In this episode we cover part two of the 9/9/11 conspiracy. We cover part 2 of the 5 hour documentary The New Pearl Harbor. This episode covers the case of Billie Eichner.
00:11:51.640company b's phone stopped working at four thousand feet
00:11:58.580and when the aircraft rose to six thousand feet company a's phone also became useless
00:12:04.040at eight thousand feet none of the three cell phones worked anymore
00:12:07.680no service on a no service on b no service on c
00:12:11.720in other words at an altitude of 35 000 feet cell phones would have been totally useless
00:12:18.380there is another problem besides altitude that makes calling from a cell phone unthinkable from a cruising airplane
00:12:24.740and that is speed calling from an aircraft with a cell phone would be like calling from a car traveling at 500 miles per hour
00:12:32.840the connection would continuously need to be transferred from one receiving station to the next and then to the next and again to the next
00:12:40.740the transfer procedure between two receiving stations is called handoff and it relies on continuous triangulations between the receiving towers in order to establish the exact position of the caller
00:12:52.200as the mobile unit approaches the handoff zone the first tower senses the weakening
00:12:56.600of the signal and prepares to transfer the call to the second
00:13:00.120when the second tower senses the signal is strong enough to take over the handoff
00:13:04.200procedure is initiated if everything goes well the call is rerouted into the
00:13:08.760system by the new receiving station but the speed by which an airplane
00:13:13.560approaches and crosses over the handoff zone is so high that the towers
00:13:17.560wouldn't have the time to complete the handoff procedure
00:13:20.360the call would be dropped and the person would need to dial the number from scratch
00:13:24.680if one considers the altitude and the speed problems combined
00:13:28.520it should be clear that the chances of having an actual conversation with a
00:13:32.040cell phone from a cruising airplane are practically nil
00:13:35.560even after 2001 both altitude and speed problems remain
00:13:39.800in 2005 the washington post wrote most cell phones can't reach a station from
00:13:44.840beyond 10 000 feet another technical hurdle is to find a way that cell phone calls would be
00:13:50.200handed off from one cell tower to another on the ground when an aircraft is traveling at 500 miles an
00:13:56.040hour and even 10 years after 9 11 people who try to use their cell phone from cruising altitudes
00:14:02.120are bound to get the same results and i mean this is pretty much indisputable you guys have all been on
00:14:06.520a plane trying to make a phone call like i mean as you're taking off you know it well if this flight
00:14:11.160attendant doesn't get mad at you and be like hey get off your phone you know if you are actually
00:14:15.400able to make a phone call you already know as soon as you take off and like you know two three not
00:14:18.920even like a minute and two minutes in you're pretty much service is gone so um and that's even now in
00:14:25.0002022 so even sophisticated cell phones with advanced technology can't get a reception at that high
00:14:30.760once it became clear that the passengers could not have placed their calls from the cell phones on
00:14:39.640the airplanes the official narrative on this issue became more and more ambiguous and non-committal
00:14:45.640theodore olson who had initially told the press he had received two cell phone calls from his wife
00:14:50.600barbara changed his story to calls made from an air phone and by the time the 9 11 commission published
00:14:56.200their final report only one mention on the cell phone calls remained shortly thereafter wrote the
00:15:01.800commission passengers and flight crew began a series of calls from gta air phones and cellular phones
00:15:07.960no indication on which calls were made from cell phones and which ones with air phones was given
00:15:13.560the authorities from the massawi trial also avoided being too specific on the origin of the calls within
00:15:19.320the official documentation they released this flash animation which contains all the basic information on
00:15:25.160the four hijacked airplanes by clicking on any of the flights one can view the passengers list
00:15:31.720by clicking on the telephone icon at the bottom the passengers who have made phone calls are highlighted
00:15:37.400and by clicking on any of the passengers names the list of the calls they have made is displayed
00:15:42.920each of the calls lists the exact time it was placed the duration the initial part of the number dialed
00:15:48.680and the name of the person receipt in the call 203 s connecticut right there southern connecticut
00:15:53.560but the number from which the phone call was placed is missing the only information available is the
00:15:59.320location on the plane the calls were presumably made from row 30 in this case it's as if the authorities
00:16:05.960were trying to suggest that the calls were made from air phones without having to put it down on paper
00:16:11.560only in two cases did the authorities openly state that a cell phone was used one is the call allegedly
00:16:17.880placed to 911 by a passenger who had locked himself in a lavatory where air phones are not available the
00:16:23.880second is a call placed by flight attendant cc lyles to her husband who later described his surprise
00:16:29.560in receiving a call from her cell phone in a television interview once the phone got disconnected
00:16:34.360then i sat up in the bit like it was like i just woke up i'm like did was that a real call
00:16:40.280so i looked at the caller id and noticed that it was a call and it was from her cell phone
00:16:45.240and i'm like okay wait a minute how how can she call me from on the plane from a cell phone because
00:16:50.600cell phones don't work on the plane that's what i'm thinking as only these two phone calls were
00:16:54.280admitted by the authorities the debunkers have universally adopted the only two cell phone calls made position
00:17:00.360this is one of the debunkers here i think this guy's out of uh italy if i'm not mistaken somewhere
00:17:09.480in europe um he's one of the main uh debunkers for 9 11 for the 9 11 conspiracy theories
00:17:16.680but one thing is the number of cell phone calls admitted to another is the number of calls that
00:17:34.520were actually made in the days following 9 11 the fbi interviewed the various people who had received a
00:17:40.520phone call from their relatives on the planes and their reports tell a different story one of the
00:17:46.520reports reads starting at approximately 6 30 pacific standard time which is 9 30 new york time dina
00:17:53.080burnett received a series from three to five cellular phone calls from her husband thomas burnett
00:17:58.760burnett was able to determine her husband was using his own cellular phone because the caller id
00:18:03.800showed his number only one of the calls did not show the caller id as she was on the line with another call
00:18:10.600according to the official documentation thomas burnett made a total of three calls
00:18:14.840one at 9 30 one at 9 37 and one at 9 44 this means that at least two of these calls if not all three
00:18:22.840were made from burnett's cellular phone at 9 30 the plane was flying at 32 000 feet and climbing at 9 37 it
00:18:31.080had reached 36 000 feet and was still climbing at 9 44 it had descended to 22 000 feet while it accelerated
00:18:38.920until reaching a ground speed of almost 400 miles per hour none of these calls seems to have been
00:18:44.440possible with a cell phone from that airplane according to another report united 93 passenger jeremy glick
00:18:51.720saw hijackers on the plane used a cell phone and called makely his stepmother to report the hijacking
00:18:57.880he then asked to talk to his wife liz beth and uh and he was on the phone and he had told me um
00:19:03.240that his plane had been hijacked according to the fbi click's wife liz beth could not hear any
