A W Smith
Philosopher
Kiwiwriter i dont know how you do it. I read that long article you wrote about the passing of President Gereld Ford and you still had time to debate here. Nice Work!
7th July 2005:
Fire engineers are still debating the exact sequence of events that caused the catastrophic collapse of the iconic Twin Towers.
Conspiracy theorists still pour over every detail of every report into the disaster, looking for apparent anomalies and contradictions. But most engineers have long since accepted the basic scenario as established both by the NIST investigation and the earlier analysis by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
22nd September 2005:
The impacts and fireballs produced shockwaves and high velocity debris. NIST believes that fire-proofing in the impact zones was largely scoured away by the debris and the shockwaves, and that this loss of protection was the key factor in the ultimate collapses of both towers. Other experts disagree (see News). But what is largely unchallenged so far is NIST's contention that on the impact floors the violent releases of kinetic and chemical energy blasted much of the floors' contents across to the far side of the buildings, where they were churned together with the debris from the planes and significant quantities of unburnt jet fuel.
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In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy, many eminent engineers voiced their suspicions about the vulnerability of the floor truss/column joints to fire.
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22nd September 2005:
A ROW over the causes of the World Trade Center twin tower collapses on 11 September 2001 broke out between British and American fire engineers last week.
British engineers strongly disputed official American claims that the towers became more vulnerable to collapse after the hijacked aircraft scraped vital fire protection from their steel frames.
The twin towers collapsed when each caught fire after terrorists flew hijacked Boeing passenger jets into them.
The disagreement provoked a strong exchange of views at a major conference held at Gaithersburg near Washington DC to discuss the official findings of America's National Institute for Standards & Technology (NIST) investigation into the 9/11 collapses.
"We don't believe that NIST has satisfactorily demonstrated that the loss of fire proofing was the deciding factor in the collapse, " said Arup associate director Dr Barbara Lane.
We have carried out computer simulations which show that the towers would have collapsed after a major fire on three floors at once, even with fireproofing in place and without any damage from plane impact." Lane said the difference of opinion was significant because clients had begun to demand that designs had NIST-compliant fire protection.
Actually, Oliver's theory makes more sense. St. Peter's is a block north at Church & Barclay Streets, and is somewhat protected by tall buildings around it. That would be a better location from which to execute the Pope's orders.That chapel is St. Paul's Chapel, and it's similar in design to St. Martin's-in-the-Fields in London.
"Please provide evidence of this."
Lack of the scientific community having been provided with the information! Evidence provided!
"I know we ask every single damn CTist this question, but: Have you read the NIST report, either in whole or in part?"
Yes I have, and it leaves more questions then answers. For example: NIST does not address the mechenism for the collapse. It only addresses the collapse. Not very good scientific investigating if they can preciecly define how the building fell so neatly, but they can't provide ONE ounce of evidence or information about the mechenism.
"Why do you feel the need to insult other posters."
Because they want to insult, I will return in kind. If they want to debate then do that. But all this "looney", "kooky", "nuts", etc. comments will not be tolerated by me and I will return in kind 10 fold.
"Again, why the attacks on people? Could you please stick with factual debate. And please format your writing in a clearer manner, using the quote function and college level grammar."
See previous comment. This is NOT a spelling site and I do not need to put my posts through a spell checker. You can certainly understand the meaning with a few spelling errors. If your that anal, well then just skip my posts because I do not worry about spelling. It is the content of things I worry about!
"RemoveBush, you really should go through the other threads in this section and actually read them. All these things you've brought up have been discussed before, and most of the people here are getting tired of the same old BS being touted as "new evidence" that will simply blow our socks off."
This is why your like are becoming the minority! You TWIST and SPIN things to fit YOUR needs. NOWHERE have I ever stated "new evidence" or "will blow your socks off" comments NOW
This is why I make comments like: Do you have a reading comprehension problem??? Because "IF" you were to actually read my posts, NOWHERE would you EVER find a claim from me anything that you just stated!
"If you want to have a productive discussion, then please prepare more thoroughly. You have already begun to resort to calling posters names, which does not support your argument or bolster your credibility."
I see.... So it's perfectly acceptable by you people to TWIST things to make them fit your attacks? Its fine to place words in peoples mouths? It's OK for all that, but god forbid someone stands up to your LIES and refused to back down from your rediculous alterations of a persons statements?
I see! It amazes me how you can make claims about "truthers", yet you do it more and in worse cases.
