Collapse of the twin towers in 2001. An engineering perspective

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:watching and waiting:

Q)
How do powers and principalities of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places "consume" the "American Elephant?"

A)
One BITE at a time!

(there's a monster on loose)
(its got our heads into a noose)
(and it just sits there watching!)

If we DON'T start doing this NOW?
We won't NEED to wait until AI kills off humanity!
1 Corinthians 6:3
Know ye not that we shall judge angels?* how much more things that pertain to this life?

*not in the millennium!
NOW!
 

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As you already know, Aunt Jemima was not baking a stack of pancakes on 9/11 in lower Manhattan.

I do not believe the official account truthfully explains what occurred in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001.

Much of the concrete reportedly disintegrated into fine dust, along with materials inside the buildings, including office furniture and parts of the elevator systems.

It’s clear, on-site first responders reported extremely hot material and persistent fires at the sites for weeks afterward. The fires would not ‘go out’ because the heat was too extreme for any simple much lower jet fuel and office fire temperature environments.

Military weapons (missiles) launched from airborne platforms were involved and the commercial aircraft served as a convenient cover story. Odd, those implicated commercial jets were still in service the day after 9/11.

The aircraft impacts could not have caused the observed and then examined destruction as also thermite or thermate charges (their signature examined) were placed in advance. The official “pancaking” explanation is obviously scientifically and structurally wrong as an unviable hypothesis and foot-loose theory.

My background includes astronautical and aerospace engineering. I was also among the first several dozen published signatories supporting the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, founded by Richard Gage.

I find it difficult to dismiss all of those professionals as mistaken. In my view, many people were misled about the events, and that multiple state and non-state actors were involved warrants serious scrutiny and investigation even after all these years, rather than automatic attribution to Iraq or Saudi Arabia as they had no play on 9/11.

As a fellow engineer, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this topic and you signing the nonprofit Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, founded by Richard Gage.

God bless
 

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1. the office furnishings, ceiling tiles carpets were all non-flammable as per NYC regulations.

2. In a 110 story building, 5 floors is marginal damage.

3. Jet fuel combusts at 500 c. which is 930F. Jet fuel combusts and explodes not burn log a wood fire. so the effects of the combustion are short lived. The Jet fire would not burn long enough to comromise the steel. Other than clothing and papers, there were no combustibles there by law.

4. Industrial steel used in skyscrapers BEGINS to melt at 1370C. which is 2500F.

5. Inddustrial steel begins to soften at 1100F.

6. Those fires did not get to the 1500-1800 degrees you allege except for maybe the first few minutes when the jet fuel combusts.

7. One floor falling will result in a collapse of two - 4 floors only. Every floor collapse releases energy and destruction of material. so as the floors were dropping they would be eating the material and thus weakening and ending the collapse to the equivalent of the number of upper floors involved. This is proven architectural physics. It is known as the pnacake effect.

8. Finally damaged buildings do not collpase into their own foot print.. If a building is struck on a side and opens a gaping hole like we saw in both twin towers, the upper floors will fall onto the weakest side.

9. If you care to google search, you can see high rise skyscrapers hit by planes, fully engulfed in flames and other ctastrophes and not one of the over hundred recorded collapsed in on itself as aplanned demolition does.

Well explained
 

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Jet fuel burns at a rate sufficient to weaken the structural steel by 50% and to such a point that catastrophic failure of the exposed supports easily happens. To claim EVERYTHING in those offices were not flammable is simply naive. It was an inferno.

That's is true. A fire will weaken steel.

But here are some important facts that need to be considered.

- Only the steel in the floors impacted would weaken. Not the steel in the floors below.

- A fire cannot melt steel but molten metal was found in the wreckage.

- A building has never free fallen onto its own footprint without explosives.

- Whole buildings have been engulfed in flames but not collapsed. Here are some examples

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- Buildings that are severely damaged on one side, like the towers were, will tip over. Here are some examples

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When the weight of multiple floors, ABOVE the five damaged floors, fall a mere 15 feet ONTO the unaffected floors, the energy created is more than sufficient to created a sequential failure of every floor thereafter.