00:19:08.600and this is a fbi uh 302 guys 302 is their um that's the the number for their reports so elizabeth
00:19:16.760could not hear any unusual sounds in the background of the call and the connection was extremely clear as
00:19:21.160if he was calling from the next room which is strange because as we know guys you know you can't even
00:19:25.880get reception let alone being able to actually get a clear call back in 2001 on a cell phone back then
00:19:33.800the unusual sounds in the background of the call and the connection was extremely clear as if he
00:19:38.920was calling from the next room cell phone communication was lost at 9 55 click place the call
00:19:45.160at 9 37 which means the communication lasted uninterrupted for 18 minutes while the plane was
00:19:50.920flying between 39 000 and 10 000 feet at an average speed of almost 400 miles per hour only a miracle
00:19:58.280could have kept that connection open for all that time had the call truly been placed from the airplane
00:20:03.560in flight lauren grancolas possessed a cellular phone and is believed to have allowed another passenger
00:20:10.520honor weño to use the cellular phone weño placed one call to her parents at 9 53 when the plane was at about
00:20:18.20010 000 feet traveling close to 400 miles per hour elsa strong received a cell phone call from her sister
00:20:26.040lisa granlund a passenger on united 93 granlund made the call to her sister at 9 46 when the plane was at
00:20:33.00017 000 feet and traveling at almost 400 miles per hour mary and britain was also a passenger on united 93
00:20:42.120britain's live-in boyfriend received a cellular phone call from britain during the hijacking britain
00:20:47.400told fiamano her boyfriend that she had borrowed a cell phone from another passenger britain's call
00:20:53.080to fiamano took place at 9 49 when united 93 was flying beyond 13 000 feet at a speed of 420 miles per hour
00:21:02.440peter hansen a passenger on united 175 contacted his mother on cell phone and said the flight had been
00:21:09.000hijacked peter's father lee said that he resisted the temptation to call his son back because he
00:21:14.200didn't want to place him in more danger by having his cell phone ring on the plane peter hansen called
00:21:19.400his parents twice at 8 52 and at 9 a.m at 8 52 the plane was at 30 000 feet and it was climbing
00:21:27.640at nine o'clock it was flying at over 18 000 feet in altitude while it accelerated towards the record
00:21:33.960braking speed of almost 600 miles per hour near sea level brian sweeney was also a passenger on united
00:21:41.880175 after learning of the attacks wrote the fbi his wife julie sweeney returned home to find that her
00:21:48.200husband had left a message made from his cell phone aboard the plane on their answering machine
00:21:53.400sweeney made the call at 8 58 in between the two hansen calls when the plane was still at 25 000 feet in altitude
00:22:01.320while any one of these phone calls could have momentarily been connected by a set of fortunate
00:22:05.800coincidences it should be obvious that all these cell phone calls as a whole could not have been
00:22:10.600made from the cruising airplanes not only that but to be made with like good quality like they're saying
00:22:15.720where it sounds like he's in the other room in 2001 yeah that's definitely a big uh nope question given
00:22:23.400the known limitations of the cellular phone system in 2001 can you provide any evidence that the cell
00:22:29.560phone calls made by the passengers reported by the fbi could have been made from the altitudes
00:22:35.160at the speeds and for the durations indicated for each of them we do know however that the calls were
00:22:42.760made as no one has ever doubted that the relatives actually received them this opens the way to a
00:22:48.280disturbing possibility which seems to support the in-flight swap hypothesis that the passengers were forced
00:22:54.680to call their relatives under duress pretending to be on the airplane while in fact they had already
00:22:59.800been landed in some unknown location in support of this hypothesis we have different elements one is
00:23:06.040the conversation passenger todd beamer had with the gta airphone operator lisa jefferson during the hijack
00:23:12.600of flight 93. it is through lisa jefferson that the whole world learned about the famous call to action
00:23:18.680let's roll when he told the guys are you ready i assume that they were waiting on his cue then they
00:23:25.960responded to him and he said okay let's roll the 9 11 commission has established that the hijack took
00:23:34.040place that's interesting very very interesting let's roll
00:23:38.440at 9 28 todd beamer was connected to lisa jefferson at 9 43 some 15 minutes into the hijacking the fbi
00:23:50.920report confirms that jefferson received the call from beamer at approximately 8 45 central time which
00:23:57.000is 9 45 eastern but the contents of the conversation are strikingly at odds with the official narrative
00:24:03.400according to jefferson beamer called to state that the plane was about to be hijacked he stated
00:24:08.360that three individuals two wielding knives the third with a bomb strapped to his waist with a
00:24:12.760red belt were preparing to take control of the flight jefferson estimated that she spoke to beamer
00:24:18.280for seven minutes before the two hijackers armed with knives entered the cockpit this places the
00:24:23.480hijacking at around 9 52 while officially it took place at 9 28 this is no small discrepancy
00:24:31.240how could beamer be describing events that are supposed to be happening in front of his eyes
00:24:35.320when in fact they had already happened half an hour before how could the terrorists be preparing
00:24:40.440to take control of the flight at 9 45 when they had already been in the cockpit for more than 15 minutes
00:24:47.000the fbi also wrote that jefferson noted that the call had an unusually low amount of background noise
00:24:52.920the same thing liz glick had noticed furthermore the records show that beamer's call lasted roughly
00:24:58.600one hour and that the line was left open after the crash we didn't lose a connection stated jefferson
00:25:04.600because there's a different sound that you use i never lost connection it just went silent oh
00:25:10.600shit what the hell's going on here jefferson stayed on the phone stated the fbi until she learned flight
00:25:17.48093 had crashed question since air phones are powered by the same airplane's electrical system
00:25:23.880how could the line have remained open for another 45 minutes after the plane had literally disintegrated
00:25:29.240to the ground in a thousand pieces all these discrepancies seem to suggest that beamer was not on the
00:25:35.160plane observing real events unfolding but was describing an imaginary pre-scripted situation from
00:25:41.000a different location in support of this hypothesis we also have the dramatic message left by flight
00:25:48.200attendant cc lyles in her husband's answering machine before briefly talking to him on her cell phone
00:25:53.640as she herself is suggesting we should listen very carefully tuesday 9 47 a.m hi baby i'm baby you have
00:26:03.720to listen to me carefully i'm on a plane that's been hijacked i'm on the plane i'm calling from the plane
00:26:09.240i want to tell you i love you please tell my children we too can notice the absence of the typical
00:26:14.120background noise heard inside a plane i don't know what to say there's three guys they've had that
00:26:19.480complaint i'm trying to be calm after saying goodbye she seems to fumble with the headset while she
00:26:25.080whispers a few more words into the mouthpiece i hope to be able to see your face again baby i love you
00:26:33.560it's pretty damn clear especially for being high up in the air
00:26:37.880it's pretty damn clear even by playing the segment several times it remains difficult to hear anything
00:57:45.240It's in that hole, says the FBI, that most of the airplane lays literally buried in the ground.
