QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
Christophera, I remember you (by another handle) from LC.
If you believe you remember me by another username at LC you are mistaken. I only use Christophera no matter where I register.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
You acted surprised that an administrator named "painter" here was the same "painter" that banned you at LC.
I did not even know there was a painter here until after my thread was locked and I found I had PM from painter stating that it thought it had banned me some months earlier ad then said "Go Away". I would post that message but all of my PM's have been erased.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
Bullsh#t - you were not so ignorant or daft to not know that painter from here is painter from there when you decided to join P4T.
I pay not attention to who is registered or moderating a forum until they are a problem. I do structural and demolition issues with the Twin Towers and that is all I do. I often don't even read the rules at forums. If a forum is into 9-11 truth, great, if they are into (over) controlling the membership, environment and discussion, it sucks. I did read them here here and I also read the mission statement which I though was very much aligned with my own intents. I didn't really decide to join this forum. I found a link that lead here and impulsively joined. I had forgotten all about this place.
It was not until I posted the comment here with the error message stating the thread was locked that I even remembered that painter was the mod at LC who banned me.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
I'm willing to entertain (although I highly doubt) the theory that explosives were pre-planted in the WTC when it was built.
If you knew what I knew about the towers and high explosives you would know that an engineered concrete explosive container is the only way to get this effect.

I sat and watched a 2 hour documentary about the design and construction of WTC 1 and about 1/2 of it was about the difficulty of building the steel reinforced tubular cast concrete core. There is massive concrete shown in the above image, far more than just floors would provide. There is also NO WAY to install explosive charges that would cut the supposed steel core columns. Do you realize that with the supposed steel core columns in the core there would be over 1,300 separate charges required? There is no evidence such charges were detonated on that day and there are no images of steel columns at ground zero showing that they were subjected to such impromptu explosive charges.
The events seen and heard on 9-11 were very- VERY - well contained explosions.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
The towers were nicknamed, after all, the Nelson and David (Rockefeller) towers. But, what's the shelf-life of C4 or other explosives?
The shelf life of C4/RDX is ten years in the mylar package the manufacturer provides. Evaporation and oxidization are the only things that cause it's non viability. Do you think 2 feet of concrete provides a better, more long lasting barrier to evaporation?
There were failures along the floor edges I think. Some of the built in cutting charges which surrounded the columns which did exist surrounding the core failed to detonate. Some of those were exposed to freezing conditions during construction which I have learned causes the quickest deterioration.
This row of high tensile rebar, about 50 of them were exposed to an early freezing winter and the C4 failed to detonate. Fresh horizontal rebar tied to it in the springtime detonated caused the concrete to be removed but the 3 inch high tensile rebar remain standing. Note, no steel core columns in the core area.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
Do they really work after 30 years? How could this be tested, and why would they assume it would still work (assuming they pre-laid the tower when they built it - not to mention other red-flags that would probably have gone up while the tower was being built?) after 30-odd years? And, where is the proof? Where is the evidence that explosives were actually incorporated in the original building of the towers? Is it here in this thread somewhere, and I missed it? If it is, please post it and I'll take it all back - (evidence).
The documentary, "The Engineering and Construction of the Twin Towers" shows there was massive security. The original contractor for the concrete core left because they wouldn't let him take the plans home. I'm not sure of this but I think the documentary stated that a Saudi concrete contractor took over, or the general contractor, the port authority did the work. Maybe both at different periods or towers.
Ask Phil Jayhan about his hearing of forced evacuations of the floors by workers. He remembers hearing that, but doesn't remember where he heard it. there were threatened lawsuits by the concrete contractor for those evacuations of workers from floors after the floors were sandblasted, before concrete was to be poured.
All this was part of the documentary.
As far as I can tell all of the opposition to the concrete core is about keeping the core from becoming an issue and the search for the documentary taking on a scope which will actually find it. It is called gatekeeping.
Concrete is, after all, the most common building material in the world, and after all, the Tacoma narrows bridge showed us how steel flexes in very long members and can be made to ocsillate destructively by high winds which completely justifies the use of concrete in a structure with twice the length (height) of the brige and 5 times the width, self supporting and load bearing while subjected to 120 MPH winds.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
There are all kinds of theories - some of them, while being by their nature unprovable, have a lot of evidence backing them up. Some have none -they are no more than an idea. This is which?
