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Posted: 05-04-2009 14:02 Post subject: more info on 911

Not sure what exactly to say about this, but here it is:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_find_active_superthermite_in_WTC_0404.html

Posted: 05-04-2009 20:30 Post subject:

Just reading the article didn't really make me understand, but when I went to the site the abstract to the paper was printed, it made more sense:

http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
pp.7-31 (25) Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen
doi: 10.2174/1874412500902010007

Abstract

We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.

Keywords: JScanning electron microscopy, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, Differential scanning calorimetry, DSC analysis, World Trade Center, WTC dust, 9/11, Iron-rich microspheres, Thermite, Super-thermite, Energetic nanocomposites, Nano-thermite
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark.

NIST reacted with:

"We get a lot of calls from people who have heard these theories," NIST spokesman Michael Newman told Newsday. "But we conducted what was probably the most complex investigation of a building collapse in history."

"We based our conclusion on the talents of the world's best engineers and scientists, state of the art computer models and 236 pieces of steel recovered from the site," reads the NIST FAQ.

Yeah, but these new scientists didn't need computer models, nor steel to reach their conclusions whilst NIST didn't use debris dust. It is actually a new finding, so why the useless comment?

Posted: 05-04-2009 20:55 Post subject:

Thermite is iron oxide and aluminium. There was a lot of melted aluminium around, the frame of the building was steel. Are these actually superthermite or a condensate from fine sprays of aluminium and iron oxide from the structure?

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Posted: 09-04-2009 12:59 Post subject:

Er, yeah, what Timble said. It's not surprising they found aluminium and steel!

This thermite claim is utterly ridiculous anyway. The amount of thermite you'd have needed to bring down a building this size would have been immense. How was it not noticed? Who produced it? Who bought it into the building? Which demolition experts did they get to plan this? Where are the hundreds of people who would have been involved?

No building even close to the size of the WTC towers has ever been demolished with explosives, it would have been an unprecedented feat. I'd also question how exactly the thermite would have been used. It's not like conventional explosive, you can't place it like a shaped charge. A thermite reaction does not burn sideways!

I also urge anyone who actually believes this nonsense to engage their brain for a second and consider one very simple question: why?

Why, having organised terrorists to fly into a building, would the NWO/government/lizard people then go to all the trouble of arranging the world's biggest demolition job? Are we expected to believe that the incredibly destructive act of flying commercial airliners into two of the world's tallest buildings wasn't enough to achieve whatever it is you think they wanted?

Posted: 09-04-2009 13:05 Post subject:

But it said that they think it wasn't ordinary Thermite and that the minute "chips" of the material were intermixed and had to be seperated. Apparently this stuff reaches more heat and therefore less is needed. It isn't Thermite they have found. That is the whole point. Also the point is that this particular test was NOT conducted by NIST, so they wouldn't know. Hence I think its interesting.

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Also with a building of that shape and size you'd really only have to hit in the optimum place to let gravity do most of the hard work for you. Although I'm not a structural engineer I imagine that the initial impact would start the process off, exposing the necessary support structures, and then the thermite would complete the rest. Think of it as a three stage process with natural forces, wind and gravity being the third.

Admittedly there are a lot of questions still unanswered about the whole thing. If anything I'd say it was a joint effort.

Posted: 30-07-2009 22:44 Post subject:

The most feasible suggestion for the demolition charges that I've heard is that they were planted by the WTC's owners or leaseholders not long after the 1993 truck bomb.The idea being to ensure the safe collapse of the towers in any future attack thus avoiding damages lawsuits.The terrorists or conspirators might not have known they were there.

Posted: 30-07-2009 23:31 Post subject:

Would the explosives not have been unreliable/unstable over such a long period of time?

Posted: 31-07-2009 05:38 Post subject:

I think that provided the explosives didn't have to endure much of a temperature range and it wasn't too humid then they would remain viable. I don't actually know much about thermite but Timble 2 says it is iron oxide and aluminium, which sounds pretty robust.

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Feasible in as much as it allows plenty of time for the covert planting of the charges,whereas hastily completing such an operation only a few days before 9/11 would have been far more difficult.
It helps explain WTC leaseholder Larry Silverstein's comments about "pulling the building" and similar comments by Building 7 workers and managers, one of whom had a countdown coming over his radio while he warned evacuees of imminent collapse :- when the countdown was heard to reach "one", Building 7 collapsed.