Did you know a 3rd world trade center tower fell on 9/11?

[Mr. Obvious]

Do you remember you were on September 11, 2001, when this strange event occurred?

Sure do.  I was in a hotel a few miles from the Pentagon, in a room facing the building when the plane struck it.

Was there with a group of my classmates for an FBLA conference.  We were just packing up to head to the airport to come home.

Needless to say, we didn't get to fly home that day.

 

[mikho]

Did you know about the church nearby that wasn't damaged at all? Not a single scratch, only dusty from the debris. All gravestones were standing, not one were knocked over.

 

[jarland]

I can see this thread turning nasty in a couple of posts.

I mean how could it not? It's already 3 pages away from a Hitler reference....besides this one

 

[stim]

Here's footage of the same building from a different angle, which clearly shows that it was on fire.

As for the collapse - the perimeter supports buckled under the heat. It is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis. 

The fires burned unhindered because firefighting resources were naturally focussed elsewhere.

 

[MartinD]

I was sitting on the sofa watching TV when the news came on... and I was watching the news and saw the second tower hit, live.

Regardless of any conspiracy theories, plots, tinfoil etc, the fact is a lot of people died that day (and the days, weeks following) through no fault of their own. A little bit of respect aimed in their direction wouldn't go amiss.

 

[texteditor]

Clearly something is amiss, you don't expect buildings to collapse that way, when a building suffers structural damage you expect it to fall over sideways and knock over other buildings because civil engineers are too dumb to design structures that collapse in on itself to minimize collateral damage.

This is a better representation of downtown New York had the CIA psyops team not detonated that building:

Oh, the humanity

 

[MannDude]

I was sitting on the sofa watching TV when the news came on... and I was watching the news and saw the second tower hit, live.

Regardless of any conspiracy theories, plots, tinfoil etc, the fact is a lot of people died that day (and the days, weeks following) through no fault of their own. A little bit of respect aimed in their direction wouldn't go amiss.

Yes, I agree. My heart goes out to the 2,976 Americans who died that day. But also the 62,570 to 1,124,000 people in Iraq who have died (depends on source), the 10,960 to 49,600 men (depends on source), women and children of Afghanistan, and the 2,000 or so in Pakistan (updated 2011, so sure it's higher now) from our war on terror as well as the 9,655 US citizens who died fighting for this country after 9/11.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror#Casualties

I'm sure there are better sources, but the fact remains. We lost a lot of people, and in return we killed many more ourselves.

 

[VPSCorey]

Amazing how well the building fell though.  Almost like a controlled demolition but with less smoke and dust for whatever reason.

 

[blergh]

 

[Aldryic C'boas]

It's always amazed me, the complete lack of respect Americans (and just kids in general) can show.  Not every disaster needs to be turned into a joke, or be the excuse to bullhorn your opinions at people.

 

[drmike]

Ahh I am all about respect, but at same time, so darn much with 9/11 and everything that followed in the wake.

Americans got slapped, then bent over and probed by their government, sometimes even literally following this.  All the crazy surveillance state was massively jump started from this event.   The economy, well it tanked and hasn't ever been back.

Clearly a case of intentional destruction on mass scale.

There are plenty of naysayers about the official accounts of that fatal morning.   Those folks include the victims families, a very large contingency of Architects and Engineers, and growing number of first responders.

I am unsure what happened, but buildings like these never fall, ever.  Not from airplane impacts and not from fires.  Something entirely sinister happened on multiple levels.  Be it star wars weapons, environmental weapons, more traditional plastic explosives, etc.

For a good read, go reading about the masses of gold and what might have gone missing under the towers.   Tons of "valuables" in these buildings, tons of financial records, tons of lost data.

 

[Reece-DM]

Ahh I am all about respect, but at same time, so darn much with 9/11 and everything that followed in the wake.

Americans got slapped, then bent over and probed by their government, sometimes even literally following this.  All the crazy surveillance state was massively jump started from this event.   The economy, well it tanked and hasn't ever been back.

Clearly a case of intentional destruction on mass scale.

There are plenty of naysayers about the official accounts of that fatal morning.   Those folks include the victims families, a very large contingency of Architects and Engineers, and growing number of first responders.

I am unsure what happened, but buildings like these never fall, ever.  Not from airplane impacts and not from fires.  Something entirely sinister happened on multiple levels.  Be it star wars weapons, environmental weapons, more traditional plastic explosives, etc.

For a good read, go reading about the masses of gold and what might have gone missing under the towers.   Tons of "valuables" in these buildings, tons of financial records, tons of lost data.

Gummy Bears invaded the twin towers with bazookas!

 

[MartinD]

There's also the small bit about these buildings being the "WORLD Trade Centre" - they weren't full of Americans. They were full of Americans, Brits, Germans, Italians, French, Swedish, Norwegian, etc people.

 

[jarland]

There's also the small bit about these buildings being the "WORLD Trade Centre" - they weren't full of Americans. They were full of Americans, Brits, Germans, Italians, French, Swedish, Norwegian, etc people.

Indeed. It breaks my heart that these families that lost loved ones not only lost loved ones but also had/have to endure the constant reminders of such a public event. Traumatic, I'm sure.

 

[texteditor]

Amazing how well the building fell though.  Almost like a controlled demolition but with less smoke and dust for whatever reason.

Less dust is mostly due to the structure being weakened by raw heat instead of explosion like a controlled demolition (the force of explosions throws around a lot of debris) and that a lot of controlled demolitions done in the past are usually on buildings with much more cement used in them instead of steel.