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plaguepuppy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-24-04 04:09 AM
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43. Sometimes slow is good
The most plausible scenario I can come up with that fits all the video and physical evidence is something like this:

Cutting charges were used, probably something like the linear shaped charges that are used commercially. These are made by the foot like extruded molding, a high explosive backed with metal, ceramic, a hard plastic, something to reflect the explosion forward. It creates a very focused linear shock wave that slices right through steel beams - that's what they are designed for:

http://www.lshd.com/client/ebad/aerospace/linear_shaped_charge.php

They were connected to wireless detonators, probably something like this: http://hiex.bc.ca/products.html

Obviously the people planning 911 were buddies of Rumsfeld and a certain ex-Chief of CIA, and had access to the best available technology, including more sophisticated versions of things like the Tele-Blaster but also including items of advanced technology from the ample bosom of the Black Budget, funded as it is by both overt and crime money. What kind of exotic bling-bling may hang there is beyond my imaginings, though I have hear third hand that "if you can imagine it they have it." Don't underestimate what some clever engineers and billions of dollars can produce.

The detonators were controlled by a computer, possibly in the "mayor's emergency command center" on the 23rd floor of Building Seven (an odd place to put a hardened bunker). These could be sequenced to suit the demolitions to the exact location of the plane hits to to best simulate a "natural" collapse. In the South Tower the first charges were set off just below the point of impact and sequenced at an almost linear rate down the bottom 80 or so stories. Somewhere in the sequence, possibly starting before the visible collapse, the core columns were also cut. To keep the collapse contained it's best to start dropping the core a little before the outer columns so that the outer walls are pulled in. There was a large charge at the base of each core tower possibly thermite or a mini-nuke, to make sure it would be sure to fall straight down - otherwise the very strong grillage bases would have kept a large remnant of the core upright:



But the fact that the collapse was begun at this level created a problem: the large upper section could now topple and create more extensive collateral damage. The solution to this was to begin to cut up the top section internally just as it started to topple. This allows the angular momentum to be lost in the turbulent cloud of debris and lets it drop almost vertically. Some video footage shows what look very much like flashes from cutting charges in the upper part of the South Tower, with the correct location and timing to be demolition charges:

http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/Flashes/flashes.htm

The North Tower was a different story: the plane hit close enough to the top of the tower that they simply started the demolition from the very top. Even though there was almost weight load on the roof the collapse did in fact begin with the antenna and roof, not at the level of airplane damage:

http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/video%20archive/Shaking%20before%20WTC-1%20collapse.mpg


Best wishes,

Pup



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