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Old 6th December 2015, 02:46 AM   #441
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Originally Posted by Notconvinced View Post
Try referencing the whole passage next time Oystein. You need to explain how rapidly occurring expulsion of building material could occur at the location of the columns on both east and west ends of the building just prior to it's collapse, and it not be detonation of charges. Remember, the expulsions occur nearly simultaneously across numerous floors, and not explicitly top down or bottom up.

Good luck.
I am not trying to be difficult here, but - where the heck do you see "rapidly occurring expulsion of building material" at 7:30 in this video??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Vsv0eve_U&t=448

As DGM pointed out, the building obviously was already collapsing before 7:30 (the visible descent of the east penthouse begins at 7:24), so I wouldn't even be surprised to see building material being pushed out, given that a descending roof decreases building volume and MUST push out massive amounts of air[*]. But I can't see any such expulsions in that video? Can you make screenshots and draw arrows so O know where to look?



[*] Little fun fact: The area between col 76-78 and the east wall was roughly 1000 m2. By the time the collapse started to progress to the western core (5.5 seconds after EPH collapse started), the cave-in of the eastern roof had gone down at least 1/4 of the building's height on average (wasn't even), that's almost 50 meters. So the enclosed building volume had decreased by almost 50,000 cubic meters, most of which was air. The air that must have been expelled by 7:30 in notconvinced's video weighed roughly 50 tons. (Density of air is 1.2 kg/m3)
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Old 6th December 2015, 03:14 AM   #442
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CD would create a uniform vertical force powered by gravity.
The way truthers mangle physics is utter comedy gold.

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Old 6th December 2015, 03:28 AM   #443
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I am in agreement with Mr. Szamboti that preceding the observed free falling perimeter, the collapse was initiated by the implosion of all of the lower core columns.
Nice to see you don't subscribe to the oft-mentioned notion that the observed fall required simultaneous removal of all vertical support.

And it reduces the number of charges required. Ballpark: 8 storeys, 25 columns, 5 charges per storey-section - a mere 1,000 explosive charges, detonated almost simultaneously. What a dreadful load of nonsense.

(cue - "But nanothermite can be tailored to be both quiet and explosive")

eta: My mistake. It would likely be 2 charges per flange, top and bottom, plus a kicker charge. 9 per column section, so more like 1,800 charges in total. The amount of detcord alone is mind-boggling.

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Nice to see you don't subscribe to the oft-mentioned notion that the observed fall required simultaneous removal of all vertical support.

And it reduces the number of charges required. Ballpark: 8 storeys, 25 columns, 5 charges per storey-section - a mere 1,000 explosive charges, detonated almost simultaneously. What a dreadful load of nonsense.

(cue - "But nanothermite can be tailored to be both quiet and explosive")
..and non-light emitting.
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Originally Posted by ozeco41 View Post
..and non-light emitting.
...and with the tiniest traces of elemental Al that don't produce Al-oxide upon oxidation.
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Old 6th December 2015, 08:18 AM   #446
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..and non-light emitting.
It is only charges on the core columns, so the likelihood of seeing any light is quite low.
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Old 6th December 2015, 08:20 AM   #447
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Nice to see you don't subscribe to the oft-mentioned notion that the observed fall required simultaneous removal of all vertical support.

And it reduces the number of charges required. Ballpark: 8 storeys, 25 columns, 5 charges per storey-section - a mere 1,000 explosive charges, detonated almost simultaneously. What a dreadful load of nonsense.

(cue - "But nanothermite can be tailored to be both quiet and explosive")

eta: My mistake. It would likely be 2 charges per flange, top and bottom, plus a kicker charge. 9 per column section, so more like 1,800 charges in total. The amount of detcord alone is mind-boggling.
First, the central core in WTC 7 contained 24 columns.

Second, there isn't a need for five charges per story section. Two would work just fine.

So 24 x 8 x 2 = 384 charges. That doesn't sound like much of an issue.

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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
First, the central core in WTC 7 contained 24 columns.

Second, there isn't a need for five charges per story section. Two would work just fine.

So 24 x 8 x 2 = 384 charges. That doesn't sound like much of an issue.
Why was the evidence of cutter charges not noticed in the clean up operation?
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Old 6th December 2015, 08:27 AM   #449
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
First, the central core in WTC 7 contained 24 columns.
Which is why I said "ballpark". You quibbling about round numbers?

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Second, there isn't a need for five charges per story section. Two would work just fine.
Really? At that low level where the columns are massive? They'll just flip out of the way? Maybe, but see below:

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So 24 x 8 x 2 = 384 charges. That doesn't sound like much of an issue.
Sounds very loud when they're exploding almost simultaneously, even if you're dead right about the numbers.
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Why was the evidence of cutter charges not noticed in the clean up operation?
We don't know much about the clean up operation, so you will have to ask those who were involved.