" If they weren't on the planes, you (yes, YOU) have to come up with another explaination and evidence that backs it. You are the one making outlandish accusations, and providing no proof. No one else is obligated to prove this for you."
Wrong again!!! Here let me explain how things work, or did work in America......
When someone says that this is how something happened.... It is up to THEM to provide evidence that this is the case. The government says that these 4 planes were the ones that crashed.
However, 2 of them were not even scheduled to fly and there is NO EVIDENCE of taxi, or gears up (takeoff) of these 2 planes. It is NOT my responsibility to prove that these planse were the planes in question, it is the Governments responsibility. Yes there were people who died, but just because these questions and information has not been provided does not make it FACT!
This is a concept you people forget! FACT is provable! Provide the NTST report identifying the 4 planes! Provide the FAA data showing those planes from the airports takeoff!
Right back at ya, "because you can't"!
"LashL - See how easy it is?
Even a troofer can do it."
I wonder if I should report you because that quote does not indicate that it was from me. After all you are breaking the Members Terms.
I'll just think about that.
"LashL - See how easy it is?
Even a troofer can do it."
I wonder if I should report you because that quote does not indicate that it was from me. After all you are breaking the Members Terms.
I'll just think about that.
8den said:OK.... Then why was the bus diverted by unmarked cars to this area?- There was a small training excerise. Based entirely on the underground. It had nothing to do with buses at all."
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/...7_witness.html
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The witness, named "Daniel", has a blog here and a website here. He states:
I was aboard the lower deck of the bus that was blown up on July 7th. I rang the emergency hotline to report the 2 dark cars I saw holding the bus up and diverting it towards Tavistock Square. Instead of being asked to provide a statement what followed was 7 months of police surveillance and Harassment. My experiences are contained in a book called Statement: The 4th Bomb (as yet unpublished)"
Um, er, what?Where in the world did "paramedics" come from?
Vague claims about there being training exercising on the same day as other terrorist incidents isn't proof of 7/7 being an inside job.8den said:"It was based at Kings Cross because Kings Cross is a transport hub including several significant lines. There are few stations that carry as many lines as kings cross, so the decision to place it there is explanatory. This training exercise was so low key, and minor that it wasn't even effecting transport that day."
Most training exercises don't! 9/11 did not effect normal transpertaion either, and they were running several exercises. That is not the point! The point is that USUALLY when there is a "terrorist" attack, the governments are usually training about the same thing that happens. OKC, 9/11, 7/7.
As other posters have pointed out it is immensely tiresome and disrepectful of you not to grasp the quote function. I will ask again; please explain the significance of a minor training exercise, involving a subsection of the transport infrastructure, that had no control over the underground, paramedics, police, firedepartment, or even the bus service, as evidence of the 7/7 bombings being an "inside job"?8den said:See the comment for the previous paragraph above."So please explain the significance of a minor training exercise, involving a subsection of the transport infratstructure, that had no control over the underground, paramedics, police, firedepartment, or even the bus service, as evidence of the 7/7 bombings being an "inside job"?"
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RemoveBush, I urge you to use the quote function to properly attribute authorship to the posts you are quoting. Failing to do that in the future may result in you being suspended from the forum.Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic Posted By: Patricio Elicer
"A W Smith - no they can't investigate the drawings for those planes that are available on line yourself. see above"
Since EVERYONE is so intent on pointing out my spelling errors, I would love to say that your sentence structure leaves something to desire......
Oh.... And do you actually know what the microcontroller code can and cannot do???? Do you know that embedded code is EASY to replace. You know that stuff that actually FLYS THE PLANE when on auto pilot?
"A W Smith - you are a complete FOOL!! see for yourself"
You are not that bright are you? By all means, please show me where on there he is listed for 9/11??? The FBI can place him on there for stuff that happens MILES away in another country, but they can't put him on the list for the crime that happens here that he is accused of?? HMMMM. Oh yeah, the FBI has stated that there was no evidence, not even in the "treasure trove" of documents they found in Afganistan!!!!
"A W Smith - the above statement proves Your IQ is dropping dramatically which confirms any degree you have came from a diploma mill. see the spell check up in the right hand corner MORON (hint it has a check mark next to it)"
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NOPE, no spell check there.
"A W Smith - to bullsh*t CT sites"
Again, back with that CRAP! I have not gone around stating that anything you people bring up are BS. Of course you don't approve of it..... It's not from FOX, where you get your daily dose of spoon fed information to digest.
"A W Smith - There is no evidence of a conspiracy involving 911 beyond wild conjecture, fabrication, quote mining, evidence tampering, character assassinations, harassment and mental defect."
