04-06-2013, 01:04 AM
Interesting piece by a what appears to me to be a good journalist. He does admit to having the need to have questions answered which he feels had not been at the time (at least). It should be pointed out that the collapse time or the effects of heat on structural steel are naive and show he is not armed with the facts to ask the right questions. And there are many questions to ask. Structural steel does not need to reach melting temp to fail. And once the structure has begun to redistribute loads, it enters a phase of rapidly increasing rate of a runaway progressive collapse with the overloads seen by the remaining parts of the structure seeing extreme rapid increase in stresses (loads). The resulted in the frame breaking apart like a collection of pick up sticks or falling like a house of cards.
And the collapse period is actually quite indeterminate though it was very brief (and not unexpectedly so) since it was close to 500,000 tons of material collapsing. It's not about to float to earth like a feather.
What Fiske and so many don't know is that these towers were innovative and never before seen designs. These towers were not your run of the mill sky scrapers... which likely would have fared differently. That discussion and the awareness and implication of the designs themselves has simply been completely ignored and is very crucial to understanding their total collapse.
Fiske and others know that official spin, conceal, deceive and lie for all manner of reasons even when they are not covering up their own crimes of commission. We see this sort of prevarication daily and have come to realize that the media is completely incapable of holding officials feet to the fire. But rather the reverse they simply report what they are told without question and give it an imprimatur by so doing. And now with the internet what Fiske refers to as ravens pop up fueled by internet activists and sleuths. These ravens are now a permanent fixture at public speaking events demanding answers and accountability. And many of them are nothing more than loose canons. Perhaps most. But not all.
And the collapse period is actually quite indeterminate though it was very brief (and not unexpectedly so) since it was close to 500,000 tons of material collapsing. It's not about to float to earth like a feather.
What Fiske and so many don't know is that these towers were innovative and never before seen designs. These towers were not your run of the mill sky scrapers... which likely would have fared differently. That discussion and the awareness and implication of the designs themselves has simply been completely ignored and is very crucial to understanding their total collapse.
Fiske and others know that official spin, conceal, deceive and lie for all manner of reasons even when they are not covering up their own crimes of commission. We see this sort of prevarication daily and have come to realize that the media is completely incapable of holding officials feet to the fire. But rather the reverse they simply report what they are told without question and give it an imprimatur by so doing. And now with the internet what Fiske refers to as ravens pop up fueled by internet activists and sleuths. These ravens are now a permanent fixture at public speaking events demanding answers and accountability. And many of them are nothing more than loose canons. Perhaps most. But not all.