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Thanks again Ryan. Because this free-fall argument is so central to Richard Gage's beliefs, my Building 7 epilogue will have to cover this pretty thoroughly. Clearly a three-sentence simple statement won't do.
Chris, this does make sense to me. Another analogy Ryan gave me once was like a stick you lean on, and it holds up until it breaks. And of course we all are talking about near free-fall due to air resistance in any kind of collapse. Ryan, I do have one response to something you wrote: ..."firefighters... saw clearly, with their own eyes, how the structure's integrity deteriorated as it burned... Not even the craziest Truther has suggested there were bombs detonated during this time period. But this is tantamount to accepting that fire can cause structural degradation and, yes, collapse of a steel-framed skyscraper. In essense, they aren't denying the fact of collapse, they're merely denying the style of collapse." Richard Gage has not suggested bombs during the fire, but others definitely have. Someone once told me with a straight face that she believed that "they" tried a controlled demolition early in the day (explosive sounds of eyewitnesses, remember?) which created structural problems etc. but then they had to go back in during the fire and finish the job, which of course they did flawlessly. Now that was a Babylon soliloquy!!! |
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Chris, good job on the debate with Gage. I know how slippery he can be.
Anyway, check out this YouTube video:
It clearly shows that parts of a collapsing structure, pulled on by othert parts of the same structure, can actually fall faster than objects in true freefall. And note the complete absence of explosives! Good luck, Dave Thomas |
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A couple days ago Chris wrote:
"The nano-thermite chips were iron oxide, aluminum silicate and organic materials. There was no significant amount of the toxic components that they were looking for." Well, chemist Kevin Ryan recently published an article stating that the first responders are getting sick these days because they breathed in all this horrible thermitic dust. He listed all kinds of thermitic toxic chemicals he thought were part of this deadly soup of hazardous materials. Chris, have you read this article? Which is it? Benign thermitic materials or hazmat? Us two Chrisses have one thing in common... we voluntarily surround ourselves with our adversaries: me with truthers and him with, well, us. Chris I admire your spunk, as many truthers admire mine. |
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An analogy does not depict what actually happened. We can look at Figure 12-63 and see the frame twisting and buckling in an irregular manner. Then looking at the screen captures we can see that this buckling is occurring during the free fall acceleration. Buckling columns provide resistance. Because of the irregular manner of the buckling exterior columns, they do not all buckle to the point of failure at the same time. The vierendeel action of the perimeter moment frame transfers the resistance of the columns in a lesser stage of bending. So, as Shyam Sunder said [when NIST was denying the existence of free fall] "there was structural resistance that was provided in this particular case. And you had a sequence of structural failures that had to take place. Everything was not instantaneous."
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In my March 6 debate with Richard Gage, a scientist friend of mine said that the side by side spectographic analyses Richard showed on a slide re thermitic dust showed two different chemical signatures. Anyone know about this. Anyone have a link to the pay phone explosion sound (someone said it was dubbed in; I would need the original to compare it to back to back if this is true). Anyone willing to slog through the 3 1/2 hour debate and pick out inaccurate things Richard said that I missed... I will have one last chance to rebut it all in about four weeks. Link to debate is on Richard's AE911 Truth website... I'm still not allowed to create links on JREF, sorry. |
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Off course. Buckling columns DO provide any resistance, but it's negligible resistance, i.e. too small to be considered. BTW Depending on the circumstance, even intact columns may provide negligible resistance. It happens when columns are subjected to loads too many times greater than their capacity. |
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But in a sense, weight was added on columns instantaneously........with the odd arrangement of transfer beams/girders/trusses over the substation, a failure of one column would have caused load to transfer immediately. Unlike ordinary structures where the load is shared by multiple other members, transfer beams tend to concentrate loads, so it could have been quite possible for a column to be well below its ultimate yield load and instantly be multiple times over its ultimate yield load due to the failure of an adjacent structural member. Regarding the supposed 2.5 or so seconds of "free fall speed" the failure of columns low in the structure and the resulting load shifting and instant failure of adjacent columns would have the effect of kicking the legs out from a table, there would be no resistance. |
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Did they up the minimum post count? I thought it was 15.