00:57:51.240Much of the plane and its contents were found beneath the soft dirt, states the FBI's website.
00:57:56.240Evidence technicians found the flight data recorder about 12 feet below the surface
00:58:01.240and the cockpit voice recorder about 25 feet deep.
00:58:04.240Since the two black boxes are located in the tail of the plane,
00:58:08.240one must conclude that also the cockpit, most of the fuselage, the passengers' seats and bodies and their belongings somehow managed to get buried deep underground.
00:58:18.240The only ones who don't seem to have a problem with this explanation are the debunkers.
00:58:22.240We had this idea that when planes crash, they crack in half and there's this dramatic burn wreckage.
00:58:28.240That's what happens when planes crash at very low speeds, usually on approach or takeoff from an airport.
01:04:50.240If we fast forward the video, we can see that the situation doesn't change much.
01:04:54.240After more than one minute, the initial cloud is still there, but there is no black smoke whatsoever rising from below.
01:05:00.240Question. Since the plane was carrying eight to ten thousand gallons of fuel at the time of impact,
01:05:06.240can you explain why there is no plume of black smoke rising from the ground after the initial explosion?
01:05:12.240But the toughest problem for the supporters of the official version is to explain how different parts of debris
01:05:18.240could end up several miles away from the crash site, even though the plane is supposed to have hit the ground in one piece.
01:05:24.240William Bunch was a reporter for the Pittsburgh Gazette.
01:05:27.240I gathered all the information I could and, you know, quickly learned that there were a lot of things about the crash of Flight 93.
01:05:35.240That didn't really add up right away. The fact that debris fell on this lake a couple miles away at the same time that the plane was crashing.
01:05:43.240The lake Bunch is talking about is Indian Lake, which is located a couple of miles southeast of the crash site.
01:05:49.240According to the debunkers, there is a valid explanation for the debris found in the lake.
01:05:53.240First of all, it's not true that there was wind on that day. As the images show, there was only a light breeze gently moving the air all around.
01:06:13.240The very cloud from the explosion, as we have seen before, practically didn't move for over one minute.
01:06:19.240Secondly, it wasn't just small pieces of paper that were found.
01:09:09.240But who could have possibly shot the plane down?
01:09:13.240As far as we know, there are no witnesses who saw fighter jets near Flight 93 at the time of the crash.
01:09:19.240And if you guys want more details on fighter jets, you guys got to watch the first episode where we discussed that in more detail as far as like there were only four jets covering the whole eastern seaboard on that day.
01:09:30.240And a bunch of other planes were doing exercises, you know, which was strange.
01:09:35.240And on top of that, the threat level had been reduced the day prior.
01:09:38.240So there's a bunch of strange coincidences on that day, and it goes into more detail on the first part of the 9-11 conspiracy pod.
01:09:46.240So go ahead and check that one out, guys.
01:09:49.240There are, however, some witnesses who saw a small unmarked white plane which flew over the area just before the crash.
01:10:03.240And when I got up here almost to the stop sign, this small white plane at the time, that's what I thought it was, went over top of me.
01:10:13.240It was so smooth, and it just glided right over me just like that.
01:10:18.240And then I ducked, and when I looked up again, then it just banked to the right and went over and went down behind those trees.
01:10:25.240Something caught my eye, and here was a white plane, and it was coming from the crash site area.
01:10:33.240The debunkers maintain that there is no mystery behind the white plane.
01:10:37.240It was a corporate jet, they say, which air traffic controllers had asked to take a look on the ground after they realized they had lost Flight 93.
01:10:45.240There was, in fact, a little white jet that was seen in the area after Flight 93 crashed.
01:10:50.240It was a little Dassault Falcon corporate jet that was flying to a nearby airport.
01:10:54.240And what happened is, once air traffic control knew they had lost Flight 93, they asked the nearest aircraft to go over the area and actually radio back exact coordinates for the crash site.
01:11:03.240Susan McElwain, however, remembers seeing the white plane before the crash, not after.
01:11:08.240About 11.30 that night, the FBI came, wanted to talk to me.
01:11:13.240They kept asking me how big the plane was.
01:11:15.240I said the plane, you know, it was small, wasn't much bigger than my van that I saw, and that it went over top of me.
01:11:22.240I said, you want to make sure that maybe it was ours and not somebody else's.
01:11:25.240And then that's when he did seem to get a little nicer, told me that it was a white Learjet.
01:11:37.240John Flegel also saw the mysterious plane.
01:11:40.240Since Flegel arrived on the spot within a minute from the crash, the corporate jet sent by the air traffic controllers would not have had time to descend over the area yet, while the mystery plane was already getting away from the spot into the blue sky.
01:11:52.240We got there, like I said, probably within 45 seconds or a minute of impact.
01:12:12.240So you couldn't look at it and see exactly what type of plane or if it was a fighter or what it was.
01:12:18.240But, you know, we caught a glimpse of it.
01:12:20.240And as he was swinging, he was basically traveling in the same direction as the plane.
01:12:26.240If the plane was actually shot down, one big question arises.
01:12:31.240What are we to make of the heroic gesture by the passengers who chose to force the plane to the ground, we are told, in order to save the lives of other fellow countrymen?
01:12:39.240In truth, this heroic gesture by the passengers has been refuted by the 9-11 Commission itself.
01:12:45.240It was the hijackers wrote the commission and not the passengers who chose to intentionally crash the plane in Shanksville.
01:12:51.240The passengers never even made it into the cockpit.
01:14:06.240...plowed into an empty field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 580 miles per hour, about 20 minutes flight time from Washington, D.C.
01:14:14.240Jarrah's objective, concludes the commission, was to crash the airliner into symbols of the American Republic, the Capitol, or the White House.
01:14:22.240Given that they were only 20 minutes away from Washington, and for almost six minutes the passengers had been unable to enter the cockpit,
01:14:29.240why didn't the hijackers continue flying towards the Capitol?
01:14:32.240And even if they thought they couldn't make it to Washington, why didn't they try to crash the plane onto a small town nearby?
01:14:38.240Why crash the plane in an empty field where they knew they could not kill any more victims than those that were already on the plane with them?
01:14:47.240Maybe a less fictional explanation for Flight 93 is the one offered by Vernon Gross, author and former NTSB investigator.
