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To: geode00 who wrote (202545)9/11/2006 12:56:51 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Recent statements by NIST have them distancing themselves from the pancake theory.

Take a look at any picture of the towers during the collapse. Do you SEE any intact floors falling? Or any large portions of floors falling?
The floors were obliterated...dust. The dust was being created in mid-air during the collapse.

So...you've got all that concrete turning to dust but AT THE SAME TIME the floors are also pancaking?
The dust is clearly being ejected well beyond the perimeter of the building. Most of the mass of the already destroyed parts of the building doesn't even make contact with the floor below from where it came.
Now either one thing or the other can happen...
One floor, remaining above the floor below, intact enough to break the lower floor free, does so.
OR most of the floor is essentially blasted out beyond the perimeter of the towers as dust.
We can observe the dust and how far it is thrown...very rapidly. We cannot observe any solid pieces of building at all in that dust cloud because it was impacted with enough energy to immediately turn it to dust AND eject it out from the building.

There were no floors falling and impacting the next one down. It's not possible taking into account the undeniable observations during collapse.

A pancake collapse would have taken more than triple the time of the actual collapse. So that's a second impossibility for "pancaking".

When a theory gets stopped by the impossibilities it creates...that's it. It only takes one. Pancaking has at least 2.
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