Hammer of Los wrote:stevenwarran wrote:"Look at it this way: Wouldn't the tops of the buildings, which was the mass whose weight provided the dynamic force that along with gravity did the "work" of whatever you call what happened to the buildings that day, when that mass got down to the end of its ride, wouldn't it then break apart or something, but at least, the top portions of the buildings would present as debris different than the debris of that portion that underwent pancake-ification? And be sitting on top of the pile of other stuff?"
An appealing humility requests me to ask--am I missing anything here?
I appreciate the humility, insofar as I assume it is genuine and not some cheap rhetorical device. However, I think you are indeed missing two things. Firstly there was a large debris pile, and secondly it is quite possible that a lot of material collapsed below ground level into the vast seven floor basement. Since the basement was big enough for an underground station and a shopping mall and much else besides, it probably had room for some of that debris.
Hammer of Los, you quote me without addressing my point, which had nothing to do with the amount of debris, or where it was stored, but rather, the debris from the top sections of the buildings would have been non-pulverized and would present as distinctly different than what was underneath it.
I agree with you, it's best not to get hung up on unanswerable questions, but this isn't that. Do you see how we've moved from thermite to mini-nukes to fourth-generation nukes? What do you think might be next? Who do you think is steering that direction? Do you think it would be happening without her? Where do you think we will end up? That we are not there at the moment is understood.
Oh, I'm sorry to say, upon reflection, it was a cheap rhetorical device. Busted.