Kri, I don't *subscribe* to the serendipity website, nor its conclusions, as I've pointed out several times. I've also said at least three times that I picked it at random as an *example* of what it out there - ie a huge amount of often well-informed questioning of the official version, much of it on technical lines.
If I'd known we'd get into such a long discussion I'd have taken the time to find a less "excitable" website which didn't cloud the issue by postulating absurb Jewish global conspiracies and massively far-reaching cover-ups as the root of all this. I've no idea what happened on 9/11, nor exactly who caused it, tho I think the 'whys' are a bit clearer, whichever camp you come from. I said I've an open mind, and that's exactly what I have. That's also why I keep searching for information.
I didn't say - or mean at least - that the size or distance apart of the trusses was immaterial *per se*. I said, that question is immaterial to whether the towers should have collapsed as a result of the - fairly short lived - fires from the impact of the planes. They should not have, for several other reasons. And the melting of trusses from an aviation fuel fire doesn't in any way explain the *identical* collapse of WTC7.
Of course I'm not a construction engineer, but when even some of those who built the Twin Towers agree that they should not have fallen, who am I to say they are wrong? On the balance of what I've read, and it's a lot - and I've also watched the documentary which blames the 'melting trusses' - I'm *inclined* to believe that the towers could only have fallen the way they did from a controlled demolition. So many explosives experts have made the point, I don't see how it can be ignored. Try looking up stuff on the company [Controlled Demolition Inc, as it happens, with links to the administration] which immediately carted off all the debris and had it shipped out and rendered... suspicious doesn't begin to describe it.
Sorry to cite serendipity again, but I'm too lazy to look for another version and I saved this page to search on later:
http://www.serendipity.li/wtc5.htm
I've been looking into this whole 9/11 conundrum on and off for over a year now, so I suppose I talk in a kind of shorthand about it. I know it's a lot of stuff to keep in mind when you first start lifting the carpet.
A few websites I've looked at have remarked that they've tried to intoduce their research into Wikipedia and that their submissions have been taken out by persons unknown. Wikipedia is of course a magnet for the half-educated and opinionated of all stripes, which is why I so distrust it... Still, what people have said begs the question of who has the power to censor entire items from the Wiki, rather than add to them or 'correct' them.
it's not just Wikipedia. This is an example
<< As a result of reports in 2001-2002 that the Twin Towers were demolished by the use of explosives there have been more detailed scientific studies appearing on the web.
See [this link added 2006-01-19]:
Prof. Steven Jones: Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? ...
http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html >>
You click onthe link, and it's vanished.
However a quick Google brings up lots on Dr Jones, a prof of Physics, and his well-informed views, eg:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160132,00.html
This site also gives a link to the article by Jones, and again it has vanished.
More about this, and the sacking of Jones, here:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635160132,00.html
In fact the article can be found elsewhere
http://wtc7.net/articles/stevenjones_b7.html
Quote from Jones's article, I haven't read the whole thing yet - but it's riveting:
<< Thus, molten metal was repeatedly observed and formally reported in the rubble piles of the WTC Towers and WTC 7, metal that looked like molten steel. However, scientific analysis, using for example X-ray fluorescence, would be needed to ascertain the actual composition of the molten metal.
I maintain that these published observations are consistent with the use of the high-temperature thermite reaction, used to cut or demolish steel. Thermite is a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder. The end products of the thermite reaction are aluminum oxide and molten iron. So the thermite reaction generates molten iron directly, and is hot enough to melt and even evaporate steel which it contacts while reacting. On the other hand, falling buildings (absent explosives) have insufficient directed energy to result in melting of large quantities of metal. The government reports admit that the building fires were insufficient to melt steel beams -- then where did the molten metal come from?
Metals expert Dr. Frank Gayle (working with NIST) stated:
"Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the fire so very intense, a lot of people figured that's what melted the steel. Indeed it did not, the steel did not melt". (Field, 2005; emphasis added.)
None of the official reports tackles this mystery. Yet this is evidently a significant clue to what caused the Towers and WTC 7 to collapse. So I would very much like to see an analysis of the elemental composition of the metal, and could do this myself if a small sample were made available according to scientific courtesy. Any reader who knows of chemical analyses or even photographs of this molten metal found below the rubble piles of WTC 1, 2 and 7 is invited to speak out and contact the author. This could lead to an experiment crucis.>>
I'm interested that the author also notes something which always bothered me about the collapse of WCT1, the North Tower - that the collapse*begins* with the antenna on the roof - ie the collapse starts not with weak floors made by a hole further down, but with a catastrophic failure of the *central core of the building* - exactly the part which should be strongest
Jones aslo quotes scepticism on the part of the NY journal 'Fire Engineering', the professional organ of the fire-fighting profession:
"Respected members of the fire protection engineering community are beginning to raise red flags, and a resonating [result] has emerged: The structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers.
Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the "official investigation" blessed by FEMA… is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members - described by one close source as a "tourist trip"-no one's checking the evidence for anything."
It's incorrect to say that the buildings didn't implode by the way. Almost everyone accepts that they did.
Most of the big 9/11 sceptics' websites draw material form several sources by the way, and also include links to lots of others, inc Govt info. I wouldn't trust a 'single source' website either.
And some believe that the wilder sites out there [inc serendipity and some of its linkied sites like webfairy] are deliberate attempts to tar the proper research sites with the brush of lunacy, something which would not surprise me
http://911review.com/disinfo/index.html
Warbler, the original hole [before the later collapse of the wall] at the Pentagon was c.16-20 feet in width, and this is of course VERY much smaller than a Boeing. There is irrefutable CNN film footage of this; the size of the surrounding - intact! - windows is standard, giving a good measure for the hole. They say the windows had recently been replaced with bomb proof glass... but the imacpt of a 747 would surely buckle the frames at least! However this page and related pages supply several eyewitness accounts which are very interesting to the undecided
http://911review.com/attack/pentagon/witnesses.html
Numerous building surrounding the Pentagon as well as the building itself had cctv cameras; strangely however all the local security cctv film *of the imapct moment itself* was immediately collected up by the authorities and has vanished... except for one produced days later, supposedly from the Pentagon carpark, which can be shown to have been easily doctored. It purports to show a tailfin going into the building, but is at the wrong angle entirely for the damage trail etc etc.
It's true that people driving by claimed to have seen a plane whizzing by into the Pentagon, but it's very easy as many psychological tests have shown to remember having 'seen things' which you've been told you have seen. People even said they saw the plane bounce - but there are no marks on the lawn at all! The angle and height at which the plane hit, is almost impossible for anyone but a superb and very experienced pilot to achieve btw... some pilots have claimed that only remote control could have achieved it. Something flew into the Pentagon - but what was it? I don't know if it was a plane or not
Btw, all accounts, film, etc etc of the Lockerbie crash [among numerous others] show that large pieces of plane and intact bodies would have been identifiable if these two planes had crash-landed as we are supposed to believe. In fact debris and bodies were forund, but several miles away...
More on Flight 93:
http://www.flight93crash.com/
http://911review.com/attack/flights/f93.html
Right, I've got things to do... !! Enough already...
I've repeated myself too often.
Just a cursory exploration of the sites brings up more and more doubts. Go figure.