[glasscollector]

What ever happened to Occam's razor? That bit of wisdom that says the simplest explanation is usually the best? I have to come to terms with the practical problems of using thermite/thermate to cause a freefall demolition of such huge buidings. If you got it perfect, you would likely have to use tons of thermite and detonate it all with millisecond precision, and there would be no room for failure. So, thermite/thermate seems to be a non-starter for me as the cause of the demolition of the buildings. How could it have been installed without anyone noticing?

I have no problem with thermite being used to a limited extent to produce the 'holes' through which the 'planes' had disappeared into the buildings. However, I need a much better explanation for how the two huge towers were turned int micron sized dust particles in 7 seconds. I have no idea how much steel was in each building, but I could safely assume it was more than one half a million tons--500,000. How much thermite would it take to turn it all into powder if it could be done? And wouldn't the fireworks have been something quite spectacular? The thermite/thermate theory raises many more questions than it answers. It is not the simple explanation.

I'm more inclined to believe that the demolition of the three WTC towers was done with nuclear devices planted underneath each building in a way where the shock wave of the blasts was directed straight up. This would have pulverized everything up to the 80th floor, and pulled the rest of the building above that into small pieces, which explains why there was so much paper on the street after the demolition--the paper and all other identifiable debris was from above the 80th floor. Also, it would explain why the whole WTC7 turned into dust, and why parts of the Fiterman building across the street from WTC7 was also partially pulverized up to the 20th floor or so. It would also explain the intense heat that kept metal in the basement molten for weeks after the event. Nuclear bombs also explains the big explosions seconds before the collapse of each building. Nuclear bombs, to me meets the Occam's razor test. Thermite/thermate doesn't even come close.


Hatha