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rollingrock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-15-09 04:56 PM
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What happened to 180 thousand tons of concrete?
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At ground zero, there was almost nothing left remaining of 90,000 tons of concrete from each tower and 400,000 tons of steel.




...it was literally pulverized into dust.




No large chunks of concrete were found at ground zero.

What kind of awesome destructive power could do that to 90,000 tons of concrete?
...pulverizing it into massive fine dust clouds with average particle sizes ranging from
100-microns to 10mm, or the thickness of a human hair. Could gravity and fire achieve this
kind of destruction, or was there massive explosive energy forces involved?















"You have two 110 story office buildings, you don't find a desk, you don't find a chair, you don't find a telephone a computer the biggest piece of a telephone I found was half of a keypad, and it was about this big (makes hand gesture)...the building collapsed to dust."

-Joe Casaliggi, Engine 7, FDNY firefighter at ground zero.











What happened to the hundreds of thousands of file cabinets in the Twin Towers?




"What I expected to see was nothing like what I did see at the time of my arrival, at the site. There wasn't much that you could say, that you could describe. Everything was dust and metal. There was no typewriters, there was no chairs, there was no...there was no nothing."

-Lt. Kenneth Christiansen, Leader Company 5, FDNY





What happened to the victims' bodies?

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