Before I start watch this video.
Ok so you heard this guy saying that it's impossible that twin tower which is made up steel whose melting point is 1370 degrees C, somehow collapsed like a lego tower.
Now thats just a brief idea i wanted to put in starting. Now read what US Government claimed but in real what facts were.
Claim:
The first hijacked plane crashed through the 94th to the 98th floors of
the World Trade Center's 110-story North Tower; the second jet slammed
into the 78th to the 84th floors of the 110-story South Tower. The
impact and ensuing fires disrupted elevator service in both buildings.
Plus, the lobbies of both buildings were visibly damaged before the
towers collapsed. "There is NO WAY the impact of the jet caused such
widespread damage 80 stories below," claims a posting on the San Diego
Independent Media Center Web site (sandiego.indymedia.org). "It is
OBVIOUS and irrefutable that OTHER EXPLOSIVES (... such as concussion
bombs) HAD ALREADY BEEN DETONATED in the lower levels of tower one at
the same time as the plane crash."
FACT:
Following up on a May 2002 preliminary report by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), a major study will be released in spring 2005
by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a branch
of the U.S. Department of Commerce. NIST shared its initial findings
with PM.
The NIST investigation revealed that plane debris
sliced through the utility shafts at the North Tower's core, creating a
conduit for burning jet fuel—and fiery destruction throughout the
building. "It's very hard to document where the fuel went," says Forman
Williams, a NIST adviser and a combustion expert, "but if it's atomized
and combustible and gets to an ignition source, it'll go off."
Burning
fuel traveling down the elevator shafts would have disrupted the
elevator systems and caused extensive damage to the lobbies. NIST heard
first-person testimony that "some elevators slammed right down" to the
ground floor. "The doors cracked open on the lobby floor and flames came
out and people died," says James Quintiere, an engineering professor at
the University of Maryland and a NIST adviser. A similar observation
was made in the French documentary "9/11," by Jules and Gedeon Naudet.
As Jules Naudet entered the North Tower lobby, minutes after the first
aircraft struck, he saw victims on fire, a scene he found too horrific
to film.
Puffs Of Dust
Claim:
As each tower collapsed, clearly visible puffs of dust and debris were
ejected from the sides of the buildings. An advertisement in The New York Times for the book Painful Questions: An Analysis Of The September 11th Attack
made this claim: "The concrete clouds shooting out of the buildings are
not possible from a mere collapse. They do occur from explosions."
Numerous conspiracy theorists cite Van Romero, an explosives expert and
vice president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who
was quoted on 9/11 by the Albuquerque Journal
as saying "there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that
caused the towers to collapse." The article continues, "Romero said the
collapse of the structures resembled those of controlled implosions used
to demolish old structures."
FACT:
Once each tower began to collapse, the weight of all the floors above
the collapsed zone bore down with pulverizing force on the highest
intact floor. Unable to absorb the massive energy, that floor would
fail, transmitting the forces to the floor below, allowing the collapse
to progress downward through the building in a chain reaction. Engineers
call the process "pancaking," and it does not require an explosion to
begin, according to David Biggs, a structural engineer at Ryan-Biggs
Associates and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) team that worked on the FEMA report.
Like
all office buildings, the WTC towers contained a huge volume of air. As
they pancaked, all that air—along with the concrete and other debris
pulverized by the force of the collapse—was ejected with enormous
energy. "When you have a significant portion of a floor collapsing, it's
going to shoot air and concrete dust out the window," NIST lead
investigator Shyam Sunder tells PM. Those clouds of dust may create the
impression of a controlled demolition, Sunder adds, "but it is the floor
pancaking that leads to that perception."
Demolition expert Romero regrets that his comments to the Albuquerque Journal
became fodder for conspiracy theorists. "I was misquoted in saying that
I thought it was explosives that brought down the building," he tells
PM. "I only said that that's what it looked like."
Romero, who agrees with the scientific conclusion that fire triggered the collapses, demanded a retraction from the Journal.
It was printed Sept. 22, 2001. "I felt like my scientific reputation
was on the line." But emperors-clothes.com saw something else: "The
paymaster of Romero's research institute is the Pentagon. Directly or
indirectly, pressure was brought to bear, forcing Romero to retract his
original statement." Romero responds: "Conspiracy theorists came out
saying that the government got to me. That is the farthest thing from
the truth. This has been an albatross around my neck for three years."
