[lit-ideas] Re: Is it any wonder...
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 04:07:45 -0400
Simon: Indeed, then why did Bldg 7 collapse.
That's their biggest bugbear.
Remember how I rebarbatively bristled at
suggestions that the WTC attack was the mere
destruction of a couple office buildings? You
really had to have seen the thing or you get lost
in TV-land ironic distance. Conspiracists have
taken that ironic distance into the domain of
pseudoreligious psychosis.
You also have to start heavily condescending when
the 9-11 research.com Web site dismisses the
findings of "the engineering establishment."
What's next, "the mathematics establishment"? I
mean, we've got to stick it to the man about the
system's oppressive and hegemonic bourgeois linear
programming. Powers of ten to the innumerate people!
Here's the government take:
http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Sep/16-241966.html
The National Institute of Standards and Technology
has stated unequivocally, “NIST has seen no
evidence that the collapse of WTC 7 was caused by
bombs, missiles, or controlled demolition,” in its
Collapse of WTC 7 report (p. 6). NIST’s working
hypothesis for the collapse of WTC 7 is that it
was caused by the collapse of a critical column
due to “fire and/or debris induced structural
damage.” There was substantial damage to WTC 7
when the nearby WTC 1 tower collapsed and fires
began shortly afterwards. Also, WTC 7 was a very
unusual building because it was built over an
existing Con-Edison power generation substation,
which contained two large 6,000 gallon fuel tanks
for the emergency generation of power. The fuel
from these tanks could have contributed to the
intense heat that apparently weakened the
supporting columns in WTC 7.
See also the National Institute of Standards and
Technology's report (after conducting a 3-year
building and fire safety investigation to study
the factors contributing to the cause of the
post-impact collapse of the WTC Towers and WTC 7):
http://wtc.nist.gov/media/archives.htm
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