"So are you saying that even with odds against it of a million-to-one, you would accept the credibility of the NIST 'prevailing heat from migrating office cubicle fires' hypothesis?"
"Yes, assuming you're representing the hypothesis correctly. Because it actually happened. Unlikely events happen all the time."
Unlikely events are called 'unlikely' for a reason.
"...No matter how many words you're using, you're saying "it looked like a CD to me"...."
"Well I didn't think you had to be a detective to see that?"
"Plastic can look like an apple. What something looks like is not what it is."
But a plastic apple bears no resemblance to the demolition of WTC7.
As we know, through human skill and artistry, it is possible to fool the eye regarding a real apple vs. a plastic or wax one.
But such engineering artistry from random fires migrating through office cubicles over a 7 hour period? A period in which a great deal of the heat they generated dissipated.
Supposedly, these random migrating fires, accomplished this amazing feat of demolition engineering, using a theoretical mechanism that is beyond human ability to prove physically.
"Particularly, with a visual outline previously identifiable only with steel towers felled by controlled demolition?"
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No matter how many words you're using, you're saying "it looked like a CD to me". I doubt you'll be able to provide examples of these "towers", since no building over 30 stories has been CDed. And I'll bet none of them will be on fire."
"You state that no buildings over 30 stories have ever been felled by controlled demolition [commercially].
Since these buildings tend to exist in high density commercial areas, there are obvious reasons for using other demolition methods.
Probably the biggest single reason, other than the debris cloud, is that it is hard to get buildings to drop straight down."
"So you cannot provide any evidence of the similar towers you claimed existed. Gotcha."
You aren't making any sense.
"The NIST hypothesis requires very smart fires and a secret fuel stash."
"So because they determined it probably went a certain path, it means that it had to have been directed along that path?"
No. The NIST in their report, mapped the location and progress of the fire activity throughout the afternoon.
What the NIST failed to do was present the case of extreme fire targeting column 79, particularly around the time of the building's total collapse.
"Fires that amazingly performed a complete high speed building demolition."
"Most demolitions don't take seven hours."
That's another reason why it wasn't the fires. They were not at the right place for five sequential floors, for a long enough time or at the right time.
They weren't hot enough and they could not sustain sufficient heat long enough.
The migrating office cubicle fires passed by column 79 and continued on a north westerly track until WTC7 suddenly collapsed.
Undamaged, fireproofed steel, rated for over 2 hours, at best exposed to maybe 30 minutes of flames, followed by ambient air temperatures varying as the migrating fires moved on.
"What steel towers? Provide examples."
As in steel office towers since WTC was a steel office tower. Here is an example of a 31 story concrete & steel office tower demolition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_anYswmGMeM&feature=related
I realize that 'collapse outline' aside, there is of course a big difference between an 18 and a 47 story steel office tower.
But are you honestly suggesting that office furnishing's fires were able to effectively make WTC7 implode and totally collapse?
That you believe buildings taller than 30 stories are more likely to implode than to topple?
That you believe that the visual collapse outline of a 47-story steel office tower is naturally more likely to resemble a controlled demolition?
That an off-balance topple, as gravity acts on WTC7's perceived point of structural failure, is not to be expected?
"You appear to be confused so I'll re-phrase that question.
Do you believe that demolition engineers could do what the NIST argues was possible with the prevailing heat from migrating office cubicle fires?
Induce a column failure comparable to what the NIST claims to have happened to the undamaged column 79."
"Yes, but it'd be a much, much worse than million-to-one chance of them pulling it off right. Of course, any statistician can tell you that million to one chances are well known for being unreliable. Unlikely things may happen, but a sane engineer should never count on them.
Of course, once you include the other factors you're ignoring (building on fire on multiple floors, having to plant explosives and wiring in secret in a heavily trafficked building in the middle of Manhattan, using an experimental method of demolition), then it's out and out impossible."
First of all, I would say that without reasonable proof to the contrary, the chance of WTC7 totally collapsing in the incredible manner which it did, as a result of office cubicle fires, is not something any competent engineer would have imagined possible.
And I am not ignoring the independent fires migrating on the other floors.
The necessary technology could have been installed in the core via elevator access under cover of upgrading and/or servicing.
With radio-controlled activation, most if not all of the thermally protected devices would remain unaffected by roaming peripheral office cubicle fires. Unless the enclosed elevator shafts on those lower floors were breached, damage from the main fire activity was certainly not likely to have been much of a concern.
No.
Are you arguing that the bad guys somehow directed the fire? Since when was this something controlled demo companies do in high rises, ever?
How did they make sure WTC 1 hit 7 and gave them an excuse, without damaging any of the explosives or wiring?
"No.
What I am saying is that building demolition companies would have to be magicians in order to get the necessary abeyance of reality to create high speed total steel building collapses by fire."
"They sure would. Which is why they don't use fire, on account of it being unreliable. Who do you think you're rebutting here? Fire can collapse steel buildings. It'd be nigh-impossible to do in any sort of controlled manner, but it could happen. Whether a CD crew could make fire collapse the building is not relevant to the question of whether random fire made the building collapse. Quit trying to backdoor "CD" so you can backdoor "explothermite".
I'd also like to assert that your "high-speed" has no objective scientific definition in this context, and you're using it to add credibility.
Also, you didn't answer my last question;
"How did they make sure WTC 1 hit 7 and gave them an excuse, without damaging any of the explosives or wiring?"
I'm not sure what you're looking for with this fishing expedition."
No one, outside of a war zone, uses fire as a means for destroying a building's usefulness. Fire alone, cannot be sufficiently 'controlled' to make a steel office tower implode.
The high speed failure of steel office towers
not intentionally demolished by a lower floor core removal, will inevitably perform an off balance topple.
If you are right that fire can collapse steel office towers, you should have no difficulty providing a valid example.
Assuming structural and demolition engineers are smarter and have more resources than the average migrating office cubicle fire, they should be able to test the mechanism behind the NIST collapse hypothesis and prove it possible...or not.
I mean if a random fire can do it, it should be much easier using an engineered fire.
MM