No theory has much detail relating to feasibility, and none explain anything really. Comprehensive explanation consistent with all evidence is the most important thing and all I need to do it is secrecy. These 5 factors which TOTALLY lack explanation within the rest of the non specific theories can be explained completely with the concrete core and the built to demolish scenario.
free falltotal pulverizationsuperfine, heated particulatesmooth, square cut column ends x the 1,000'sheavy steel assemblies heaved hundreds of feetQUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
But over and above all that, why are you still harping on this "concrete core" business?
I said in 2002 that the movement would not get the truth without knowing the actual structure that stood. That is true so far. It is also true that if you decided that truth movement needed to know the actual structure and decided upon reading this message to make it part of your purpose to see that all of the mainstream truth movement was informed of the fact and was directed to seeking a copy of the video, that within 6 months the truth movement would have that video and the true design configuration of the towers and that the political leadership we have which DOES have integrity would have an issue they could take forward into Congress and the House to justifiably demand and receive authority for a new, limited investigation.
Any politician who takes a demolition conspiracy forwards is shut down before they start.
This fact is why the psychological operation which has infiltrated the truth movement focuses on destroying any credibility of the concrete core.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
There were 47 steel columns that made up the supporting structure of each core - that's a fact.
If it is a fact then you will be able to show images from 9-11 with the supposed steel core columns in the core area at some elevation above the ground. My insistence on that logical fact got me banned from Loose Change, meaning they refuse to use evidence and believe without question the word of FEMA. AN agency NOt created under the Constitution which cheney was appointed to be director of 1 week after gwb was selected in 2000. An agency that was in place in NYC 2 days before 9-11 for a massive exercise 2.5 miles from the WTC.
I can prove with one image that their was a concrete core and that there were no steel core columns with one image from 9-11 which shows the core without the steel exterior framework.

If you do not have the experience or integrity to admit the fact of what is shown there, then you are not an effective researcher into the structural issues supposedly surrounding collapse (sic), and, ....... we all have a problem.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
If some of them were enveloped in concrete, does that make them part of a "steel-reinforced concrete tubular core"?? Steel reinforced concrete normally pertains to concrete structures that are reinforced with steel re-bar. That's not the case here - is this a semantics game? Am I missing something???
Steel reinforced cast concrete IS rebar encapsulated in concrete where the rebar is centralized in the creation of a shear wall, generally speaking. The interior box columns, which were by virtue of 100% fillet welds butting the columns together, one continuous piece 1,350 feet tall, surrounded the concrete core and were fastened to it. Horizontal pieces went through the core walls, cast into the core walls that connected to the elevator guide rail support steel inside the core providing lateral support for the elevator guide rail systems.
The interior box columns were partially surrounded by concrete above ground and probably completely surrounded below ground.
The elevator guide rail support steel was heavy steel, but only designed for vertical loads which is why no photo from 9-11 shows any vertical steel in the core area. The elevators in the towers were the fastest in the world because of the perfect alignment and rigidity provided by the concrete core.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
It seems to me you are obsessed with this notion - my advice, for what it's worth(?), it's fine and noble to hold beliefs, but not good to get obsessed about one interpretation or another - it generally closes the mind to other interpretations, and good advice and opinions from others ...
After typing this, I think to myself, "nahhh, don't post this, it'll just piss him off". But that's not my intention - I'm just suggesting that you loosen up - try to take in the big picture a bit more.
Cheers.
My information is not an interpretation. I am a virtual witness to the construction of WTC 1 as a person who viewed the documentary, "The Engineering and Construction of the Twin Towers" and my written testimony here with my presentation of evidence which exposes the core of the Twins on 9-11 are completely consistent with each other and feasible explanations for the phenomena associated with the demise of the Twin Towers.
If I know for certain that there was a concrete core is it an obsession? No, I am obsessed with informing the truth movement with the fact of the concrete core, and I am justifiably obsessed because I NEED to protect my children's futures, I NEED to to preserve the integrity of the US Constitution, I NEED to have the rights and freedoms I am accustomed to.
The only thing that pisses me off is this.
QUOTE (Sanders @ Nov 17 2007, 12:52 PM)
There were 47 steel columns that made up the supporting structure of each core - that's a fact.
Justifiable because not one image of the steel core columnns from 9-11 in the core area at some elevation has been produced in the last 5 years on 20 different forums, hundreds of posters trying to oppose the concrete core over probably 30,000 posts.
To ask me to loosen up is to say "FORGET ABOUT 9-11 TUTH", because there is
NO WAY, we will get it unless we can explain HOW, those towers did what they did and that explanation is not possible with steel core columns that no one can produce any evidence for their existence.
There is no bigger picture unless it is creating a limited investigation by congress into the deception by FEMA of the core structure.