Video: The attack on the North Tower, re-created
posted at 9:36 am on June 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
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They deliberately took the markings and windows off the jet so it wouldn’t be harder to watch than it already is. Here’s arguably the darkest half-second in American history, instant by instant, with assorted variables isolated and then recombined so that you can see the full effect. The model of the plane was separated into hundreds of thousands of components so that the computer could give each one its own trajectory after impact.
Contrary to what certain unemployed chat-show hosts might tell you, it was the fuel that did the most damage:
Sozen says the actual damage to the building’s facade that was observed was identical to the damage shown by the numerical simulation…
“The aircraft moved through the building as if it were a hot and fast lava flow,” Sozen says. “Consequently, much of the fireproofing insulation was ripped off the structure. Even if all of the columns and girders had survived the impact – an unlikely event – the structure would fail as the result of a buckling of the columns. The heat from an ordinary office fire would suffice to soften and weaken the unprotected steel. Evaluation of the effects of the fire on the core column structure, with the insulation removed by the impact, showed that collapse would follow whatever the number of columns cut at the time of the impact.”
Click the image to watch. The link at the upper left worked for me; the one included in the body of the text didn’t.
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Yes, hard to watch. It still will not silence the troofer freaks, they are not at all about the facts of this matter.They never will be.
bbz123 on June 13, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Im glad they did not include wire frame people…
allie on June 13, 2007 at 9:53 AM
Everyone knows that Purdue is just another Bushitler-right-wing-echo-chamber, just like Popular Mechanics is a right wing rag…
Viewtifulgare on June 13, 2007 at 9:55 AM
Sorry. Not possible. The WTC collapse was caused by a controlled demolition that we didn’t notice because we all were distracted by holographic plane images so that Bush’s ARCO oil buddies could build a natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan. Everyone knows that.
/insanity
Blacksheep on June 13, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Um….where’s the chicken wire?
Verbal Abuse on June 13, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Re: controlled demolition; Anyone know how long it would take to wire a two buildings for demolition (without it being secret)? It seems like I read somewhere that the wiring for demolition would have had to have begun before Bush took office.
If true, that would seem to be hard to reconcile with the the Doucher Movement – though, as stated, no facts are too big to ignore.
Hoodlumman on June 13, 2007 at 10:04 AM
I would feel better about Purdue’s mad engineering skillz if they could figure out how to make the links on their web page work right. Just sayin’.
Blacksheep on June 13, 2007 at 10:06 AM
We have seen several of these demonstations of how the murderers took down the towers with passenger jets. Where is the demonstation of how BushCo stormtroopers entered the buildings, how many it took, how long it would take, where the charges were placed, how many charges necessary, wired them, and extracted themselves from both buildings? Or was it Rambo in the Batjet with the candlestick?
Limerick on June 13, 2007 at 10:10 AM
Re-created, or a pre-production storyboard?
James on June 13, 2007 at 10:13 AM
Mete Sozen, Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering, must be a right wing tool.
amerpundit on June 13, 2007 at 10:19 AM
I’m still laughing. Thanks for that one, Limerick.
smellthecoffee on June 13, 2007 at 10:23 AM
I hope that is sarcasm, hate to think anyone is that stupid.
Isn’t Mete Sozen really Karl Rove…has anyone seen them together?
I can hardly wait for the rebuttle from the “truther” squad.
right2bright on June 13, 2007 at 10:25 AM
I hate to think that a /sarc tag would be necessary…of course I wasn’t serious. The real deal is that the entire city has been hypnotized into believing the towers are no longer there. Why else would they not have started reconstruction?
