Go to the government's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) website: http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm where it says: “NIST’s findings do not support the “pancake theory” of collapse, which is premised on a progressive failure of the floor systems in the WTC towers (the composite floor system—that connected the core columns and the perimeter columns—consisted of a grid of steel “trusses” integrated with a concrete slab; see diagram below). Instead, the NIST investigation showed conclusively that the failure of the inwardly bowed perimeter columns initiated collapse and that the occurrence of this inward bowing required the sagging floors to remain connected to the columns and pull the columns inwards. Thus, the floors did not fail progressively to cause a pancaking phenomenon.”
Look at what they are saying: "...the occurrence of this inward bowing required the sagging floors to remain connected to the columns..." That means the explanation that the government gives for claiming that the horizontal beams stayed connected to the vertical columns, is only that: those beams staying connected is what is "required" in order to explain the occurrence of the vertical columns getting inwardly bowed. The reason they have to claim that the vertical columns were inwardly bowed is because the Pancake Theory was so easily discredited by pointing out that that theory left the vertical columns standing, and we can all see that they were not left standing. So they had to scrap the Pancake theory for one that accounted for the vertical columns being brought down too. So the government is asking us to believe that several floors near the top with weakened steel tied in with concrete floors sagged and pulled the vertical steel columns down through multiple floors of horizontal and vertical steel columns, all the way down to the ground.
I don't have to be a scientist to know that there's no way the concrete floors could have bent all 236 vertical steel columns around the periphery along with the 47 massive vertical steel columns in the center of the Towers all the way down to the ground right into the building's own small footprint. Even if the floors were not made of concrete, but of some material that was so incredibly heavy that it could have bent all those vertical columns down in upon themselves while staying attached to all the horizontal beams, what we would have seen at the bottom is a big tangle of steel beams and columns all twisted together. But all the videos and pictures show that these beams did not stay attached as they claim, but were blown to bits.
It gets worse. According to the government, all of this "bowing" and bending of massive vertical steel columns down to the ground happened as quickly as an object falling through thin air. Here’s what NIST says: “NIST estimated the elapsed times for the first exterior panels to strike the ground after the collapse initiated in each of the towers to be approximately 11 seconds for WTC 1 and approximately 9 seconds for WTC 2.” “Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance to the tremendous energy released by the falling building mass, the building section above came down essentially in free fall, as seen in videos.”
So not only are we to believe that the concrete could have pulled these massive vertical columns strait down, but that they did so at “essentially free fall” speed, the same speed as an object dropping through the air. Why would they make such an outrageous claim? Because the have to. There are numerous videos of the twin towers falling, so it's already a matter of public record that they fell at free fall speed.
Please circulate this information about the government's Pull Down Theory to others so their info is current.
Thank you,
Eli Dumitru
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