We do know they did not save any of the steel for NIST to examine. Now why would that be?
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
We don't know much about the clean up operation, so you will have to ask those who were involved.

We do know they did not save any of the steel for NIST to examine. Now why would that be?
Because of the recovery of the bodies, the NYPD, did not see any visual evidence of any explosive charges.

Explosives leave visual evidence of having been used even thermite cutters leave a distinctive visual pattern if you had tested one you would recognize it instantly.
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Old 6th December 2015, 09:25 AM   #452
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
We don't know much about the clean up operation, so you will have to ask those who were involved.

We do know they did not save any of the steel for NIST to examine. Now why would that be?
I think they did save some...
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Old 6th December 2015, 10:02 AM   #453
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
First, the central core in WTC 7 contained 24 columns.

Second, there isn't a need for five charges per story section. Two would work just fine.

So 24 x 8 x 2 = 384 charges. That doesn't sound like much of an issue.
How many ounces per charge?

ETA: Glad to see Tony is coming back to what he ignored two pages ago:
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Yes, mostly - with the exception of the one big elephant that ought to be in the room but isn't:
No BANG.
You see, you want to claim that the core columns failed in succession so rapid that it could not have been natural progressive collapes. I.e. they must have failed within <1 s | <0.5 s | <0.2 s | <0.1 of each other (take your pick).
You don't get this close coordination with the thermal action of thermitic incendiaries, as that takes several seconds (see Cole experiments!). You definitely need the fast breaking power of explosive shockwaves.
The core columns were very massive.
You have 21 core columns (58 through 78, assuming 79-81 are already gone; 24, if you claim those were felled as late as the others), each requiring several pounds of high explosives.
You claim that each core column was exploded not just once, but in 8 (or more) places, right? That's 168 explosive charges of several pounds each. NIST determined 9 pounds for c79. Let's be very thrifty here and say 2 pounds per charge: That's 336 pounds of high explosives detonated within less than 1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 seconds - is that so far a fair rendering of what you hypothesize?
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Old 6th December 2015, 10:29 AM   #454
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Your suggested required vertical force would have to be simultaneously overwhelming at those corners. CD would create a uniform vertical force powered by gravity. Roaming office cubicle fires would/could not.
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So did core collapse.



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Of course fire does not pull downwards. Fire merely destabilizes the structure to the point of collapse. Like in these cases for example:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p22OkclAU3o



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-6Sp7mKlQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfpRO9bTfo

I do not observe any comparison to what happened to WTC7. While the upper section of WTC7 descends and is crushed out of view below, you can clearly see that it remained far more intact than your proffered video examples of comparable instability.




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And yes, the overload was simultaneous. When the core fell, the perimeter columns attached to it were pulled downwards all at the same time.
The measured 2.5 seconds (8 stories) of free fall was obtained from the perimeter movement. While I agree that a lower core failure occurred first, it would have not been impossible for those perimeter facades to drop at free fall acceleration and with such corner to corner synchronization if they were still meeting structural resistance from below. Hence, there could not have been any perimeter structural resistance for at least 8 lower floor stories of WTC7. My point being; if the perimeter was dropping at free fall acceleration, it could not have been “pulled” at free fall against residual vertical structural resistance unless there was an additional pulling force greater than the force of gravity and strong enough to negate the remaining structural resistance in the perimeter.

And no, I do not believe there was some unseen additional force crushing WTC7 from above.

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or vertical force at the same time
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”And FTFY, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgucy_b5FKk for an example of simultaneous or near-simultaneous failure due to vertical overload.”



Your example above of how this could be manifested is truly pathetic.




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My primary point is, at the time we see WTC7 dropping at free fall acceleration all of the core and perimeter columns were offering zero resistance. I am in agreement with Mr. Szamboti that preceding the observed free falling perimeter, the collapse was initiated by the implosion of all of the lower core columns.
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NIST agrees, but some people in this forum including me don't, because it actually fell at an acceleration greater than that of free fall. That proves that there were forces pulling downwards (the falling core being the most plausible source of those) and in the presence of such forces, the argument that concludes that the resistance was zero is invalid.
I would like to hear your logical engineering explanation that provides for the existence of a force other than gravity, which could have pulled WTC7 down at an acceleration greater than that induced by gravity.
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I would like to hear your logical engineering explanation that provides for the existence of a force other than gravity, which could have pulled WTC7 down at an acceleration greater than that induced by gravity.
Leverage.

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I would like to hear your logical engineering explanation that provides for the existence of a force other than gravity, which could have pulled WTC7 down at an acceleration greater than that induced by gravity.
You can test this in your own back yard in many different ways. It's surprisingly easy.
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Originally Posted by Crazy Chainsaw View Post
Because of the recovery of the bodies, the NYPD, did not see any visual evidence of any explosive charges.

