08-06-2011, 12:11 PM
Ed,
Could you explain the triggers you refer to? What were they triggering? Are you assuming there were bomb(like) devices which exploded and destroyed columns?
Or perhaps this set off some sort of pre placed incendiary devices which
burned through structural members which caused no explosion... and therefore no sound?
There was the odd eutectic steel found showing some sort of intense heat attack or chemical "eating away" at the steel. This sort of finding indicates that this was NOT from and explosive by some sort of incendiary. If so perhaps the fires from the plane strikes or the initial event... could simply ignite or set off these devices... which would take their time to "do their thing" until the member they were fixed to no longer could support weight - too much steel gone. This is similar to termites eating up a wood house's structure and then one day it collapses.
To me it makes more sense to use something quiet (incendiary) and which would take time and "mimic" some sort of natural destruction that a heat weakened steel frame would manifest. And then blame it on the heat from fires. Anyway... no elaborate wiring, timing, det chord, radio control, precise sequencing necessary. This is effectively no different from leaving cans of gasoline in your house which if they catch fire will RAPIDLY cause the structure to burn... and provide the accelerant.
Could you explain the triggers you refer to? What were they triggering? Are you assuming there were bomb(like) devices which exploded and destroyed columns?
Or perhaps this set off some sort of pre placed incendiary devices which
burned through structural members which caused no explosion... and therefore no sound?
There was the odd eutectic steel found showing some sort of intense heat attack or chemical "eating away" at the steel. This sort of finding indicates that this was NOT from and explosive by some sort of incendiary. If so perhaps the fires from the plane strikes or the initial event... could simply ignite or set off these devices... which would take their time to "do their thing" until the member they were fixed to no longer could support weight - too much steel gone. This is similar to termites eating up a wood house's structure and then one day it collapses.
To me it makes more sense to use something quiet (incendiary) and which would take time and "mimic" some sort of natural destruction that a heat weakened steel frame would manifest. And then blame it on the heat from fires. Anyway... no elaborate wiring, timing, det chord, radio control, precise sequencing necessary. This is effectively no different from leaving cans of gasoline in your house which if they catch fire will RAPIDLY cause the structure to burn... and provide the accelerant.