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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 444
write:
The building stood for more than an hour and a half. Videos of the north
tower's collapse appear to show that its television antenna began to drop a fraction
of a second before the rest of the building. The observations suggest that the
building's steel core somehow gave way first, pulling down the rest of the tower
with it.
For a few unreal moments, after the north tower had plummeted to the
ground, a giant spearlike fragment [sections of the core columns] of the facade
remained standing, as if defiantly, still looming above the lesser skyscrapers
around it. Then the last shard of the tower fell, leaving behind only its arched,
cathedral-like base and a narrow trail of smoke to trace its path to the ground.
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The drop of the antenna seems to contradict the official cause of the collapse. The
collapse of the massive core structure cannot be explained by floor trusses failing. Dr. Griffin
points out that the FEMA report notes the drop of the antenna but that the NIST report fails to
report this phenomena. The phenomena is best explained by the use of explosives to collapse the
massive core structure which was composed of 47 massive steel box columns and reinforced
concrete.
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The steel columns were up to 36 x 16 inches and up to 4 inches thick at the base.
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Griffin writes:
Another problem noted by FEMA is that videos show that, in the words of
the FEMA Report, “the transmission tower on top of the [north tower] began to
move downward and laterally slightly before movement was evident at the
exterior wall. This suggests that collapse began with one or more failures in the
central core area of the building” (FEMA 2002, ch. 2).... In the supposedly
definitive NIST Report, however, we find no mention of this fact. This is another
convenient omission, since the most plausible, and perhaps only possible,
explanation would be that the core columns were cut by explosives—an
explanation that would fit with the testimony of several witnesses.
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If the official truss failure theory had actually occurred, the perimeter structure and core
would have largely been left standing. If the floor trusses had broken away from the core and
perimeter columns causing the floor to pancake on to the floor below triggering the catastrophic
failure of one floor after another, what would have caused the collapse of the perimeter structure
and the massive core structure? The perimeter structure consisted of 236 columns. Every three
columns were connected at each floor by 52-inch high horizontal spandrel plates. Each spandrel
plate was bolted to the adjoining plate which effectively tied the entire perimeter structure
together into a giant steel web. The concrete core was composed of 47 steel box columns and
concrete reinforced with 3 inch rebar. According to the pancake theory, the horizontal steel
trusses broke free from the vertical columns. Once the floors had broken free, the stresses on the
perimeter columns and central core were relieved. They no longer had any weight to support.
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