My kid (25) voted for Qidan. I respected his right to choose. Then he bought GME after following “DeepFuckingValue” on Reddit. He panicked when it dipped and sold 90 of his 100 shares and (only) doubled his investment in a month. He was bummed. He was angered when the powers that be stopped people from buying. First we talked about protecting your capital is the #1 rule. Then we talked about the forces at work and the battle for hearts and minds. He took a few red pills. I explained my red pill was 911. Who bought millions of dollars in puts on the airline stocks the week before? They made billions! Plus the free falling twin towers not to mention the 3rd building (hardened for a nuclear strike) going down several days later. I lost friends over that. They could not stomach the red pill. I asked him if he saw the irony in someone named DeepFuckingValue buying a junk company like GME. The only deep value is knowing a huge short squeeze is coming. Then, I really baked his noodle when I asked him, “who do you threw the billions at GME to force that short squeeze?” That was a killer whale taking out the apex predator sharks (hedge funds). Do the math. No way millions of little guys outgunned the hedge funds. He said wow Dad that’s a lot to think about. Then he said, do you always notice stuff like this? I said, my job is to leave the world a better place then I found it for you and all those I love. So yes, I do.
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My background is Chemical Engineering with four years practicing followed by a JD. So I’m not a statics and dynamics expert by any means but I’m also smart enough to know that a free fall requires just the right conditions and if not achieved, the building demolition will not be free fall and will likely topple to one side or the other. Not to debate 911 here - that’s not the point. The point is that what you see is not always the real reason for why things happen. Love, Dad
Agree with the last part, I'm not even trying to push a certain thing, I just like introducing other ways of looking at things.
That said, I can see what you're saying with toppling to the side, if it were more of an isolated structural failure (think removing the bottom-side Jenga block). In the instance where the tower received first structural failure from the top, if it were to collapse, it would likely be due to structure-wide complete systemic integrity failure. It may start to tip, but it wouldn't get far because it would effectively crumple under its own weight. Think sand castle, moreso.
If anything, I would argue that a more vertical collapse would LESS so imply explosives at the base, as that might not have sufficient time to damage structural integrity near the top, yielding greater room for tipping, potentially.
I really think there are just enough variables in play that you couldn't say with even remote certainty how it would or should behave without significant testing and computer modeling. My understanding is that people have done some of that and gotten mixed results. That tells me more detail and a wider spread of tests would be necessary.
Either way, I agree with the sentiment of challenging apparent answers and thinking, because in life, things tend to be overwhelmingly more complicated than people can even process.
So building 7 collapsed without a plane, rationalize that away.
Once you admit 7 was a controlled demolition, and the demolition crew was there that day to do the job, COINCIDENTALLY two other buildings beside it happened to also just implode vertically on the same day from airplanes without the demolition crew who was NEXT DOOR being involved. And this building 7 "pull it" demolition wasn't public knowledge, so they were attempting to keep it a secret. Why?
Chances that it is a coincidence 7 was demolished the same day the other two neatly implode in to perfect little insurance payout piles is what, one in infinity? One in a trillion? What if they didn't collapse and just stood there? 7 just implodes anyway?
The debris coming out of the other two towers would be significant in many instances - large steel chunks with concrete - and be propelled with significant force. It would be like a giant artillery slug hitting the buildings nearby with each chunk. Add onto that flaming debris (and incendiary materials) hitting them, igniting them as well, causing similar kinds of structural damages to them.
Excellent computer simulation demonstrating what I've been talking about across multiple posts in regards to horizontal and vertical tensions and forces in the structures. At risk of redundancy, go ahead and check those out as well.
Meanwhile building 7 demolition crews are on standby but definitely didn't guarentee those buildings went down. Got it.