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In reply to the discussion: 9/11 Physics: "You Can't Use Common Sense" [View all]William Seger
(11,031 posts)12. LOL, what about Gyro's Law?
any two objects of similar structure and materials cannot fall through the other as if the other wasn't there.
the top half of a building cannot freefall through the bottom half, destroying it in the process UNLESS:
1. the lower half was made of jello
2. it was compromised by timed explosive devices placed at key locations (CD)
3. you believe in cartoon physics
the top half of a building cannot freefall through the bottom half, destroying it in the process UNLESS:
1. the lower half was made of jello
2. it was compromised by timed explosive devices placed at key locations (CD)
3. you believe in cartoon physics
Verinage demolition uses hydraulic jacks and cables to collapse parallel load-bearing walls, after which gravity alone proceeds to do exactly that which you claim is impossible. Since it works by pulling in parallel walls, of course that means it's limited to structures with load-bearing walls. That's what excludes using it on steel-framed structures, not Gyro's Law. You deliberately fail to understand how much impact force is generated by having that much mass fall even one story, and how far beyond the capacity of the typical building it would be. Any competent structural engineer will tell you that buildings are simply not designed to withstand that sort of abuse, but you'd rather invent imaginary physics to protect your delusions.
> you just proved the case for CD at the WTC, because verinage is a type of controlled demolition.
I defy you to restate that conclusion in the form of a logical argument, because that certainly isn't one.
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"I'm about to give some of these 9/11 truther dumb-asses a little bit of a lesson"
William Seger
Nov 2014
#4
" because walls are not built strong enough to bear the buildings above them at a crazy wrong angle"
wildbilln864
Jan 2015
#42
Exactly: the idea that WTC should topple over in one piece like a 2x4 is silly but ....
rewinn
Jan 2015
#52
No, as that paper explains repeatedly, calculations of the real life physical process were not done.
eomer
Nov 2014
#21