Bart, you published in #1572
> http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/28031.htm
Hm. As an explosives engineer (ex-military,
ex-NASA), I reserve judgment.
It could have been done. But it didn't
necessarily need to be done.
The conspiracy nuts jump straight to "proof"
of pre-planted explosives, saying
the twin towers couldn't have collapsed just
from impact, and the five-sided
puzzle factory had to have been hit by something
else, and....
None of which is a fact. Resonance amplification
is a bitch, and without
going into the math, try this simple experiment:
take a block of wood, and
hold a match next to it. The block of wood
is not impressed. Now take two
blocks of wood, at a finger width or so apart,
and put a match between them.
Both will ignite. Energy is a wave, and
it reflects. (Do NOT try this at home:
a firecracker in your open hand will make you
really unhappy for a few days,
a firecracker in a closed hand will make you
really unhappy for the rest of your life.
Contained energy, wave reflection, is the principle
behind shaped charges,
as opposed to a pile of black powder.)
Any half-decent firecracker expert, and any experienced
firefighter, could have
told the world what explosives were involved
without even needing a chemistry lab
if they'd been allowed to go through the rubble
within a day. But most of the
firefighters in the area either died, or were
in completely understandable shock,
and I didn't see any explosives experts being
called in to check the remains.
Did William Rodriguez say a bomb went off before
the planes hit? Not in any
of the "official" media. http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/Rodriguez.htm
But then, we know just how much we can trust
the "official" media.
Is Greg Szymanski of arcticbeacon.com a
raving conspiracy theory nut with
"planted explosives" on the brain? Without
question. But then, I had tangible proof
that NASA managers were skipping on inspections,
which resulted in the loss of
Columbia, and it was stolen from my car by Kennedy
Space Center security personnel
while I was working out at the KSC gym, and then
I was framed for a terrorist act in
order to discredit me, so I am in no position
to throw stones at conspiracy nuts.
Were the WTC towers pre-wired with explosives?
That would be an ENORMOUS
job, and it's hard to believe it could have been
done undetected. But I will say this:
the paired towers were a damn stupid piece of
civil design engineering.
Does it really matter? No. Because
we already have all the irrefutable proof that
Dumbass and company were criminally negligent,
if not outright culpable, in the 9-11
attack, and the fact that they aren't in prison
already is all the proof we need that
they aren't the only ones.
The Die Hard