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I have looked into the truther stuff and I don't believe it. Most of the discussions are plain whacky, levitation, and photoshopped jumpers, faked deaths of passengers, govt. airplanes.

The most compelling ideas are the building collapses being implausible because steel cannot melt unless high temperatures, so thermite explosives were used. I don't buy that either

It doesn't matter because the steel did not melt, it expanded and weakened. These were extreme circumstances of an airplane going through a building at 500 miles an hours The normal rules don't always follow.

I think some people just have too much time on their hands. Some people are naturally paranoid and don't believe anything. Some are still searching for Obama's birth certificate.

I recently read a synopsis of an article which concluded after another analysis of the dust and it does NOT contain thermite.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/64959841/9119ProgressReport022912_rev1_030112webHiRes.pdf

This guy has a series of youtube clips that debunk every point the truthers make. Here is one on WTC 7. He also has ones for the Pentagone and WTC 1 and 2.

http://www.tacYjsS-g6k

I already discussed this in the other 9/11 thread. "The Professor" just ignored me.

All this truther stuff is slightly intriguing for a while but then all the allegations of inside job just fall like a house of cards when you see the real explanations for everything.

The Professor says

The top of the Tower is getting pulverized Before it hits the rest of the building. Huge amounts of explosives seem to be involved.

Actually, the top of the tower is still intact in that photo, the building has begun to collapse exactly at the spot where the plane hit it, and there are no explosives to be seen. Both of your sentences are incorrect.

The Professor says

I see shock and awe. What do you see?

A building collapsing.

The Professor says

I see shock and awe. What do you see?

I see a building collapsing. I also see a huge piece of the building falling wildly off to the right side. If that is supposed to be a controlled demolition, it is the most poorly controlled CD in history. I also find it interesting that he used a video with no sound. Was this because the so-called "explosions" don't make any noise, as we can tell from the several videos that were shot with sound?

Basically what happened is the men who were training the pilots of the terror cells who were to fly the planes into the towers blew the cover to the FBI. They told the FBI, these guys only wanted to know how to fly, they don't care about taking off or landing so they knew what they were training for which is called hijacking. What did the FBI say?, they said no law against that.

Terrorists had tried taking down the towers several times before, and our government really needed an excuse to go into the middle east, did they let them get away with this?

My best guess is yes they did, although I've heard a million and one reasons why our government is so stupid they did not know any better.

I don't subscribe to any of truther stuff, I draw my own analogies. These guys had access to concrete builders and engineers, to think that terrorists are just plain stupid, many of these guys have considerable education, access to engineers, tried a couple of times before (learned from mistakes), and are pretty darn smart about things the average stupid American will never be able to wrap his head around.