That's false according to our calculations and the calculations of many other engineers and physicists. The buildings mass would have to be much heavier and/or the columns would have to be much weaker.

That's why we've never seen a building free fall onto its own footprint without explosives. It defies the laws of physics
 

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That's why we've never seen a building free fall onto its own footprint without explosives. It defies the laws of physics

You may well be right, but how many 110 storey buildings have been hit by Boeing 767s ... I'm guessing only two!
 
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Armour of God

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You may well be right, but how many 110 storey buildings have been hit by Boeing 767s ... I'm guessing only two!

That's a fair question

While it is rare to have a plane hit a high rise building it has happened several times before.

Here are some examples

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Some important facts to note

- None of these incidents resulted the building free falling onto its own footprint

- We must not forget that trade center building 7 free fell onto its own footprint without a plane smashing into it

Thank you for your question
 

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In your discourse above you have ignored the plastic deformation of the steel near the floors where the planes crashed and the fuel feed fires. The Ultimate Tensile Strength, the UTS of the steel become lower around 300° C and as the temperature rises the UTS increases until around 600° C when the UTS heads south rapidly. You have stated that the steel was not hot enough to melt the steel columns but have not spoken about the effect of temperature on its UTS and ductile failure. Now the initial failure was a ductile failure when the weight of the floors above where the planes entered the buildings caused the initial collapse. Because the upper floors of the respective buildings were falling, the failure mechanism become an energy related problem to solve and not a static structural mechanism which was the initial failure model.

Where the planes struct the building, was an important input to cause the buildings to collapse as they did. It should be noted that because the second building was struck by the plane at a lower level which resulted in second tower failure happening first.

Providing a heat source around the planes in the buildings was also critical as the heat released by the fuel from the planes only needed to raise the bulk temperatures of the steel structures a couple of hundred degrees until the initial plastic failure occurred in the respective towers.

I totally acknowledge that the steel around the area of impact would of got hot enough for it to loose strength.

But the steel below the impact was not heat effected which is why I don't believe the buildings could collapse in a free fall onto its own footprint. Also building 7 was not hit by a plane and still came down in a free fall onto its own footprint.

No building has ever done that without explosives.

I've shown examples of whole buildings engulfed in flames that didn't collapse.

Given the damage was on one side of the building I believe that side would of sagged down causing the top to start tilting and eventually tipped over. I've shown examples of that with other buildings

With the building collapsing downwards, loud noises like a gun shot or explosion was heard coming from the building as the steel was failing at each floor as the towers collapsed.

Many witnesses reported hearing explosions moments before the buildings started collapsing.

but your belittling of me and my engineering understanding is not becoming of you

Cmon now.
How exactly have I belittled you?

All I've done is challenged your theory.

I never slandered you like you did with me, calling me ignorant. I could say the same to you but I never did. I read everything you wrote and responded respectfully and with decorum.

What we should be focusing upon is does Rev 16:12-16 accurately describe what occurred when the three pillars of our idolisation were attacked on 2001-9-11 and is this prophecy still unfolding and moving towards the Armageddon assembly of all of the kings of the earth to be judged.

Does Isaiah 24:21-22 describe the mechanism that God will use to honour His Covenant of Peace with Israel after they turn back to Worship Him after the completion of His Exodus 20:4-6 prophecy embedded within this commandment at the end of the fourth age of the Nation of Israel's existence

I'm not here to debate scripture.
Only the physics and engineering regarding the collapse of the 3 buildings.

A good engineer will learn from his mistakes. I for one during my engineering work life made mistakes that I learned from that added to my engineering understanding. Your claim that I had personally slandered you by stating that many people have ignorantly proposed an explanation of the mechanisms that cause the twin towers to collapse as they did when the statement was a global statement of fact given the many varying explanation of how the twin towers collapsed.

Are you an ignorant Engineer proposing an explanation of how the towers collapsed? That will be proved by others as the actual truths are exposed.

