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Originally Posted by msufan
But when you look at the specifics of what happened, the HOW becomes quite difficult to refute. HOW did 7 fall, how did the towers implode symmetrically on their own footprints, how did people hear explosions coming from the basement of buildings, how did people suffer severe burns in the basement immediately after impact when it was the upper floors that were hit, etc., etc.
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Towers 1 and 2 really aren't much of a mystery. My dad was a Detroit Firefighter for over 30 years and I remember the evening of september 11 I was asking him how a plane could take out a building that big. He said you would be amazed what fire can do to steel. He's dealt with all different kinds of structure fires in his life, and it didn't shock him in the least the way towers 1 and 2 fell. Also the design of the towers lead to it. They weren't really supported in the middles. The steel bands on the outside were what held the building up. As the heat made the steel expand and weaken, the weight of the wreckage became too much to support and so one floor after another pancaked on top of each other. I tend to value my dad's proffessional opinion on this.
As far as the burns of people in the basement. Remember, those planes were LOADED with jet fuel, that jet fuel ignited on impact and burning jet fuel raced down elevator shafts. I would imagine that burn victims in the basement were those probably standing near an elevator shaft and when the burning fuel hit the bottom of the shaft it poured out into the basement.
The rest of these arguments are actually quite compelling and I think work investigating. However, the circumstances that lead to the collapse of towers 1 and 2 seem pretty concrete and conspiracy theory doesn't hold water.