Everything that YOU just posted is what the OFFICIAL VERSION IS!
There are witnesses that saw, heard, and felt explosives PRIOR to the collapse from FAR below the impact zone and in many cases from the ground level. You want to talk about "character assassinations", you people do this ALL THE TIME to people who would know more than YOU! People who where in the know, but hey what do they know right?
Maybe you should really read your post again, because you and your like just did EVERYTHING that you claim other people do.
"A W Smith - you have shown us no real evidence. just misinterpreted visuals. and comments taken out of context."
Just because YOU don't like to venture out of your basement and see life as it really is does not mean that people have taken ANYTHING out of context. BLAH BLAH BLAH. See other people can do this to.
"A W Smith - actually we relish in the fact that you came here to expose you as the fool that you are. some comments on blogs are designed to do just that. to bring you here and face the music"
What ever your little mind wants to think. Just remember this...... You are becoming the MINORITY in this issue.
"A W Smith - already proven that cell phones were more powerful than they are today also it was noted that most calls were from Air Phones. I think you are confusing the movie flight 93 with real life. But thats understandable in the maelstrom thats going on in your brain"
Do you have any RF experience? Have you worked on Recievers/Transmitters??? I have, 4 years in the military and 8 years in the civilian world. They cannot work that way. Going over 200 mph they would not be able to complete the HANDSHAKING between the tower because just as it was getting to completion, the tower would have to handoff the phone call. Therefore, the call WILL fail. You people are not as bright as you like to think you are.
"A W Smith - I had flown before 911 and there were plenty of flights that were not full. did it occur to you that planes also move mail and other cargo? Coast to coast? Funny I never had to provide a cell phone number when I flew. or even a land line number. So you are saying the calls were faked? I think thats a childlike narrow minded fantasist's view."
Hey you uneducated...... They have many ways to capture information, but then I would not expect you to understand this simple little concept.
"A W Smith - Are you that stupid? They really were not looking for? Why would they not even search for something they used as an excuse to enter a military action? That is like saying well we didn't actually try to rescue the hostages in Iran in the seventies we just felt like loading our turbines with sand crashing our helicopters and killing our ops just to see what the publics reaction would be."
Not as stupid as you are pointing out in EVERY sentence. Of course they made a SMALL effort, because they had camera crews there. They had to make some sort of effort, but it was not a real effort. OK brain child, riddle me this....... If we went into Iraq for WMD's, then why just hours after the planes crashed did Rumsfeld order his people to find anything they could to attack Sadam???
You see, for the many simpletons in the room, they were not looking for WMD's and used that as an excuse for their multiple war plan that they had been planning for years.
"A W Smith - there was no ability proved to perform such an operation because the operation never took place beyond pen to paper. they were never READY to perform such an operation"
It shows ability to, motive, and a history of thinking about it. Just the same things that a COURT OF LAW uses in trial cases. Then again I don't expect you to understand that because you appear not to understand simple little things such as that.
"A W Smith - you neuter dogs and cats also? do you have a license for that?'
A childs mind just won't change no matter what, at least you have shown this with your comment! Since you obviously have not surpassed the 4th grade level in school....... A VET is SHORT for VETERAN! This is a person who serves their country in the millitary, and maybe when you grow up you will have a desire to help your country. However, I seriously doubt that because people like you never do grow up.
"A W Smith - it shows no motive. It involved no injury to citizens hence no evidence. it is far from only one step away simply proving that it never made it past conference. there are checks and balances."
First, it would have included citizens because I know that if I see a military base being attacked I am going to help the base fight off the attackers. Second, it was presented to the PRESIDENT so it went further than "conference".
"A W Smith - here we boil down to 'the Jooos did it' the only evidence you have is that you are anti Semitic, racist, or both. If such a faction was able to muster all the resources to pull off such a conspiracy and tie up all the lose ends. then yes we are talking THOUSANDS of participants. how do you 'account' for that?"
So, then the Isrealis have NEVER attacked the US before? By the way jerk!!! I don't care what background a person has, I don't look at their education, their skin color, or the way they talk. UNLIKE YOU OBVIOUSLY!
I see, so in order to do this it would take "THOUSANDS"? WRONG! It would take a person or two to go to these countries and higher the people... You do realize that we have contacts and higher people like this all the time??? Have you ever heard of any of the over throws we have done? So they get these people to come to the country and get them the material and they are on their own.... How difficult is this for you to understand? It happens all the time. Even other countries do it, because it works so well.
