cheehaw: True, I know essentially nothing except what others tell me. Would thermite need those precautions?
No, thermite would need far more precautions because it is unstable. It also has a tendency to to ignite when preheated (something that may well happen if, say it was surrounded by burning jet fuel for a few minutes). There's also the small problem that thermite needs a primary charge and that would be certain to be set up by burning jet fuel. And even if you could work out a way to prevent the primary charge from going off, nobody has ever worked out how to cut a verticle steel beam with thermite. You can direct it with a canister but that method wouldn't work to cut a column. The canister only makes a small hole. Have a look here for such a canister cutting a steel rod http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn-MCCZ3O1M See how large that canister is compared to that small metal rod? The canister in that video, while being enough to cut the vertical rod, will only cut a small hole into a vertical WTC column. To cut the WTC columns you'd need to wrap them in multiple canisters on three sides!
cheehaw: also, have you any idea how massive the WTC was? One elevator alone was about 12x15 feet square and there were several of those. Might have actually been a tad bigger than that at 15x 15, I never took a measuring tape. The columns inside it were equally large.
So in other words it would have taken a lot of explosives to cut those columns. Interesting point about the elevators. What do you think happened to them and their counter weights? Do you think that it is more than slightly possible that the cables on them snapped? What kind of noise does an elevator that size (or its equally heavy counterweight) make when it hits the ground from between 50 and 100 storeys up: a small clunk or a huge bang? One other thing: if the first explosions were at ground level, why did the builing collapse in stages from the top down? If the bottom was blown out, it would go in stages from the bottom up.
z_darius: Prove it was technically impossible.
No. You are claiming it is possible: you prove it. Go and prep two of the largest office buildings in the world for explosion (and another one half their size) without anybody noticing. Until you do that, your claim about it being possible is right up there with your claim that the Polish police are investigating me for saying that I'd like to buy your daughter a drink. By the way, I'm still waiting for them to come and arrest me, maybe you should call them again.
z_darius: That stuff is cheap and reliable. Most adults in the US and EU walk every day with a wireless device. It;s called a cell phone. Millions of people use dozens wireless devices in their homes and offices. You gotta try them one day. They are very much affordable.
You think it is possible to set off tens of thousands of charges to a degree of accuracy measured in no more than ten microseconds? I suggest that you give up your library job and get a job at a mobile phone company: they'd love to know how to do what you can do.
z_darius: Typical jwish response - ridicule without addressing the actual arguments.
Oh dear Derek, you've gone back to your old ways of just insulting people (not that sjam considers being called a Jew an insult, neither do I).
z_darius: I dunno. I don't take the meds that you do, so you'll have to solve that riddle in your mind.
Yes you have gone right back to your old ways. Should I now start telling you about all the things I'll be doing this weekend Mr Z? I was planning to of to Gdansk but perhaps I'll go to Wroclaw instead. I've been reading a very good blog about it recently. Of course I do have to point out that I would never do anything in any way illegal or even unpleasant to anybody, although I suppose I could waive the unpleasant requirement as far as you are concerned.
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