WTC7 and the NIST free fall failure

Oh vey! Achimspok you make no sense man. You posted this NIST diagram, which color-codes the damage.

Floors 11-13 are either yellow, orange or red. That means the windows were broken. Duh.
You're arguing against your own evidence?:boggled:

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4093/pic00084.png

Some time back femr2 posted a colour (or intensity? .. can't be bothered to look it up) adjusted still of the S side burning. Achimspok used it in post #828, among others perhaps.

It shows light patches behind the smoke which femr2 and achimspok presume to be unbroken windows. But it ain't that simple, as many of these patches are actually along the line of the decorative facade between the window rows, not the windows themselves. In other cases they are directly adjacent to the 'gash' where no pane of glass could possibly be expected to have survived that shock of WTC1 debris. Even accepting their analysis at face value, there's still a huge number of broken windows to belch the smoke. "Most of the windows are unbroken" is, to be Beachnutesque, delusional.

Basically they are both so eager to grasp at so-called 'evidence' that their desire to believe overwhelms their ability to reason.
 
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What evidence are you talking about? A FOX article written by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro? Wow, it's time to look a little closer before I take a day off to ROFL.

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro: "Building 7 suddenly collapsed, and before it hit the ground, not a single sound emanated from the tower area."

What hit the ground? The building? The roof? Not a single sound?
Any physical explanation for that (other than the speed of sound)?

OK, let's see who says so? An Ex-Global Tabloid and Crime reporter.
Now, the founder of the "Bush Restoration Project" :eye-poppi
who wants to TEACH AMERICA how "America betrayed President Bush" (FOX News) the living symbol of individual freedom.

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Obviously we deal with some sycophant and conspiracy theorist.

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Hey, some palestinian school boy had prior knowledge that the plane will lose its rudder.

Sure, he don't like Obama and he don't like Jesse Ventura. FOX gave him room for development.

Back in 2001 he was a Crime reporter for Gammit and "close" to Building 7.

"...several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein..."

I guess it was some kind of "Hey Jeff, Larry is on the line if we may pull it."

Now that's your "evidence", Dave! It's some Jack Kelly type of expert I guess.

Btw, you were perfectly right about my conclusion when I first read the article. Now, I checked it and my conclusion was right.

Alles klar.

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Stop dancing around questions by introducing different, irrelevant material. Every additional post you make is doggier then the one before it.
 
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Some time back femr2 posted a colour (or intensity? .. can't be bothered to look it up) adjusted still of the S side burning. Achimspok used it in post #828, among others perhaps.

This one?

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On edit, actually I think I meant to post this one:
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I recall femr2 describing it as a composite of (many?) individual video frames, from which he had removed the smoke using some kind of filter.

I can't disagree with your further analysis, just wanted to clarify, in hopes that no one sees that image with the smoke removed and thought - hey, there's no smoke. I'm not accusing anyone here of saying that, but I could see how someone might.
 
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This one?

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/1521/wtc7groove2b.jpg

On edit, actually I think I meant to post this one:
http://femr2.ucoz.com/_ph/7/68492381.png


I recall femr2 describing it as a composite of (many?) individual video frames, from which he had removed the smoke using some kind of filter.

I can't disagree with your further analysis, just wanted to clarify, in hopes that no one sees that image with the smoke removed and thought - hey, there's no smoke. I'm not accusing anyone here of saying that, but I could see how someone might.

achimspok posted the first of those in #828, where clearly (assuming dark windows = broken) the majority are broken. Including virtually all those down the front SW edge, where achimspok later claimed many were intact and therefore could not be issuing smoke. Duh :confused:
 
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I don't believe that there were top-secret physical or digital records in the NY offices of the secret service or the CIA that weren't backed up elsewhere. Demolition of a building to destroy files is a stupid idea, worthy of a b-grade movie, not real life. In my place of employment on 9/11/2001, our digital records were backed up daily to storage in another state.

Alles klar, herr Kommisar?

My bank's mainframe was at the Trade Center. Thank god they backed up the financial records somewhere else. As for their ATM servers, they decided to have the redundancies in another building in the Trade Center. As a result, for a good 6 months after 9/11 I didn't have to pay ATM fees at other ATMs (they reimbursed other bank's fees and waived their own for using another institution).

IIRC it was still Bank of New York then.
 
Don't play dumb. We spent pages arguing with you about how you said the origin of the smoke eminating from the WTC7 was really caused by the smoke and wake effect from the fire in WTC6. Now you're dancing around again.

