MikeK
Gold Member
You know that to be a fact? If so, please provide a technical outline of the type and quantity of the cutting charges, the number of charges used on each floor and the timing sequences.[...]
A pre-planned setting of controlled demolition is far simpler than you think.
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Then explain the time lapse between the airliner strikes and commencement of the collapses. Why the delay in detonation, which imposed the risk of ruining the critical timing sequences?
Do you really believe it possible, even during a general overhaul, for sappers to wire the structural framework of the World Trade Center towers with explosives without at least one of the dozens of tradesmen, electricians, plumbers, HVAC mechanics, carpenters, tinsmiths, steam-fitters, painters and structural inspectors who routinely move about the service corridors noticing it. And let's not forget about the armed security staff that patrolled those towers and monitor the presence and activities of all tradesmen working there?
Are you aware that what you're suggesting is an explosive demolition project the size of which is far greater and far more intricate than any such project ever attempted anywhere in the world?
And presuming that maximum destruction was the objective of the attack, why would the perpetrators take the trouble to perform an intricately controlled vertical collapse when the use of one explosive mass to effect a lateral collapse of the buildings, which would have significantly increased the level damage in the surrounding area, would have been infinitely simpler to effect because it would have required only one properly placed charge in both buildings.
The purpose of controlled demolition is to avoid damage, not create it.
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