reporter: "After making first contact with the Mi-- the plane..."

Watch September clues 6 from the guys livevideo homepage. It's just one week old... The audio analysis is just amazing. This guy really knows what he is doing. And there is really no explanation for that.

Do you guys actually think, everything went the way the media presented it? Planes crashed into the WTC, it collapsed, boo-hoo, patriot act passed rapidly, war in Iraq started...

If anything, this is quite obvious to me.
 
I simply cannot comprehend how you could believe that no planes hit the twin towers. I'm sorry, but this theory is just too silly to entertain.
 
Call it ridiculous... But considering the fact that there are hundreds of people with cellphones, video cameras and all that equipment in New York, why are there so few authentic(ated) videos? And why did most of them appear after years?

Yes, I'll call it ridiculous. I didn't have a cellphone in 2001, and most people I know didn't. I don't think camera phones were even available then. Why do you think that people going to work on an average Tuesday morning would have video cameras with them?

Again, I and thousands of others saw the plane. You are 100% wrong.
 
Alt-F4: It's always hard to prove if somebody says he saw something...

But honestly. Anybody who knows just a LITTLE about people, men, mankind, that this eyewitness thing is worthless. I believe that every single american who has devloped some hatred towards whoever it was who teared down the WTC, is willing to eyewitness the situation for the greater good.

I am not saying that you are lying, don't misunderstand me. I am just saying that I personally don't believe any of this after re-watching those videos. And not the ones presented on the internet but the ones I have at home.
 
Minadin: Of course, I understand that... But compare the video images, that are considered authentic. It just doesn't fit. Watch the videos please.

Sorry, Andreas, I was trying to very specifically answer this question you posed:

andreasz said:
How is it possible, that the plane appears black in the shot? And don't come up with ideas like the sun being behind the object. Take a close look and you'll see that it is supposed to be white. For the people who insist that it is the sun being behind the object, you could explain to me why the plane appears black from both sides.

In as concise a fashion as I could muster, because I'm on my coffee break at work. I don't have time to watch several 10-minute long videos, though I did attempt to get through the first one and made it about halfway. It seems to be the same sort of recycled nonsense of the type that people such as Ace Baker have been promoting on this site (until quite recently) and others for a while now.

Video fading to black, nose out the other side, etc has all been thoroughly discussed here before. I'm sure others can provide links to those conversations, I simply haven't the time. It also seems to me that the makers of these videos are extremely selective as to which camera angles they are showing the impact from - though I admittedly haven't seen the whole series yet. I seem to recall a fairly clear video of the second airliner entering the building which was shot from behind.

Good luck with your research. Try to remember to stick to actual evidence - physical evidence before witness statements, and not succumb to speculation and innuendo. Keep and open mind, but don't forget to use it, and don't take any grouchiness personally.
 

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