My question, to clarify your logic: If the smoke from WTC6 could be drawn up the height of WTC7 by wind/wake effect, how can you discount that the smoke from WTC7 itself could also be drawn up by wind/wake effect?
It's you who play dumb. You argued that the wake effect cannot be drawn up the height of WTC7.
1) you draw the wrong direction of wind.
2) you didn't understand that a range of +/-45° always cause vortexes along the edges of the south face.
3) you tried to deny the photographic evidence of the wake effect up the height of WTC7 after the WTC2 collapse (same effect at the WFC and up the entire height of WTC1).
4) you misinterpreted the direction of the wind as shon in the satallite images, the Luc Courchesne video, Brooklyn Bridge video, ...
5) you showed (or alienentity) repeatedly showed the vortexes along the edges stating that smoke came out of the (unbroken) windows.
6) you (or alienentity) linked the Spak video showing early fires at 30, 29, 22 and 19 while ignoring that holy NIST stated that these fires died down without spreading.
7) you ignore(d) what NIST says about the fires.
8) you ignore video footage and photographic evidence that these fires indeed died down early without spreading far.
9) you (or someone else) cited witnesses (Bolyle, Rotanz) who saw 20 floors on fire burning "inferno" while the evidence clearly show that such a fire NEVER happened.
10) you (or someone else) cited Hayden about a bulge in a corner that wasn't there anymore while the photographic evidence shot later that day shows no bulge.
11) you ignore the photographic evidence and the Spak video showing that huge amounts of smoke eminating from the crater/roof of WTC6 was drawn towards Wtc7.
12) instead you expected a wake effect of the lower floors or the full height of the Verizon building while stating at the same time that the lower buildings cause less wind and ignoring the positional relation between crater and Verizon
13) you ignored that the smoke from the crater still must be there and do not disappear just because it billows up the south face.
14) you ignore that the Spak video at 1pm shows 2 distinct sources of smoke (the corner damage and piled up debris + WTC6) while no smoke or fire came from any of the SEC floors especially in the SE quater where NIST already did a little warm up for the simulation.
15) there is no evidence of any fire on any other floor then the floors mentioned in the NIST report - means (30,29,22,19 died down early + 7,8,9,11,12,13 first observed after 2pm)
Now, ...

Several posters have shown you images of thick, dark smoke coming from the windows of WTC7...you can't keep handwaving evidence and try to force a square peg in a round hole.

...you once again bring up either the early fires or images taken later that day (mostly after 3pm) to account for what?
I never denied any of the fires at 30,29,22,19 and 7,8,9,11,12,13. I perfectly know that smoke from these floors that didn't emerge in the north must somehow emerge in the south.
The point is,
1) until 2pm was no fire in the north or east or west because the early fires in the west already died down beyond any visible fire or smoke.
2) there is no evidence for any fire spreading through entire floors other than the later fires at lower floors mentioned in the NIST report.
3) those later fires especially at the SEC floors obviously developed without any sign until about 2pm

My initial questions were:

Where were these fires between 10:28am and 2pm without any visible fire or smoke?
...and it claerly do not help to show an image of smoke at 5pm.

Why did all the later fires consume entire floors while not one of the early fires did so?
...and it clearly do not help to show a vortex of smoke stating that the upper 20 floors burnt "inferno" and assuming that the entire building burnt as hell because of the south face covered in smoke.

What ignited the later fires if these fires were ignited after 10:28am?
...and it do not help to look into the NIST fire simulation because that simulation is VERY different to what the visual evidence show about the fires.

That leads to the final question:
How can a wrong precondition of such a complex and "chaotic" process lead to (not the right result but) the right result according to the predefined hypothesis?

... fires are unpredictable as hell. You don't need to be a firefighter to understand that.
Indeed. And you don't need to be a firefighter to understand that fire causes visible fire or visible smoke or heat that breaks windows or soot around those windows.

It sounds to me like your trying to say that the smoke coming from WTC7 was actually from a different building, so you're already off to a bad start.
You obviously jumped into the discussion without reading what was said before. ...bad start.
 
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... The NIST report clearly shows the areas which could not be assessed because they were obscured by smoke. Therefore they do not claim whether or not fires could have happened in those areas.
They don't know. You don't know either. ...

I posted the NIST damage estimate that clearly shows that not one of the SEC floors (later fires) were "obscured by smoke".

Not to mention that the NIST diagram he linked to shows that windows were broken all along those floors......:rolleyes:

Right, but NIST obviously mapped larger areas while there were a lot of unbroken windows especially along the SW edge while some *
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* does't get tired to state that smoke came out of these unbroken windows.

Oh vey! Achimspok you make no sense man. You posted this NIST diagram, which color-codes the damage.

Floors 11-13 are either yellow, orange or red. That means the windows were broken. Duh.

A little late but you finally got it. At least it seems so. Given the fact that floors 11-13 are either yellow, orange or red we should see any sign of a huge fire in the south east of these floors at 1pm, no?

