There is something that has always bothered me about the 9/11 attacks

[Occhidiangela]

I have no idea why I'm posting this now instead of years ago.

I have no idea why I dignify your foolishness with a reply.

I know there was an explosion at the base of the towers which caused the towers to fall.

By this statement I know that you are an idiot.

It has *always* bothered me that people - in general, and even here - don't believe there were explosions that caused the twin towers to fall when I saw it on the news live as it happened.

No, you didn't see explosions, you saw a building that was 90% air collapse because a 25 story apartment block fell on top of the rest of it. There were about 25 stories above the impact site. The steel beams and the building withstood the impact magnificently. Awesome engineering.

As the fire burned, the steel beams that made up the three dimensional lattice slowly got hot, hot enough to slightly change their mechanical properties. The tensile strength began to decrease,

EDUCATE YOURSELF ON STRESS STRAIN GRAPHS VERSUS TEMPERATURE FOR STEEL

Many of the vertical steel members buckled in an event called PLASTIC DEFORMATION. (What was once ductile is now brittle)

That plastic deformation was caused by heat and load, together, among other things.

When the main members failed, due to the thermal environment changing dramatically the load bearing capability of the steel beams -- a number of them already having failed at impatc, and the fire resistant coating no longer protecting the steal from THERMAL STRESS -- they embarked upon a clever little event that we engineers call

CATASTROPHIC FAILURE.

The dust? How much bloody stone and concrete and gypsum do you think is in an eighty or ninety story building? Ever heard of Sheetrock? Also, drop a bag of concrete on the ground from three feet up. When it breaks open, notice a dust cloud.

DUH!

It all hit ground from great height. So did some of the people who either jumped, or hadn't yet burned to death. And please don't start with any crap about 'greater than freefall speed' it will just make you look sillier.

MEAT, you are being an utter fool. You are falling prey to liars and charlatans, idiots like Griffin and Jones and Fetzer and Avery. You know DAMNED WELL who I am talking about, if you are spouting this despicable crap.

What are you, a charter member of Prison Planet? Stormfront? What I see you doing here is what the lying scum who have perpetrated this inane conspiracy theory call

Just Aksing Questions.

Well, I have a question for you. So I am just asking a question here:

What the hell did you do with your brain?

You can look up the term Controlled Demolition. You can find on the web dozens of examples of actual controlled demolitions that have taken place all over the place, done by qualified teams. The Towers didn't have those characteristisc, except to the

DELIBERATELY SELF DELUDED

You are engaging in willful ignorance. Our ancestors who did that ended up as sabre tooth chow.

An alum of my university, and a fellow Navy pilot, was murdered that day, in cold blood, along with too many others, at the Pentagon, while he flew his passengers and the complete scum who hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 into that massive building.

The lying scum who are playing you

FOR AN UTTER FOOL

also contend that AA 77 didn't actually hit the Pentagon, or that a missile did, or about six other wrong and often contradictory lies about an A-3 Skywarrior were "what really happened." They got Rosie O'Donnel to sell their soap, and now they have you. Way to leap into the ditch with a pig.

That you fall for that rubbish places you in the class of people who PT Barnum made his fortune bilking.

Welcome to the world of the wilfully foolish, population far too large for my liking.

There's the interstate ... or is it a playground?

If you respond, you may have demonstrated that you can tell the difference.

Oh, yeah, maybe you ought to do what I did a few years ago.

Head over to NIST, they have a web site, and read their freakin' report. Yes, it has big words, and isn't just a few Twitter lines long, but it's fascinating reading and remarkable as an example of forensic investigation.

Or, you can keep being a fool played by charlatans.

Or go here, to Ryan Mackey's site:

http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/

Occhi