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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 445
Picture a multistory tree-house built between two trees. In a wind storm the tree-house breaks
free and falls. It strips the branches off of both trees. Do you think this would knock the trees
down?
Dr. Griffin writes that in order to accept the official collapse theory, the 9/11 Commission
had to come up with a solution to the problem of the massive core structure with its 47 columns
and the fact that it didn't remain standing. He writes that they “simply denied the existence of the
47 core columns, saying: 'The interior core of the buildings was a hollow steel shaft, in which
elevators and stairwells were grouped' (Kean and Hamilton, 2004, 541 note 1). Voila! With no
47 core columns, the main problem is removed.”
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Where's The Steel?
There are even more substantial problems with the official theory. There appears to be a
very good reason why the government is concealing the original blue prints and structural
engineering designs for WTC 1 and WTC 2. Their truss theory rests on the design of the towers
structural flooring. Their design shows one steel flooring truss for every other perimeter column
but the book Multi-Storey Buildings in Steel (MSBIS),
published in 1985, shows one truss for
every perimeter column. The book shows twice as many trusses.
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A structural engineer, G.
Charles Clifton, wrote a paper on the WTC design within a week of the collapse entitled
“Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers.” He used MSBIS
as his reference. Strangely he
describes a floor truss spacing of one truss for every other perimeter column just as the FEMA's
report later does but the drawings (figures 6 and 7) which he includes in his paper from MSBIS
show a spacing of one truss for every perimeter column.
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“Chapter 2: WTC 1 and WTC 2,” of the World Trade Center Building Performance
Study: Data Collection, Preliminary Observations, and Recommendations (FEMA's report)
provides additional evidence in support of one truss for each perimeter column. On page 2-9,
they show two pictures of one of the towers under construction. The trusses are connected to the
perimeter columns by mounting them to horizontal plates attached to the columns. The pictures
show that there are mounting plates attached to every column. Every other mounting plate is
slightly higher which seems to indicate that some other structure was mounted to them. This
could have been a smaller truss or steel joist. Other evidence consists of a pile very large pieces
of channel steel and a I-beam sitting on the floor deck in one of the pictures. The channel steel
appears to be approximately 24 inches high and the I-beam approximately 18 inches. This steel
was obviously hoisted up on to the building to be used in its construction. Where does the steel
go? Its possible that it is part of the core. If so, what are the extra horizontal plates on the
perimeter columns for? Pieces of these channel steel beams and the I-beam can be seen in the
debris on top of WTC 5, on page 2-32 (figure 2-29) of the FEMA report. Neither FEMA or NIST
has addressed nor acknowledged these discrepancies in the buildings design. A release of the
original dated drawings would clear up the matter.
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An unknown author provides further information in his paper entitle “The World Trade
Center Demolition.” I don't like to quote unknown sources but the author appears to know what
he is talking about. He provides extensive analysis and calculates the weight of the steel used in
the towers in accordance with FEMA's reported design. His math skills are beyond my ability
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