I will post a few choice bits I found that tackle the notion advanced by conspiracy theorists, namely:
“…2,000 lbs of RDX-grade linear-shaped charges (which could have been pre-positioned by just a few men) could cut the supports at key points so that gravity would bring the buildings straight down.”Professor, meet a man who blows up buildings for a living:
-Prof. Stephen E. Jones, Brigham Young University
“The explosives configuration manufacturing technology [to bring down those buildings] does not exist… If someone were to attempt to make such charges, they would weigh thousands of pounds apiece. You would need forklifts to bring them into the building.”Loizeaux goes on to say that the biggest commercially available charges can cut through steel that is three inches thick. The box columns at the base of the WTC towers were fourteen inches on a side. If big enough charges did exist, Loizeaux says, for each tower it could hypothetically take as long as two months for a team of up to 75 men with unfettered access to three floors to strip the fireproofing off the columns and then place and wire the charges.
-Mark Loizeaux, Controlled Demolition, Inc.
“There’s just no way to do it… If you just put bulk explosives in file cabinets next to every column in the building, it wouldn’t knock those columns down. It would blow the windows out. It would trash the [building] and probably blow out two floors above and a floor below… but it wouldn’t knock the building down.”On to the really good stuff. It turns out yesterday, the folks over at Implosionworld.com (gotta love the name) have released a report on controlled demolition theories at the WTC.
-Mark Loizeaux, Controlled Demolition, Inc.
Their verdict – the Controlled Demolition theory folks don’t have the faintest idea what they are talking about.
Read all about it. (PDF)
3 comments:
In todays internet, it will only be a matter of hours before these guys are "exposed" as NeoCon Lackeys. I'll be they did some work for Halliburton? And also, some other "expert" will find a problem with one or two things in this analysis, thus rending the whole thing a "big fat fascist Bush-monkey-pig lie"..
- Paradox
For the true die-hards, I'm sure you're right.
I'm a little more hopeful that those on the fence will come to their senses, though. I've seen sites espousing the wildest theories rein them in a bit after better evidence goes online. You'll notice that the claims of a missile striking the Pentagon have gone mute since more and more photos are posted showing plane debris at the scene. Even the most conspiratorial mind finds it hard to hold the line when there's a photograph that directly contradicts what you're saying. The Protec report isn't terribly visual, but it goes right for the vitals of any controlled demolition theory.
Its a great report, the definitive debunking, if you ask me. One thing, the link on implosionworld.coms site has changed to http://www.implosionworld.com/Article-WTC9-6-06.pdf
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