On September 11, 2001 a terrible tragedy occurred. The World Trade Towers were destroyed and the Pentagon suffered terrible damage. Thousands of innocent people died in fear and pain, leaving their families mourning and devastated. But then something caught on in the internet community…proof that the government was behind it. Did our government destroy the World Trade Towers? Did our government kill thousands of innocent Americans to go to war? Were the towers planted with explosives?
The battle cry goes out this very day is that 9/11 was 'an inside job'. Such sites as loosechange and 911truth claim this to be true and provide various 'facts' and 'proof' to back up their views. Some of the proof being offered is that the World Trade Towers fell due to controlled demolitions and that burning jet fuel could not at all create such a fall because steel melts at 2800 degrees Fahrenheit whereas Jet fuel burns at 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. The question is: Is it true?
No. See, when a demolition takes place the floors fall in one steady movement. This clearly didn't happen to the World Trade Towers because, with video reviewing, you can see that the area where the plane hit on both towers falls first, creating a tilt fall. The parts of the towers below the impact point do not fall until the higher floor fall onto them. This is not what happens when a building is demolished at all. Those who claim that it was rigged to fall this way are being psychotic. What are the chances that the bomb planters would know exactly where the plane would strike?
Not only that, but the so-called Truth Movement claims the steel beams would've needed to melt to allow the buildings to fall. Not true at all. The fires in the towers were estimated at 1500-1900 degrees Fahrenheit. This doesn't touch the 2800 degree limit that steel has, but engineers estimate that steel loses 50% of its strength at 1200 degrees Fahrenheit and when temperatures reach 1800 degrees Fahrenheit steel loses 90% of its integrity. The unique structure of the towers, where support columns held up steel trusses, caused the fall. The trusses sagged and created stress upon the much weaker columns causing them to break off and release the floors of the tower.
However some claim that there was melted steel at Ground Zero. These reports are all gathered from civilians, not engineers or anyone with a real education about metals. To most people grey molten liquid is obviously steel, but to engineers with knowledge of metals it could be various other metals. Contractors came forward to state that the molten liquid was indeed aluminum, not steel.
As for the 'squibs' (explosive devices used to weaken building structure during demolition) that conspiracy theorists claim were used, this has been proven false as well by demolition experts. During the collapse there are blasts of smoke and debris ejected from the building due to pressure from the tons and tons of floors coming down. These blasts do not occur until after the towers begin falling and they even INCREASE in intensity as the collapse continues. This would not happen during a demolition. Infact, no seismic evidence of explosions were found by independent sources.
How about the planes? Could NORAD of shot them down in time? Once again, no. NORAD wasn't even prepared to do so since they had only intercepted one plane during the decade before 9/11. From Popular Mechanics:
"In the decade before 9/11, NORAD intercepted only one civilian plane over North America: golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet, in October 1999. With passengers and crew unconscious from cabin decompression, the plane lost radio contact but remained in transponder contact until it crashed. Even so, it took an F-16 1 hour and 22 minutes to reach the stricken jet. Rules in effect back then, and on 9/11, prohibited supersonic flight on intercepts."
Notice that it took an hour and a half to get to the jet, and this jet still had it's transponder on. The planes that hit the towers turned off ALL transponders and radios, creating it to look like a small blip mixed with hundreds of other small blips on NORAD's screens.
So what makes more sense? That the government, controlled by a C-student idiot, created the greatest cover-up known to man OR that a group of people bent on destroying a part of America, who have tried multiple times to do so, used their cunning to harm us? The fact that such websites spouting such dribble aren't censored should show that it's bullshit. Wouldn't the owners of the website mysteriously disappear? Wouldn't the lame conventions they throw be spied on so the government could effectively shut up these 'wise men'? Such is the idiocy of this conspiracy theory. Hopefully the real truth will be presented to people rather than the romantic thoughts of our government pulling off the greatest cover-up with arguably the worse president in charge.