You can pretty much assume when Gages mouth is moving he's telling a lie or some sort of half truth. He's a carnie, snake oil salesman, con man, etc. This is his job. He has to "believe" in these things to put food on his plate. He's not trying to convince the masses, he's looking for the few rubes in the crowd that will allow him to continue doing this for a living. Another shining example of this is Alex Jones. At least he does it as an entertainer, half legitimizing himself. You should have asked him while you had him live if he planned to use the event as an opportunity to extend his apologies to the families, friends, and associates of those who were wrongly accused of committing these heinous acts. |
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In the final report NIST said the buckled columns provided "negligible" resistance. This gives the impression that there was some resistance when there was none. If the resistance is too small to be measured, it is for all intents and purposes, zero.
The use of the word "negligible" is an obfuscation of the fact that the buckling columns did provide resistance as Shyam Sunder stated: "there was structural resistance that was provided in this particular case. And you had a sequence of structural failures that had to take place. Everything was not instantaneous." "There was structural resistance" and "negligible resistance" are not the same. ETA: Somepeople refuse to accept the obvious: "a free fall time would be an object that has no structural components below it. |
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I will read the article tonight. Just looking at the spectrum of the nano-thermite chips I don't see any of the things that the RJ Lee Group was looking for. I'll get back to you when I have finished studying Kevin's paper but it would be better if you address your questions to him.
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Two different moments
Same collapse No structural components Air is not a factor in this case |
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Same collapse but two different phases, two different stages. At each stage the structure was in a different configuration. Stage 1: The beginning of the collapse. There was still some significant resistance offered by the structure below. Stage 2: There was no significant resistance offered by 7/8-storey structure. If you say literally free-fall acceleration and literally no resistance you should consider the air influence. If you say almost free-fall acceleration, approximately free fall acceleration (or whatever) and negligible resistance you can ignore the air influence. Which one do you refer? If you answer "the second one", then you cannot say it means necessarily no structural componets. |
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Chris wrote: I will read the article tonight. Just looking at the spectrum of the nano-thermite chips I don't see any of the things that the RJ Lee Group was looking for. I'll get back to you when I have finished studying Kevin's paper but it would be better if you address your questions to him.
I have read Kevin Ryan's paper and it's clear he says that thermitics are terribly toxic. Nothing more to ask him. My question would be to you, since you assert that breathing in unexploded thermites would not be the kind of health hazard the RJ Lee study would be concerned about. If you agree with Kevin Ryan (and I for one would NOT want to inhale nanothermites, thermates and their byproducts) then why didn't RJ Lee find these deadly toxins? Also my spectograph question is this: do they show the same thing? |
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Hi Chris, welcome to the forums! The short answer to your question is: no. We've hammered through the Harrit data pretty thoroughly, and it's pretty well decided that they were looking at two different materials and claiming they were the same thing.
Of course the bigger problem is that we're looking at heterogeneous materials. In other words, analyzing two different spots on the same material will show two different spectra. All this leads back to an astounding level of incompetence on the part of Jones, Harrit et al in their paper. One of the posters here, Sunstealer, was finally able to figure out all of the things they did wrong. You'll want to read the posts in this thread, with kudos to ElMondoHummus, who provides excellent summaries of the various issues. |
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I made no such "assertion". I noted that I don't see any of the toxins that RJ Lee was looking for in the spectrum analysis. The red/gray chips are but one of many of constituents of the dust and since they do not contain the toxins the RJ Lee Group were looking for they would not draw their attention IMO.
