9/11: "Controlled demolition" of WTC towers

[eyeball]

Right, remember those huge complexes run by Bin Laden that were under some mountains? Oh how about those mobile chemical weapons factories that Hussein supposedly had.

It's the image of conservatives in diapers waving these cartoons around like they were forensic photographs that really stand out most. I'm reminded of taxme's "works for me" nonsense.

Worked so well they got away with it twice.

[Moonlight Graham]

In 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology remarked that the case was exceptionally bizarre. There were no other known cases of total structural collapses in high-rise buildings caused by fires and so it is deeply unusual that it should have happened three times in the space of one day, noted NIST.

How many other times have airliners full of jet fuel plowed into such very high skyscrapers?

It's not that hard to believe that when about 1/3 of a building (and about 1/5 from the other tower) falls on top of itself it may collapse from that weight. It's also hard to believe you could keep this kind of conspiracy a secret, especially given how inept the Bush admin was much of the time.

[kimmy]

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Renowned Physics Journal Concludes in New Study: All 3 WTC Towers Collapsed Due to Controlled Demolition

The new study is the work of Steven Jones, former full professor of physics at Brigham Young University, Robert Korol, a professor emeritus of civil engineering at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, Anthony Szamboti, a mechanical design engineer with over 25 years of structural design experience in the aerospace and communications industries and Ted Walter, the director of strategy and development for Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a nonprofit organization that today represents more than 2,500 architects and engineers.

So the first tip off that something is amiss is the name Steven Jones, whose name is synonymous with the 9/11 Truthies and has long ago lost any scientific credibility he had. Aside from his conspiracy theories, he's best known for the Cold Fusion fiasco and for trying to use Carbon Dating to prove that Jesus visited North America after the crucifixion. The last I read from him was some "free energy" nonsense where he's trying to figure out whether a simple circuit called a "Joule Thief oscillator" is actually a perpetual motion machine that creates power from nowhere. The dude has gone mental.

The second is that Europhysics News isn't a "renowned physics journal" as the author claims. It's a magazine, not a peer-reviewed scientific publication.

Visiting the article in question, the very first thing is a disclaimer from the editors that the article is speculative and not a study at all.

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS

This feature is somewhat different from our usual

purely scientific articles, in that it contains some

speculation. However, given the timing and the

importance of the issue, we consider that this

feature is sufficiently technical and interesting

to merit publication for our readers. Obviously,

the content of this article is the responsibility

of the authors.

It's just more speculation, not new scientific research. Speculation from the same crew of kooks who've been saying the same thing for 15 years.

-k

[DogOnPorch]

You can always tell who wasn't awake yet on September 11th, 2001.

[PIK]

The reason America said saddam had WMD is because they sold them to him. There were either destroyed in a bombing or shipped out of country.

[DogOnPorch]

The reason America said saddam had WMD is because they sold them to him. There were either destroyed in a bombing or shipped out of country.

Not true. America sold Saddam thiodiglycol which has 1,000s of uses. From inks to solvents. Saddam chose to use it to make mustard gas.

[Moonlight Graham]

Not true. America sold Saddam thiodiglycol which has 1,000s of uses. From inks to solvents. Saddam chose to use it to make mustard gas.

And what else do you use anthrax for?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/31/iraq.politics

[DogOnPorch]

And what else do you use anthrax for?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/31/iraq.politics

Anthrax is used in sheep farming/herding for serum production.

And Saddam didn't use bio-weapons. He used nerve agents supplied via the Arab world...not America. The know-how taught in Soviet universities.

Edited September 20, 2016 by DogOnPorch