Ignatz goes back in his Box II

[chek]

Still nothing from those legendary hordes of structural engineers yet Pepik?

You know - those structural engineers who either subcontract to civil engineers on civil infrastructure projects or large building design; the ones that require city, state and/or government licensing before they can even get started?

Or even the academic ones who work for Educational Establishments that are heavily dependent on government finance? Not that that would in any way influence their judgement regarding criticising the government's own findings.

After all, it's not as if we're living in some kind of petty-minded fascist state that might visit consequences on any outspoken professional now, is it?

[pepik]

I'm sure you wouldn't risk your job at burger king to report that the boss is using human flesh instead of beef, but most people wouldn't cover up mass murder to protect their jobs.

Now please stop with the hysterics and let KP50 explain his theory.

[chek]

[KP50]

You seem to be treating the core as a binary object, either intact or destroyed - rather than as a network of steel columns. The fact that a part of the core was still standing briefly at the end of the collapse cannot be used to indicate that there were no explosives in the sub-basements.

The behaviour of the core after the impacts and during collapse is hard to determine given we can't see the b* - however the movement of the antenna on top of the north tower before the floors start collapsing indicates that the core gave way first.

[pepik]

OK so your theory is that if you place explosives on the core, in the basement, the building would collapse from the top down and the core would be the last thing standing.

This is too stupid for me to bother with. Good luck with convincing the unbelievers.

[KP50]