15-05-2011, 09:06 PM
Jeffrey
I picked out these three paragraphs of yours from your #62 above as representative of your thinking and depicting a process I have accepted from the beginning of discussion:
In our several decades of construction, demolition and renovation in the Land of Enchantment, we had occasion to saw, drill, grind, sand, and mechanically break with compressed air jackhammer, mechanical hammer, pneumatic-electric hammer a good deal of material. Be it stucco, slab, adobe, sheetrock, plaster, one will soon produce an atmosphere of dust driving out occupants not equipped with respiratorslet alone collapsing the building on them.
The energy to destroy the buildings was latent, inherent in the construction of the fine open spaces; one needed only to disrupt the transfer of load at limited key locations, be it by fire, impact, compromise of stabilty by removal of adjacent members.
Had we the capability to atomize mass with directed energy, the Corps of Engineers would not be using conventional explosives in Louisiana, and my friend at Raytheon would not have employment on missile systems.
As we wait for Flash Gordon, I suggest the presetting of sequential charges in key attachments of trusses to column spandrels, all performed in ceiling spaces of unoccupied floors by the efficient trades people in generic overalls.
A plane with electronic equipment would then execute detonation with technology familiar to our age. Perhaps the white plane loitering noted in multiple reports.
I picked out these three paragraphs of yours from your #62 above as representative of your thinking and depicting a process I have accepted from the beginning of discussion:
- The collapse of the twin towers was a runaway collapse and destruction of the rather flimsy floors which were designed to support 58 pounds per square foot. Whatever the mechanism was which caused the top section's floors to "break apart" or be severed from the columns which held them up... and carried their dead and live loads... once the dynamic threshold mass of floor "debris" came down upon an intact, stone cold undamaged floor... that floor shattered... unable to support the imposed load. It's that simple.
This process repeated rather rapidly... at the rate of 60 mph of 10 floors per second until all the floors were destroyed, crushed, fractured and they and the contents pulverized by the aggregate weight of the debris. Even if 20% (which is way way way too high) turned to fine powder and was carried aloft in the air... the remaining 80% of the floors mass was more than enough to crush anything except steel and a few other strong materials... toilets, telephones, wall board, carpet, ceiling tiles, and so forth was crushed beyond recognition. If you don't think it would happen.... drop a few hundred thousand tons of debris on any of those items and see if you can find them intact.
The very strong columns... increasingly strong as you move down the towers toppled over when they lost the bracing which the floors system had provided. Basic science and Judy Wood should know Euler if she is an engineer. But she's a self promoter of fairly tales. Gage is completely out of his league when it comes to structures and physics as is apparently Cole and David Chandler, who refuse to acknowledge the observations of the towers' collapse.
In our several decades of construction, demolition and renovation in the Land of Enchantment, we had occasion to saw, drill, grind, sand, and mechanically break with compressed air jackhammer, mechanical hammer, pneumatic-electric hammer a good deal of material. Be it stucco, slab, adobe, sheetrock, plaster, one will soon produce an atmosphere of dust driving out occupants not equipped with respiratorslet alone collapsing the building on them.
The energy to destroy the buildings was latent, inherent in the construction of the fine open spaces; one needed only to disrupt the transfer of load at limited key locations, be it by fire, impact, compromise of stabilty by removal of adjacent members.
Had we the capability to atomize mass with directed energy, the Corps of Engineers would not be using conventional explosives in Louisiana, and my friend at Raytheon would not have employment on missile systems.
As we wait for Flash Gordon, I suggest the presetting of sequential charges in key attachments of trusses to column spandrels, all performed in ceiling spaces of unoccupied floors by the efficient trades people in generic overalls.
A plane with electronic equipment would then execute detonation with technology familiar to our age. Perhaps the white plane loitering noted in multiple reports.