Explosives leave visual evidence of having been used even thermite cutters leave a distinctive visual pattern if you had tested one you would recognize it instantly.
WTC 7 had no fatalities, so it wouldn't have involved recovery of bodies.
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I think they did save some...
NIST says no steel was salvaged from WTC 7 in their report. Now you say you think they did save some. What is your source for this? and where was the steel kept that was saved?
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I would like to hear your logical engineering explanation that provides for the existence of a force other than gravity, which could have pulled WTC7 down at an acceleration greater than that induced by gravity.
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Leverage.

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Dave, both NIST's and David Chandler's measurements show precisely g.

Where do you get something over g from? Who did a measurement that showed over g acceleration?

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Dave, both NIST's and David Chandler's measurements show precisely g.

Where do you get something over g from? Who did a measurement that showed over g acceleration?
Both actually show it. Femr2 also did a good analysis of this (a better trace).

You know this.

I'm wondering, do you think the guy/gals doing the clean-up wouldn't notice the obvious signs of explosives or were they "in on it" too?
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Both actually show it. Femr2 also did a good analysis of this (a better trace).

You know this.

I'm wondering, do you think the guy/gals doing the clean-up wouldn't notice the obvious signs of explosives or were they "in on it" too?
Where do NIST's and Chandler's measurements show over g acceleration?
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Where do NIST's and Chandler's measurements show over g acceleration?
In their data. You know, when the point's fall under the line. I know, you'll dismiss this as "noise". What, no love for femr2's work?

Care to touch on the second part of my post? You know, the hundreds of silent explosives that leave no trace?
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Leverage.

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Yes. Leverage by PARTS or subsystems WITHIN a system that is falling as a whole. IIRC an anonymous person did make a very crude graphic for Chris Mohr's video series.

Is it time to dust off those posts on "Introduction To Free Body Physics"?

...AGAIN???

It would sort the sheep from the goats in terms of who can apply physics from basic principles.
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In their data. You know, when the point's fall under the line. I know, you'll dismiss this as "noise". What, no love for femr2's work?

Care to touch on the second part of my post? You know, the hundreds of silent explosives that leave no trace?
Please point out the over g acceleration you say is there. I don't see it and neither NIST or David Chandler saw it either as they don't mention it.

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I would like to hear your logical engineering explanation that provides for the existence of a force other than gravity, which could have pulled WTC7 down at an acceleration greater than that induced by gravity.
Simple structural dynamics - the internal structure frame collapses first. The internal frame is still attached to the exterior structural frame (shell). The internal frame induces a downward force on the exterior structural frame, helping the exterior to appear to accelerate greater than gravity.

You have to look at the building as a complete system. The sum of the both the internal frame and the exterior structural frame is less than gravity acceleration.

Got it? Simple, right?
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Please point out the over g acceleration you say is there. I don't see it and neither NIST or David Chandler saw it either as they don't mention it.
I'm not getting into a peeing contest with you on this (you were involved in the threads and discussions about this). It's just your way of avoiding the neon elephant in the room, that being ~400 high explosives going off that no one noticed and were not picked up by any recording device.
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
We don't know much about the clean up operation, so you will have to ask those who were involved.

We do know they did not save any of the steel for NIST to examine. Now why would that be?
If you don't know much about the clean up operation, isn't it down to you to get information from people involved in the clean up ?

Yes, you do know they didn't save steel from wtc7, as to why is another thing you will need to ask.

Funny how you know explosives were used and you haven't spoken to anybody.
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Simple structural dynamics - the internal structure frame collapses first. The internal frame is still attached to the exterior structural frame (shell). The internal frame induces a downward force on the exterior structural frame, helping the exterior to appear to accelerate greater than gravity.

You have to look at the building as a complete system. The sum of the both the internal frame and the exterior structural frame is less than gravity acceleration.

Got it? Simple, right?
Agreed - except the "to appear" is redundant and carries a false implication - it actually is greater than G.
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Let's listen to the video that was presented as proof of explosive discharges. The audio is working, you can hear talking and everything.

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I don't hear anything.
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I would like to hear your logical engineering explanation that provides for the existence of a force other than gravity, which could have pulled WTC7 down at an acceleration greater than that induced by gravity.
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Leverage.
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Dave, both NIST's and David Chandler's measurements show precisely g.

Where do you get something over g from? Who did a measurement that showed over g acceleration?
While I quite understand the principle of leverage, I fail to see how leverage could be produced that would exert a downward uniform force capable of accelerating the whole descent of WTC7 building beyond that induced by gravity.




As you can plainly see, WTC7, over the free fall part of its descent, is not subjected to any external leverage.

