NIST Releases Final Report on WTC 7 - November 20, 2007

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tbx2008_1120_wtc7.htm

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City. The final report is strengthened by clarifications and supplemental text suggested by organizations and individuals worldwide in response to the draft WTC 7 report, released for public comment on Aug. 21, but the revisions did not alter the investigation team’s major findings and recommendations, which include identification of fire as the primary cause for the building’s failure.

The extensive three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation found that the fires on multiple floors in WTC 7, which were uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings, caused an extraordinary event. Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down.

In response to comments from the building community, NIST conducted an additional computer analysis. The goal was to see if the loss of WTC 7’s Column 79 — the structural component identified as the one whose failure on 9/11 started the progressive collapse — would still have led to a complete loss of the building if fire or damage from the falling debris of the nearby WTC 1 tower were not factors. The investigation team concluded that the column’s failure under any circumstance would have initiated the destructive sequence of events.

Let's repeat that for our viewing audience.

"...the column’s failure under any circumstance would have initiated the destructive sequence of events."

So unless people think this collapse was planned when the building was first built, the discussion among rational people of whether WTC 7 is a controlled demolition or not is over. It wasn't one.

[Realityhack]

1. Wasn't it close to over already? n/t

[Bolo Boffin]

2. Well, yes, but...

...the Black Knight fights on.

[LARED]

3. but it's

only a flesh wound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4

[Twist_U_Up]

4. If you trust the Bushs, you trust NIST. Just sayin

I wouldn't use one page of this garbage to pick up my dog's shit. Wouldn't want to offend my dog, she deserves better.

[Bolo Boffin]

5. More affirmation of the consequent, I see.

Your poor puppy.

[Twist_U_Up]

6. You dont miss a beat do you boffin.

we are in the dungeon on a Sunday morning and you are "tuned right in".
Please....
get a life.
Or, perhaps, post something that has some substance
You,as usual,bore me

[Ghost in the Machine]

7. Yes, and another Government agency told us Iraq had WMDs, didn't they??

Keep your faith in government agencies though.. they *never* lie, do they?


Some of you guys make it impossible not to point & laugh at you....


just sayin'....

[greyl]

9. The "truth" movement says heat can't weaken steel, the US is loved around the world,

Bush is competent, nukes destroyed the towers, and critical thinking is a nefarious government plot.
They *never* lie, do they?
I mean seriously - Bush is competent?!?!

There was no shortage of sound arguments against the WMD propaganda - in contrast, you offer only pathetic logic.

[victordrazen]

8. Political appointee - NIST director

OF course they aren't going to find anything questionable that's what they are APPOINTED for!

[Bolo Boffin]

10. And when Bill Richardson takes over Commerce and they keep saying the same thing...

...what then?

[BootinUp]

12. Oh lets just wait and see, lol. nt

[reinvestigate911]

11. NIST's report is a blatant, unabashed coverup

http://spookyweather.blogspot.com/2008/10/allan-rees-interviews-dr-shyam-sunder.html

- didn't test for explosives residue, which an investigator is required to do by law (at least in new york state) after a complete collapse.
- ignored the fact of molten steel in the investigation although acknowledges its existence in the interview with allan rees: http://noliesradio.org/archives/Nist%20Dr%20Sunder%20Interview_080821_widmusic-web.mp3
- mischaracterizes the color of the molten metal flowing from the towers before their collapse (calls it silvery when it is clearly yellow-orange).
- would not disclose interview subject identities citing "confidentiality"; non-verifiable info is the equivalent of disinfo in any investigation
- uses many forms of plausible deniability to avoid important facts regarding the collapse, including foreknowledge (even the reported "countdown"), BBC reporting the collapse 20 minutes early, virtual free fall speed, silverstien's "pull it" statement, etc, etc.

the interview above shows without doubt that NIST was "just doing its job": covering up the truth about 9/11.