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* * * * * * * * * * Getting back to the free fall acceleration, NIST said that the upper portion of the building moved down as a single unit at that the acceleration was 9.81 m/s2, equivalent to the acceleration of gravity. This is within 1/10 of 1% of the acceleration of gravity for New York City which is 9.802 m/s2 and that is as close as a measurement can be [actually minutely faster than FFA]. The resistance from the supporting structure was as "negligible"[too small to be considered] as the air. There was NO measurable resistance. As Shyam Sunder rightly said "a free fall time would be an object that has no structural components below it. . . . there was structural resistance that was provided in this particular case. And you had a sequence of structural failures that had to take place. Everything was not instantaneous." In other words, the NIST progressive collapse hypothesis does not include a period of free fall acceleration because there is always structural resistance. |
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Maybe it was being pulled down by the inside. It depends if they blew up the core columns before detonating the perimeter columns. There would be some dynamic energy causing it to collapse fast, perhaps at g if the core columns were blown first.
For the rest of the towers you can generally see debris falling faster than the tower collapsing. But perhaps when the explosives went off that they pushed some of the debris down so that it is falling faster than g. Or it could be that they missed-time the explosives on every floor so that the columns gave some resistance. It all leads to explosions doesn't it.? But perhaps there is a more obvious explanation and perhaps we should ask an engineer. |
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Jones found "nano-thermite", missed the nanobots eating the steel. I measured the video collapse, parts fell faster than free-fall. 911 truth is ... (undefined stupid) |
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Chris, I may be in the minority on this forum when I agree with you that free-fall means no structural resistance. Maddening though it is to spend time on 8 out of 47 floors in free-fall, I'm going through the exercise. So let's say you're right when you say " the NIST progressive collapse hypothesis does not include a period of free fall acceleration because there is always structural resistance."
I've disagreed with NIST before, and their explanation that "gravity takes care of it" was not enough for my mind. Ryan Mackey's explanation made a lot of sense to me. He shows how, for the short time of freefall, there can indeed be no resistance: At least One 8-story chunk of floors held onto the perimeter wall. We see an eight-story buckle, due to the eccentric loading in the corner. Those floors attached to the perimeter after the core fails literally pulls in eight stories of column. And I wonder: could this yanking down have caused the building to collapse at slightly greater than free fall due to torquing, or is the "faster than freefall" simply a computational thing where the acceleration was so close it just measured a tiny bit faster without actually being faster? |
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The 21 core columns under the screenwall and west penthouse failed east to west in about 1 second as can be seen in the videos. The loads they carried were transferred to the exterior columns causing them to buckle in an irregular manner, which precludes their all failing at the same time. When 7 floors of the remaining 52 exterior columns were removed, the core columns which were already moving, may have momentarily increased the free fall acceleration of the exterior columns that were just going into free fall acceleration thus giving a slightly faster than free fall time for the 2.25 seconds. However, it is also possible that the discrepancy is due to the fact that they were looking at pixels which is very accurate but not perfectly accurate. In any case the 8/100ths of a second is negligible. [too small to be considered]
We are left with no measurable resistance for about 100 feet and that can only occur if there are no structural components below and that can only occur if all the supporting structure on 7 floors is removed in a synchronistic fashion within the 2.25 seconds. I appreciate your honesty. I have noticed that very few people on either side of the debate are willing to admit that they are wrong. My philosophy is: I may not always be right but I'm never wrong for long. When faced with facts or sound logic that proves my position incorrect, I immediately change my position to fit the new data. |
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This is completely, hopelessly false, yet you say it with such confidence.
