Reply #31: Nice avatar

[plaguepuppy]

Is that a Ritz cracker or a slice of orange?

As to the "obvious explanation" of how the towers fell, you obviously haven't taken the time to read the FEMA of NIST documents. As one who has been there, has read the reports and has a very clear idea of the scale of events, I'd have to say that your belief in a comprehensive and tested explanation for how and why the buildings collapsed represents little more than blind faith.

Particularly when it comes to building 7 there is really no attempt to explain the path that led from the rather minor external damage to the southeast corner of the building to the elevator-like collapse of the building into its own footprint. The deisel fuel was stored mostly in underground tanks, and was pumped through double-wall metal tubing with leak sensors and automatic shutoffs, and only flowed when the emergency generators were actually running.

Somehow all this led to fires mostly on the 10-12th floors, home of the SEC and its Enron investigation files, seen in this picture of the northwest corner:


...and thence to a complete and symmetrical ground level structural failure of the entire building.

The words of Matthys Levy regarding the collapse of the towers are very apt here too:
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/video%20archive/discovery.wmv