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15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses (2016)
- rasengan 8y agoTL;DR: From the article's conclusion: "Instead, the evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that all three buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition."
- dmh2000 8y agoquestion for people who know the subject (from someone who doesn't) : is this paper legit or written by conspiracy minded individuals? I didn't want to say 'nuts'.
- netsharc 8y agothe 2nd part is for sure true (they believe it's controlled demolitions, and when you believe something, confirmation bias (https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/ https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/) probably makes you find more and more evidence that prove your belief), and whether it's legit, well, considering who the writers associate with, I would scrutinize their claims more, if finding the truth about this topic really bothered me...
- netsharc 8y agoTL;DR: two (edit: four) 9/11 Truthers wrote a paper. Can't be bothered to see if what they claim about the NIST investigation being un-transparent and sloppy is valid.
- wglass 8y agoSnopes has some nice commentary on this. Key takeaway-- this is not a peer reviewed journal. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/journal-endorses-911-conspiracy-theory/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/journal-endorses-911-consp...
- cpr 8y agoI know it sounds nuts, but Dr Judy Wood makes a damned good case that the twin towers (not bldg 7) were turned to dust by directed energy weapons. Watch with an open mind and just look at the evidence, don’t prejudge based on “come on, our government would never do something like that...”. https://youtu.be/ermHx3akejc https://youtu.be/ermHx3akejc
- dpatru 8y agoDr. J. Leroy Hulsey of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has a study on the collapse of just World Trade Center Building 7, which fell even though it was not hit by a plane. So far he has concluded that: "The findings thus far are that fire did not bring down this building. Building failure simulations show that, to match observation, the entire inner core of this building failed nearly simultaneously."[1] [1]: http://ine.uaf.edu/projects/wtc7/ http://ine.uaf.edu/projects/wtc7/
- rootusrootus 8y agoI was hoping for something more interesting. All they did here is raise the usual doubts, and provide no evidence to bolster their conclusion. At best what they've done is show that we still can't completely explain through modeling what happened with those buildings. That's a looooong ways from proving it was really a controlled demolition.