it seems as though you all have thought very much about this issue and have researched it extensivly. perhpas you could address some particular issues with which I find intruiging and worthy of further analysis. I appologise for typing the links longhand, apparently members with fewer than 15 posts aren't allowed to post links.
Welcome to the forum! You're in for a bumpy ride, but you are far more welcome here than we are at the Loose Change forum.
Initially the most convincing evidence I saw that the twin towers where taken down by explosives where the demolition squibs found in most of the videos showing the collapse.
911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/squibs.html
Here's a good sight where you can really check it out. The loose change video also shows a whole bunch of them frrom different video tapes.
We covered this somewhere in the 85 preceding pages. I know its huge but it would be good etiquette to read them and respond to the responses, not just present the same evidence we've already seen.
physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html
Here's a research paper by Professor Steven E Jones, a physics professor at Brigham Young University, which brings to light some very interesting evidence regarding molten steel found at ground zero, more info on the demolition squibs, the phenomena of WTC 7, and what appears to be cordite dripping from one of the towers before it falls.
We've seen all this too.
Nobody has of yet been able to find another steel reinforced skyscraper that colllapsed because of a fire. As you can see here: portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/310898.shtml
there are many buildings in which fires have raged far longer and hotter than in the WTC towers and have stood firm. As a matter of fact the WTC itself had an inferno within it that lasted for 3 hours in the 1970's, and that was before they added fireproofing technology like sprinklers, elevator shaft dampers, and electrical system fireproofing.
And this.
You may say that it was a combination of the impact of the jet and the fire that caused the collapse, the fire not melting the steel but weekening it enouph for it to not be able to support the building. However, even if that where true (which experts in "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" seem not to think), the steal beams below the fire would retain their structural integrety and would remain standing or would only bend, causing the building to fall sideways rather than straight down. The reason you need demolitions to bring down a building like this is because you have to cut the steel beams into segments in order for the building to fall straight down.
Would the steel beams below the fire retain their structural integrity if the building above fell down upon them? You're going to need a lot of math to prove that. Also, you don't know what is happening to the core inside the building. The outer shell is collapsing straight down, but inside the building, the vertical core sgments could be shearing, bending, snapping or toppling. How do you know whats happening in there?
The fires in the trade center where actually dying down before the collapse, as indicated by black smoke coming from the towers. Here there's a recording of a fire fighter who reached the 78th floor of the second tower and seemed to think that the fire would be easy to contain.
wnyc.org/news/articles/7869
You going to need a lot of math regarding the heat conductivity of steel, concrete etc to show that the steel was actually cooling while the fires died down. Steel retains heat for a long time. How small does a fire have to be for the net tempertaure change to be negative rather than positive? If you want to make a claim its up to you to do the working.
Ben Fountain, a financial analyst who worked in the World Trade Center Complex, told People Magazine that in the weeks before 9/11 there were numerous unnanounced and unusual drills where sections of both the twin towers and building 7 were evacuated for "security reasons". This allows for an explanation as to how the bombs could have appeared within the towers.
In this thread its been clearly shown that rigging the WTC for demolition would have taken weeks, not hours. Does Ben Fountain or any of the other 20,000+ survivors describe any evidence of the building being torn up and put back together after one of these drills?
Then of course there's the put options:
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/19/BU184559.DTL
made before the attacks which indicate the strong possibility of forknowledge of the attack and of which Lyn Howard claimed that the CBOE was investigating. To date no such investigation has been made public.
Tiresome old news. It has been investigated, but the findings were too boring to make it onto the moonbat boards.
Another peculiar piece of information which should also be investigated is Larry Silverstein's purchase of the 2 main WTC buildings and a substantial insurance claim put in effect, both shortly before the 9/11 attacks. He even went so far as to demand twice the insurance reimbersement, one for each seperate plane crash.
How dare he buy stuff! How dare he insure it! How dare he claim on the insureance! What on earth is so strange about this?
So these are a few preliminary pieces of evidence that I submit to your forum in the interest of challenging your skeptical stance on the issue and for obtaining feedback as to possible alternate interpretations of the evidence. Most of the evidence I've presented is contained within the Loose Change 2 video.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change
You're way too late to challenge us with this stuff. If you have more however, bring it forth..
I'm personally dissapointed that the government hasn't addressed most of these issues, and there are many people (including professional physicists, engineers, and similar experts as represented in the "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" orginization) who find the goverment appointed investigations full of inconsistancies and impossibilites.
The government hasn't addressed the issues because they are in possession of so much more information than you are. They know that your questions don't even make sense when viewed alongside that evidence. They also know that your 'experts' are a tiny fringe movement of cranks working outsode their expertise, and that the general public will just believe whatever the hell they want. Answering all this nonsense would be a vast and pointless waste of time. Look what happened to the official Roswell report.... or don't you believe that either?