You're arguing against your own evidence?:boggled:

No, you are not able to understand the evidence. Huge difference.
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Alles klar.
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How is this related to the nonsense in the OP about free-fall and a weak, very weak attack on NIST? 911 CTs for 1000. Engineering and physics, now SEC. What are things 911 truth ...


Remember, In 911 truth fantasy-land, fires don't make smoke. ... golly, gee, the fires in WTC 7 had no smoke... ??? 9 years of failure, how much more of this wind stuff, which you debunked yourself. Do you see numbers, or what? You did debunk your own claims on the wind; Why?

You have no clue why the rudder fell off a plane. Add NTSB, aircraft accidents, and aerodynamics to the answer, Alec. What does an accident have to do with 911 and your inside job theory. You covered about 10 topics in the past posts of woo oozing with implied idiotic conspiracy theories based on loads of BS and nonsense. I knew you would run out of technobabble and start with the pure nonsensical conspiracy theories.
 
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no-smoker = no-planer

Obvious delusion is obvious.

This is so reminiscent of Jammonius. Now applied to smoke.

What should I say. What's the word for someone who cannot bring together two points like "undamaged window = no smoke" or "damaged window = smoke if present"? What's the word for someone who self exposing his stupidity but loudly call for applause?
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How is this related to the nonsense in the OP about free-fall and a weak, very weak attack on NIST? 911 CTs for 1000. Engineering and physics, now SEC. What are things 911 truth ...

"the nonsense ... about free-fall" is just free fall. How can 9.81m/s² be nonsense at all? Self exposing like your buddy alienentity? A little applause anyone?
 
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This one?

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On edit, actually I think I meant to post this one:
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I recall femr2 describing it as a composite of (many?) individual video frames, from which he had removed the smoke using some kind of filter.

I can't disagree with your further analysis, just wanted to clarify, in hopes that no one sees that image with the smoke removed and thought - hey, there's no smoke. I'm not accusing anyone here of saying that, but I could see how someone might.

Yet, the next nonsense. You cannot use a filter to remove the smoke. You can use different fames to map the damage of the entire face. And you can use a filter to enhance contrast.

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achimspok posted the first of those in #828, where clearly (assuming dark windows = broken) the majority are broken. Including virtually all those down the front SW edge, where achimspok later claimed many were intact and therefore could not be issuing smoke. Duh :confused:
Simply use your eyes, Glenn!
 
Simply use your eyes, Glenn!

Answer the point, achimspok. Draw some pointers to the intact windows if you wish.

Meanwhile, in your graphic just above, why do we see no smoke travelling west across the face of the building prior to being swept away from the SW edge?
 
Answer the point, achimspok. Draw some pointers to the intact windows if you wish.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6840787&postcount=917

Meanwhile, in your graphic just above, why do we see no smoke travelling west across the face of the building prior to being swept away from the SW edge?

You see that smoke is more like haze. The surface of that haze catches sunlight and appears bright and sometimes white. The deeper layers of that haze catch less direct sunlight and is virtually invisible.

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Notice the haze in direct sunlight in nearly opaque while in the shadow you don't see that smoke at all.
 

Thanks. In this you label many of those lower south face edge windows as undamaged, yet they appear dark on the photos. So what are the light windows? Is that visible fire? It strikes me that, with the sun in the S, the light ones are unbroken, and that thin vertical lines of fire over several floors (we can see vertical lines of apparently single, lightened, windows) is stunningly unlikely as internal building fires take time to progress vertically and would certainly progress horizontally much quicker.

You see that smoke is more like haze. The surface of that haze catches sunlight and appears bright and sometimes white. The deeper layers of that haze catch less direct sunlight and is virtually invisible.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/889/wtc14400fotorobinlmarin.jpg
Notice the haze in direct sunlight in nearly opaque while in the shadow you don't see that smoke at all.

Cool story bro'. We can see the windows through the haze but not the moving plume of smoke heading W? With the sun in the S/SE surely the smoke on the building's face will be catching more light than the edge of the plume facing a camera in the SW?

Afternoon 'haze' at WTC7 :

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I found the video I had in mind when I suggusted that the decisions made were important enough to be interested in the name of some engineer.



Another interesting video about the evacuation order:



R. Sheirer: "...one of my Deputy Directors got on the radio and told me that he had just been ordered to evacuate the building."

Who was that Deputy Director? Rotanz?