"...Thomas Cahill, a UC Davis professor emeritus of physics and atmospheric science and research professor in engineering..." Is quoted in this LINK as saying: "The debris pile acted like a chemical factory. It cooked together the components of the buildings and their contents, including enormous numbers of computers, and gave off gases of toxic metals, acids and organics for at least six weeks." In their paper, Analysis of Aerosols from the World Trade Center Collapse Site, New York, October 2 to October 30, 2001, Cahill reports... "we recorded the highest levels [of all classes of polutants] we have ever seen in over 7,000 measurements we have made of very fine air pollution throughout the world, including Kuwait and China,". So what max temps are you giving GZ Beachnut? |
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Chris. You have three of the key elements there see my indexing as 1,2 & 3. Let me try to put across some of the frustrations that we structural engineers feel trying to explain why free fall of part of a collapsing structure is not an issue of concern to us. (That is of no concern other than when it comes to convincing lay persons who have doubts. )
The overriding problem is that the truth movement has done a pretty good job selling the false meme that free fall == demolition AND they don't even debate it - simply take it as given in their posts/presentation. Sound propaganda technique I suppose. I think that you are now fully aware of that one. Now next below that is their use of presumed or implied global settings. By that I mean the technique of presenting claims for free fall as if they applied to the whole structure and that the structure acted in a homogeneous way. That one also rarely stated and quite often only partially relied on. It appears to be implicit in your agreement with Chris7 where you say: "...when I agree with you that free-fall means no structural resistance..." There are two problems in that statement. First is the presumed global application which you may or may not intend. I would prefer the statement if it said this: "...when I agree with you that free-fall means no structural resistance to the free fall of the specific element of structure we are considering..." That partially resolves the problem with the statement as it originally stood. But it is not only "no resistance" we need to consider. That "no resistance" is usually set in a context which presumes no support because no connection whatsoever. It is used that way by most truthers and sadly by debunkers responding with less than full rigour in their comments. Second is the reality that free fall acceleration occurs when there is zero net resistance. Ryan has identified and you have recognised that there could be "pull down". The free fall could in fact exceed g for part of an element or a subset of elements which were subject to pull down. Leveraged pull down is simplest illustrated by this clip which you may have already seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV7TPvk__kE
And those complications apply to what is already a complex collapse scenario where we cannot know now and never could know with surety which bits did what to which other bits. So we have:
All three of those are possibles and even probables given the complexity of the overall collapse. Hence the frustration of those of us who can with confidence not worry about proving free fall because our professional training supports the reasoning. But there is no simple way to pass that confidence to genuine enquirers like yourself. And it is still at least one big quantum leap away from giving you arguments to persuade those who do not want to be persuaded. So your comment "...could this yanking down have caused the building to collapse at slightly greater than free fall due to torquing,..." I have no doubt that it could - whether or not it did I cannot comment. However another member here, femr2, specialises in measurements from video analysis and I understand that he has measured some aspects of the fall and found greater than free fall accelerations. I cannot recall the thread. |
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Thanks ozeco41, anyone know femr2?
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I was pressed for time but have now searched the reference - its somewhere near this post: http://www.internationalskeptics.com...94#post7013494 In the current thread "Chandler and constant speed" Eric C Edit PS femr2 has been regular here in recent months - together with two colleagues. All three are seen as "truthers" by many members here. I make no judgement on that. They are regulars also on http://the911forum.freeforums.org/sc...orums-f36.html which is seen as truther friendly - again I make no judgement. That forum has a fair bit of detailed technical discussion and free of the high noise of "truther v debunker" polarisation. I am not a member there fwatitswurth. |
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Thank you very much.
