Reply #18: I'd like to know more about the circumstances of this interview.

[petgoat]

For instance, what time of day was it, was Dr. Wood's participation a spontaneous
decision on her part, had she been socializing immediately before.

By the end she was objecting that the proceedings were some kind of game.

Dr. Wood is under a lot of stress, having lost her job, having st911 fall apart,
being shaken by the murder of her graduate student colleague. She should have
had the final editorial approval of this video. Thankfully, only 350 people have
seen it on Youtube. I don't think she's been treated fairly.

Here's the photo under discussion.



She points to the upraised white pinkie as an example of debris flying up; Dr. Jenkins
pretends not to see this. Rick Siegel and others have shown pictures far more dramatic
that show an upward trajectory to debris.

Dr. Jenkins also claims to see tower debris in the "snowball;" I see a lot of cladding,
some "wheatchex" at the bottom of the snowball, but I see dust rather than steel debris.
I don't know what's inside that snowball.

Dr. Wood also questions the smoke rising from the level of the fiftieth floor. The
fiftieth floor was not on fire. Did the fire fall with the building? Maybe so.
Fell six hundred feet? I don't think it's a loony question.

The fact remains that none of the conventional CD or OCT theories explain the
enormous energies necessary to create the clouds of pulverized concrete. AFAIK only
the energy-beam hypothesis can explain this. The electrical substation under WTC7
might arguably provide such amounts of energy.

I've never been happy with Dr. Wood's billiard ball model because I think that at
some point around the 50th floor the accumulated debris would overwhelm all resistance
so that near-freefall speeds would be reasonable, and her model does not allow for that.

110 floors of 4" concrete should have amounted to a stack of concrete pancakes
37 feet high. (I got in trouble once before for a hasty calculation.) That's
without the steel, or the pennies on the windowsill.


Maybe Dr. Wood deserves a hatchet job for her attacks on Dr. Jones. I wouldn't want
to judge. But I don't think she's been treated fairly here. Her ideas should be
evaluated on their merits rather than on her presentation. To her critics I say:
"Pray it never happens to you."