01:14:54.240The role the government plays in times of stress, how they view the public.
01:15:00.240Can the public stand the truth? Or shouldn't we... We need a legend at this point.
01:15:06.240We need a really neat story of reacting against such a dastardly act as was happening.
01:15:12.240So it's really nice and convenient to think of the Beamer story, let's roll.
01:18:36.240For most Americans, the destruction of the Twin Towers will remain embedded in their memories
01:18:49.240and their hearts as the epitome of horror, astonishment, and unjustified human suffering.
01:18:55.240But for some, it may have represented the moment where large corporate interests of global reach
01:19:08.240and cynical economic greed found the perfect place for a secret encounter.
01:19:13.240Common wisdom has it that the September 11 attacks destroyed two of the best jewels America has ever had.
01:19:23.240But exactly jewels, the Twin Towers, were not.
01:19:26.240While they sat on some of the most valuable real estate in the world, after 30 years, the Twin Towers had become obsolete.
01:19:32.240With each of the floors built as an open space of almost one acre in size, the rising cost of energy had made it extremely expensive to keep the buildings warm in winter and cool in summer.
01:19:43.240General maintenance was also very expensive compared to buildings from more recent years.
01:19:48.240In his 1999 book on the Twin Towers, Divided We Stand, author Eric Darden wrote,
01:19:54.240When the World Trade Center was bombed in February 1993, it was already passing its prime as office space, overtaken by a generation of more recent...
01:20:02.240Which recovered the 93 World Trade Center bombings, guys, on another episode.
01:20:08.240Honestly, I'm probably going to make a whole 9-11 playlist for y'all on the FEDA channel, just so that you guys understand everything and how it made sense.
01:20:14.240Because the people that planned the 9-11 attacks, Ramzi Youssef, his uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he was the one that actually planned the 9-11 attacks,
01:20:23.240but he was the uncle of the guy that had tried back in 93 and failed, who's in prison now.
01:20:29.240So, yeah, man, if you guys want more info, make sure to go check out that pod where we go into detail about the 93 World Trade Center bombings,
01:20:35.240where they did that one with a rental truck with explosives in the parking garage.
01:20:40.240...cybernetically smart buildings with higher ceilings and greater built-in electrical capacity.
01:20:45.240To maintain the Trade Center as Class A office space commanding top rents,
01:20:49.240the Port Authority would have had to spend $800 million rebuilding its electrical, electronic communications, and cooling systems.
01:20:56.240Furthermore, after the 1993 bombing, the tendency had dropped dramatically, and it had been very hard to bring it back to normal levels.
01:21:05.240But the biggest problem with the Twin Towers was the large amount of asbestos they contained.
01:21:10.240Built in a time when the use of asbestos was still allowed in civil construction,
01:21:14.240at least 400 tons of this extremely dangerous material had been used to fireproof the steel structure of the buildings
01:21:20.240and to insulate hundreds of miles of pipings for water, heating, and air conditioning.
01:21:26.240Asbestos was also present in the ceiling panels, the elevator shafts, and the vinyl tiles from office floors.
01:21:33.240From a property condition assessment of the Twin Towers dated December 2000, we read,
01:21:38.240According to Port Authority records, a total of 7 million square feet of vinyl asbestos floor tiles were installed in the World Trade Center.
01:21:46.240By the time asbestos was banned from civil construction, the Twin Towers were nearing their completion.
01:21:51.240Initially, the asbestos was encapsulated wherever possible to prevent the particles from being inhaled.
01:21:57.240But in the 1990s, the regulations grew tighter, and every time a simple renovation was needed,
01:22:02.240the complete removal and replacement of the asbestos was also required.
01:22:07.240At the same time, because of the health risk it posed, the cost of asbestos removal and abatement had been skyrocketing.
01:22:14.240Safety procedures required the areas to be treated, to be vacated in advance,
01:22:19.240hermetically sealed, and kept under negative pressure at all times to prevent particles from escaping outside.
01:22:25.240Only specialized workers could access the area, wearing airtight suits and respirators.
01:22:30.240A full decontamination process was required every time they left the area.
01:22:35.240In the mid-90s, the Port Authority put out different bids for the removal and replacement of the asbestos in a case-by-case scenario.
01:22:42.240For example, this is a 1995 contract for the installation of two low-voltage substations in Towers 1 and 2.
01:22:50.240One section in the contract listed the replacement of asbestos at floors 41, 42, 75, and 76 in Tower 1 and floors 75 and 76 in Tower 2.
01:23:01.240Total cost for the asbestos removal and replacement? $868,000.
01:26:06.240Reportedly, by the year 2000, the Port Authority was looking at an asbestos abatement bill of as much as $1 billion.
01:26:13.240The same money it would have cost to build a brand new tower.
01:26:18.240Back in the 90s, the Port Authority had sued the insurance companies, trying to get them to cover the cost of the asbestos removal.
01:26:25.240But in May 2001, four months before the terrorist attack, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey lost their 10-year-old court battle.
01:26:33.240At that point, the Port Authority was between a rock and a hard place.
01:26:37.240The Twin Towers could no longer be maintained without incurring the cost of asbestos removal,
01:26:42.240yet they could not be demolished because of the large amounts of asbestos they contained.
01:26:46.240The only remaining option was to dismantle and remove the two poison-filled giants one piece at a time.
01:26:52.240But the cost of such an operation would have been so astronomical that no one has ever tried to put a number on it.
01:27:01.240Luckily for all, the stalemate was broken when a real estate tycoon named Larry Silverstein,
01:27:06.240who already owned Building 7, offered to purchase a 99-year lease for the Twin Towers.
01:27:11.24076 years old, and look at him go. He walks fast, talks fast, and is always, always selling.
01:27:18.240Silverstein seemed in a big hurry to close the deal.
01:27:21.240Even though he had been hospitalized for a car accident during the bidding operations,
01:27:41.240So, it would be almost damn near $2 billion.
01:27:45.240So, it would be $1 billion back then is $1.7 billion today.
01:27:49.240The morphine, so the deal could be finalized.
01:27:52.240So, I told the doctor, I said, kill the morphine, and I got to get my people in here,
01:27:56.240because you can't think with morphine.
01:27:58.240So, they let the morphine run down. The pain was terrible.
01:28:01.240But I brought everybody together, and that's when we famed our best and final bid.
01:28:06.240On July 24th, 2001, Larry Silverstein celebrated the acquisition of the Twin Towers with a public ceremony.
01:28:13.240Silverstein signed the lease on the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9-11.
01:28:18.240He then took out an insurance policy covering the Twin Towers for $3.2 billion in case of total destruction.
