coldboiled, on 14 February 2013 - 07:46 AM, said:
Hmm this is going nowhere. We know the government had some foreknowledge. Now as to involvement. That is up for debate. For a few years now. Lets get some funding. Build a tower. Fly a plane into it. See what happens. Any volunteers? As far as I'm concerned its about the only way to see the truth now. Recreate it as accurately as possibly. SInce the facts so far have been and can be distorted to suit either sides argument.
It’s a nice idea. I reckon we should rig the building for demolition also, for when the plane fails to take it down. Though there might be a problem finding anyone prepared to fund and lose a few billion dollars.
Fortunately this is not actually required - NIST already tested the case for us through state of the art computer simulation. What they found is that a ‘best case’ match to the 9/11 buildings, airliners, impacts and fire did not induce a collapse in the model. The parameters such as aircraft speed, weight and building strength all had to be ratcheted toward a ‘more severe case’ along with further manual adjustments to the simulation to induce a collapse. This might have been acceptable, had not the extended damage exceeded that actually observed on 9/11.
Funnily enough, the above is in agreement with multiple previous studies carried out by the WTC engineers, all of which concluded the building structure would remain safe in an assumed airliner collision. Before anyone says it – that included both low speed and high speed impact cases along with accounting for the resultant fire situation to the best of their ability at the time.
Yet on 9/11, against this study and precedent, it is claimed by some that the towers came down two for two as result of the airliner impacts, with a bonus WTC7 thrown in due to the fallout for good measure. The scientific studies mentioned prove this occurrence somewhere between ‘against the odds’ and ‘impossible’.
Of course, a correctly planned demolition setup would produce the results 100% of the time. Indeed, even forgetting the heavily tilted odds, that is what a large body of additional evidence and circumstance indicate occurred.