Don > On the other hand, one guy with a hand truck could bring in enough RDX in a single load to take out the columns in the basement.
In my opinion, and with respect, the mistake which you make, as well as the difference between us, is that you persist in basing your assessment on what you would do if you would have had to demolish the WTC yourself. And so, because you believe you could have done it with a small amount of RDX, you are contemptuous of any suggestion that the demolition was done in another way.
Thus you do not believe any calculation or hypothesis based on the energy flows required to produce the voluminous "quasi-pyroclastic" dust clouds nor do you accept the sharp, seismic tracings from Palisades of 2.1 - 2.5 on the Richter scale, which preceded the collapse of the buildings, as evidence of an explosion of any magnitude, even though others do. Calculations based on these observable phenomena show that energy far in excess of that produced by the gravitational collapse of the buildings was, in fact, employed. Nevertheless, you are adamant that the gravitational collapse of the central core was sufficient to account for what was seen.
I have not yet heard your opinion about the pools of molten steel in the basement and the persistence of heat coming from the basement for weeks afterwards but it seems you feel that all this can also be explained by the use of "a hand truck [which] could bring in enough RDX in a single load to take out the columns in the basement." |
