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re: Well, I guess this settles the WTC demolition question...

“How could those buildings fall at the speed of gravity - if you put a stopwatch on them both of those World Trade Center buildings were on the ground in ten seconds - how can that be?” asked Ventura. “Never before in the annals of history has a fire caused a steel structure building to fall to the ground like these two did.”


So according to Ventura gravity has a different effect on a building falling due to a controlled demolition than it would if it were falling due to structural collapse? Looks like "The Body" needs to get a physics lessons. Falling is falling regardless of the cause.

“I was on the site within two weeks after it happened and I saw none of these pancakes - wouldn’t they all be piled up in a huge mass on the ground and yet everything was blown into dust - when you look at it from that aspect none of it makes any sense,


Ok this is not quite as ridiculous a statement as the first, but it should be easy enough for someone with "Basic underwater Demolition SEAL training" should be able to figure out with about a minute of thought. The structure was a steel building, not a reinforced concrete building. The concrete floors rested on steel joists. The concrete was most likely of a lightweight mix and not very thick. When concrete impacts it is brittle and turns to rubble and dust. Why Ventura thinks those floors should have stayed together after falling over 80 stories is beyond reasonable. Perhaps if they were underwater they might have stayed together, but I don't know I never went through "basic underwater SEAL training".

-Steve G.

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