Martin Sheen: 9/11 Questions 'Unanswered,' Building 7 'Very Suspicious'

[William Seger]

22. "the only known example"

... of a bridge collapsing in a 40 mph wind was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Of course, the uniqueness of that event is not a logical reason to claim it was sabotaged, especially since the actual cause is well understood now. Nonetheless, there were (and I suppose still are) people who claimed it must have been sabotaged simply because they don't understand how it could have happened otherwise. Can you comprehend that people who do understand it are not impressed with that "argument?"

> ... even if it was true ...

It is true, and your suggestion that it might not be true belies your ignorance of the subject at hand.

>the building would not collapse in such a regular manner.

But you're referring to videos of the rigid shell of the building falling, deliberately ignoring that the interior collapse started at least six seconds prior to that. The interior structure collapsed sequentially, not all at once.

> If it was true, of course, because office fires can not reach temperatures high enough to melt steel.

Well, that's hard to refute, but only it doesn't make any sense. We're talking about thermal expansion, not melting.

>And that's the point that makes NIST report sounds as a fairy-tale to thousands of architects and engineers around the globe.

In the preliminary NIST report, there was an example calculation showing how much force would be exerted on the end of a beam that was heated to only a few hundred degrees, and then compared that force to the shear strength of the bolts that held it in place. You and Richard Gage can yammer on and on about "thousands of architects and engineers around the globe" if it makes you feel better, but clearly these are people who either don't know enough of the facts to form a valid opinion, or they just don't understand simple physics. Either way, the number of Gage's "experts" who have mounted a valid, evidence-based technical rebuttal to the NIST theory remains at exactly zero, and that is the exact reason they are generally ignored in the technical community.