well that's fine if you want to JUST build it. but what if you want to build it without anyone discovering you built it? or build it without the builder knowing he is going to be building it?
steakknife and shoes please!
what is the point of an analogy anyway? analogies are supposed to simplify a discussion, they are not meant to associate the topic of discussion with absurdities.
If you want to bring a building down and fool people into thinking that fire did it,
then your project requirements would be different to JUST bringing down the building.
you would want to minimise the chance of being caught :
1. during installation
2. during demolition
3. and after the fact during cleanup.
and also provide plausible deniabilty in the event of an abort.
page 45: http://ammtiac.alionscience.com/pdf/AMPQ6_1ART06.pdf
"certain key MIC (Metastable Intermolecular Composites) characteristics are very attractive and quite promising for practical applications. These include energy output that is 2x that of typical high explosives, the ability to tune the reactive power (10 KW/cc to 10 GW/cc), tunable reaction front velocities of 0.1-1500 meters/sec"
A little known and new high tech incendary that you could tailor to requirements in terms of shockwave, burn rate, ignition temperature, burn temperature, etc would be a perfect choice for a covert demolition.
All this speculative reasoning is irrelevent because UNREACTED nanothermite WAS FOUND in the debris!
http://www.911blogger.com/node/18459
steakknife and shoes please!
what is the point of an analogy anyway? analogies are supposed to simplify a discussion, they are not meant to associate the topic of discussion with absurdities.
If you want to bring a building down and fool people into thinking that fire did it,
then your project requirements would be different to JUST bringing down the building.
you would want to minimise the chance of being caught :
1. during installation
2. during demolition
3. and after the fact during cleanup.
and also provide plausible deniabilty in the event of an abort.
Actually yes it does- "reaction zone temperature exceeding 3000K (equivalent to 2700 Celcius or 5000 Fahrenheit)"macgyver said:<nanothermite> does not reach temperatures high enough to vaporize steel.
page 45: http://ammtiac.alionscience.com/pdf/AMPQ6_1ART06.pdf
Nanothermite, and regular thermite are chemically identical. The only difference between the two is nanothermite is ground into microscopic size particles, massively increasing the surface area for burning. It only makes the reaction happen much much faster. (not the best thing for cutting through stuff..see the video where they had to use a flower pot to slow the thermite reaction down, so it could cut through the car). The explosive force created by superheating of the air around the nanothermite would do nothing to the support columns.
"certain key MIC (Metastable Intermolecular Composites) characteristics are very attractive and quite promising for practical applications. These include energy output that is 2x that of typical high explosives, the ability to tune the reactive power (10 KW/cc to 10 GW/cc), tunable reaction front velocities of 0.1-1500 meters/sec"
A little known and new high tech incendary that you could tailor to requirements in terms of shockwave, burn rate, ignition temperature, burn temperature, etc would be a perfect choice for a covert demolition.
All this speculative reasoning is irrelevent because UNREACTED nanothermite WAS FOUND in the debris!
http://www.911blogger.com/node/18459
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