"A W Smith - till the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki dropped"
And this included how many of THOUSANDS of people? Yet it did not, it was not known for YEARS. Yet you people want to keep screaming that there would be leaks and that that many people could not keep a secret.
"A W Smith - Seibel Edmonds mentioned nothing about a 911 conspiracy. she did however revealed this quoted below"
I see.... So your gonna pick and chose again??? So let's see.... She does not state the details to indicate if it was about the 9/11 plans or some other plan. But your gonna just blow off that she implicates "HIGH OFFICIALS" in 9/11? HMMM Nothing like picking and choosing what you want to know.
"A W Smith - So at the top of this post you say the FBI did not have enough information to seek arrest of OBL yet the evidence provided by Edmonds conflicts with that. So which will it be? A conspiracy by a faction of government or Incompetence by the government? you cant have both."
No it does not! She stated that he was planning something. There is no detail there to indicate whether it was 9/11 or some other attack. You however, as usual, want to make the assumption that this information is talking about 9/11. Perhaps it was, but there has been no EVIDENCE to show that. Yet, Siebel Edmonds has CLEARLY stated multiple times that people in the government would go to jail if 9/11 was truely investigated. One is a far cry from another.
I don't expect anything like FACTS to get in your way though..... So as you were and carry on......
"T.A.M. - A blanket "Physics says this or that shouldn't happen is not sufficient. If that were the case, then all engineers besides those involved in the NIST investigation would be screaming it from the roof tops. Of all the members of the structural engineering community, most of which I would guess have at least read some summaries of the NIST reports, none of them have come out and said the physics is wrong, or that the towers couldnt have collapsed the way NIST says they did. You must provide a scientific work or reference that takes the NIST findings and proves them wrong. Otherwise, the statement is opinion. So far, I have seen one attempt, and I believe Greening's Paper counters it. Likewise, if a structural engineer could prove the NIST findings impossible, he would certainly publish his work in a reputable peer reviewed journal, as this would be a monumental, career making paper...yet I see none."
OK.... I have already supplied numerous listing, perhaps I will find a reply further on when you read them but here goes again.
If you look at that video I posted earlier, you will find a STRUCTURAL ENGINEER who states that WTC7 was an IMPLOSION!
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doc...2F11+mysteries
How about this Controll Demollition expert?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoSO...0911 jowenko
Steven Jones knocks down Greening's "theory" with SCIENTIFIC experiments!
http://www.journalof911studies.com/J...radeCenter.pdf
Just do a search on Greening in the PDF to find the information.
Here is another person, but this one is Anonymous. If you want to know more, then ask Dr. Jones:
"Comments from a Structural Engineer / Architect
• “It occurred to me that structural engineers and architects are
practitioners of static physics [like yourself] although we use
different terminology peculiar to our professions to elaborate
on our designs.
• “I am surprised how few of my colleagues have expressed
public disbelief at the official line which lurches from theory to
theory as the shortcomings of each became apparent. I guess
they have run out of ideas on Building 7.
• “You nailed the biggest problem when you focused on the
symmetry of collapse in comparison to the asymmetry of the
damage... Steel high rises are designed (and overdesigned) as
cantilever beams on end. There is so much redundant steel in
these buildings because they have to resist hurricane force
winds. Was there a hurricane in New York on Sept 11?
• “If steel framed structures designed by world class engineers
(who are still being commissioned to design high rises
elsewhere in the world) can collapse with so little provocation, I
should send my diploma back and take up fortune telling.”"
Again in Steven Jones's document:
Structural Engineers strongly criticize the final NIST report on WTC collapses: New Civil Engineer, October 6, 2005.
• “World Trade Center disaster investigators [at NIST] are refusing to show
computer visualizations of the collapse of the Twin Towers despite calls
from leading structural and fire engineers, NCE has learned.
• “Visualisations of collapse mechanisms are routinely used to validate the
type of finite element analysis model used by the [NIST] investigators.
• “The collapse mechanism and the role played by the hat truss at the top
of the tower has been the focus of debate since the US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) published its findings….
• “University of Manchester [U.K.] professor of structural engineering Colin
Bailey said there was a lot to be gained from visualising the structural
response. “NIST should really show the visualisations; otherwise the
opportunity to correlate them back to the video evidence and identify any
errors in the modeling will be lost,” he said….
