Dynamite, no. Explosive charges connected to electronic detonation devices, yes.
Yes, I’ve seen controlled demolition of a number of buildings. And yes, they demo them from the bottom up. However, I watched the WTC towers collapse live on television, saw them collapse in endless reruns, and have video of both towers falling on my computer’s hard drive.
If you look at the videos carefully, you’ll see that neither collapse began at the bottom. Both collapses originated at the area of impact and fire. One of the towers (I believe Tower 1) peels like a banana with the supporting outer skin (half of the supporting “arch” for each floor) falling outward… definitely not what you would want if you were doing a controlled demolition.
Really? Which ones?
- Do you care to assert that steel (or any other rigid structural materials used in the WTC construction) is NOT significantly weakened by heat long before it turns into a molten puddle?
- Do you care to give evidence that debris and human remains were not found inside the Pentagon and the field in PA despite extensive testimony, physical evidence and photographic documentation?
- Do you care to give a single example of a time when a modern commercial wide-bodied aircraft was inverted without crashing? (Just think about this, if inverting a large jet were a viable plan for disrupting a hijacking, don’t you think that some pilot would have tried it during the heyday of airline hijackings in the 1970s?)
- Do you care to make an argument that the hijackings of 9/11 DID NOT fundamentally change how governments and the public will respond to hijackers?
I don’t know what you are talking about here, but you need to consider that the people who are trying to brain-wash you might actually be the conspiracy theorists, not the 9/11 investigators and the general public who has been paying attention and evaluating all of these arguments.
I think most people who were watching it had the same type of reaction. Except I was certain that it was planned… planned by terrorists.
Well I think the initial hole in the Pentagon (pre-collapse) was larger than this figure that the conspiracy theorists toss around. But, for the sake of argument, let’s assume that figure is fundamentally correct:
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The body exterior width of a Boeing 757 is 12 feet, 4 inches. Since the vast majority of the mass of the plant is located in the body core (all of the instrumentation, flight systems beyond engines and fuel, luggage, passengers, supplies and equipment), that part of the plant will provide the most ‘punch’ at high speed and penetrate the building.
- A jet’s swept wings and tail assembly are relatively light structures that will flex and bend according to the stresses placed on them. If the plane in barreling through a reinforced wall of a building, the wings and tail assembles will tend to get pulled into the building by the sheer mass of the disintegrating core of the body of the plane.
- There is plenty of evidence, inside and out that the plane struck the building.
I found this link while looking up the dimensions of the 757. (oops, I just noticed Mr. Edwards already posted a link to the same site!)
Please concede my points or provide evidence or arguments that demonstrate they are not valid.