01:28:25.240Silverstein then began spending every morning of the week in his new office in the North Tower.
01:28:30.240And so, my mornings were spent at the Trade Center, and then by noon I was back uptown.
01:28:35.240But on September 11, luckily for him, Silverstein didn't go to work.
01:28:39.240Even though he had already scheduled a business meeting in the North Tower, he found out that his wife had made $3.2 billion back then, guys,
01:28:46.240is the equivalent to $5,384,745,000 today.
01:28:53.240So, my man went ahead and picked up the towers, right, and got a $1 billion insurance policy on it, or a $3.2 billion insurance policy on it, which is the equivalent to $5.3 billion today.
01:29:34.240Everyone who was in that restaurant that morning perished.
01:29:37.240And then, just minutes later, feed the telephone call to the television set and witnessed this horrendous circumstance.
01:29:47.240This is how, on the evening of September 11, Larry Silverstein found himself in control of some 12 million square feet of new office space to be built on some of the most valuable real estate in the world.
01:29:58.240And since the terrorist attacks had been two separate events, contended Silverstein, the insurance companies would have to pay him $7 billion to rebuild what he has always been calling My Three Towers.
01:30:09.240I will spend $7 billion on My Three Towers.
01:30:13.240Eventually, a settlement was reached for $4.5 billion, which was still one third more than the amount initially insured by Silverstein.
01:30:22.240And since on September 11, due to the terrorist attacks, Building 7 had also been destroyed.
01:30:27.240Silverstein received another $800 million to rebuild the skyscraper that had originally cost $400 million.
01:30:33.240It's a much more beautiful building. It's a glass facade, allows the light to come in to the space.
01:30:38.240The views on four sides are phenomenal, and the space looks magnificent.
01:30:42.240In the meantime, all the asbestos from the Twin Towers has been inhaled by the citizens of downtown Manhattan.
01:30:48.240And this is Larry Silverstein right here, by the way, guys. Just so you all know, a quick little Google search on the guy.
01:30:53.240Larry Silverstein is an American businessman among his real estate projects.
01:30:57.240He is the developer of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City, as well as one of New York's tallest residential towers at 30 Park Place, where he owns a home.
01:31:11.240Yeah, this is this is the real estate tycoon here that bought the towers.
01:31:16.240In July 2001, just two months before the terrorist attacks on 9-11, the Port Authority agreed to lease the Twin Towers to Larry Silverstein.
01:31:22.240A New York City developer Silverstein agreed to pay the equivalent of $3.2 billion over the next 99 years.
01:31:31.240AKA that insurance policy that covers terrorist attacks.
01:31:35.240Especially by the first responders and volunteers who worked at Ground Zero, who are now being decimated by mesothelioma and other pulmonary diseases.
01:31:43.240In the debate over the destruction of the World Trade Center, two important organizations have played a major role.
01:31:51.240One is NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which was officially tasked by the U.S. government.
01:31:57.240All right, guys, NIST is going to have a very large part in this documentary from this point forward.
01:32:03.240So pay attention to who these guys are, because a lot of the arguments that are going to come now are going to debunk findings from NIST based on how the towers collapsed.
01:32:13.240To investigate the collapse of the three skyscrapers.
01:32:16.240In 2005, NIST presented their final report on the collapse of the Twin Towers, and in 2008, the one on Building 7.
01:32:24.240For the Twin Towers, NIST concluded that they were brought down by the consequences of the impacts and the ensuing fires,
01:32:30.240while Building 7, according to NIST, was brought down primarily by fire alone.
01:32:35.240In other words, they fully confirmed the official version by the U.S. government.
01:32:40.240The other organization to bear weight on the debate has been Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth,
01:32:46.240an association of professionals in civil construction founded in 2006 by San Francisco architect Richard Gage.
01:32:53.240Architects and Engineers lists over 2,000 experts in structural engineering, science of materials, architectural design,
01:33:00.240fire protection, science of construction, metallurgy, and even experts in controlled demolitions.
01:33:06.240Since they've entered the fray, Architects and Engineers has brought to the table
01:33:10.240a solid amount of scientific information refuting the official explanation by NIST on the collapses,
01:33:15.240and confirming the theory of controlled demolitions instead.
01:33:20.240At the same time, Architects and Engineers has acted as an unrelenting watchdog for every action taken by NIST,
01:33:26.240pointing out every single error in their work, and even forcing them, in some cases, to make corrections to their reports.
01:33:32.240I think it's something that we need to clarify and correct in the final version of the report.
01:38:41.240There would be a horrendous fire. A lot of people would be killed.
01:38:44.240The building structure would still be there.
01:38:47.240And it was. After the impacts, both towers remained standing,
01:38:51.240showing no major effect on their stability.
01:38:53.240Furthermore, NIST has confirmed that the initial jet fuel fires themselves lasted at most a few minutes.
01:39:00.240This means that from that moment on, the only available source of fuel for the fires was common office furnishings.
01:39:06.240And as we know, regular office fires are not hot enough to affect the stability of a steel structure.
01:39:12.240No steel frame high rise building has ever collapsed due to fire.
01:39:16.240In over 20 years, I have not seen until recently a protected steel structure that has collapsed in a fire.
01:39:24.240These kinds of designs have performed extraordinarily well over history.
01:39:28.240In fact, until this occurrence, no building had fallen down because of fire.
01:39:33.240Furthermore, NIST estimated the combustible fuel loading was somewhat lower than found in prior surveys of office spaces.
01:39:39.240The number of interior walls and thus the minimal amount of combustible interior finish and limited bookshelf space account for much of the differences.
01:39:48.240There was no reason for the towers to collapse at that point.
01:39:51.240With a structure that had clearly withstood the impacts and with less than average office content to feed the fires,
01:39:57.240both buildings should have remained standing, allowing for the evacuation and rescue of everyone who had survived the initial impacts and the fires.
01:40:05.240Instead, both buildings suddenly collapsed from top to bottom, one 56 minutes after the impact, the other as much as one hour and 42 minutes after the impact of the plane.
01:40:18.240The debate on the collapse of the Twin Towers centers around two major questions.
01:40:23.240One is what caused the initial collapse of the top section of the building onto the lower part of each tower?
01:40:29.240The second is what caused the complete destruction of the remaining healthy structure below once the top section had collapsed on it.
01:40:37.240As far as what initiated the collapse, at first we were told that the heat of the fires had softened and melted the structure of the building.
01:40:44.240In 2002, NOVA depicted a scenario envisioned by many experts at the time,
01:40:50.240that the truss connections failed in the extreme heat, causing the floors to fall onto one another, precipitating the collapse.
01:41:00.240As the steel began to soften and melt, the interior core columns began to give.
