Horn, John wrote:
>> On Behalf Of Dave Land
>
>> And it's not just that people described the plane hitting the
>> tower as "an explosion", it's the reports -- many of them at
>> the time they happened -- of "there goes another explosion".
>> There are radio recordings of lots of firefighters reported
>> "secondary explosions"
>> throughout the building at various times, and footage of
>> reporters reacting to explosions way after the both planes had hit.
>
> I don't think I was clear enough earlier. I was actually referring
> to these reports of secondary explosions not the initial explosion
> from the airplane hit.
>
> Again, there probably were lots of things happening that could be
> described in the chaos of the moment as explosions. But that
> doesn't mean they were caused by bombs preset in the building. I'm
> not sure that I buy the argument that the average firefighter is
> trained to know the difference between an explosion caused by a bomb
> and by other things. I'm sure they are trained to know about the
> "normal" fire-related explosions and such. But nothing about the
> WTC attacks was normal. It was all outside of their experiences and
> training. The scale of the damage and the chaos was beyond anything
> I'm sure most, if not all, of them had ever seen. I don't put a lot
> of creedence in the words someone blurted out over a radio in that
> situation. As I said in another post, I could imagine someone
> blurting out the first thing that came to mind ("that sounded like a
> bomb") but then internalizing the next part ("no, probably 'caused
> by blah-blah-blah").
>
If you ever had the opportunity to hear 250MCM cables go phase to
phase, something that certainly if only similarly happened in the WTC
any number of times, then you would know just how easy it is to hear
"explosions" during disasterous occurences.
How many battery powered devices would there be in a building like the
WTC. Ever heard a battery explode? I have. It was 30 feet away and
sounded like a shotgun going off next to my head. How many little UPS
units in such an office space? How many exploded due to fire?
I'm sure some of the brighter minds here can think of other mundane
reasons for explosions and similar sounding events.
My concern WRT the conspiracy theories is in the way 3 WTC buildings
collapsed fairly squarely into thier footprints. It is quite difficult
to *make* this occur (in the sense that work must be done to garuantee
it), yet 3 WTC buildings did just that on their own and one was not
even hit by a plane. If I have any doubts about the "rational"
explanation it lies there.
xponent
Pancake Maru
rob
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