Jones Beene wrote:
Exactly. Anyone who says the NIST report somehow eliminated thermite
as contributory agent is seriously in error. They never considered
it at all. From the NIST site:
Did the NIST investigation look for evidence of the WTC towers being
brought down by controlled demolition? Was the steel tested for
explosives or thermite residues?
And why didn't they look? Two reasons: one stated in the report and
one so obvious it hardly needs to be listed, because it puts the
whole idea into Lala land:
1. As stated it would take thousands of pounds, "placed
inconspicuously ahead of time, remotely ignited, and somehow held in
direct contact with the surface of hundreds of massive structural
components to weaken the building." NIST calls this "unlikely" to be
polite. I would call it ridiculous.
2. Suppose, for the sake of argument, thermite was used. Let us look
at the facts:
We know where the destruction began: right on the floors struck by
the airplanes. You can see this from the videos, and the physical
evidence. The destruction did not start above those floors, or below
them. There would be no point to installing thermite on the lower
floors because the falling building had more than enough energy to
destroy itself. As I said, putting thermite on the lower floors would
be a complete waste, and it would accomplish nothing. (Not to mention
the fact that the work would almost certainly be discovered while in
progress, which would reveal the plot.) It would be like shooting a
missile into the building a moment before an airplane hits it with
thousands of times more kinetic energy than the missile supplies.
SO, the only place you could put thermite would be on the exact floor
where the airplane was going to strike, and the only reason to put it
there would be to ensure that the building falls in case the airplane
does not supply enough energy.
PROBLEM: How do you know what airplane is going to hit? That is
impossible to predict! The kamikaze jihad pilots barely managed hit
the buildings. Do you think they could have struck the exact right
floor in coordination with the people who installed the thermite
weeks before? That is preposterous.
Looking for thermite is exactly like looking for a chemical reaction
in a cold fusion cell that might produce 100 MJ per 1 g of palladium.
It is so fundamentally impossible, and so far-fetched and obviously
wrong that no sensible expert would even entertain the idea long
enough to bother checking. You might as well demand that we look for
evidence that Martians caused the destruction.
Let's apply a little common sense in this analysis.
- Jed