Will I also be included among these ignorant people who have penned their respective explanation of the collapse mechanisms? Perhaps/possibly. But I will be judged by the experts who have a more detailed understanding of how the buildings collapsed. What I understand is that the twin towers confirmed that towers can be designed to collapse in a manner that causes the least collateral damage to the surrounding buildings around them.

Thousands of engineers, architects, physicists, professors and other experts disagree with the mainstream explanation. Calling us all ignorant is just and ad hominem fallacy. It's a personal attack. It's a poor argument.

One thing I'd like to add is that you actually admit that the buildings came down in a gravitational acceleration. Because many documentaries and sources deny that. It's not a matter of debate or opinion. Its easily calculated and is very basic physics. So it really frustrates me when I hear that lie. So I applaud your honesty regarding that fact.

I still have my main objections.

1 - The physics that we calculated does not allow for the building to collapse onto its own footprint.

2 - Molten metal found at the wreckage that cannot be possibly produced by jet fuel fire, points to demo charges shearing colums at extremely high temps. The report denies this but many fire men reported seeing molten metal and there arecimages of it.

3 - Thermite being found in the wreckage. The planes aluminium structure cannot account for this. Building 7 was not hit by a plane and still had thermite. The report actually admits finding this but calls it a mystery.

4 - The fact that we've never seen a building free fall onto its own footprint.

Nothing you have produced has refuted these points.
- You claim the physics works out but you never calculated it yourself like we did so I have nothing to doubt our calculations.
- I think you said a jet fuel fire can melt steel but thats incorrect.
- You said the planes aluminium structure could cause the finding of thermite but it can't. Plus building 7 had no plane anyway
- And you haven't been able to show me any examples of buildings free falling into their own footprint.

You can have your opinion but I'm still confident with the conclusion that was made 25 years ago by me, my colleagues and my professors.

God bless
 
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Your explanation is not based on engineering or physics. Your personal opinion is only based on the mainstream excuses they have given about bolts shearing. It's not anything you have objectively thought through yourself like we did in class with our teachers.

Were you not belittling me with this sentence?

At the end of the day you have your own personal opinion. Its just a repeat of the mainstream explanation. Nothing that you objectively thought through yourself by using any kind of engineering or physics or calculations.

Have we ever met for you to become to know who I am as a person and whether or not I have any ability to reason for myself on my own terms. I sat down while in Nepal in 2001 to consider the mechanisms of how the Twin towers collapsed.

Mine is the opinion of a whole class and engineering teachers and was examined, calculated, discussed and concluded before any mainstream explanation came about.

Does being a member of a collection of people mean that your collective conclusions cannot be questioned and even considered to be flawed.
I'm sorry Sir but I never called you ignorant or resorted to any kind of personal attack or used any kind of slur as you did to me, my colleagues and teachers.
Really AOG?
The point is that buildings have had much larger fires than that of the towers. Buildings fully engulfed in flames. Yet they didn't collapse.
That is just your undocumented opinion. One needs to consider the fuel load available in each case. It is my view that the fuel load in the twin towers far exceeded the fuel loads before 9/11.
The fact that you didn't answer my question says that you didn't actually do any mathematical calculations on the physics yourself.
A false argument and something that you cannot substantiate.

Goodbye AOG
 

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Were you not belittling me with this sentence?

Oh please that's not belittling.

You admitted yourself you didn't calculate the physics.
And your story of the bolts, iv heard that before, it's mainstream.


Sorry if you felt belittled but it doesn't come close to calling someone ignorant.

What I said there was nothing in comparison.
I never called you any names even thought you repeatedly called me names.
 
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Appalling passive aggressiveness.



Shalom?! After being so aggressive, the gas lighting is like punching somebody in the face, then acting morally superior in "warning" them not to "start anything." The Appeal to Ad Hominem powerfully shows you've lost the argument.

He accuses me of belittling him.
But his repeatedly used the term, ignorant, to describe me and everyone else who questions his theory.
I've always turned the other cheek and never called him any names.

So it's like his kicked me in the groin repeatedly.
I've turned the other cheek over and over again.
Yet his complaining to the referee that I'm the one kicking him in the groin. LoL
Does that even make sense.

Anyway, he only feels belittled because I easily refuted his claims