/The Shadow
James on June 13, 2007 at 10:32 AM
I suspect that the buildings were actually brought down by highly trained chipmunks who had been force fed huge quantities of plastic explosives prior to Sept. 11th. The CIA hired the famous “chipmunk whisperer,” Dave somebody was his name, to train the chipmunks to identify structually significant points inside the walls of the buildings. That’s how they were able to infiltrate without anyone seeing them. Each chipmunk was given a Zippo lighter and mastered the technizue of igniting his tail (fuse) upon hearing a pre-determined signal. Chipmunks are smarter and have shorter tails than squirrels. That’s the reason why Cheney chose them for this mission. ALL I WANT IS THE TRUTH!!!!
sdd on June 13, 2007 at 10:37 AM
Why do I guess that the guy who came up with the chicken-wire simulation will be given more credence than the professors at Purdue?
acleaver on June 13, 2007 at 10:51 AM
I couldn’t finish watching it.
In the reconstruction, the building is empty. But, you can’t help but remember that it wasn’t. Just too hard for me.
Darkest half-second indeed.
nailinmyeye on June 13, 2007 at 10:59 AM
I’ll second that. I’ll never forget how I first heard. It was just a normal day, and then it wasn’t.
Beyond that, the big “proof” these jerks have for the controlled demolition case is a series of poofs of dust that look like they could be an explosion, only when you look closely two things are blindingly apparent.
1. The “explosions” are few and far between, nothing compared to what is seen in an actual controlled demolition and nothing that would have been able to take the building down.
2. The “explosions” happen after the building starts to fall and happens in flow with the building falling, leading those interested in facts to conclude that the “explosions” are actually gusts of dust bursting from the weight of the building.
The 9-11 Truthers make me ashamed of my generation.
Esthier on June 13, 2007 at 11:14 AM
So many libs don’t have a clue on structures or blast effects because they lack mlitary or engineering science backgrounds. When confronted with facts about 9-11 they resort to philosophy-speak because that’s all they know.
I guess reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
Mojave Mark on June 13, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Just how can these trooferz actually believe that Bushitler had a wide-ranging, super secret conspiracy to place the explosives for the controlled demolition, disguise the missiles as airliners, crash the planes/missiles just right so they didn’t mess up the planted network of explosives, and successfully bring down all those buildings without being caught, yet this man can’t pronounce the word “nuclear”?
Just saying.
stonemeister on June 13, 2007 at 11:33 AM
As if that day wasn’t tragic enough that it has to be explained time and time again to those who hate their gov’t/President/country so much that they want it to be an inside job and will not accept anything else no matter what.
Yakko77 on June 13, 2007 at 11:44 AM
This can’t be accurate because the building would never have collapsed without internal explosive being triggered and exploded. Look how many girders are left in there, and they can’t have melted without propellants!
They never took this into account, so it’s nothing more than a big Jewish lie.
benrand on June 13, 2007 at 11:45 AM
What he said.
Labamigo on June 13, 2007 at 11:52 AM
Now now now, remember the first rule of conspiracy theorists: never let hard cold fact get in the way of a good theory.
Those folks ought to take up writing fiction for fun and profit, truly they should.
Bob's Kid on June 13, 2007 at 11:55 AM
At about 2:27, you can clearly see Cheney tying a bomb to one of the steel supports.
lorien1973 on June 13, 2007 at 12:00 PM
I thought the truther’s issue was with the collapse of WTC 7?
csdeven on June 13, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Great point – this is the question I will ask the truthers from now on when I encounter them.
JustTruth101 on June 13, 2007 at 12:16 PM
[Verbal Abuse on June 13, 2007 at 9:56 AM]
It’s still sitting in the idiot’s backyard with the cinderblock and the empty pot pie tin. I hear they are still arguing about the design of the memorial plaque, something about whether the jolly green wacko’s sneaker should be included.
Dusty on June 13, 2007 at 12:41 PM
No, it’s not. That building has been proven to have been collapsed by a giant foot that came down from the skies and smashed it.
The towers were controlled demolished with explosives and a thousdand m-80s.
benrand on June 13, 2007 at 12:48 PM
I’ve always thought that the best example of a liberal’s ability to ‘double think’ was their theories about President Bush.
He is simultaneously the dumbest man alive and the greatest evil genius ever. To me, those two things are mutually exclusive, but, to most ultra-libs I know, there is no problem whatsoever with simultaneously holding those two beliefs.