Seismic Spikes
Claim:
Seismographs at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
in Palisades, N.Y., 21 miles north of the WTC, recorded the events of
9/11. "The strongest jolts were all registered at the beginning of the
collapses, well before falling debris struck the earth," reports the Web
site WhatReallyHappened.com. A columnist on Prisonplanet.com, a Web
site run by radio talk show host Alex Jones, claims the seismic spikes
(boxed area on Graph 1) are "indisputable proof that massive explosions
brought down" the towers. The Web site says its findings are supported
by two seismologists at the observatory, Won-Young Kim and Arthur
Lerner-Lam. Each "sharp spike of short duration," says Prisonplanet.com,
was consistent with a "demolition-style implosion."
Fine Lines:
Revisionists say sharp spikes (graph 1, above) mean bombs toppled the
WTC. Scientists disprove the claim with the more detailed graph 2
(below). (Seismograph readings by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
of Columbia University: Won-Young Kim, senior research scientist;
Arthur Lerner-Lam, associate director; Mary Tobin, senior science
writer)
FACT:
"There is no scientific basis for the conclusion that explosions
brought down the towers," Lerner-Lam tells PM. "That representation of
our work is categorically incorrect and not in context."
The
report issued by Lamont-Doherty includes various graphs showing the
seismic readings produced by the planes crashing into the two towers as
well as the later collapse of both buildings. WhatReallyHappened.com
chooses to display only one graph (Graph 1), which shows the readings
over a 30-minute time span.
On that graph, the
8- and 10-second collapses appear—misleadingly—as a pair of sudden
spikes. Lamont-Doherty's 40-second plot of the same data (Graph 2) gives
a much more detailed picture: The seismic waves—blue for the South
Tower, red for the North Tower—start small and then escalate as the
buildings rumble to the ground. Translation: no bombs.
WTC 7 Collapse
Claim:
Seven hours after the two towers fell, the 47-story WTC 7 collapsed.
According to 911review.org: "The video clearly shows that it was not a
collapse subsequent to a fire, but rather a controlled demolition:
amongst the Internet investigators, the jury is in on this one."
Fire Storm:
WTC 7 stands amid the rubble of the recently collapsed Twin Towers.
Damaged by falling debris, the building then endures a fire that rages
for hours. Experts say this combination, not a demolition-style
implosion, led to the roofline "kink" that signals WTC 7's progressive
collapse. (Photograph by New York Office of Emergency Management)
FACT:
Many conspiracy theorists point to FEMA's preliminary report, which
said there was relatively light damage to WTC 7 prior to its collapse.
With the benefit of more time and resources, NIST researchers now
support the working hypothesis that WTC 7 was far more compromised by
falling debris than the FEMA report indicated. "The most important thing
we found was that there was, in fact, physical damage to the south face
of building 7," NIST's Sunder tells PM. "On about a third of the face
to the center and to the bottom—approximately 10 stories—about 25
percent of the depth of the building was scooped out." NIST also
discovered previously undocumented damage to WTC 7's upper stories and
its southwest corner.
NIST investigators
believe a combination of intense fire and severe structural damage
contributed to the collapse, though assigning the exact proportion
requires more research. But NIST's analysis suggests the fall of WTC 7
was an example of "progressive collapse," a process in which the failure
of parts of a structure ultimately creates strains that cause the
entire building to come down. Videos of the fall of WTC 7 show cracks,
or "kinks," in the building's facade just before the two penthouses
disappeared into the structure, one after the other. The entire building
fell in on itself, with the slumping east side of the structure pulling
down the west side in a diagonal collapse.
According
to NIST, there was one primary reason for the building's failure: In an
unusual design, the columns near the visible kinks were carrying
exceptionally large loads, roughly 2000 sq. ft. of floor area for each
floor. "What our preliminary analysis has shown is that if you take out
just one column on one of the lower floors," Sunder notes, "it could
cause a vertical progression of collapse so that the entire section
comes down."
There are two other possible
contributing factors still under investigation: First, trusses on the
fifth and seventh floors were designed to transfer loads from one set of
columns to another. With columns on the south face apparently damaged,
high stresses would likely have been communicated to columns on the
building's other faces, thereby exceeding their load-bearing capacities.
Second, a fifth-floor fire burned for up to 7
hours. "There was no firefighting in WTC 7," Sunder says. Investigators
believe the fire was fed by tanks of diesel fuel that many tenants used
to run emergency generators. Most tanks throughout the building were
fairly small, but a generator on the fifth floor was connected to a
large tank in the basement via a pressurized line. Says Sunder: "Our
current working hypothesis is that this pressurized line was supplying
fuel [to the fire] for a long period of time."
WTC
7 might have withstood the physical damage it received, or the fire
that burned for hours, but those combined factors—along with the
building's unusual construction—were enough to set off the
chain-reaction collapse.
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