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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 450
demolition. The explosive charges most likely concentrated on the central core because the core
carried the vast majority of the vertical load of the twin towers. Additionally, demolition charges
in the core would be less likely to produce squibs. Therefore, while squibs are visible, you see
less than is typical in a high rise demolition.
The squibs have been explained as air-expulsion created by the floors crashing onto one
and other. If you examine the squibs, they precede both the start of the collapse and they stay
several stories ahead of the collapse. Further, the squibs are streams of air, they are not equally
distributed across the face of the building such as you would expect with air-expulsion created
by collapsing floors.
You can conduct your own experiment. Grab a hardcover book; open the cover and then
slam it shut with one hand in front. What do you feel? Do you feel a stream of air or do you feel
air across the full face of your hand? You can also lay a wet sponge flat in your sink. Put your
hand down on the sponge and quickly push your hand straight down. The water will simulate
escaping air. Does the water come out in a stream or does it ooze out of all sides of the sponge?
Dr. Jones and his students critically reviewed the squibs from a scientific viewpoint and
determined that they could not have been caused by collapsing floors. He writes:
Horizontal puffs of smoke and debris are observed emerging from WTC-7
on upper floors, in regular sequence, just as the building starts to collapse. (The
reader may wish to view the close-up video clip again.) The upper floors have
evidently not moved relative to one another yet, from what one can observe from
the videos. In addition, the timing between the puffs is less than 0.2 seconds so
air-expulsion due to collapsing floors (see Chertoff, 2005) is excluded. Free-fall
time for a floor to fall down to the next floor is significantly longer than 0.2
seconds: the equation for free fall, y = ½ gt², yields a little over 0.6 seconds, as
this is near the initiation of the collapse.
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Dr. Griffin observes and described the squibs as well. He also came to the conclusion that
they were not caused by collapsing floors and that they were characteristic of a controlled
demolition. He writes:
Another common feature of controlled demolition is the horizontal
ejection of other materials, besides dust, from those areas of the building in which
explosives are set off. In the case of the Twin Towers, photos and videos reveal
that “[h]eavy pieces of steel were ejected in all directions for distances up to 500
feet, while aluminum cladding was blown up to 700 feet away from the towers”
(Paul and Hoffman, 2004, p. 7). But gravitational energy is, of course, vertical, so
it cannot even begin to explain these horizontal ejections.
Still another common feature of collapses induced by explosions are
demolition rings, in which series of small explosions run rapidly around a
building. This feature was also manifested by the collapses of the towers.
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