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William Seger

(10,923 posts)
11. You can't have it both ways with that, either
Sun Dec 8, 2013, 04:16 PM
Dec 2013

You cite sources near the building that say they heard "explosions." That would be the sound of the interior collapsing. In the videos, you can hear the rumbling of the collapse -- faint because all of the cameras were relatively far away -- but that's not what high-explosives sound like.

> I think we've already been over the thesis by which the wallas of the hollow columns were heated with incendiaries and then explosive charges planted inside the columns would bulge out, but not breach, the column walls--resulting in buckling and column failure with little noise escaping.

Yes, how could I forget your most absurd "just so" story. What a remarkable feat of engineering, but tell me: how did they suppress the seismic shock waves?

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