World Trade Center 7 and the NIST Report

Well, I was right on one account - the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has finally released, after nearly 7 years, its finest work of fiction to date concerning the collapse of World Trade Center 7 on the afternoon of September 11, 2001. For those not familiar with the NIST, it is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. The mission of the NIST is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by enhancing science and technology that improve and enhance the quality of life. It is also the obsequious branch of the Bush administration that manufactures lies to cover Bush’s engineering of the greatest crime in the 21st century committed against U.S. citizens by their own government. Many of us who watched the events of September 11, 2001 unfold on television remember seeing the smoking structure of WTC 7 in the background. There were no raging fires, only random plumes of smoke coming from smoldering debris and spot fires in the building. The collapse of WTC 7 is the first time in recorded history that spot fires destroyed a 47 story steel skyscraper. The NIST claims that the destruction of the North and South Towers severed a water main that supplied the fire protection system in WTC 7. One salient feature of the report dispels the myth that the diesel fuel, stored in WTC 7, for back-up power generators, provided the propellant necessary to make the fires more intense.


For those of us with an engineering or physics background this juvenile explanation of the collapse of WTC 7 is pure fiction. What bothers me more than anything else is the symmetrical collapse of the building at nearly free-fall speed. Again, we see a common thread in all of the collapses of that day – the main supporting steel columns, some of them massive, gave absolutely no resistance to the collapse of the respective buildings. For WTC 7, this implies that all 25 central steel columns and 58 peripheral steel columns failed within 1 second of each other. The building collapsed in a symmetrical fashion and the debris field was contained to the building’s own footprint, ostensibly, to minimize any damage to peripheral structures. If the building were truly brought down by a raging fire that weakened all of the steel columns, physical science and common sense would dictate an asymmetrical collapse of the structure. In other words, the law of conservation of momentum would cause the side of the building most damaged by the fires to collapse first, and so on. However, we see a uniform symmetrical collapse that is the epitome for a controlled demolition.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/World-Trade-Center-7-and-t-by-William-Helbig-080823-598.html