bg_turk wrote:The buildings collapsed almost at the free rate of gravity despite the presence of intact floors below.
I'm no demolition expert, and neither am I, a Bush supporter. If you ever read anything I've written regarding Bush, it is always negative towards him and his gang of criminals. However, when it comes to the destruction of the towers on 9/11, you got the answer right there in your post...Gravity. Let me also say, the government was aware, of impending hijackings to happen at some point, which they have denied.
I have written before, as to why the towers fell, the way they did.
Before I try to explain it again, I want you to think as to how a man can tear up a complete telephone book. I'm sure you have seen this being performed in a circus or in a "strongest man" contests. The telephone book has not been tampered with. It is an ordinary thick book. The truth is, you do not need to be strong to tear the book, because we can all tear a single page, without any trouble, and the next, and the next. The trick is to tear it at one page at a time, but it appears as if the whole book is torn as one unit.
Now for the buildings. Both collapsed in the same way, because they were both built in the same way. There were other smaller buildings also fell that day, but as a direct results from the "Twin Towers".
The tower that was hit 2nd, almost 20 minutes after the 1st tower being hit, fell first by about 20 minutes, and the tower that was hit 1st, fell second. This was the results of:
a) Location of where the planes hit the towers.
b) The speed the planes were traveling before impact..
c) The amount of fuel aboard each aircraft..
The tower that was hit 2nd and fell 1st, had been hit at greater speed and much lower and slightly to the corner of the building as suppose to the 1st tower, that the plane's speed was lower by about 100 MPH, and point of impact was much higher, and more "square dead on" to the tower.
The towers were built like a cage. Steel girdles on the outside, from the ground, all the way to the top, with each "horizontal beam floors" attached to the vertical cage structure. Once some of the vertical cage structures were destroyed due to the impact, followed by intense heat from the fire, with all the wight from the above floors, it was a matter of time, that the "Gravity" was going to take over, and push the above floors to the weakened floors below. From that point on, "Gravity" was in charge, pushing the above floors down on the next, and the next, and the next, and the next with ever increasing speed, energy and force. Just like tearing the telephone book, one page at a time. That's why the tower that collapsed 1st, had more weight above the impact point, than the tower that collapsed 2nd.
Listen, people got caught "bugging" the Watergate building few years back, so how an earth anyone would have been able to place thousands of pounds of explosives, drilling holes to place thousands of charges into hundreds of locations. These were the World Trade Centers, that were probably never closed their doors with high security.
OK, enough said, I think.