The people that are a little less crazy (but still crazy all the same) say that President Bush is the dumbest man alive and that Rove/Cheney is the greatest evil genius of all time. Apparently, they are so smart that they can hide a massive conspiracy to get the US into a war, but not smart enough to hide the fact that they are these great evil geniuses. Who knew?
JadeNYU on June 13, 2007 at 1:00 PM
Not exclusively. I think they latched on to that one because very few watched that building fall. Whereas, with the two towers, the world watched them fall and can’t be duped on those.
DWB on June 13, 2007 at 1:20 PM
I think WTC 7 is like gateway trutherism. If the truther freaks can get people to start asking questions about that building, then they can introduce them to the hardcore trutherism.
Slublog on June 13, 2007 at 2:20 PM
It dosen’t take a brain surgeon to figure out a controlled demolition would have been impossible to carry out without someone knowing. When a building is brought down in this fashion, it is totally gutted,and all the support columns are scored or weakened first. Just prepping a building a quarter the size of the WTC for demo is a herculean task. Anyone who thinks that could have been pulled off on the down-low, is a retard.
bmac on June 13, 2007 at 2:20 PM
Fixed that one for you Mark.
omnipotent on June 13, 2007 at 2:42 PM
Oh, right. Like heat can weaken steel. That’s never happened before in all of human history. Don’t you watch television?
Professor Blather on June 13, 2007 at 2:45 PM
now that we have irrefutable evidence that it was not an inside job, you truthers must ask yourselves… why did I want so badly for it to be an inside job? why do I hate America? how could I believe such a horrible lie?
I know the answer… do you have the inner strength to find it?
Kaptain Amerika on June 13, 2007 at 3:35 PM
I have a challenge for the Truthers. Name one professional structural engineer who believes you. Or, alternatively, one demolitions expert. Or a professor of applied physics. C’mon guys. Gotta be somebody.
I suspect all the truthers were dropped as children.
TexasDan on June 13, 2007 at 3:37 PM
To give an idea as to what was involved, a 23 story building in detroit (J.J. Hudson building) required 3 months of investigation to figure out what was involved, plus another 4 months to prep and wire for demolition.
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on June 13, 2007 at 3:49 PM
Has anyone surfed through the liberal blogs to find their answer to Purdue?
I always hate to slog through all of that garbage…hoping someone else has already done the deed.
right2bright on June 13, 2007 at 4:07 PM
right2bright, I spend a lot of time trolling insane-o-sphere, and, without even looking, the answer will be: “liar, liar, pants on fire,” followed by lots of naughty words and smears. It is their way, much like it was Jeffrey Dahmers way to eat his victims.
William Teach on June 13, 2007 at 4:31 PM
Just to throw some more burrs down the Troofer’s shorts, if you actually watch the video of the Towers fall, you can see that much of the debris from the collapsing building beats the collapse to the ground. So much for the trooferism that the WTC fell as fast as possible, which could only be done with demolitions, the foundation myth of trooferosity.
Tantor on June 13, 2007 at 4:47 PM
Bush had this video made on 9-10-2001!
As a planning run for the CIA!
Honest!
Sean Penn just told me so.
Telepathically.
profitsbeard on June 13, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Haven’t any of these truthers ever heard of Sherman’s Neckties?
Pulchritudinous Patriot on June 13, 2007 at 7:27 PM
Pulchritudinous Patriot-
They’re more likely to be aquainted with Columbian ones.
profitsbeard on June 13, 2007 at 9:00 PM
Troothers are lying sacks of s**t.
American Free Press, from which Loose Change gets its media, is a David Duke organization.
As in neo-nazi.
Surprise.
drjohn on June 13, 2007 at 11:08 PM
To wit:
Troothers ask a 9-11 widow who was in charge of security at the WTC on 9-11 and they say “Marvin Bush.”
Marvin Bush left the board of Securacom in 2000.
Lie.
I have a million of these.
drjohn on June 13, 2007 at 11:14 PM
If anyone is having a problem with the fricken QT here it is at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddIgb1nGJ8
auspatriotman on June 14, 2007 at 1:20 AM
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