01:41:06.240Then you had this sequential failure that took place where it all pancaked, one after the other.
01:41:11.240In fact, it became known as the pancake theory.
01:41:14.240So, that took place to the theory that we call the pancake theory.
01:41:17.240That means that, as this part is falling on a ladder, this ladder has fallen,
01:41:23.240and in the cascade, all the ladder have fallen on each other.
01:41:27.240That's what we call the pancake theory.
01:41:29.240But the pancake theory had a major flaw.
01:41:31.240It forgot to explain why the core structure of the towers collapsed.
01:41:35.240Furthermore, experts pointed out that jet fuel produces barely half the heat needed to melt steel.
01:41:41.240It would not have been enough to disconnect the trusses from the external structure.
01:41:45.240At that point, the official explanation backtracked and settled for a more generic weakening of the steel due to the fires.
01:41:52.240You don't need to melt the steel columns. You just need to start weakening them.
01:41:57.240What we found is, it doesn't take temperatures high enough to melt steel.
01:42:00.240It just has to heat up the steel so it expands and then softens and weakens the structure until it collapses.
01:42:06.240In the new explanation, the initial failure was no longer blamed on the rupture of the steel trusses,
01:42:50.240And as a result, the entire top of the building came down pretty much in free fall
01:42:57.240because the kinetic energy that was unleashed was just huge.
01:43:00.240NIST also maintained that the impact of the airplanes widely dislodged the fireproofing from the trusses,
01:43:07.240hastening the process that eventually caused them to sag.
01:43:10.240It should be noted that NIST made the dislodgement of the fireproofing a necessary condition for the towers to collapse.
01:43:16.240The buildings would not have collapsed under the effects of the airplane impact and the fuel, jet fuel ignited multi-floor fires.
01:43:24.240And it only, the reason it collapsed is because the fireproofing was dislodged.
01:43:29.240But the theory of the sagging trusses created even more problems than the one before.
01:43:34.240First of all, there is no proof whatsoever that the fireproofing from the steel had been widely dislodged by the impacts, as NIST has maintained.
01:43:42.240The steel structure of a skyscraper is elastic, not rigid.
01:43:46.240And it absorbs the impacts by slowly swaying back and forth, not by vibrating.
01:43:51.240The building swayed slowly one way toward the Hudson River to the west.
01:43:55.240And by the time it came back, I just jumped up and just had to get out of the elevator.
01:44:01.240In fact, there are good reasons to believe that the fireproofing from the steel was not dislodged at all, as in the following example.
01:44:07.240This is James Glanz for the New York Times.
01:44:10.240When the plane hit the North Tower between the 94th and the 98th floors,
01:44:15.240Steve McIntyre, an engineer for the American Bureau of Shipping, was reading his email on the 91st floor.
01:44:22.240The plane hit, and I think he described it as the biggest wham he'd ever heard.
01:44:26.240But there wasn't much shaking. His email was still there after the impact.
01:44:31.240He was still staring at a glowing screen.
01:44:34.240He had a little knick-knack, a piece of slate in the shape of a sailboat, hadn't fallen off his desk.
01:44:40.240Pictures of his wife and kids just propped up on a bookcase were still upright.
01:45:53.240Of the more than 170 areas examined on 16 perimeter column panels,
01:45:57.240only three columns had evidence that the steel reached temperatures above 250 degrees centigrade, or 480 degrees Fahrenheit.
01:46:05.240Only two core column specimens had sufficient paint remaining to make such an analysis,
01:46:10.240and the temperatures did not reach 250 degrees centigrade.
01:46:14.240No conclusive evidence was found to indicate that pre-collapse fires were severe enough to have a significant effect on the microstructure that would have resulted in weakening of the steel structure.
01:46:26.240In other words, NIST openly admits to have no proof to support their own theory.
01:46:31.240In conclusion, the known facts are, steel melts at about 2800 degrees Fahrenheit.
01:46:37.240Softening can begin at about 1100 degrees Fahrenheit.
01:46:40.240Except for three isolated spots, NIST admits to have found no proof of temperatures beyond 480 degrees Fahrenheit,
01:46:47.240which is less than half the temperatures needed to seriously weaken steel.
01:46:52.240On the other hand, there is multiple evidence that the temperatures needed to seriously weaken steel were not reached for a sustained time in the Twin Towers.
01:47:01.240The first one is that a group of 16 people managed to descend through the area devastated by the impact without obviously being burned alive.
01:47:34.240The lights were on, fresh air coming up from below.
01:47:37.240Attevisimo has maintained that these people managed to survive because in that part of the building, the stairwell runs on the side of the tower and not through the center.
01:47:46.240When they went there, they went through a area that was on the opposite side of the incendio.
01:47:52.240So it's logical that they were not being burned.
01:47:56.240This scale does this round and goes down.
01:47:59.240In truth, stairwell A traverses to the side of the tower on the 82nd floor.
01:48:04.240But Clark and his colleagues were on the 84th.
01:48:07.240This means they descended two floors in the center of the tower before crossing over.
01:48:11.240Furthermore, one of Clark's colleagues went back from the 81st to the 91st floor before descending all the way to the ground.
01:48:19.240Ron DeFrancesco, who went in the 81st floor with me, he went up to 91, caught up to the people laying down on the floor to thinking that there was fresher air at floor level.
01:48:32.240And so I started to run downstairs and so I ended up on ground level and I went to walk out.
01:48:40.240Had there been a temperature of 1100 degrees around the stairwell, nobody would have been able to go through it alive.
01:48:47.240Secondly, there is a series of thermographic images shot with an infrared camera showing temperatures much lower than those needed to soften steel.
01:48:55.240This is the North Tower, seen from below.
01:48:58.240It's 918, about a half an hour after the impact of the first plane, and the indicated temperatures do not reach the color yellow, which means they don't exceed 100 degrees centigrade or 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
01:49:10.240And this is the South Tower, some 15 minutes after the impact of the second plane.
01:49:14.240Here too, the indicated temperatures do not exceed 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
01:49:20.240But the major problem with the sagging trusses theory is that it doesn't make any sense from a mechanical point of view.
01:49:27.240Even assuming the temperatures were high enough to make them sag to such an extent,
01:49:31.240where did these relatively thin trusses find the strength to pull and then break apart a supporting structure much larger and stronger than they were?
01:49:39.240The phenomenon suggested by NIST is called thermal expansion.
01:49:43.240If one assumes that the trusses were forced to expand downwards by the vertical structures resisting the push,
01:49:49.240it means they were weaker than the structure and they would have never found the strength to pull it inwards.
01:49:54.240If instead the trusses sagged on their own, so weakened by fire to become unable to support their own weight,
01:50:00.240where would they find the strength to pull and break apart the same structure that had easily supported them when they were strong and healthy?
