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Creative Speculation

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23. Wasn't the basement mainly open space?

Mon Nov 9, 2015, 04:03 PM

Nov 2015

so when the building fell on top of those spaces, they collapsed - creating a big hole that was filled with debris from the falling towers.

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What a Gravity Driven Demolition Looks Like by David Chandler - sottotitolato in italiano [View all] wildbilln864 Nov 2015 OP

What a paranoia driven cognitive dissonance looks like e.g. David Chandler William Seger Nov 2015 #1

Chandler's correct! You are not! wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #2

The floor pans did not get more robust lower in the structure. hack89 Nov 2015 #3

show me the specs that prove your claim or else you... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #4

much of that "falling mass" wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #7

So it didn't collapse in its own footprint? hack89 Nov 2015 #8

7 did yes... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #9

you'd be wrong... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #11

so now you are saying... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #13

so how did wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #21

Wasn't the basement mainly open space? hack89 Nov 2015 #23

Relatively little debris was going over the side William Seger Nov 2015 #16

well that's obvious bullshit! wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #22

A lot of dust and the external walls hack89 Nov 2015 #24

RELATIVELY little debris was going over the side William Seger Nov 2015 #25

We've been through all this before William Seger Nov 2015 #5

you are embarrasing the board not I. wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #14

"And Chandler shows how he comes to his conclusions which you cannot do." William Seger Nov 2015 #17

did you do the wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #18

No need to hunt for math errors William Seger Nov 2015 #19

so you can't. ok. n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #20

so you won't. ok. n/t William Seger Nov 2015 #26

but I did William... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #27

are you asserting there was... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #28

akin to that ridiculous wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #30

You're ignoring gravity William Seger Nov 2015 #31