Quote from traderNik:
Another thing that no one seems to have brought up.... if WTC 7 or the
twin towers were brought down by a planned controlled demolition, how is it
possible that no one working there, no one in the neighbourhood, no tourists
wandering there, no one ever saw any of this work being done? Do the
conspiracy theorists have any idea how big a job it is to rig buildings like
these to fall perfectly cleanly? Do they think that it would be possible to do
all this work without someone noticing something? When was this work done? If
it was being done surreptitiously, it would have taken several months at
least, months of sneaking around doing small bits of the job. Did they clean
everything up at the end of every shift so that there was no trace of their
being there? Rigging a huge building to fall means selectively demolishing
certain internal supports before the actual detonation, so that the building
will fall completely and cleanly. Did the crews blow up and blowtorch these
internal structures during stat holidays? When no one was looking?
I agree fully with this argument. I don't consider it possible that such work
could have been hidden. It simply requires far too much precision, far too
many materials and is far too extensive in nature. You can't possibly do it
with a few guys disguised as janitors on the night shift or some such
... anyone who has ever read anything, or even watched a television show about
demolition work will be clear enough on this question.
But there are, nevertheless some interesting and peculiar considerations
associated with this line of thought, due to the particular design of the
towers. In order to cause them to collapse in a more or less symmetric
fashion, it would very probably have been sufficient merely to destroy the
supporting columns on a single floor, as long as that floor were sufficiently
far down from the top.
Free fall of the unsupported top of the building through a distance of a
single story would then have ensued, and the impact of all of that mass would
certainly produce a dynamic stress on the impacted floor which the structure
simply could not sustain.
The result would have been pretty much the same kind of collapse that we
actually saw, assuming that the explosive free theory of the collapse is
correct in its basic essentials!
Such a collapse would not be the cleanest possible, but neither were the
actual collapses anywhere near as clean as what is seen in controlled
demolitions, which are in some cases carried off without even breaking a
window in buildings that are located incredibly nearby.
So the demolition work need not in principle have been as extensive as one
might expect for a building this size. If I were a conspiracy theorist this is
certainly the way I would argue. It's strange that none of them has thought
to do so.
The problem with arguing this way, from the point of view of a conspiracy
theorist of course, is clearly that one would then have to agree that the
standard story has some very basic points in its favour: the structures are
inherently quite vulnerable to collapse given that sufficient local damage is
caused, and they do not offer a great deal of resistance to very large masses
that begin falling through the floor spaces.
The other problem is that the collapse clearly began in both towers very close
to the level where the airplanes actually struck, and it really strains
credulity to say that these levels could have been precisely known in advance
of the crashes.
Remember, in the minds of the conspiracy theorists, the fiendishly clever
government conspirators wanted it to be possible for the sheeple to think that
the airplanes were actually what brought the towers down, so it had to look as
if that could have been the case at least
So it simply would not have been sufficient to prepare 2 or 3 floors for
demolition, you really would have to prepare 20 or 30, and then tell the pilots
to aim for roughly the right levels. But then of course, the whole buildings
might just as well have been more or less filled with explosives. So its
better just to insist that they could never have come down the way they
did unless they were wired from top to bottom, and had lots of big bombs
inside, to boot