01:50:07.240In either case, the idea that the trusses alone would have been able to pull and break apart the external structure makes no sense.
01:50:14.240As we shall see, the external structure did bow inwards before the towers collapsed.
01:50:19.240But a much greater force than their own must have been applied to those trusses for them to be able to pull and break apart the structure they were attached to.
01:50:28.240Question. Can you provide any evidence that the fireproofing from the steel trusses was widely dislodged by the impact of the planes,
01:50:38.240which NIST has made a necessary condition for the collapses to be caused by fire?
01:50:43.240Can you provide any evidence that the temperatures in the twin towers were high enough and lasted long enough to seriously weaken the steel in the areas where the initial collapses occurred?
01:50:53.240Can you explain how a sagging truss weakened by heat could pull and eventually break apart the structure it is attached to, with no external force being applied to it?
01:51:02.240If the explanation by NIST on what caused the initial collapse seems seriously flawed, their explanation on what caused the complete destruction of the towers does not exist.
01:51:15.240Within more than 10,000 pages filled with technical data of relative importance, in a footnote on page 82 of the NIST report we read.
01:51:23.240The focus of the investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower.
01:51:30.240For brevity of this report, the sequence is referred to as the probable collapse sequence, although it does not actually include the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached and collapse became inevitable.
01:51:45.240With the simple word inevitable, NIST purports to have explained the total destruction of 80,000 tons of a perfectly healthy steel structure upon itself.
01:51:55.240The area below the damage zone where the planes flew in and where the fire was, that area below that, 80 or 90 stories, 80,000 tons of structural steel was not damaged in any way.
01:52:09.240Yet you stood there and watched it destroy itself, wiping out floor by floor, all 287 structural columns as if they didn't exist underneath the damage zone.
01:52:22.240When a well-known debunking website wrote to NIST asking for a clarification on the sequence of the collapses, it received a similar answer.
01:52:29.240NIST did not describe the specific sequence of events after global collapse initiated.
01:52:35.240This astonishing statement has been repeated by NIST over and over again under the most surprising of justifications.
01:52:42.240Once the collapse initiated, the video evidence is rather clear. It was not stopped by the floor's wall, so there was no calculation that we did to demonstrate that to what is clear from the good videos.
01:52:54.240This is tantamount to saying, once the Pearl Harbor attack initiated, the video evidence shows that the US fleet was quickly overwhelmed by the Japanese, so we didn't feel the need to find out why it happened.
01:53:06.240To make up for this embarrassing void, the debunkers often point at some independent studies which purport to explain the collapses by gravity alone.
01:53:14.240There are techniques like those that you have mentioned here that analyze in extremely detail the dynamics of the Pearl and the Pearl Gemell and do not find anything strange.
01:53:24.240The study most quoted by debunkers is called, What did and did not cause the collapse of the WTC Twin Towers in New York, by Czech engineer Zenik Bazant.
01:53:34.240But in his own study, Mr. Bazant admits to have worked on a one-dimensional model, while he states,
01:53:40.240The high tilt seen on the south tower top would call for a three-dimensional model of progressive collapse.
01:53:46.240In any case, it is not up to private studies to explain the collapse of the Twin Towers.
01:53:51.240NIST received $20 million of taxpayers' money to determine why and how World Trade Center One and World Trade Center Two collapsed
01:53:59.240following the initial impacts of the aircraft, and to this day, they have not done so.
01:54:04.240This is why architects and engineers have kept pressing NIST, asking them to publish their data in regards to the potential energy released
01:54:12.240during the downwards movement of the upper stories and the absorptive capacity of the intact structure below the collapsed zone.
01:54:20.240Structural engineers do this every day. This is not rocket science. You have the known weight of this building mass.
01:54:28.240You have what are known columns below it in order to resist it. You let it go in your models, and you calculate what the resistance is.
01:54:38.240Why didn't they do it? Could it be because they knew darn well that it would not have collapsed at all?
01:54:48.240And just so y'all know, Richard Gage, he actually was on the PBD podcast, and it's funny, too, because they took this episode down.
01:54:56.240But this is it right here. Shout out to Valuetainment.
01:54:59.240Founder of Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth answers whether jet fuel can melt steel beams.
01:55:04.240And this was very interesting stuff if you guys want to watch it.
01:55:08.240But the full interview was taken down. I can't find it anymore, man.
01:55:11.240So that also makes me say, hmm, you know, so I think they took it down for misinformation more than likely.
01:55:17.240But, you know, YouTube gonna YouTube, right?
01:55:22.240...vested that NIST never explained the collapses by gravity alone because it would be impossible to do so without violating at least two of the most fundamental laws of physics.
01:55:31.240One is Newton's third law of motion, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
01:55:38.240This means that two opposing forces will neutralize each other.
01:55:42.240Which, when you click, right? So let me show you guys something very interesting here.
01:55:45.240Jet fuel, 1,500 degree Fahrenheit. Steel melts at 2,500.
01:55:49.240But then they show that steel does lose...
01:55:52.240So there's PBD himself, right? You click here, right? Watch the full podcast.
01:55:58.240This video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on hate speech.
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01:56:04.240Which is strange to me because it's like, how is it hate speech when...
01:56:07.240You say jet fuel, 1,500 degree Fahrenheit. Steel melts at 2,500.
01:56:12.240But then they show that steel does lose strength at around 600, is what they say.
01:56:19.240Let's get into this because the official narrative says, in both the Twin Towers and Building 7, that the steel, in the case of Building 7...
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01:56:34.2407 expanded in the case of the Twin Towers.
01:57:04.240It is found by the U.S. Geological Survey in all of their dust samples, previously molten iron microspheres about the diameter of a human hair.
01:57:29.240But NIST denies the evidence of extreme temperatures which are available where?
01:57:35.240Published in a metallurgical examination in the Appendix C by FEMA in 2002 before NIST took over the investigation and threw out that metallurgical examination.
01:58:30.240In a head-on collision, the two cars absorb each other's kinetic energy and transform it into physical deformation or damage.
01:58:37.240After that, the system comes to a rest as there is no more energy to be dissipated.
01:58:42.240The top section pushing on the bottom section, it's going to meet equal forces as it goes.
01:58:49.240Both sections are going to be demolished at the same rate.
01:58:54.240So, by the time you've crushed up 15 stories below it, the top 15 stories are also going to be crushed.
01:59:02.240And so there's nothing left now to crush the rest of the building.
01:59:05.240Something of this kind is what we should have seen when the top section of the towers collapsed onto the lower one.
