2.25 seconds of free fall acceleration across eight floors tells you what about the total collapse time of all 47 stories, Sherlock?
Once again, for maybe the 10th time.......the collapse initiated with the penthouse caving into the center of the building. It demonstrated, undeniably, that the building's interior was already collapsing. And that occured *long* before the facade finally fell.
You ignore the collapse of the interior of the building, the caving in of the penthouse, all of it....because it throws off your time line. But why would a rational person ignore this amazingly relevant detail just brecause its inconvenient to your argument?
They wouldn't.
Just as they wouldn't ignore the legion of conspiracy shattering holes in your claims. Holes, like the collapsing penthouse, you refuse to acknowledge even exist. Refuse to discuss. And can't possibly explain away.....as they render your conspiracy a physical impossibility.
1)
There were no explosions in your 'explosive demolition'. The building fell so silently that the facade was well on its way down when people even noticed. Where in actual controlled demolition, the charges are ludicriously loud. Yet the WTC 7 fell in virtual silence. But don't take my word for it...here's a video. How far down is the building before people even noticed?
Silent explosives don't exist. That's physically impossible if it were bombs. Your theory doesn't work.
2)
There were no girders cut in a manner consistent with explosive demolition. There were twisted girders, there deformed girders, there girders stacked on top of each other. But there were no CUT girders. And that's how explosive demolition works: by cutting the girders with a shaped explosive charge.
Demonstrating rather elegantly, that it wasn't explosive demolition. It couldn't have been. Want another reason why it was physically impossible?
3)
The building was on fire.
We walked over by number Seven World Trade Center
as it was burning and saw this 40-plus story building with fire
on nearly all floors.
Lt. Robert Larocco
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/Larocco_Robert.txt
That means that your theory requires that the *explosives* would have been on fire. And there's no system of explosives that handled buiding fires. Even the most chemically stable explosives would have melted. TNT would have exploded. Detonators would have detonated, any timers or receivers would have been reduced to bubbling pools of plastic.
There's a reason why no building in the history of the world has ever been explosively demolished while ON FIRE. It can't be done. As the materials necessary to conduct an explosive demolition are themselves, ridiculously flammable and susceptible to heat.
Your conspiracy explanation fails yet again. And it gets even worse.
4)
There were no explosives or apparatus of explosives ever found. Not before, not during, not after the collapse. The WTC 7 wasn't a museum. It was used daily by its tenants. It was maintained by its resident staff. It was inspected, remodelled, and cleaned. And no where was anything your theory mandates by the thousands up on thousands ever found.
Not one inch of blasting wire. Not one foot of det cord. Not a single transmitter. Not a single timer. Not a single girder cut in a manner consistent with explosive demolition. Not one charge.
Ever. Despite your theory requiring thousands and thousands of each. That strains credulity to the point of ridiculousness. All the more so when we get to the fact that.....
5)
The Port Authority Bomb Squad went through the entire WTC plaza with bomb sniffing dogs....and found nothing. Not one bomb. Not a single apparatus of explosive. Nothing.
These are men and women *trained* to find these explosives. And its not like the dogs would miss them. And yet they found exactly nothing. Which is exactly what you've got to back your theory: nothing.
And astonishingly, it still gets worse:
6)
There was no residue of explosives in dust samples. Despite these dust samples being so precise that they could detect medication from the WTC pharmacy, they found no residue of explosives.
And finally;
7)
The FDNY already determined what the cause of the collapse would be: fire and structural damage from the impact with debris from the north tower:
The major concern at that time at that particular location was number Seven, building number seven, which had taken a big hit from the north tower. When it fell,
it ripped steel out from between the third and sixth floors across the facade on Vesey Street. We were concerned that the fires on several floors and the missing steel would result in the building collapsing.
So for the next five or six hours we kept firefighters from working anywhere near that building, which included the whole north side of the World Trade Center
complex. Eventually around 5:00 or a little after, building number seven came down.
Assistant Chief Frank Fellini
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/Fellini_Frank.txt
They predicted its collapse due to fire and structural damage pretty accurately. How did they do this? The measured its slow structural failure over hours:
...also we were pretty sure that 7 World Trade Center would collapse. Early on, we saw a bulge in the southwest corner between floors 10 and 13, and we had put a transit on that and we were pretty sure she was going to collapse. You actually could see there was a visible bulge, it ran up about three floors. It came down about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, but by about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we realized this thing was going to collapse.
Deputy Chief Peter Hayden
http://www.firehouse.com/terrorist/911/magazine/gz/hayden.html
A transit is a vertical level, used to measure angles. Here's an example of how its used:
They measured the bulging, the buckling, the leaning of the WTC 7. They knew, hours before its collapse, that it was coming down. Now why would we ignore the FDNY, who was there, who saw the catastrophic damage, who witnessed the enormous fires, who put a transit on the building and measured it structural failure.....
....and instead believe you? There is no reason.
The contradiction of the 'controlled demolition' theory is layered, overlapping, and overwhelming. Its an overly complicated, fantastically elaborate, wildly complex, and physically impossible explanation that is contradicted by just mountains of evidence.
So overwhelming in fact......that you refuse to even acknowledge any exist. You can't ignore these holes in your claims away. Even if you close your eyes, we can still see them. And they devastate your absurd theory.