John Odermatt, Sheirer’s top deputy, also goes to the North Tower and says that, after the first plane hit, he leaves only two staffers at the command center. John Farmer, who heads the 9/11 Commission unit that assesses the city response to the attacks, will find it “strange that Sheirer, four OEM deputies, and a field responder went straight to the North Tower… rather than to the nearby emergency command center.” Journalists Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins will conclude, “[T]he command center was out of business from the outset.” [Barrett and Collins, 2006, pp. 31 and 34]
Sheirer stays at the North Tower lobby until soon after 9:30 a.m., when Mayor Giuliani requests he joins him at the temporary command post at 75 Barclay Street (see (9:50 a.m.-10:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 5/18/2004 pdf file] John Farmer will later complain, “We [the 9/11 Commission] tried to get a sense of what Sheirer was really doing. We tried to figure it out from the videos. We couldn’t tell. Everybody from OEM was with him, virtually the whole chain of command. Some of them should have been at the command center.” Fire Captain Kevin Culley, who works as a field responder at OEM, is later asked why most of the OEM’s top brass were with him at the scene of the incident. He says, “I don’t know what they were doing. It was Sheirer’s decision to go there on his own. The command center would normally be the focus of a major event and that would be where I would expect the director to be.” When the 9/11 Commission later investigates OEM’s shortcomings on 9/11, “No rationale for Sheirer’s prolonged lobby stay, no information conveyed to commanders, and no steps to coordinate the response” will be discovered.

Emergency responders in the lobby of the north WTC tower hear an unconfirmed report of a third plane heading toward New York. Consequently, Assistant Fire Chief Joseph Callan orders all firefighters to evacuate the tower. The third plane report is soon found to be incorrect. One firefighter tells a colleague over radio, “That plane is ours, I repeat, it is ours.” Rescue operations therefore continue. [New York Times, 7/7/2002; New York City Fire Department, 8/19/2002, pp. 32; Fire Engineering, 9/2002; Associated Press, 11/16/2002] The source of the incorrect report is apparently Richard Rotanz, the deputy director of the New York Office of Emergency Management (OEM), who is reportedly in the OEM command center on the 23rd floor of WTC Building 7. A Secret Service agent in WTC 7 reportedly told him there were unconfirmed reports of other planes in the air. When OEM Director Richard Sheirer called Rotanz some time after the second WTC tower was hit, Rotanz relayed this information, telling him there were “still planes unaccounted for that may [be] heading for New York.” Sheirer then told people in the North Tower lobby “that another plane was on the way.” Journalists Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins, in their book Grand Illusion, blame Sheirer for “instantly converting unspecific information into a very specific false alarm.” This false alarm quickly ends up on fire and police department dispatches. Sheirer is apparently so unnerved by it that he instructs the police department aviation unit to not let another plane hit the WTC. As he will later tell the 9/11 Commission, though, “We were grasping at straws,” since no police helicopter could “stop a commercial jet going over 400 miles per hour.” [Firehouse Magazine, 9/2/2002; 9/11 Commission, 5/18/2004 pdf file; Barrett and Collins, 2006, pp. 32-33] Emergency medical technician Richard Zarrillo is currently in WTC 7, and is informed by an OEM rep there of the alleged third plane inbound for New York. While the rest of Building 7 was evacuated earlier on (see (9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001), this false threat reportedly leads to the evacuation of the OEM command center as well (see (9:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [City of New York, 10/25/2001] (However, some accounts indicate the command center may have been evacuated earlier (see (Soon After 8:46 a.m.-9:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and (Shortly Before 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001).) Soon after hearing this false report of a third inbound plane, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, and OEM Director Richard Sheirer will all leave the North Tower lobby and relocate to a temporary command post on Barclay Street (see (9:50 a.m.-10:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Kerik, 2001, pp. 334; 9/11 Commission, 5/18/2004 pdf file; Barrett and Collins, 2006, pp. 342]
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=richard_sheirer
 
Thanks. In this you label many of those lower south face edge windows as undamaged, yet they appear dark on the photos. So what are the light windows? Is that visible fire? It strikes me that, with the sun in the S, the light ones are unbroken, and that thin vertical lines of fire over several floors (we can see vertical lines of apparently single, lightened, windows) is stunningly unlikely as internal building fires take time to progress vertically and would certainly progress horizontally much quicker.
Most of the light appearing "windows" are the spaces between the windows (vertically and horizontally) where the brown cover fell off. Some of the windows appear white or half white to. For me it looks like blinds pulled down half the way or falling down due to the impact of the debris.


Cool story bro'. We can see the windows through the haze but not the moving plume of smoke heading W?
Exactly bro' but you need a little less of arrogant attitude and a little more of understanding the difference between haze and a 100% opaque material to see whats happening.

With the sun in the S/SE surely the smoke on the building's face will be catching more light than the edge of the plume facing a camera in the SW?
ABC 01:54pm LIVE. Wind direction NNW. What did you say about the sun?

Afternoon 'haze' at WTC7 :

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Fine bro', well done. Show me you IQ!
"We can see the windows through the haze but not..."
Do you see any window in your sh**?
 
ABC 01:54pm LIVE. Wind direction NNW. What did you say about the sun?

Maybe you need to look at a map of lower Manhattan / New York City along with viewing the direction of the smoke that you see in those videos before saying "NNW"???
 

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