You had previously stated that free fall acceleration is not unexpected or words to that effect. There was a period of free fall acceleration that lasted for about 100 feet and that means that all the supporting structure on 7 or 8 floors was removed in a synchronized manner, that is; all the supports on each floor were removed simultaneously in order for the entire upper portion of the building to fall straight down as a single unit as is noted on page 45 of the final report. The comparison of Figure 12-63 showing the buckling columns which provide resistance, and below is the same graphic with the columns removed as is required for FFA, begs the question - What removed them? http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/1...ngvnothing.jpg The columns could be removed in a synchronistic manner with the use of explosives or a combination of incendiaries and explosives but not in a progressive collapse. |
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Yes... True but there is no evidence to suggest such use, arguably no strategic valid reason for anyone (either "side" - Terrorists OR GW Bush conspirators) to use same; AND well nigh impossible - enough to satisfy me- that there could not have been any demolition assistance. I am military engineer qualified and my approach to WTC collapses has been strongly influenced by "How would I do it if the General gave me the task?" I couldn't do it without leaving evidence and getting caught. ..as an engineer I cannot accept this global claim. There are many potential mechanisms, some which I could possibly suggest, many more that are beyond my ability to reasonably predict given the paucity of direct and relevant information. My personal "bottom line" for the two critical anti-demolition stages of WTC 9/11 collapse (those are the collapse initiation for WTC1 and WTC2 and the equivalent stage for WTC7) is that I, on the publicly available evidence cannot technically prove "no demolition". However the strategic - or "why do it" arguments plus the stronger "it could not be achieved without discovery" AND "it was ridiculously close to impossible" arguments carry the day for me. That is "no demolition". For WTC Twin Towers the only "viable" demolition without discovery scenario required charges placed in the middle of the fire zone by fire proof suited suicide squads. Not likely by my summation. When WTC7 became the priority discussion event I saw it as the "truth movement" grasping a straw because the evidence against demolition was not readily and visibly available as it is with the twin towers. So the cynic in me doesn't debate WTC7. Cheers. And again "Well stated. Eric C |
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I would like to disagree. Acceleration increased during the 1.75 (or so) seconds leading up to the free-fall phase. There wasn't much of a discontinuity in the a values there, which means support wasn't removed simultaneusly but rather over a (short) period of time. Free fall simply means that all support was removed by then, and not necessarily exactly then.
However,. if you have a period during which supports fail, then we are talking progressive collapse. Remember, load redistribution happens at the speed of sound. |
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We have agreed that WTC 7 fell at free fall acceleration for about 100 feet and that Shyam Sunder has rightly stated that means there was no supporting structure below the falling upper portion of the building.
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Sorry Chris, I thought you were talking about WTC1 and 2 WTC 1 & WTC 2 Clearly the bombs in WTC 1 and 2 were carefully placed at the impact zone. And must have been well insulated to prevent the fire from interfering with the detonators. Since it was a quiet flashless explosion it must have been thermite, but there was some steel blanketting or some protective screen on the perimeter columns so that the flashes would not be seen. The thermite bombs were combined with a few ordinary bombs that would go of during the collapse to enable steel to be hurled 500ft. The collapse noise covering up the explosions. On WTC 1 they blew up the inner columns first and then had a set of super-fast thermite bombs at every level to give nominal resistance and nearly free-fall. While on WTC 2 they decided to blow up the perimeter columns first followed by a series of super fast thermite bombs to give a nearly free fall. And much of the thermite failed to explode, about 160 tons, according to our calculations at ae911truth. That must have been the main ignition material that they placed at all levels just in case the plane hit at some other level. WTC 7 WTC 7 was not quite as obvious. But they certainly blew up the inner columns before the outer ones. We know that from the collapsed penthouse. I guess they then used flashless hidden thermite bombs on all the perimeter structure. I think that was only 80 columns. And they exploded them at every level for over 100 ft to provide no resistance so that we got free-fall speed. The government then supervised the debris removal so that there was no evidence of this and no-one saw anything suspicious. That's why we need subpoenas so that we can find out what they are not telling. |
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Not necessarily. If the load is many times greater than the load that the structure below is able to resist, the acceleration of the collapse can be very close to the acceleration of gravity. So, are you saying the mechanisms observed at Stage 1 were in a synchronistic manner? Are you saying "progressive collapse" doesn't exist? The art of implosion is not only to bring down buildings, but also make it so that there is no risk of damage to the buildings nearby. That's why demolition companies put explosives in multiple columns of multiple floors. |
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