• “A leading US structural engineer said NIST had obviously devoted enormous resources to the development of the impact and fire models. “By comparison the global structural model is not as sophisticated,” he said. “The software used [by NIST] has been pushed to new limits, and there have been a lot of simplifications, extrapolations and judgment calls.”
"T.A.M. - As the 18-30 storey building "Chunk" above the impact zone fell, it wiped out the building floors below with little to no resistance (in comparison to the force acting downward). As a result the building below the zone appeared to collapse with ease, falling in near free fall time."
OK, then what took out the core?? What you are describing would mean that the floors would RIP themselves from the core and fall. Sure the core could suffer damage, but a large portion of it would be still standing. By all means, please explain how the core which was the large load baring part of the building was destroyed by this "theory".
"I believe there was some damage to some of the support structure, but my memory is poor on the exacts at this moment.
As for the fires, numerous pictures posted here have shown fires raging through multiple floors of WTC7, and a few pictures show smoke coming from nearly every floor on the south side facade. There is alot of testimony from firemen on the scene that the fires were out of control, and hence part of the reason why efforts were ceased on it so early."
OK, so why didn't these fall down?? If the "theory" put forth is true, then these buildings should have fallen as well after all they are actually worse fires than what the WTC had:
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wt...an_plaza_c.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/b7..._fire_lg_c.jpg
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/b7...b_la_fire1.jpg
"T.A.M. - A topic unto itself. Let me just say that "squadrons" and "contingents" can be referred to as "it", and there was a firefighting contingent formed in a perimeter around WTC7 that day. He could have been referring to the contingent, as a whole, as "it". I could go into further detail wrt what actual authority Larry would have or not have to call for a demolition of a building in this scenario, but it has been beaten to death on this board."
OK, but you do realize that you are stating that the fire department needed to get approval from Larry for doing this! The fire department is in charge from the moment they enter a fire scene and until they determine that it is resolved. So you are now saying that Larry was running things at WTC7, is that what your saying? If not, then why in the world would the fire department even need to call Larry to talk with him about anything? If they could not do anything, then they relinquish control to who ever is next in line. Since Larry told them to move back, the firemen were not in control, so who was?
"T.A.M. - 1. Provide me testimony from Nicholas DeMasi confirming the story.
2. Please provide me with any other rescue workers besides these two "partners" who saw, in any way, the black boxes."
If you would have READ the article, you would have read that he states that MANY people saw them with the black boxes. He aslo states that he will not BETRAY his brothers by naming them without their permission. Someone that has INTEGRITY!
"T.A.M. - The NTSB deferred to the FBI all investigation due to the criminal nature of the crashes. The NTSB is, for the most part, a safety board, formed to determine the accidental causes of crashes to help enhance safety in the future. If you have a problem with why they didnt do more, ask them why."
Sure, and I will probably get the same answer that everyone else gets "National Security". It's amazing how something the whole world witnessed is national security.
"T.A.M. - Please show me a VALID reference that states that within hours of the crashes they had anything that couldnt be garnished from a passenger manifest."
You did not just say that did you???? Are you kidding me? First of all.... They would have to COMB the manifests and try to identify EVERYONE on the planes.... Then they would have to try and find the information from the INS as to what they had on them. Then they would have to review the information to validate it. etc. etc. etc.
You really think that in just a couple of hours they can have all this information? They first need to find out what port of entry they entered the US from. There are SEVERAL ports they could enter from, so do you realize the time involved to obtain that information?
"T.A.M. - 1. The cost of the full investigation, including legal costs, I believe was the number you quote. Do you have any info on how much it cost to INVESTIGATE Clintons "BJ" activity...just the INVESTIGATION."
No I do not.
"T.A.M. - 2. The $160K you speak of...was this for FEMA or for the FBI. They do not need to provide funding to the FBi to investigate, as they are a preexisting organization, that would simply deviate the needed man power. This quote is too vague."
This was for the 9/11 Ommission Commission.
"T.A.M. - 3. If not 5 Democratic Politicians and 5 Republican Politicians, than who...who should have been on the committee. Do not cry foul without a suggestion for who should have been on the commission."
How about EXPERTS? You know like Structural Engineers, Construction Engineers, basically anyone who has the technical ability to know what they are looking for and what to ask. Do you know the reason why Kissenger resigned from the commission? It was because the Jersey girls asked him if one of his clients was OBL. Does this sound like a committee that is not biased? Even the next person to take charge was questioned by them.
You might want to be careful.... Your not using the "quote" button so people can track the quotes. Despite the fact that it says "quote", you are still not complying with the Members Terms since everyone here wants to play that game.