Once in free fall it would take a major glaringly obvious upper explosion (become a downward aimed rocket) to make its descent acceleration faster than g.
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While I quite understand the principle of leverage, I fail to see how leverage could be produced that would exert a downward uniform force capable of accelerating the whole descent of WTC7 building beyond that induced by gravity.

Can you explain how this line of argument is nothing more than a diversion way from the neon elephant in the room? There is no evidence for explosives.
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While I quite understand the principle of leverage, I fail to see how leverage could be produced that would exert a downward uniform force capable of accelerating the whole descent of WTC7 building beyond that induced by gravity.
Your appeal to uninformative photographs notwithstanding, any measurement plotted on a graph is a measurement of a point on WTC7, not of the "whole descent" (if such a concept had any useful meaning in this context). Rotation of the building is rather an obvious form of leverage; if the centre of mass is accelerating at 1G and the building is also rotating, it's inevitable that some part of it will be accelerating at greater than, and some other part at less than, 1G.

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Old 6th December 2015, 03:02 PM   #473
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
Where do you get something over g from? Who did a measurement that showed over g acceleration?
You'll note that I didn't actually comment on whether such a thing had been reliably measured. Some measurements, including those of Chandler's that you recently referred to, show brief interludes of >g acceleration, whether due to actual signal or to noise, and there is a perfectly reasonable mechanism to produce >g accelerations at specific points on the façade; why do you choose to take issue with either of these things except out of knee-jerk denialism?

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did you miss this, or did you hope I'd forget?
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First, the central core in WTC 7 contained 24 columns.

Second, there isn't a need for five charges per story section. Two would work just fine.

So 24 x 8 x 2 = 384 charges. That doesn't sound like much of an issue.
How many ounces per charge?

Glad to see, Tony, you are coming back to what you ignored two pages ago:
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Yes, mostly - with the exception of the one big elephant that ought to be in the room but isn't:
No BANG.
You see, you want to claim that the core columns failed in succession so rapid that it could not have been natural progressive collapes. I.e. they must have failed within <1 s | <0.5 s | <0.2 s | <0.1 of each other (take your pick).
You don't get this close coordination with the thermal action of thermitic incendiaries, as that takes several seconds (see Cole experiments!). You definitely need the fast breaking power of explosive shockwaves.
The core columns were very massive.
You have 21 core columns (58 through 78, assuming 79-81 are already gone; 24, if you claim those were felled as late as the others), each requiring several pounds of high explosives.
You claim that each core column was exploded not just once, but in 8 (or more) places, right? That's 168 explosive charges of several pounds each. NIST determined 9 pounds for c79. Let's be very thrifty here and say 2 pounds per charge: That's 336 pounds of high explosives detonated within less than 1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 seconds - is that so far a fair rendering of what you hypothesize?
Please answer the question!
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While I quite understand the principle of leverage, I fail to see how leverage could be produced that would exert a downward uniform force capable of accelerating the whole descent of WTC7 building beyond that induced by gravity.


http://i64.tinypic.com/2iky0k.jpg

As you can plainly see, WTC7, over the free fall part of its descent, is not subjected to any external leverage.

Once in free fall it would take a major glaringly obvious upper explosion (become a downward aimed rocket) to make its descent acceleration faster than g.
It would be internal, not external leverage. As clearly evidenced by the photo's you provided the core collapsed first, pulling floors down with it - floors that were attached to the perimeter columns which in turn pulled them down, twisting the structure at the same time (it was not at all symmetrical).

All of this of course happens well after collapse initiation so by the time the G and over-G accelerations occur it has nothing to do with whatever initiated the collapse.
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I'm not getting into a peeing contest with you on this (you were involved in the threads and discussions about this). It's just your way of avoiding the neon elephant in the room, that being ~400 high explosives going off that no one noticed and were not picked up by any recording device.
You can't show the over g acceleration you claim because there is no evidence of it.
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
You can't show the over g acceleration you claim because there is no evidence of it.
You can't show any evidence of explosive charges. If I get a chance I'll pull up the thread that shows the over g. Personally I don't care because just pointing out you are dodging the lack of evidence for explosives is good enough.
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
You can't show the over g acceleration you claim because there is no evidence of it.
It's contained within the very same evidence that you use to quote g.
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It's contained within the very same evidence that you use to quote g.
Sure but, arguing it is his way of hiding the neon elephant (that everyone still can see).
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Originally Posted by Tony Szamboti View Post
NIST says no steel was salvaged from WTC 7 in their report. Now you say you think they did save some. What is your source for this? and where was the steel kept that was saved?
I believe David Cole (Kawika) might have written this and apparently he went to a NIST campus and inspected some of the steel... I am not sure if it included any 7wtc steel... but I thought it had.
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