Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis

[Tony Szamboti]

Albert, if you believe that 911 was perpetrated by insiders and there was a lot more to it than 19 hijackers and four airplanes I owe you an apology.

I don't believe it - I know it. However I think the apology should be made for not answering how no firefighters in the stairwell reported thermite fires around them just before the tower fell.

I don't think I saw your observation that no firefighters reported thermite in the stairwells.

There was only one radio transmission from firefighters who were near fires, and that from the South Tower three minutes before it fell, when chief Orio Palmer said they had reached the fire on the 78th floor and said they could knock it down with two lines. Thermite very likely would have been used on critical joints and wouldn't have been anywhere near the stairwells.

I remain agnostic on the controlled demolition. Certainly there's enough premeditation to make placed charges very possible. I just don't think they were necessarily the cause of the collapses.

The columns were certainly not involved in the collapses and the only plausible explanation I can think of is controlled demolition with devices eliminating their ability to provide structural resistance. In addition to the lack of column involvement and no deceleration problems for a natural collapse in the North Tower there is also video evidence of focused and concentrated blowouts which can only be from squibs. See this short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSApOavkHg8

The South Tower could have come down first because there was more weight above the damage area. Your controlled demolition claim has trouble there because that is a basic indicator of weakness/stress-based initiation of the collapse.

Don't you understand that the building got stronger as you moved down the tower? It was a virtual pyramid strength wise. The columns under the 28 story load on the South Tower were built to withstand an average of four times the load above them, just like the columns under the 12 story load on the North Tower were built to withstand an average of four times the load above them. The further down you went the bigger the columns got to handle the bigger load above them.