08-06-2011, 06:18 PM
The twins collapsed from the top not by being undermined at the bottom as a standard demolition would do. The core columns at floor one were still standing as "stubs"... 36' tall and they were cut in the clean up... the famous diagonal cut column. So the notion that the towers were "demo'ed" from explosive in the basement is not credible.
As for death rates at around the 20 something floor this means nothing as far as bombs causing it. The death rate would reflect the occupancy rate on each floor at the time of collapse.
As far as I can tell WTC 6 fell victim to the massive steel from the facade falling off of tower one. That steel weighed in the order of 15,000 tons falling from as high as 1,300 feet. Not many buildings can survive such an assault. Plus... you can see the panels in the hole they created in WTC 6.
I am not going to refute the points you mention. I do think there were explosions after the tower was hit. I doubt that there were before, and think Rodriquez is not credible on this. Considering there were thousands of people in the towers we should have many witnesses who heard the explosions BEFORE the plane strikes and WR is the only one I can recall. Hardly convincing.
The post strike explosions certainly included "things" in the building exploding which were not planted devices. There could have been planted devices, but we don't have visual evidence of this as far as I know. That WOULD corroborate witness testimony of hearing explosions.
The collapsing floor / avalanche was NOT uniform and areas of the "footprint" fell victim ahead of others... by a fraction of a second... but all the footprint crashed down. So seeing "expulsions" which were likely pressurized air created by the avalanche is expected. This caused a pulse at each floor which were over 200mph when then blasted through the facade. Each pair of intact floors contained 18,000 cu yards of air and when the floor above was destroyed by the advancing crush front it displaced the air through the path of least resistance - the windows... and likely shattered the slab as well. This happened in about .1 seconds per floor.
This is getting into motives for the destruction ASIDE from starting the GWOT and grabbing the Iraqi oil.
As for death rates at around the 20 something floor this means nothing as far as bombs causing it. The death rate would reflect the occupancy rate on each floor at the time of collapse.
As far as I can tell WTC 6 fell victim to the massive steel from the facade falling off of tower one. That steel weighed in the order of 15,000 tons falling from as high as 1,300 feet. Not many buildings can survive such an assault. Plus... you can see the panels in the hole they created in WTC 6.
I am not going to refute the points you mention. I do think there were explosions after the tower was hit. I doubt that there were before, and think Rodriquez is not credible on this. Considering there were thousands of people in the towers we should have many witnesses who heard the explosions BEFORE the plane strikes and WR is the only one I can recall. Hardly convincing.
The post strike explosions certainly included "things" in the building exploding which were not planted devices. There could have been planted devices, but we don't have visual evidence of this as far as I know. That WOULD corroborate witness testimony of hearing explosions.
The collapsing floor / avalanche was NOT uniform and areas of the "footprint" fell victim ahead of others... by a fraction of a second... but all the footprint crashed down. So seeing "expulsions" which were likely pressurized air created by the avalanche is expected. This caused a pulse at each floor which were over 200mph when then blasted through the facade. Each pair of intact floors contained 18,000 cu yards of air and when the floor above was destroyed by the advancing crush front it displaced the air through the path of least resistance - the windows... and likely shattered the slab as well. This happened in about .1 seconds per floor.
This is getting into motives for the destruction ASIDE from starting the GWOT and grabbing the Iraqi oil.