01:59:11.240The upper and lower sections should have mutually destroyed each other until all the energy is dissipated and the system comes to a rest.
01:59:18.240Alternatively, as shown in this experiment with two towers made of snow, the top section could have fallen off to the side after the initial collapse.
01:59:47.240And our whole society is being led to believe that these fundamental laws of physics, hard science, don't apply anymore.
01:59:56.240But even if we assume that the top section of the tower had enough potential energy to destroy the rest of the structure below,
02:00:02.240it could not have done so at the speed it did, which was near freefall speed.
02:00:07.240That would have violated an even more important principle in physics known as the law of momentum conservation.
02:00:14.240This law states that the total energy within an isolated system must always remain the same.
02:00:20.240As we have seen, the energy can be transformed within the system from motion to physical deformation.
02:00:26.240But for the deformation to begin, the velocity must decrease in order for one kind of energy to be transformed into the other.
02:00:34.240No new energy can be added to the system.
02:00:37.240One particular example of momentum conservation is freefall.
02:00:41.240Freefall happens when the only force applied on an object is gravity.
02:00:45.240This means that all the potential energy contained by the object is converted into vertical motion.
02:00:51.240As soon as the falling object hits an obstacle and breakage occurs, the speed must decrease because some of its energy needs now to be converted into physical breakage.
02:01:00.240It takes energy to break things apart and that energy must come from within the system.
02:01:06.240Thus the falling rock cannot keep falling at freefall speed and break apart at the same time because it doesn't have enough energy to do both.
02:01:15.240Let's go now to the twin towers and ask a simple question.
02:01:18.240Assuming that the top section on the left contains enough potential energy to destroy the rest of the tower,
02:01:24.240and assuming we dropped both upper sections at the same time, which one would hit the ground first?
02:01:31.240As it finds no obstacles in its path, the section on the right would quickly accelerate to freefall speed and maintain it all the way to the ground.
02:01:39.240The section on the left instead needs to use some of its energy to destroy the structure below so it could never achieve freefall speed.
02:01:47.240In the case of the twin towers, however, both upper sections fell with an acceleration close to freefall speed,
02:01:54.240as if their path had been practically free from obstacles.
02:01:58.240It took each tower between 10 and 12 seconds to collapse to the ground, while an absolute freefall time would have been 9.2 seconds.
02:02:06.240In other words, both upper sections of the towers found enough energy to destroy 80,000 tons of healthy structure below while accelerating to near freefall speed.
02:02:17.240This is, as we have said, absolutely impossible by gravity alone.
02:02:22.240The law of momentum conservation won't allow it.
02:02:25.240A building cannot do freefall with a huge structural steel structural system in place to support it.
02:02:31.240The twin towers could not have come straight down through the resistance of 80,000 tons of structural steel at the speed of a practically freefall.
02:02:44.240If in fact it actually hit and made an impact, it was effectively crushing anything, pushing hard on this core structure below it, the core structure is going to push back equally hard.
02:02:57.240And that's what's going to cause the top section of the building to slow down.
02:03:02.240As energy is drained away from the system to deform those members, it would slow down the descending mass and cause a descent at less than freefall speed.
02:03:13.240There is only one way for those buildings to have collapsed at the speed they did.
02:03:17.240The buildings fall at a speed which can only occur if their structure has been removed, the vertical structure.
02:03:24.240The same Shyam Sunder from NIST has acknowledged that freefall can only be achieved with the absence of a structure below.
02:03:31.240Freefall time would be an object that has no structural components below it.
02:03:36.240But what could have removed the supporting structure below since the falling section didn't have any extra energy to do so?
02:03:43.240The fact that it's coming down at freefall says all of the energy is being used to just make it go straight down, which means it's coming down through itself and not breaking up the building as it goes.
02:03:56.240Something else has to be clearing the way.
02:03:59.240There is only one known way to allow that kind of acceleration while removing the supporting structure.
02:04:05.240A building cannot do freefall without it being blown up. That's the only way it could come down at freefall.
02:04:11.240The only way that a building can accelerate as it collapses is by having pre-engineered, precisely timed and precisely placed explosives.
02:04:22.240In other words, controlled demolition.
02:04:28.240And this is where we start to get into, was this a controlled demolition?
02:04:37.240Since a near freefall speed automatically means a controlled demolition, the debunkers have tried to deny that the Twin Towers fell in about 10 seconds each.
02:05:01.240Basta ascoltare la durata di una caduta libera di una caduta libera di una caduta libera di una caduta libera.
02:05:19.240Quindi, se avete contato con me, sono un po' più di 10 secondi.
02:05:22.240We couldn't count with him, as it's very difficult to establish the exact duration of a collapse by listening to the sounds only.
02:05:29.240Furthermore, a couple of seconds more or less would not make a big difference, as the time for the transfer of momentum between each collapsing floor must be considered anyway.
02:05:39.240So, a floor impacting on a floor below would transfer momentum, and that floor, those floors would transfer momentum, such that in the Twin Towers, if you didn't have any columns whatsoever,
02:05:52.240it would still take a minimum of 30 seconds for these towers to collapse, just by transferring the momentum of the floors.
02:06:01.240In any case, the near-freefall speed of about 10 seconds has been confirmed by different official sources.
02:06:07.240The 9-11 Commission wrote that the South Tower collapsed in 10 seconds.
02:06:12.240Mr. Sunder from NIST has confirmed similar timings.
02:06:15.240The measurements have indicated that Tower 1 collapsed in about 11 seconds and Tower 2 collapsed in about 9 seconds.
02:06:24.240Mr. Sunder has also acknowledged that the towers came down practically at freefall speed.
02:06:29.240As a result, the entire top of the building came down pretty much in freefall.
02:06:34.240The same admission is present in the official report.
02:06:37.240Since the stories below the level of collapse initiation provided little resistance, the building section above came down essentially in freefall.
02:06:45.240At this point, we can pose the following question.
02:06:48.240Given that the building section above came down essentially in freefall, given that for freefall to occur, no supporting structure must be present, and given that the falling sections didn't have any extra energy to destroy the structure below, can you suggest anything different from some kind of controlled demolition for the removal of the supporting structure, which was necessary for near-freefall speed to be achieved?
02:07:13.240At this point, one may wonder what the response by the debunkers has been to all the scientific arguments presented by architects and engineers.
02:07:21.240There has been no response. All the debunkers have done is to either belittle this association of professionals or to ignore it altogether.
02:07:28.240And for engineers, when you look at the engineers who signed, it's amazing.
02:07:35.240You have engineers in electricity, in hydraulics, in nuclear safety.
02:07:41.240Well, it's really the Babel tour of engineering.
02:07:45.240The people who are competent in calculo-structure,