Reposting since you posted while I was editing:
Oh they've been fruitlessly throwing evidence at me have they.
Right. What's the title of this thread?
911 Was an Inside job.
So what does that mean?
Think about it.
Now look at this.
WHERE'S THE FUCKING PLANE????????
INSIDE?
WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
AY?
THE SAME PEOPLE THAT TOLD YOU THERE WERE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
YOU REVEL IN THE FACT THAT YOU HAVEN'T BOTHERED TO READ THE REBUTTAL TO YOUR IDIOTIC THEORY AND THEN TRY TO DICTATE TO ME>
WHAT'S THE POINT?
I HAVE NOTHING BUT UTTER CONTEMPT FOR YOU ALL.
In pieces... obviously. Have you ever watched a fast moving object impact a solid immobile object at high velocity? It tends to... well, splatter almost like liquid.
Also, your contemptuous indignation is noted.
Let me show you how to present an argument backed by FACTS:
Lee Evey - you know said:
"We made several modifications to the building as part of that renovation that we think helped save people's lives," says Lee Evey, who runs a billion-dollar project to renovate the Pentagon. They've been working on it since 1993. The first section was five days from being finished when the terrorists hit it with the plane.
The renovation project built strength into the 60-year-old limestone exterior with a web of steel beams and columns.
"You have these steel tubes and, again, they go from the first floor and go all the way to the fifth floor," says Evey. "We have everything bolted together in a strong steel matrix. It supports and encases the windows and provides tremendous additional strength to the wall."
When the plane hit at 350 miles an hour, the limestone layer shattered. But inside, those shards of stone were caught by a shield of cloth that lines the entire section of the building.
It is a special cloth that helps prevent masonry from fragmenting and turning into shrapnel. The cloth is also used to make bullet-resistant vests.
All of this, especially the steel, held up the third, fourth and fifth floors. They stayed up for 35 minutes. You can see them through the smoke, suspended over the hole gouged by the jet. Only after the evacuation did the heat melt the new steel away. Evey says that without the reconstruction, the floors might have collapsed immediately.
Lt. Gen. Bob Flowers said:
Lt. Gen. Bob Flowers commands the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps helped design the Pentagon's new protection. The engineers studied past attacks, including the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon, Oklahoma City in 1995, the Khobar Towers barracks in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. embassies in east Africa.
"At Khobar Towers, for example, most of the damage and casualties were caused by flying debris from the structure and the glass, et cetera," says Flowers. "And so based on that, we worked, designed, things to prevent flying debris and flying glass. At Oklahoma City, the bulk of the casualties were caused by the collapsing structure. So one of the things we studied was how to put redundant capability in a structure to prevent it from collapsing if it was attacked. So by applying the lessons that you learn from doing those studies, you can better protect structures in the future."
Reed Mosher said:
Reed Mosher is the technical director for survivability. They have developed a team of specialists that goes to these terrorist strikes as soon as they happen.
The buildings tell the team a great deal. "We want to find what performed well, what didn't perform well, try to characterize the size of the bomb, the blast," says Mosher.
Mosher also designs his own terrorist bombings in miniature with exacting scale models of reinforced concrete buildings.
Recently, Mosher's team tested a common interior wall, particle board, steel wall studs and sheetrock. The wall is set in a steel frame with instruments inside.
Then they set off a bomb. Mosher has done hundreds of these, in an effort to create new building materials. The Corps of Engineers runs these experiments through its super computer center, which is one of the most powerful in the nation. The computer can test various kinds of bombs against different buildings without breaking any glass.
In a special 3-D imaging room Mosher showed how the super computers recreates the blast wave that hit Khobar Towers. It predicts the path of every shard of glass from a single breaking window.
These studies have helped create a new generation of window that can stand up to tremendous force. The window is strapped in, almost as if it had a seat belt. The Corps has tested more than 100 window designs.
The renovated section of the Pentagon had just been fitted with blast resistant windows
U.S. Army lieutenant Colonel Vince Kam was sitting next to one of them. "I was sitting basically about three feet away from the window. I can see with that loud bang that accompanied the fireball that came up toward the window," he recalls.
But neither the heat nor the force broke through the windows right next to the impact site. The Pentagon’s new windows cost $10,000 apiece. No one has counted how many lives hey saved. "If I was sitting in the same window on the unrenovated part of the Pentagon, I probably would not have survived it," Kam says.
Evey's team finished tearing down the section that they had just put up — 400,000 square feet. It is less than 10 percent of the building.
So, the side they hit had been newly renovated, with heavy reinforcement including a kevlar spall liner to catch debris and a steel substructure that is interconnected to provide increased rigidity. The windows are designed to withstand incredible forces in order to keep occupants of high-profile buildings safe from flying debris, heat, and other bomb-related phenomena... at 10,000 USD a piece, the windows BETTER be damn good!
So... you ask, where is the plane? Simple...
You like videos, right Roscoe? Here's one for you:
[video=youtube_share;aSVfYwdGSsQ]http://youtu.be/aSVfYwdGSsQ[/video]
This is a high-speed sled impacting a car.
Note, the sled has far less kinetic energy as it has far lower mass than an airplane.
Note, the car is far MORE durable than an airplane, as an airplane is a giant circular aluminium tube, as opposed to the cars reinforced body (designed to withstand impacts to protect the occupants)
As you can see... the car is pretty much just gone. Little chunks are all that is left.
Now, Jet-A fuel (the US standard since the 1950's) has an open-air burning temperature of approximately 600 degrees Fahrenheit, though under compression (such as an explosion) it can reach well over 1500 degrees Fahrenheit (for example, the turbine inlet temperature on an airliner can spike as high as 1800 degrees under a full-power takeoff). The melting point of steel is 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. Uh oh, we have a problem, right?
WRONG.
Steel becomes MALLEABLE, or soft enough to bend/twist/work with at just over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The melting point of the aluminum alloy used in aircraft is between 800 and 1200 degrees Fahrenheit, depending on the specific blend of metals.
SO
Where did the plane go? Simple, it got mulched into small pieces that then MELTED because of the intense heat and pressure.
Why did the building collapse over half an hour AFTER the impact? Simple, the supporting structural steel softened under intense heat to the point that it couldn't support the weight of the structure anymore.
Why didn't it cause more damage? Simple, the reinforcements made to the building worked EXACTLY as intended.
Problem solved. All outliers are accounted for and loose ends tied up.
Now, shall we put this dead horse to rest, or keep beating it some more?
No, the plane was NOT doing 530MPH... it was doing approximately 3-400 MPH... but even IF it were doing 530 MPH, the max speed of Boeing 757-223 model aircraft is 610 MPH at cruising altitude under full power, roughly 40,000 pounds of thrust. It can EASILY hit 400 MPH at ground level.
The plane WAS doing 530 MPH when it flew over Arlington natl cemetery... however it is reported it actually struck the ground before impacting the Pentagon, which would have bled off considerable speed.
